La Escuela Nueva en Imágenes: Fotografía y Propaganda en The New Era (1920-1939)

 In this article we analyse the propaganda work done by the journal The New Era for divulgating and popularising the progressive education movement. The review started in 1920, so it was the first in transmitting the ideas of this movement, and also the first English language journal that became the channel of expression of the New Education Fellowship, for divulgating the innovative ideals in the Anglo-saxon countries.We have studied the propaganda work from the images that the journal has published between 1920 and 1939. As a research method we have chosen a combination of content analysis and a grounded theory approach. We have identified a list of categories that are connected with the characteristics of new or progressive education. We have considered as starting point that all the ideals and school practices made more visible by the journal, i.e., the ones that were shown in many images, were those used for building a public image of the New Education.We have organized the visual discourse built by The New Era around six ideas: coeducation, activity, freedom, nature, child-centered, and individualization versus socialization. We have quantified the number of images that were published in connexion with everyone of these ideas, making comparisons between spaces and times. The quantitative analysis has allowed us to explain general patterns and exceptional features. Finally, we present the most remarkable characteristics of the iconographical discourse about the New Education that was built and propagated by The New Era.En este artículo se aborda la labor de propaganda sobre el movimiento de la EscuelaNuevaque realizó The New Era, la revista en lengua inglesa que fue pionera, pues comenzó a publicarse en 1920, y también la primera que se erigió en órgano de expresión de la New Education Fellowship, la organización que aglutinó a los educadores de todo el mundo que compartían las ideas innovadoras del movimiento.Esta labor de propaganda se ha estudiado a partir de las imágenes que la revista publicó entre 1920 y 1939. Através de una metodología que combina el análisis de contenido y la grounded theory identificamos una serie de categorías que relacionamos con los grandes ideales dela Escuela Nueva. Consideramos, como punto de partida, que aquellas ideas y prácticas escolares que la revista visibilizó más —es decir, de las que publicó más imágenes— fueron aquellas con las que pretendía construir en la opinión pública un imaginario dela Escuela Nueva.Las seis ideas en torno a las que hemos organizado el discurso visual construido por esta revista son: coeducación, actividad, libertad, contacto con la naturaleza, paidocentrismo, e individualización vs socialización. De cada una de ellas hemos cuantificado el número de imágenes que se publicaron, diferenciadas por países y por períodos temporales. A partir del análisis cuantitativo, hemos tratado de explicar las pautas generales y los rasgos excepcionales, para concluir presentando las características más destacables del discurso iconográfico sobre la Nueva Educación que construyó y divulgó The New Era

Smart material based on boron crosslinked polymers with potential applications in cancer radiation therapy

Organoboron compounds have been playing an increasingly important role in analytical chemistry, material science, health applications, and particularly as functional polymers like boron carriers for cancer therapy. There are two main applications of boron isotopes in radiation cancer therapy, Boron Neutron Capture Therapy and Proton Boron Fusion Therapy. In this study, a novel and original material consisting of a three-dimensional polymer network crosslinked with 10B enriched boric acid molecules is proposed and synthesized. The effects of the exposition to thermal neutrons were studied analyzing changes in the mechanical properties of the proposed material. Dedicated Monte Carlo simulations, based on MCNP and FLUKA main codes, were performed to characterize interactions of the proposed material with neutrons, photons, and charged particles typically present in mixed fields in nuclear reactor irradiations. Experimental results and Monte Carlo simulations were in agreement, thus justifying further studies of this promising material.Fil: Vedelago, José Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación; Laboratorio de Investigación e Instrumentación en Física Aplicada a la Medicina e Imágenes por Rayos X ; Argentina. German Cancer Research Center; AlemaniaFil: Mattea, Facundo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación; Laboratorio de Investigación e Instrumentación en Física Aplicada a la Medicina e Imágenes por Rayos X; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Departamento de Química Orgánica; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ingeniería de Procesos y Química Aplicada. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ingeniería de Procesos y Química Aplicada; ArgentinaFil: Triviño, Juan Sebastián. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación; Laboratorio de Investigación e Instrumentación en Física Aplicada a la Medicina e Imágenes por Rayos X; Argentina. Centro de Medicina Nuclear y Radioterapia Patagonia Austral ; ArgentinaFil: Montesinos, Maria del Mar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; ArgentinaFil: Keil, Walter Miguel. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; ArgentinaFil: Valente, Mauro Andres. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación; Laboratorio de Investigación e Instrumentación en Física Aplicada a la Medicina e Imágenes por Rayos X; Argentina. Departamento de Ciencias Físicas, Centro de Física e Ingeniería en Medicina (CFIM); ChileFil: Romero, Marcelo Ricardo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación; Laboratorio de Investigación e Instrumentación en Física Aplicada a la Medicina e Imágenes por Rayos X; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Departamento de Química Orgánica; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ingeniería de Procesos y Química Aplicada. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ingeniería de Procesos y Química Aplicada; Argentin

