The supossed vanishing of the body: Political identities, suspicions and variations in the LGBTI+ videogames

En el cruce entre la filosofía, la sociología y los estudios culturales, así como desde una perspectiva LGBTI+, en este artículo se aborda primero la problemática de los cuerpos desde un enfoque filosófico para situarla en la política y en la historia como herramienta de conocimiento. Para después considerar cómo se desarrolla esta problemática en los espacios virtuales, en concreto en tres videojuegos (dos de ellos explícitamente LGBTI+), relacionando la representación de los cuerpos virtuales con la configuración de identidades LGBTI+Crossing Philosophy, Sociology and Cultural Studies, and using a LGTBI+ political approach, in this article we deal with the problematic of the bodies from a philosophical approach to place them in the historical and political field as tools of knowledge. Afterwards, it’ll be considered how to tackle those issues in the virtual space, primarily in three videogames (two of them specifically LGTBI+), and linking the representation of the virtual bodies towards the configuration of LGTBI+ identitie

Conquistas vecinales y transformación de las relaciones de poder en el maestrazgo de Alcántara: el concejo de Valencia (1317-1353)

Using Valencia de Alcántara as a case study, this article analyzes the dynamics of municipal social protest and changes in the jurisdictional model which took place in the estates of the Order of Alcántara during the first half of the fourteenth century. We also include the transcription of eleven unpublished documents emitted by the Order to the village of Valencia from 1317 to 1353.A partir del ejemplo de Valencia de Alcántara, analizamos el proceso de contestación vecinal y transformación del modelo jurisdiccional operado en el maestrazgo de Alcántara durante la primera mitad del siglo XIV. Adjuntamos al trabajo la transcripción de once diplomas inéditos concedidos por la Orden a la villa de Valencia entre 1317 y 1353

Worldwide Workshop on Youth Involvement as a Strategy for Social, Economic and Democratic Development

Summarizes January 2000 discussions on building capacity in the field of youth service. Explores connections with social capital, economic productivity, adolescent development, marginalized youth, civic engagement, and policy. Includes country summaries

¿Puede mejorar el rendimiento de la composición escrita el uso de determinadas estrategias?

Partiendo de un marco teórico que tiene como base principal el modelo de composición escrita compuesto por Flower y Hayes, hemos trabajado en el planteamiento y desarrollo de una serie de estrategias para optimizar el proceso de redacción de trabajos académicos (TFG y TFM). Dichas estrategias serán comprobadas gracias a la colaboración de un total de 36 alumnos de distintas titulaciones (Grado en Maestro en Educación Primaria, Infantil y Máster en Profesorado de Educación Secundaria) que nos permiten ponerlas en práctica y realizar un seguimiento continuo. Comprobaremos la eficacia del modelo que planteamos en una fase final de análisis de datos y evaluación del proceso, lo que nos servirá para responder a nuestra pregunta inicial planteada en el título. Este estudio constituye un paso fundamental hacia el establecimiento de un modelo de estrategias para la composición escrita en trabajos académicos con dos finalidades muy concretas: facilitar la costosa tarea que supone la escritura de trabajos para el alumnado y extrapolarlo al resto de facultades, pues supone una metodología que provee de estrategias generales de aplicación a cualquier campo epistémico

Autonomic stress response of nurse students in an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE)

The aim of the present research was to analyze the autonomic stress response of nursing students in a nursing Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE). We analyzed, in 41 s-year nursing degree students (20.1 ± 2.3 years), modifications in heart rate variability (HRV) to monitor the autonomic stress response before, during and after the 18 different scenarios of a complete OSCE. Heart rate mean response of nurse students was consistent with an anticipatory anxiety response at the beginning of the OSCE, showing a sympathetic nervous system activation, but HRV parameters show contradictory results. The most stressful OSCE station was the CPR maneuver, the stress response varying according to the station’s demands

Psychophysiological stress markers and behavioural differences between rural and city primary school students

