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Although respiratory symptoms are the most prominent manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and especially the omicron variant, may cause neurological manifestations such as seizures. It remains unclear if specific variants of the virus increase the risk of seizures more than others. This was a retrospective multicenter study of pediatric (zero to 16 years) patients with COVID-19 who attended five pediatric emergency departments in Madrid, Spain, between March 2020 and July 2022. An analysis of demographics, medical history, and seizure characteristics was conducted. The data obtained were correlated with the incidence of the different strains of SARS-CoV-2 in the Community of Madrid. A total of 2411 seizures (infectious and noninfectious) were recorded, and 35 of them (1.4%) were positive for SARS-CoV-2. Of those 35 patients, 18 (51.4%) reported a history of previous seizures. The highest percentage of cases occurred when the omicron variant was the most prevalent (28 [80%] vs 7 [20%] before omicron variant). Typical febrile seizures accounted for 52.9% of the cases. No treatment was required in more than half (57.1%) of the cases. during the emergence of the omicron variant, there has been an increase in the number of COVID-19-associated seizures. These findings highlight the need for SARS-CoV-2 screening in patients with febrile and afebrile seizures, in addition to other microbiological, biochemical, or neuroimaging tests, depending on the patient's age and clinical presentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Osteochondroma represents about 9% of all bone tumors and between 20% and 50% of benign bone tumors in the hand. A case of a 25-year-old female patient with a 14-yearold bone tumor at the base of the right fifth metacarpal is reported. It presents an exophytic bicuneiform tumor measuring 4x3x3 cm, bilobed, with bony characteristics. The tomography reports a bone lesion with expansive increase and disordered proliferation of bone tissue, pedunculated base and exophytic growth. Pathology study reports osteochondroma of 4.5 cm in the long axis, cartilage cap of 0.5 cm. The objective of the presentation of this case is to report a long-evolving giant osteochondroma, with very considerable dimensions and bilobed protrusion, in the fifth metacarpal of a young patient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Seaweed is of importance to the environment due to properties such as its CO2 sequestration capability. On the other hand, plastic is a versatile material important to society. Unfortunately, the abundance of both plastics and seaweed represents a challenge due to the need of adequate waste management. At first, algae and plastics might not appear suitable for energy recovery; however, with co-gasification, the results are promising. This work presents a model to simulate the co-gasification of Chlorella vulgaris, Sargassum fluitans, and Sargassum natans with plastics. The effect of the gasification temperature (650–850 °C), equivalence ratio (0.25–0.45), and plastics/biomass ratio (0.0–1.0) on the produced gas's lower heating value, tar concentration, and composition is assessed. Moreover, the environmental performance of using plastic to enhance the syngas produced from the co-gasification with sargassum is assessed using the life cycle assessment methodology. The results indicate that the lower heating value increases with the temperature and plastics/biomass ratio. Moreover, tar increases with the quantity of plastics, varying between 20 and 50 g/Nm3. Finally, adding plastics to algae during gasification reduces the variability in the syngas composition, simplifying the post-processing stage. With respect to environmental performance, gasification has an impact similar to those of pyrolysis and recycling, but the performance could improve with sufficient research and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the calculation of the sdg 11.3.1 and 11.7.1 indicators in Colombia, integrating statistical and geospatial information, as essential sources to achieve a robust and territorially disaggregated measurement. Based on the processes defined by un-Habitat, it develops a methodology with a geospatial emphasis, supported by the processing of satellite images through the Random Forest supervised classification algorithm, to obtain the metrics required in the calculation of the two indicators, such as built-up areas, urban land consumption, and open spaces, together with integrated analysis of statistical information. The sdg 11.3.1 indicator for the 2015-2020 period was calculated for 63 cities, whose national value of 0.43 highlights that efficient land use is made in the country, while sdg 11.7.1 for the year 2018 was calculated in a representative sample of nine cities, which indicates that at the national level 33.2 % of built areas are allocated to open spaces for public use. These results make the country a regional benchmark in the monitoring of the sdgs, highlighting the possibility of updating the results in the future, thanks to automated processing in the cloud using scripts developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sam Harris attempts to put the fundamentals of morality on the concept of well-being, far from any religious concept. For him, any manifestation of religiosity would be synonymous to fanaticism and therefore dangerous and would be against any kind of well-being. According to him, the concepts of free will and the spirit do not exist. Furthermore, those who support the existence of the human soul are dualists, since the only thing we have is the present moment and the best way to reach it is through buddhist meditation and at times even by the use of synthetic and natural drugs that allow us to leave out the self. Harris undervalues any kind of knowledge that does not come directly through the scientific method, like the humanities. Nevertheless, it is common to find in Harris' texts argumentations that have nothing to do with science. The indiscriminate use of the word 'scientific' would not make a claim truer. This is obviously a reductionism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses a case of facial dermatitis in an 8-year-old girl after exposure to the Conium maculatum plant, commonly known as hemlock. The girl developed a rash after playing with plants as makeup and later experienced nosebleeds. The plant was confirmed to be Conium maculatum, a poisonous plant that can cause dermatitis and systemic absorption through skin contact. The article also provides information about the plant's association with ancient Greece and its use in executing Socrates. It concludes with the treatment prescribed for the patient. [Extracted from the article]

