Access to Employment of Disabled People in Spain

[Resumen] Como ya sabemos, las personas con discapacidad están dentro de un grupo social que parte con desventaja a la hora de acceder al empleo, pues se trata de personas con riesgo de exclusión social. Es por ello que el objetivo principal del presente trabajo es conocer qué leyes regulan la integración laboral de estos y las características de sus contratos, al mismo tiempo que pretende determinar qué tipo de incentivos son los que España utiliza para animar a sus empresarios a contratar a estas personas, así como las obligaciones de las empresas en este ámbito. Además, se estudiarán los diferentes tipos de centros que se pueden constituir para que el acceso de los discapacitados al empleo no les resulte tan dificultoso. Por último, se ofrecerán gráficas sobre su situación en España, y se presentarán diferentes empresas españolas que ejercen la encomiable labor de evitar la exclusión social por razón de discapacidad.[Abstract] As we know people with disabilities are in a social group that starts with a disadvantage in access to employment, since they belong to a group of people at risk of social exclusion. It is for this reason that the main objective of this work is to know what laws regulate the employment of these and characteristics of their contracts, while is to determine what kind of incentives are with which Spain praises entrepreneurs in this country to hire these people, as well as the obligations of the companies in this field. Furthermore we will try to share different types of centers can be in this country for the access of the disabled to work, they may not be so difficult. Finally, a statistic of the situation in Spain is added, and different Spanish companies engaged in this work to try to eliminate this risk of social exclusion will be presented.Traballo fin de grao (UDC.FCT). Relacións laborais e recursos humanos. Curso 2015/201

Bimodal information increases spontaneous interpersonal synchronization of goal directed upper limb movements

When interacting with each other, people often synchronize spontaneously their movements, e.g. during pendulum swinging, chair rocking[5], walking [4][7], and when executing periodic forearm movements[3].Although the spatiotemporal information that establishes the coupling, leading to synchronization, might be provided by several perceptual systems, the systematic study of different sensory modalities contribution is widely neglected. Considering a) differences in the sensory dominance on the spatial and temporal dimension[5] , b) different cue combination and integration strategies [1][2], and c) that sensory information might provide different aspects of the same event, synchronization should be moderated by the type of sensory modality. Here, 9 naïve participants placed a bottle periodically between two target zones, 40 times, in 12 conditions while sitting in front of a confederate executing the same task. The participant could a) see and hear, b) see , c) hear the confederate, d) or audiovisual information about the movements of the confederate was absent. The couple started in 3 different relative positions (i.e., in-phase, anti-phase, out of phase). A retro-reflective marker was attached to the top of the bottles. Bottle displacement was captured by a motion capture system. We analyzed the variability of the continuous relative phase reflecting the degree of synchronization. Results indicate the emergence of spontaneous synchronization, an increase with bimodal information, and an influence of the initial phase relation on the particular synchronization pattern. Results have theoretical implication for studying cue combination in interpersonal coordination and are consistent with coupled oscillator models.Fundação Bial (Grant 77/12) and Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - FCT: SFRH/BD/8839 6/2012; EXPL/MHC - PCN/0162/2013; FCOMP - 01 - 0124 - FEDER - 022674 and PEst - C/CTM/U10264/2011; FCOMP - 01 - 0124 - FEDER - 037281 and PEst - C/EEI/LA0014/2013. This work was financed by FEDER grants through the Operational Competitiveness Program – COMPET

Improving Quality in the Patients‟ Risk of Fall Evaluation through Clinical Supervision

