Perfil epidemiológico de cardiopatías congénitas en neonatos del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso : Cuenca Ecuador, 2009-2017

Context: Congenital heart disease is a very heterogeneous group of structural and functional alterations of the heart and its great vessels. They occur from birth and constitute a significant cause of mortality in children. With an early diagnosis and technological advances it is possible to improve the survival and quality of life of these patients...Contexto: Las cardiopatías congénitas constituyen un grupo muy heterogéneo de alteraciones estructurales y funcionales del corazón y sus grandes vasos, se presentan desde el nacimiento y constituye una causa significativa de mortalidad en los niños. Con un diagnóstico temprano y los avances tecnológicos se logra mejorar la sobrevida y calidad de vida de estos pacientes..

Técnicas novedosas para desarrollar la creatividad a través del arte en los niños y niñas del Preescolar San Cristóbal de Darío en el año 2012

Las actividades educativas tienen la finalidad de fortalecer el desarrollo de capacidades en los niños/as en aspectos relacionados con el pensamiento, el lenguaje oral y el escrito, la imaginación, la socialización, el conocimiento de si mismo y de los demás, siendo la creatividad una de las 4 dimensiones más importantes en el desarrollo sicoafectivo de la personalidad en la formación de los niños y niñas en Educación Inicial. El material didáctico juega un papel importante en el desarrollo de la creatividad dado que su uso adecuado, facilita el aprendizaje creativo. Las actividades novedosas van encaminadas al aumento de la motivación, interés atención, comprensión y rendimiento del trabajo educativo, al mismo tiempo se hace uso y se fortalece el desarrollo de los sentidos, las habilidades cognitivas, las emociones, las actitudes y valores, el contexto sociocultural y natural. Los niños y niñas aprenden a ser creativos cuando se les permite un espacio de confianza y de motivación por lo que es preciso ponerle en contacto con gran cantidad y variedad de materiales situados de forma accesible para que él pueda imaginar, unir algo entre algo para obtener un objeto nuevo. El docente debe desarrollar actividades novedosas para que el niño se integre y participe activamente, de esta manera enriquezca la experiencia sensorial, facilitar el proceso de adquisición y fijación del aprendizaje llevándolo a la realidad, estimulando la imaginación y logrando un aprendizaje significativo. Dado que el niño y niña se interesa de una forma natural, cuando el maestro es innovador y aplica el constructivismo en desarrollo de las actividades educativas; las actividades sobre técnicas novedosas permiten al docente presentar los temas y conceptos de una manera más objetiva, clara ofreciendo un ambiente lúdico y motivador al desarrollar diferentes actividades creativas que fortalezcan el proceso de aprendizaje del estudiante. Las técnicas artísticas propuestas en este trabajo, ayudan a desarrollar los temas en el preescolar, a estimular la imaginación, el pensamiento creativo y principalmente la motora fina, tan importante en el aprendizaje de la escritura. Entre ellas mencionaremos algunas como: Pintura y dibujo libre, collage, modelado etc. Con la aplicación de estas técnicas se promueve la práctica de valores como: autoestima, sociabilidad, compañerismo, ayuda mutua, autocontrol, solidaridad, expresividad, también gozan, se relajan y muestran felicidad al tener contacto directo con el material utilizado al momento de experimenta

El teletrabajo y calidad de vida laboral en la dirección de gestión humana de Farmacias Peruanas SAC, La Victoria, 2022

La presente investigación tuvo por objetivo determinar la relación entre el teletrabajo y calidad de vida laboral en la Dirección de Gestión Humana de Farmacias Peruanas SAC, La Victoria, 2022. La metodología utilizada fue de enfoque cuantitativo, de tipo básica orientada, diseño no experimental de corte transversal y nivel correlacional. La población estuvo conformada por 40 trabajadores de la Dirección de Gestión Humana de Farmacias Peruanas SAC. Los resultados obtenidos demostrarón que el 60.0% de los encuestados manifiestan que el teletrabajo esta en un nivel regular; al igual que el otro 47.5% de los encuestados manifiestan que la calidad de vida laboral es regular. En tanto, el coeficiente de correlación de Spearman obtenido fue 0,848 y la significancia bilateral fue 0.000; donde se concluye existe relación positiva entre el teletrabajo y calidad de vida laboral en la Dirección de Gestión Humana de Farmacias Peruanas SAC, La Victoria, 2022, obteniendo una correlación positiva alta

Addressing educational needs of teachers in the EU for inclusive education in a context of diversity

In spite of policy impetus, research shows that teachers struggle to address the increasing diversity in classrooms, among others, due to the lack of competences to deal with it. The acquisition of Intercultural Competence (IC), which could be defined as “the ability to mobilise and deploy relevant attitudes, skills, knowledge and values in order to interact effectively and appropriately in different intercultural situations”, is a crucial need for teachers to deal with diversity and to be successful in their teaching. In this context, in 2019 the JRC launched the INNO4DIV project with the aim to support polices in the field of IC of teachers, through the analysis of literature and innovative good practices which have successfully addressed the existing barriers for teacher´s IC development. The conceptual framework presented in this report aims at providing, for the purpose of the research project, a model of reference for the development of IC in teacher’s education in Europe. It offers an overview of international frameworks elaborated during the last decade in order to provide teachers with competences for addressing cultural diversity in the classroom, including the UNESCO Intercultural Competence, OECD Global Competence and Council of Europe (CoE) Competence for Democratic Culture frameworks, analysed within the perspective of the EU 2018 European Council Recommendation on Key Competences for Lifelong learning. The first part concludes by posing the CoE Reference Framework on Competences for Democratic Culture as the most suitable framework model for the research purpose, for its comprehensiveness and policy endorsement at EU level. The report also elaborates on the additional requirements for developing IC among teachers, such as institutional support, pedagogical approaches, assessment methods and tools, as well as personal and professional transformation.Educació

