Sustainability report

El grup Fortis es va crear en un primer moment per les companyies holandeses N.V. AMEV, VSB Groep i Dutch bank, junt amb la companyia belga AG GroupAltres títols : Corporate social responsibility repor

Experiencias en creatividad publicitaria para creación de contenidos desde los públicos

La premisa de la exposición es que el branded content es algo que se ha hecho desde los albores de la publicidad. El mercado publicitario intenta buscar nuevos conceptos a explicar que en muchos casos son tan antiguos como la profesión misma. Si partimos de una definición con la que todos nos sintamos cómodos podríamos decir que el branded content es el contenido que hace una marca para ser consumido por su publico objetivo.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

ESPACIO Y ESTRUCTURA: EL DOBLE REGISTRO DE LA VIVIENDA CONTEMPORÁNEA MULTIFUNCIONAL

SPACE AND STRUCTURE: THE DOUBLE REGISTER OF CONTEMPORARY MULTIFUNCTIONAL HOUSING DESIGN The residential architecture of recent years has introduced an advanced experimentation around typological hybridization: in many recent European examples this line of research has focused in the assembly of different residential typologies - partly inherited from tradition - innervated by distribution systems revisited and often associated with alternative use (commercial, services, public spaces). The double register that follows from the coexistence of the different functions and their assembly provides the ability to design innovative spatial articulations, explained by different scales, where the principle of repetition of the single dwelling is opposed to the specific and exceptional dimensions of public spaces. The same rule of assembly the functions - for overlay, juxtaposition, sequence or intersection - gives rise to an interesting challenge both from the architectural point of view, both from the constructive structure, an organism that ca

Considerations on Resource Usage in Exceptions and Failures in Workflows

The paper presents a description of some point of view of different authors related to the failures and exceptions that appear in workflows, as a direct consequence of unavailability of resources involved in the workflow.\ud Each of these interpretations is typical for a certain situation, depending on the authors' interpretation of failures and exceptions in workflows modeling real dynamical systems.\u

IL-7 unveils pathogen-specific T cells by enhancing antigen-recall responses

BACKGROUND: IL-7 promotes the generation, expansion and survival of memory T cells. Previous mouse and human studies showed that IL-7 can support immune cell reconstitution in lymphopenic conditions, expand tumor-reactive T cells for adoptive immunotherapy and enhance effector cytokine expression by autoreactive T cells. Whether pathogen-reactive T cells also benefit from IL-7 exposure remains unknown. METHODS: Here we investigated this issue in cultures of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) derived from patients infected with various endemic pathogens. After short-term exposure to IL-7, we measured PBMC responses to antigens (Ag) derived from pathogens, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), Candida albicans (Ca) and Cytomegalovirus (CMV), and to the superantigen Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin B (SEB). RESULTS: We found that IL-7 favoured the expansion and, in some instances, the uncovering of pathogen-reactive CD4 T cells, by promoting pathogen-specific IFNɣ, IL-2 and TNF recall responses. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicate that IL-7 unveils and supports re-activation of pathogen-specific T cells with possible diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic significance, of clinical value especially in conditions of pathogen persistence and chronic infectio