Preparing Practice-Ready Collaborative Healthcare Human Services Students: Considerations on Developing Interprofessional Education Competencies In Human Services

Interprofessional collaboration, consultation, and cooperation have long been a direct and indirect professional responsibility of human services practitioners in integrated healthcare settings. In order to effectively educate and train practice-ready human services students for rapidly changing healthcare settings, it is critical that human services organizations and programs examine the need for interprofessional competency education. This article provides timely considerations on developing interprofessional education competencies in human services education

Waste management in the province of Ñuble, Chile. The CITA Ecobio landfill in Chillán Viejo

Al revisar la situación del relleno sanitario CITA HERA ECOBIO lugar de destino de residuos domiciliarios, industriales peligrosos y no peligrosos en la localidad de Llollinco comuna de Chillán Viejo, quedan en evidencia situaciones que remarcan la complejidad que supone la gestión de los residuos para las comunidades de la provincia de Ñuble, impactando el sentido rural y agrícola del territorio. El estudio estructura un análisis basado en metodologías internacionales para caracterizar su estado de acuerdo al emplazamiento y el contexto de instalación de la estructura, evidenciando que su estado se ha ido convirtiendo en la construcción de un pasivo ambiental que muestra las carencias institucionales, normativas y fiscalizadoras y las características de la sociedad en su conjunto, haciendo patente que el cuidado del ambiente es una responsabilidad que tenemos que asumir todos a través del reciclaje y el compostaje para el logro del desarrollo y el alcance de un buen vivir.When reviewing the situation of the CITA HERA ECOBIO landfill, the destination of household waste, dangerous and non-hazardous industrial waste in the town of Llollinco commune of Chillán Viejo, there are situations that highlight the complexity of waste management for communities of the province of Ñuble, impacting the rural and agricultural sense of the territory. The study structures an analysis based on international methodologies to characterize its state according to the location and context of the structure's installation, evidencing that its state has been becoming the construction of an environmental liability that shows the institutional, regulatory and supervisory deficiencies And the characteristics of society as a whole, making it clear that environmental care is a responsibility that we have to assume all through recycling and composting for the achievement of the development and the reach of a good living

Induced martensitic transformation during tensile test in nanostructured bainitic steels

Retained austenite in nanostructured bainite is able to undergo mechanically induced martensitic transformation. However, the link between transformation and deformation mechanisms involved makes difficult the understanding of the process. In this work, a model has been developed to assess the effect of the external stress itself on the martensite phase transformation. In addition, after a detailed initial microstructural characterization, the martensite fraction evolution during tensile deformation has been obtained by means of X-ray diffraction analyses after interrupted tensile tests in several nanostructured bainitic steels. Experimental results have been compared to the outputs of the model, as a reference. They suggests that stress partitioning between phases upon tensile deformation is promoted by isothermal transformation at lower temperatures.The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the European Research Fund for Coal and Steel, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) for partially funding this research under the contracts RFSR-CT-2012-00017, RFSR-CT-2014-00016 and MAT2013-47460-C5-1−P respectively. LM-R also acknowledges this same Ministry for financial support with ref. FPI: BES-2011-044186.Peer Reviewe

Percepción de los habitantes de sectores urbanos de León sobre la prestación de servicios en los Puestos de Salud. SILAIS León. I Semestre de 1998

Tiene por objetivo identificar la calidad de la prestación de servicios de salud que brindan los puestos de salud a través de la satisfacción de la población

Long Term Hippocampal and Cortical Changes Induced by Maternal Deprivation and Neonatal Leptin Treatment in Male and Female Rats

Maternal deprivation (MD) during neonatal life has diverse long-term behavioral effects and alters the development of the hippocampus and frontal cortex, with several of these effects being sexually dimorphic. MD animals show a marked reduction in their circulating leptin levels, not only during the MD period, but also several days later (PND 13). A neonatal leptin surge occurs in rodents (beginning around PND 5 and peaking between PND 9 and 10) that has an important neurotrophic role. We hypothesized that the deficient neonatal leptin signaling of MD rats could be involved in the altered development of their hippocampus and frontal cortex. Accordingly, a neonatal leptin treatment in MD rats would at least in part counteract their neurobehavioural alterations. MD was carried out in Wistar rats for 24 h on PND 9. Male and female MD and control rats were treated from PND 9 to 13 with rat leptin (3 mg/kg/day sc) or vehicle. In adulthood, the animals were submitted to the open field, novel object memory test and the elevated plus maze test of anxiety. Neuronal and glial population markers, components of the glutamatergic and cannabinoid systems and diverse synaptic plasticity markers were evaluated by PCR and/or western blotting. Main results include: 1) In some of the parameters analyzed, neonatal leptin treatment reversed the effects of MD (eg., mRNA expression of hippocampal IGF1 and protein expression of GFAP and vimentin) partially confirming our hypothesis; 2) The neonatal leptin treatment, per se, exerted a number of behavioral (increased anxiety) and neural effects (eg., expression of the following proteins: NG2, NeuN, PSD95, NCAM, synaptophysin). Most of these effects were sex dependent. An adequate neonatal leptin level (avoiding excess and deficiency) appears to be necessary for its correct neuro-programing effect

A procedure for indirect and automatic measurement of prior austenite grain size in bainite/martensite microstructures

