The State of Latino Health and Mental Health

The Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños/Hunter College and Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service collaborated on this report to review the health and mental health status of Latinos/as. This analysis integrates national and local statistics from published reports and scholarly articles. Based on the analysis of Hispanic health and mental health, the authors have generated a set of recommendations for policies targeting the health and mental health needs of Latinos/as and promoting their overall well-being. Aside from these specific recommendations, they call for more disaggregated data collection about Hispanic subgroups

Unraveling the interplay between iron homeostasis, ferroptosis and extramedullary hematopoiesis

Iron participates in myriad processes necessary to sustain life. During the past decades, great efforts have been made to understand iron regulation and function in health and disease. Indeed, iron is associated with both physiological (e.g., immune cell biology and function and hematopoiesis) and pathological (e.g., inflammatory and infectious diseases, ferroptosis and ferritinophagy) processes, yet few studies have addressed the potential functional link between iron, the aforementioned processes and extramedullary hematopoiesis, despite the obvious benefits that this could bring to clinical practice. Further investigation in this direction will shape the future development of individualized treatments for iron-linked diseases and chronic inflammatory disorders, including extramedullary hematopoiesis, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular diseases and cancer.Work in the authors laboratory is supported by: Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad/Agencia Estatal de Investigacion ´ 10.13039/501100011033 (PID2019-108977RB-I00 and PID2020- 113238RB-I00), Centro de Investigacion Biomédica en Red en Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CB16/11/00222), Consorcio de Investigacion en Red de la Comunidad de Madrid, S2017/BMD-3686 and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regiona

Costs of breeding are rapidly buffered and do not affect migratory behaviour in a long-lived bird species

Life history theory states that individual fitness in one stage of life is conditioned by what occurred in previous stages. In migratory species, reproductive effort during breeding has often been found to influence body condition, molt schedule, self‐provisioning and migration of individuals in subsequent seasons (i.e., carryover effects of breeding). However, there is a current uncertainty in understanding how long‐distance migrants trade off among such energy‐demanding activities (i.e., breeding, molting and migrating). To provide evidence to the field, we experimentally reduced the parental effort of a long‐lived Procellariform, the Cory's shearwater (Calonectris borealis), by inducing failure at the incubation stage. Treatment and control birds were tracked during their subsequent migration by means of light‐level and immersion loggers and sampled for six specific feathers (molted at different periods along the migratory cycle) upon the recovery of the loggers 1 yr later. Feathers were used to perform stable isotope analysis (SIA) and determine corticosterone levels (CORT). By these means, we evaluated the effect of breeding effort on migratory strategy, at‐sea activity patterns, molt patterns, and levels of stress experienced by birds along the non‐breeding period. We did not detect any difference between birds in the induced failure group and successful breeders in terms of spatio‐temporal distribution: all birds shared common foraging areas throughout the study period and the timing of major phenological events did not differ. Failed birds significantly advanced their molt, as revealed by SIA and flying activity patterns. The stress levels of failed birds, inferred through CORT concentrations in feathers, were found to be consistently lower than in successful breeders, through the end of the breeding to the non‐breeding period. Thus, we provide robust evidence that the costs of reproduction can be physiologically mediated from the breeding to the non‐breeding period through molting schedules and CORT levels. However, we failed to detect clear effects on migratory behavior or subsequent breeding success, suggesting that costs of breeding in long‐lived species may be rapidly buffered during the post‐breeding period, as would be expected from life history theory

Some contributions to the study of oenological lactic acid bacteria through their interaction with polyphenols

Probiotic features and the ability of two oenological lactic acid bacteria strains (Pediococcus pentosaceus CIAL‐86 and Lactobacillus plantarum CIAL‐121) and a reference probiotic strain (Lactobacillus plantarum CLC 17) to metabolize wine polyphenols are examined. After summarizing previous results regarding their resistance to lysozyme, gastric juice and bile salts, the three strains were assessed for their ability to release phenolic metabolites after their incubation with a wine phenolic extract. Neither of the two bacteria were able to metabolize wine polyphenols, at least in the conditions used in this study, although a certain stimulatory effect on bacterial growth was observed in the presence of a wine‐derived phenolic metabolite (i.e., 3,4‐dihydroxyphenylacetic acid) and a wine phenolic compound (i.e., (+) ‐catechin). Bacteria cell‐free supernatants from the three strains delayed and inhibited almost completely the growth of the pathogen E. coli CIAL‐153, probably due to the presence of organic acids derived from the bacterial metabolism of carbohydrates. Lastly, the three strains showed a high percentage of adhesion to intestinal cells, and pre‐incubation of Caco‐2 cells with bacteria strains prior to the addition of E. coli CIAL‐153 produced a notable inhibition of the adhesion of E. coli to the intestinal cells.The study was supported by the projects AGL2012-40172-C02-01 and AGL2015-64522-C2-1-R of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and ALIBIRD S2013/ABI-2728 of the Comunidad de Madrid, as well as COST Action POSITIVe FA1403. IG-S is the recipient of an FPU contract from the Spanish Ministry of Education. AE-F is the recipient of an FPI contract from the Spanish MINECO (Project AGL2012-40172-C02-01). We acknowledge support by the CSIC Open Access Publication Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI).We acknowledge the support of the publication fee by the CSIC Open Access Publication Support Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI)

Uso de la Teleterapia para el Tratamiento de los Trastornos de Ansiedad, TOC y TEPT, Durante la Pandemia por COVID-19 en España

La proporción de teletratamiento llevada a cabo por psicólogos durante la pandemia por COVID-19 para el TAG, fobia específica, agorafobia, ansiedad social, pánico, TOC y TEPT, así como si la experiencia en teleterapia tiene un efecto significativo en la demanda no han sido estudiadas. Los resultados indican que el TAG con un 69.2%, es el trastorno que más teletratamiento ha recibido y la fobia con un 60.5%, el que menos. El pánico, la ansiedad social, TEPT, TOC y agorafobia tuvieron una demanda media del 67.2%, 66.8%, 64.0%, 63.5% y 62.2%, respectivamente. La experiencia en teleterapia resultó significativa. El teletratamiento para psicólogos con experiencia aumentó una media del 93.9% respecto al 35.7% de aquellos sin experiencia. Un 22.8% de psicólogos no realizó teletramiento de la ansiedad. Estos resultados puede ser útiles para desarrollar programas específicos de prevención e intervención telemática para los trastornos de ansiedad ante futuras pandemias por coronavirus.2021-2

Evaluation of electromagnetic dosimetry of wireless systems in complex indoor scenarios with human body interaction

In this work, the influence of human body within the estimation of dosimetric values is analyzed. A simplified human body model, including the dispersive nature of material parameters of internal organs, skin, muscle, bones and other elements has been implemented. Such a model has been included within an indoor scenario in which an in-house 3D ray launching code has been applied to estimate received power levels within the complete scenario. The results enhance previous dosimetric estimations, while giving insight on influence of human body model in power level distribution and enabling to analyze the impact in the complete volume of the scenario.The authors wish to acknowledge the financial support of project FASTER, funded by the Consejería de Industria, Gobierno de Navarra

Fomento de la habilidad autorreguladora del aprendizaje en estudiantes de quinto de primaria de tres Instituciones Educativas Distritales

136 páginas : ilustraciones, gráficas, tablas y fotos.El presente proyecto de investigación buscó determinar los procesos que permiten desarrollar el aprendizaje autorregulado en estudiantes de quinto de primaria de tres Instituciones Educativas Distritales de Bogotá, se diseñó un ambiente de aprendizaje mediado por TIC a través de la estrategia didáctica y pedagógica b-learning. Para ello, se realizó un estudio de corte cualitativo-descriptivo que toma como referente el modelo cíclico de Zimmerman y Moylan (2009) sobre el aprendizaje autorregulado del cual se tomaron las fases de motivación y planificación, autorreflexión y se adicionó la fase de realimentación y el enfoque constructivista de acuerdo con los lineamientos de los proyectos educativos institucionales de las tres instituciones distritales de Bogotá que participaron en el estudio. Para abordar la problemática detectada que gira en torno a la dificultad para cumplir con sus actividades escolares, organizar sus tiempos de estudio y ser autónomo en la toma de decisiones y realización de sus actividades académicas. Los resultados obtenidos dan cuenta de los procesos a considerar para fomentar las habilidades autorreguladoras y cómo la tecnología se convierte en una herramienta fundamental para facilitar y motivar el desarrollo del aprendizaje autorregulado en población de edades tempranas.​ ​

Creación y desarrollo de la marca Casa Casera

Esta empresa surge en el 2022, cuando durante un viaje familiar cerca de Michoacán, descubrí a una señora ya mayor de edad vendiendo papas cocidas preparadas consalsa de aceite, la cual resultó ser la mejor salsa que había probado en la vida y con un sabor perfecto para acompañar otras comidas. Por lo cual me surgió la idea de intentar obtener ese sabor en una salsa propia. Hice prueba tras prueba hasta que se logró la receta que hoy en día se utiliza para la salsa. El principal problema detectado en la empresa es que la salsa solo es conocida por un pequeño segmento del mercado, entre ellos familia y amigos. Por el momento Casa Casera ha decidido salir al mercado y ampliar su segmento y distribución. Por lo que la creación de sus redes sociales y relaciones estratégicas ayudará a la marca a pasar de ser esta salsa completamente desconocida para el mercado de Guadalajara, a una salsa conocida por un segmento más amplio.ITESO, A.C