Association of Infant Frontal EEG Asymmetry with prenatal maternal pregnancy-related anxiety

High levels of anxiety during pregnancy are associated with behaviour problems and increased risk of health difficulties in the offspring. Understanding how prenatal anxiety affects brain structure and function may help clarify its potential implications in neurodevelopment. Frontal electroencephalographic (EEG) alpha asymmetry has been used as an index for differences in approach/withdrawal tendencies and negative affect after birth. The data for this master thesis was collected from a sub-sample (n=105) of the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study. The aim was to investigate the associations between frontal EEG asymmetry in newborns and prenatal maternal anxiety levels, measured with the Pregnancy-Related Anxiety Questionnaire (PRAQ-R2), during pregnancy. No significant associations were found between asymmetry scores and PRAQ-R2. Since this questionnaire measures only pregnancy-related anxiety, future studies should investigate potential effects of maternal prenatal anxiety in newborns considering more general aspects of maternal anxiety

Novalis, Die Christenheit oder Europa. Una lectura a la altura del tiempo

Die Christenheit oder Europa(1799) is a fundamental document in German Romanticism, a provocative essay in which Novalis calls for the restoration of a mystical Europe. The aim of this article is firstly to review the obscurantist legend that has dogged Novalis’ minor work since its origins, before embarking on a new reading of it and attempting to measure the objective importance of its propositions for the present.  Die Christenheit oder Europa(1799) es un documento fundacional del Romanticismo alemán, un provocador ensayo en el que Novalis desea la restauración de una Europa mística. El objeto del presente artículo será, en primer lugar, revisar la leyenda oscurantista que arrastra desde sus orígenes el opúsculo de Novalis, para, a continuación, emprender una nueva lectura del mismo intentando medir la importancia objetiva de sus propuestas en el presente. 

Emotional intelligence in the personality of the troop military that works in the air force group 8 in Callao, 2018

La inteligencia emocional es una capacidad que desarrollan las personas para relacionarse con los demás, de conectarse con emociones, de gestionarlas, de auto-motivarlas, de saber controlar y frenar los impulsos, de vencer frustraciones, Esto se vinculan directamente con la personalidad rasgos y caracteres sumados a los factores personales, familiares y laborales entre otras. El objetivo es determinar la influencia de la inteligencia emocional en la personalidad del militar de tropa. El estudio fue descriptivo de corte transversal, no experimental. La población estuvo conformada por 150 militares de tropa; Se utilizaron dos escalas: de inteligencia emocional y personalidad respetando las consideraciones éticas. Los resultados evidencian que existe influencia de la inteligencia emocional en la personalidad; con respecto a la Inteligencia emocional el 22 % no presentan optimismo, 6% no maneja control de impulsos y tolerancia al estrés, 11 % no tienen capacidad para solucionar problemas, el 22 % no se adaptan al medio en el que se encuentran y el 39 % no son asertivos (interpersonal y intrapersonal). En relación a la personalidad 34% poseen dominancia, 11% no poseen tolerancia, 22% no tienen tenacidad, 100% no tiene estabilidad emocional, 11% no tienen creatividad y 22% poseen distorsión. En conclusión, existe influencia entre la inteligencia emocional y personalidad; sin embargo los rasgos y características individuales de cada persona pueden variar en el manejo de emociones y fortalecer las relaciones personales y transpersonales con los demás en el ámbito laboral

Análisis de la calidad percibida del servicio prestado por las cooperativas de ahorro y crédito: una aplicación a Oriencoop Limitada basada en modelos de ecuaciones estructurales

115 p.Cada día existen más alternativas financieras, por lo tanto, todas las instituciones de este rubro, deben mantener y atraer al público, asegurando su sustentabilidad y rentabilidad, es decir, estableciendo una cartera consolidada de clientes. Una cartera envejecida puede causar la quiebra de la institución, de aquí se desprende la importancia de enfocar parte de los esfuerzos hacia el público joven. En esta memoria se utiliza la metodología de ecuaciones estructurales, identificando los factores que determinan la calidad percibida por los adultos jóvenes de una cooperativa de ahorro y crédito, de qué manera estos factores producen satisfacción en los clientes y la consecuente lealtad hacia una determinada institución financiera. Los datos se obtienen de un cuestionario aplicado a una muestra aleatoria de clientes, por medio de éste, se identifican los factores relevantes para el mercado de interés y consecuentemente es una línea de acción para tomar decisiones referentes a la mantención de la cartera. Los resultados obtenidos muestran las variables que afectan la calidad percibida en los servicios financieros, los factores de causalidad de la satisfacción y la lealtad de los clientes, entregando una guía de acción para las futuras decisiones de la cooperativa de ahorro y crédito. Palabras Claves: Calidad Percibida, Cooperativa, Lealtad, Satisfacción del Cliente./ABSTRACT: Each day there are more financial alternatives, therefore, all the institutions of this item, should keep and attract to the public, ensuring its sustainability and profitability, that means establishing a portfolio consolidated of customers. A portfolio aging can cause the collapse of the institution, it follows the importance of approaching part of efforts toward young audiences. In this memory is used the methodology of structural equations, identifying factors affecting the perceived quality for young adults of saving and credit cooperative, how these factors produce satisfaction on the clients and the consequent loyalty to a particular financial institution. The data is acquired by a questionnaire applied to a random sample of customers, through this the relevant factors for the market of interest are identified and thus it’s the line of action to make decisions on the maintenance of the portfolio. The results show the variables affecting the perceived quality in financial services, the causation factors of satisfaction and customer loyalty, delivering a guide for action for the future of the cooperative. Key words: perceived quality, cooperative, loyalty, customer satisfaction

