Una experiencia de Trabajo Social de grupo con pacientes con enfermedad mental grave y crónica. Una alternativa de recuperación psicosocial

This article tries to show a way of group intervention, under the regard of a social worker. Participants are people with chronic and severe mental illness, all of them included in a program of psychosocial rehabilitation and therapeutic monitoring, known as continuity of care. The protagonists show stories and personal testimonies in their way of living and feeling mental illness. A group intervention which rescues difficulties in social relationships and professional look focuses on enhancing expressive capabilities as well as on sharing resources in group to address them. This intervention of social work has been done in a public outpatient mental health center in the Madrid region. The methodology tries to put a voice to the individual patient testimonials through written texts. In these texts, experiences and stories, «their stories», are recovered and transmitted from various and particular ways of expression. Experiences that enhance not only the recovery of self-image and identity, but the relationship and representation of mental illness in society.Este articulo trata de mostrar una forma de intervención en grupo, a través de bajo la mirada de un trabajador social. Los participantes son personas con enfermedad mental grave y crónica, todos ellos incluidos en un programa de rehabilitación psicosocial y con seguimiento terapéutico en lo que denominamos continuidad de cuidados. Los protagonistas muestran relatos y testimonios personales en su manera de vivir y sentir la enfermedad mental. Una intervención grupal que rescata dificultades en la relación social y focaliza la mirada profesional en cómo potenciar y compartir en grupo recursos para abordarlas. Esta intervención de trabajo social se ha realizado en un centro de salud mental, ambulatorio y público, de la Comunidad de Madrid. Con una metodología que trata de poner voz a los testimonios individuales de pacientes a través de textos escritos. En dichos textos, se recuperan y transmiten vivencias, historias, «sus historias» con modos de expresión diferentes y particulares. Experiencias que potencian no solo, la recuperación de la propia imagen e identidad sino la relación y representación de la enfermedad mental en la sociedad

Outlier Mining Methods Based on Graph Structure Analysis

Outlier detection in high-dimensional datasets is a fundamental and challenging problem across disciplines that has also practical implications, as removing outliers from the training set improves the performance of machine learning algorithms. While many outlier mining algorithms have been proposed in the literature, they tend to be valid or efficient for specific types of datasets (time series, images, videos, etc.). Here we propose two methods that can be applied to generic datasets, as long as there is a meaningful measure of distance between pairs of elements of the dataset. Both methods start by defining a graph, where the nodes are the elements of the dataset, and the links have associated weights that are the distances between the nodes. Then, the first method assigns an outlier score based on the percolation (i.e., the fragmentation) of the graph. The second method uses the popular IsoMap non-linear dimensionality reduction algorithm, and assigns an outlier score by comparing the geodesic distances with the distances in the reduced space. We test these algorithms on real and synthetic datasets and show that they either outperform, or perform on par with other popular outlier detection methods. A main advantage of the percolation method is that is parameter free and therefore, it does not require any training; on the other hand, the IsoMap method has two integer number parameters, and when they are appropriately selected, the method performs similar to or better than all the other methods tested.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Plan de merchandising y retail de LeBlue Design Concept Store

LeBlue nace como una marca de diseño de invitaciones y papelería de bodas que, tras dos años de cosechar éxitos de manera online, se lanzan al mercado tradicional con un establecimiento en el centro de Sevilla. Este plan de merchandising y retail pretende ayudar a solventar las carencias estratégicas con las que cuenta la tienda, así como a trazar un recorrido para gestionar correctamente su comunicación de marca a través del establecimiento. Partimos de la observación directa para conocer cómo es el movimiento natural del cliente dentro del establecimiento, influenciado por la arquitectura y la distribución espacial, para potenciarlo y transformar el espacio en relación a la circulación. De esta manera, conseguimos focalizar la atención en nuestra principal característica como marca: las celebraciones matrimoniales. Sin embargo, LeBlue no solo vende bodas, también cuenta con artículos dedicados a todas las celebraciones que se dan a lo largo de la vida, desde el nacimiento, la infancia, el amor, hasta la paternidad. Y nuestro establecimiento, de una forma atractiva y lógica, las engloba a todas ellas buscando convertirse en un punto de referencia a la hora de planificar todos ellos. Tratamos de que nuestro establecimiento respire un ambiente cálido de felicidad aspiraicional ligado profundamente a las celebraciones de eventos, para así situar a LeBlue en la mente del consumidor como una marca amigable y cercana, que formará parte de tu vida en los momentos más especiales. A través del marketing sensorial, atraemos al consumidor hacia los distintos puntos de nuestro espacio, llegando a ellos de una forma distintitva y única dentro de nuestro sector, de manera que prime la intención de ofrecer una experiencia de compra altamente positiva, así como de crear expectativas muy elevadas en cuanto al tipo de producto que podrán adquirir de en nuestro establecimiento. En definitiva, buscamos que este documento sea una guía para comprender y mejorar la gestión del espacio comercial de una marca con mucho potencial y carisma, y ayudar en la medida de lo posible a agilizar su éxito y rentabilidad del paso al mercado físico.LeBlue was born as a brand of wedding invitations and stationery design that, after two years of online success, are launched to the traditional market with a establishment in the centre of Seville. This merchandising and retail plan aims to help solve the strategic shortcomings of the store, as well as to trace a path to properly manage their brand communication through the establishment. We start with direct observation to find out what the customer's natural movement is like within the store, influenced by architecture and spatial distribution, in order to transform the space in relation to the circulation. In this way, we managed to focus attention on our main characteristic as a brand: wedding celebrations. However, LeBlue not only sells weddings, it also has articles dedicated to all thecelebrations that take place throughout life, from birth, infancy, love, and paternity. And our establishment, in an attractive and logical way, encompasses all of them seeking to become a point of reference when planning all of them. We try to ensure that our establishment breathes a warm atmosphere of aspirational happiness deeply linked to the celebrations of events, in order to place LeBlue in the mind of the consumer as a friendly and close brand, which will be part of your life in the more special moments. Through sensory marketing, we attract the consumer to the different points of our space, reaching them in a distinctive and unique way within our sector, in such a way that the intention to offer a highly positive shopping experience is paramount, as well as to create very high expectations as to the type of product they will be able to acquire from our establishment. Definitely, we want this document to be a guide to understand and improve the management of the commercial space of a brand with a lot of potential and charisma, and helping as much as possible to speed up its success and profitability from the passage to the physical market.Universidad de Sevilla. Grado en Publicidad y Relaciones Pública

