Robotics for social welfare

Supported by developments in the field of social robotics, virtual worlds and ICT tools it is possible to build new solutions in health and welfare. Two projects are described in this article. They are intended to improve efficiency and quality of current therapeutic procedures. The ESTIMULO project improves emotional and cognitive status of people with dementia using a reactive pet-robot. The ELDERTOY project modifies the classical concept from the toy industry to develop a new solution for the aged people. ELDERTOY involves a double purpose, fun and therapeutic. In a complementary way, these projects aim to be an example of the breaking of the technology gap both of seniors and of people with disabilities. Therefore, the ultimate goal is to promote and adapt scientific and technological knowledge to be applied to improve significantly the standard of quality of life in society

Tratamiento cognitivo conductual de un caso de trastorno delirante dismorfofóbico

Presentamos un caso de dismorfofobia delirante al que se aplica terapia cognitivoconductual (TCC) para modificar la creencia delirante y sus consecuencias emocionales y conductuales. La terapia incluyó: debate empírico, lógico y funcional, prueba de realidad y saciación. Las medidas de resultado fueron la PANSS, el grado de convicción en la creencia y escalas subjetivas de ansiedad y estado de ánimo. La convicción en la creencia desapareció y se produjo una notable mejoría en la perturbación emocional y en el funcionamiento social. Los cambios se mantuvieron 12, 24 y 36 meses después de finalizada la terapia. Se reflexiona sobre la necesidad de mantener tratamientos psicológicos a largo plazo en la psicosis.The paper presents the Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy used to modify the delusional beliefs and the emotional and functional consequences of a patient with a dismorphobic delusional disorder. The method included the following techniques: empirical, logical and functional discussion, verification of the reality and satiation. PANSS, dimensional measures of the extent of conviction, concerns about the belief, and subjective scales of anxiety and mood were used as measures of the results. The conviction about the belief disappeared. There was also an improvement in the emotional disturbances and in the social functioning. These changes kept up stable in his 12, 24 and 36 months follow up after the therapy. We reflect on the need of a long term psychological follow up for the intervention on the psychosis

Tratamiento cognitivo-conductual de un paciente con diagnóstico de trastorno delirante

Presentamos un caso con diagnóstico de trastorno delirante al que se aplica Terapia Cognitivo-Conductual (TCC) para la modificación de las creencias delirantes y sus consecuencias emocionales y conductuales. El procedimiento incluyó: debate empírico, lógico y funcional, comprobación de la realidad, saciación y solución elegante. Las medidas de resultado fueron la PANSS, medidas dimensionales del grado de convicción y preocupación en las creencias, la QLS y escalas subjetivas de ansiedad y de estado de ánimo. La convicción en las creencias permaneció inalterable, pero se produjeron nuevas reinterpretaciones delirantes de carácter más benigno; además, se apreció una notable mejoría en las perturbaciones emocionales asociadas y en el funcionamiento social, cambios mantenidos en seguimiento realizado 12 meses después de la terapia. Reflexionamos sobre la necesidad de tratamientos psicológicos de mantenimiento a largo plazo en el abordaje de la sintomatología psicótic

Soporte residencial de enfermos mentales crónicos

La atención de los enfermos mentales crónicos incluye el uso de técnicas y recursos tanto sanitarios como sociales. Entre estos se incluye el soporte residencial. En este artícu - lo se revisan distintos aspectos de dicho soporte, tales como: su fundamento técnico; su desarrollo histórico; diversas áreas que han sido objeto de estudio en la literatura científi - ca, relativas a los pacientes, los alojamientos, los profesionales y el vecindario; y las carac - terísticas específicas del soporte residencial a estos pacientes en la Comunidad Autónoma Andaluza. E n t re otras cosas, se concluye que, en dicha Comunidad, el soporte residencial ha tenido un importante desarrollo y que el modelo ha evolucionado de modo similar a como lo ha hecho en otros lugares, combinando actualmente dos modos peculiares de funcionamiento: el centrado en el recurso y el centrado en el paciente. De esta manera, se potencia la consideración individualizada de las necesidades, deseos y capacidades de los pacientes

