Carrera de larga duración con formato Corremontes

Este trabajo fin de grado trata de presentar una fundamentación teórica que justifique la introducción de la carrera de larga duración en la escuela y la salida al medio natural para desarrollar actividad física. Además, hace referencia a un modelo integrador que busca la participación de todo el alumnado independientemente de sus capacidades iniciales y la generación de experiencias positivas y motivadoras. Todo ello persigue el objetivo de crear desde la escuela una serie de hábitos de vida saludables y fomentar el gusto por la carrera continua. Además, el Proyecto busca que el alumnado reflexione y entienda la teoría a través de la propia práctica. Para ello, se dota de autonomía a los escolares y se les proporcionan los conocimientos y destrezas necesarias para que la práctica de actividad física sea segura y esté libre de lesiones. Se destacan el calentamiento inicial que activa a los músculos, sube pulsaciones y prepara para el ejercicio y los estiramientos finales que relajan la musculatura liberándola de todo el estrés acumulado.Grado en Educación Primari

Mejorando la escucha activa en Educación Infantil por medio del método de investigación-acción

This study arose from the observation of a specific problem, which is the lack of listening in an early childhood education classroom. The introductory section covers what is related to active listening and its link with the educational environment. This is followed by the qualitative methodology, which frames the action-research technique used throughout the process. This is followed by the context and the intervention carried out, with which this skill is worked on by means of gamification and oral storytelling. To conclude, the results show that this proposal improves the percentage of students who listen when the situation requires it and encourages them to continue with this work dynamic in the discussion section.Este estudio nace de la observación de una problemática concreta, como es la falta de escucha en un aula de Educación Infantil. El apartado de introducción recoge lo relacionado con la escucha activa y su vinculación con el ámbito educativo. A continuación, aparece la metodología cualitativa, que enmarca la técnica de investigación-acción empleada durante todo el proceso. A ello le sigue el contexto y la intervención llevada a cabo, con la que se trabaja dicha habilidad, por medio de la gamificación y la narración oral del cuento. Para concluir, los resultados reflejan que con esta propuesta se mejora el porcentaje de discentes, que escuchan cuando la situación lo requiere y se anima a seguir con esta dinámica de trabajo en el apartado de discusiones

A proposal for enhancing the motivation in students of computer programming

Computer programming is known to be one of the most difficult courses for students in the first year of engineering. They are faced with the challenge of abstract thinking and gaining programming skills for the first time. These skills are acquired by continuous practicing from the start of the course. In order to enhance the motivation and dynamism of the learning and assessment processes, we have proposed the use of three educational resources namely screencasts, self-assessment questionnaires and automated grading of assignments. These resources have been made available in Moodle which is a Learning Management System widely used in education environments and adopted by the Telecommunications Engineering School at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). Both teachers and students can enhance the learning and assessment processes through the use of new educational activities such as self-assessment questionnaires and automated grading of assignments. On the other hand, multimedia resources such as screencasts can guide students in complex topics. The resources proposed allow teachers to improve their tutorial actions since they provide immediate feedback and comments to students without the enormous effort of manual correction and evaluation by teachers specially taking into account the large number of students enrolled in the course. In this paper we present the case study where three proposed educational resources were applied. We describe the special features of the course and explain why the use of these resources can both enhance the students? motivation and improve the teaching and learning processes. Our research work was carried out on students attending the "Computer programming" course offered in the first year of a Telecommunications Engineering degree at UPM. This course is mandatory and has more than 450 enrolled students. Our purpose is to encourage the motivation and dynamism of the learning and assessment processes

Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells for improving hematopoietic function: An in vitro and in vivo model. Part 2: Effect on bone marrow microenvironment

