Desarrollo de las comunidades virtuales en el ámbito de la violencia de género

En los países democráticos y con un Estado de derecho, éste debe proteger y garantizar, entre otras cosas, la vida de sus ciudadanas y ciudadanos. Por ello, la lucha contra la violencia de género se ha convertido en uno de los principales ejes sociales de actuación en los últimos años en España. Muchos pasos se han dado en búsqueda de soluciones, instrumentos y recursos para erradicar esta lacra. Sin embargo, y a pesar de la acción continua del Estado en pro de erradicarla, seguimos enfrentándonos al problema. Este trabajo muestra los avances en el Proyecto FENIX, en el cual participamos profesores de la Universidad de Sevilla, una Abogada y la empresa Flowers in the Space. Dicho proyecto se centra en la búsqueda de nuevas soluciones, basadas en las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC), para la asistencia integral de mujeres víctimas de violencia de género. Uno de los aspectos que trata es la implantación, desarrollo y mantenimiento de una comunidad virtual de mujeres víctimas de violencia de género, empleando la tecnología Web 2.0, y el posterior análisis de su aceptación tecnológica. Actualmente nos encontramos en la fase de identificación del contenido de dicha comunidad virtual a través de la técnica de elaboración de los mapas conceptuale

El análisis de las políticas de igualdad en la Administración Pública

El logro de la igualdad real entre mujeres y hombres es una demanda de la sociedad. El nuevo marco normativo favorece e impulsa las actuaciones a favor de la presencia equilibrada de mujeres y hombres en todos los ámbitos y contra la discriminación en las instituciones. La baja representación de mujeres en los ámbitos de la ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología ha motivado que cada vez más se desarrollen políticas gubernamentales orientadas a aumentar el potencial humano que representa la mujer para poder mejorar la competitividad en un mundo globalizado. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las políticas existentes, tanto a nivel nacional como a nivel europeo e internacional, que promueven el acceso equitativo a órganos directivos, con especial énfasis en las Administraciones Públicas, de manera que dicho análisis sirva de base para diseñar posteriormente un marco de referencia metodológico que permita abordar el diseño de políticas que promuevan el acceso equitativo a sus órganos de gobierno

A Case-Control Study of Cognitive Function in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease Before and After Hemodialysis in Southern Spain

BACKGROUND: This single-center study aimed to investigate the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on modulation of thyroid hormone levels and cognition in the recovery stage of patients with cognitive dysfunction following stroke. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Seventy post-stroke patients who had cognitive impairment were randomly assigned to either the rTMS group or the control (sham) group. Both groups were administered basic treatment, with the rTMS group receiving rTMS (1 Hz, 90% MT, 1000 pulse/20 min, once a day for 5 days, for a total of 20 times), the stimulation site was the contralateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and the sham group receiving sham stimulation which had the same stimulation parameters and site, except that the coil plane was placed perpendicular to the surface of the scalp. Cognitive function assessment and thyroid function tests were performed before and after 4 weeks of treatment. RESULTS: Serum levels of triiodothyronine (T3), free triiodothyronine (FT3), and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) showed a positive correlation with Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) scale score of stroke patients in the recovery phase. The post-treatment change in the scores of MoCA and Modified Barthel Index (MBI) and scores of 3 cognitive domains (visuospatial function, memory, and attention), as well as serum T3, FT3, and TSH levels, were improved more significantly in the rTMS group, and T3 and FT3 levels significantly affected the MoCA scores within the reference range. CONCLUSIONS: Serum T3, FT3, and TSH levels of stroke patients in the recovery phase were positively correlated with MoCA score. rTMS increased T3, FT3, and TSH levels and also improved MoCA and MBI of patients in the recovery phase of stroke

Influence of bird faeces in the behaviour of the root rot of Quercus suber caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi at Doñana Biological Reserve (SW Spain)

2 pages, 1 reference. Presentado a The Sixth Meeting of the IUFRO Working Party 7‐02‐09, celebrado en Córdoba (España) del 9-14 de septiembre de 2012. Enlazamos con http://hdl.handle.net/10261/57038; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/57047Centennial cork oaks are considered keystone structures in the ecosystem of the stabilised sands of the Doñana Biological Reserve. These remnant big trees are currently threatened by nesting of colonial waterbirds, whose debris induced deep soil chemical changes.Peer reviewe

Systematic influences on the areas of peaks in gamma-ray spectra that have a large statistical uncertainty

A method is presented for calculating the expected number of counts in peaks that have a large relative peak-area uncertainty and appear in measured gamma-ray spectra. The method was applied to calculations of the correction factors for peaks occurring in the spectra of radon daughters. It was shown that the factors used for correcting the calculated peak areas to their expected values decrease with an increasing relative peak-area uncertainty. The accuracy of taking the systematic influence inducing the correction factors into account is given by the dispersion of the correction factors corresponding to specific peaks. It was shown that the highest accuracy is obtained in the peak analyses with the GammaVision and Gamma-W software.Postprint (author's final draft

AER Building Blocks for Multi-Layer Multi-Chip Neuromorphic Vision Systems

A 5-layer neuromorphic vision processor whose components communicate spike events asychronously using the address-eventrepresentation (AER) is demonstrated. The system includes a retina chip, two convolution chips, a 2D winner-take-all chip, a delay line chip, a learning classifier chip, and a set of PCBs for computer interfacing and address space remappings. The components use a mixture of analog and digital computation and will learn to classify trajectories of a moving object. A complete experimental setup and measurements results are shown.Unión Europea IST-2001-34124 (CAVIAR)Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TIC-2003-08164-C0

Automated detection of microaneurysms by using region growing and fuzzy artmap neural network

Objective: To assess whether the methodological changes of this new algorithm improves the results of a previously presented strategy. Methods: We enhance the image and filter out the green channel of the digital color retinog- raphy. Multitolerance thresholding was applied to obtain candidate points and make a seed growing region by varying intensities. We took 15 characteristics from each region to train a fuzzy Artmap neural network using 42 retinal photographs. This network was then applied in the study of 11 good quality retinal photographs included in the diabetic retinopathy early detection screening program, with initial stages of retinopathy, obtained with the Topcon NW200 non-mydriatic retinal camera. Results: Two experienced ophthalmologists detected 52 microaneurysms in 11 images. The algorithm detected 39 microaneurysms and 3752 more regions, confirming 38 microa- neurysm and 135 false positives. The sensitivity is improved compared to the previous algorithm, from 60.53% to 73.08%. False positives have dropped from 41.8 to 12.27 per image. Conclusions: The new algorithm is better than the previous one, but there is still room for improvement, especially in the initial determination of seed

Implementation experience of a patient monitoring solution based on end-to-end standards

Proceeding of: 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Cité Internationale, Lyon, France, August 23-26, 2007.This paper presents a proof-of-concept design of a patient monitoring solution for Intensive Care Unit (ICU). It is end-to-end standards-based, using ISO/IEEE 11073 (X73) in the bedside environment and EN13606 to communicate the information to an Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) server. At the bedside end a plug-and-play sensor network is implemented, which communicates with a gateway that collects the medical information and sends it to a monitoring server. At this point the server transforms the data frame into an EN13606 extract, to be stored on the EHR server. The presented system has been tested in a laboratory environment to demonstrate the feasibility of this end-to-end standardsbased solution.This research work has been partially supported by projects TSI2005-07068-C02-01 and TSI2004-04940-C02-01 from Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spanish Government), and a personal grant to both M.Galarraga and M. Martínez-Espronceda from Navarre Regional Government

Results on main elasmobranch species captured in the bottom trawl surveys on the Northern Spanish Shelf

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Proposal of an ISO/IEEE11073 platform for healthcare telemonitoring: plug-and-play solution with new use cases

Proceeding of: 29th Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, (EMBS 2007), Lyon, France, 23-26th august 2007.Remote patient monitoring in e-Health is everyday closer to be a mature technology / service. However, there is still a lack of development in areas such as standardization of the sensor’s communication interface, integration into Electronic Healthcare Record systems or incorporation in ambient-intelligent scenarios. This work identifies a set of use cases involved in the personal monitoring scenario and highlights the related features and functionalities, as well as the integration and implementation difficulties found when these are to be implemented in a system based on the ISO/IEEE11073 (X73) standard. It is part of a cooperative research effort devoted to the development of an end-to-end standards-based telemonitoring solution. Standardization committees are working towards adapting the X73 standard to this emerging personal health devices market and use case identification is essential to direct these revisions.This research work has been partially supported by projects TSI2005-07068-C02-01 and TSI2004-04940-C02-01 from Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spanish Government), and a personal grant to both M.Galarraga and M. Martinez-Espronceda from Navarre Regional Governmen