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Background: While international studies have reported the superiority of the authoritative style (which combines parental involvement with demandingness), some studies in Spain and in other countries have found that the indulgent style (involvement without demandingness) might be just as good or even better. This study aims to discern whether the differences are cultural or methodological. Method: 306 adolescents from high schools in Madrid and Valencia (Spain) answered a questionnaire that included two parenting style instruments (SOC-30 and PSI), together with a self-esteem scale (AF5) and a question on academic performance. Results: Concordance between the two instruments assessing parenting styles was poor. When associating parenting styles (according to the SOC- 30) with outcomes (self-esteem and academic achievement), results were similar to previous studies in Spain. But if we use the PSI, results were similar to studies in Anglophone countries: the authoritative style achieved the best outcomes. Conclusions: The discrepancies found between studies carried out in Spain and in Anglophone countries do not seem to be due to differences between cultures, but to methodological differences (i.e., differences between the instruments used). If we use the same instruments that were used in Anglophone countries, the most effective parenting style is still the authoritative. Comprobando la supuesta superioridad del estilo parental indulgente entre adolescentes españoles. Antecedentes: mientras estudios internacionales muestran la superioridad del estilo autoritativo (que combina el afecto con la exigencia), en España y otros países se ha encontrado que el estilo indulgente (afecto sin exigencia) podría ser igual de bueno o mejor. Este estudio pretende comprobar si las diferencias son culturales o metodológicas. Método: 306 adolescentes de centros educativos de Madrid y Valencia (España) respondieron a un cuestionario que incluía dos instrumentos de estilos parentales (SOC-30 y PSI), una escala de autoestima (AF5) y una pregunta sobre el rendimiento académico. Resultados: la concordancia entre los dos instrumentos de estilos parentales fue pobre. Al asociar los estilos parentales (según el SOC-30) con los desenlaces (autoestima y rendimiento académico), los resultados coinciden con los estudios previos españoles. Pero, si usamos el PSI, se obtienen los mismos resultados que en los estudios anglosajones: el estilo autoritativo obtiene los mejores desenlaces en los hijos. Conclusiones: las discrepancias halladas entre estudios realizados en España y en países anglosajones no parecen deberse a diferencias en las culturas sino a diferencias metodológicas (diferencias en los instrumentos utilizados). Si se usan los mismos instrumentos, se comprueba que el estilo parental más eficaz es el autoritativo.

This paper aim, on one hand, to describe the structural response of “Homenaje Tower”, one of the towers of the Historical Complex of the Alhambra, in Granada (Spain) and, on the other hand, to look over the different techniques used in the structural analysis of historical buildings, applying them to the tower to assess the scope of each of them. The tower is analyzed from three methods that count on different levels of complexity. First, an analysis using graphical method for limit analysis is carried out to assess the different safety coefficients from a stability point of view. Secondly, a finite element linear elastic analysis is applied in order to identify possible stress concentration zones, in particular zones with tensile stresses. Finally, a nonlinear static pushover analysis has been carried out over five different numerical models to assess the structural response to horizontal loads of perimeter walls and interior porticos. Este artículo pretende describir la respuesta estructural de la Torre del Homenaje, una de las torres del complejo de la Alhambra (Granada), y por otro lado revisar las distintas técnicas utilizadas en el análisis estructural de edificios históricos aplicándolas a dicho objeto para valorar el alcance de cada una de ellas. La torre se analiza mediante tres procedimientos con diferentes niveles de complejidad. En primer lugar, se utiliza el método de líneas de empuje para valorar los diferentes coeficientes de seguridad desde un punto de vista de la estabilidad. En segundo lugar, se lleva a cabo un análisis elástico y lineal aplicando el método de los elementos finitos para identificar posibles concentraciones de tensiones de tracción. Por último, se ha realizado un análisis estático no lineal tipo pushover sobre cinco modelos numéricos diferentes para valorar la respuesta estructural ante acciones horizontales de los muros perimetrales y de los pórticos interiores.

