Consorci per a la Recuperació de la Fauna de les Illes Balears, 11 años trabajando para la conservación de la biodiversidad

El COFIB, Consorci per a la Recuperació de la Fauna de las Illes Balears se creó en el año 2004 con la finalidad de atender las necesidades de recuperación de la fauna silvestre así como gestionar problemáticas relacionadas con la fauna exótica. Las entidades que lo constituyen son la Conselleria de Agricultura, Medi Ambient i Territori del Govern de les Illes Balears y la Fundació Natura Parc, entidades que aportan los medios necesarios para llevar a cabo las actividades del Consorcio. Durante estos años se han atendido 26.119 casos de fauna silvestre de las Islas Baleares y se han recogido 4.148 ejemplares de fauna exótica. Se ha participado en diferentes planes de conservación y recuperación que lleva a cabo el Servei de Protecció d’Espècies de la DG de Medi Natural. Los cuatro últimos años se ha incorporado el equipo de Sanidad y Control de Fauna, que interviene en acciones de control de especies invasoras y domésticas asilvestradas en diferentes espacios de la R.N.2000 y que ha capturado 11.622 especímenes de 25 especies distintas. Se colabora y participa en el seguimiento y monitorización de las enfermedades que afectan a la fauna silvestre. Desde el año 201,2 el COFIB coordina la recuperación de ejemplares de la fauna silvestre en todas las Islas Baleares. Gracias a los datos obtenidos a lo largo de estos 11 años, se ha contribuido en líneas de investigación y publicaciones que mejoran el conocimiento sobre nuestras especies. Finalmente, la educación ambiental y la investigación complementan las acciones de recuperación que lleva a cabo el COFIB. El artículo repasa algunas de las actuaciones, resultados y los datos más importantes recogidos durante este periodo

Digitalización de textos y elaboración de un glosario de voces históricas y dialectales: aplicaciones didácticas y matodológicas

Memoria ID12-0136. Ayudas de la Universidad de Salamanca para la innovación docente, curso 2012-2013

Recursos digitales para el estudio de la variación léxica en el marco del EES

Memoria ID-0210. Ayudas de la Universidad de Salamanca para la innovación docente, curso 2014-2015

Effectiveness of an intervention for improving drug prescription in primary care patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy:Study protocol of a cluster randomized clinical trial (Multi-PAP project)

This study was funded by the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias ISCIII (Grant Numbers PI15/00276, PI15/00572, PI15/00996), REDISSEC (Project Numbers RD12/0001/0012, RD16/0001/0005), and the European Regional Development Fund ("A way to build Europe").Background: Multimorbidity is associated with negative effects both on people's health and on healthcare systems. A key problem linked to multimorbidity is polypharmacy, which in turn is associated with increased risk of partly preventable adverse effects, including mortality. The Ariadne principles describe a model of care based on a thorough assessment of diseases, treatments (and potential interactions), clinical status, context and preferences of patients with multimorbidity, with the aim of prioritizing and sharing realistic treatment goals that guide an individualized management. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a complex intervention that implements the Ariadne principles in a population of young-old patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy. The intervention seeks to improve the appropriateness of prescribing in primary care (PC), as measured by the medication appropriateness index (MAI) score at 6 and 12months, as compared with usual care. Methods/Design: Design:pragmatic cluster randomized clinical trial. Unit of randomization: family physician (FP). Unit of analysis: patient. Scope: PC health centres in three autonomous communities: Aragon, Madrid, and Andalusia (Spain). Population: patients aged 65-74years with multimorbidity (≥3 chronic diseases) and polypharmacy (≥5 drugs prescribed in ≥3months). Sample size: n=400 (200 per study arm). Intervention: complex intervention based on the implementation of the Ariadne principles with two components: (1) FP training and (2) FP-patient interview. Outcomes: MAI score, health services use, quality of life (Euroqol 5D-5L), pharmacotherapy and adherence to treatment (Morisky-Green, Haynes-Sackett), and clinical and socio-demographic variables. Statistical analysis: primary outcome is the difference in MAI score between T0 and T1 and corresponding 95% confidence interval. Adjustment for confounding factors will be performed by multilevel analysis. All analyses will be carried out in accordance with the intention-to-treat principle. Discussion: It is essential to provide evidence concerning interventions on PC patients with polypharmacy and multimorbidity, conducted in the context of routine clinical practice, and involving young-old patients with significant potential for preventing negative health outcomes. Trial registration: Clinicaltrials.gov, NCT02866799Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

The Young, the Weak and the Sick: Evidence of Natural Selection by Predation

It is assumed that predators mainly prey on substandard individuals, but even though some studies partially support this idea, evidence with large sample sizes, exhaustive analysis of prey and robust analysis is lacking. We gathered data from a culling program of yellow-legged gulls killed by two methods: by the use of raptors or by shooting at random. We compared both data sets to assess whether birds of prey killed randomly or by relying on specific individual features of the prey. We carried out a meticulous post-mortem examination of individuals, and analysing multiple prey characteristics simultaneously we show that raptors did not hunt randomly, but rather preferentially predate on juveniles, sick gulls, and individuals with poor muscle condition. Strikingly, gulls with an unusually good muscle condition were also predated more than expected, supporting the mass-dependent predation risk theory. This article provides a reliable example of ho

Angiostrongylus cantonensis in North African hedgehogs as vertebrate hosts, Mallorca, Spain, October 2018

[eng] In October 2018, two Atelerix algirus hedgehogs were admitted to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) with signs of acute neurological disease. Necropsy detected immature, fully developed nematodes in the subarachnoid space of both hedgehogs, including a gravid female worm. DNA-based molecular tools confirmed the nematode as Angiostrongylus cantonensis, an important aetiological agent of eosinophilic meningitis in humans. So far this zoonotic parasite in has not been reported in western European wildlife

La variación lingüistica y cómo trabajarla en el aula: Trasncripción, digitalización, diccionarios, glosarios, bbdd y otras herramientas para el estudio del léxico

Memoria ID-0126. Ayudas de la Universidad de Salamanca para la innovación docente, curso 2013-2014