Estudio sobre envases de esmalte de uñas y rediseño según criterios de usabilidad y ergonomía.

Estudio e investigación sobre los esmaltes de uñas y sus envases. Análisis de uso y ergonomía para estudiar con profundidad los defectos más comunes (apertura, precisión, agarre...). Desarrollo de diversas ideas bajo distintos enfoques (con estándares más modernos y siguiendo una estética más actual, pero insistiendo en criterios de ergonomía y usabilidad) para lograr conceptos innovativos en el mercado. Selección de concepto y desarrollo en profundidad del mismo: diseño formal, funcional, estructural, de materiales... Diseño de la marca del nuevo producto, así como los correspondientes modelos 3D, renders, planos y otras pautas del producto.<br /

Analysis of charged particle emission sources and coalescence in E/A = 61 MeV 36^{36}Ar + 27^{27}Al, 112^{112}Sn and 124^{124}Sn collisions

Single-particle kinetic energy spectra and two-particle small angle correlations of protons ($p$), deuterons ($d$) and tritons ($t$) have been measured simultaneously in 61A MeV $^{36}$Ar + $^{27}$Al, $^{112}$Sn and $^{124}$Sn collisions. Characteristics of the emission sources have been derived from a ``source identification plot'' ($\beta_{source}$--$E_{CM}$ plot), constructed from the single-particle invariant spectra, and compared to the complementary results from two-particle correlation functions. Furthermore, the source identification plot has been used to determine the conditions when the coalescence mechanism can be applied for composite particles. In our data, this is the case only for the Ar + Al reaction, where $p$, $d$ and $t$ are found to originate from a common source of emission (from the overlap region between target and projectile). In this case, the coalescence model parameter, $\tilde{p}_0$ -- the radius of the complex particle emission source in momentum space, has been analyzed.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Nuclear Physics

Regional differences in diabetes across Europe: Regression and causal forest analyses

We examine regional differences in diabetes within Europe, and relate them to variations in socio-economic conditions, comorbidities, health behaviour and diabetes management. Using SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) data, first, we estimate multivariate regressions, where the outcome variables are diabetes prevalence, diabetes incidence, and weight loss due to diet as an indicator of management. Second, we study the heterogeneous impact of the risk factors on the regional differences in incidence with causal random forests. Compared to Western Europe, the transition odds to diabetes is 2.3-fold in Southern and 2.7-fold in Eastern Europe, which decreases to 2.0 and 2.1 after adjusting for individual characteristics. The remaining differences are explained by country-specific healthcare indicators. Based on the causal forest approach, the adjusted East-West difference is essentially zero for the lowest risk groups (tertiary education, no hypertension, no overweight) and increases substantially with these risk factors, but the South-West difference is much less heterogeneous. The prevalence of diet-related weight loss around the time of diagnosis also exhibits regional variation. The results suggest that more emphasis should be put on diabetes prevention among high-risk individuals in Eastern Europe

The effect of involuntary retirement on healthcare use and health status

We analyse the causal effect of involuntary retirement on detailed indicators of healthcare use and health status. Our identification strategy is based on a pension reform in Hungary which forced public sector workers above the statutory retirement age to full time retirement. Using rich administrative data, we find that on the three-year horizon, involuntary retirement decreases the number of primary care doctor visits, the consumption of antiinfectives for systemic use and drugs of the respiratory system, and the non-zero spending on antiinfectives, the drugs of the alimentary tract and metabolism and of the cardiovascular system. We also find that the impact on the latter two drug categories is driven by the drop in income due to involuntary retirement. The effects of involuntary retirement are comparable to the short-run effects of voluntary retirement, identified from a change in the statutory retirement age. We conclude that there is little evidence for health deteriorating effects of involuntary retirement and provide explanations for the possible mechanisms behind our results

Geographic and socioeconomic variation in healthcare: Evidence from migration

We study variation in healthcare utilization across geographies and socioeconomic groups in Hungary. Exploiting migration across geographic regions and relying on high-quality administrative data on healthcare use and income we show that the role of place-specific supply factors is heterogeneous across types of care and across socioeconomic groups. Overall, place-specific factors account for 68% of the variation in outpatient spending and 35% of the variation in drug spending, but almost none of the variation in inpatient spending. Place effects explain four-fifth of outpatient spending variation for non-employed working-age individuals, but less than two-fifth for individuals with above-median wage incomes. There is a positive association between place effects and outpatient capacity, especially for low-income individuals. These results suggest that access to healthcare varies especially for low-income people even in a context with universal coverage

The European Large Area Iso Survey: 90 micron number counts.

The European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS) was the largest single Open Time project conducted by ISO, mapping an area of 12 square degrees at 15μm with ISO-CAM and at 90μ with ISOPHOT. We first present the data analysis of the 90 μm survey. We show comparisons with model prediction for standard stars and with COBE/DIRBE for surface brightnesses of individual ELAIS fields and with the IRAS FSC catalog for 35 sources in common. The large number of rasters necessary to cover the wide ELAIS areas allows to compute a relative uncertainty for the calibration based on the FCS of typically 7%. From the comparison with standard stars model predictions, the absolute calibration is shown to be better than 15%. The survey is 1.5 order of magnitude deeper than the IRAS 100μ m survey and is expected to provide constraints on the formation and evolution of galaxies. Finally, we present 90 μm number counts from a reliable subset of the detected sources. ELAIS number counts are compared to the evolutionnary models of Guiderdoni (1998) and Rowan-Robinson (2001)