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Evaluación del papel de la educación musical en primaria en escuelas públicas y concertadas desde la perspectiva familiar
2022
Durante las últimas décadas, las diferentes reformas que se han llevado a cabo en materia educativa en España han hecho que la Educación Musical no haya sido justamente valorada con respecto el resto de asignaturas. En esta investigación, se analizan cuantitativamente los resultados obtenidos de los datos extraídos de una encuesta en la que han participado más de 500 familias españolas pertenecientes a las escuelas públicas y concertadas de las localidades de Albal, Catarroja y Massanassa (Comunidad Valenciana). El objetivo del estudio es mostrar cuál es el actual papel de la Educación musical en el contexto escolar desde la perspectiva familiar, teniendo en cuenta los distintos factores qu…
Development and Implementation of the AIDA International Registry for Patients With Undifferentiated Systemic AutoInflammatory Diseases
2022
ObjectiveThis paper points out the design, development and deployment of the AutoInflammatory Disease Alliance (AIDA) International Registry dedicated to pediatric and adult patients affected by Undifferentiated Systemic AutoInflammatory Diseases (USAIDs).MethodsThis is an electronic registry employed for real-world data collection about demographics, clinical, laboratory, instrumental and socioeconomic data of USAIDs patients. Data recruitment, based on the Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) tool, is designed to obtain standardized information for real-life research. The instrument is endowed with flexibility, and it could change over time according to the scientific acquisitions an…
The on-demand warehousing problem
2022
Warehouses are key elements of supply chain networks, and great attention is paid to increase their efficiency. Highly volatile space requirements are enablers of innovative resource sharing concepts, where warehouse capacities are traded on online platforms. In this context, our paper introduces the on-demand warehousing problem from the perspective of platform providers. The objective prioritises demand–supply matching with maximisation of the number of transactions. If there is a tie, the secondary objective maximises the number of suppliers matched with at least one customer and the number of customers that have matches within a specific threshold with respect to the minimum achievable …
On the Suitability of Neural Networks as Building Blocks for the Design of Efficient Learned Indexes
2022
With the aim of obtaining time/space improvements in classic Data Structures, an emerging trend is to combine Machine Learning techniques with the ones proper of Data Structures. This new area goes under the name of Learned Data Structures. The motivation for its study is a perceived change of paradigm in Computer Architectures that would favour the use of Graphics Processing Units and Tensor Processing Units over conventional Central Processing Units. In turn, that would favour the use of Neural Networks as building blocks of Classic Data Structures. Indeed, Learned Bloom Filters, which are one of the main pillars of Learned Data Structures, make extensive use of Neural Networks to improve…
Autocitas de revistas incluidas en una misma categoría temática del Clarivate Journal Citation Reports (JCR): el caso de la revista Adicciones
2022
El objetivo del presente estudio es determinar si el criterio impuesto por Clarivate Analytics de penalizar las revistas que tengan un elevado número de autocitas debería aplicarse a todas las revistas por igual, sin considerar indicadores bibliométricos diferenciales entre revistas. Se analizaron las características editoriales de la revista Adicciones, la cual fue excluida del JCR del 2019 por un exceso de autocitas, frente a las revistas de su misma categoría, y diferentes indicadores bibliométricos de la revista Adicciones. Los resultados indican características editoriales diferentes entre las publicaciones incluidas en la categoría Substance Abuse del JCR según país de edición, número…
Sisubiotus hakaiensis sp. nov. (Tardigrada, Macrobiotidae), a new tardigrade species from Calvert Island (British Columbia, Canada)
2022
Tardigrades reports from British Columbia (Canada) trace back to 1908 and numerous species have been recorded from this region, despite the relatively few published sampling studies. We describe by integrative taxonomy (light microscopy morphology, morphometrics, and DNA sequencing) a new tardigrade species, Sisubiotus hakaiensis sp. nov. from the British Columbia central coast. The new species has been found in moss collected from a vertical rock outcrop near the Hakai Institute Calvert Island Field Station. Sisubiotus hakaiensis sp. nov. differs from all the other known species in the genus by the presence of a labyrinthine layer inside the egg process walls, whereas no consistent differe…
