CLIL and Writing: A Double Challenge

The EU has promoted multilingualism through the implementation of CLIL at the three educational levels to support FL learning. Two major concerns stand out. On the one hand, the current focus on CLIL is largely on content, and the integration of content and language cannot be assumed. On the other hand, students show deficiencies in the writing skill, which is underappreciated. This paper aims at analysing the paradoxes in CLIL, and at describing why and how to support writing development in secondary school. Whilst the development of an integrated perspective on CLIL is yet under construction, more explicit attention to the FL in CLIL training, classrooms and textbooks would already mean better CLIL practice. A genre-based approach and register scaffolding would help CLIL teachers raise learners’ language awareness improving this way their written performance. Key words: CLIL, bilingualism, writing, secondary school, language awareness, genreLa UE ha promocionado el multilingüismo mediante la implantación de AICLE en los tres niveles educativos para favorecer el aprendizaje de LE. Destacan dos problemas. Por un lado, se presta más atención al contenido que a la lengua, y la integración de ambos es incompleta. Por otro, los alumnos muestran deficiencias en la destreza de escritura, que está infravalorada. Este trabajo pretende analizar las paradojas en AICLE, y describir por qué y cómo ayudar a mejorar la escritura en el instituto. Aunque el desarrollo de una perspectiva integrada en AICLE está por construir, la práctica mejoraría prestando atención explícita a la LE en la formación del profesorado, aulas y libros de texto AICLE. La pedagogía basada en los géneros y el andamiaje del registro ayudarían al profesorado CLIL a despertar la conciencia lingüística del alumnado mejorarando así sus composiciones escritas. Palabras clave: AICLE, bilingüismo, escritura, Secundaria, conciencia lingüística, génerosDepartamento de Filología InglesaGrado en Estudios Inglese

Los cuentos infantiles como instrumento para integración de personas con diversidad funcional

Este Trabajo Fin de Grado pretende concienciar acerca de la importancia de la inclusión educativa en los centros escolares a través de los cuentos infantiles. Para comenzar, he elaborado una fundamentación teórica indicando los aspectos más importantes de la literatura infantil, su origen y géneros, su importancia en las aulas y su mercado literario, Asimismo, he hablado de la importancia de la inclusión educativa y el uso de los cuentos en la etapa de Educación Infantil. A continuación, presento el diseño de mi situación de aprendizaje, señalando los objetivos, competencias, metodología, actividades, entre otros. Más adelante he llevado a cabo un análisis sobre los resultados obtenidos a partir del desarrollo de mi situación de aprendizaje. Para finalizar el trabajo he desarrollado una serie de conclusiones generales.This Final Degree Project aims to raise awareness about the importance of educational inclusion in schools through children's stories. To begin, I have developed a theoretical foundation indicating the most important aspects of children's literature, its origin, and genres, its importance in the classroom or its literary market, as well as the importance of educational inclusion and the use of stories in the stage of Early Childhood Education. Next, I present the design of my learning situation, indicating the objectives, competencies, methodology, and activities, among others. Later I carried out an analysis of the results obtained from the development of my learning situation and, to finish the work I developed a series of general conclusions.Departamento de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura ComparadaGrado en Educación Infanti

Estudio de la correlación clínico-quirúrgica de factores pronósticos y terapéuticos en neonatos afectos de enterocolitis necrotizante

