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X Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología. Univesidad Autónoma de Madrid, septiembre de 200

Functional Assessment of Handwriting Among Children: A Systematic Review of the Psychometric Properties

Handwriting legibility and speed assessments are important for identifying and evaluating handwriting problems in children. A systematic review was conducted to assess the psychometric properties and clinical utility of handwriting assessments in children aged 3 to 16 years. The review included 14 instruments and a total sample of 4,987 children. The results of the review showed that the internal consistency of the instruments ranged from moderate to high. Inter-examiner reliability values for the direct assessment instruments ranged from 0.77 to 1.00, indicating good psychometric properties. However, indirect and self-assessment tools showed poor psychometric properties. The findings of the review suggest that direct assessments are more reliable and useful for evaluating handwriting legibility and speed in children. These assessments can help identify learning disorders, such as dysgraphia, which can negatively affect academic learning and self-concept. Early referral to occupational therapy based on handwriting assessments can help address these learning disorders. The review also highlights the need for more research on screening tools and tools in languages other than Latin. This suggests that further development and evaluation of assessment tools is necessary to accurately identify and assess handwriting problems in diverse populations. Overall, this systematic review provides valuable insights into the psychometric properties and clinical utility of handwriting assessments in children. It emphasizes the importance of reliable assessments for identifying and addressing learning disorders related to handwriting. The findings of this review can guide future research and contribute to the development of more effective assessment tools in this field

Standardization Framework for Sustainability from Circular Economy 4.0

The circular economy (CE) is widely known as a way to implement and achieve sustainability, mainly due to its contribution towards the separation of biological and technical nutrients under cyclic industrial metabolism. The incorporation of the principles of the CE in the links of the value chain of the various sectors of the economy strives to ensure circularity, safety, and efficiency. The framework proposed is aligned with the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development regarding the orientation towards the mitigation and regeneration of the metabolic rift by considering a double perspective. Firstly, it strives to conceptualize the CE as a paradigm of sustainability. Its principles are established, and its techniques and tools are organized into two frameworks oriented towards causes (cradle to cradle) and effects (life cycle assessment), and these are structured under the three pillars of sustainability, for their projection within the proposed framework. Secondly, a framework is established to facilitate the implementation of the CE with the use of standards, which constitute the requirements, tools, and indicators to control each life cycle phase, and of key enabling technologies (KETs) that add circular value 4.0 to the socio-ecological transition

Comparison of theoretical heat transfer model with results from experimental monitoring installed in a refurbishment with ventilated facade

One of the main points to consider when a building is renovated is the improvement of its energy efficiency, minimizing the heat loss through the enclosures and its heating consumption. Under this scope idea a ventilated facade was designed and incorporated in an educational building located in the city of Burgos (Spain). The main objective of this document is a comparison between the theoretical model of heat transfer across the building envelope separating the environment and the interior space, and the heat intake through a linear regression model with installed experimental monitoring. For this it has been necessary to carry out an exhaustive study of the thermal transmission of each one of the materials that make up the thermal envelope of the building, as well as the linear thermal bridges that can be produced before and after the renovation. In addition, thanks to the monitoring installed in the demonstrator building, the interior and exterior temperatures and the heat consumption of each of the radiators is known. In this way expected and real energy savings have been compared

El realismo de la pintura de los 60

Lo que este trabajo se plantea es una reflexión a cerca de la sensibilidad artística post-segunda guerra mundial. Trata pues de intentar enlazar lógicamente los acontecimientos que tras la finalización de la segunda guerra mundial hicieron variar notablemente los planteamientos de la pintura occidental

Eco‐Holonic 4.0 Circular Business Model to Conceptualize Sustainable Value Chain Towards Digital Transition

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a circular business model based on an Eco-Holonic Architecture, through the integration of circular economy and holonic principles. A conceptual model is developed to manage the complexity of integrating circular economy principles, digital transformation, and tools and frameworks for sustainability into business models. The proposed architecture is multilevel and multiscale in order to achieve the instantiation of the sustainable value chain in any territory. The architecture promotes the incorporation of circular economy and holonic principles into new circular business models. This integrated perspective of business model can support the design and upgrade of the manufacturing companies in their respective industrial sectors. The conceptual model proposed is based on activity theory that considers the interactions between technical and social systems and allows the mitigation of the metabolic rift that exists between natural and social metabolism. This study contributes to the existing literature on circular economy, circular business models and activity theory by considering holonic paradigm concerns, which have not been explored yet. This research also offers a unique holonic architecture of circular business model by considering different levels, relationships, dynamism and contextualization (territory) aspects

CASPT2 study of the electronic structure and photochemistry of protonated N -nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA-H+ ) at 453 nm

In this work, we have studied the photodissociation of the protonated derivatives of N-nitrosodimethylamine [(CH3)2N–NO] with the CASPT2 method. It is found that only one of the four possible protonated species of the dialkylnitrosamine compound absorbs in the visible region at 453 nm, that is, N-nitrosoammonium ion [(CH3)2NH-NO]+. This species is also the only one whose first singlet excited state is dissociative to directly yield the aminium radical cation [(CH3)2NHN·]+ and nitric oxide. In addition, we have studied the intramolecular proton migration reaction {[(CH3)2N–NOH]+ → [(CH3)2NH–NO]+} both in the ground and excited state (ESIPT/GSIPT); our results indicate that this process is not accessible neither in the ground nor in the first excited state. Furthermore, as a first approximation, MP2/HF calculations on the nitrosamine–acid complex indicate that in acidic solutions of aprotic solvents, only [(CH3)2NH–NO]+ is formed.This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Grant No. MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) through Project No. PID2021-122613OB-I00. Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málag

OpenCLIPER: an OpenCL-based C++ Framework for Overhead-Reduced Medical Image Processing and Reconstruction on Heterogeneous Devices

Medical image processing is often limited by the computational cost of the involved algorithms. Whereas dedicated computing devices (GPUs in particular) exist and do provide significant efficiency boosts, they have an extra cost of use in terms of housekeeping tasks (device selection and initialization, data streaming, synchronization with the CPU and others), which may hinder developers from using them. This paper describes an OpenCL-based framework that is capable of handling dedicated computing devices seamlessly and that allows the developer to concentrate on image processing tasks. The framework handles automatically device discovery and initialization, data transfers to and from the device and the file system and kernel loading and compiling. Data structures need to be defined only once independently of the computing device; code is unique, consequently, for every device, including the host CPU. Pinned memory/buffer mapping is used to achieve maximum performance in data transfers. Code fragments included in the paper show how the computing device is almost immediately and effortlessly available to the users algorithms, so they can focus on productive work. Code required for device selection and initialization, data loading and streaming and kernel compilation is minimal and systematic. Algorithms can be thought of as mathematical operators (called processes), with input, output and parameters, and they may be chained one after another easily and efficiently. Also for efficiency, processes can have their initialization work split from their core workload, so process chains and loops do not incur in performance penalties. Algorithm code is independent of the device type targeted