Innovation projects associated to the competence of innovation, creativity and entrepeneurship in the Universitat Politècnica de València

[EN] This paper describes the Innovation and educational improvement project developed in the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, oriented to the competence of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. These projects have been developed by a team of lecturers from different fields of knowledge. The first project was related to the definition of rubrics for the evaluation of the competence of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, and the second one oriented to the definition of learning objects for this competence. Learning outcomes were identified in the first project and a rubric was designed to measure the level of mastery of these learning outcomes for bachelor degree and master. Once defined the results that must be achieved, in the second project, was conducted the review of the learning objects as the means through which the learning outcomes can be achieved. Identifying the definition, classification, metadatas, repositories and methodologies associated with them were proposed. In the current project, the objective is the design of activities to accompaniment the learning objects, which will be developed in the classroom with the purpose of promoting the acquisition of the learning outcomes associated with the competence under review. This aspect is widely demanded by the teachers, which do not have proposals to develop in their subjects. The project will be applied and validated on two subjects of the school of computer science engineering and two subject of the school of Industrial Engineering in the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia.This research has been carried out under the project of innovation and educational improvement (PIME/A15) 'DAICE – Design of activities for the Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship Competence’ funded by the Universitat Politècnica de València, the School of Computer Science and the School of Industrial Engineering.Alemany Díaz, MDM.; Cuenca, L.; Boza, A.; Fernández-Diego, M.; Ruiz Font, L.; Alarcón Valero, F.; Gordo Monzó, ML. (2016). Innovation projects associated to the competence of innovation, creativity and entrepeneurship in the Universitat Politècnica de València. INTED proceedings (Online). 2903-2907. doi:10.21125/inted.2016.1657S2903290

Extension of the 6-3-5 technique for incorporating creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship competences in higher education

[EN] This article present the extended technique 6-3-5 for generating ideas. It has been called extended because it has been expanded to include issues related to innovation and entrepreneurship. In that way it can be applied to learning transversal competence of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. This competence correspond to one of the transversal competences identified by the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia.This research has been carried out under the project of innovation and educational improvement (PIME/A15) 'DAICE – Design of activities for the Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship Competence’ funded by the Universitat Politècnica de València, the School of Computer Science and the School of Industrial Engineering.Cuenca, L.; Boza, A.; Gordo Monzó, ML.; Fernández-Diego, M.; Ruiz Font, L.; Alarcón Valero, F.; Alemany Díaz, MDM. (2016). Extension of the 6-3-5 technique for incorporating creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship competences in higher education. ICERI Proceedings. 79-83. doi:10.21125/iceri.2016.1015S798