Programa Oficial de Doutoramento en Ciencias da Saúde. 5007V01[Resumen] La enterocolitis necrotizante constituye la emergencia gastrointestinal que con mayor frecuencia afecta a los recién nacidos. A pesar de los avances en los cuidados perinatales acontecidos en las últimas décadas la morbimortalidadasociada a la misma sigue siendo elevada. Predecir la progresión de la enfermedad o definir el momento de requerimiento quirúrgico siguen siendo aspectos poco definidos en esta entidad...[Abstract] Necrotizing enterocolitis is one of the most common gastrointestinal emergencies in the neonatal period. Despite advances in neonatal care in the last decades, morbidity and mortality associated is still high. Predict the progression of the disease or define the optimal time of surgical decision remains unclear...[Resumo] A enterocolite necrotizante constitúe a emerxencia gastrointestinal que con maior frecuencia afecta os recén nados. A pesar dos avances nos coidados prenatais acontecidos nas últimas décadas a morbimortalidade asociada á mesma segue sendo elevada. Predecir a progresión da enfermidade ou definir o momento de requerimento cirúrxico seguen sendo aspectos pouco definidos nesta entidade..

Long-term evolution of Valsalva retinopathy: a case series

INTRODUCTION: Valsalva retinopathy may occur as a sudden, dramatic loss of central vision due to the premacular location of the haemorrhage. It has been described in different clinical settings, and there are several options for its treatment. CASE PRESENTATIONS: We present the cases of six patients with sudden visual acuity loss caused by Valsalva retinopathy, treated in our hospital in the last ten years. Case 1 involves a 32-year-old Caucasian man with a unilateral premacular haemorrhage after vomiting. A neodymium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet laser was used due to sufficient depth of the haemorrhage pocket, but it was unsuccessful. Instead, 20G pars plana vitrectomy was performed with excellent visual recuperation (visual acuity:1.0). Case 2 was of a 36-year-old Caucasian woman with Valsalva retinopathy after vomiting during pregnancy. A neodymium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet laser was also insufficient due to the coagulated blood. After labour, 23G pars plana vitrectomy was performed, and her final visual acuity was 1.0. Case 3 involved a 52-year-old Caucasian man with premacular bleeding due to vomiting after general anaesthesia. The haemorrhage did not resolve spontaneously, so 23G pars plana vitrectomy was performed, with excellent visual outcomes (visual acuity:1.0). Case 4 was a 24-year-old Caucasian man with a macular haemorrhage after thoracic trauma. He was observed over four weeks, after which we performed 23G pars plana vitrectomy, with complete visual restoration (visual acuity:1.0). Case 5 involved a 28-year-old man who developed a premacular bleed after vigorous dancing. After a period of observation, 23G pars plana vitrectomy was performed. A retinal break with a small haemorrhage around the break occurred, related to the peribulbar anaesthesia manoeuvers, but was resolved successfully. His final visual acuity was 1.0. Case 6 was a 22-year-old Caucasian woman who developed a premacular haemorrhage after weightlifting. Conservative management was performed due to the small size of her haemorrhage. It resolved spontaneously within one month, and her final visual acuity was 1.0. CONCLUSION: Valsalva retinopathy is a rare condition that causes a sudden loss of visual acuity. In patients with too dense haemorrhage, the best option could be the vitrectomy, with excellent visual outcomes, although surgery is not free of risks

Effectiveness of Cognitive Interventions in Older Adults: A Review

Introduction: With older adults, cognitive intervention programs are most often used for preventing or reversing a decline in cognitive functions, but it has been recently noted that there are insufficient high-quality research studies that report the effects of cognitive intervention on the cognitive functioning of older adults. (2) Objective: To analyze the available evidence concerning the effect of cognitive interventions for improving or maintaining the general cognitive status of older adults who present different cognitive levels. (3) Method: a review of studies published between 2010 and 2019 using the following databases: PubMed, PsycINFO, Cochrane, Google Scholar, ProQuest and Medline. (4) Results: We selected 13 systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses. The results showed that the cognitive intervention programs improved general cognitive functioning and specific cognitive functions regardless of the initial cognitive level; that cognitive decline was slowed in older persons with dementia; and there was improvement in activities of daily living. Regarding duration of the results, benefits were maintained for periods of 2 months to 5 years. (5) Conclusion: Cognitive interventions have proven effective for maintaining and/or improving cognitive functioning in older adults regardless of their initial cognitive status. Even so, there are few studies that follow up these results to see whether they are maintained in the long term and whether there is transfer to other skills of daily life. However, we were able to observe in the present review how the participants’ cognitive level varied according to sociodemographic differences, and to identify which components of cognitive programs make them more effective. Based on the results found, we highlight the importance of designing cognitive intervention programs that meet these effectiveness criteria, in order to maximize the positive effects of such programs when working with a population of older adults.Ministry of Education, Government of Spain FPU15/0396