In the last decade, a new type of high rise building has been emerging. They are leaning or undulating skyscrapers which become real architectural icons by defying the building logic that the preservation of the vertical line implies. The acceptance of this last aspect is making emerge several works of this kind signed by some of the most influential architectural firms in the world. But, do these new involve works new structural concepts or strategies that answer to their singular characters? Here, the structural solution of two examples is analyzed to identify those contributions with a structural/architectural nature that could became a base for the development of this type. The use of the atrium is recognized as one of them. An assessment based on models of its influence on the structural behavior of leaning towers is carried out. En la última década, ha venido emergiendo un nuevo tipo de edificio en altura. Se trata de rascacielos inclinados u ondulados que, desafiando toda la lógica edificatoria que supone la conservación de la verticalidad, se convierten en auténticos hitos e iconos arquitectónicos. El reconocimiento de este último aspecto está conduciendo a la emergencia de varias representaciones de este tipo respaldadas por algunos de los estudios de arquitectura más influyentes del panorama internacional. Pero, ¿vienen estas actuaciones acompañadas de nuevos conceptos o estrategias estructurales o de diseño que respondan a la singularidad que las caracteriza? Se analiza aquí la solución estructural de dos ejemplos para identificar aquellas aportaciones de carácter estructural/arquitectónico que apuntan a servir de base para el desarrollo del tipo. Reconociéndose la utilización del atrio como una de ellas, se lleva a cabo una evaluación basada en modelos de su influencia en el comportamiento estructural de torres inclinadas.

This essay presents the bases for a new teaching methodology for the Final Project of the Degree of Building Engineering. The aim of this methodology is to approach students to advanced forms of work in architectural and engineering offices by employing Building Information Modelling (BIM) technologies. This initiative has been funded within the Call 2011 for Teaching Research Incentives ofthe I Teaching Plan of the University of Seville. Following the guidelines of the European Higher Education Area, the learning experience designed has to enable the future Building Engineers to acquire specific and generic competences ascribed to the Final Project in the Verification Report of the Building Engineering Degree. The specific competence “E71. Presentation and defence before a university board of a final project, consisting of an integration exercise of the formative contents received and skills acquired through t he degree” is trained by the development of a building execution project with the use of BIM technologies. For a decade, architecture and engineering offices have increasingly been incorporating in their projects new tools for information processing in digital integrated systems, i.e. programs which allow the construction of building virtual models in three dimensions, and the identification of their constructive components, providing them with parametric dimensions. The operating capacity of BIM programs is stronger than that of 2D drawing programs, since they can manage and generate all the technical documentation in an integrated way. As far as the generic competences are concerned, the problem is that the Final Project has ascribed twenty four competences and their training and evaluation throughout a single term, which seems rather unattainable. In order to solve this matter, the four most important generic competences of Building Engineers have been identified according to their professional profile: “G01. Capacity for organization and planning”, “G06. Information management skills”, “G09. Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team” and “G13. Positive social attitude towards social and technological innovations”. The use of BIM technologies and collaborative work methodologies allow the training of these genericcompetences. Finally, assessment matrixes of the five competences involved have been established with the descriptors of the assessment indicators for each of their corresponding criteria at each level of student achievement. This study is limited to the design of the experience; its implementation could be carried out in the first term of the 2012/2013 academic year, provided the main pre-requisite are met by students, and command of BIM programs such as ALLPLAN, REVIT or ARCHICAD, is achieved. Aware of this challenge− since BIM programs are taught as optional subjects− a curricular line for students interested in participating in this experience is also proposed for the next academic year

Patients with prosthetic heart valves have a higher risk of developing valve thrombosis and arterial thromboembolism. Antithrombotic therapy during the early postoperative period after biologic mitral valve replacement (MVR) is controversial. Hence, a retrospective study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of different antithrombotic therapies in patients after MVR with bioprostheses.Between January 2000 and January 2006, a total of 99 patients presenting with preoperative sinus rhythm underwent isolated bioprosthetic MVR. Of these patients, 59 (58%) received a bovine pericardial xenograft, and 40 (42%) a porcine bioprosthesis. The postoperative antithrombotic therapy was prescribed according to the surgeon's preference.Fifty-one (51%) patients received acetylsalicylic acid (ASA group, 100 mg/day), 12 (13%) did not receive any specific antithrombotic therapy (NT group), and 36 (36%) received a vitamin K antagonist (VKA group, INR 2-3). The primary endpoints were the rate of cerebral ischemic events, bleeding events, and survival. The mean follow up was 23 months (range: 3-68 months). There were five early deaths (5%), and eight late deaths (8%). There were five episodes of cerebral ischemic events; these included three patients (8.3%) in the VKA group, one patient (2.0%) in ASA group, and one patient (8.3%) in the NT group (p = 0.351). Of these episodes, two occurred between 24 h and three months after surgery. Only one (2.8%) episode of major bleeding occurred (in the VKA group), due to poor anticoagulation management.Each of the antithrombotic therapies evaluated appeared to be safe. There was no evidence to suggest that any specific antithrombotic therapy would be superior in preventing valve thrombosis in patients undergoing bioprosthetic MVR.