In the hospital settings, falls occur for a wide scope of reasons but most of the time they could be prevented. Therefore, clinical supervision as a strategy to improve and develop nurses’ knowledge and skills is crucial for a better clinical practice. The aims of this quantitative, exploratory and descriptive study were: to characterize the risk of falling of hospitalized patients in a unit of the medicine department; to relate the risk of falling with the patients’ personal attributes; to analyze the compliance between the procedures for monitoring, planning and execution of nursing care; to suggest contributions for a clinical supervision model in nursing to improve nurses’ skills in preventing falls. The population was composed by all the patients of the selected unit who were hospitalized from the 10th of February 2012 until the 9th of April 2012. We had a convenience sample constituted by 132 patients who fitted the inclusion criteria. We collected data through several procedures such as the application of a questionnaire to assess the risk of fall accordingly to the falls protocol implemented in the unit and the parameterization defined in the nursing records system. The results pointed out that 16,7% of patients showed “no risk of fall”, 48,5% had “low risk of fall” and 34,8% had “high risk of fall”. We verify the existence of non-conformities in the implementation of the falls protocol, the application of the Morse Fall Scale, among others. Thus, we recommend some contributions for a clinical supervision model in nursing so nurses can develop their knowledge and skills in preventing patients’ falls.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Morse Fall Scale User's Manual: Quality in Supervision and in Nursing Practice

Falls are common adverse hospital events. In the first phase of the research project: “Clinical Supervision for Safety and Care Quality” (C-S2AFECARE-Q), difficulties in the application of the Morse Fall Scale® and non-conformities in the implementation of the falls prevention protocol were identified. Therefore, we carried out a qualitative research to improve patient safety and quality of nursing care through the design of a tool that clarifies each item of the scale and helps nurses in the assessment of the risk of fall. With this paper we intend to publicize the process to develop the Morse Fall Scale User's Manual.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Students’ perception of self-efficacy and academic engagement in School of Health of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto: an observational study

The intense increase in students in Higher Education, observed in recent decades, has promoted profound changes quantitative and qualitative in demand, frequency, and student profile. In the context of these changes, we conducted a study to evaluate the self-efficacy and academic engagement of students using an online questionnaire. It includes some sociodemographic variables and the Self-Efficacy Scale in Higher Education (AEFS) and University Student Engagement Inventory (USEI). It was possible to verify that students had a score for academic engagement above the average, revealing an overall high level of academic engagement, an indicator of student success. Regarding self-efficacy, the score obtained is above 4 (on a scale of 1 to 5), close to 5, in social interaction, which indicates that these students overall have relatively robust self-efficacy beliefs. In all cases, the low values of standard deviation reveal a good degree of agreement between responses.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The use of the FTIR as a tool to discriminate flavored oils

Olive oil is one of the most consumed vegetable oils in the world and its production has increased in recentyears.The market has been betting on new ways of consuming olive oils, such as flavored oils.However, flavored oils can suffer several frauds, such as the addition of other vegetable oils.Thus, it is necessary to develop fast, low-cost and non-invasive analytical techniques that allow the identification of the flavoring agent, as well as discriminating non-flavoredoilsfrom flavored oils. In this context, techniques based on spectroscopy have gained great importance for allowing a fast and non-destructive analysis using a small volume of oil, as is the case of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR).The authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT,Portugal) for financial support by national funds FCT/MCTES to CIMO (UIDB/00690/2020) and to Associate Laboratory for Green Chemistry - LAQV (UIDB/50006/2020). Nuno Rodrigues thanks to National funding by FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology, P.I., through the institutional scientific employment program-contract.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Clinical effect of platelet rich plasma in the treatment of periodontal intrabony defects. Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: One of the consequences of periodontitis is periodontal intrabony defects (PID). Various biomaterials have been used for its treatment, but there is still no biomaterial considered as the gold standard. Current research is focused on the use of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) for the treatment of PID. Objective: To determine the clinical effect of PRP in the treatment of PID through a systematic review with meta-analysis. Materials and Methods: A literature search was conducted until February 2017 in the biomedical databases: Pubmed, Embase, Scielo, Science Direct, SIGLE, LILACS, IBECS, and the Cochrane Central Register of Clinical Trials. The criteria for the selection of the studies, which were randomized clinical trials, were the following: articles or papers published in the last 5 years, reporting clinical effects, with a follow-up time equal to or greater than 6 months, and a sample size equal to or greater than 10 patients reporting the use of PRP as a treatment for PID. The methodological quality of the studies was analyzed using the Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews of Interventions as a reference. Results: The search strategy yielded nine articles reporting a reduction in probing depth and gingival recession, and an increase in clinical insertion level when using PRP alone or in combination with another biomaterial. Conclusion: The reviewed literature suggests that the use of PRP in the treatment of PID has a positive clinical effect

