El juego en la educación infantil: cómo y por qué cambian las preferencias lúdicas

[ES] El interés por conocer la cultura lúdica de los niños y niñas de E. Infantil y los posibles cambios que en ella se han producido nos ha llevado a realizar 100 entrevistas sobre las preferencias lúdicas y algunas observaciones a infantes de 3-7 años. Para analizar los resultados se han categorizado las respuestas obtenidas siguiendo los criterios de clasificación de J. Piaget, R. Ortega y Mc Lloyd. Las gráficas de resultados han mostrado que la edad, el sexo y el juguete han sido determinantes en la preferencia lúdica. Por ello, nos ha parecido relevante en E. Infantil, dado que es la actividad por excelencia de la infancia.

Serological and Genetic Evidence for Altered Complement System Functionality in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Findings of the GAPAID Consortium

Systemic lupus erythematosus is a chronic autoimmune disease with multifactorial ethiopathogenesis. The complement system is involved in both the early and late stages of disease development and organ damage. To better understand autoantibody mediated complement consumption we examined ex vivo immune complex formation on autoantigen arrays. We recruited patients with SLE (n = 211), with other systemic autoimmune diseases (n = 65) and non-autoimmune control subjects (n = 149). Standard clinical and laboratory data were collected and serum complement levels were determined. The genotype of SNP rs1143679 in the ITGAM gene was also determined. Ex vivo formation of immune complexes, with respect to IgM, IgG, complement C4 and C3 binding, was examined using a functional immunoassay on autoantigen microarray comprising nucleic acids, proteins and lipids. Complement consumption of nucleic acids increased upon binding of IgM and IgG even when serum complement levels were decreased due to consumption in SLE patients. A negative correlation between serum complement levels and ex vivo complement deposition on nucleic acid autoantigens is demonstrated. On the contrary, complement deposition on tested protein and lipid autoantigens showed positive correlation with C4 levels. Genetic analysis revealed that the non-synonymous variant rs1143679 in complement receptor type 3 is associated with an increased production of anti-dsDNA IgG antibodies. Notwithstanding, homozygous carriers of the previously reported susceptible allele (AA) had lower levels of dsDNA specific IgM among SLE patients. Both the non-synonymous variant rs1143679 and the high ratio of nucleic acid specific IgG/IgM were associated with multiple organ involvement. In summary, secondary complement deficiency in SLE does not impair opsonization of nucleic-acid-containing autoantigens but does affect other antigens and potentially other complement dependent processes. Dysfunction of the receptor recognizing complement opsonized immune complexes promotes the development of class-switched autoantibodies targeting nucleic acids.

A detailed investigation of classification methods for vowel speech imagery recognition

Accurate and fast decoding of speech imagery from electroencephalographic (EEG) data could serve as a basis for a new generation of brain computer interfaces (BCIs), more portable and easier to use. However, decoding of speech imagery from EEG is a hard problem due to many factors. In this paper we focus on the analysis of the classification step of speech imagery decoding for a three-class vowel speech imagery recognition problem. We empirically show that different classification subtasks may require different classifiers for accurately decoding and obtain a classification accuracy that improves the best results previously published. We further investigate the relationship between the classifiers and different sets of features selected by the common spatial patterns method. Our results indicate that further improvement on BCIs based on speech imagery could be achieved by carefully selecting an appropriate combination of classifiers for the subtasks involved.

Data analysis advances in marine science for fisheries management : supervised classification application

169 p. : il. col.

Europeanization beyond the EU: The case of Georgia.

320 p.

Propuestas para una segmentación estratégica del mercado ecológico

[ES] La creciente concienciación medioambiental y la necesidad de atender a las nuevas demandas ecológicas del mercado, obligan a las empresas a desarrollar instrumentos de análisis para ahondar en su conocimiento. La segmentación de mercados es un instrumento analítico válido para inferir características diferenciales de los consumidores ecológicos y adecuar la estrategia de marketing a las preferencias de los segmentos detectados. En este trabajo analizamos las limitaciones de los criterios de segmentación tradicionales y las ventajas de las segmentaciones multicriterio para recoger la complejidad inherente al consumidor ecológico y definir la estrategia de marketing ecológico. Así mismo, presentamos algunas de las segmentaciones del mercado ecológico más relevantes.