Applications of the Internet of Medical Things to Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (DM1) is a condition of the metabolism typified by persistent hyperglycemia as a result of insufficient pancreatic insulin synthesis. This requires patients to be aware of their blood glucose level oscillations every day to deduce a pattern and anticipate future glycemia, and hence, decide the amount of insulin that must be exogenously injected to maintain glycemia within the target range. This approach often suffers from a relatively high imprecision, which can be dangerous. Nevertheless, current developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and innovative sensors for biological signals that might enable a continuous, complete assessment of the patient’s health provide a fresh viewpoint on treating DM1. With this, we observe that current biomonitoring devices and Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) units can easily obtain data that allow us to know at all times the state of glycemia and other variables that influence its oscillations. A complete review has been made of the variables that influence glycemia in a T1DM patient and that can be measured by the above means. The communications systems necessary to transfer the information collected to a more powerful computational environment, which can adequately handle the amounts of data collected, have also been described. From this point, intelligent data analysis extracts knowledge from the data and allows predictions to be made in order to anticipate risk situations. With all of the above, it is necessary to build a holistic proposal that allows the complete and smart management of T1DM. This approach evaluates a potential shortage of such suggestions and the obstacles that future intelligent IoMT-DM1 management systems must surmount. Lastly, we provide an outline of a comprehensive IoMT-based proposal for DM1 management that aims to address the limits of prior studies while also using the disruptive technologies highlighted beforePartial funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málag

Assessing the Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Policy in Colombia

The focus of this paper is on the short-term macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy in Colombia in a structural vector autoregression context. Government spending shocks are found to have positive and significant effects on output, private consumption, employment, prices and short-term interest rates. The cumulative output multiplier fluctuates between 1.12 and 1.19 from the first to third year after the spending innovation. Shocks to direct taxation seem to be less efficient, because they mainly affect private investment, whereas shocks to indirect taxation do not seem to affect real activities significantly. From a policy perspective, our results support the smoothing role of fiscal policy on output fluctuations, which implies its capacity to restore real activity effectively in critical times like the ones currently being forecast. From a theoretical standpoint, the results are consistent with real business cycle and Keynesian models of both traditional partial equilibrium and new general equilibrium types.Fiscal policy, government spending, taxation, structural vector autoregression. Classification JEL: E62, H50, H20, C32

La importancia de la emoción en el aprendizaje

En este trabajo, se aborda la importancia de las emociones en la adquisición de conocimiento a partir de las últimas investigaciones llevadas a cabo al respecto en el campo de la neurociencia y la psicología. En este sentido, se analiza la influencia de los estados emocionales negativos y positivos en el aprendizaje, así como la importancia de la autorregulación emocional y la motivación en la adquisición de conocimiento. De esta manera, se propone la consideración de todas estas cuestiones en el proceso de elaboración de nuevas y más eficientes metodologías de enseñanza-aprendizaje en pos de una evolución y mejora de la práctica educativaIn this work, the importance of emotions in the acquisition of knowledge, based on the latest research carried out in neuroscience and psychology on that subject, is analyzed. In this sense, the influence of negative and positive emotional states in learning as well as the importance of emotional autoregulation and motivation in the acquisition of knowledge are studied. This way, the consideration of all these issues in the elaboration process of new and more efficient teaching-learning methodologies is proposed in order to improve the educational practic

Cp2TiCl/D2O/Mn, a formidable reagent for the deuteration of organic compounds

Cp2TiCl/D2O/Mn is an efficient combination, sustainable and cheap reagent that mediates the D-atom transfer from D2O to different functional groups and can contribute to the synthesis of new deuterated organic compounds under friendly experimental conditions and with great economic advantages.The Spanish MICINN (Project CTQ2015-70724-R)University of Sevill

Cp2TiCl/D2O/Mn, a formidable reagent for the deuteration of organic compounds

Cp2TiCl/D2O/Mn is an efficient combination, sustainable and cheap reagent that mediates the D-atom transfer from D2O to different functional groups and can contribute to the synthesis of new deuterated organic compounds under friendly experimental conditions and with great economic advantages.The Spanish MICINN (Project CTQ2015-70724-R)University of Sevill

¿Ventajas Absolutas o Comparativas en las Habilidades Laborales? Evidencia Para el Mercado del Trabajo Chileno a Partir de la Encuesta IALS

A recurrent topic in labor economics is that of the existence of comparative advantages derived from the heterogeneity of both workers and tasks. This paper overcomes the standard problem of insufficient data to test comparative advantages by employing thLabor market, comparative advantage, Chile

Oraciones introducidas por εἰ/ἤν en el "Corpus Hippocraticum"

This paper studies the εἰ sentences of the Corpus Hippocraticum in the perspective offered by the calculation of the different combinations of tenses and moods. The description of this feature lets us defi ne a characteristic style for treatises and lectures and trace the outline of its evolution from the Vth BC until the second and fi rst Century BC.Este trabajo aborda el estudio de las oraciones introducidas por εἰ en el Corpus Hippocraticum desde la perspectiva que ofrece el cómputo de las distintas combinaciones de tiempos y modos. Su descripción permite defi nir una característica estilística de los tratados y de las conferencias y trazar las grandes líneas de su evolución desde el siglo V a. C. hasta el siglo II-I a. C

Las familias Acanthaceae y Bignoniaceae en la flora ornamental de Sevilla

Acantáceas y Bignoniáceas son dos familias de Euastéridas incluidas en el orden Lamiales. La primera, está constituida por unas 4000 especies de hierbas perennes y, en menor medida, de plantas trepadoras y arbustos. Aunque cuenta con algunas especies que se distribuyen de forma silvestre por áreas templadas, la mayor parte de los géneros y especies son tropicales. Bignoniáceas cuenta con cerca de 800 especies de árboles, arbustos y plantas trepadoras perennes, se distribuyen por todos los trópicos del mundo y por áreas templadas americanas. En este trabajo experimental se ha llevado a cabo una revisión de las Acantáceas y Bignoniáceas presentes en la flora ornamental de la ciudad de Sevilla. En las Acantáceas, se han documentado seis especies (tres herbáceas perennes, dos arbustivas y una trepadora perenne) clasificadas en 5 géneros e incluidas en 2 subfamilias. De Bignoniáceas, se relacionan 11 especies (cuatro arbóreas, una arbustiva y seis trepadoras perennes) pertenecientes a 4 tribus. Para cada especie se han recolectado y prensado ejemplares en distintos lugares de la ciudad; los pliegos resultantes se han incluido en el Herbario del Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología de la Universidad de Sevilla (SEV). Con estos pliegos, además de con la visualización en vivo, se han realizado descripciones biométricas y morfológicas que han servido de base para la elaboración de claves dicotómicas de géneros y especies. Para cada especie se recoge, además de su denominación científica actualizada, sus nombres vernáculos, su origen geográfico, su adaptabilidad al clima de Sevilla (zonas de rusticidad), su abundancia en la ciudad y, por último, cuando se han encontrado datos, se ha recopilado información farmacológica y etnobotánica.Universidad de Sevilla. Grado en Farmaci