Problemas sociales en el estudio del tratamiento de la preparación táctica en los deportes de combate

The issue addressed is related to the treatment of tactical preparation in combat sports. The objective that is formulated in this work is to identify some social problems that are related to the treatment of tactical preparation in combat sports, with emphasis on sports fighting. Methods and techniques such as documentary review, survey, interview, methodological triangulation are used. As a result of identifying some social problems, related to the application of science, the need for scientific methodological tools and identification of responsibilities in the process of tactical preparation in combat sports.El tema que se aborda está relacionado con el tratamiento de la preparación táctica en los deportes de combate. El objetivo que se formula en este trabajo, es identificar algunos problemas sociales que se relacionan con el tratamiento a la preparación táctica en los deportes de combate, con énfasis en la lucha deportiva. Se utilizan métodos y técnicas como la revisión documental, la encuesta, la entrevista, la triangulación metodológica. Como resultado de identifican algunos problemas sociales, relacionados con la aplicación de la ciencia, la necesidad de herramientas científico metodológicas y e identificación de responsabilidades en el proceso de preparación táctica en los deportes de combate

Supporting eradication of maternal child malnutrition in developing countries: a case from Nicaragua scenario.

World Health Organization actively stresses the importance of health, nutrition and well-being of the mother to foster children development. This issue is critical in the rural areas of developing countries where monitoring of health status of children is hardly performed since population suffers from a lack of access to health care. The aim of this research is to design, implement and deploy an e-health information and communication system to support health care in 26 rural communities of Cusmapa, Nicaragua. The final solution consists of an hybrid WiMAX/WiFi architecture that provides good quality communications through VoIP taking advantage of low cost WiFi mobile devices. Thus, a WiMAX base station was installed in the health center to provide a radio link with the rural health post "El Carrizo" sited 7,4 km. in line of sight. This service makes possible personal broadband voice and data communication facilities with the health center based on WiFi enabled devices such as laptops and cellular phones without communications cost. A free software PBX was installed at "San José de Cusmapa" health care site to enable communications for physicians, nurses and a technician through mobile telephones with IEEE 802.11 b/g protocol and SIP provided by the project. Additionally, the rural health post staff (midwives, brigade) received two mobile phones with these same features. In a complementary way, the deployed health information system is ready to analyze the distribution of maternal-child population at risk and the distribution of diseases on a geographical baseline. The system works with four information layers: fertile women, children, people with disabilities and diseases. Thus, authorized staff can obtain reports about prenatal monitoring tasks, status of the communities, malnutrition, and immunization control. Data need to be updated by health care staff in order to timely detect the source of problem to implement measures addressed to alleviate and improve health status population permanently. Ongoing research is focused on a mobile platform that collects and automatically updates in the information system, the height and weight of the children locally gathered in the remote communities. This research is being granted by the program Millennium Rural Communities of the Technical University of Madrid

The structure of Erb1-Ytm1 complex reveals the functional importance of a high-affinity binding between two β-propellers during the assembly of large ribosomal subunits in eukaryotes

Ribosome biogenesis is one of the most essential pathways in eukaryotes although it is still not fully characterized. Given the importance of this process in proliferating cells, it is obvious that understanding the macromolecular details of the interactions that take place between the assembly factors, ribosomal proteins and nascent pre-rRNAs is essentially required for the development of new non-genotoxic treatments for cancer. Herein, we have studied the association between the WD40-repeat domains of Erb1 and Ytm1 proteins. These are essential factors for the biogenesis of 60S ribosomal subunits in eukaryotes that form a heterotrimeric complex together with the also essential Nop7 protein. We provide the crystal structure of a dimer formed by the C-terminal part of Erb1 and Ytm1 fromChaetomium thermophilum at 2.1 ˚ A resolution. Using a multidisciplinary approach we show that the -propeller domains of these proteins interact in a novel manner that leads to a high-affinity binding. We prove that a point mutation within the interface of the complex impairs the interaction between the two proteins and negatively affects growth and ribosome production in yeast. Our study suggests insights into the association of the Erb1-Ytm1 dimer with pre-ribosomal particle

Approximate reduction of nonlinear discrete models with two time scales

The aim of this work is to present a general class of nonlinear discrete time models with two time scales whose dynamics is susceptible of being approached by means of a reduced system. The reduction process is included in the so-called approximate aggregation of variables methods which consist of describing the dynamics of a complex system involving many coupled variables through the dynamics of a reduced system formulated in terms of a few global variables. For the time unit of the discrete system we use that of the slow dynamics and assume that fast dynamics acts a large number of times during it. After introducing a general two-time scales nonlinear discrete model we present its reduced accompanying model and the relationships between them. The main result proves that certain asymptotic behaviours, hyperbolic asymptotically stable (A.S.) periodic solutions, to the aggregated system entail that to the original system