Entrevista a cinco editores españoles de poesía: Manuel Borrás (Pre-Textos), Jesús García Sánchez (Visor), Jesús Munárriz (Hiperión), Pepo Paz (Bartleby) y Javier Sánchez Menéndez (La Isla de Siltolá)

Cinco representativos editores españoles de poesía –Manuel Borrás, JesúsGarcía Sánchez, Jesús Munárriz, Pepo Paz, Javier Sánchez Menéndez– contestanal cuestionario elaborado por los coordinadores de este número

Statistical validation of synthetic data for lung cancer patients generated by using generative adversarial networks

The development of healthcare patient digital twins in combination with machine learning technologies helps doctors in therapeutic prescription and in minimally invasive intervention procedures. The confidentiality of medical records or limited data availability in many health domains are drawbacks that can be overcome with the generation of synthetic data conformed to real data. The use of generative adversarial networks (GAN) for the generation of synthetic data of lung cancer patients has been previously introduced as a tool to solve this problem in the form of anonymized synthetic patients. However, generated synthetic data are mainly validated from the machine learning domain (loss functions) or expert domain (oncologists). In this paper, we propose statistical decision making as a validation tool: Is the model good enough to be used? Does the model pass rigorous hypothesis testing criteria? We show for the case at hand how loss functions and hypothesis validation are not always well aligned.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

The Role of Psychology in Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-National Study

Dealing with COVID-19 and with the preventative measures that have been taken to mitigate the transmission of the virus causing the pandemic has posed a great challenge to the population. While psychologists have expertise with regard to preventive behavior change and to dealing with the mental health impact of measures, their expertise needs to be effectively communicated to the public. Mass media play a critical role in times of crisis, in many cases being the only source of information. While most research focuses on the importance of information content as a factor affecting psychological responses to a collective traumatic event, the way information is framed in the media is likely to influence the way health professionals are perceived as trustworthy. This study aimed to analyze the media framing of information from psychology during the COVID-19 pandemic in six countries from America and Europe, identifying the most recurrent topics in the news (n news items = 541) related to psychology and mental health. In all six countries the media address the psychological needs of the population, which vary depending on the imposed restrictions. The news content is influenced by the scientific sources used by the media. While the most prevalent topics focus on psychological risk and the need to seek mental health care, the least prevalent topics relate to counseling and behavioral guidelines for managing the psychological consequences of the pandemic. The study findings provide insight into how psychological knowledge contributes to the understanding and mitigation of COVID-19 consequences in different countries and identified fields where psychologists were consulted to respond to a health emergency. They also show a preference to consult other experts when searching for contextual or more macro social explanations of critical situation.This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors; Predoctoral Research Grant PRE2018-083265 to PC-A

Construcción de la escala de la eficacia el entrenador en la enseñanza: estudios preliminares

La presentación de la información, es el comportamiento más importante en el proceso de enseñanza dentro de la función de instrucción (Piéron, 1996; Rink, 1993, 2010), engloba las intervenciones verbales del profesor, como la explicación y presentación de las tareas, e incluye las intervenciones no verbales (Piéron, 1996; Kelly y Melograno, 2004; Rink, 2010). En la enseñanza de la Educación Física, la claridad de la información verbal aportada por el entrenador, ha sido considerada una variable predictora de la eficacia pedagógica (Gusthart, Kelly y Rink, 1997). El objetivo del presente trabajo consistió en analizar de forma preliminar las propiedades psicométricas de la nueva Escala de la Eficacia del Entrenador. Los participantes fueron 135 atletas que practican deportes de conjuntos en la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. La escala permite describir las características de claridad y presentación de la tarea, así como la congruencia del feedback otorgado por el entrenador. La escala en su versión preliminar esta compuesta por 13 ítems. Los resultados muestran que los 13 ítems se dividen en dos factores, sin embargo, el factor uno explica el 45.6% de la varianza total. La fiabilidad de cada uno de los factores es satisfactoria, obteniéndose α = .87 en el factor uno y α = .76 para el factor dos. Al correlacionar todos los ítems se observa que el ítem 6 es el único que en su mayoría no se relaciona positiva y significativamente con el resto de los ítems, y al calcular nuevamente la fiabilidad sin el ítem 6 correspondiente al factor 2 el alfa aumenta a α = .79. Los resultados obtenidos nos proveen de un soporte sustancial para señalar que la Escala de la Eficacia del Entrenador en la Enseñanza es valida en los deportes de conjunto. También, sugieren poner a prueba mediante el análisis factorial confirmatorio dos modelos, ya sea que la escala confirme su estructura de dos factores o bien resulte la escala unifactoria

Evaluación de la calidad ambiental de ecosistemas acuáticos en el entorno del Parque Nacional de Doñana

Resumen de la comunicación presentada al XX Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Mutagénesis Ambiental – Córdoba 201

Vertical characterization of fine and coarse dust particles during an intense Saharan dust outbreak over the Iberian Peninsula in springtime 2021

An intense and long-lasting Saharan dust outbreak crossed the Iberian Peninsula (IP) from the southwest (SW) to the northeast (NE) from 25 March until 7 April 2021. This work aims to assess the optical and mass contribution of both fine and coarse dust particles along their transport. Five Iberian lidar stations were monitoring the transport and evolution of the Saharan dust particles, i.e. El Arenosillo/Huelva, Granada, Torrejon/Madrid and Barcelona in Spain, and evora in Portugal. The particular meteorological conditions determined the aerosol scenario along the overall dust event, differing in the first part of the event (25-31 March), in which the strongest dust incidence occurred on 29-31 March at the south and central stations and 1 April at Barcelona, from the second one (1-7 April). The use of the two-step POLIPHON algorithm showed the relevance of using polarized lidar measurements for separating the aerosol properties of dust fine and coarse particles as an added value. Both the fine dust (Df) and coarse dust (Dc) components of the total particle backscatter coefficient (total dust, DD = Dc + Df) were separately derived. The dust plume was well-mixed with height and no significant differences were found in the vertical structure of both the Dc and Df particle backscatter coefficients. From the beginning of the dust outbreak until 1 April, the vertical Df / DD mass ratio was nearly constant in time at each station and also in altitude with values of & SIM; 10 %. Moreover, the mean dust optical depth at 532 nm was decreasing along that dust pathway, reporting values from SW to NE stations of 0.34 at El Arenosillo/Huelva, 0.28 at Granada, 0.20 at evora, 0.28 at Torrejon/Madrid, and 0.14 at Barcelona, although its Df / DD ratio remained almost constant (28 %-30 %). A similar pattern was found for the total dust mass loading and its Df / DD ratio, i.e. mostly decreasing mean mass values were reported, being constant in its Df / DD ratio (& SIM; 10 %) along the SW-NE dust pathway. In addition, the episode-mean centre-of-mass height increased with latitude overall, showing a high variability, being greater than 0.5 km at the southern sites (El Arenosillo/Huelva, Granada, evora) and & SIM; 1.0 km at Torrejon/Madrid and Barcelona. However, despite the relatively high intensity of the dust intrusion, the expected ageing of the dust particles was hardly observed, by taking into account the minor changes found in the contribution and properties of the coarse and fine dust particles. This is on the basis that the IP is relatively close to the Saharan dust sources and then, under certain dust transport conditions, any potential ageing processes in the dust particles remained unappreciated. The following must be highlighted: the different relative contribution of the fine dust particles to the total dust found for their optical properties (& SIM; 30 %) associated with the radiative effect of dust, with respect to that for the mass features (& SIM; 10 %) linked to air quality issues, along the overall dust event by crossing the IP.Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain (MICINN) Spanish Government PID2019-104205GB-C21/AEI/10.13039/50110001103

El tablero Montessori para el desarrollo de la motricidad fina óculo-manual

El objetivo de este artículo fue dar a conocer mediante un tablero Montessori como se puede llegar a fomentar el desarrollo óculo-manual en niños. Se revisó la bibliografía en relación al tema aplicado y su importancia en los primeros años de escolaridad de un infante. Además, se presentarán actividades que estimulen su desarrollo viso-manual en el nivel pre básica. Esta metodología de la investigación se caracteriza por la búsqueda de información sobre el desarrollo de habilidades que los niños tienen. No se limita a ser un simple observador de los sucesos, así también el estudio recogió datos ya concluidos por diferentes autores. Las capacidades y ciertas habilidades de un individuo, se forman desde la infancia, donde su participación con el entorno es fundamental para su desarrollo. En este punto se indica que mediante las experiencias vividas el menor aprende, piensa, crea, afronta problemas y organiza su conocimiento; es el entorno y sus estímulos, donde le permite reflexionar, analizar, investigar y comunicar sus pensamientos, al igual que sus acciones. Ante lo expuesto, cabe indicar que la coordinación óculo manual es importante y esencial en el aprendizaje escolar precisamente en el desarrollo de la escritura. La investigación expuso sobre el valor de las actividades de estimulación y su relación de motivación en la selección de juegos viso-manuales y sus métodos

Circulating miRNAs as predictive biomarkers of type 2 diabetes mellitus development in coronary heart disease patients fromt he CORDIOPREV study

Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) have been proposed as type 2 diabetes biomarkers, and they may be a more sensitive way to predict development of the disease than the currently used tools. Our aim was to identify whether circulating miRNAs, added to clinical and biochemical markers, yielded better potential for predicting type 2 diabetes. The study included 462 non-diabetic patients at baseline in the CORDIOPREV study. After a median follow-up of 60 months, 107 of them developed type 2 diabetes. Plasma levels of 24 miRNAs were measured at baseline by qRT-PCR, and other strong biomarkers to predict diabetes were determined. The ROC analysis identified 9 miRNAs, which, added to HbA1c, have a greater predictive value in early diagnosis of type 2 diabetes (AUC = 0.8342) than HbA1c alone (AUC = 0.6950). The miRNA and HbA1cbased model did not improve when the FINDRISC was included (AUC = 0.8293). Cox regression analyses showed that patients with low miR-103, miR-28-3p, miR-29a, and miR-9 and high miR-30a-5p and miR-150 circulating levels have a higher risk of disease (HR = 11.27; 95% CI = 2.61–48.65). Our results suggest that circulating miRNAs could potentially be used as a new tool for predicting the development of type 2 diabetes in clinical practice

Omic approaches in environmental risk assessment

Resumen de la comunicación presentada al XX Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Mutagénesis Ambiental – Córdoba 201