Some Considerations about Pain in the Child that was Born Premature

Every single child born before completing the 37 weeks of gestational age (GA) is considered by major organizations such as UNICEF [1] and OMS [2] as premature. Because of their in maturity, these infants must face at the early beginnings of their lives hospitalization in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) which will take longer or lesser depending on their GA when born, their weight and their overall health condition. In that Unit they will undergo several interventions to make a diagnosis and treatments in pursuit of an adequate and soon recovery, and therefore get ready to be discharged and return home.Fil: Gómez, María Celeste. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental Dr. Horacio J. A. Rimoldi; Argentin

Asymptotic freedom in the Hamiltonian approach to binding of color

We derive asymptotic freedom and the $SU(3)$ Yang-Mills $\beta$-function using the renormalization group procedure for effective particles. In this procedure, the concept of effective particles of size $s$ is introduced. Effective particles in the Fock space build eigenstates of the effective Hamiltonian $H_s$, which is a matrix written in a basis that depend on the scale (or size) parameter $s$. The effective Hamiltonians $H_s$ and the (regularized) canonical Hamiltonian $H_{0}$ are related by a similarity transformation. We calculate the effective Hamiltonian by solving its renormalization-group equation perturbatively up to third order and calculate the running coupling from the three-gluon-vertex function in the effective Hamiltonian operator.Comment: Presented at XII Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Thessaloniki (Greece) August 29th - September 3rd 2016. 8pages, 4 figure

The Rhythm of our Lives. Aesthetic Perspectives East & West

The leading approach to everyday aesthetics for the past few decades has departed from analytic philosophical grounds, generating some tensions or dichotomies regarding its foundational cornerstones: the ordinary vs. extraordinary character of everyday aesthetic experience, contextual familiarity vs. strangeness, object vs. processual orientation, etc. Although John Dewey has been widely acclaimed as a sort of foundational figure for this burgueoning sub-discipline of aesthetics, maybe not enough emphasis has been laid on his very different pragmatist approach. In this regard, his reliance on Hegelian cum Darwinian premises might allow for a connection with other branches of continental as well as Asian philosophies, from which also some research on everyday aesthetics has been made. It is from this wider ontological framework that the notion of rhythm could be vindicated as a pivotal aspect of the aesthetic dimension of our everyday lives. Dewey deals extensively with it in Art as Experience, conceiving it as a sort of pattern of accomplished experiences, accounting also for his naturalistic approach and art and life continuity thesis. On the other hand, neo-pragmatist exponent Richard Shusterman, among others, has posited links of connection between Pragmatist aesthetics and East-Asian philosophies. Particularly, Dewey’s resonances with Asian philosophies have been studied, with a preeminence on the notions of harmony and rhythm. This paper will depart from the analysis of the notion of rhythm in Dewey’s philosophy, trying to hint at some possible developments of its implications. Particularly, it will expand on some East Asian paralelisms to his philosophy, trying to link them with the notion of rhythm as an epitomizing ground for the conjunction of the extraordinary (art) and the ordinary (life).Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

The Poetic Dimension of Everyday Aesthetic Appreciation. Perspectives from East-Asian Cultures

As Yuriko Saito, one of the main exponents of everyday aesthetics holds, East-Asian cultures have long established a deep link between artistic practices and everyday life, transforming apparently mundane practices such as having a cup o ftea with cakes into a highly ritualized form of art (cha-no-yu) and allowing us to enjoy the fleeting moment. The tea ceremony example is grounded, as this paper aims at showing, on a whole East-Asian worldview (as exemplfieied in Confucianism, Daoism and Zen Buddhism philosophies) whereby aesthetic appreciation is deeply pervaded by a poetic feeling, mainly consisting in the interactive harmony or attunement established with the particular circumstances of one’s own life due precisely to its fleeting and evanescent nature. To accomplish this, savouring and perceiving the uniqueness ingrained in every single human experience, the adequate attitude is the poetic one, due to its holistic and non-discriminative nature. Having as its focus everyday life, or simply put, life as such in its specificity, traditional artistic practices in East-Asia as the arts of the brush, garden design or utilitarian crafts such as pottery, become means of revealing what, due to its closeness, lies hidden in ordinary experience. Utilitarian arts are, in this sense, a priviledged way of conveying this end due precisely to its practical link with ordinary existence, preventing the eventual arousal of a purely formal and detached apprehension. The only coherent way to develop this awareness of the extraordinary in the ordinary, to use Leddy’s expression, is through the main feature of all poetic qualities: indirect allusion and subdued reference so that what is close at hand may shine in a different light. Particularly, in association with Japanese Zen Buddhism, where the rootedness of aesthetics in the ordinary is stronger, it has frequently adopted the form of restraint, contention, reserve, or, as Saito puts it, “insufficiency”. This paper aims at showing with the help of a few examples how this difuse poetic attitude, so prevalent in Traditional East-Asian contexts, is required not only in standardized art practices, but also in a wider aesthetic level of awareness of our ordinary experiences. In order to justify these claims, it will refer first to the ideal of harmony or poetic resonance in Chinese aesthetics and then it will refer to some concrete Japanese aesthetic categories inspired by Zen Buddhism, such as mono-no-aware, sabi, wabi, or yugen

