Radar on RAIA: High frequency radars in the RAIA Observatory

The RADAR ON RAIA project aims to update and extend beyond the Galician border the High Frequency (HF) radar network that has been operating since 2011 in the framework of the RAIA Observatory. The Project is allowing the establishment of a cross-border collaboration beyond the physical infrastructure itself, developing a sharing strategy of maintenance procedures, validation and data processing on both sides of the border, as well as an easy and public access to all the information. In addition, new products are being developed to exploit the potential of the HF radar technology.Peer Reviewe

Radar on RAIA: High frequency radars in the RAIA Observatory

The RADAR ON RAIA project aims to update and extend beyond the Galician border the High Frequency (HF) radar network that has been operating since 2011 in the framework of the RAIA Observatory. The Project is allowing the establishment of a cross-border collaboration beyond the physical infrastructure itself, developing a sharing strategy of maintenance procedures, validation and data processing on both sides of the border, as well as an easy and public access to all the information. In addition, new products are being developed to exploit the potential of the HF radar technology.Peer Reviewe

Copernicus Ocean State Report, issue 6

The 6th issue of the Copernicus OSR incorporates a large range of topics for the blue, white and green ocean for all European regional seas, and the global ocean over 1993–2020 with a special focus on 2020

Discovering HIV related information by means of association rules and machine learning

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is still one of the main health problems worldwide. It is therefore essential to keep making progress in improving the prognosis and quality of life of affected patients. One way to advance along this pathway is to uncover connections between other disorders associated with HIV/AIDS-so that they can be anticipated and possibly mitigated. We propose to achieve this by using Association Rules (ARs). They allow us to represent the dependencies between a number of diseases and other specific diseases. However, classical techniques systematically generate every AR meeting some minimal conditions on data frequency, hence generating a vast amount of uninteresting ARs, which need to be filtered out. The lack of manually annotated ARs has favored unsupervised filtering, even though they produce limited results. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised system, able to identify relevant ARs among HIV-related diseases with a minimal amount of annotated training data. Our system has been able to extract a good number of relationships between HIV-related diseases that have been previously detected in the literature but are scattered and are often little known. Furthermore, a number of plausible new relationships have shown up which deserve further investigation by qualified medical experts

Health-related quality of life in caregivers of community-dwelling individuals with disabilities or chronic conditions. A gender-differentiated analysis in a cross-sectional study

Abstract Background Most care for people with chronic or disabling conditions living in the community is provided in the family context, and this care is traditionally provided by women. Providing informal care has a negative impact on caregivers’ quality of life, which adds to existing health inequalities associated with gender. The aim of this study was to analyze factors associated with the health-related quality of life of caregivers and to determine their differences in a gender-differentiated analysis. Methods An observational, cross-sectional, multicenter study was conducted in primary healthcare. A total of 218 caregivers aged 65 years or older were included, all of whom assumed the primary responsibility for caring for people with disabling conditions for at least 6 months per year and agreed to participate in the CuidaCare study. The dependent variable was health-related quality of life, assessed with the EQ-5D. The explanatory variables tested were grouped into sociodemographic variables, subjective burden, caregiving role, social support and variables related to the dependent person. The associations between these variables and health-related quality of life were estimated by fitting robust linear regression models. Separate analyses were conducted for women and men. Results A total of 72.8% of the sample were women, and 27.2% were men. The mean score on the EQ-5D for female caregivers was 0.64 (0.31); for male caregivers, it was 0.79 (0.23). There were differences by gender in the frequency of reported problems in the dimensions of pain/comfort and anxiety/depression. The variables that were associated with quality of life also differed. Having a positive depression screening was negatively associated with quality of life for both genders: -0.31 points (95% CI: -0.47; -0.15) for female caregivers and -0.48 points (95% CI: -0.92; -0.03) for male caregivers. Perceived burden was associated with quality of life in the adjusted model for women (-0.12 points; 95% CI: -0.19; -0.06), and domestic help was associated in the adjusted model for male caregivers (-0.12 points; 95% CI: -0.19; -0.05). Conclusions Gender differences are present in informal caregiving. The impact of providing informal care is different for male and female caregivers, and so are the factors that affect their perceived quality of life. It could be useful it incorporates a gender perspective in the design of nursing support interventions for caregivers to individualize care and improve the quality of life of caregivers. Trial registration NCT 01478295 [https://ClinicalTrials.gov]. 23/11/2011. </jats:sec

