School Personnel Attitudes and Knowledge Towards LGBTQ Students

Literature highlights areas of discord for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning/Queer (LGBTQ) students in the school setting as well as teacher, administrator, and school counselor attitudes and knowledge about LGBTQ students. Overall, most LGBTQ students will experience bullying, harassment, and/or a lack of support during their time in the K-12 education system. Educators (N=53) provided their attitudes and knowledge regarding LGBTQ student issues in a high school setting. Respondents indicated that there are a variety of attitudes towards LGBTQ student issues, policies, and identities. Additionally, results demonstrate school personnel knowledge of the subject lacks, which results in unintentional harm to their LGBTQ students. This suggests that more professional development opportunities for educators are necessary to minimize negative LGBTQ student experiences

El reconocimiento de los procesos colectivos en el nuevo Codigo Civil y Comercial de la nacion como instrumentos de prevencion y resarcimiento de daños

Para comprender la real importancia del reconocimiento de los procesos colectivos en el Código Civil y Comercial de la Nación, es necesario delimitar los presupuestos que lo constituyen. Hay dos presupuestos propios de un Proceso Colectivo a saber: Interés y Derecho de Incidencia Colectiva, sin esto no podemos hablar de Procesos Colectivos. El Siglo XXI encuentra un mundo cada vez más globalizado, masificado, dándole la espalda al Ser Humano como tal y considerándolo simplemente un número. En la Argentina existe hoy en día un alto índice de conflicto interno expandido en varios sectores de la sociedad; la gran mayoría de los mismos están motivados por la búsqueda de bajar los costos, conseguir mayores ganancias y menor responsabilidad. Muchos de esos conflictos (de consumo, laboral, servicios etc), dejan de ser un INTERES PRIVADO a pasar a ser un INTERES PUBLICO.Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociale

El reconocimiento de los procesos colectivos en el nuevo Codigo Civil y Comercial de la nacion como instrumentos de prevencion y resarcimiento de daños

Para comprender la real importancia del reconocimiento de los procesos colectivos en el Código Civil y Comercial de la Nación, es necesario delimitar los presupuestos que lo constituyen. Hay dos presupuestos propios de un Proceso Colectivo a saber: Interés y Derecho de Incidencia Colectiva, sin esto no podemos hablar de Procesos Colectivos. El Siglo XXI encuentra un mundo cada vez más globalizado, masificado, dándole la espalda al Ser Humano como tal y considerándolo simplemente un número. En la Argentina existe hoy en día un alto índice de conflicto interno expandido en varios sectores de la sociedad; la gran mayoría de los mismos están motivados por la búsqueda de bajar los costos, conseguir mayores ganancias y menor responsabilidad. Muchos de esos conflictos (de consumo, laboral, servicios etc), dejan de ser un INTERES PRIVADO a pasar a ser un INTERES PUBLICO.Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociale

CIDI-Lung-Seg: A Single-Click Annotation Tool for Automatic Delineation of Lungs from CT Scans

Accurate and fast extraction of lung volumes from computed tomography (CT) scans remains in a great demand in the clinical environment because the available methods fail to provide a generic solution due to wide anatomical variations of lungs and existence of pathologies. Manual annotation, current gold standard, is time consuming and often subject to human bias. On the other hand, current state-of-the-art fully automated lung segmentation methods fail to make their way into the clinical practice due to their inability to efficiently incorporate human input for handling misclassifications and praxis. This paper presents a lung annotation tool for CT images that is interactive, efficient, and robust. The proposed annotation tool produces an "as accurate as possible" initial annotation based on the fuzzy-connectedness image segmentation, followed by efficient manual fixation of the initial extraction if deemed necessary by the practitioner. To provide maximum flexibility to the users, our annotation tool is supported in three major operating systems (Windows, Linux, and the Mac OS X). The quantitative results comparing our free software with commercially available lung segmentation tools show higher degree of consistency and precision of our software with a considerable potential to enhance the performance of routine clinical tasks.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures; to appear in the proceedings of 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2014

The impact of healthy pregnancy on features of heart rate variability and pulse wave morphology derived from wrist-worn photoplethysmography

Due to the association between dysfunctional maternal autonomic regulation and pregnancy complications, tracking non-invasive features of autonomic regulation derived from wrist-worn photoplethysmography (PPG) measurements may allow for the early detection of deteriorations in maternal health. However, even though a plethora of these features-specifically, features describing heart rate variability (HRV) and the morphology of the PPG waveform (morphological features)-exist in the literature, it is unclear which of these may be valuable for tracking maternal health. As an initial step towards clarity, we compute comprehensive sets of HRV and morphological features from nighttime PPG measurements. From these, using logistic regression and stepwise forward feature elimination, we identify the features that best differentiate healthy pregnant women from non-pregnant women, since these likely capture physiological adaptations necessary for sustaining healthy pregnancy. Overall, morphological features were more valuable for discriminating between pregnant and non-pregnant women than HRV features (area under the receiver operating characteristics curve of 0.825 and 0.74, respectively), with the systolic pulse wave deterioration being the most valuable single feature, followed by mean heart rate (HR). Additionally, we stratified the analysis by sleep stages and found that using features calculated only from periods of deep sleep enhanced the differences between the two groups. In conclusion, we postulate that in addition to HRV features, morphological features may also be useful in tracking maternal health and suggest specific features to be included in future research concerning maternal health.</p