Biomecánica del miembro superior durante la marcha asistida por muletas y un exoesqueleto robótico: un estudio preliminar

Los objetivos de este trabajo son presentar una metodología para la caracterización biomecánica de losmiembros superiores de sujetos que realizan una marcha asistida con un exoesqueleto y muletas del tipocanadiense, y reportar los resultados obtenidos para un sujeto sano.Para ello, recolectamos datos experimentales de marcha de un sujeto sano utilizando un exoesqueleto y un parde muletas instrumentadas con tres puentes de cuatro galgas extensiométricas cada una. Se creó un modelo decuerpo entero del sujeto con el exoesqueleto y las muletas en OpenSim, y se realizaron los análisis decinemática inversa y dinámica inversa.Se hallaron curvas de cinética y cinemática en las articulaciones de hombro y codo consistentes con loesperado y con el patrón de marcha de cuatro puntos encontrado. Los valores máximos de momentosdesarrollados en ambas articulaciones fueron consistentes con lo hallado en la literatura.Concluimos que la metodología y el modelo implementados son adecuados para estudiar la biomecánica delos miembros superiores durante este tipo de marcha. A futuro, proponemos extender este trabajo a sujetoscon lesión medular usuarios del exoesqueleto y muletas del tipo canadiense.Postprint (published version

What does the media say about palliative care? A descriptive study of news coverage in written media in Spain

INTRODUCTION: The goal of palliative care (PC) is to improve the quality of life of terminal stage patients and their families. The subject frequently appears in the mass-media and this helps create a socially accepted identity. The aim of this study is to describe and analyse PC related news items appeared in the Spanish written media. METHODOLOGY: A descriptive cross-sectional study was designed. Considering diffusion, scope and the range in editorial policy criteria, four printed newspapers (PN) were selected, together with four exclusively digital media sources (DM). Through Mynews, a newspaper content depository, and the search tool for each DM website, articles published between 2009 and 2014 which included the terms "palliative care" and "palliative medicine" were sought. A questionnaire was created to characterise each article identified and a descriptive analysis was undertaken. RESULTS: A total of 627 articles were identified, of which 359 (57%) were published in PN (42% in the printed editions -PE- 16% in their online editions -OE-) and 268 (43%) in DM. In general, they appeared mainly in sections concerning Health (23%), Culture and Society (18%) and General/Home News (15%). In PE, just 2% were found in the Health section and nearly 70% in Culture and Society and General/Home News. Most of the articles were informative in nature and contained socio-political messages (90%). Statements by PC professionals were found in 35% of the articles and by politicians in 32%. The most frequent content was related to facing end of life (74%) and patient quality of life (70%). CONCLUSIONS: The Spanish written media reflects the socio-political interest aroused by PC. Nevertheless, messages circulating about PC do not describe professional practice, or the contribution of the same for patients. Content more in line with the clinical practice might help contribute to the development of this new area of medicine

Addressing educational needs of teachers in the EU for inclusive education in a context of diversity: VOLUME 1 — Teachers' intercultural competence: Working definition and implications for teacher education

In spite of policy impetus, research shows that teachers struggle to address the increasing diversity in classrooms, among others, due to the lack of competences to deal with it. The acquisition of Intercultural Competence (IC), which could be defined as “the ability to mobilise and deploy relevant attitudes, skills, knowledge and values in order to interact effectively and appropriately in different intercultural situations”, is a crucial need for teachers to deal with diversity and to be successful in their teaching. In this context, in 2019 the JRC launched the INNO4DIV project with the aim to support polices in the field of IC of teachers, through the analysis of literature and innovative good practices which have successfully addressed the existing barriers for teacher´s IC development. The conceptual framework presented in this report aims at providing, for the purpose of the research project, a model of reference for the development of IC in teacher’s education in Europe. It offers an overview of international frameworks elaborated during the last decade in order to provide teachers with competences for addressing cultural diversity in the classroom, including the UNESCO Intercultural Competence, OECD Global Competence and Council of Europe (CoE) Competence for Democratic Culture frameworks, analysed within the perspective of the EU 2018 European Council Recommendation on Key Competences for Lifelong learning. The first part concludes by posing the CoE Reference Framework on Competences for Democratic Culture as the most suitable framework model for the research purpose, for its comprehensiveness and policy endorsement at EU level. The report also elaborates on the additional requirements for developing IC among teachers, such as institutional support, pedagogical approaches, assessment methods and tools, as well as personal and professional transformation.JRC.B.4-Human Capital and Employmen

Different paths to the modern state in Europe: the interaction between domestic political economy and interstate competition

Theoretical work on state formation and capacity has focused mostly on early modern Europe and on the experience of western European states during this period. While a number of European states monopolized domestic tax collection and achieved gains in state capacity during the early modern era, for others revenues stagnated or even declined, and these variations motivated alternative hypotheses for determinants of fiscal and state capacity. In this study we test the basic hypotheses in the existing literature making use of the large date set we have compiled for all of the leading states across the continent. We find strong empirical support for two prevailing threads in the literature, arguing respectively that interstate wars and changes in economic structure towards an urbanized economy had positive fiscal impact. Regarding the main point of contention in the theoretical literature, whether it was representative or authoritarian political regimes that facilitated the gains in fiscal capacity, we do not find conclusive evidence that one performed better than the other. Instead, the empirical evidence we have gathered lends supports to the hypothesis that when under pressure of war, the fiscal performance of representative regimes was better in the more urbanized-commercial economies and the fiscal performance of authoritarian regimes was better in rural-agrarian economie