Beyond the Screen, Beyond the Story: The Rhetorical Battery of Post-Classical films

This paper attempts to make a classification of some of the narrative and stylistic resources of the post-classical cinema in the age of the global screen through a minimal description of a battery of rhetorical resources present in some of the most relevant post classical films from the 90s. Specially, we focus on two main axis: the multi-screen cohabitation in the mise-en-scène and the increasing radicalization of complex narration

Unreliable Narrators for Troubled Times: The Menacing “Digitalisation of Subjectivity” in Black Mirror

This article offers an examination of the television series Black Mirror (2011-) using a theoretical framework for studying post-classical narrative complexity. Its basic proposition is that narrative fracturing and misleading points of view are used in Black Mirror to offer a critique of the excessive confidence in digital technology and social networks as regulators of human subjectivity. While a mission historically attributed to science fiction is the exploration of a particular contemporary issue by expressing it in fiction form, Black Mirror offers an innovative twist on this objective by incorporating the narrative complexity of the mind-game film through the perspective of distorted subjectivities. In nearly every episode, the conflict that arises highlights the dangers inherent to the naturalisation of technological devices that virtually become appendages of the human body. Most episodes explore the negative consequences of the unrestrained use of new technologies to control memories, regulate personal relationships or reduce all human experience to data. The absence of any debate questioning their value results in a completely alienated society that feeds on the fictionalisation of politics and private life, in which individuals are incapable of distinguishing between reality and fiction, or even between what is happening outside and inside their own minds

Minorías y medios de comunicación: código deontológico

Editores: Fernando M. Mariño Menéndez y Carlos R. Fernández LiesaContiene: Prólogo / Fernando M. Mariño Menéndez. -- Código deontológico de trato a las minorías en los medios de comunicación. -- Los códigos de conducta y el tratamiento a las minorías en los medios / Antonio Petit Caro. -- Códigos de conducta y trato a las minorías en los medios de comunicación / José A. Sorolla. -- Tratamiento de las minorías en los informativos de TV / Vicente Romero. -- Las minorías y los medios de comunicación: régimen jurídico y propuestas para la elaboración de un código deontológico / Carlos R. Fernández Liesa

Infecciones urinarias y embarazo

Treball de Final de Grau en Medicina. Codi: MD1158. Curs acadèmic 2016-2017Las infecciones del tracto urinario (ITU) constituyen una de las patologías más comunes entre las mujeres embarazas, afectando hasta al 10% de las gestaciones. Existen tres tipos clínicos de ITU: bacteriuria asintomática (BA), cistitis y pielonefritis. Debido a que pueden dar lugar a complicaciones maternas y fetales, todas las infecciones del tracto urinario durante el embarazo (incluyendo la bacteriuria asintomática) requieren tratamiento y seguimiento; lo cual reduce en gran medida dichas complicaciones. Por tanto, se hace necesario un adecuado manejo de estas patologías. El presente Trabajo de Final de Grado ha consistido en la realización de un protocolo asistencial para el servicio de Ginecología y Obstetricia del Hospital Universitario de La Plana. Dicho protocolo tiene el objetivo de estandarizar un adecuado manejo de las infecciones urinarias en mujeres embarazadas cuya área de salud sea la de este hospital. Para ello, se realizó una búsqueda sistemática de la evidencia científica actual sobre el tema, para después aplicarla a nuestro sistema y departamento de salud. En dicho protocolo se trata el cribado de bacteriuria asintomática a toda gestante, así como también los criterios diagnósticos, tratamiento y seguimiento de cada tipo de infección del tracto urinario durante el embarazo (bacteriuria asintomática, cistitis y pielonefritis). También se ha generado una versión reducida del protocolo, para su uso clínico en el día a día.Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common pathologies during pregnancy, affecting up to 10% of pregnant women. There are three clinical types of UTI: asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB), cystitis, and pyelonephritis. It’s because they may lead to maternal and fetal complications that all UTIs during pregnancy, including the asymptomatic infection, require treatment and follow up, which greatly reduces these complications. Therefore, an adequate management of these pathologies is necessary. The present work has consisted in the realization of an assistance protocol for the Gynecology and Obstetrics service of the University Hospital La Plana. This protocol has the objective of standardizing an adequate management of urinary tract infections in pregnant women whose health area is that of this hospital. For this, a systematic research of the current scientific evidence on the subject was carried out, and then applied to our system and health department. This protocol treats the screening of asymptomatic bacteriuria to all pregnant women, as well as the diagnostic criteria, treatment and follow-up of each type of urinary tract infection. A reduced version of the protocol has also been generated for day-to-day clinical use

Clinical Risk Prediction in Patients With Left Ventricular Myocardial Noncompaction

Left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is a heterogeneous entity with uncertain prognosis. This study sought to develop and validate a prediction model of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and to identify LVNC cases without events during long-term follow-up. This is a retrospective longitudinal multicenter cohort study of consecutive patients fulfilling LVNC criteria by echocardiography or cardiovascular magnetic resonance. MACE were defined as heart failure (HF), ventricular arrhythmias (VAs), systemic embolisms, or all-cause mortality. A total of 585 patients were included (45 ± 20 years of age, 57% male). LV ejection fraction (LVEF) was 48% ± 17%, and 18% presented late gadolinium enhancement (LGE). After a median follow-up of 5.1 years, MACE occurred in 223 (38%) patients: HF in 110 (19%), VAs in 87 (15%), systemic embolisms in 18 (3%), and 34 (6%) died. LVEF was the main variable independently associated with MACE (P 35% (P < 0.05). A prediction model of MACE was developed using Cox regression, composed by age, sex, electrocardiography, cardiovascular risk factors, LVEF, and family aggregation. C-index was 0.72 (95% confidence interval: 0.67-0.75) in the derivation cohort and 0.72 (95% confidence interval: 0.71-0.73) in an external validation cohort. Patients with no electrocardiogram abnormalities, LVEF ≥50%, no LGE, and negative family screening presented no MACE at follow-up. LVNC is associated with an increased risk of heart failure and ventricular arrhythmias. LVEF is the variable most strongly associated with MACE; however, LGE confers additional risk in patients without severe systolic dysfunction. A risk prediction model is developed and validated to guide management.The project was partially funded by a grant from the Catalan Society of Cardiology (Barcelona, Spain). Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca (Murcia, Spain) was supported by a grant from the Foundation Marató TV3 (218/C/2015) (Barcelona, Spain). Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe (Valencia, Spain) was partially supported by Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (“Unión Europea, Una forma de hacer Europa”) (Madrid, Spain) and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (La Fe Biobank PT17/0015/ 0043) (Madrid, Spain). Dr Guala was supported by funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (IJC2018-037349-I) (Madrid, Spain). Dr La Mura was supported by a research grant from the Cardiopath PhD program (Naples, Italy). Prof de la Pompa was supported by grants PID2019-104776RB-I00 and CB16/11/00399 (CIBER CV) from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Dr Bayes-Genis was supported by grants from CIBER Cardiovascular (CB16/11/00403 and 16/11/00420) (Madrid, Spain) and AdvanceCat 2014-2020 (Barcelona, Spain); and has received advisory board and lecture fees from Novartis, Boehringer Ingelheim, Vifor, Roche Diagnostics, and Critical Diagnostics. Dr Pontone has received speaker honorarium and/or institutional research grants from GE Healthcare, Bracco, Boehringer Ingelheim, and HeartFlow. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.S