La formación inicial de maestros y maestras en educación lectora perspectiva del alumnado y contenidos ofrecidos en tres universidades andaluzas

La escuela afronta ahora mayores retos respecto al desarrollo de la competencia lectoescritora en las nuevas generaciones, al acceso universal a dicha competencia y al fomento de la lectura que requieren un profesorado específicamente formado para ello, más aún cuando la educación lectora es un área especialmente vulnerable a la capacitación del profesorado, como comprueban diversos estudios de investigación. En este trabajo1, para analizar la formación recibida por los futuros maestros y maestras en educación lectora en tres universidades públicas, fueron encuestados los estudiantes que acababan sus estudios de magisterio y se analizaron los contenidos propuestos en los programas de asignatura de sus planes de estudio. Los resultados obtenidos evidencian la necesidad de replantear la formación ofrecida hasta ahora.Preservice teacher education in reading: prospective teachers´ perspectives and offered contents in three public universities programs. Nowadays, the demands on school about reading and writing are larger. The school is expected to prepare all students for higher and more complex reading and writing skills,once reserved to only a few, and to motivate reading habits; it is necessary well specifically prepared teachers to satisfy these expectations, even more when several researchers have found that teacher preparation is more critical in fields like reading. This work goal was to know what knowledge and skills for reading education prospective teachers have got when they took their degree; so that, student teachers who were ending their university studies were surveyed and the set of course in preservice teacher education curriculum was analyzed in three public universities. The results of this work allow us to conclude that it is necessary to review teacher education programs we offer for improving reading instruction and motivation in schools.Formation initiale d´instituteurs et institutrices en éducation lectrice: perspective des étudiants et contenus offerts dans trois universités publiques. Dans les nouvelles générations l’école affronte les plus grands défis par rapport au développement de la compétence en lecture et en écriture. L’accès universel à cette compétence et à la promotion de la lecture exige des enseignants bien préparés. En tenant compte, en plus, que l’éducation en lecture est considérée une unité de formation très vulnérable à la capacité des professeurs, comme plusieurs études de recherche ont démontré. Dans ce travail pour analyser les connaissances reçus par les nouveaux enseignants en éducation lectrice dans trois universités publiques, on a enquêté tous les élèves qui finissaient leurs études d’instituteurs et on a analysé les contenus proposés dans les programmes de matières de leurs cursus. Les résultats obtenus permettent de commencer un débat à propos de la formation offerte jusqu’à présent

Gonzalo de la Bárcena, "fontanero del reino", y la traída de aguas a los Archivos Reales de Simancas (Valladolid)

The article analyzes the project water supply to the Royal Archives of Simancas (Valladolid), known as the “Fountain of the King”. This work, promoted by King Felipe II, in the twilight of the 16th Century, was undertaken by Gonzalo de la Bárcena, "King's fountain Master" and other architects of the Court.El artículo analiza el proyecto de la traída de aguas a los Archivos Reales de Simancas (Valladolid), conocida como la “Fuente del Rey”. Esta obra, promocionada por el monarca Felipe II, en el ocaso del siglo XVI, fue acometida por Gonzalo de la Bárcena, “Fontanero del Reino”, y otros arquitectos de la Corte

Biomarkers and subtypes of deranged lipid metabolism in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a heterogeneous and complex disease that is imprecisely diagnosed by liver biopsy. NAFLD covers a spectrum that ranges from simple steatosis, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) with varying degrees of fibrosis, to cirrhosis, which is a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma. Lifestyle and eating habit changes during the last century have made NAFLD the most common liver disease linked to obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus and dyslipidemia, with a global prevalence of 25%. NAFLD arises when the uptake of fatty acids (FA) and triglycerides (TG) from circulation and de novo lipogenesis saturate the rate of FA β-oxidation and very-low density lipoprotein (VLDL)-TG export. Deranged lipid metabolism is also associated with NAFLD progression from steatosis to NASH, and therefore, alterations in liver and serum lipidomic signatures are good indicators of the disease's development and progression. This review focuses on the importance of the classification of NAFLD patients into different subtypes, corresponding to the main alteration(s) in the major pathways that regulate FA homeostasis leading, in each case, to the initiation and progression of NASH. This concept also supports the targeted intervention as a key approach to maximize therapeutic efficacy and opens the door to the development of precise NASH treatments

Coexistence of attractors in a laser diode with optical feedback from a large external cavity

The coexistence of several attractors in the coherent collapsed state of a laser diode with optical feedback is investigated. These attractors are unstable tori that bifurcate from different external cavity modes. As the feedback rate is increased, these tori undergo different types of quasiperiodic routes, such as frequency locking, period doubling, or the appearance of a third incommensurate frequency. In the fully developed coherent collapsed state, the tori are all unstable, and the phenomenon of intermittence appears. Lyapunov exponent calculations demonstrate that this state presents hyperchaotic and high-dimensional dynamics. These results are explained qualitatively in terms of the multiattractor behavior found.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version