Caregiver training: Evidence of its effectiveness for cognitive and functional improvement in older adults

Aims and objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the benefits of a car-egiver training programme on the cognitive and functional status of older adults, and to compare the effects of this programme according to type of caregiver (professional vs. family caregiver).Background: Due to demographic changes that have resulted in an aging population, the role of caregiver of an older adult has become very important in recent years.Design and Methods: The sample was composed of 160 older adults: (a) 100 received care from caregivers who had taken the three- month training programme (treat-ment group), of which 60 were professional caregivers and 40 were family caregivers, and (b) 60 received care from caregivers who had not taken the programme (control group). In order to evaluate programme effects on cognitive and functional status, we used both direct measures answered by the older adults (MMSE, CAPE and EuroQol) and caregiver reports (Barthel and RMPBC). We used a quasi-experimental, pre- post design. We followed SQUIRE 2.0 guidelines for reporting.Results: The results showed that older adults who were cared for by caregivers that had participated in the training programme showed gains in quality of life and cog-nitive ability and maintenance of functional ability. Within the treatment group, al-though everyone significantly improved their scores, the older adults cared for by family caregivers improved in more of the cognitive sub-items than did their peers in the professional caregiver group.Conclusions: The data obtained show that a caregiver training programme based on cognitive stimulation produces cognitive, functional and health-related quality- of- life benefits in older adults. Furthermore, the caregivers reported increased satisfaction with their work.Relevance to clinical practice: The improvements obtained in the older adults and in caregivers show the relevance of this type of intervention when working in the clinical field of caregiving.Funding information This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education under Grant FPU15/03966. The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data; preparation, review or approval of the manuscript; or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Granada/CBUA

Innovative non-targeted liquid chromatography fingerprinting approach for authenticating tigernuts under Protected Designation of Origin quality seal

The authors are deeply grateful to the ‘Valencia’ PDO Manage- ment Body for providing the samples for this study. In addition, AMJC acknowledges the grant (RYC2021-031993-I) funded by MCIN/AEI/501100011033 and ‘European Union NextGeneration EU/PRTR’. Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Gra- nada / CBUA.BACKGROUND: Tigernut is a typical foodstuff from a specific region of Valencia (Spain) called ‘L'Horta Nord’, where it is com- mercialized under a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) as Chufa de Valencia (‘Valencia's tigernut’). PDO-recognized tiger- nuts present unique characteristics associated with their particular production region. Increasing demand and the associated expansion of its cultivation area has made necessary an exhaustive quality control to check the geographical origin and quality seal. RESULTS: In this work, a new multivariate analytical method capable of authenticating the PDO quality seal of tigernut samples was developed. Tigernut fat fraction was extracted under optimal conditions, applying the methodology of design of experi- ments. The analytical method combined fingerprinting methodology and chemometric tools to observe the natural grouping of samples using the exploratory analysis method and to develop classification models (partial least squares–discriminatory analysis; PLS-DA) to discriminate between two sample categories: (i) PDO tigernuts; and (ii) NON-PDO tigernuts. CONCLUSION: The built PLS-DA model demonstrated 100% accuracy, high sensitivity and specificity, revealing that the tigernut fat fraction can be applied to authenticate the PDO quality seal.Grant (RYC2021-031993-I) funded by MCIN/AEI/501100011033 and ‘European Union NextGeneration EU/PRTR’Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Granada / CBU

An unpublished legacy of Antonio Rubio Marín (1884-1980), an architect between Aragon and Madrid

