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Myths of positive psychology: deceptive manoeuvres and pseudoscience
Positive Psychology (PP) has experienced a huge boom in the last twenty years. The aim of this study is to list a number of myths and fallacious argumentative manoeuvres which sow serious doubts about the novelty and originality of PP. The PP discourse is notably pseudoscientific and has a certain intellectual dishonesty. Additionally, PP extends knowledge through social networks, books and journals. This knowledge is alleged to be empirically evidence-based, but in fact it is sustained upon tautological statements, superficial knowledge and obvious conclusions. All of the knowledge produced by PP reveals what it is provided by common sense and traditional wisdom. In conclusion, PP is not necessary in producing this knowledge and is academically and socially irrelevant and dispensable. This paper concludes with some considerations about the uncertain future of the always controversial PP
Enhanced non-quark-antiquark and non-glueball Nc behavior of light scalar mesons
We show that the latest and very precise dispersive data analyses require a
large and very unnat- ural fine-tuning of the 1/Nc expansion at Nc = 3 if the
f_0(600) and K(800) light scalar mesons are to be considered predominantly
quark-antiquark states, which is not needed for light vector mesons. For this,
we use scattering observables whose 1/Nc corrections are suppressed further
than one power of 1/Nc for quark-antiquark or glueball states, thus enhancing
contributions of other nature. This is achieved without using unitarized ChPT,
but if it is used we can also show that it is not just that the coefficients of
the 1/Nc expansion are unnatural, but that the expansion itself does not even
follow the expected 1/Nc scaling of a glueball or a quark-antiquark meson.Comment: Discussion disfavoring a glueball interpretation added. Version
published in Phys. Rev.
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“See, Click, Fix”: Civic Interrogation and Digital Tools in a Ninth-Grade Ethnic Studies Course
Drawing from the theoretical contributions of Ethnic Studies, activist new media, and critical digital literacies, this article explores the nature of a ninth-grade curricular unit about how one’s daily environment impacts one’s health and well-being. Using a combination of ethnographic and practitioner inquiry methods, the authors highlight an Ethnic Studies teacher’s innovative and community-based pedagogy that honed students’ critical digital literacies and civic action practices through their engagement with the digital media app “See, Click, Fix.” Findings detail students’ perspectives about how the unit both helped them resist deficit-oriented ideologies and served as a conduit for critical civic literacies. The authors contend that the fostering of critical digital literacies remain extremely imperative to the future and expansion of Ethnic Studies courses
The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2
5 páginas, 5 figuras, 2 tablas.-- Christopher L. Sabine ... et al.Using inorganic carbon measurements from an international survey effort in the 1990s and a tracer-based separation technique, we estimate a global oceanic anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) sink for the period from 1800 to 1994 of 118 ± 19 petagrams of carbon. The oceanic sink accounts for ∼48% of the total fossil-fuel and cement-manufacturing emissions, implying that the terrestrial biosphere was a net source of CO2 to the atmosphere of about 39 ± 28 petagrams of carbon for this period. The current fraction of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions stored in the ocean appears to be about one-third of the long-term potentialPeer reviewe
Linking intra- and extra-cellular metabolic domains via neural-network surrogates for dynamic metabolic control
We outline a modeling and optimization strategy for investigating dynamic
metabolic engineering interventions. Our framework is particularly useful at
the early stages of research and development, often constrained by limited
knowledge and experimental data. Elucidating a priori optimal trajectories of
manipulatable intracellular fluxes can guide the design of suitable control
schemes, e.g., cyber(ge)netic or in-cell approaches, and the selection of
appropriate actuators, e.g., at the transcriptional or post-translational
levels. Model-based dynamic optimization is proposed to predict optimal
trajectories of target manipulatable intracellular fluxes. A challenge emerges
as existing models are often oversimplified, lacking insights into metabolism,
or excessively complex, making them difficult to build and implement. Here, we
use surrogates derived from steady-state solutions of constraint-based
metabolic models to link manipulatable intracellular fluxes to the process
exchange rates of structurally simple hybrid dynamic models. The latter can be
conveniently used in optimal control problems of metabolism. As a proof of
concept, we apply our method to a reduced metabolic network of
considering two different scenarios of dynamic
metabolic engineering.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, conference paper submissio
Papiloma de plexo coroideo del cuarto ventrículo cerebral : diagnóstico y tratamiento quirúrgico
