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150 years of the discovery of the Cambrian Lagerstätte of Murero (Cadenas Ibéricas, NE Spain)

2013

El yacimiento paleontológico del Cámbrico inferior-medio de Murero (Cadenas Ibéricas, NE de España) es una localidad clásica del Cámbrico europeo. Fue dado a conocer a la ciencia por Edouard de Verneuil en 1862, celebrándose en 2012 el 150 aniversario de su descubrimiento. Es un siglo y medio de trabajos geológicos y de logros puestos al servicio del conocimiento del Período Cámbrico. Murero es un Lagerstätte excepcional porque coexisten en él grupos esqueléticos y de cuerpo blando a lo largo de un registro estratigráfico continuo que abarca unos 8 millones de años, dividido en 14 zonas de trilobites. En 1997, este yacimiento paleontológico fue el primero de España en obtener de la Administ…

Italica (Seville, Spain): use of local marble in Augustan age

2010

This study concerns 51 marble finds made of “Cipollino verde” coming from the ancient city of Italica (north of the modern city of Santiponce, 9 km NW of Seville, Spain), the earliest Roman settlement in Spain, founded in 206 B.C. The aim of this work was to determine their provenance from Greek and Italian quarries or from local quarries worked in the Iberian Peninsula. Thin-section optical microscopy, X-ray powder diffraction, bulk rock chemistry and O, C and Sr stable isotope analyses were carried out. Results were compared with literature data on “Cipollino verde” marbles quarried in southern Euboea (Greece), Apuan Alps (Italy), Almería, Extremoz, Seville (Spain) and Évora (Portugal). T…

Clinico-Biomechanical Issues and Dynamic Stabilization When Considering Stem Cell Treatment for Degenerative Disc Disease

2013

After reading the article published in Transplantation (1), scientists are to be congratulatedVespecially with the clinical results as published. Looking for alternatives to avoid fusion is part of function-preserving spine care, as it should be the last option to be undertaken while keeping the debate open (2, 3). Nevertheless, we would like to point out some questions that arise from a clinical point of view from our daily surgical practice. First, several clinical presentations and procedures are compared without taking into account that they are different treatments applied for different disc disease situations (discectomy is performed for disc herniation with radicular symptoms, disc p…

254 GENERALIZED SOMATOSENSORY CHANGES IN PATIENTS WITH TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DISORDER

2007

Determinants of between-hospital variations in outcomes for patients admitted with COPD exacerbations: findings from a nationwide clinical audit (AUD…

2015

Background Previous studies have demonstrated significant variability in the processes of care and outcomes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations. The AUDIPOC is a Spanish nationwide clinical audit that identified large between-hospital variations in care and clinical outcomes. Here, we test the hypothesis that these variations can be attributed to either patient characteristics, hospital characteristics and/or the so-called hospital-clustering effect, which indicates that patients with similar characteristics may experience different processes of care and outcomes depending on the hospital to which they are admitted. Methods A clinical audit of 5178 COPD patients co…

A 12-year-old boy with severe back pain and blast-like cells in the CSF

1999

The interleukin (IL)-31/IL-31R axis contributes to tumor growth in human follicular lymphoma

2014

Interleukin (IL)-31A binds to an heterodimer composed of IL-31 receptor A (IL-31RA) and Oncostatin M Receptor (OSMR). The IL-31/IL-31R complex is involved in the pathogenesis of various skin diseases, including cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. No information is available on the relations between the IL-31/IL-31R complex and B-cell lymphoma. Here we have addressed this issue in follicular lymphoma (FL), a prototypic germinal center(GC)-derived B-cell malignancy. IL-31 enhanced primary FL cell proliferation through IL-31R-driven signal transducer and activator of transcription factor 1/3 (STAT1/3), extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) and Akt phosphorylation. In contrast, GC B cells d…

Impacto de la formación educativa de los enfermeros sobre la comunicación, la inteligencia emocional y la empatía

2019

ABSTRACT Objective: To determine the influence of nurse education and training on attitudes towards communication, emotional intelligence, and empathy. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted using three separate instruments to measure attitudes towards communication, empathy, and emotional intelligence, and two questions to determine the academic qualifications of the study participants. The effect of the variables was tested using one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlations, and hierarchical multiple linear regression. Results: The study sample comprised 438 nurses from hospitals in Valencia, Spain. Differences in subscale scores of the instruments according to degree level and specialized …

Minimal clinically important difference and minimal detectable change of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0…

2020

Objectives: The aim of this study is to estimate a minimal clinically important difference (MCID) and a minimal detectable change (MDC) of the 12-item WHODAS 2.0 amongst patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Design: Cross-sectional cohort study. Setting: Outpatient Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine clinic. Subjects: A total of 1988 consecutive patients with musculoskeletal pain. Interventions: A distribution-based approach was employed to estimate a minimal clinically important difference, a minimal detectable change, and a minimal detectable percent change (MDC%). Results: The mean age of the patients was 48 years, and 65% were women. The average intensity of pain was 6,3 (2.0) po…

Association between physical, psychological and social frailty and health-related quality of life among older people

2019

Abstract Background Studies on the association between frailty and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are scarce and show contradictory results. This study aimed to evaluate the association between physical, psychological and social frailty and HRQoL among community-dwelling older people. Methods A cross-sectional study was performed with baseline data collected in 2015 from the Urban Health Centers Europe (UHCE) project in five European countries, the United Kingdom, Greece, Croatia, The Netherlands and Spain. A total of 2325 participants were included in the baseline measurements of the Urban Health Centers Europe project; 2167 participants (mean age = 79.7; SD=5.6) were included in t…