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New Highlights of Resveratrol: A Review of Properties against Ocular Diseases
2021
Eye diseases are currently a major public health concern due to the growing number of cases resulting from both an aging of populations and exogenous factors linked to our lifestyles. Thus, many treatments including surgical pharmacological approaches have emerged, and special attention has been paid to prevention, where diet plays a preponderant role. Recently, potential antioxidants such as resveratrol have received much attention as potential tools against various ocular diseases. In this review, we focus on the mechanisms of resveratrol against ocular diseases, in particular age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataract, diabetic retinopathy, and vitreoretinopathy. We analyze, in…
“El Registro Civil y el contenido de su publicidad: experiencias españolas para el contexto cubano”
2021
La función de publicidad que caracteriza al Registro Civil lo convierte en una institución fundamental dentro del sistema de seguridad jurídica preventiva. De ahí que, sea importante estudiar si existe correspondencia entre el contenido de la publicidad del Registro y las situaciones jurídicas y sociales en que usualmente se desenvuelven las personas, como un medio para garantizar, desde esta perspectiva, su cuidado y desarrollo. En este sentido, se valora el contenido de la publicidad del Registro del Estado Civil cubano (Ley No.51/1985, de 15 de julio del Registro del Estado Civil), a partir de las experiencias españolas en la materia, siguiendo, en general, los avances de este último sis…
Derecho y conciencia en Antígona: Una respuesta atemporal a los conflictos de familia
2018
El presente artículo aborda la importancia de la familia en Antígona, de Sófocles. Ante el Decreto de Creonte, por el que se prohibía, bajo pena de muerte, enterrar y llorar a Polinices, su hermana ?Antígona ? no duda en afirmar que por encima de las leyes del Estado está la ley de los dioses y la ley que dicta su conciencia, la que le exige anteponer los lazos familiares al orden público. Un acto de desobediencia civil que le conducirá a muerte.
Europa frente al fenómeno de las drogas. Una aproximación a la normativa europea de drogas
2006
Este trabajo es una recopilación de la dispersa información que existe sobre el marco político y jurídico de la Unión Europea en materia de drogas, incluyendo en el mismo todos los ámbitos relacionados, intentando ofrecer a los lectores una aproximación general, sin entrar en análisis ni opiniones sobre el tema.En primer término, y tratándose de un problema mundial, se presenta un somero esbozo de la situación internacional tanto a nivel institucional como normativo.A continuación se muestra más ampliamente la política de Europa en torno al fenómenos de las drogas y una recopilación temática sobre la regulación normativa de la Unión en todos los ámbitos posibles en los que incide el problem…
Neuromuscular and mobility responses to a vibration session in hypoxia in multiple sclerosis
2020
AbstractThe aim of this study was to investigate the acute effects of vibration training (WBVT) under hypoxic and normoxic conditions on the voluntary rate of force development (RFD), balance and muscle oxygen saturation (SMO2) in persons with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). 10 participants completed the study (30% males, 44.4±7.7 years, 164.3±8.9 cm, 65.2±11.1 kg, 2.5±1.3 Expanded Disability Status Scale, 24.1±4.0 kg.m−2 BMI). Maximal force, RFD during isometric knee extension, static balance with eyes open and closed and sit-to-stand test were evaluated before and immediately after one session of WBVT (12 60-s bout of vibration; frequency 35 Hz; amplitude 4 mm; 1-min rest intervals) under both n…
Does predation maintain eyespot plasticity in Bicyclus anynana?
2004
The butterfly Bicyclus anynana exhibits phenotypic plasticity involving the wet-season phenotype, which possesses marginal eyespots on the ventral surface of the wings, and the dry-season form, which lacks these eyespots. We examined the adaptive value of phenotypic plasticity of B. anynana in relation to the defence mechanisms of crypsis and deflection. We assessed the visibility differences between spotless and spotted butterflies against backgrounds of brown (dry season) or green (wet season) leaves. Spotless butterflies were highly cryptic and less predated by adult bird predators than were spotted ones when presented against brown leaf litter. However, the advantage of crypsis disappea…
Entropy of balance--some recent results.
2010
Abstract Background Entropy when applied to biological signals is expected to reflect the state of the biological system. However the physiological interpretation of the entropy is not always straightforward. When should high entropy be interpreted as a healthy sign, and when as marker of deteriorating health? We address this question for the particular case of human standing balance and the Center of Pressure data. Methods We have measured and analyzed balance data of 136 participants (young, n = 45; elderly, n = 91) comprising in all 1085 trials, and calculated the Sample Entropy (SampEn) for medio-lateral (M/L) and anterior-posterior (A/P) Center of Pressure (COP) together with the Hurst…
Clinical practices to promote sleep in the ICU: A multinational survey
2018
PURPOSE: To describe sleep assessment and strategies to promote sleep in adult ICUs in ten countries.METHODS: Multicenter, self-administered survey sent to nurse managers.RESULTS: Response rate was 66% with 522 ICUs providing data. 'Lying quietly with closed eyes' was the characteristic most frequently perceived as indicative of sleep by >60% of responding ICUs in all countries except Italy. Few ICUs (9%) had a protocol for sleep management or used sleep questionnaires (1%). Compared to ICUs in Northern Europe, those in central Europe were more likely to have a sleep promoting protocol (p < 0.001), and to want to implement a protocol (p < 0.001). In >80% of responding ICUs, the …
Inter-joint coordination of posture on a seesaw device
2016
Even though specific adjustments of the multi-joint control of posture have been observed when posture is challenged, multi-joint coordination on a seesaw device has never been accurately assessed. The current study was conducted in order to investigate the multi-joint coordination when subjects were standing on either a seesaw device or on a stable surface, with the eyes open or closed. Eighteen healthy active subjects were recruited. A principal component analysis and a Self-Organizing Maps analysis were performed on the joint angles in order to detect and characterize dominant coordination patterns. Intermuscular EMG coherence was analysed in order to assess the neurophysiological mechan…
Unconscious response priming during continuous flash suppression.
2017
Continuous flash suppression (CFS) has become a popular tool for studying unconscious processing, but the level at which unconscious processing of visual stimuli occurs under CFS is not clear. Response priming is a robust and well-understood phenomenon, in which the prime stimulus facilitates overt responses to targets if the prime and target are associated with the same response. We used CFS to study unconscious response priming of shape: arrows with left or right orientation served as primes and targets. The prime was presented near the limen of consciousness and each trial was followed by subjective rating of visibility and a forced-choice response concerning the orientation of the prime…