Electrochemical sensor for phosphate ions based on laser scriber reduced graphene oxide
2022
This preliminary work shows a new and innovative way to produce laser scribed reduced graphene oxide (LSGO) electrodes using different porous substrates (ranging from paper to plastic and fabric). The obtained electrodes were also tested as electrochemical sensors towards the detection of phosphate ions in water. To obtain the electrodes, a water suspension of GO was filtered on top of substrate (such as Whatman® filter paper) and a complete sensor was obtained from its reduction using a CO2 laser. The electrode is composed of working and counter electrodes made of LSGO and a reference electrode of a Ag/AgCl obtained by using a commercial AgCl conductive paste. Phosphate ions were detected …
Resilienssi ikääntyessä: fyysinen suorituskyky ja psykososiaaliset tekijät muuttuvassa ympäristössä ja voimavaroina vastoinkäymisissä
2022
Virtual Synchronous Machine Control of RES Plants in Isolated Power Systems
2022
Because of the increase in renewable energy sources (RESs) share, new control strategies of isolated power systems have been developed to improve the frequency and voltage stability of inverter-interfaced RESs. A voltage source converter (VSC) with a virtual synchronous machine (VSM) is among the most promising control schemes. This paper demonstrates how VSM control of inverter-interfaced RES can be efficiently used to improve the dynamic stability in small isolated power systems. In the proposed analysis, the RESs of a Mediterranean island are assumed interfaced to the grid by VSCs with a swing controller and a vector-current controller (VCC) with two different options for the reference c…
Evaluation of two different concentration methods for surveillance of human viruses in sewage and their effects on SARS-CoV-2 sequencing
2022
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Investigating the role of strangeness in baryon–antibaryon annihilation at the LHC
2022
Annihilation dynamics plays a fundamental role in the baryon–antibaryon interaction (B–B‾) at low-energy and its strength and range are crucial in the assessment of possible baryonic bound states. Experimental data on annihilation cross sections are available for the p–p‾ system but not in the low relative momentum region. Data regarding the B–B‾ interaction with strange degrees of freedom are extremely scarce, hence the modeling of the annihilation contributions is mainly based on nucleon–antinucleon (N–N‾) results, when available. In this letter we present a measurement of the p–p‾, p–Λ‾⊕p‾–Λ and Λ–Λ‾ interaction using correlation functions in the relative momentum space in high-multiplic…
Timing of surgery and elective perioperative management of patients with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection: a SIAARTI expert consensus statement
2022
Abstract Background The appropriate timing of surgery and perioperative management of patients with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection are open issues. The purpose of this document is to support the clinical decision-making process regarding the patient with previous Sars-CoV-2 infection to undergo elective surgery. The recipients of this document are physicians, nurses, healthcare personnel, and other professionals involved in the patient’s surgical process. Methods The Italian Society of Anesthesia Analgesia Resuscitation and Intensive Care (SIAARTI) selected 11 experts to reach a consensus on key aspects of this theme in adult and pediatric population. The methods of this process document wer…
Antibiotic prophylaxis in patients who had undergone to prostate biopsy in between the EMA warning era: effects of fluoroquinolones in diabetic and n…
2022
Abstract Purpose To investigate the effects of different antibiotic prophylaxis regimens in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) candidates to trans-rectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy (TRUSPB). Methods 143 outpatients with DM who underwent TRUSPB during the period 2018–2020 were selected from a cohort of 1150 patients in 3 different institutions. Exclusion criteria were allergies, concomitant anti-platelet therapies and uncontrolled DM. Different antibiotic prophylaxis regimens were adopted. Bacterial resistance levels to fluoroquinolones into the different communities were also collected. Univariable and multivariable binomial logistic regression analyses were used to assess the odds…
Freedom and responsibility in Avicenna
2022