Clinical effect of platelet rich fibrin in the treatment of periodontal intrabony defects. Systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: There is currently no gold standard biomaterial for the treatment of periodontal intrabony defects (PIDs). One of the current options is the use of platelet-rich fibrin (PRF). Objective: To determine the clinical effect of PRF in the treatment of PID through a systematic review and meta-analysis. Materials and Methods: A literature search was conducted up to February 2017 in the following biomedical databases: Pubmed, Embase, Scielo, Science Direct, SIGLE, LILACS and in the Cochrane Central Register of Clinical Trials. The selection criteria included: randomized clinical trials published in the last 5 years, reporting clinical effects (probing depth, clinical insertion level or gingival recession), with a follow-up time equal to or greater than 6 months, and sample size larger than or equal to 10 patients reporting the use of PRF as a treatment for PID. The methodological quality of the studies was analyzed using the Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews of Interventions as a reference. Results: The search strategy yielded 20 articles. A reduction in probing depth and an increase in clinical insertion level or a reduction in gingival recession is reported, when using PRF alone or in combination with another biomaterial or substance that stimulates tissue regeneration

Clinical effect of platelet rich fibrin in the treatment of periodontal intrabony defects. Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: There is currently no gold standard biomaterial for the treatment of periodontal intrabony defects (PIDs). One of the current options is the use of platelet-rich fibrin (PRF). Objective: To determine the clinical effect of PRF in the treatment of PID through a systematic review and meta-analysis. Materials and Methods: A literature search was conducted up to February 2017 in the following biomedical databases: Pubmed, Embase, Scielo, Science Direct, SIGLE, LILACS and in the Cochrane Central Register of Clinical Trials. The selection criteria included: randomized clinical trials published in the last 5 years, reporting clinical effects (probing depth, clinical insertion level or gingival recession), with a follow-up time equal to or greater than 6 months, and sample size larger than or equal to 10 patients reporting the use of PRF as a treatment for PID. The methodological quality of the studies was analyzed using the Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews of Interventions as a reference. Results: The search strategy yielded 20 articles. A reduction in probing depth and an increase in clinical insertion level or a reduction in gingival recession is reported, when using PRF alone or in combination with another biomaterial or substance that stimulates tissue regeneration. Conclusion: The literature suggests that the use of PRF in the treatment of PIDs has a beneficial clinical effect when compared to control treatments

Audiovisual integration increases the intentional step synchronization of side-by-side walkers

When people walk side-by-side, they often synchronize their steps. To achieve this, individuals might cross-modally match audiovisual signals from the movements of the partner and kinesthetic, cutaneous, visual and auditory signals from their own movements. Because signals from different sensory systems are processed with noise and asynchronously, the challenge of the CNS is to derive the best estimate based on this conflicting information. This is currently thought to be done by a mechanism operating as a Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE). The present work investigated whether audiovisual signals from the partner are integrated according to MLE in order to synchronize steps during walking. Three experiments were conducted in which the sensory cues from a walking partner were virtually simulated. In Experiment 1 seven participants were instructed to synchronize with human-sized Point Light Walkers and/or footstep sounds. Results revealed highest synchronization performance with auditory and audiovisual cues. This was quantified by the time to achieve synchronization and by synchronization variability. However, this auditory dominance effect might have been due to artifacts of the setup. Therefore, in Experiment 2 human-sized virtual mannequins were implemented. Also, audiovisual stimuli were rendered in real-time and thus were synchronous and co-localized. All four participants synchronized best with audiovisual cues. For three of the four participants results point toward their optimal integration consistent with the MLE model. Experiment 3 yielded performance decrements for all three participants when the cues were incongruent. Overall, these findings suggest that individuals might optimally integrate audiovisual cues to synchronize steps during side-by-side walking.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio