Antipsychologicum: el papel de la psicología académica: de mito científico a mercenaria del sistema (José Luis Romero Cuadra y Rafael Álvaro Vázquez, coords.,VIRUS, 2006, Barcelona)

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European Critical Psychological trends: an open road to psychological recidivism

Depto. de Sociología: Metodología y TeoríaFac. de Ciencias Políticas y SociologíaTRUEpu

Potencial impacto de la reforma a la ley 30 de 1992 sobre la gestión de las organizaciones públicas de educación superior en Colombia: factor fundamental de su caída

El gobierno nacional del presidente Juan Manuel Santos, presentó al Congreso Nacional, el proyecto para reformar la ley 30 de educación de 1992, el cual fue posteriormente retirado, como resultado de la presión de los estudiantes, principalmente. A través de la ministra de educación María Fernanda Campo, en diferentes escenarios y foros fue impulsada esta iniciativa considerada como uno de los programas bandera de la actual administración. Entre otros aspectos que consideraba la reforma, la propuesta en el sentido de institucionalizar la financiación de la universidad pública mediante inversión privada, fue tal vez el punto que mayor controversia ha suscitado en el país, por cuanto para los diferentes estamentos que constituyen las organizaciones de educación pública superior en Colombia, ello representaría la privatización de la educación pública en nuestro país. El propósito de este trabajo es hacer una reflexión con respecto al potencial impacto de la reforma a la ley 30 de 1992 sobre la Gestión de las Organizaciones Públicas de Educación Superior en Colombia, como factor determinante para el retiro, por parte del gobierno, de esta iniciativa del Congreso de la Repúblic

Análisis cinemático y diseño de un mecanismo para realizar mediciones de inercia en dinamómetros de chasis

The present work consisted of designing a transportable mechanism, with the ability to hold a pulley-mass system over it, with the task of performing moment of inertia measurements of the rollers of a chassis dynamometer, with the aim of obtaining correct power values related to parasite loads of the dynamometer, and consequently a correct value of the gas emissions in a vehicle...El presente trabajo consistió en diseñar un mecanismo transportable, con la capacidad de sostener un sistema de masa-poleas sobre si, para utilizarlo en mediciones de momento de inercia de los rodillos de un dinamómetro de chasis, con el objetivo de obtener valores correctos de potencia relacionados a cargas parasitas del dinamómetro, y consecuentemente un valor acertado de las emisiones de gases en un vehículo..

Efecto de la inducción de madurez pulmonar fetal con betametasona sobre la glucemia materna

La utilización de betametasona como inductor de madurez pulmonar fetal (IMPF) disminuye la morbilidad neonatal relacionada con prematurez pero su efecto diabetógeno materno ha sido poco estudiado. Objetivo: Estudiar el efecto de betametasona administrada como IMPF sobre los niveles de glucemia materna en pacientes embarazadas no diabéticas. Material y métodos: Estudio experimental no aleatorizado, se incluyeron 123 pacientes cursando embarazos de 26 a 34 semanas de gestación sin diagnóstico previo de diabetes. Se formaron 2 grupos: el de casos con 94 pacientes a quienes se administró vía intramuscular dos dosis de 12 mg betametasona como IMPF y el grupo control con 29 pacientes a quienes no se administró. Determinamos niveles de glucemia a las 0, 12, 24, 36 y 72 horas posteriores al inicio del estudio en los controles o la aplicación del corticosteroide. Posteriormente se realizó carga rápida de glucosa y de ser anormal, una curva de tolerancia a la glucosa. Registramos resultados de niveles de glucemia y diagnóstico de diabetes gestacional (DG). Resultados: Observamos elevación de las cifras de glucemia posteriores a la aplicación de betametasona con tendencia a la normalización de las mismas tres días después. Encontramos diferencia significativa al comparar las concentraciones de glucemia entre ambos grupos pero no en el diagnóstico de DG (p=0.47, IC 95%, 2.1% [-3.05; 7.25]). Conclusiones: El incremento en los niveles de glucemia causado por la aplicación de betametasona como IMPF es significativo pero transitorio, con tendencia a la normalización 72 horas después de aplicado el fármaco

Dataset bias exposed in face verification

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: López‐López, E., Pardo, X.M., Regueiro, C.V., Iglesias, R. and Casado, F.E. (2019), Dataset bias exposed in face verification. IET Biom., 8: 249-258, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-bmt.2018.5224. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived VersionsMost facial verification methods assume that training and testing sets contain independent and identically distributed samples, although, in many real applications, this assumption does not hold. Whenever gathering a representative dataset in the target domain is unfeasible, it is necessary to choose one of the already available (source domain) datasets. Here, a study was performed over the differences among six public datasets, and how this impacts on the performance of the learned methods. In the considered scenario of mobile devices, the individual of interest is enrolled using a few facial images taken in the operational domain, while training impostors are drawn from one of the public available datasets. This work tried to shed light on the inherent differences among the datasets, and potential harms that should be considered when they are combined for training and testing. Results indicate that a drop in performance occurs whenever training and testing are done on different datasets compared to the case of using the same dataset in both phases. However, the decay strongly depends on the kind of features. Besides, the representation of samples in the feature space reveals insights into what extent bias is an endogenous or an exogenous factorThis work has received financial support from the Xunta de Galicia, Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria (Accreditation 2016–2019, EDG431G/01 and ED431G/08, and reference competitive group 2014–2017, GRC2014/030), the European Union: European Social Fund (ESF), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and FEDER funds and (AEI/FEDER, UE) grant number TIN2017‐90135‐R. Eric López had received financial support from the Xunta de Galicia and the European Union (European Social Fund ‐ ESF)S

Application of miRNA-seq in neuropsychiatry: A methodological perspective

MiRNAs are emerging as key molecules to study neuropsychiatric diseases. However, despite the large number of methodologies and software for miRNA-seq analyses, there is little supporting literature for researchers in this area. This review focuses on evaluating how miRNA-seq has been used to study neuropsychiatric diseases to date, analyzing both the main findings discovered and the bioinformatics workflows and tools used from a methodological perspective. The objective of this review is two-fold: first, to evaluate current miRNA-seq procedures used in neuropsychiatry; and second, to offer comprehensive information that can serve as a guide to new researchers in bioinformatics. After conducting a systematic search (from 2016 to June 30, 2020) of articles using miRNA-seq in neuropsychiatry, we have seen that it has already been used for different types of studies in three main categories: diagnosis, prognosis, and mechanism. We carefully analyzed the bioinformatics workflows of each study, observing a high degree of variability with respect to the tools and methods used and several methodological complexities that are identified and discussed in this reviewInstituto de Salud Carlos III | Ref. PI18/01311Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad | Ref. RYC2014-15246Xunta de Galicia | Ref. ED431C2018/55-GR

Laboratory and telescope demonstration of the TP3-WFS for the adaptive optics segment of AOLI

AOLI (Adaptive Optics Lucky Imager) is a state-of-art instrument that combines adaptive optics (AO) and lucky imaging (LI) with the objective of obtaining diffraction limited images in visible wavelength at mid- and big-size ground-based telescopes. The key innovation of AOLI is the development and use of the new TP3-WFS (Two Pupil Plane PositionsWavefront Sensor). The TP3-WFS, working in visible band, represents an advance over classical wavefront sensors such as the Shack-Hartmann WFS (SH-WFS) because it can theoretically use fainter natural reference stars, which would ultimately provide better sky coverages to AO instruments using this newer sensor. This paper describes the software, algorithms and procedures that enabled AOLI to become the first astronomical instrument performing real-time adaptive optics corrections in a telescope with this new type of WFS, including the first control-related results at the William Herschel Telescope (WHT)This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy under the projects AYA2011-29024, ESP2014-56869-C2-2-P, ESP2015-69020-C2-2-R and DPI2015-66458-C2-2-R, by project 15345/PI/10 from the Fundación Séneca, by the Spanish Ministry of Education under the grant FPU12/05573, by project ST/K002368/1 from the Science and Technology Facilities Council and by ERDF funds from the European Commission. The results presented in this paper are based on observations made with the William Herschel Telescope operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. Special thanks go to Lara Monteagudo and Marcos Pellejero for their timely contributions