Sobre la estratigrafía de los conglomerados de Campanué (Santa Liestra) y formaciones superiores del Eoceno (extremo occidental de la cuenca Tremp-Graus, Pirineo Central, Provincia de Huesca)

Se pone en evidencia la discordancia de los conglomerados de Campanué y su correlación sincrónica con los movimientos y discurtlancia intraluteciense de Mediano, Asimismo se establece el carácter discordante del Bartoniense inferior (calizas lacustres y lignitos de Capella y Laguarres). Finalmente se precisa la estratigrafía de los conglomerados de Canipanué y serie eocena superior

Precisiones sobre la "mise en place" del manto de Gavarnie en el borde norte del valle del Ebro (Región de Barbastro, provincia de Huesca)

La presencia de una ruptura sedimentaria materializada por una brecha poligénica entre la formación de Peraltilla y los yesos de Barbastro, unido al contexto general de los conocimientos regionales actuales, sitúan la "mise en place" del manto de Gavarnie (o fase Pirenaica mayor) como posteriora la deposición de los yesos y anterior a la formación de Peraltilla. En consecuencia los yesos de Barbastro no serían oligocenos sino de una edad comparable, al menos en parte, a las sales potásicas de Cataluña, es decir, Eoceno superior

QCD-Thermodynamics using 5-dim Gravity

We calculate the critical temperature and free energy of the gluon plasma using the dilaton potential arXiv:0911.0627[hep-ph] in the gravity theory of AdS/QCD. The finite temperature observables are calculated in two ways: first, from the Page-Hawking computation of the free energy, and secondly using the Bekenstein-Hawking proportionality of the entropy with the area of the horizon. Renormalization is well defined, because the T=0 theory has asymptotic freedom. We further investigate the change of the critical temperature with the number of flavours induced by the change of the running coupling constant in the quenched theory. The finite temperature behaviour of the speed of sound, spatial string tension and vacuum expectation value of the Polyakov loop follow from the corresponding string theory in AdS_5.Comment: 38 pages, 12 figure

The use of pedicled buccal fat pad combined with sequestrectomy in bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the maxilla

The use of pedicled buccal fat pad flap (BFP) has proved of value for the closure of oroantral and oronasal communications and is a well-established tool in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Otherwise, the perceived limitations of surgical therapy for bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaws (BRONJ) have been widely discussed, and recommendations have largely been made to offer aggressive surgery only to stage 3 patients refractary to conservative management. Oroantral communication may be a common complication after sequestrectomy and bone debridement in upper maxillary BRONJ. We report a case series of stage 3 recalcitrant maxillary BRONJ surgically treated with extensive sequestrectomy and first reconstruction using pedicled BFP. All the cases presented an uneventful postoperative healing was uneventful without dehiscence, infection, necrosis or oroantral communication. We postulate that managing initially the site with BFP and primary closure may ensure a sufficient blood supply and adequate protection for an effective bone-healing response to occur. This technique may represent a mechanic protection and an abundant source of adipose-derived adult stem cells after debridement in upper maxillary BRONJ. We evaluate in this work results, advantages and indications of this technique. © Medicina Oral S. L

Hydrodynamic modelling and operational oceanography for oil-spill events in the andalusian coast: a real case study during the fedra accident (October 2008)

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Development and Organization of the Lamprey Telencephalon with Special Reference to the GABAergic System

Lampreys, together with hagfishes, represent the sister group of gnathostome vertebrates. There is an increasing interest for comparing the forebrain organization observed in lampreys and gnathostomes to shed light on vertebrate brain evolution. Within the prosencephalon, there is now a general agreement on the major subdivisions of the lamprey diencephalon; however, the organization of the telencephalon, and particularly its pallial subdivisions, is still a matter of controversy. In this study, recent progress on the development and organization of the lamprey telencephalon is reviewed, with particular emphasis on the GABA immunoreactive cell populations trying to understand their putative origin. First, we describe some early general cytoarchitectonic events by searching the classical literature as well as our collection of embryonic and prolarval series of hematoxylin-stained sections. Then, we comment on the cell proliferation activity throughout the larval period, followed by a detailed description of the early events on the development of the telencephalic GABAergic system. In this context, lampreys apparently do not possess the same molecularly distinct subdivisions of the gnathostome basal telencephalon because of the absence of a Nkx2.1-expressing domain in the developing subpallium; a fact that has been related to the absence of a medial ganglionic eminence as well as of its derived nucleus in gnathostomes, the pallidum. Therefore, these data raise interesting questions such as whether or not a different mechanism to specify telencephalic GABAergic neurons exists in lampreys or what are their migration pathways. Finally, we summarize the organization of the adult lamprey telencephalon by analyzing the main proposed conceptions, including the available data on the expression pattern of some developmental regulatory genes which are of importance for building its adult shape

