Dental Treatment under General Anesthesia in Healthy and Medically Compromised/Developmentally Disabled Children: A Comparative Study

Aim: To compare the type, number of procedures and working time of dental treatment provided under dental general anesthesia (DGA) in healthy and medically compromised/developmentally disabled children (MCDD children). Design: This cross-sectional prospective study involved 80 children divided into two groups of 40 children each. Group 1 consisted of healthy and Group 2 consisted of MCDD children. Results: Healthy children needed more working time than MCDD children, the means being 161±7.9 and 84±5.7 minutes, respectively (P= 0.0001). Operative dentistry and endodontic treatments showed a significant statistical difference (P= 0.0001). The means of procedures were 17±5.0 for healthy children and 11±4.8 for MCDD children (P= 0.0001). Conclusions: Healthy children needed more extensive dental treatment than MCDD children under DGA. The information from this sample of Mexican children could be used as reference for determining trends both within a facility as well as in comparing facilities in cross-population studies

International relations intership report: experience at Porto Accounting and Business School’s (Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto) International Relations Office (GRI)

“Versão final (Esta versão contém as críticas e sugestões dos elementos do júri)”The continuous competition for organizations to become differentiated and competitive in the eyes of the world has driven an inevitable growth and need for the internationalization of businesses and services. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are no exemption from such influences, but rather a major driver for it, claiming that the internationalization of higher education is a mechanism for quality assurance. The biggest effect generated by the internationalization of higher education can be noticed by its creation of a large community of momentarily emigrating students, otherwise called mobility students, which has more than doubled over the past decade. The push for internationalization of HEIs and the prominence of mobility students has, in some countries and areas, generated a series of reforms. Some of these have focused on the implementation of English as a common language, and others have led to the standardization of educational curriculums across Europe, i.e., the Erasmus program. However, the biggest modification produced by the mobility of students is the mobility of cultures and the promotion of interculturality. The following report documents and describes, in a detailed manner, all of the knowledge obtained and the functions and events carried out during a curricular internship held at the International Relations Office of the Porto Accounting and Business School (Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, ISCAP-P.PORTO). During the course of the internship, the intern worked on the internationalization strategies of ISCAP, having as main responsibilities event planning and organization, the creation of useful resources for future international students, and the analysis of internationalization trends at ISCAP. The methodologies present in this report integrate theoretical and practical competencies acquired during the Masters in Intercultural Studies for Business. The detailed descriptions of the internship experiences will be accompanied by a critical analysis.O desenvolvimento contínuo para que as organizações se tornem diferenciadas e competitivas aos olhos do mundo tem impulsionado um inevitável crescimento e necessidade de internacionalização de negócios e serviços. As Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) não são isentas de tais influências, sendo, na verdade, um seu grande impulsionador, defendendo que a internacionalização do ensino superior é um mecanismo de garantia de qualidade. O maior efeito gerado pela internacionalização do ensino superior pode ser percebido na criação de uma grande comunidade de alunos, também denominados alunos de mobilidade, que duplicou na última década. O impulso para a internacionalização das IES e o destaque dos alunos em mobilidade gerou, em alguns países e áreas, uma série de alterações e reestruturações. Alguns deles concentraram-se na implementação do inglês como língua comum, enquanto que outros levaram à padronização dos currículos educacionais nos países europeus, ou seja, ao programa Erasmus. No entanto, a maior modificação produzida pela mobilidade dos alunos é a mobilidade das culturas e a promoção da interculturalidade. O relatório que se segue documenta e descreve, de forma detalhada, todos os conhecimentos adquiridos e as funções e eventos realizados durante o estágio curricular decorrido no Gabinete de Relações Internacionais do Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP-P.PORTO). Ao longo do estágio, a aluna desenvolveu as estratégias de internacionalização do ISCAP, tendo como principais responsabilidades o planeamento e organização de eventos, a criação de recursos úteis para futuros alunos internacionais e a análise das tendências de internacionalização do ISCAP. As metodologias apresentadas neste relatório integram competências teóricas e práticas adquiridas durante o Mestrado em Estudos Interculturais para Negócios. As descrições detalhadas das experiências de estágio serão acompanhadas de uma análise crítica

National rare diseases registry in Spain: pilot study of the Spanish Rare Diseases Registries Research Network (SpainRDR)

Poster publicado en: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2014, 9(Suppl 1):P5The development of a national Rare Diseases (RD) registry in Spain was launched in 2012 with the project SpainRDR, supported by the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC). includes two different strategies: patient registries addressed to patient outcome research and population-based registries addressed to epidemiologic research, health and social planning [1]. The pilot study aims to detect the difficulties of eveloping the national and population-based RD registryOn behalf SpainRDR group. Financial agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III - International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC). Grant no. IR11- RDR.7th European Conference on Rare Diseases and Orphan Product

La Cámara de Diputados en la República Dominicana. Un ejercicio de constatación de teorías mediante un estudio de caso