9 páginas, 4 figuras, 1 tabla.-- This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.-- et al.The aim of the present study was to determine how mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) could improve bone marrow (BM) stroma function after damage, both in vitro and in vivo. Human MSC from 20 healthy donors were isolated and expanded. Mobilized selected CD34+ progenitor cells were obtained from 20 HSCT donors. For in vitro study, long-term bone marrow cultures (LTBMC) were performed using a etoposide damaged stromal model to test MSC effect in stromal confluence, capability of MSC to lodge in stromal layer as well as some molecules (SDF1, osteopontin,) involved in hematopoietic niche maintenance were analyzed. For the in vivo model, 64 NOD/SCID recipients were transplanted with CD34+ cells administered either by intravenous (IV) or intrabone (IB) route, with or without BM derived MSC. MSC lodgement within the BM niche was assessed by FISH analysis and the expression of SDF1 and osteopontin by immunohistochemistry. In vivo study showed that when the stromal damage was severe, TP-MSC could lodge in the etoposide-treated BM stroma, as shown by FISH analysis. Osteopontin and SDF1 were differently expressed in damaged stroma and their expression restored after TP-MSC addition. Human in vivo MSC lodgement was observed within BM niche by FISH, but MSC only were detected and not in the contralateral femurs. Human MSC were located around blood vessels in the subendoestal region of femurs and expressed SDF1 and osteopontin. In summary, our data show that MSC can restore BM stromal function and also engraft when a higher stromal damage was done. Interestingly, MSC were detected locally where they were administered but not in the contralateral femur. © 2011 Carrancio et al.This study was supported in part by a grant from Consejeria de Educación de Castilla y León (ref: HUS003A10-2), Gerencia Regional de Salud de Castilla y León (ref: GRS/222/A/08) and Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (ISCIII) (ref: PS09/01530), Ministerio de Sanidad, Spain. S.C. was supported by Junta de Castilla y Leon (FPI Grant EDU/1878/2006). B.B. was supported by Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (FIS) from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ref. CD06/00042).Peer Reviewe

Evaluación de la huella de carbono en el barrio de la viña Lorca por rehabilitación de daños en edificios tras el sismo de 2011.

Evaluación de la huella de carbono en el barrio de la viña Lorca por rehabilitación de daños en edificios tras el sismo de 2011

Effects of MSC coadministration and route of delivery on cord blood hematopoietic stem cell engraftment

Licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-No comercial.-- et al.Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) using umbilical cord blood (UCB) progenitors is increasingly being used. One of the problems that may arise after UCB transplantation is an impaired engraftment. Either intrabone (IB) injection of hematopoietic progenitors or mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) coadministration has been proposed among the strategies to improve engraftment. In the current study, we have assessed the effects of both approaches. Thus, NOD/SCID recipients were transplanted with human UCB CD34+ cells administered either intravenously (IV) or IB, receiving or not bone marrow (BM)-derived MSCs also IV or IB (in the right femur). Human HSC engraftment was measured 3 and 6 weeks after transplantation. Injected MSCs were tracked weekly by bioluminescence. Also, lodgment within the BM niche was assessed at the latter time point by immunofluorescence. Our study shows regarding HSC engraftment that the number of BM human CD45+ cells detected 3 weeks after transplantation was significantly higher in mice cotransplanted with human MSCs. Moreover, these mice had a higher myeloid (CD13+) engraftment and a faster B-cell (CD19+) chimerism. At the late time point evaluated (6 weeks), human engraftment was higher in the group in which both strategies were employed (IB injection of HSC and MSC coadministration). When assessing human MSC administration route, we were able to track MSCs only in the injected femurs, whereas they lost their signal in the contralateral bones. These human MSCs were mainly located around blood vessels in the subendosteal region. In summary, our study shows that MSC coadministration can enhance HSC engraftment in our xenogenic transplantation model, as well as IB administration of the CD34+ cells does. The combination of both strategies seems to be synergistic. Interestingly, MSCs were detected only where they were IB injected contributing to the vascular niche.This study was supported in part by a grant from Gerencia Regional de Salud de Castilla y León (ref. GRS/222/A/08) and by a grant from Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León (ref. HUS003A10-2). S.C. was supported by Junta de Castilla y Leon (FPI grant EDU/1878/2006).Peer Reviewe

Forest Fires in Europe 2009

When huge parts of nature are burning as a result of a combination of weather conditions, fuel accumulation, and human intervention and this becomes a recurrent issue, we should find ways together to counteract. This is particularly true as regards protected forest areas for which so many efforts have been undertaken by the Member States with EU support, especially for protecting biodiversity-rich land. The present report is the tenth of the series and is based on the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) which delivers, inter alia, all the data needed to forecast forest fire danger in Europe, to assess the damages caused by forest fires and to analyze their causes. The development of EFFIS has been supported by the Commissioners in charge of Environment and Research through the close collaboration of the Directorate General Environment and the Joint Research Centre. EFFIS has become a vehicle to further support the ¿forest fire community¿ in the Member States. The system is an example of how Member States and the Commission can work together on a purely voluntary basis and we would like to thank the competent national authorities for their active contribution. The year 2009 is subject of the present report. 2009 has been a rather unspectacular year as regards forest fire damages in Europe. Despite this, and recognizing the relevance of the forest fire issue, during that period several Commission services were again involved in promoting EU actions aiming at mitigating damages caused by forest fires to human beings and the environment. New initiatives have been taken focusing on an enhanced forest fire prevention and on adapting our forests to challenges resulting from climate change. In these fields, the European Council issued two Council conclusions on ¿forest fires prevention¿ and ¿preparing our forest to climate change¿ during the first semester of 2010, the Commission adopted the ¿Green Paper on forest protection and information¿ and the Parliament took initiatives in the field of forest fire prevention. The Commission recognizes and appreciates the active involvement of the Member States and hope that further common ground can be found to safeguard European forests which are an essential element of our cultural heritage. The Commission services working in the field of forest fires count on the support of all Member States, including those for which forest fires are not yet a priority. The collaboration of all involved services in the EU and the Member States will help in finding ways and efficient solutions to avoid burning land with all its negative consequences on our environment.JRC.DDG.H.7-Land management and natural hazard

