Determinación de los parámetros de productividad en los procesos de carenamiento en un varadero mediano

Productivity parameters were determined in maintenance works of 16 ships in the slipways of ASTINAVE, a medium-size shipyard at Guayaquil, Ecuador, in the period between April 2008 and January 2009. Typical processes applied during ship maintenance, its units for evaluation and a classification chart are presented. With the registered time (Man-Hour, M-H), mean values, standard deviations and variation coefficients were calculated for each process. Mean value results for each work were: Plating replacement: 0.220 M-H/kg, Hull cleaning: 0.435 M-H/m2-machine, Painting: 0.027 M-H/m2-machine, Cathodic protection: 0.116 M-H/Kg, Thickness measurement: 0.030 M-H/test, Propulsion system: 130.92 M-H/line, Steering system: 54.89 M-H/line, Ship docking/undocking: 43.97 M-H/maneuver, Bottom Valves: 15.83 M-H/#valve, and, Fuel tank cleaning: 0.0093 M-H/gal.Se determinaron Parámetros de Productividad en los trabajos de mantenimiento de 16 embarcaciones en el varadero de ASTINAVE, en Guayaquil, Ecuador, en el periodo Abril 08 hasta Enero 2009. Se describen, definen las unidades para su evaluación y se clasifican los procesos típicos que se desarrollan para el mantenimiento de buques. Con los tiempos (hombres-hora) registrados se calcularon los valores medios, desviaciones estándar y Coeficiente de Variación de los parámetros de cada proceso. Los valores medios resultantes son: Cambio de planchaje 0.220 H-H/kg, Limpieza del Casco 0.435 H-H/m2-máq, Pintado 0.027 H-H/m2-máq, Protección catódica 0.116 H-H/Kg, Medición de espesores 0.030 H-H/prueba, Sistema de Propulsión 130.92 H-H/línea, Sistema de Gobierno 54.89 H-H/línea, Varada/Desvarada 43.97 H-H/maniobra, Válvulas de Fondo 15.83 H-H/#válv, y, Tanques de combustible 0.0093 H-H/gal

Proxy re-encryption schemes for IoT and crowd sensing

IoT, crowd sensing and smart cities will be a traffic challenge. New communication paradigms as asynchronous messaging carry and forward, scheduled delivery and temporary storage will be needed to manage network resources dynamically. Since traditional end to end security will require keeping security associations among devices for a long time draining valuable resources, we propose and evaluate the use of proxy re-encryption protocols in these scenarios as a solution for reliable and flexible security

Quistes de Tarlov sintomáticos: diagnóstico y tratamiento

Los quistes de Tarlov se forman a expensas de la duramadre y de la aracnoides alrededor de las raíces sacras o coccígeas. Habitualmente asintomáticos, en ocasiones pueden ocasionar clínica álgica de irritación radicular. El desarrollo de técnicas de imagen, principalmente la resonancia magnética nuclear (RMN), permiten diagnosticarlos con más frecuencia, aunque determinar si son responsables de los síntomas de los pacientes continúa siendo difícil. El tratamiento inicial es conservador mediante analgésicos convencionales y fisioterapia. En caso de quistes sintomáticos de gran tamaño, sin respuesta al tratamiento inicial, puede ser necesario el tratamiento quirúrgico mediante drenaje percutáneo guiado bajo control de la tomografía axial computerizada (TAC), o bien mediante una técnica abierta que permita la eliminación del quiste y la descompresión del nervio. Describimos dos casos clínicos en pacientes con clínica de neuralgia por atrapamiento de las raíces nerviosas lumbosacras, un paciente tratado con infiltración periradicular y otro que requirió un drenaje percutáneo con buen resultado final.Tarlov cysts are formed of the dura mater and the arachnoid around the sacral or coccygeal roots. Usually asymptomatic, they can occasionally cause clinical radicular irritation. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) permit to diagnose them more often, but whether they are responsible for the symptoms remains difficult. The initial treatment is conservative with conventional analgesics and physiotherapy. In case of large symptomatic cysts, with no response to initial treatment may require surgical therapy: a guided percutaneous drainage under computerized tomography (CT) control, or by an open technique that allows removal of the cyst and nerve decompression. We describe two cases in patients with symptomatic neuralgia due to entrapment of lumbosacral nerve roots. One patient treated with periradicular infiltration and another that required percutaneous drainage with good final outcome