Discovering HIV related information by means of association rules and machine learning

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is still one of the main health problems worldwide. It is therefore essential to keep making progress in improving the prognosis and quality of life of affected patients. One way to advance along this pathway is to uncover connections between other disorders associated with HIV/AIDS-so that they can be anticipated and possibly mitigated. We propose to achieve this by using Association Rules (ARs). They allow us to represent the dependencies between a number of diseases and other specific diseases. However, classical techniques systematically generate every AR meeting some minimal conditions on data frequency, hence generating a vast amount of uninteresting ARs, which need to be filtered out. The lack of manually annotated ARs has favored unsupervised filtering, even though they produce limited results. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised system, able to identify relevant ARs among HIV-related diseases with a minimal amount of annotated training data. Our system has been able to extract a good number of relationships between HIV-related diseases that have been previously detected in the literature but are scattered and are often little known. Furthermore, a number of plausible new relationships have shown up which deserve further investigation by qualified medical experts.This study has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation within the DOTT-HEALTH Project (MCI/AEI/FEDER, UE) under Grant PID2019-106942RB-C32, the OBSER-MENH Project (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and UE (NextGenerationEU/PRTR)) under Grant TED2021-130398B-C21 and the project RAICES (IMIENS 2022), PI18CIII/00004 Infobanco para uso secundario de datos basado en estandares de tecnologia y conocimiento: implementacion y evaluacion de un infobanco de salud para CoRIS (Info-bank for the secondary use of data based on technology and knowledge standards: implementation and evaluation of a health info-bank for CoRIS) - SmartPITeS and PI18CIII/00019 - PI18/00890 - PI18/00981 Arquitectura normalizada de datos clinicos para la generacion de infobancos y su uso secundario en investigacion: solucion tecnologica (Clinical data normalized architecture for the generation of info-banks and their secondary use in research: technological solution) - CAMAMA 4 from Fondo de Investigacion Sanitaria (FIS) Plan Nacional de I+D+i. The RIS cohort (CoRIS) is supported by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III through the Red Tematica de Investigacion Cooperativa en Sida (RD06/006, RD12/0017/0018 and RD16/0002/0006) as part of the Plan Nacional R+D+I and co-financed by ISCIII-Subdireccion General de Evaluacion and el Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER). The list of members of the Cohort of the Spanish HIV Research Network (CoRIS) is included in the Supplementary Material. Additional relationships between HIV-related diseases confirmed or discarded are included as Supplementary Material

New landscape of science, technology and innovation

La Ingeniería Química Colombiana está inmersa en nuevos panoramas de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación que traen consigo grandes retos para la industria, la academia y el Estado. Las investigaciones multidisciplinarias en energía, materiales, ingeniería de procesos y bioprocesos han llevado a estrategias de emprendimiento e innovación que prometen ser base de desarrollo en el país. En los siguientes capítulos se presentan los resultados más relevantes de las investigaciones realizadas por 19 instituciones colombianas en cooperación con 7 universidades internacionales, así como las contribuciones científicas de numerosas empresas colombianas. Este libro compila 236 resúmenes de investigaciones clasificadas en las siguientes líneas temáticas:1. Bioprocesos - 2. Economía circular - 3. Educación en Ingeniería Química - 4. Emprendimiento e innovación en Ingeniería Química - 5. Energías alternativas - 6. Oil & Gas - 7. Procesos y ciencia - 8. Tecnología en Ingeniería Química y simulación - 9. Tópicos ambientales - 10. MaterialesColombian Chemical Engineering is immersed in new scenarios of Science, Technology and Innovation that bring great challenges for industry, academia and the State. Multidisciplinary research in energy, materials, process engineering and bioprocesses have led to entrepreneurship and innovation strategies that promise to be the basis for development in the country. The following chapters present the most relevant results of the research carried out by 19 Colombian institutions in cooperation with 7 international universities, as well as the scientific contributions of numerous Colombian companies. This book compiles 236 research summaries classified in the following thematic lines: 1. Bioprocesses - 2. Circular economy - 3. Education in Chemical Engineering - 4. Entrepreneurship and innovation in Chemical Engineering - 5. Alternative energies - 6. Oil & Gas - 7. Processes and science - 8. Technology in Chemical Engineering and simulation - 9 Environmental topics - 10. MaterialsUniversidad EA