Negotiation of meaning in outside of the classroom group assignments: accounting for the how to understand the what of future mathematics teachers' learning

In this paper we illustrate how Wenger’s theory of social learning can be used to account for phenomena of future teachers change in settings that are not usually studied, namely group work that future teachers do as they work on class assignments outside of class. We describe how we adapted Wenger’s theory to the exploration of future mathematics teachers’ learning and illustrate how the analysis of the audio taped interaction of a group of future teachers working out-side the classroom generated conjectures that help to explain their didactic knowledge development

Inappropriate use of proton-pump inhibitors and fragility fracture risk. A preliminary study

Introducción: Los inhibidores de la bomba de protones (IBP) son fármacos ampliamente utilizados, si bien esto conlleva a un sobreuso que no es acorde con las indicaciones aceptadas en España y en el resto de Europa. Por otro lado, algunos autores han establecido una posible implicación de los IBP en el riesgo de fractura. Con este trabajo hemos pretendido efectuar una primera aproximación al conocimiento del consumo de IBP en nuestro medio y analizar para qué indicación son prescritos, a la vez que estudiar su posible asociación con un mayor riesgo de fractura por fragilidad entre sus consumidores. Material y método: Estudio observacional, transversal, abierto, descriptivo, en el que se entrevistó aleatoriamente a un número de pacientes que fueron atendidos en diferentes ámbitos sanitarios: consultas externas hospitalarias, servicios de urgencias, consulta de Atención Primaria y pacientes ingresados en planta hospitalaria. Resultados: De los 411 pacientes entrevistados, el 54% de los pacientes recibían IBP, y cuya edad media era de 63,3 años, frente al 46% que no los tomaban y que eran más jóvenes, con una edad media de 50,9 años. La distribución por sexos fue similar. La principal razón de utilizar el IBP era como “protector gástrico”, en el 39,8% de los pacientes, indicación no existente en la ficha técnica de este grupo de fármacos. Los consumidores de IBP tenían una mayor prevalencia de todas las fracturas por fragilidad. Conclusiones: Más de la mitad de la población encuestada consume IBP, y de ella cerca del 40% sin una indicación médica correcta. Por esto, unido a la mayor prevalencia de fracturas por fragilidad que presentan –que nos hace pensar en un posible mayor riesgo de fractura entre sus usuarios– consideramos la necesidad de un uso más racional de estos fármacos. Estas conclusiones son preliminares pero, a la vista de estos resultados, creemos que puede ser interesante realizar más estudios dirigidos a comprobar de manera más firme la relación entre los IBP y el riesgo de fractura osteoporótica.Sociedad Canaria de Osteoporosi

Assessment of the predictive capacity of the Garvan calculator of 10 year risk of fracture in a Spanish population

Introducción: En los últimos años se han desarrollado varias herramientas de cálculo o escalas para valorar el riesgo de fractura por fragilidad a largo plazo. La calculadora Garvan no ha sido validada en la población española. El objetivo de este estudio fue observar su capacidad predictiva en una muestra de la población canaria y, por tanto, de la española. Material y métodos: Se incluyó a 121 pacientes a los que se les realizó un seguimiento de 10 años en nuestras consultas. A todos se les valoró el riesgo de fractura usando la calculadora Garvan y basándonos en los datos obtenidos en la primera visita realizada. Resultados: De los 121 pacientes, 30 sufrieron al menos una fractura osteoporótica a lo largo de los 10 años de seguimiento. El grupo de pacientes fracturados tenían en la escala Garvan un valor medio de riesgo de sufrir cualquier fractura por fragilidad de 27%, frente al 13% de aquellos que no sufrieron fractura (p<0,001). El área bajo la correspondiente curva ROC fue de 0,718 (IC-95% = 0,613 ; 0,824). En base a ella, se estimó que el punto de corte óptimo para considerar un alto riesgo de fractura por fragilidad fue 18,5%. A este valor le correspondió una sensibilidad de 0,67 (IC-95% = 0,47 ; 0,83) y una especificidad de 0,67 (IC-95% = 0,56 ; 0,77). Conclusiones: Nuestros resultados muestran que la escala Garvan predice adecuadamente el riesgo de fractura osteoporótica a 10 años en nuestra población. Un valor inferior a 18,5% permitiría establecer un riesgo de fractura bajo, pudiendo ser utilizada como herramienta de cribado.Sociedad Canaria de Osteoporosi