Teaching styles and achievement: student and teacher perspectives

Using data from a Spanish assessment program of fourth-grade pupils, we analyze to what extent using certain teaching practices and materials in class is related to achieve- ment in maths and reading. We distinguish using traditional and modern teaching styles. As a novelty, we measure in-class work using two di erent sources of information -teacher and students. Our identi cation strategy relies on between-class within-school variation of teaching styles. We nd that modern practices are related to better achievement, specially in reading, while traditional practices, if anything, are detrimental. There are di erences depending on the source of information: the magnitude of coe cients is larger when practices are reported by students. These ndings are robust to considering al- ternative de nitions of teaching practices. We obtain heterogeneous e ects of teaching styles by gender and type of school but only when using students' answers. Our nd- ings highlight the importance of the source of information, teacher or students, to draw adequate conclusions about the e ect of teaching style on achievement

Citrate and Polyvinylpyrrolidone Stabilized Silver Nanoparticles as Selective Colorimetric Sensor for Aluminum (III) Ions in Real Water Samples

The use of silver nanoparticles stabilized with citrate and polyvinylpyrrolidone as a sensor for aluminum ions determination is proposed in this paper. These non-functionalized and specific nanoparticles provide a highly selective and sensitive detection system for aluminum in acidic solutions. The synthesized nanoparticles were characterized by transmission electron microscopy. Surface plasmon band deconvolution analysis was applied to study the interaction between silver nanoparticles and aluminum ions in solution. The interaction band in the UV-visible region was used as an analytical signal for quantitation purposes. The proposed detection system offers an effective AND wide linearity range (0.1-103 nM), specificity for Al(III) in THE presence of other metallic ions in solution, as well as high sensitivity (limit of detection = 40.5 nM). The proposed silver-nanoparticles-based sensor WAS successfully used for detecting Al(III) in real water samples.Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, MinECo, CTQ2016-78703-P (AEI/FEDER, UE)España, Universidad de Sevilla ,V Plan Propio Grupos Emergentes (PP2016-5937)Junta de Andalucía (2017/FQM-386)CITIUS VI PP USO SSGG (1804031606

Social intervention with syrian refugees from a resilient perspective through Social Work

El presente texto está basado en el Trabajo Fin de Grado para la obtención del título de Grado en Trabajo Social de la Universidad de Granada (España), realizado conjuntamente por Laura Fernández López y Cristina Mª Hidalgo Cuesta y dirigido por Jerónimo Barranco Navarro durante el curso académico 2016-2017.El sistema de globalización mundial actual hace que los conflictos, problemas y políticas sociales estén interconectados y afecten, no solo al país donde se desarrollan, sino a todos. El presente trabajo es una revisión bibliográfica con dos vías principales: la primera, es conocer la problemática y causas que han provocado el estallido de la Guerra en Siria y, como consecuencia, la huida de miles de sirios buscando seguridad fuera de sus fronteras, teniendo que afrontar dificultades y obstáculos que les provocan una serie de traumas; y la segunda, es la aportación de la resiliencia como enfoque en la intervención social con refugiados sirios desde el Trabajo Social. Esta disciplina toma como referencia garantizar y promover los Derechos Humanos en todos los lugares del mundo, y es por ello que es necesaria la intervención desde la resiliencia para fortalecer y empoderar a las personas ante la adversidad para poder superar los traumas vividos.The current globalization system interconnects conflicts, problems and social policies in such a way that they do not only concern their countries of origin, but all the nations in the world. This paper is a bibliographic review with two main lines. The first one is focused on the root causes of the Syrian War and, as a consequence, the thousands of Syrian refugees it created. They were forced to flee from their country, and had to face several difficulties and overcome all kind of obstacles, which has been the source of many tragedies. The contribution of resilience as a social intervention approach with Syrian refugees from the point of view of Social Work is the second line of this paper. This social intervention approach is aimed at strengthening and empowering people against adversity in order to cope with trauma. This objective and the purpose of Social Work are one and the same: to guarantee and promote Human Rights all over the world

Resilience dynamics and productivity-driven shifts in the marine communities of the Western Mediterranean Sea

Ecological resilience has become a conceptual cornerstone bridging ecological processes to conservation needs. Global change is increasingly associated with local changes in environmental conditions that can cause abrupt ecosystem reorganizations attending to system-specific resilience fluctuations with time (i.e. resilience dynamics). Here we assess resilience dynamics associated with climate-driven ecosystems transitions, expressed as changes in the relevant contribution of species with different life-history strategies, in two benthopelagic systems. We analysed data from 1994 to 2019 coming from a scientific bottom trawl survey in two environmentally contrasting ecosystems in the Western Mediterranean Sea—Northern Spain and Alboran Sea. Benthopelagic species were categorized according to their life-history strategies (opportunistic, periodic and equilibrium), ecosystem functions and habitats. We implemented an Integrated Resilience Assessment (IRA) to elucidate the response mechanism of the studied ecosystems to several candidate environmental stressors and quantify the ecosystems’ resilience. We demonstrate that both ecosystems responded discontinuously to changes in chlorophyll-a concentration more than any other stressor. The response in Northern Spain indicated a more overarching regime shift than in the Alboran Sea. Opportunistic fish were unfavoured in both ecosystems in the recent periods, while invertebrate species of short life cycle were generally favoured, particularly benthic species in the Alboran Sea. The study illustrates that the resilience dynamics of the two ecosystems were mostly associated with fluctuating productivity, but subtle and long-term effects from sea warming and fishing reduction were also discernible. Such dynamics are typical of systems with wide environmental gradient such as the Northern Spain, as well as systems with highly hydrodynamic and of biogeographical complexity such as the Alboran Sea. We stress that management should become more adaptive by utilizing the knowledge on the systems’ productivity thresholds and underlying shifts to help anticipate both short-term/less predictable events and long-term/expected effects of climate change.En prensa2,27

Intervención social con refugiados sirios desde un enfoque resiliente a través del Trabajo Social

The current globalization system interconnects conflicts, problems and social policies in such a way that they do not only concern their countries of origin, but all the nations in the world. This paper is a bibliographic review with two main lines. The first one is focused on the root causes of the Syrian War and, as a consequence, the thousands of Syrian refugees it created. They were forced to flee from their country, and had to face several difficulties and overcome all kind of obstacles, which has been the source of many tragedies. The contribution of resilience as a social intervention approach with Syrian refugees from the point of view of Social Work is the second line of this paper. This social intervention approach is aimed at strengthening and empowering people against adversity in order to cope with trauma. This objective and the purpose of Social Work are one and the same: to guarantee and promote Human Rights all over the world.  El sistema de globalización mundial actual hace que los conflictos, problemas y políticas sociales estén interconectados y afecten, no solo al país donde se desarrollan, sino a todos. El presente trabajo es una revisión bibliográfica con dos vías principales: la primera, es conocer la problemática y causas que han provocado el estallido de la Guerra en Siria y, como consecuencia, la huida de miles de sirios buscando seguridad fuera de sus fronteras, teniendo que afrontar dificultades y obstáculos que les provocan una serie de traumas; y la segunda, es la aportación de la resiliencia como enfoque en la intervención social con refugiados sirios desde el Trabajo Social.  Esta disciplina toma como referencia garantizar y promover los Derechos Humanos en todos los lugares del mundo, y es por ello que es necesaria la intervención desde la resiliencia  para fortalecer y empoderar a las personas ante la adversidad para poder superar los traumas vividos.

Associations of Sleep-Related Outcomes with Behavioral and Emotional Functioning in Children with Overweight/Obesity

Objective To evaluate the associations of parent-reported sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and device-assessed sleep behaviors with behavioral and emotional functioning in pediatric patients with overweight/obesity. Study design A total of 109 children with overweight/obesity (mean age, 10.0 +/- 1.1 years) were included in this cross-sectional study. We used the Spanish version of the Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire (PSQ) to assess SDB and its subscales (ie, snoring, daytime sleepiness, and inattention/hyperactivity). Device-assessed sleep behaviors (ie, wake time, sleep onset time, total time in bed, total sleep time, and waking after sleep onset) were estimated using wrist-worn accelerometers. We used the Behavior Assessment System for Children, second edition to assess behavioral and emotional functioning (ie, clinical scale: aggressiveness, hyperactivity, behavior problems, attention problems, atypicality, depression, anxiety, retreat, and somatization; adaptive scale: adaptability, social skills, and leadership). Results SDB was positively associated with all clinical scale variables (all beta > 0.197, P 0.196, P .045) and lower adaptability (beta = -0.246, P = .011). The inattention/hyperactivity subscale was significantly associated with the entire clinical and adaptive scales (all beta > vertical bar 0.192 vertical bar, P <= .046) except for somatization. The snoring subscale and device-assessed sleep behaviors were not related to any behavioral or emotional functioning variables. Conclusions Our study suggests that SDB symptoms, but not device-assessed sleep behaviors, are associated with behavioral and emotional functioning in children with overweight/obesity. Specifically, daytime sleepiness, a potential SDB symptom, was related to higher attention problems, depression, anxiety, and retreat and lower adaptability.Spanish GovernmentEuropean Commission DEP2013-47540 DEP2016-79512-R DEP2017-91544-EXP RYC-2011-09011Spanish Government FPU17/04802 FJC2018-037925-I FPU15/02645University of Granada, Plan Propio de Investigacion 2016, Excellence actions: Units of Excellence, Scientific Excellence Unit on Exercise and HealthConsejeria de Conocimiento, Investigacion y UniversidadesEuropean Commission B-CTS-355-UGR18 SOMM17/6107/UGRSAMID III network, RETICS - PNI + D + I 2017-2021 (Spain)ISCIII Sub-Directorate General for Research Assessment and PromotionEXERNET Research Network on Exercise and Health DEP2005-00046/ACTI 09/UPB/19 45/UPB/20 27/UPB/21European Commission 667302HL-PIVOT network Healthy Living for Pandemic Event ProtectionAndalusian Operational ProgrammeJunta de Andaluci

Applied learning through international collaboration: Using research on domestic violence as a learning tool

[EN] This article describes how applied learning may be achieved through a research project on an international scale. The research for this article was conducted by three Missouri Western State University (MWSU) exchange students in collaboration with the MWSU professor in charge of managing the project. This research involves an analysis of Domestic Violence. The main purpose of this study is to show what can be learned in the academic field through research from the perspective of advanced level students. This article will go over the processes the students followed to conduct good investigative work as well as the skills and abilities the researchers have mastered by working on this project. Such investigative work is comprised of three different approaches. The students were free to develop the research to explore the legal perspective, a sociological approach, and the area of prevention of Domestic Violence. Each approach goes into the analysis of Domestic Violence to give a multidisciplinary understanding of this phenomenon. Lastly, the paper offers examples of the results obtained from surveys conducted in Nepal by the MWSU professor and Nepal NGO, which were coded and interpreted by the three international students from Spain.Gamez Hernandez, JL.; Hidalgo López, C.; Surian Barrios, MDLA.; Tushaus, D. (2017). Applied learning through international collaboration: Using research on domestic violence as a learning tool. En Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 248-258. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD17.2017.5162OCS24825

Equivalency of four research‑grade movement sensors to assess movement behaviors and its implications for population surveillance