Distributed access control and privacy for the internet of me

This article presents an experimental scalable message driven IoT and its security architecture based on Decentralized Information Flow Control. The system uses a gateway that exports SoA (REST) interfaces to the internet simplifying external applications whereas uses DIFC and asynchronous messaging within the home environment

Mixing body-parts model for 2D human pose estimation in stereo videos

This study targets 2D articulated human pose estimation (i.e. localisation of body limbs) in stereo videos. Although in recent years depth-based devices (e.g. Microsoft Kinect) have gained popularity, as they perform very well in controlled indoor environments (e.g. living rooms, operating theatres or gyms), they suffer clear problems in outdoor scenarios and, therefore, human pose estimation is still an interesting unsolved problem. The authors propose here a novel approach that is able to localise upper-body keypoints (i.e. shoulders, elbows, and wrists) in temporal sequences of stereo image pairs. The authors' method starts by locating and segmenting people in the image pairs by using disparity and appearance information. Then, a set of candidate body poses is computed for each view independently. Finally, temporal and stereo consistency is applied to estimate a final 2D pose. The authors' validate their model on three challenging datasets: `stereo human pose estimation dataset', `poses in the wild' and `INRIA 3DMovie'. The experimental results show that the authors' model not only establishes new state-of-the-art results on stereo sequences, but also brings improvements in monocular sequences

Alternative mechanisms of p53 action during the unfolded protein response

The tumor suppressor protein p53 orchestrates cellular responses to a vast number of stresses, with DNA damage and oncogenic activation being some of the best described. The capacity of p53 to control cellular events such as cell cycle progression, DNA repair, and apoptosis, to mention some, has been mostly linked to its role as a transcription factor. However, how p53 integrates different signaling cascades to promote a particular pathway remains an open question. One way to broaden its capacity to respond to different stimuli is by the expression of isoforms that can modulate the activities of the full-length protein. One of these isoforms is p47 (p53/47, Δ40p53, p53ΔN40), an alternative translation initiation variant whose expression is specifically induced by the PERK kinase during the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) following Endoplasmic Reticulum stress. Despite the increasing knowledge on the p53 pathway, its activity when the translation machinery is globally suppressed during the UPR remains poorly understood. Here, we focus on the expression of p47 and we propose that the alternative initiation of p53 mRNA translation offers a unique condition-dependent mechanism to differentiate p53 activity to control cell homeostasis during the UPR. We also discuss how the manipulation of these processes may influence cancer cell physiology in light of therapeutic approaches

Stereo Pictorial Structure for 2D Articulated Human Pose Estimation

In this paper, we consider the problem of 2D human pose estimation on stereo image pairs. In particular, we aim at estimating the location, orientation and scale of upper-body parts of people detected in stereo image pairs from realistic stereo videos that can be found in the Internet. To address this task, we propose a novel pictorial structure model to exploit the stereo information included in such stereo image pairs: the Stereo Pictorial Structure (SPS). To validate our proposed model, we contribute a new annotated dataset of stereo image pairs, the Stereo Human Pose Estimation Dataset (SHPED), obtained from YouTube stereoscopic video sequences, depicting people in challenging poses and diverse indoor and outdoor scenarios. The experimental results on SHPED indicates that SPS improves on state-ofthe- art monocular models thanks to the appropriate use of the stereo informatio

Influencia de factores productivos de cabras de raza Florida, en los resultados de fertilidad a inseminación artificial

