Search for a high mass SM-like Higgs boson in the H to ZZ to llqq decay channel in CMS

A search for a high mass standard-model-like Higgs boson decaying into two Z bosons with subsequent decay into two leptons and two quarks performed at CMS is presented. The analysis is based on 19.7 1/fb of proton-proton collisions produced in LHC at center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. Different categories are exploited in order to isolate hypothetical Higgs boson-like signals in the mass range up to 1 TeV. The data are interpreted in terms of a standard-model-like Higgs boson as well as an electroweak singlet, visible through the interference with the 125 GeV Higgs boson. No evidence of a signal is found and upper limits are set on the production cross section and other model parameters.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 50th Rencontres de Moriond, Electroweak session, 201

La mortalidad infantil y la demografía general en España : años 1859 a 1921

Copia digital. Valladolid : Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, 2009-201

El tiempo a través del tiempo

El presente ensayo pretende ser una introducción general al problema filosófico del tiempo desde sus muy diferentes formas y posibilidades de ser abordado. En este sentido, el artículo recorre el problema desde diferentes puntos de vista y da breve cuenta de la pluralidad y diversidad de los tiempos que se encuentran en las diferentes definiciones filosóficas, en los diferentes estratos del saber, en las diferentes épocas y culturas, y también en los diferentes instrumentos que miden el propio tiempo.The present essay is designed to be a general introduction to the philosophical problem of time from its very different forms and ways of approaching. In this sense, the article covers the problem from different perspectives and gives a brief account of the plurality and diversity of the time found in the different philosophical definitions, in the different layers of knowledge, in different periods and cultures and also in the different instruments used to measure time itself

The NFC tag structure in AmI Environment

The N ear Field Communications (NFC) enabled mobile phones are excellent devices to obtain services whit minimal effort: touching interaction. We propose the implementation of an Ambient Intelligence Environment with the single use of NFC technology (AmIE - NFC), which was developed in an environment with already existing computer infrastructure. In this environment, services from devices are controlled or requested simply by touching. We put a tag - NFC on each element or device. This work explains the tag - NFC structure to implement an AmIE - NFC and information flow when a user requests a service

Indexical Relativism?

Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Granada/CBUA. This paper has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Universities under the grant FPU14/00485, by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the research projects "Contemporary Expressivisms and the Indispensability of Normative Vocabulary: Scope and Limits of the Expressivist Hypothesis" (FFI2016-80088-P) and "Disagreement in Attitudes: Normativity, Affective Polarization and Disagreement" (PID2019-109764RB-I00), by the Regional Government of Andalusia under the research projects "Public Disagreements, Affective Polarization and Immigration in Andalusia" (B-HUM-459-UGR18) and "The Inferential Identification of Propositions: A Reconsideration of Classical Dichotomies in Metaphysics, Semantics and Pragmatics" (P18-FR-2907), and by the University of Granada under a "Contrato Puente" fellowship and the excellence unit FiloLab-UGR (UCE.PPP2017.04).The particular behavior exhibited by sentences featuring predicates of personal taste such as "tasty" may drive us to claim that their truth depends on the context of assessment, as MacFarlane does. MacFarlane considers two ways in which the truth of a sentence can depend on the context of assessment. On the one hand, we can say that the sentence expresses a proposition whose truth-value depends on the context of assessment. This is MacFarlane's position, which he calls "truth relativism" and, following Weatherson, I rebrand as "nonindexical relativism". On the other hand, we can say that what proposition a sentence expresses depends on the context of assessment. MacFarlane calls this position "content relativism" and rejects it on the grounds that it leads to implausible readings of certain sentences and is unable to account for the speaker's authority over the content of her assertions. In this paper, I too argue against content relativism, which, again following Weatherson, I rebrand as "indexical relativism". However, my arguments against the theory are different from MacFarlane's, which I prove unsound. In particular, I show that any version of indexical relativism will be unable to account for at least one of the phenomena that have been standardly used to motivate nonindexical relativism-faultless disagreement and retraction-in most of the ways in which it has been proposed to understand them.Universidad de Granada/CBUASpanish Ministry of Universities FPU14/00485Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the research project "Contemporary Expressivisms and the Indispensability of Normative Vocabulary: Scope and Limits of the Expressivist Hypothesis" PID2019-109764RB-I00Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the research project "Disagreement in Attitudes: Normativity, Affective Polarization and Disagreement" PID2019-109764RB-I00Regional Government of Andalusia under the research project "Public Disagreements, Affective Polarization and Immigration in Andalusia" P18-FR-2907Regional Government of Andalusia under the research project "The Inferential Identification of Propositions: A Reconsideration of Classical Dichotomies in Metaphysics, Semantics and Pragmatics" P18-FR-2907University of Granada UCE.PPP2017.0

Friends with the good: moral relativism and moral progress

The aim of this paper is to defend moral relativism from the accusation that it would make it irrational to classify past changes in public opinion as instances of moral progress, for they would constitute an improvement only from our current point of view. The argument is this. For our assessment of a change in public opinion as an instance of moral progress to be rational, we need to take the moral claims made before the change to be false simpliciter while being open to the possibility that we ourselves change our minds at some point. These two things can be made compatible if we construe moral relativism as taking the truth of moral claims to be relative to the context of assessment. Thus understood, moral relativism is in fact the only view that makes room for talk of moral progress, as the rest of candidate positions make it irrationalS

Equal Validity or Nonneutrality? A defense of relativism

In this paper, I oppose Baghramian and Coliva’s characterization of relativism insofar as it attributes to this view a commitment with Equal Validity, or the idea that the many radically different ways of seeing the world are equally valid. I argue that Equal Validity conflicts with Nonneutrality, which is another of the theses that Baghramian and Coliva use to characterize relativism, and which can be summarized as the idea that there is no privileged point of view. I argue that, once we choose Nonneutrality over Equal Validity, we can make sense of the notion of faultless disagreement, which Baghramian and Coliva reject. This goes against Baghramian and Coliva’s argument that, since there is no such thing as faultless disagreement, there is no motivation for relativism either.This work has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under a Juan de la Cierva-Formación fellowship (FJC2020- 045045-I) and the research project “Disagreement in Attitudes: Normativity, Affective Polarization and Disagreement” (PID2019-109764RB-I00), by the Spanish Ministry of Universities under a Margarita Salas fellowship, by the Regional Government of Andalusia under the research projects “Public Disagreements, Affective Polarization and Immigration in Andalusia” (B-HUM-459-UGR18) and “The Inferential Identification of Propositions: A Reconsideration of Classical Dichotomies in Metaphysics, Semantics and Pragmatics” (P18-FR-2907), by the University of Granada under the excellence unit FiloLab-UGR (UCE.PPP2017.04), and by the BBVA Foundation under the research project “Evaluations in Disguise: A Dynamic Expressivist Account of Propaganda” (DINEXPROP).S

The way things go: Moral relativism and suspension of judgment

This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01650-zA popular accusation against moral relativism is that it goes too far in its vindication of tolerance. The idea behind accusations like this can be summarized in the slogan, frequently attributed to relativism, that ‘‘anything goes’’. The aim of this paper is to defend moral relativism from the accusation that it is an ‘‘anything goes’’ view; from the accusation that it forces us to suspend our judgment in cases in which we do not think we should even be allowed to. In the end, relativism is not an ‘‘anything goes’’ view because it is not a view about what goes, but about the way things go—about what goes on when we say that something is morally right or wrong. There is indeed a view, sometimes called ‘‘relativism’’, that forces us to suspend our judgment about practices that do not allow for such comfort, but it is not so much moral relativism as moral contextualism. Apparently, though, the most salient alternative to ‘‘anything goes’’ views such as contextualism is not moral relativism. It is moral objectivism, according to which there is a fact of the matter about moral issues. However, I show that moral objectivism too ends up being an ‘‘anything goes’’ view unless the objectivist takes herself to be endowed with ‘‘God’s point of view’’, which I prove troublesome.This paper has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education under the grant FPU14/00485, by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the research projects “Contemporary Expressivisms and the Indispensability of Normative Vocabulary: Scope and Limits of the Expressivist Hypothesis” (FFI2016-80088-P) and “Disagreement in Attitudes: Normativity, Affective Polarization and Disagreement” (PID2019-109764RB-I00), by the Regional Government of Andalusia under the research projects “Public Disagreements, Affective Polarization and Immigration in Andalusia” (B-HUM-459-UGR18) and “The Inferential Identification of Propositions: A Reconsideration of Classical Dichotomies in Metaphysics, Semantics and Pragmatics” (P18-FR-2907), and by the University of Granada under a “Contrato Puente” fellowship and the excellence unit FiloLab-UGR (UCE.PPP2017.04).S

La formulación magistral a base de cannabis es altamente eficaz como tratamiento adyuvante en la epilepsia focal resistente a fármacos en pacientes adultos: un estudio de cohortes prospectivo abierto

Introducción: La seguridad y eficacia de una formulación rica en cannabidiol (CBD) y baja en ∆9-tetrahidrocannabinol (THC) para tratar la epilepsia resistente a fármacos se ha examinado previamente en niños, pero no en población adulta. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar si el aceite rico en CBD, como tratamiento adicional a los fármacos antiepilépticos convencionales, era eficaz, seguro y bien tolerado en adultos con epilepsia focal resistente a fármacos (DRFE). Métodos: Una cohorte abierta, prospectiva, unicéntrica en pacientes adultos con DRFE, recibían dosis estables de fármacos antiepilépticos (FAE). Se administró una formulación magistral a base de cannabis (CBMF) (100 mg/ml de CBD y THC [eliminado]50% a las 12 semanas. Se realizó un seguimiento de las reacciones adversas a los fármacos. p-valor [eliminado]a los 3 meses de seguimiento. La dosis media diaria de CBD fue de 200 mg, la de THC de 4 mg y la de CBD por kilogramo de peso de 3,7 mg. La mediana del número de crisis por mes antes del tratamiento con CBD fue de 11, y después del tratamiento con CBD fue de 2,5(p[eliminado]Se alcanzó el 50% a las 12 semanas en el 79,5% de los pacientes. La mediana del porcentaje de cambio en la frecuencia de las crisis al mes fue del 84,1% a las 12 semanas. Cinco pacientes informaron de reacciones adversas al fármaco. Conclusiones: La CBMF es una terapia altamente eficaz y segura para tratar a pacientes adultos con DRFE. La reducción de la frecuencia de las crisis se mantiene a lo largo del tiempo.Introduction: The safety and efficacy of a formulation high in cannabidiol (CBD) and low in ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to treat drug-resistant epilepsy have been examined previously in children, but not in adult population. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether CBD-rich oil, as an add-on treatment to conventional antiepileptic drugs, was effective, safe, and well-tolerated in adults with drug-resistant focal epilepsy (DRFE). Methods: An open-label, prospective cohort, single-center in adult patients with DRFE, were receiving stable doses of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). A cannabisbased-magistral formulation (CBMF) (100 mg/ml CBD and THC [removed]50% at12 weeks. Adverse-drug reactions monitoring was done. p-value [removed]3 months offollow-up. The median daily dose of CBD was 200 mg, that of THC was 4 mg, andthat of CBD per kilogram of weight was 3.7 mg. The median number of seizuresper month before CBD treatment was 11, and after CBD treatment was 2.5(p[removed]50% at 12 week was achieved in 79.5%of the patients. The median percentage change in seizure frequency per monthwas 84.1% at 12 weeks. Five patients reported any adverse-drug reactions. Conclusion: The CBMF is a highly effective and safety therapy to treat adult patients with DRFE. The reduction in seizures frequency is maintained over time