Flexible and Robust Privacy-Preserving Implicit Authentication

Implicit authentication consists of a server authenticating a user based on the user's usage profile, instead of/in addition to relying on something the user explicitly knows (passwords, private keys, etc.). While implicit authentication makes identity theft by third parties more difficult, it requires the server to learn and store the user's usage profile. Recently, the first privacy-preserving implicit authentication system was presented, in which the server does not learn the user's profile. It uses an ad hoc two-party computation protocol to compare the user's fresh sampled features against an encrypted stored user's profile. The protocol requires storing the usage profile and comparing against it using two different cryptosystems, one of them order-preserving; furthermore, features must be numerical. We present here a simpler protocol based on set intersection that has the advantages of: i) requiring only one cryptosystem; ii) not leaking the relative order of fresh feature samples; iii) being able to deal with any type of features (numerical or non-numerical). Keywords: Privacy-preserving implicit authentication, privacy-preserving set intersection, implicit authentication, active authentication, transparent authentication, risk mitigation, data brokers.Comment: IFIP SEC 2015-Intl. Information Security and Privacy Conference, May 26-28, 2015, IFIP AICT, Springer, to appea

Differences between risk perception and risk-taking are related to impulsivity levels

Background Although there is broad agreement that perceived risks determine risk-taking behavior, previous research has shown that this association may not be as straightforward as expected. The main objective of this study was to investigate if the levels of impulsivity can explain part of these controversial findings. Method A total of 1579 participants (Mage = 23.06, from 18 to 60 years; 69.4% women) were assessed for levels of risk perception, risk-taking avoidance, and impulsivity. Results The results showed that while impulsivity was significantly and negatively related to both risk perception and risk-taking avoidance, the relationship with risk-taking avoidance was significantly stronger than with risk perception. The levels of impulsivity predicted risk-taking avoidance even when controlling for risk perception. Conclusions These findings indicate that impulsivity can differentially affect risk perception and risk-taking. We propose that the stronger influence of impulsivity on risk-taking is due to the greater reliance of risk-taking, compared with risk perception, on automatic processes guided by impulses and emotions.Regional Ministry of Economy and Knowledge, Junta de Andalucia UMA18-FEDERJA-13 EMERGIA20_0005

Importancia de la polietilenimina en biomedicina y sus aplicaciones en terapia génica

Therapy is a branch of health science that deals with the means used and the manner of application in the treatment of diseases in order to relieve symptoms or produce a cure. Today there are many therapeutic tools available to combat the diverse health problems faced daily. With this evolution of medicine, it is inevitable that more and better strategies emerge leading to a more innovative therapeutic spectrum. Within the new strategies, we find that gene therapy is currently one with most potential. This type of therapy is based on using genetic material as an active substance against various pathologies and it is on which this literary review is focused. With the high demand for systems that vehiculize genetic material, diverse forms of carrying said material have emerged in the past decade. One of these forms consists of the use of non-viral vectors. The non-viral vectors act as transfectants that evade problems inherent to the use of viral structures such as immunological reactions. Polyethylenimine has emerged as the most promising polymer in this field for many reasons which will be illustrated in this paper. The objectives of this review are to give the reader an understanding of what Polyethylenimine is, why it has produced so much interest today in gene therapy, and what its applications are, with special emphasis on cancer treatment.La Terapéutica es la rama de las ciencias de la salud, que se ocupa de los medios empleados y su forma de aplicarlos en el tratamiento de las enfermedades con el fin de aliviar los síntomas o de producir la curación. Hoy en día existen al alcance multitud de herramientas terapéuticas para combatir los diversos problemas de salud a los que se hace frente día a día. Con esta evolución de la Medicina, es inevitable que vayan surgiendo cada vez más y mejores estrategias que conducen a un espectro terapéutico más innovador. Dentro de las nuevas estrategias, nos encontramos con la Terapia Génica que es una de las que más potencial tiene actualmente. Este tipo de terapia se basa en utilizar material genético como sustancia activa frente a diversas patologías y es aquí donde se encuentra el centro de atención de la presente revisión bibliográfica. Con la gran demanda de sistemas que vehiculizan el material génico han surgido en la última década, diversas formas de transportar dicho material. Una de estas formas consiste en el empleo de vectores no virales. Los cuales no son más que transfectores que eluden los problemas inherentes al empleo de estructuras víricas, como son las reacciones inmunológicas. La polietilenimina ha emergido como el polímero más prometedor en este ámbito por múltiples razones las cuales serán ilustradas en el presente trabajo. Los objetivos de la presente revisión son otorgar al lector un conocimiento sobre qué es la polietilenimina, porqué suscita tanto interés hoy en día en terapia génica, y cuáles son algunas de sus aplicaciones, haciendo especial hincapié en el tratamiento del cáncer.Proyecto FIS 11/02571 (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, España)