La democracia representativa como forma de gobierno, implica que el poder se ejerce por personas, que elegidas por el pueblo, actúan en su nombre y representación. El modo de participación en la elección y la manera como éstas se convierten en cargos públicos, requiere del dise- ño de instituciones que sistematicen dicha participación. La república de tipo presidencial, es una modalidad del gobierno electivo y popular, cuyo titular es el jefe del ejecutivo, electo por el pueblo o sus representantes, en donde el ejercicio del poder es limitado y mantiene un régimen de responsabilidades políticas. El diseño institucional que le corresponde a esta forma de gobierno es la parcelación del poder pú- blico en tres: poder ejecutivo, poder legislativo y poder judicial. Las ventajas políticas de este esquema es que la división de poderes, neutraliza el riesgo de caer en el autoritarismo, al impedir que el poder se concentre. La división de poderes es un dispositivo de restricción de facultades de los órganos estatales, por lo que no existe superioridad jerárquica entre los poderes, al contrario, cada órgano tiene bien delimitadas sus funciones y atribuciones, las que están reguladas por un marco jurídico común llamado Constitución. Y la división de poderes contribuye a mantener el equilibrio entre estos, mediante el llamado sistema de “pesos y contrapesos”. El presente trabajo se centra en el estudio de la Cámara de Diputados, considerada como una de las parcelas en las que está divida la autoridad del Estado, cuyo objetivo es la validación de los modelos teóricos en la tipificación del Congreso y la comprensión de las variables internas y externas que influyen en el comportamiento legislativo

New and Old Materials in the Architectural Heritage. Case Study: Behaviour of Glass Fiber Reinforced Lime Based Concrete

[EN] In recent years, the importance of structural interventions in architectural heritage for repairing and strengthening has increased considerably. During the 20th century, there has been a tendency to replace traditional materials with the most widespread ¿new¿ materials used: steel and reinforced concrete. However, in many cases, the durability of the interventions has not been as expected. An extensive damage to the ancient masonry due to incompatibility of reinforced concrete with the old materials has been clearly established, leading to a rapid deterioration. International centers, such as ICOMOS, have recommended the use of materials similar in composition and properties to the original ones for the restoration works. An adequate choice of mortars is critical to the success of a restoration process. Compatibility between the new mortar and the original components is very desirable. So that, the renascence of lime based mortars technology for the restoration of historic structures has been observed. Besides that, steel presents several practical difficulties in protecting against corrosion and environmental effects, and sometimes in their handling at the construction site. As an alternative, steel can be replaced with advanced fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) materials, commonly called composites, which offer excellent physical and mechanical properties and are lightweight and insensitive to corrosion. The present analysis shows the use of lime-based concrete, with pozzolanic loads, internally reinforced by GFRP bars. Lime concrete manages to consolidate the existing historical building, providing safety to masonry structure and solving their structural problems. In addition, GFRP bars exhibit a high tensile strength required. The performance of this combination is investigated by numerical simulation using the FEM method. The response is simulated firstly with current materials (as reference) and finally with the proposed lime based concrete reinforced with GFRP.Almerich-Chulia, A.; Moreno-Puchalt, J.; Alonso Durá, A.; Llopis-Pulido, V. (2019). New and Old Materials in the Architectural Heritage. Case Study: Behaviour of Glass Fiber Reinforced Lime Based Concrete. International Journal of Structural and Civil Engineering Research. 8(3):196-203. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijscer.8.3.196-203S1962038

Non-linear Analysis of Slender High Strength Concrete Column

[EN] This article shows the influence of axial force eccentricity on high strength concrete columns design. The behavior of columns made of normal, middle and high strength concrete with slenderness values between 20 and 60 under an eccentric axial force has been studied. Structural analysis has been developed by means of software which considers both geometrical and mechanical non-linearity. The sequence of points defined by increasing values of axial force and bending moment produced by eccentricity has been represented on the cross-section interaction diagram until failure for each tested column. Then, diagrams depicting the relationship between failure axial force and column's slenderness have been drawn. The loss of bearing capacity of the member for normal and middle strength columns when compared with the bearing capacity of their cross-section is more noticeable as axial force eccentricity assumes higher values. However, this situation reverses for high strength columns with high slenderness values. On the basis of results obtained, the accuracy level for the moment magnifier method was checked. Despite the good concordance in most of the cases, it was verified that the moment magnifier method leads to excessively tight results for high strength concrete columns with high slenderness values. In these specific cases, a coefficient which amends the column rigidity is proposed so as to obtain safer values.This work was supported by Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.Fenollosa Forner, EJ.; Cabrera Fausto, I.; Llopis-Pulido, V.; Alonso Durá, A. (2019). Non-linear Analysis of Slender High Strength Concrete Column. The Open Civil Engineering Journal. 5(7):1440-1451. https://doi.org/10.28991/cej-2019-03091343S144014515