Este documento se considera que es un capítulo de libro en lugar de un congresoAn unpublished legacy of the architect Antonio Rubio Marín has been found in the library of the University of Alcalá. He was an important an architect of the first half of the twentieth century in Madrid and Aragon, being responsible in Zaragoza for the Post Office building and the Grand Hotel. Still in a state of certain abandonment, the legacy has great interest for its documentary quality, being a fairly complete set of the activity of an architect of the early twentieth century. Antonio Rubio combined other notable merits, such as his training as a mathematician and cartographer, or his work as dean of the College of Architects of Madrid between 1948 and 1954. The inventory and cataloging process of the material found by researchers from the School of Architecture of the University of Alcala is currently being carried out, with the collaboration of his family and those responsible for the archiving of the same University. The legacy contains an important variety of drawings of different types. Most of them are freehand drawings in ink, in different formats and supports, high-lighting large format ones using watercolors. These drawings are of great inter-est as they are a project commissioned by the city of Zaragoza in which the proposal included the square and the Basílica del Pilar. All these documents show the work of a not very well known architect, but of undoubted value through his interesting drawings

Análisis de la comunicación financiera online como herramienta para la contribución a la reputación empresarial

Dissetenes Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la FCHS (Any 2012)La situación de crisis actual afecta a todo tipo de empresas. Nuestra reflexión se centra en empresas de sectores clave para el crecimiento de un país y en concreto en su gestión empresarial. Por otro lado, pensamos que, la escasa gestión de la reputación de muchas marcas españolas, y su poco interés en promover una gestión corporativa basada en la reputación como valor estratégico, ha dificultado la excelencia empresarial de la mayoría de las corporaciones. Nuestra investigación se centrará en analizar el tipo y forma en que las empresas publican la información financiera online como herramienta de gestión de la reputación. Para ello analizamos, el contenido y la disposición de los Informes Anuales publicados en la web de empresas consideradas «marcas renombradas» en España y miembros del Foro de Marcas Renombradas Españolas (teniendo en cuenta que para pertenecer a dicho foro se han de cumplir requisitos cómo que el origen sea español, que la marca sea notoria, que la empresa esté internacionalizada, que sea líder y que se trate de una empresa de gran tamaño1 ). Concretando, en los sectores de infraestructuras, energéticas y telecomunicaciones por su importancia, según nuestra opinión, para el crecimiento de un país. Dicha investigación se basará en el análisis de una acción de comunicación financiera, el Informe Anual que estas empresas publican en el medio online, cómo lo hacen y para quién. El objetivo final recae en reconocer una serie de aspectos en común que estas empresas comparten cuando comunican sus Informes Anuales en la red. Esto nos permitirá afirmar, que con el ejercicio de unos pasos especializados en comunicación financiera online se puede llegar a los grupos de interés de forma positiva y por consiguiente reforzar la imagen de marca como empresa

LA REFINANCIACIÓN DE EMPRESAS EN SEDE CONCURSAL

El proceso de refinanciación en sede concursal, también conocida como la segunda oportunidad, es una herramienta utilizada por las grandes empresas antes una situación de insolvencia, con la intención de evitar entrar en concurso de acreedores. Para entender un acuerdo de refinanciación, debemos saber que nace en un momento financiero difícil. Existen varios tipos de acuerdos de refinanciación, neutros, normales y homologados. Siendo estos últimos los de más interés, por sus especiales efectos. Un acuerdo es un proceso en el que se van llevando a cabo una serie de acciones, con la única finalidad de alcanzar un pacto que mejore la situación actual y futura de la compañía. Para poder ver porque razón una empresa decide plantear un acuerdo de refinanciación, y en qué circunstancias económicas y financieras llega la sociedad a ese momento, analizaremos detalladamente, el caso concreto de estas cinco empresas: Reyal Urbis, Isolux, Grifols, Abengoa y Panrico