Este estudio se ha realizado utilizando los datos recogidos por los técnicos de ACRIFLOR y del Centro IFAPA de Hinojosa del Duque durante las anualidades 2005, 2006, 2007 y 2008. Dichos datos informan acerca de la inseminación de 1.739 cabras de la raza Florida. El trabajo se ha realizado con semen fresco refrigerado, estudiando los siguientes factores: Número de parto de la cabra en el momento inseminación, Nivel de producción (kg de leche en el control lechero más cercano) y días de lactación desde la fecha del último parto. La obtención y procesamiento del semen se realiza por técnicos del Instituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria, Pesca, Alimentación y de la Producción Ecológica IFAPA en el centro de Recogida de Esperma Caprino ubicado en Hinojosa del Duque (Córdoba), y donde ACRIFLOR, mediante Convenio suscrito con el IFAPA, mantiene su Centro de Testaje de Machos. Las hembras inseminadas deben cumplir los requisitos de: una ecografía previa para descartar las pseudogestaciones, que no hayan abortado o presenten problemas reproductivos, que no sean nulíparas y, además, todas las cabras deben estar identificadas individualmente y en control lechero oficial. Los resultados de fertilidad con inseminación artificial en la raza Florida no han sido tan altos como los resultados obtenidos en otras razas caprinas, los cuales rondan un 60% de fertilidad en semen fresco y un 50% de fertilidad en semen congelado, es por ello que se han analizado los posibles factores que pueden estar provocando estos resultados menos favorables

Effect of exercise on sleep quality and insomnia in middle-aged women: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

OBJECTIVE: We assessed the effects of programmed exercise (PE) on sleep quality and insomnia in middle-aged women (MAW). METHODS: Searches were conducted in five databases from inception through December 15, 2016 for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating the effects of PE versus a non-exercising control condition on sleep quality, sleep disturbance and/or insomnia in MAW. Interventions had to last at least 8 weeks. Sleep quality was assessed with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and insomnia with the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI). Random effects models were used for meta-analyses. The effects on outcomes were expressed as mean differences (MDs) and their 95% confidence intervals (CI). RESULTS: Five publications reported data from four RCTs on PE effects during 12-16 weeks on sleep quality (n=4 studies reporting PSQI results) and/or insomnia (n=3 studies reporting ISI results), including 660 MAW. Low-moderate levels of exercise significantly lowered the PSQI score (MD=-1.34; 95% CI -2.67, 0.00; p=0.05) compared with controls. In a subgroup analysis, moderate PE (aerobic exercise) had a positive effect on sleep quality (PSQI score MD=-1.85; 95% CI -3.62, -0.07; p=0.04), while low levels of physical activity (yoga) did not have a significant effect (MD-0.46, 95% CI -1.79, 0.88, p=0.50). In three studies (two studies of yoga, one study of aerobic exercise), there was a non-significant reduction in the severity of insomnia measured with the ISI score (MD -1.44, 95% CI -3.28, 0. 44, p=0.13) compared with controls. Heterogeneity of effects among studies was moderate to high. CONCLUSION: In middle-aged women, programmed exercise improved sleep quality but had no significant effect on the severity of insomnia.Actividad Física y Deport

On the removal of s-triazine herbicides from waters using commercial low-cost granular carbons

The adsorption capacities of three low-cost granular active carbons, used in a water treatment facility for the removal of the triazine herbicides propazine, prometryn and prometon, was evaluated. Kinetic studies showed that the three carbon samples used could be suitable in practice for the treatment of moderate contents of the herbicides in contaminated waters. The apparent adsorption rate constants were calculated. Equilibrium studies showed that the data fit the Frumkin isotherm. The results show that in the adsorption process there are repulsive lateral interactions that depend mainly on the adsorbate molecules rather than the nature or distribution of the adsorption sites. Such lateral interactions seem to be established mainly between the isopropyl groups of adjacent molecules, being of the same order for the three molecules