Se trata de una perra mestiza, de ocho años de edad y unos 30 kg de peso, con hemiparesis e inclinación de la cabeza hacia el lado izquierdo. Tras realizar una resonancia magnética nuclear (RMN) se identificó la lesión, compatible con una neoplasia, en fosa posterior a nivel del cuarto ventrículo cerebral. El tratamiento quirúrgico consistió en una craneotomía suboccipital que permitió el acceso a la fosa posterior, para poder así extraer el tumor. El resultado obtenido tras la cirugía se puede considerar satisfactorio, si tenemos en cuenta el alto grado de morbilidad que supone trabajar en esta regiónHerein, we report the case of an eight-year-old, 30 kg, female mixed-breed dog, with hemiparesis and left head tilt. Magnetic resonance imaging led to identify the lession as a tumor in the caudal fossa of the fourth ventricle. The surgical treatment consisted of a suboccipital craniotomy, which allowed the access to the caudal fossa, and the xtirpation of the tumor. A satisfactory result was achieved after the surgery, if we consider the high sick rate involved when working in this region
Factores prenatales asociados al incumplimiento del esquema básico de vacunación en menores de 5 años: Prenatal factors associated with breach of the basic vaccination scheme in under 5 years of age
Objective: To determine the prenatal risk factors associated with the failure to comply with the basic vaccination scheme in children under 5 years of age, based on the Demographic and Family Health Survey (ENDES) of 2018. Materials and Methods: It is an observational, retrospective, analytical and transversal study. We study the sample of the National Demographic and Health Survey (ENDES) for 2018 that includes 18 104 children between 1 and 5 years with health card seen in the interview, finding the results in the INEI surveys. The files containing the vaccination scheme questionnaires are selected and the data processed with SPSS version 25. The statistical processing is analytical and descriptive, bivariate and multivariate with the help of STATA v16 and Excel 2016. Results: There was a final sample of 18,104 children between 1 to 5 years old in 2018. The multivariate analysis found the association of non-compliance with the vaccination schedule with the mother's age (p value = <0.01, PR = 1.20, CI = 1.13 - 1.28), the number of controls inadequate (p value = <0.01, PR = 1.28, CI = 1.23 - 1.33) and the pregnant woman did not receive the tetanus vaccine during pregnancy (p= <0.01, RP= 1.16, CI= 1.12 - 1.20). No such association was found with the place of residence, wealth index and natural region. Conclusions: The prenatal risk factors associated with the failure to comply with the basic vaccination scheme in children under 5 years of age were maternal age, the number of inadequate prenatal check-ups and the pregnant woman who had not received the tetanus vaccine.Objetivo: Determinar los factores de riesgo prenatales asociados al incumplimiento del esquema básico de vacunación en menores de 5 años a partir de la encuesta demográfica y de salud familiar (ENDES) del año 2018. Materiales y Métodos: Es un estudio observacional, retrospectivo, analítico y transversal. Se estudia la muestra de la Encuesta Nacional Demográfica y de Salud (ENDES) del año 2018 que comprende a 18 104 niños entre 1 a 5 años con tarjeta de salud vista en la entrevista, encontrándose los resultados en las encuestas del INEI. Se selecciona los archivos que contienen los cuestionarios del esquema de vacunación y se procesan los datos con SPSS versión 25. El procesamiento estadístico es de tipo analítico y descriptivo, bivariado y multivariado con ayuda de STATA v16 y Excel 2016. Resultados: Se contó con una muestra final de 18 104 de menores entre 1 a 5 años el 2018. En el análisis multivariado se encontró la asociación del incumplimiento de esquema de vacunación con la edad de la madre (valor p= <0,01, RP= 1,20, IC= 1,13 – 1,28), el número de controles no adecuados (valor p= <0,01, RP= 1,28, IC= 1,23 – 1,33) y la gestante no haber recibido la vacuna antitetánica en el embarazo (valor p= <0,01, RP= 1,16, IC= 1,12 – 1,20). No se encontró dicha asociación con el lugar de residencia, índice de riqueza y región natural. Conclusiones: Los factores de riesgo prenatales asociados al incumplimiento del esquema básico de vacunación en menores de 5 años fueron la edad materna, el número de controles prenatales inadecuados y la gestante no haber recibido la vacuna antitetánica
Forward Euler Solutions and Weakly Invariant Time-Delayed Systems
This paper presents a necessary and sufficient condition for the weak invariance property of a time-delayed system parametrized by a differential inclusion. The aforementioned condition generalizes the well-known Hamilton-Jacobi inequality that characterizes weakly invariant systems in the nondelay setting. The forward Euler approximation scheme used in the theory of discontinuous differential equations is extended to the time-delayed context by incorporating the delay and tail functions featuring the dynamics. Accordingly, an existence theorem of weakly invariant trajectories is established under the extended forward Euler approach
theory of weights for rough homogeneous singular integrals and commutators
Quantitative estimates for rough homogeneous singular integrals and commutators of \BMO symbols and are obtained. In particular the following estimates are proved:
and
\| [b,T_{\Omega}]f\| _{L^{p}(w)}\leq c_{n,p}\|b\|_{\BMO}\|\Omega\|_{L^{\infty}} [w]_{A_1}^{\frac{1}{p}}[w]_{A_{\infty}}^{2+\frac{1}{p'}}\|f\|_{L^{p}\left(w\right)},
for and .BERC 2014-2017
BCAM Severo Ochoa excellence accreditation SEV-2013-0323
MTM2014-53850-P.
MTM2015-65888-C04-4-P
2017 Leonardo grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators, BBVA Foundatio
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