This paper presents the results of analyzing an investment policy about water supply, sewerage and sanitation in the Mexican economy. The authors evaluated the effects of a fiscal policy that taxes the water consumption of various economical sectors so that the funds raised will finance the investment in water supply and waste water sector. In order to evaluate the economic impact, the authors use a computable general equilibrium model. It is concluded that there is an optimal level of investment in the water supply sector which is closely linked to the form of financing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evaluation of quality in higher education is today a matter of great importance in most countries because the allocation of resources should be in accordance with the quality of universities. Due to this, there are numerous initiatives to create instruments and evaluation tools that can offer a quality comparison among institutions and countries, the results of these efforts used to be called international rankings. These rankings include some that are "reputational" or subjective, based on opinion polls applied to groups that, which is estimated, can issue authorized views. There are also "objective" rankings, based on performance indicators, which are calculated from a certain set of empirical data; however, on many occasions these indicators are sponsored by universities with the desire to appear among the best universities and emphasize some characteristics more than others, which makes them untrustworthy and very variable between each other. In this sense, we considered the Comparative Study of Mexican Universities (CSMU), a database of statistical information on education and research of Mexican higher education institutions, this database allows users to be responsible for establishing comparisons and relationships that may exist among existing information items, or building indicators based on their own needs and analysis perspectives (Márquez, 2010). This work develops an unsupervised alternative model of ranking among universities using pattern recognition, specifically clustering techniques, which are based on public access data. The results of the CSMU database are obtained by analyzing 60 universities as a first iteration, but to present the final results UNAM is excluded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Children who report sexual abuse are often first evaluated in a Pediatric Emergency Room (ER). This study aims to describe clinical characteristics and management among these children. A retrospective review of child sexual abuse (CSA) cases in the ER of a tertiary hospital in Madrid over a 9-year period (January 2011 to April 2020) was conducted. 213 children up to 16 years old were included. Descriptive statistics were performed. An 83% of victims were girls, of whom 97.7% reported physical contact. The mean age was 8.5 ± 4.4 years, with two peaks of incidence at ages of 3 and 13. Aggressors were known by the victim in 77.8% of cases. Anogenital lesions were present in 39.9% of children who described physical contact, of which 31.7% were suspicious or specific of CSA. We obtained positive microbiological samples in 41 patients, with 14.6% specific findings for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). 23,9% received prophylaxis for bacterial STIs and 13.6% against HIV. 59.6% were followed-up in outpatient clinics. Since our protocol renovation in 2019, we observe a statistically significant increase in microbiological detection (p <.005) and outpatient follow-up (p <.001). STIs screening should always be done when physical contact is reported for eventual treatment and perpetrator prosecution, as physical lesions are frequently not found. The optimal treatment of CSA requires the use of renewed specific protocols and the involvement of multidisciplinary trained teams to ensure adequate medical and personal care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• The total magnetic force exerted on ferrofluids plays a major role in microgravity. • Common on-ground simplifying assumptions may lead to significant errors in low gravity environments. • Equivalent formulations are affected differently by modeling assumptions. • This is exemplified with observations of a free-floating ferrofluid droplet in microgravity. The formulation of the total force exerted by magnetic fields on ferrofluids has historically been a subject of intense debate and controversy. Although the theoretical foundations of this problem can now be considered to be well established, significant confusion still remains regarding the implementation of the associated expressions. However, the development of future applications in low-gravity environments is highly dependent on the correct modeling of this force. This paper presents a contextualized analysis of different proposed calculation procedures and validation in a space-like environment. Kinematic measurements of the movement of a ferrofluid droplet subjected to an inhomogeneous magnetic field in microgravity are compared with numerical predictions from a simplified physical model. Theoretical results are consistent with the assumptions of the model and show an excellent agreement with the experiment. The Kelvin force predictions are included in the discussion to exemplify how an incomplete modeling of the magnetic force leads to significant errors in the absence of gravity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]