It is still a matter of some debate whether Avicenna grounds moral responsibility in a robust notion of free will. In this contribution, I will first delve into Avicenna’s theory of voluntary agency, arguing that he holds voluntary agency to be responsive to reasons but also thoroughly determined by the agent’s beliefs concerning the relevant goals, instruments, and qualifying circumstances. Since these beliefs in turn are caused, it seems that there is little room for a causally undetermined will in Avicenna’s theory. I will conclude by considering the question of whether Avicenna is some kind of compatibilist concerning the relation between determinism and responsibility. peerReviewed
Observation of a multiplicity dependence in the pT-differential charm baryon-to-meson ratios in proton–proton collisions at √s=13 TeV
2022
The production of prompt D0, Ds+, and Λc+ hadrons, and their ratios, Ds+/D0 and Λc+/D0, are measured in proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV at midrapidity (|y|<0.5) with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The measurements are performed as a function of the charm-hadron transverse momentum (pT) in intervals of charged-particle multiplicity, measured with two multiplicity estimators covering different pseudorapidity regions. While the strange to non-strange Ds+/D0 ratio indicates no significant multiplicity dependence, the baryon-to-meson pT-differential Λc+/D0 ratio shows a multiplicity-dependent enhancement, with a significance of 5.3σ for 1<12 GeV/c, comparing the highest multiplicity interva…
Pedagogías alternativas y educación en los márgenes a lo largo del siglo XX. XXI Coloquio de Historia de la Educación SEDHE
2022
Esta obra recoge las aportaciones al XXI Coloquio de Historia de la Educación celebrado en la Universitat de València del 6 al 8 de julio de 2022, en él se analizan en perspectiva histórico-educativa las llamadas Pedagogías alternativas y la educación en los márgenes a lo largo de todo el siglo XX. Los trabajos abordan el estudio de teorías, políticas y prácticas, pensamiento pedagógico y experiencias educativas, que fueron diseñadas, realizadas o que emergieron en los márgenes o como alternativas a los sistemas educativos o a los estándares pedagógicos de los diferentes status quo de cada momento histórico. Las iniciativas educativas al margen o en la frontera de los sistemas educativos, c…
A lattice study of ππ scattering at large N c
2022
Abstract We present the first lattice study of pion-pion scattering with varying number of colors, Nc. We use lattice simulations with four degenerate quark flavors, Nf = 4, and Nc = 3 − 6. We focus on two scattering channels that do not involve vacuum diagrams. These correspond to two irreducible representations of the SU(4) flavor group: the fully symmetric one, SS, and the fully antisymmetric one, AA. The former is a repulsive channel equivalent to the isospin-2 channel of SU(2). By contrast, the latter is attractive and only exists for Nf≥ 4. A representative state is $$ \left(\left.\left|{D}_s^{+}{\pi}^{+}\right.\right\rangle -\left.\left|{D}^{+}{K}^{+}\right.\right\rangle \right)/\sqr…
Very Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet: A Potential Application in the Treatment of Hypercortisolism Comorbidities
2022
A very low-calorie ketogenic diet (VLCKD) is characterized by low daily caloric intake (less than 800 kcal/day), low carbohydrate intake (<50 g/day) and normoproteic (1–1.5 g of protein/kg of ideal body weight) contents. It induces a significant weight loss and an improvement in lipid parameters, blood pressure, glycaemic indices and insulin sensitivity in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Cushing’s syndrome (CS) is characterized by an endogenous or exogenous excess of glucocorticoids and shows many comorbidities including cardiovascular disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus and lipid disorders. The aim of this speculative review is to provide an overview on nutrit…
Sb2S3 solar cells with a cost-effective and dopant- free fluorene-based enamine as a hole transport material
2022
The “Development of Semi-Transparent Bifacial Thin Film Solar Cells for Innovative Applications” benefits from a 999372 € grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants. The aim of the project is to develop a new approach based on novel materials and structures and production technologies, which are the key to further increase the share, and range of applications of PV in areas with sub-average sunlight, including Baltic and Nordic countries. Therefore, development of resource saving, cost-effective and efficient PV devices is a primary challenge of this project. Project contract with the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT) No is S-BMT-21-1(LT08-2-LMT-K-01-003). The D…
On a Continuous Sárközy-Type Problem
2022
Abstract We prove that there exists a constant $\epsilon&gt; 0$ with the following property: if $K \subset {\mathbb {R}}^2$ is a compact set that contains no pair of the form $\{x, x + (z, z^{2})\}$ for $z \neq 0$, then $\dim _{\textrm {H}} K \leq 2 - \epsilon $.