Evaluación de los modificadores por comportamiento urbanos que afectan al daño en los terremotos. Aplicación al terremoto de Lorca.

Habitualmente, la estimación de la vulnerabilidad sísmica se centra en el comportamiento estructural de los edificios. Sólo algunas metodologías, como el proyecto Risk‐UE,consideran la influencia de otros factores no estructurales o urbanísticos, tales como el piso blando, la irregularidad en alzado, la irregularidad en planta, etc. Estos factores,denominados también modificadores por comportamiento, pueden tener una incidencia en el daño observado, y la confluencia de varios de ellos puede variar sustancialmente la vulnerabilidad. Los modificadores por comportamiento se han identificado de forma empírica, a través de la observación de patrones de daño típicos en terremotos, teniendo en cuenta las inspecciones visuales (ATC 21 1988, Benedetti y Petrini 1984, UNDP/UNIDO 1985) y otras propuestas (Coburn y Spence 1992). La puntuación del modificador ha sido dada por el conocimiento de expertos en terremotos tras analizar evaluaciones de vulnerabilidad anteriores y bases de datos del daño producido en edificios. En esta comunicación estudiaremos los modificadores que derivan de características urbanísticas. Esta línea de investigación considera que un parámetro modificador deriva de características urbanísticas si puede ser regulado en la Normativa Urbanística de un Plan General de Ordenación Urbana. Se realiza una descripción de cada modificador según cada metodología o investigador (Risk‐UE, Giovinazzi, Lantada y Feriche) y una comparativa entre las distintas ponderaciones de los modificadores. Este análisis nos permite poder tener una primera visión de la posible cuantificación de cada modificador y la tendencia que ha tenido la calibración desde el año 2003 con el proyecto Risk‐UE hasta el año 2012 con la tesis de Feriche. Finalmente se presentan los resultados del estudio exploratorio de los parámetros urbanísticos de tres zonas seleccionados de la ciudad de Lorca según el tipo de suelo en el que se encuentren y se indican aquellos parámetros que han podido influir en el daño provocado por el terremoto de mayo de 2011

Forest Fires in Europe 2010

This is the 11th “Forest Fires in Europe” report published by the European Commission. The report contains a summary of the 2010 fire season in Europe, with official statistics on number of fires and burned areas compiled by the contributing countries. In addition to country reports with a summary of the past fire season provided by the countries, the report Forest Fires in Europe informs about the latest developments in terms of forest fire prevention and initiatives of the European Commission to support forest fires fire protection activities in the European Union. Furthermore it provides the results of the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) operating during the fire season, with special emphasis on the EFFIS Danger Forecast, providing daily maps of meteorological fire danger forecast of EU, and the EFFIS Rapid Damage Assessment, performing the daily mapping and assessment of main land cover and Natura2000 areas affected by fires of at least 40 ha during the fire season.JRC.DDG.H.7-Land management and natural hazard

Detection of West Nile virus lineage 2 in North-Eastern Spain (Catalonia)

Funding: Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia, Pesca i Alimentació of the Generalitat de Catalunya; Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente (MAPAMA)In September 2017, West Nile virus () lineage 2 was detected in Catalonia (Northern Spain) in northern goshawks by passive surveillance. The phylogenetic analyses showed that it was related to the Central/Southern European strains, evidencing lineage 2 spread to Western Europe. local transmission was later detected in bearded vultures housed at the Wildlife Recovery center where the goshawk was transferred to. Further studies, before the following period of high mosquito activity, indicated that had circulated intensively in poultry and horses but only surrounding of the area where the virus was detected. In other areas of Catalonia, circulation of flaviviruses different to was identified. Public Health investigations failed to detect infection in humans