An alternative procedure for indirect and automatic measurement of the prior austenite grain size (PAGS) in bainite/martensite is proposed in this work. It consists in the determination of an effective grain size (EGS) by means of statistical post-processing of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) data. The algorithm developed for that purpose, which is available on-line, has been applied to simulated EBSD maps as well as to both a nanocrystalline bainitic steel and a commercial hot-rolled air-cooled steel with a granular bainitic microstructure. The new proposed method has been proven to be robust and results are in good agreement with conventional PAGS measurements. The added value of the procedure comes from its simplicity, as no parent reconstruction is involved during the process, and its suitability for low-magnification EBSD maps, thus allowing a large step-size and coverage of a substantially broader area of the sample than the previous methods reported.Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness for funding this research under the contract IPT-2012-0320-420000. L.M.-R. also acknowledges the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness for financial support in the form of a PhD research grant (FPI-Ref. BES-2011-044186).Peer reviewe

ALGORITMO DE CIFRADO SIMÉTRICO BASADO EN MAPEO LOGÍSTICO Y TRANSFORMADA RÁPIDA DE FOURIER

Las herramientas estadísticas utilizadas en la criptografía desde la antigüedad hasta nuestros días, son muy útiles en el criptoanálisis de sistemas de cifrado dado que ofrecen un buen instrumento para la identificación del sistema de cifrado utilizado en un criptograma. Los algoritmos criptográficos son cada vez más necesarios para garantizar la confidencialidad de los datos en la transmisión de forma segura a través de canales de comunicación inseguros. En éste trabajo se presenta un algoritmo de cifrado simétrico, cuya implementación está basada en el acoplamiento de mapeo logístico, un generador congruencial lineal, y la trasformada rápida de Fourier. Como parte del proceso se generan subclaves de cifrado a través de una semilla extraída de una zona caótica para aumentar su nivel de aleatoriedad. Se realiza un análisis al criptograma, en particular, con pruebas estadísticas sobre datos cifrados, con el fin de determinar su impredecibilidad en secuencias generadas, evaluando las propiedades de independencia y aleatoriedad. Se obtienen resultados en simulación que muestran una notable distorsión en los datos cifrados con respecto a los originales, que, en términos de seguridad, disminuye su vulnerabilidad ante ataques externos

Pseudo-Random Bit Generator Using Chaotic Seed for Cryptographic Algorithm in Data Protection of Electric Power Consumption

Cryptographic algorithms have played an important role in information security for protecting privacy. The literature provides evidence that many types of chaotic cryptosystems have been proposed. These chaotic systems encode information to obviate its orbital instability and ergodicity. In this work, a pseudo-random cryptographic generator algorithm with a symmetric key, based on chaotic functions, is proposed. Moreover, the algorithm exploits dynamic simplicity and synchronization to generate encryption sub-keys using unpredictable seeds, extracted from a chaotic zone, in order to increase their level of randomness. Also, it is applied to a simulated electrical energy consumption signal and implemented on a prototype, using low hardware resources, to measure physical variables; hence, the unpredictability degree was statistically analyzed using the resulting cryptogram. It is shown that the pseudo-random sequences produced by the cryptographic key generator have acceptable properties with respect to randomness, which are validated in this paper using National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) statistical tests. To complement the evaluation of the encrypted data, the Lena image is coded and its metrics are compared with those reported in the literature, yielding some useful results

Incidencia del apoyo familiar y de pares en la comprensión lectora

Tesis (Profesor de Educación General Básica, Licenciado en Educación)Desde la infancia, aprender a interpretar ciertos símbolos gráficos denota una evolución, crecimiento y desarrollo que al término de nuestros días determinan todo aquello que fue fundamental para poder desenvolverse en una sociedad u otra. En este sentido, la incidencia del apoyo familiar y los pares en el desarrollo del proceso lector que culmina en un nivel elevado de comprensión lectora, podría ser un factor esencial dado que son aquellas personas que se encuentran presentes en estas etapas. Es por lo que, en esta investigación se busca saber si esta relación incide de manera consistente en el nivel de comprensión lectora que alcanzan 27 estudiantes de 4to. año básico. Se opta por la utilización de un método cuantitativo con el fin de investigar las variables y elementos que son pertinentes a la temática tratada, constatando así la existencia o no de la relación entre el nivel de comprensión lectora y la implicación del núcleo familiar y los pares en el proceso. Esto se desarrolló a través de dos tests; el primero de ellos, un cuestionario de composición familiar y hábitos de lectura; el segundo, una prueba de comprensión lectora. Los resultados indican que la influencia del apoyo familiar y de pares, así como el acompañamiento en el proceso lector efectivamente es positiva en cuanto a la comprensión lectora que alcanzan los estudiantes, sin embargo, esto no es estadísticamente significativo, lo que quiere decir que la diferencia no es suficiente para generalizar este indicador como determinante en la comprensión de lectura.Since childhood, learning to interpret certain graphic symbols denotes evolution, growth and development that, at the end of our days, determine everything that was fundamental to take part in one society or another. In this sense, the incidence of family and peers support in the development of the reading process that culminates in a high level of reading comprehension, could be an essential factor since they are the ones who are present in these stages. That is why, in this research, we aim to know if this relationship affects consistently the level of reading comprehension reached by 27 students in 4th grade in primary school. The use of a quantitative method is chosen in order to investigate the variables and elements that are relevant to the subject, this confirming the existence or not of the relationship between the level of reading comprehension and how involved the family nucleus and peers are in the process. This was developed through two tests; the first one, a questionnaire of family composition and reading habits; and the second, a reading comprehension test. The results indicate that the influence of family and peer support, as well as the accompaniment in the reading process is indeed positive in terms of the reading comprehension that students reach, however, this is not statistically significant, which means that the difference is not enough to generalize this factor as a determinant in reading comprehension