Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population

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Exploring the needs of parents for achieving reunification: The views of foster children, birth family and social workers in Spain

Abstract Background Family reunification refers to the process through which children and adolescents under a measure of temporary separation (foster care or residential) return to live with their biological families. The research has begun to reflect a paradigm change in intervention and support for these families that affects the consolidation of reunification and the prevention of new processes of separation and reentry into the protection system. Objectives This article examines the needs of parents who are susceptible to an educational intervention from a positive focus that contributes to the consolidation of family reunification. Method Eighteen semi-structured interviews were conducted and 22 discussion groups were convened with 135 participants (63 protection-system professionals, 42 parents and 30 children and adolescents). The data were analyzed through content analysis and were subject to peer revision. Results A series of parents' specific educational needs when their children return home was recognized. These needs can be the objects of family intervention based on a positive focus directed toward highlighting parents' strengths and are related to awareness of family progress, emotional management, giving and receiving help from other families and social support. The participants' comments show that feelings of self-sufficiency and positive reinforcement are fundamental for consolidation of the process. Conclusions Social support through formal and informal networks may be a path to explore for providing more and better support after returning home. Empowering families so that they can be agents of support for other families can be a way to consolidate reunification, allowing families to be active agents in the reunification process. In addition, listening to children's voices can be a good strategy for family consolidation

La inestabilidad docente y la homeostasis de la innovación educativa

El objetivo de nuestro estudio es reconceptualizar los condicionantes de la homeostasis de la innovación del sistema educativo, ya que desde las aportaciones teóricas se centran principalmente en el profesorado. Analizamos una escuela que lleva innovando desde el 2001-02 en situación de inestabilidad docente. Los instrumentos utilizados son los documentos de la escuela, los 23 cuestionarios que respondieron los profesionales de la escuela y la observación participante. Demostramos que la homeostasis de la innovación se sitúa en el equipo directivo estable, en las aptitudes y actitudes de los profesionales y en el espacio híbrido de formación

Long-term outcomes after prophylactic use of onlay mesh in midline laparotomy.

Background The prevalence of incisional hernias (IHs) is still high after midline laparotomy (ML). There is an increasing body of evidence that prophylactic mesh placement (PMP) can be safe and efficient in the short-term outcomes, but there still are some concerns about the potential long-term complications of these meshes. This study describes our long-term PMP experience. Methods Observational and prospective study including all patients undergoing the use of prophylactic onlay large-pore polypropylene meshes for the closure of ML since 2008 to 2014. Outcome measures included demographics, perioperative details, wound complications, recurrences, reoperations and chronic complications. Results A cohort of 172 patients was analysed: 75% elective surgery, 25% emergency cases. Mean age was 68 years with mean body mass index (BMI) of 28.6 kg/m2. Wound classification: 6.4% clean; 85% clean-contaminated; 1.2% contaminated and 8.1% dirty. Follow-up of patients was up to 8 years (mean: 5 ± 1.6). Two meshes were removed due to chronic infection in first six postoperative months. Of the 13 patients (9.02%) who developed IH, 5 of them have been reoperated for IH repair without any difficulty related to previous mesh. During follow-up, 8 patients have been reoperated for other reasons and the integrity of abdominal wall was also checked. After the comparative study, higher BMI and emergency surgery were still risk factors for IH despite PMP. Conclusions In our setting, the use of polypropylene prophylactic meshes in MLs is safe, efficient and durable.pre-print977 K

La dieta alta en grasas y el Aceite de oliva virgen extra (AOVE) modulan la homeostasis lipídica testicular a través de la proteína Srebp-2

La obesidad y el sobrepeso están aumentando en todo el mundo y tienen influencias perjudiciales en varias funciones del cuerpo humano, incluida la salud reproductiva. Definir los mecanismos de cómo el aumento del colesterol en la dieta amenaza la salud reproductiva masculina es fundamental para desarrollar enfoques que mejoren los problemas actuales de fertilidad.Fil: Funes A, . Universidad del AconcaguaFil: Crescitelli, J.. Universidad del AconcaguaFil: Fernandez, M.. Universidad del AconcaguaFil: Monclús, M.. Universidad del AconcaguaFil: Fornés, M.. Universidad del AconcaguaFil: Saez. Lancellotti E. . Universidad del Aconcagu

TOpic: rare and special cases, the real "Strange cases"

Introduction: The bladder hernia represents approximately 1-3% of all inguinal hernias, where patients aged more than 50 years have a higher incidence (10%). Many factors contribute to the development of a bladder hernia, including the presence of a urinary outlet obstruction causing chronic bladder distention, the loss of bladder tone, pericystitis, the perivesical bladder fat protrusion and the obesity

Behavioural syndrome in a solitary predator is independent of body size and growth rate.

Models explaining behavioural syndromes often focus on state-dependency, linking behavioural variation to individual differences in other phenotypic features. Empirical studies are, however, rare. Here, we tested for a size and growth-dependent stable behavioural syndrome in the juvenile-stages of a solitary apex predator (pike, Esox lucius), shown as repeatable foraging behaviour across risk. Pike swimming activity, latency to prey attack, number of successful and unsuccessful prey attacks was measured during the presence/absence of visual contact with a competitor or predator. Foraging behaviour across risks was considered an appropriate indicator of boldness in this solitary predator where a trade-off between foraging behaviour and threat avoidance has been reported. Support was found for a behavioural syndrome, where the rank order differences in the foraging behaviour between individuals were maintained across time and risk situation. However, individual behaviour was independent of body size and growth in conditions of high food availability, showing no evidence to support the state-dependent personality hypothesis. The importance of a combination of spatial and temporal environmental variation for generating growth differences is highlighted

Enabling Viewpoint Learning through Dynamic Label Generation

Optimal viewpoint prediction is an essential task in many computer graphics applications. Unfortunately, common viewpoint qualities suffer from two major drawbacks: dependency on clean surface meshes, which are not always available, and the lack of closed-form expressions, which requires a costly search involving rendering. To overcome these limitations we propose to separate viewpoint selection from rendering through an end-to-end learning approach, whereby we reduce the influence of the mesh quality by predicting viewpoints from unstructured point clouds instead of polygonal meshes. While this makes our approach insensitive to the mesh discretization during evaluation, it only becomes possible when resolving label ambiguities that arise in this context. Therefore, we additionally propose to incorporate the label generation into the training procedure, making the label decision adaptive to the current network predictions. We show how our proposed approach allows for learning viewpoint predictions for models from different object categories and for different viewpoint qualities. Additionally, we show that prediction times are reduced from several minutes to a fraction of a second, as compared to state-of-the-art (SOTA) viewpoint quality evaluation. We will further release the code and training data, which will to our knowledge be the biggest viewpoint quality dataset available

Efecto de la hipercolesterolemia en la via Ras/MAPK durante la capacitación espermática y la reacción acrosomal en conejo new zeland

La hipercolesterolemia es un factor de riesgo para la salud humana. Sin embargo, elcolesterol es un componente de las membranas celulares y caveolina 1 es una proteínaimplicada en su metabolismo. Las caveolinas son una familia de proteínas asociadas avarias funciones de la célula, como transducción de señales, el transporte intracelular, yel control del crecimiento celular y tumoral supresor. Su función depende de suasociación con microdominios de membrana ricos en colesterol proporcionando unvínculo entre la membrana celular y la fisiología espermática. Por lo tanto, el nivelplasmático y celular de este esterol es esencial para la expresión de caveolina 1. En estainvestigación, hemos propuesto que la caveolina 1 posee efecto regulador sobre laseñalización a través de la Ras/MAPK debido a la hipercolesterolemi