Teaching technology: from knowing to feeling enhancing emotional and content acquisition performance through Gardner’s multiple intelligences Theory in technology and design lessons

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory (MIT) can be a cognitive and emotional improvement if is taken into account in the standard development of the Technology lessons. This work presents a preliminary evaluation of the performance enhancement in two concomitant aspects: contents acquisition and emotional yield. The study was made on up to 150 students with ages of 12-13 years old. The control group was submitted to traditional transmission-reception lessons, whereas the experimental one was submitted to novel educational techniques that included specific activities which took into account the different intelligences styles (IS) inside the classroom. The results clearly depicted that both studied variables underwent a statistical significant enhancement through the application of the MIT-based educational methodPeer Reviewe

Continental margin radiography from a potential field and sediment thickness standpoint: the Iberian Atlantic Margin

El presente estudio realiza una revisión del estado del conocimiento en el Margen Atlántico Ibérico atendiendo a las tres provincias en las que clásicamente se sub-divide éste: margen gallego, planicie abisal suribérica, y planicie abisal del Tagus, utilizando como fuente de información datos de campos potenciales e información derivada de espesor de sedimentos. Se estudian las características de su basamento, estableciendo límites para la extensión de la corteza continental, y la amplitud del dominio denominado transición océano-continente cuyo fin marca el inicio de la corteza oceánica. La corteza continental en el margen gallego ocupa aproximadamente 210 km, la mayor de las tres provincias, mientras que su zona de transición océano- continente varía ligeramente entre los 65 km en su zona sur y los 56 km más al norte, difiriendo de lo propuesto por otros autores que consideran ronda los 30 km. La situación en la planicie abisal sur-ibérica es aproximadamente la contraria. El dominio continental se extiende menos que en el gallego, aproximadamente unos 60 km, mientras que la zona de transición océano-continente lo hace unos 185 km. El estudio de la planicie abisal del Tagus muestra una evolución morfológica más rápida que las otras dos, registrando a partir del análisis de la variación del factor de adelgazamiento ß una zona de transición océano-continente de aproximadamente 100 km. Los resultados obtenidos apoyarían una naturaleza intermedia a la corteza en prácticamente todo el dominio del Tagus, en contra de lo establecido por otros autores.This study reviews the state of knowledge in the Iberian Atlantic margin. In order to do this, the margin has been divided into three provinces: the Galicia margin, the southern Iberian abyssal plain, and the Tagus abyssal plain. We have used potential field and sediment thickness data. This has allowed us to study the crust, setting limits for the continental crust domain, and the amplitude of the so-called ocean-continent transition, whose end marks the beginning of the oceanic crust. The study shows the continental crust in the Galician margin to be the widest, about 210 km in length, whilst the ocean-continent transition varies slightly in this province: between 65 km wide in the south and 56 km wide in the north. This result shows up some differences with the hypothesis of other authors. The situation in the southern Iberian abyssal plain is nearly the opposite. Its continental crust extends approximately 60 km, whilst the ocean-continent transition zone is 185 km long. The Tagus abyssal plain study shows a faster morphological evolution than the others, according with the amount of crustal thinning ß, the ocean-continent transition domain spanning 100 km. These results support a transitional intermediate character for almost the whole Tagus plain, in contrary to what other authors have stated.Depto. de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y PaleontologíaFac. de Ciencias GeológicasTRUEMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)pu

Net contribution and predictive ability of the CUN-BAE body fatness index in relation to cardiometabolic conditions

BACKGROUND: The CUN-BAE (Clínica Universidad de Navarra-Body adiposity estimator) index is an anthropometric index based on age, sex and body mass index (BMI) for a refined prediction of body fatness in adults. CUN-BAE may help detect metabolically unhealthy individuals with otherwise normal weight according to BMI or waist circumference (WC). The aim of this study was to evaluate whether CUN-BAE, independent of its components (BMI, age and sex), was associated with cardiometabolic conditions including arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome (MetS). METHODS: The ENRICA study was based on a cross-sectional sample of non-institutionalized men and women representative of the adult Spanish population. Body weight, height, and WC were measured in all participants. The residual of CUN-BAE (rCUN-BAE), i.e. the part of the index not explained by its components, was calculated. The associations of CUN-BAE, rCUN-BAE, BMI and WC with hypertension, diabetes and MetS were analysed by multivariate logistic regression, and the Akaike information criterion (AIC) was calculated. RESULTS: The sample included 12,122 individuals. rCUN-BAE was associated with hypertension (OR 1.14, 95% CI 1.07-1.21) and MetS (OR 1.48, 1.37-1.60), but not with diabetes (OR 1.05, 0.94-1.16). In subjects with a BMI?<?25 kg/m2, CUN-BAE was significantly associated with all three outcome variables. CUN-BAE was more strongly associated with the cardiometabolic conditions than BMI and WC and fit similar AICs. CONCLUSIONS: The CUN-BAE index for body fatness was positively associated with hypertension, diabetes and MetS in adults independent of BMI or WC. CUN-BAE may help to identify individuals with cardiometabolic conditions beyond BMI, but this needs to be confirmed in prospective settings.Funding: The ENRICA study was funded and financed by Sanofi-Aventis. Specific funding for this analysis came from the governmental Spain FIS PI12/1166 and PI11/01379 projects and from the “UAM Chair in Epidemiology and Control of Cardiovascular Risk”

The 12/02/2007 SW Cape San Vicente Earthquake: SFS (San Fernando SP) and WM (Western Mediterranean) networks preliminary report