Metabolomic Study of Dactylis glomerata Growing on Aeolian Archipelago (Italy)
2022
The Aeolian Islands (Italy) are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea comprising seven main islands, among which are two active volcanoes. The peculiar geological features and the wide variety of environments and soils have an important impact on native plants, and in particular, the Aeolian populations of Dactylis glomerata (a perennial cool-season bunchgrass) exhibit remarkable phenotypic variability. Considering that environmental drivers also strongly affect the production of plant metabolites, this work aimed at comparing the metabolomic profiles of D. glomerata (leaves) harvested at different altitudes on four islands of the Aeolian archipelago, namely: Lipari, Vulcano, Strombo…
Prevalence of aphthous stomatitis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease after the treatment with monoclonal antibodies: a systematic review and…
2022
Currently, the most frequently employed therapies in the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), i.e., Crohn's Disease (CD), Ulcerative Colitis (UC) or unclassified IBD (IBD-U) are monoclonal anti-TNFs and anti-integrin therapies, such as vedolizumab (VDZ). Forty-seven per cent of these patients present extra-intestinal manifestations, the second most prevalent being aphthous stomatitis (AS). The present study aims to investigate which of the two therapies is associated with a lower prevalence of AS after treatment. An electronic search of the MEDLINE (via PubMed), Web of Science, SCOPUS, LILACS and OpenGrey databases was carried out. The criteria used were those described by the PR…
Vox and journalistic information: use and criticism of the media in the 2019 General Election campaigns
2022
The general elections held in 2019 gave Vox enough votes to enter the Spanish Parliament as the third most popular political party. The growing role of this radical right-wing party has revealed a complex relationship with the media. The objective of this study is to characterise the relationship between Vox and the media by analysing the party's electoral discourse using quantitative techniques – posts made on Facebook and Twitter (n = 224) – and qualitative techniques, exploring the framing used in the closing rallies of the campaign. References to the media dominated the messages Vox posted on Twitter during the November campaign, whose main purpose was to repost content previously broad…
Fungal Biotechnology Prospects and Avenues
2022
« Deirdre O’Mahony, artiste et archéologue des savoirs techniques indigènes »
2022
Les projets participatifs et collaboratifs de l’artiste irlandaise Deirdre O’Mahony, ancrés dans le monde rural du Burren, valorisent le patrimoine vernaculaire et les savoir-faire indigènes. Ses recherches de terrain portant sur l’évolution du paysage abordé comme milieu et les collaborations multiples qu’elle entreprend aboutissent à des propositions artistiques revisitant le land art. Ses interventions dans le paysage sont souvent complétées par des propositions dialogiques, dont le repas partagé, qui invite les participants à explorer l’histoire des lieux, les jeux de pouvoir qui s’y tissent et la pertinence des savoirs vernaculaires pour les enjeux de demain, notamment en matière de sé…
Ion-Track Template Synthesis and Characterization of ZnSeO3 Nanocrystals
2022
A.I.P. thanks the Institute of Solid-State Physics, University of Latvia. ISSP UL as the Center of Excellence is supported through the Framework Program for European universities. The work was carried out within the framework of the grant AP05134367 of the Ministry Funding: The work was carried out within the framework of the grant AP05134367 of the Ministry of education and Science Science of of the Republic Republic of Kazakhstan.
Evolutionary Analysis of Grapevine Virus A: Insights into the Dispersion in Sicily (Italy)
2022
Grapevine virus A (GVA) is a phloem-restricted virus (genus Vitivirus, family Betaflexiviridae) that cause crop losses of 5–22% in grapevine cultivars, transmitted by different species of pseudococcid mealybugs, the mealybug Heliococcus bohemicus, and by the scale insect Neopulvinaria innumerabilis. In this work, we studied the genetic structure and molecular variability of GVA, ascertaining its presence and spread in different commercial vineyards of four Sicilian provinces (Italy). In total, 11 autochthonous grapevine cultivars in 20 commercial Sicilian vineyards were investigated, for a total of 617 grapevine samples. Preliminary screening by serological (DAS-ELISA) analysis for GV…
Measurement of the branching fraction of the doubly Cabibbo-suppressed decay D0→K+π−π0 and search for D0→K+π−π0π0
2022
Can Digit Ratio and Gender Identity Predict Preferences for Consumption Options With a Distinct Gender Image?
2022
This study investigated whether individuals’ preferences for masculine (vs. feminine) consumption options could be predicted by a biological sex cue (the 2D:4D digit ratio; a biomarker linked to prenatal testosterone exposure), and a psychological gender cue (self-perceived gender identity). Chinese participants (N= 216) indicated their preferences for a series of binary options that differed in their perceived gender image (e.g., romantic comedy vs. action thriller; pop music vs. hard rock), with one of the options evaluated as relatively more feminine and the other viewed as comparably more masculine. Participants also self-reported their gender identity and the length of their index and …
Experiments and Facilities for Accelerator-Based Dark Sector Searches
2022
This paper provides an overview of experiments and facilities for accelerator-based dark matter searches as part of the US Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2021). Companion white papers to this paper present the physics drivers: thermal dark matter, visible dark portals, and new flavors and rich dark sectors.
