La influencia de los medios de comunicación en el desarrollo de la alta competencia motriz de las alumnas

Analizamos la importancia del papel de los medios de comunicación en el desarrollo de la competencia motriz en las chicas y su motivación hacia la práctica deportiva. Los medios de comunicación nos transmiten una visión androcéntrica del hecho deportivo. Este enfoque transmite a las alumnas el mensaje de que ellas no están (ni estarán) incluidas en el ámbito del deporte de alto nivel (ámbito en el que pueden encontrar una forma de desarrollar su competencia motriz). De hecho, esta situación se baraja como uno de los motivos que influye en que, en la mayoría de los casos, sean las alumnas, frente a los alumnos, las que indican practicar deporte principalmente por motivos estéticos y/o de salud, pero no de competición o desarrollo deportivo a cierto nivel, así como poseer una autoestima y un autoconcepto corporal mucho más negativos.We analyse the importance of the role of the media in the development of the motor competence in girls and their motivation towards sports. The media give us an androcentric vision of the sporting event. This perspective transmits to the female students the message that they are not (and they will not be) included in the field of high-level sport (field in which they can find a way to develop their motor competence). In fact, this situation is considered as one of the reasons that influences on the fact that, in most of the cases, the female students are who, in contrast to the male students, seem to practice sport mainly due to aesthetics and/or health, but not due to competition or sports development at a certain level. In addition, they appear to have much more negative self-esteem and physical self-concept

CONSUMPTION PREFERENCE OF CASSAVA (MANIHOT ESCULENTA CRANTZ) PRODUCTS AMONG RURAL HOUSEHOLD IN MUNICIPALITY OF CORCUERA, ROMBLON, PHILIPPINES

Cassava has become more practical in recent years because of its resistance to drought, ease of cultivation with little effort required, and adaptability to a wide range of soil. With these numerous positive attributes, the cassava crop has several undesirable characteristics. The main consequence of this, it might result in poor cassava quality and contributes to a small market share, which can negatively impact the cassava sector resulting in finding out the degree of cassava quality attributes as parameters for consumer preference among various levels of the food chain. This study needs to evaluate the consumption preference of Manihot esculenta Crantz products among rural households. This study determined the general preference of the respondents for cassava. Most respondents care less about the shape of the cassava, whether it is round, oval, or truncated, as well as the flesh color, whether white flesh, yellow flesh, and cream orange flesh. Respondents were less concerned about skin color as much. The majority preferred the variety that have a nutty and mid-earthy taste, a green and earthy aroma, and a mealy texture. &nbsp

Multi-modality imaging for diagnosis and characterization of cardiac masses

Indexación: Web of Science; ScieloIntroducción: El presente trabajo es un estudio descriptivo de una serie de casos con masas cardíacas cuyo estudio involucró múltiples modalidades de imagen no invasiva, incluyendo Ecocardiograma (ECO), Tomografía Axial Computada Cardíaca (TAC), PET/CT (Tomografía de Emisión de Positrones) y Resonancia nuclear magnética (RNM) Cardíaca. Objetivo: Establecer la capacidad diagnóstica de la multa-modalidad de imagen en el estudio etiológico y localización de una masa cardíaca pesquisada inicialmente por ECO transtorácico. Método: Se realizó un análisis descriptivo de 37 casos estudiados con diversas modalidades de imagen no invasiva en Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, entre Julio 2014 y Julio 2015, La naturaleza de las masas fue determinada por biopsia, cirugía o seguimiento clínico. Resultados: Del total de masas, 14 (39%) fueron tumores confirmados por biopsia; 11 (30%) correspondieron a trombos; 1 caso (2.8%) fue una masa valvular infecciosa; 1 caso (2.8%) correspondió a calcificación caseosa del anillo Mitral; 1 caso (2.8%) fue variante normal y solo 1 caso (2.8%) fue indeterminado; 6 (17%) casos fueron masas de localización extracardíaca. La modalidad ECO + RNM Cardíaca fue suficiente para caracterizar localización y tipo histológico en 28 casos (76%); la modalidad ECO + TAC Cardíaca + RNM Cardíaca fue necesaria en 7 casos (19%); La modalidad ECO + TAC Cardíaca + RNM Cardíaca + PET/CT fue necesaria en 1 caso (2.5%) para la actividad mitótica celular; la modalidad ECO + RNM Cardíaca + PET/CT fue necesaria en 1 caso (2.5%) para localización, tipo histológico, calcio y actividad infecciosa. La modalidad ECO + TAC Cardíaca no permitió identificar localización, tipo histológico con calcificación y /o tejido adiposo. Conclusión: La multi-modalidad de imagen permitió identificar la etiología y localización de la masa cardíaca en el 97% de los casos. La combinación ECO + RNM Cardíaca fue la modalidad más usada. La TAC Cardíaca es particularmente útil para caracterizar calcificaciones y/o tejido adiposo y el PET/CT para caracterizar actividad metabólica (infección activa y actividad mitótica celular).Background: We analyzed a series of patients with cardiac masses who were studied using multiple imaging modalities, including echocardiography (ECHO), CT Scan, Magnetic Resonance imaging (RNM) and PET/CT Aim: to determine the usefulness of multi-modality imaging in determining the etiology and location of cardiac masses initially detected by ECHO Methods: 37 patients selected by the presence of a cardiac mass detected by ECHO were submitted to different modalities of cardiac imaging in order to determine the nature, location and etiology of the mass Results: 14 (39%) masses were tumors confirmed by biopsy; 11 (30%) fulfilled criteria to diagnose a thrombus; 1 patient (2.8%) had an infectious cardiac mass, another calcification of the mitral an-nulus, another turned out to be a normal variant and only in one patient (2.8%) a diagnosis was not possible. Six patients had extra cardiac masses. ECHO plus RNM were sufficient to characterize location and histologic type in 28 patients (76%). Seven cases (19%) required ECHO plus CT scan. ECHO plus CT scan plus RNM plus PET/CT was required in 1 patient to establish mitotic activity. ECHO plus RNM plus PT/CT was necessary to determine location, histologic type, presence of calcium and infectious activity Conclusion: Multimodality imaging allowed to determine etiology and location of cardiac masses in 97 % of cases. ECHO plus NMR was the combination most frequently used. CT scan was particularly useful to identify calcification and fat deposits and PET/CT to identify increased metabolic activity, either infection or mitotic activity.http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-85602016000100001&script=sci_abstract&tlng=e

Scale Model Shake Table Testing of Seismic Earth Pressures in Soft Clay

There is much uncertainty in seismic earth pressures for basement wall design and retaining wall design in clay soil. The research presented herein uses a scale model testing platform on a 1g shake table to measure the distribution and magnitude of seismic earth pressures for the prototype soil conditions of San Francisco Young Bay Mud (YBM). Similitude scaling of the dynamic soil properties, the wall dimensions, and the input time histories (among other variables) affords accurate modeling of the prototype scale wall. For basement conditions, inertial soil structure interaction (SSI) effects are included in the experiments. Care is taken to properly mimic static lateral stress conditions of the walls to achieve active or at-rest conditions for the respective wall designs prior to shaking. Results for a wall of prototype 3m height experiencing a large ground motion is shown and compared to current earth pressure design recommendations

Innovation and business development in logistics sector in Panama

The development of products, especially high technology ones, has relatively not been an important activity in Latin America. The paper will contribute to the service innovation body of knowledge on the sector of Supply Chain Management. Given that little knowledge is published about experiences in Latin America.The development of products, especially high technology ones, has relatively not been an important activity in Latin America. The paper will contribute to the service innovation body of knowledge on the sector of Supply Chain Management. Given that little knowledge is published about experiences in Latin America

A Comparison Study of Multi-Objective Metaheuristic Techniques for Continuous Review Stochastic Inventory System

Supply chain management which involves managing the flow of material andinformation from sources to customers has been one of the most challenging issuesfacing both the academicians and the practitioners for years. Inventory control is acrucial part of tactical decision level affecting the performance of supply chain indistribution and production. The main focus of this study is to compare theperformance of different multi-objective metaheuristic techniques to optimizeinventory parameters for single-product continuous review stochastic inventorysystem with transportation costs. The simulation-based optimization method is usedto solve the problem by combining the simulation model and metaheuristicalgorithms in order to determine the inventory policy taking into account twoconflicting objectives: customer service level and total inventory cost. We build adiscrete event simulation model to evaluate the objective function of the problem.The Metaheuristic techniques such as the genetic algorithm and particle swarmoptimization are applied to search the solution space. The results obtained by allthese proposed techniques are compared and the effectiveness of each technique hasbeen illustrated

What makes them thrive? Protective factors for the academic success of Roma university students: A case study.

The situation of oppression and discrimination of Roma people is a fact that can be observed in many research studies. This is in conjunction with segregation and unequal educational conditions for Roma students, which do not seem to improve despite economic investment and specific intervention programmes. We understand that these situations are ever-present and structural in our society and that they segregate and exclude and become cultural, social and educational barriers for Roma students to successfully continue their academic careers until they reach university. The aim of this study was to understand the views of Roma students at a university in the south of Spain regarding the factors that had enabled them to overcome the initial difficulties they had faced during primary and secondary education, and which had acted as protective factors against educational exclusion. We have included quantitative data through the use of questionnaires, and qualitative data through the use of interviews. The results suggest that these factors are diverse, intersecting and are not mutually exclusive. Family and teacher support and the presence of a non-segregated environment, as well as personal motivation and self-awareness, are key factors. A relevant finding has been the flexibility of cultural reference models that have allowed them to navigate the exclusionary structures of the school.Universidad de Cádi

Risk Mitigation Strategy for Spend Management in Strategic Procurement Through Automation of Processes

The digital revolution is currently shaking every sector of the industry especially the supply chain and procurement industry. Concepts like “IoTâ€, “Industry 4.0†and “Procurement 4.0†are floating all around which is making the industry more competitive. The digital revolution is compelling the businesses to work in collaboration to achieve their targets because it is getting almost impossible for companies to survive independently, while on the other hand these collaboration lead to the complexities of the processes which can result in-transparencies in the process flows and spend management. A proper, clear and transparent spend management is the key to the success of any organization and an uncontrolled, unclear spend management can lead the companies to bankruptcies. The purpose of this research paper is to show how strategic procurement perform their spend management with conventional methods? and how the digitization and automation concepts can be used to improve the whole spend management process and how to mitigate the risks associated with spend management? Emerging literature, case studies, blogs, expert opinions, market knowledge, practical business experiences and citations are used to fulfill this task

Diseño de un Proyecto Educativo

Material didáctico. Diseño de un proyecto educativo. Orientaciones práctica

Central corneal thickness in black Cameroonian ocular hypertensive and glaucomatous subjects

Christelle Domngang Noche1, André Omgbwa Eballe2, Assumpta Lucienne Bella31Innel Medical Center, 2Faculty of Medicine, University of Douala, 3Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé, CameroonPurpose: To evaluate central corneal thickness (CCT) in a black Cameroonian population of ocular hypertensive and glaucomatous subjects.Material and methods: This was a prospective study undertaken with an ultrasonic pachymeter from January 2009 to December 2009 in an eye clinic (INNEL Medical center) in Yaoundé, Cameroon.Results: One hundred subjects (200 eyes) were enrolled in the study. Sixty subjects were glaucomatous (primary open angle glaucoma, POAG group), and 40 ocular hypertensive (OHT group). The mean age of the sample was 52.60 ± 12.23 years. For the whole sample, CCT was 534.71 ± 37.95 µm in the right eye and 533.61 ± 37.67 µm in the left eye, with no statistically significant difference between the 2 eyes (P = 0.446). CCT in the POAG group was 526.30 ± 37.34 µm in the right eye and 524.90 ± 35.92 µm in the left eye. CCT in the OHT group was 547.32 ± 35.71 µm in the right eye and 546.67 ± 36.85 µm in the left eye. There was a statistically significant difference between CCT of the 2 groups (right eye: P = 0.013; left eye: P = 0.007).Conclusion: Mean CCT of ocular hypertensive subjects was thicker than CCT of glaucomatous ones in our Cameroonian sample. However, in both ocular hypertensive or glaucomatous patients, CCT of black Cameroonians is thinner than that reported in other studies in Caucasian populations.Keywords: central corneal thickness, ocular hypertension, glaucoma, black Cameroonia