The western part of the Eurasia-Africa plate boundary crosses the Gulf of Cadiz at about 36oN latitude, without a well defined boundary line. The plate convergence, at a rate of a few mm/year in a NNW/SSE to NW/SE direction (Buforn et al 2004), induces a moderate magnitude and shallow depth seismicity, but a clear intermediate activity (figure 1) is also present at the area and large magnitude historical events have been documented since the roman times (Martin- Davila and Pazos, 2003), among them the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 9.0. This event, with an epicentre located SW of Cape San Vicente, caused around 20000 casualties. More recently, on February 28, 1969, an 8.1 magnitude event was located in the same area. Both shocks induced a tsunami, with a measured wave height at Cadiz Bay of about ten meters for the 1755 event and one meter for the 1969

Personas con discapacidad intelectual : manual de educación afectivo-sexual

Incluye un CD-Rom con contenidos prácticosSe analizan y desarrollan diferentes aspectos de la educación sexual: afectividad, sexualidad, conocimiento y cuidado corporal y relaciones interpersonales para orientar a quienes desarrollen programas de educación sexual para discapacitados intelectuales. Se contemplan además las obligaciones éticas de problemas concretos (autoerotismo, homofilia, relaciones sexuales, capacidad suficiente para contraer matrimonio, responsabilidad en la procreación) así como también según los estadios evolutivos en el desarrollo de la conciencia moral.MadridBiblioteca de Educación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Calle San Agustín 5 -3 Planta; 28014 Madrid; Tel. +34917748000; [email protected]

Neandertales y Humanos modernos en Guadalajara

Con autorización de la revista para autores CSIC[EN] We present partial results obtained in an interdisciplinary research project focused on the human settlement of the Guadalajara province (Spain) during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. The excavation of the Peña Capón, Peña Cabra and Los Casares sites have shown outstanding evidence for investigating population dynamics and human-environment interactions in the interior territories of the Iberian Peninsula during the Late Pleistocene. Traditionally depicted as marginal and lacking own cultural developments, these territories have provided scarce and weak data for the Middle and –especially– Upper Paleolithic, and thus the proposed interpretations on the mentioned problems have been always flawed. However, our results enable us to confirm the cultural relevance of the region under study during Upper Pleniglacial times previously considered devoid of human occupation. Also, we are now able to contribute with solid data from inland Spain to the problem of the Neandertal demise in the Iberian Peninsula and southwest Europe.[ES] Presentamos parte de los resultados de un proyecto de investigación interdisciplinar sobre el poblamiento humano en la provincia de Guadalajara durante el Paleolítico Medio y el Superior. Basados en la excavación de los yacimientos de Peña Capón, Peña Cabra y Los Casares, los datos obtenidos presentan importantes implicaciones para la investigación de las dinámicas poblaciones y la relación entre ocupación humana y variabilidad climática y ambiental en el interior de la península ibérica durante el Pleistoceno Superior. Tradicionalmente consideradas marginales, las regiones interiores peninsulares han aportado escasas evidencias relevantes para estas cronologías, provocando así que las interpretaciones sobre los problemas aludidos sean altamente cuestionables. Sin embargo, los resultados obtenidos nos permiten afirmar la entidad cultural de la región estudiada durante momentos del Pleniglacial Superior antes considerados deshabitados, así como contribuir con evidencias sólidas a la controversia del final de los Neandertales en la península ibérica.Gran parte de las investigaciones han sido financiadas a través de un proyecto Marie Curie (IEF) dentro del Séptimo Programa Marco (FP7) de la Comisión Europea (Identificador: 628179) así como por la Fundación Alemana de Investigación (DFG) bajo el CRC 806 “Our Way to Europe”. También se ha contado con financiación proveniente de los siguientes proyectos del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad financiados por la Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) y el Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER): HAR2013-48784-C3-3-P, HAR2016-76760-C3-2-P, HAR2013-43701-P, CGL2012-38434-C03-01 y HAR2017-82483-C3-3-P. Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño disfruta de un contrato co-financiado por las Ayudas para la Atracción de Talento Investigador de la Comunidad de Madrid (referencia 2016-T2/HUM-1251)

Ibiza Absolute Calibration Experiment : Survey and Preliminary Results

International audienceWithin the framework of a project comprising part of the Spanish Space Program related to the JASON-1 CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales)/NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) mission, a campaign was conducted from June 9-17, 2003, on the Absolute Calibration Site of the island of Ibiza. The objective was to determine the local marine geoid slope under the ascending (187) and descending (248) Jason-1 ground tracks, in order to allow a better extrapolation of the open-ocean altimetric data with on-shore tide gauge locations, and thereby improve the overall precision of the calibration process. For this we have used a catamaran with two GPS antennas onboard, following the Corsica/Senetosa design (Bonnefond et al. 2003a). Five GPS reference stations were deployed in order to reduce the distance between the areas covered by the catamaran and the fixed GPS receiver used in the kinematic process. The geodetic activities (e.g., GPS, leveling) have enabled the building of a very accurate (few mm) network in a reference frame compatible with the satellite altimetry missions (ITRF 2000). The GPS kinematic data were processed using two different software programmes, allowing checking of the consistency of the solutions. If the standard deviation of the differences (3.3 cm) is close to the kinematic process precision, they exhibit some large values (up to 14 cm). These large discrepancies have been reduced using a weighting based on the crossover differences. Inasmuch as the distances between the tide gauges and the areas covered by the GPS catamaran were becoming large, we have used the MOG2D ocean model (Carregravere and Lyard 2003) to correct the sea surface from tides. In the farthest areas, the crossover differences show an improvement by a factor of two. Finally, we also present preliminary results on Jason-1 altimeter calibration using the derived marine geoid. From this analysis, the altimeter bias is estimated to be 120 ± 5 mm. The quality of this first result validates the whole GPS-based marine geoid processing, for which the accuracy is estimated to be better than 3 cm rms at crossovers