Academic performance could be affected by multiple factors, including stress and learning environment location. The aim of this study was to analyze differences in psychophysiological stress markers, behavior and academic performance of rural and city students. A sample of 181 children (7.91 ± 2.29 years) from elementary schools were evaluated on their grades, subjective academic performance, heart rate variability, state anxiety, nutritional information and physical activity habits. Results presented significant higher values in parasympathetic modulation and physical education grades in rural students than in city students, who showed higher significant values in state anxiety, the ability to complete tasks, physical activity habits and several items relating to their food and drink habits. No significant differences were found in the average grades between the two groups. However, some correlations were found between school performance and stress, physical fitness and nutritional habits. Thus, school location may affect the stress and anxiety status, nutritional habits and physical activities of students, but there were no significant differences in academic performance. In addition, body mass index, quantity of food intake and stress markers may be related to the academic performance attained

Differences between students and professors in difficulty, stress and performance in a nursing Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

The aim of the present research was to analyze those elements could influence on the learning process of the students, and the evaluation process of professors, during the development of clinical practices. For that, we analyze differences on the perception of difficulty, stress, and academic performance between students and teachers in a nursing Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). We analyze the different perceptions in 41 s-year nursing degree students (20.1 ± 2.3 years; 29 females and 12 males) and 21 nursing degree professors (39.1 ± 4.2 years) of the different scenarios that compose the OSCE, that were: BP+EKG, venipuncture, CPR, nutritional assessment, respiratory assessment, mobilization, and interprofessional scenario. After the statistical analysis we found that professors presented higher difficulty perceptions of venopunction, cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and nutritional evaluation, as well as higher academic performance perception on all scenarios except nutritional evaluation than students. Students showed higher stress perceptions on venopunction, respiratory evaluation, mobility and interprofessional scenarios, as well as higher academic perception on nutritional evaluation than teachers. Professors presented higher difficulty and academic performance perceptions than students, and stress perception varies depending on the OSCE station between professors and students

Fatiga del sistema nervioso después de realizar un test de capacidad de sprints repetidos (RSA) en jugadores de fútbol de categoría juvenil

Introducción y objetivos Varios autores han estudiado la influencia del ejercicio sobre el sistema nervioso y el funcionamiento cognitivo en sujetos desentrenados y ante diferentes estímulos de ejercicio, desde ejercicios anaeróbicos intensos hasta el agotamiento a ejercicios de resistencia submáximos mediante los Umbrales Flicker Fusion (UFF), aunque el efecto de estímulos en pruebas de sprints repetidos en el sistema nervioso central (SNC) no está muy estudiado. El presente trabajo de investigación pretende estudiar los cambios en los umbrales Flicker Fusion antes y después de realizar una prueba de sprints repetidos (RSA) en futbolistas, como medio para valorar la fatiga del SNC

Use of principal states of polarization of a liquid crystal device to achieve a dynamical modulation of broadband beams

A spatially resolved polarization switcher operating over a bandwidth of 200 nm is demonstrated. The system is based on liquid crystal technology and no specific-purpose birefringent element is required. The procedure is founded on the polarization mode dispersion theory of optical fibers, which provides a convenient framework for the design of broadband polarization systems. Our device benefits from the high resolution of off-the-shelf twisted nematic liquid crystal displays and is well suited for spatial modulation of the intensity of broadband beams, such as those coming from few-cycle femtosecond laser

Classical Tensors and Quantum Entanglement I: Pure States

The geometrical description of a Hilbert space asociated with a quantum system considers a Hermitian tensor to describe the scalar inner product of vectors which are now described by vector fields. The real part of this tensor represents a flat Riemannian metric tensor while the imaginary part represents a symplectic two-form. The immersion of classical manifolds in the complex projective space associated with the Hilbert space allows to pull-back tensor fields related to previous ones, via the immersion map. This makes available, on these selected manifolds of states, methods of usual Riemannian and symplectic geometry. Here we consider these pulled-back tensor fields when the immersed submanifold contains separable states or entangled states. Geometrical tensors are shown to encode some properties of these states. These results are not unrelated with criteria already available in the literature. We explicitly deal with some of these relations.Comment: 16 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Int. J. Geom. Meth. Mod. Phy