Second-order Effects in Steel-Concrete Composite Columns of the Unbraced Frames

[EN] An unbraced frame is regarded as the one without a bracing system to avoid the horizontal displacement of its nodes. These displacements progressively increase due to their interaction with axial load (second-order effects) reducing the column¿s resistant capacity and can lead to the global frame instability. At the present work the Eurocodes criteria related to the way to approach its design will be displayed. Different iterative processes that take into account second-order effects will be exposed as well as a non-linear procedure based on an incremental load application. This procedure will be applied over an unbraced frame under gravity and wind loads with reinforced concrete beams and steel-concrete composite columns. Two geometrical models will be used: one of them starts from geometry without deformation and the other one takes into account the initial imperfections. The results comparison regarding first-order linear analysis will show that bending moments at the critical section of the columns will increase by nearly 50% when their initial imperfections are taken into account.Fenollosa Forner, EJ.; Cabrera Fausto, I.; Alonso Durá, A.; Llopis-Pulido, V. (2016). Second-order Effects in Steel-Concrete Composite Columns of the Unbraced Frames. Journal of Civil Engineering and Construction. 5(1):42-55. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/107341S42555

Insights into distributed feature ranking

This version of the article: Bolón-Canedo, V., Sechidis, K., Sánchez-Maroño, N., Alonso-Betanzos, A., & Brown, G. (2019). ‘Insights into distributed feature ranking’ has been accepted for publication in: Information Sciences, 496, 378–398. The Version of Record is available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2018.09.045.[Abstract]: In an era in which the volume and complexity of datasets is continuously growing, feature selection techniques have become indispensable to extract useful information from huge amounts of data. However, existing algorithms may not scale well when dealing with huge datasets, and a possible solution is to distribute the data in several nodes. In this work we explore the different ways of distributing the data (by features and by samples) and we evaluate to what extent it is possible to obtain similar results as those obtained with the whole dataset. Trying to deal with the challenge of distributing the feature ranking process, we have performed experiments with different aggregation methods and feature rankers, and also evaluated the effect of distributing the feature ranking process in the subsequent classification performance.This research has been economically supported in part by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and FEDER funds of the European Union through the research project TIN2015-65069-C2-1-R; and by the Consellería de Industria of the Xunta de Galicia through the research project GRC2014/035. Financial support from the Xunta de Galicia (Centro singular de investigación de Galicia accreditation 2016-2019) and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund - ERDF), is gratefully acknowledged (research project ED431G/01). V. Bolón-Canedo acknowledges support of the Xunta de Galicia under postdoctoral Grant code ED481B 2014/164-0.Xunta de Galicia; GRC2014/035Xunta de Galicia; ED431G/01Xunta de Galicia; ED481B 2014/164-

Fist report on fumagillin production by Aspergillus fumigatus sensu stricto gliotoxigenic strains recovered from raw cow milk and clinical samples in Argentina

En Argentina no existen reportes sobre cepas de Aspergillus fumigatus productoras de fumagilina. En este trabajo se describe el aislamiento y la producción de dicha micotoxina por 10 cepas, provenientes del medioambiente rural y aisladas de muestras clínicas. Las cepas de origen rural fueron aisladas de vacas lecheras en tambos de la provincia de Córdoba, y algunas de esas cepas se asociaron a casos de mastitis subclínica. Se definió la composición de un medio de cultivo para optimizar la producción de fumagilina y se desarrolló un método de cromatografía HPLC para su determinación. Es conocido que, además del estado inmunitario del huésped, la virulencia de la cepa es una de las características fundamentales que determinan su potencial patogénico y, en este sentido, la fumagilina es considerada un factor de virulencia. En el presente trabajo todas las cepas estudiadas fueron capaces de sintetizarla y la cepa A. fumigatus RC2243, proveniente de leche de una vaca con mastitis subclínica, se destacó como la cepa más productora. La existencia de cepas productoras de fumagillina representa un riesgo potencial por el pasaje de dicha micotoxina a la leche, lo cual constituye un problema para la salud pública.In Argentina there are no reports on Aspergillus fumigatus fumagillin producing strains. In this work we describe the isolation and mycotoxin production capacity of ten A. fumigatus strains, associated with farm and clinical origin. Farm strains were isolated in dairy calves in Córdoba province from dairy cow milk, some of which were associated with sub clinical mastitis. A culture medium was defined to optimize fumagillin production and a detection method was developed by HPLC chromatography. It is known that in addition to the immune status of the host, the virulence of the strain is a fundamental characteristic that will determine its pathogenicity and in this sense, fumagillin is considered within the virulence factors. In the present work, all the strains tested for the production of fumagillin were able to synthesize it, highlighting that the strain A. fumigatus RC2243, from a sample of cow´s milk with clinical mastitis, was the most productive. The existence of fumagillin-producing strains represents a potential risk of passing mycotoxins into raw milk, constituting a risk to public health.Fil: Alonso, Veronica Andrea. Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto. Facultad de Agronomia y Veterinaria. Instituto de Ciencias Veterinarias. - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - Cordoba. Instituto de Ciencias Veterinarias.; ArgentinaFil: Velasco Manini, Marina Andrea. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Centro de Referencia para Lactobacilos; ArgentinaFil: Pena, Gabriela Alejandra. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Fisicoquímicas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigación en Micología y Micotoxicología. - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Investigación en Micología y Micotoxicología; ArgentinaFil: Cavaglieri, Lilia Reneé. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicoquímicas y Naturales. Departamento de Microbiología e Inmunología. Cátedra de Micología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin