Ètica i legislació de l'experimentació animal per a l'avenç científic

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Guia de benvinguda a l’ASPCAT

Benvinguda; Acompanyament pràctic; Itinerari formatiu; Personal de nova incorporacióWelcoming; Mentoring; Training; NewcomerBienvenida; Tutoría; Itinerario formativo; Personal de nueva incorporaciónLa Guia és el document de referència que estableix com s’ha de dur a terme el procés de benvinguda i acollida del personal de nova incorporació a l’ASPCAT, amb la intenció d’acompanyar-lo durant el procés d’adaptació a la nostra organització i al seu lloc de treball. L’estandardització del procés de benvinguda i acollida del nou personal garanteix que la seva incorporació es dugui a terme de la mateixa forma, sigui quin sigui el lloc de treball i àmbit funcional on s’incorpori, i facilita que pugui exercir les funcions i tasques pròpies del lloc de treball amb efectivitat i autonomia, i com més aviat millor. Si la persona nouvinguda se sent ben acollida, rep la informació del que és l’Agència com a institució, coneix clarament quines són les funcions i tasques pròpies del seu lloc de treball, tant del vessant de funcionariat com del tècnic, si li oferim un acompanyament pràctic i pot seguir un itinerari formatiu bàsic i de perfeccionament, facilitarem la seva integració a l’organització i generarem un sentiment de pertinença que ens ajudarà a capitalitzar i retenir el talent. El contingut de la Guia recull com ha de ser la benvinguda i acollida del personal de nova incorporació, quin acompanyament pràctic ha de rebre, quins recursos d’ajuda i suport té al seu abast i la necessitat d’establir quin itinerari formatiu ha de seguir. Per identificar àrees de millora, es preveu una enquesta de satisfacció del procés de benvinguda i el retiment de comptes periòdic a la direcció de l’Agència.La Guía es el documento de referencia que establece cómo debe llevarse a cabo el proceso de bienvenida y acogida del personal de nueva incorporación a la ASPCAT, con la intención de acompañarlo durante el proceso de adaptación a nuestra organización y a su puesto de trabajo. La estandarización del proceso de bienvenida y acogida del nuevo personal garantiza que su incorporación se lleve a cabo de la misma forma, sea cual sea el puesto de trabajo y ámbito funcional adonde se incorpore, y facilita que pueda desempeñar las funciones y tareas propias del puesto de trabajo con efectividad y autonomía, y lo antes posible. Si la persona recién llegada se siente bien acogida, recibe la información de lo que es la Agencia como institución, conoce claramente cuáles son las funciones y tareas propias de su puesto de trabajo, tanto desde la vertiente de funcionariado público como la de técnico, si le ofrecemos un acompañamiento práctico y puede seguir un itinerario formativo básico y de perfeccionamiento, facilitaremos su integración en la organización y generaremos un sentimiento de pertenencia que nos ayudará a capitalizar y retener el talento. El contenido de la Guía describe cómo debe ser la bienvenida y acogida del personal de nueva incorporación, qué acompañamiento práctico debe recibir, qué recursos de ayuda y apoyo tiene a su alcance y la necesidad de establecer qué itinerario formativo debe seguir. Para identificar áreas de mejora, se prevé una encuesta de satisfacción del proceso de bienvenida y la rendición de cuentas de forma periódica a la dirección de la Agencia.The Guide is the reference document that establishes how the process of welcoming and the actual welcoming of new staff to ASPCAT should be carried out, with the aim of accompanying them during the process of adapting to our organisation and to their new job. The standardisation of the welcoming and reception process for new staff guarantees that their incorporation is carried out in equity whatever the job and the functional area they join, and makes it easier for them to carry out the functions and tasks of the job effectively and autonomously, as well as and as soon as possible. If the newcomer feels at home, receives information about what the Agency is as an institution, clearly knows what demands and tasks the job puts on him pretty early on, both from the civil service standpoint and from its technical one too, if we offer them practical support and if they can follow a basic and advanced training itinerary, we will be facilitating their integration into the organisation and thus generating a feeling of belonging that will pay off and help us retain talent. The content of the Guide describes how new staff should be welcomed and received, what practical support they should receive, what help and support resources are available to them and the need to establish what training path they should follow. In order to identify areas for improvement, a satisfaction survey of the welcome process and regular reporting to the Agency's management are foreseen

Guia de recursos per al personal de control oficial

Control oficial; Recursos humans; Gestió del coneixementControl oficial; Recursos humanos; Gestión del conocimientoOfficial control; Human resources; Knowledge managementAquesta guia dona resposta tant al personal que s’incorpora de nou a l’Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya, com als que ja estan treballant i necessiten un document de consulta on es recullen diferents aspectes com ara l'explicació de conceptes clau relacionats amb la seva tasca i relació de recursos informàtics (intranet..) i altres (programes, guies pràctiques...) que necessita per fer el control oficial; els relacionats amb la formació (formació específica, Comunitat de Pràctica...) i els aspectes relacionats amb recursos humans (jornada i horari, règim retributiu...).Esta guía da respuesta tanto al personal que se incorpora de nuevo a la Agencia de Salud Pública de Cataluña, como a los que ya están trabajando y necesitan un documento de consulta en el que se recojan diferentes aspectos como la explicación de conceptos clave relacionados con su labor y relación de recursos informáticos (intranet..) y otros (programas, guías prácticas...) que necesita para realizar el control oficial; los relacionados con la formación (formación específica, Comunidad de Práctica...) y los aspectos relacionados con recursos humanos (jornada y horario, régimen retributivo...).This guide responds both to personnel who are joining the Public Health Agency of Catalonia again, and to those who are already working and need a consultation document that includes different aspects such as the explanation of key concepts related to their work and list of computer resources (intranet...) and others (programs, practical guides...) that you need to carry out the official control; those related to training (specific training, Community of Practice...) and aspects related to human resources (day and schedule, remuneration regime...

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourteenth from SDSS overall (making this, Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes public data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (July 2014-2016). Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release, and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020, and will be followed by SDSS-V.Comment: SDSS-IV collaboration alphabetical author data release paper. DR14 happened on 31st July 2017. 19 pages, 5 figures. Accepted by ApJS on 28th Nov 2017 (this is the "post-print" and "post-proofs" version; minor corrections only from v1, and most of errors found in proofs corrected

Evidence of spatial clustering of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia cases in Greater Mexico City: report from the Mexican Inter-Institutional Group for the identification of the causes of childhood leukemia

BackgroundA heterogeneous geographic distribution of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cases has been described, possibly, related to the presence of different environmental factors. The aim of the present study was to explore the geographical distribution of childhood ALL cases in Greater Mexico City (GMC).MethodsA population-based case-control study was conducted. Children <18 years old, newly diagnosed with ALL and residents of GMC were included. Controls were patients without leukemia recruited from second-level public hospitals, frequency-matched by sex, age, and health institution with the cases. The residence address where the patients lived during the last year before diagnosis (cases) or the interview (controls) was used for geolocation. Kulldorff’s spatial scan statistic was used to detect spatial clusters (SCs). Relative risks (RR), associated p-value and number of cases included for each cluster were obtained.ResultsA total of 1054 cases with ALL were analyzed. Of these, 408 (38.7%) were distributed across eight SCs detected. A relative risk of 1.61 (p<0.0001) was observed for the main cluster. Similar results were noted for the remaining seven ones. Additionally, a proximity between SCs, electrical installations and petrochemical facilities was observed.ConclusionsThe identification of SCs in certain regions of GMC suggest the possible role of environmental factors in the etiology of childhood ALL

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the Second Phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since 2014 July. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the 14th from SDSS overall (making this Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes the data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (2014–2016 July) public. Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey; the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data-driven machine-learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from the SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS web site (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020 and will be followed by SDSS-V

Search for new particles in events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

A search is presented for new particles produced at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV, using events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 101 fb(-1), collected in 2017-2018 with the CMS detector. Machine learning techniques are used to define separate categories for events with narrow jets from initial-state radiation and events with large-radius jets consistent with a hadronic decay of a W or Z boson. A statistical combination is made with an earlier search based on a data sample of 36 fb(-1), collected in 2016. No significant excess of events is observed with respect to the standard model background expectation determined from control samples in data. The results are interpreted in terms of limits on the branching fraction of an invisible decay of the Higgs boson, as well as constraints on simplified models of dark matter, on first-generation scalar leptoquarks decaying to quarks and neutrinos, and on models with large extra dimensions. Several of the new limits, specifically for spin-1 dark matter mediators, pseudoscalar mediators, colored mediators, and leptoquarks, are the most restrictive to date.Peer reviewe

Combined searches for the production of supersymmetric top quark partners in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

A combination of searches for top squark pair production using proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the CERN LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb(-1) collected by the CMS experiment, is presented. Signatures with at least 2 jets and large missing transverse momentum are categorized into events with 0, 1, or 2 leptons. New results for regions of parameter space where the kinematical properties of top squark pair production and top quark pair production are very similar are presented. Depending on themodel, the combined result excludes a top squarkmass up to 1325 GeV for amassless neutralino, and a neutralinomass up to 700 GeV for a top squarkmass of 1150 GeV. Top squarks with masses from 145 to 295 GeV, for neutralino masses from 0 to 100 GeV, with a mass difference between the top squark and the neutralino in a window of 30 GeV around the mass of the top quark, are excluded for the first time with CMS data. The results of theses searches are also interpreted in an alternative signal model of dark matter production via a spin-0 mediator in association with a top quark pair. Upper limits are set on the cross section for mediator particle masses of up to 420 GeV

Probing effective field theory operators in the associated production of top quarks with a Z boson in multilepton final states at root s=13 TeV

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Measurements of Higgs boson production cross sections and couplings in the diphoton decay channel at root s=13 TeV

Measurements of Higgs boson production cross sections and couplings in events where the Higgs boson decays into a pair of photons are reported. Events are selected from a sample of proton-proton collisions at root s = 13TeV collected by the CMS detector at the LHC from 2016 to 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb(-1). Analysis categories enriched in Higgs boson events produced via gluon fusion, vector boson fusion, vector boson associated production, and production associated with top quarks are constructed. The total Higgs boson signal strength, relative to the standard model (SM) prediction, is measured to be 1.12 +/- 0.09. Other properties of the Higgs boson are measured, including SM signal strength modifiers, production cross sections, and its couplings to other particles. These include the most precise measurements of gluon fusion and vector boson fusion Higgs boson production in several different kinematic regions, the first measurement of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair in five regions of the Higgs boson transverse momentum, and an upper limit on the rate of Higgs boson production in association with a single top quark. All results are found to be in agreement with the SM expectations.Peer reviewe