Se determinan los niveles de residuos de insecticidas organoclorados en las aguas del río Segura, con el fin de conocer la incidencia de esta contaminación residual sobre el medio agrícola. Se aprecia la existencia de residuos de este tipo de insecticidas en todas las muestras, por lo general en baja concentración; los del tipo HCH son los que aparecen más abundantemente y alcanzan los mayores niveles. La realización del muestreo durante 1980, permite afirmar que los niveles de contaminantes organoclorados no implican un riesgo inminente para el ecosistema agrícola.

En aquest estudi es presenten els resultats de l'enquesta d'opinió que es va fer als alum­nes al finalitzar l'assignatura optativa de pràctiques, que es va posar en marxa en el curs 97/98 ,amb la finalitat de saber el grau de consecució dels: objectius generals de l'assignatura, habilitats en els procediments, organització i actituds i sentiments, referents a les diferents experiències viscudes a la unitat.

Diariamente vemos en los hospitales pacientes en situa­ción de presentar un desequilibrio de líquidos, debido a motivos quirúrgicos, patológicos o traumáticos. La enfermera es el profesional de la salud que observa y valora la evolución de los pacientes de una forma continua­da; una de las responsabilidades a las que debe hacer frente es controlar el estado de hidratación de sus pacientes. Cuando existen órdenes médicas que prescriben los líquidos, la enfermera es la responsable del control y respuesta del enfermo a los líquidos que se están perfundiendo, pero en ausencia de órdenes médicas la hidratación convencional de los pacientes queda en manos de la enfermera, que se encar­ga de asegurar las entradas de líquidos necesarias para man­tener un buen equilibrio. Para abordar los trastornos hídricos de los pacientes revi­saremos cómo están distribuidos los líquidos en el organis­mo y cómo se mantiene su equilibrio.

Predicting accurately the conditions within biomass boilers is challenging. It encompasses a wide range of spatial scales (from particles, millimeter to grate boiler, meters) and physical processes such as multiphasic flow, heat transfer, radiation, chemical reaction or particle accumulation in the bed. The fuel feeds is very heterogeneous: biomass particles may have variable composition, sizes or shapes. Furthermore, the biomass boiler operation is determined by operation parameters of the boiler (biomass feedstock, air distribution, grate speed), fuel characteristics (sizes, shapes, composition) and the different domains of the boiler (grate and freeboard), which are strongly coupled between them. We have successfully developed a CFD model able to simulate in detail these phenomena with low computational cost. To do it, we have implemented an innovative approach consisting in the combination of Eulerian discretization with Lagrangian features such as particle tracking with clustering. The model elaborated has been successfully tested through the simulation of the operation of a spreader-stoker biomass boiler, considering different biomass feedstock compositions., Proceedings of the 29th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, 26-29 April 2021, Online, pp. 652-656

Doce años después de su creación por la ANECA, la implantación del programa de Apoyo a la Evaluación de la Actividad Docente del Profesorado Universitario (DOCENTIA) en las universidades públicas de la Comunidad de Madrid acumula una amplia y diversa experiencia, tanto en la concreción de su diseño, como en su desarrollo o en los resultados obtenidos. Como instrumento para la mejora de la formación, cualificación y competencia docente del profesorado, este programa establece un marco común que orienta los sistemas que cada universidad utiliza para impulsar, evaluar y reconocer la calidad docente, así como para disponer de un diagnóstico preciso de las necesidades en materia de formación, innovación y planificación académica. El simposio, celebrado el 25 de noviembre de 2020 dentro del XVII Foro Internacional sobre la Evaluación de la Calidad de la Investigación y de la Educación Superior (FECIES), muestra la experiencia de las seis universidades públicas de la Comunidad de Madrid en su proceso de implantación y certificación del programa. Se trata de un espacio de intercambio y encuentro en el que se analizan y debaten sus diferentes aspectos: desde los objetivos y finalidades que persigue, sus características y diseño, el modelo de evaluación, el proceso y los procedimientos utilizados para ello, las acciones, efectos y reconocimientos derivados, o las estrategias seguidas para la difusión de los resultados. El objetivo es compartir las mejores prácticas y estimular un espacio de colaboración entre las universidades que tienen implantado el programa.