Literacy difficulties 'self-perception in advertising students

In the last years, university professors have detected an increase in misspellings, even in degrees where proficiency in communication is essential. There is a need to analyse how writing and reading problems prevalence has enlarged, but also the reason why this has happened. This re-search starts from the assumption that in some countries students with literacy difficulties might be reaching the university without a proper diagnosis or support intervention. In the frame of Advertising studies, a creative career with requirements of high knowledge of oral and written communication, the study compares in Spain actual literacy problems diagnoses to literacy self-perception. It also explores the awareness and attitudes toward dyslexia through an online questionnaire. Results show, on one hand, a quantitative discrepancy between actual diagnosis and self-perception struggles. On the other hand, a qualitative discrepancy with those pupils with dyslexia diagnoses reporting lower punctuations in the literacy struggles than the rest. Finally, a practical discrepancy, as there is widespread theoretical knowledge about dyslexia that does not correspond to practical interventions for this problem. Causes and consequences of these discrepancies in communication students require further research

European Funds at the Level of the Spanish Autonomous Communities: Is Administrative Communication Discouraging Open Innovation?

Spain is at the bottom in the absorption of European funds, and there is a need to research why. This paper starts from the idea that the problem could, among other issues, be related to the ineffectiveness of administrative communication, both in terms of transparency and dissemination. These dimensions are key for the innovation and open government principles endorsed by the better regulation initiative of the EU and have hardly been studied in this respect by academics. For the period 2021–2027, Spain will receive more than 34,692 million euros from the ERDF and ESF+ funds. The autonomous communities and cities must report on this aid based on communication plans and strategies for the operational programs. After compiling them, assessing their ease of access and analyzing some of their characteristics, such as the levels of execution of their budgets, this research analyzes how the 19 official websites inform about the ERDF and ESF. In several cases, the results point to inefficient institutional management of budgets for communication, as well as obstacles to accessing online content, which is key to transparency. The extent to which these shortcomings may be related to the lack of demand for European funding could be analyzed in future studies

Influence of the electric field on the latent heat of the ferroelectric phase transition in KDP

The specific heat, heat flux (DTA trace) and dielectric constant of KDP ferroelectric crystal have been measured simultaneously for various electric fields with a conduction calorimeter. The specific heat presents a strong anomaly but these simultaneous measurements allow us to evaluate the latent heat accurately. Latent heat decreases with field and the value of critical electric field --that where latent heat disappears-- is estimated to be (0.44\pm0.03) kV/cm. Incidentally, we have measured simultaneously the dielectric permittivity which suggests that latent heat is developed as domains are growing.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, ReVTeX, twocolumn format, to appear in J. Phys. Cond. Matte

Identificación de variedades autóctonas de vid en zonas transfronterizas del Duero

Castilla y León cuenta con una zona vitivinícola transfronteriza con el norte de Portugal, la DO Arribes, que linda con la región de Tras-os-Montes, en la que se ubica la Indicación de Procedencia Reglamentada PlanaltoMirandês. En ambas zonas vitivinícolas existe un elevado número de variedades minoritarias que cuentan con escasos individuos distribuidos demodo disperso en viñedos de reducidas dimensiones que son difíciles de localizar e identificar. Se ha llevado a cabo una minuciosa prospección en 2006, 2007 y 2008 en ambas zonas vitivinícolas y se ha logrado identificar un apreciable número de variedades combinando la descripción ampelográfica y el análisismolecular (SSR), así como establecer diferentes sinonimias usadas tanto en España como en Portugal

The interleukin-6 and noradrenaline mediated inflammation-stress feedback mechanism is dysregulated in metabolic syndrome: Effect of exercise

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a metabolic disorder associated with obesity, type-II diabetes, and "low grade inflammation", with the concomitant increased risk of cardiovascular events. Removal of the inflammatory mediator signals is a promising strategy to protect against insulin resistance, obesity, and other problems associated with MS such as cardiovascular disease. The aim of the present investigation was to determine the "inflammatory and stress status" in an experimental model of MS, and to evaluate the effect of a program of habitual exercise and the resulting training-induced adaptation to the effects of a single bout of acute exercise.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Obese Zucker rats (fa/fa) were used as the experimental model of MS, and lean Zucker rats (Fa/fa) were used for reference values. The habitual exercise (performed by the obese rats) consisted of treadmill running: 5 days/week for 14 weeks, at 35 cm/s for 35 min in the last month. The acute exercise consisted of a single session of 25-35 min at 35 cm/s. Circulating concentrations of IL-6 (a cytokine that regulates the inflammatory and metabolic responses), CRP (a systemic inflammatory marker), and corticosterone (CTC) (the main glucocorticoid in rats) were determined by ELISA, and that of noradrenaline (NA) was determined by HPLC. Glucose was determined by standard methods.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The genetically obese animals showed higher circulating levels of glucose, IL-6, PCR, and NA compared with the control lean animals. The habitual exercise program increased the concentration of IL-6, PCR, NA, and glucose, but decreased that of CTC. Acute exercise increased IL-6, CRP, and NA in the sedentary obese animals, but not in the trained obese animals. CTC was increased after the acute exercise in the trained animals only.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Animals with MS present a dysregulation in the feedback mechanism between IL-6 and NA which can contribute to the systemic low-grade inflammation and/or hyperglycaemia of MS. An inappropriate exercise intensity can worsen this dysregulation, contributing to the metabolic, inflammatory, and stress disorders associated with MS. Habitual exercise (i.e., training) induces a positive adaptation in the response to acute exercise.</p