We are grateful to the participants involved in the study. This study was conducted under the umbrella of the CoCA project supported by the European Union's 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement #667302). JHM is supported by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (2021-00036). CC-S is supported by a Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FJC2018-037925-I). LVT-L is supported by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (FPU17/04802). AVR is supported by the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, and the Collaboration for leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) East Midlands. Additional funding was obtained from the University of Granada, Plan Propio de Investigacion 2016, Excellence actions: Units of Excellence; Scientific Excellence Unit on Exercise and Health (UCEENS). Junta de Andalucia, Consejeria de Conocimiento, Investigacion y Universidades and European Regional Development Funds (ref. SOMM17/6107/UGR). In addition, funding was provided by the SAMID III network, RETICS, funded by the PN I + D+I 2017-2021 (Spain), ISCIII- Sub-Directorate General for Research Assessment and Promotion, the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (Ref. RD16/0022), and the EXERNET Research Network on Exercise and Health (DEP2005-00046/ACTI; 09/UPB/19; 45/UPB/20; 27/UPB/21).The benefits of physical activity (PA) and sleep for health, accurate and objective population-based surveillance is important. Monitor-based surveillance has potential, but the main challenge is the need for replicable outcomes from different monitors. This study investigated the agreement of movement behavior outcomes assessed with four research-grade activity monitors (i.e., Movisens Move4, ActiGraph GT3X+, GENEActiv, and Axivity AX3) in adults. Twenty-three participants wore four monitors on the non-dominant wrist simultaneously for seven days. Open-source software (GGIR) was used to estimate the daily time in sedentary, light, moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA), and sleep (movement behaviors). The prevalence of participants meeting the PA and sleep recommendations were calculated from each monitor’s data. Outcomes were deemed equivalent between monitors if the absolute standardized difference and its 95% confidence intervals ( CI95%) fell within ± 0.2 standard deviations (SD) of the mean of the differences. The participants were mostly men (n = 14, 61%) and aged 36 (SD = 14) years. Pairwise confusion matrices showed that 83–87% of the daily time was equally classified into the movement categories by the different pairs of monitors. The between-monitor difference in MVPA ranged from 1 ( CI95%: − 6, 7) to 8 ( CI95%: 1, 15) min/day. Most of the PA and sleep metrics could be considered equivalent. The prevalence of participants meeting the PA and the sleep guidelines was 100% consistent across monitors (22 and 5 participants out of the 23, respectively). Our findings indicate that the various research-grade activity monitors investigated show high inter-instrument reliability with respect to sedentary, PA and sleep-related estimates when their raw data are processed in an identical manner. These findings may have important implications for advancement towards monitor-based PA and sleep surveillance systems.European Commission 667302Swedish Research CouncilSwedish Research Council for Health Working Life & Welfare (Forte) 2021-00036Spanish Government FJC2018-037925-I FPU17/04802NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research CentreNIHR Collaboration for leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) East MidlandsUniversity of Granada, Plan Propio de Investigacion 2016, Excellence actions: Units of ExcellenceScientific Excellence Unit on Exercise and Health (UCEENS)European Commission SOMM17/6107/UGRSAMID III network, RETICS - PN I + D+I 2017-2021 (Spain)ISCIII- Sub-Directorate General for Research Assessment and PromotionEuropean Commission RD16/0022EXERNET Research Network on Exercise and Health DEP2005-00046/ACTI 09/UPB/19 45/UPB/20 27/UPB/2

Estudi del jardí romàntic del Palau Novella, Parc del Garraf

Durant molts anys, els jardins del Palau Novella han patit una sèrie de canvis que han desembocat en el seu abandonament i degradació. La falta de gestió i manteniment ha comportat l'aparició de fitopatologies en una part important dels individus, així com la colonització d'espècies invasores, tant de flora com deDurante muchos años, los jardines del Palau Novella han sufrido una serie de cambios que han provocado su abandono y degradación. La falta de gestión y mantenimiento ha comportado la aparición deFor many years, the gardens of Palau Novella have suffered some changes that have led to its abandonment and its degradation. The lack of management and maintenance has led the development of plant diseases in a large proportion of individuals and the colonization of invasive species, both vegetation and animals, or the degradation of the architectural elements. On the other hand, their importance as a connector or the presence of trees and the special interest communities give to this area a valuableNota: Aquest document conté originàriament altre material i/o programari només consultable a la Biblioteca de Ciència i Tecnologia

Teaching styles and achievement : student and teacher perspectives

Using data from a Spanish assessment program of fourth-grade pupils, we analyze to what extent using certain teaching practices and materials in class is related to achievement in maths and reading. We distinguish using traditional and modern teaching styles.As a novelty, we measure in-class work using two different sources of information -teacher and students. Our identification strategy relies on between-class within-school variation of teaching styles. We find that modern practices are related to better achievement, specially in reading, while traditional practices, if anything, are detrimental. There are differences depending on the source of information: the magnitude of cofficients is larger when practices are reported by students. These findings are robust to considering alternative definitions of teaching practices. We obtain heterogeneous e_ects of teaching styles by gender and type of school but only when using students' answers. Our _nd- ings highlight the importance of the source of information, teacher or students, to draw adequate conclusions about the e_ect of teaching style on achievemen