LEARNING OBJECT. DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION

[EN] The current trend in higher education includes competencies in the curricula. This integration can be done through the competency-based learning. The competence is acquired through various learning objects to be achieved. In this paper different dimensions to define a learning object (LO) and different classifications associated to them have been proposed. An analysis and synthesis of the results obtained have been presented.Alarcón Valero, F.; Alemany Díaz, MDM.; Boza, A.; Cuenca, L.; Gordo Monzó, ML.; Fernández-Diego, M.; Ruiz Font, L. (2015). LEARNING OBJECT. DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION. EDULEARN Proceedings (Internet). 4479-4488. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/95287S4479448

Innovation project to validate and select items for assessing transversal competencies in higher education

[EN] The educational improvement innovation project is focused on determining how to evaluate any competence and which are their main related items that should be used for that purpose. Currently, the selection of items is usually performed by groups of experts. However, two main problems related to this type of selection arise in this case: on the one hand, the selection resulting from different groups of experts may be not the same or similar enough, since it is based on the experience and knowledge of each member. On the other hand, the coefficients or weights a priori assigned to each item on any competence invalidate any a posteriori analysis on its statistical significance and the "real" weight on this competence. To mitigate the above drawbacks, this work presents a methodology able to select, from an objective point of view, the items related to a specific competence, from a set of potentially related ones; furthermore the weights associated to the items are determined. This is carried out by applying a multivariate statistical projection method such as Partial Least Squares (PLS), embedded in a cross-validation process. The paper presents how to preprocess the data, analyze it and obtain the items and their weights to be used for the evaluation of a specific competence.Prats-Montalbán, JM.; Alarcón Valero, F.; Alemany Díaz, MDM.; Boza, A.; Gordo Monzó, ML.; Fernández-Diego, M.; Ruiz Font, L.... (2016). Innovation project to validate and select items for assessing transversal competencies in higher education. ICERI Proceedings. 61-68. doi:10.21125/iceri.2016.1012S616

Evaluación de la efectividad y seguridad de la electroquimioterapia para el tratamiento de tumores: Revisión Sistemática y Meta-análisis.

El objetivo de esta revision es analizar la evidencia cientifica existente sobre la efectividad y seguridad de la EQT para el tratamiento de lesiones tumorales y valorar el previsible impacto de su uso

Implementación de actividades de aprendizaje y evaluación para el desarrollo de competencias genéricas: un caso práctico de aplicación de técnicas de Pensamiento de Diseño, y evaluación mediante rúbricas, de las competencias de Creatividad, Innovación y Emprendimiento

[EN] The research evidence that there are teaching practices that encourage greater student participation, resulting in a motivating work that encourages creative and innovative thinking, which enhances their autonomy and facilitate cross learning and professional skills. Over the past year they have been incorporated techniques of design thinking, visual thinking and playful thought to the process of teaching and learning of specific contents of the subject Business Models and Functional Areas of the 4th year of Degree in Computer Engineering, with the aim of enhancing creative and innovative thinking of students. In this work the experience of educational innovation occurs.[ES] La investigación evidencia que existen prácticas docentes que estimulan una mayor participación de los estudiantes, dando lugar a un trabajo motivador que estimula el pensamiento creativo e innovador, que potencia su autonomía y facilite el aprendizaje de competencias transversales y profesionales.Durante los últimos curso se han incorporado técnicas de pensamiento de diseño, pensamiento visual y pensamiento lúdico al proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de determinados contenidos de la asignatura Modelos de Negocio y Areas Funcionales de 4º curso de Grado en Ingenieria Informática, con el objetivo de potenciar el pensamiento creativo e innovador de los estudiantes. En este trabajo se presenta dicha experiencia de innovación educativa.Ruiz Font, L.; Gordo Monzó, ML.; Fernández Diego, M.; Boza, A.; Cuenca, L.; Alarcón Valero, F.; Alemany Díaz, MDM. (2015). Implementación de actividades de aprendizaje y evaluación para el desarrollo de competencias genéricas: un caso práctico de aplicación de técnicas de Pensamiento de Diseño, y evaluación mediante rúbricas, de las competencias de Creatividad, Innovación y Emprendimiento. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/INRED2015.2015.1639