Evaluating the impact of external job mobility on three health outcomes: a longitudinal study of the IDEWE cohort of Belgian workers
2022
There is large debate in the literature about the relationship between job mobility and health. This thesis contributes to this topic by estimating the impact of work mobility on either cardiovascular, musculoskeletal or neuropsychological diseases in a longitudinal study on a sample of Belgian workers followed-up for seven-years. The occurrence of such diseases was assessed through medication use as proxy. In the first part of this thesis, the focus was on CVD and MSD diseases. To this aim, a logistic regression model for autocorrelated data with repeated measures was applied (while controlling for the time-variant and time-invariant confounders). This longitudinal model was adequate to ta…
Treatment of Knee Osteochondral Fractures.
2022
Osteochondral lesions (OCLs) that are frequently encountered in skeletally immature and adult patients are more common than once thought, and their incidence rate is rising. These lesions can appear in many synovial joints of the body, such as the shoulder, elbow, hip, and ankle, occurring most often in the knee. The term osteochondral lesion includes a vast spectrum of pathologies such as osteochondritis dissecans, osteochondral defects, osteochondral fractures, and osteonecrosis of the subchondral bone. When considering this, the term osteochondral fracture is preserved only for an osteochondral defect that combines disruption of the articular cartilage and subchondral bone. These fractur…
Effects of environment and genotype on dispersal differ across departure, transfer and settlement in a butterfly metapopulation
2022
Active dispersal is driven by extrinsic and intrinsic factors at the three stages of departure, transfer and settlement. Most empirical studies capture only one stage of this complex process, and knowledge of how much can be generalized from one stage to another remains unknown. Here we use genetic assignment tests to reconstruct dispersal across 5 years and 232 habitat patches of a Glanville fritillary butterfly ( Melitaea cinxia ) metapopulation. We link individual dispersal events to weather, landscape structure, size and quality of habitat patches, and individual genotype to identify the factors that influence the three stages of dispersal and post-settlement survival. We found that ne…
The long-term effect of job mobility on workers' mental health: a propensity score analysis
2022
Abstract Objectives The main purpose of this longitudinal study was to elucidate the impact of external job mobility, due to a change of employer, on mental health. Methods A cohort of Belgian employees from the IDEWE occupational medicine registry was followed-up for twenty-seven years, from 1993 to 2019. The use of drugs for neuropsychological diseases was considered as an objective indicator of mental health. The covariates were related to demographic, physical, behavioural characteristics, occupational and work-related risks. Propensity scores were calculated with a Cox regression model with time-varying covariates. The PS matching was used to eliminate the systematic differences in sub…
Forståelsen av lærerutdannerrollen blant skolebaserte lærerutdannere i Norge
2022
I denne artikkelen undersøker vi praksislæreres forståelse av sin rolle som lærerutdannere. Denne kvalitative studien er basert på analysen av 104 refleksjonsnotater fra praksislærere ved fem lærerutdanningsskoler i Norge. Deltagerne ble bedt om å reflektere over sin rolle som lærerutdannere. Under analyseprosessen kom vi fram til at deltagerne i studien forstår sin lærerutdannerrolle som (1) portvoktere for- og ivaretagere av lærerprofesjonen, (2) veiledere og (3) relasjonsbyggere og rollemodeller. Vi diskuterer studiens resultater i lys av teori og tidligere forskning samt reflekterer rundt de etiske overveielsene som kan ha påvirket studiens resultater. Studien kaster et kritisk blikk på…
An Enhanced Multifactor Multiobjective Approach for Software Modularization
2022
Complex software systems, meant to facilitate organizations, undergo frequent upgrades that can erode the system architectures. Such erosion makes understandability and maintenance a challenging task. To this end, software modularization provides an architectural-level view that helps to understand system architecture from its source code. For modularization, nondeterministic search-based optimization uses single-factor single-objective, multifactor single-objective, and single-factor multiobjective, which have been shown to outperform deterministic approaches. The proposed MFMO approach, which uses both a heuristic (Hill Climbing and Genetic) and a meta-heuristic (nondominated sorting gene…