A New Frequency Planning for Improved Capacity and Coverage in Sectorized OFDMA Cellular Networks

One of the main challenges in cellular systems is how to reduce Other Cells Interference (OCI) while keeping high spectral efficiency and high coverage probability. Since the beginning of cellular technologies, frequency planning with sectoring has been used to mitigate such OCI. However, in modern wireless Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) technologies much attention is being paid to more complex strategies like Coordintation Multi-Point transmission/reception (CoMP) techniques due to its higher performance. This paper presents a new frequency planning for sectorized cell networks. Simulation results show that this scheme considerably outperforms classical sectoring (CS) in terms of both capacity and coverage probability. In particular, for the case of hexagonal grid, the capacity improvement is around 6 b/s/Hz compared to CS while keeping a coverage probability higher than 0.9 for a 0 dB Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) threshold.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

A New Tractable Model to Estimate the Uplink Inter-Cell Interference in LTE

This paper presents a tractable model to estimate the uplink Inter-Cell Interference (ICI) in fully loaded LTE networks. Interfering users are considered to be uniformly distributed in an annulus so that evaluation of the interference power is obtained asymptotically for a high number of users. Model validity is proved through Monte Carlo simulations, showing that analytical results are close to simulation results even for a low number of users per cell.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Genetic Diversity in Relict and Fragmented Populations of Ulmus glabra Hudson in the Central System of the Iberian Peninsula

Ulmus glabra Hudson, or Wych elm, occurs as fragmented and relict natural populations in the Central System, which acts as a refugium in the Iberian Peninsula. Considering the importance of the Central System populations of U. glabra, the main objective was to assess their genetic diversity using nuclear microsatellite markers. A total of 360 different genotypes were detected in the 427 U. glabra individuals analyzed. Wych elm populations showed a highly significant genetic differentiation (24%; p = 0.0001). Of the 22 populations studied, population of Rozas de Puerto Real (ROZ) showed the highest values of effective number of alleles (2.803), mean Shannon?s diversity (1.047) and expected heterozygosity (0.590). Populations of ROZ and Mombeltrán (MOM) showed the highest values of observed heterozygosity (0.838 and 0.709, respectively), and highly negative values for inbreeding coefficient (?0.412 and ?0.575, respectively). Also, most of putative hybrids (50 of 55) were observed in these two populations. Demographic analysis revealed signals for recent (four populations) and ancestral (fifteen populations) bottlenecks. Fragmented populations with diminishing number of individuals, along with anthropogenic intervention and Dutch elm disease (DED), are the main threats to U. glabra populations. From a future perspective, the information generated can be considered in the formulation of conservation strategies for U. glabra populations in the Central System

Optogenética: una haz de luz para conocer las funciones cerebrales

Una de las grandes preguntas que nos hacemos en neurociencia es cómo la actividad neuronal crea diversas funciones en el cerebro, resultando en un determinado comportamiento. Para poder analizar esta pregunta, nos vemos obligados a analizar lo que ocurre dentro del sujeto experimental mientras ejecuta un comportamiento determinado, para así poder determinar qué circuito específico generó el mismo. Una de las técnicas más utilizadas hoy en día para dicho fin es la optogenética. Desde su creación, el uso de esta técnica se ha incrementado significativamente y actualmente es empleada a nivel mundial por laboratorios de neurociencia cuyo objetivo es dilucidar los enigmas de la actividad cerebral.One of the big questions we ask in neuroscience is how neuronal activity creates various functions in the brain, resulting in a certain behavior. In order to analyze this question, we are forced to analyzewhat happens inside the experimental subject while executing a specific behavior, in order to be able to determine which specific circuit generated it. One of today´s most used technique is called optogenetics. Since its creation, the use of this technique has significantly increased, being globally applied by the neuroscience field by laboratories whose purpose is to elucidate the enigmas of brain´s activity.Fil: Krawczyk, Maria del Carmen. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica. Departamento de Farmacología. Cátedra de Farmacología; ArgentinaFil: Millán, J.. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica. Departamento de Farmacología. Cátedra de Farmacología; ArgentinaFil: Blake, Mariano Guillermo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Fisiología y Biofísica Bernardo Houssay. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Instituto de Fisiología y Biofísica Bernardo Houssay; ArgentinaFil: Boccia, Mariano Martín. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica. Departamento de Farmacología. Cátedra de Farmacología; Argentin