The last five years of Big Data Research in Economics, Econometrics and Finance: Identification and conceptual analysis

Today, the Big Data term has a multidimensional approach where five main characteristics stand out: volume, velocity, veracity, value and variety. It has changed from being an emerging theme to a growing research area. In this respect, this study analyses the literature on Big Data in the Economics, Econometrics and Finance field. To do that, 1.034 publications from 2015 to 2019 were evaluated using SciMAT as a bibliometric and network analysis software. SciMAT offers a complete approach of the field and evaluates the most cited and productive authors, countries and subject areas related to Big Data. Lastly, a science map is performed to understand the intellectual structure and the main research lines (themes)

Financial exclusion, depopulation, and ageing: An analysis based on panel data

This paper focuses on the relationship between rural depopulation and territorial financial exclusion. We provide a replicable statistical methodology to identify the existing patterns at municipal level based on the degree of financial exclusion caused by the absence (named as Type I financial exclusion) or paucity (named as Type II financial exclusion) of bank branches. Firstly, the extent to which the sociodemographic characteristics of a municipality influence its degree and type of financial exclusion is analyzed by using panel data regression models. Secondly, by means of cluster analysis techniques, a typology of municipalities is provided that takes into account their sociodemographic characteristics as well as their availability of bank branches. Within this context, this paper explores the case of Aragón (Spain), a European region with significant depopulation and over-ageing problems. Our results show a lack of homogeneity across Aragonese municipalities, both in the processes of depopulation and financial exclusion. This heterogeneity has led us to propose financial inclusion measures tailored to the population size as well as the degree of ageing, the employment possibilities, and labor dynamism of each group of municipalities. In other words, this paper reveals the need to propose measures that accommodate each territory's peculiarities, which could contribute to the achievement of sustainable territorial development in Aragón

Probabilistic uniformities of uniform spaces

[EN] Usually, fuzzy metric spaces are endowed with crisp topologies or crisp uniformities. Nevertheless, some authors have shown how to construct in this context different kinds of fuzzy uniformities like a Hutton [0, 1]- quasi-uniformity or a probabilistic uniformity. In 2010, J. Guti´errez Garc´ıa, S. Romaguera and M. Sanchis [7] proved that the category of uniform spaces is isomorphic to a category whose objects are sets endowed with a fuzzy uniform structure, i. e. a family of fuzzy pseudometrics satisfying certain conditions. We will show here that, by means of this isomorphism, we can obtain several methods to endow a uniform space with a probabilistic uniformity. Furthermore, we obtain a factorization of some functors introduced in [6].The first and third authors are supported by the grant MTM2015-64373-P (MINECO/FEDER, UE).Rodríguez López, J.; Romaguera Bonilla, S.; Sanchis, M. (2017). Probabilistic uniformities of uniform spaces. En Proceedings of the Workshop on Applied Topological Structures. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 103-111. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/128037OCS10311

The Hausdorff fuzzy quasi-metric

Removing the condition of symmetry in the notion of a fuzzy (pseudo)metric, in Kramosil and Michalek's sense, one has the notion of a fuzzy quasi-(pseudo-)metric. Then for each fuzzy quasi-pseudo-metric on a set X we construct a fuzzy quasi-pseudo-metric on the collection of all nonempty subsets of X, called the Hausdorff fuzzy quasi-pseudo-metric. We investigate several properties of this structure and present several illustrative examples as well as an application to the domain of words. The notion of Hausdorff fuzzy quasi-pseudo-metric when quasi-pseudo-metric fuzziness is considered in the sense of George and Veeramani is also discussed.Supported by the Plan Nacional I+D+i and FEDER, under Grant MTM2006-14925-C02-01.Rodríguez López, J.; Romaguera Bonilla, S.; Sánchez Álvarez, JM. (2010). The Hausdorff fuzzy quasi-metric. Fuzzy Sets and Systems. 161:1078-1096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fss.2009.09.019S1078109616