Functional toll-like receptor 4 overexpression in papillary thyroid cancer by MAPK/ERK-induced ETS1 transcriptional activity

Emerging evidence suggests that unregulated Toll-like receptors (TLRs) signaling promotes tumor survival signals, thus favoring tumor progression. Here, the mechanism underlying TLR4 overexpression in papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTCs) mainly harboring the BRAFV600E mutation was studied. TLR4 was over expressed in PTCs compared to non-neoplastic thyroid tissue. Moreover, paired clinical specimens of primary PTC and its lymph node metastasis showed a significant up regulation of TLR4 levels in the metastatic tissues. In agreement, conditional BRAFV600E expression in normal rat thyroid cells and mouse thyroid tissue up regulated TLR4 expression levels. Furthermore, functional TLR4 expression was demonstrated in PTC cells by increased NF-κB transcriptional activity in response to the exogenous TLR4-agonist lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Of note, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data analysis revealed that BRAFV600E-positive tumors with high TLR4 expression were associated with shorter disease-free survival. Transcriptomic data analysis indicated a positive correlation between TLR4 expression levels and MAPK/ERK signaling activation. Consistently, chemical blockade of MAPK/ERK signaling abrogated BRAFV600E-induced TLR4 expression. A detailed study of the TLR4 promoter revealed a critical MAPK/ERK-sensitive Ets binding-site involved in BRAFV600E responsiveness. Subsequent investigation revealed that the Ets-binding factor ETS1 is critical for BRAFV600E-induced MAPK/ERK signaling-dependent TLR4 gene expression. Together, these data indicate that functional TLR4 over expression in PTCs is a consequence of thyroid tumor-oncogenic driver dysregulation of MAPK/ERK/ETS1 signaling.Fil: Peyret, Victoria. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba; ArgentinaFil: Nazar, Magalí. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; ArgentinaFil: Martín, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba; ArgentinaFil: Quintar, Amado Alfredo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud; ArgentinaFil: Fernandez, Elmer Andres. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba; Argentina. Area de Ciencias Agrarias, Ingeniería, Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud de la Universidad Católica de Córdoba; ArgentinaFil: Geysels, Romina Celeste. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; ArgentinaFil: Fuziwara, Cesar. Universidade de Sao Paulo; BrasilFil: Montesinos, Maria del Mar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; ArgentinaFil: Maldonado, Cristina Alicia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud; ArgentinaFil: Santisteban, Pilar. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Cáncer; EspañaFil: Kimura, Edna T.. Universidade de Sao Paulo; BrasilFil: Pellizas, Claudia Gabriela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; ArgentinaFil: Nicola, Juan Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; ArgentinaFil: Masini, Ana María. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; Argentin

Rubric to Assess the Competence OF Innovatoon, Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Bachelor Degree

[EN] Innovation has a special value for the survival and development of organizations, especially in a changing context. To develop the innovation, creativity and entrepreneur-ship capacities in students enhances their skills. A competency describes what training participants should be able to do at the end of the training. The competence is acquired through various learning outcomes to be achieved. Competition in innovation is closely related to the ability to propose and implement creative ideas to solve problems, ability to create and maintain connections work, etc. In this article is presented a method for measuring the competence of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship in bachelor degree by introducing different levels of scope.The research has been conducted within the framework of the project for educational improvement (PIME/2013/A/016/B) 'RECICRE - Rubric for evaluating competence of innovation and the (A21/14) OAICE project (learning objects for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship Competence).Cuenca, L.; Alarcón Valero, F.; Boza, A.; Fernández Diego, M.; Ruiz Font, L.; Gordo Monzó, ML.; Poler Escoto, R.... (2016). Rubric to Assess the Competence OF Innovatoon, Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Bachelor Degree. Brazilian Journal of Operations and Production Management. 13(1):118-123. https://doi.org/10.14488/BJOPM.2016.v13.n1.a14S11812313