El proceso contra Jato Tello (Vitoria 1485): ¿Error judicial o empleo de la justicia penal en la política antijudía?

[ES]El objeto de este artículo es saber hasta qué punto pudo emplearse la justicia penal como un instrumento más de la política de carácter antijudío desarrollada por las autoridades cristianas de la España medieval a finales del siglo XV, concretamente en los momentos previos a la expulsión. Para indagar sobre esta cuestión se tendrá presente el proceso penal por blasfemia al que fue sometido el judío de Vitoria (Álava) Jato Tello.

On Bounded Strictly Positive Operators of Closed Range and Some Applications to Asymptotic Hyperstability of Dynamic Systems

The problem discussed is the stability of two input-output feedforward and feedback relations, under an integral-type constraint defining an admissible class of feedback controllers. Sufficiency-type conditions are given for the positive, bounded and of closed range feed-forward operator to be strictly positive and then boundedly invertible, with its existing inverse being also a strictly positive operator. The general formalism is first established and the linked to properties of some typical contractive and pseudocontractive mappings while some real-world applications and links of the above formalism to asymptotic hyperstability of dynamic systems are discussed later on.

Clinical factors associated with a Candida albicans Germ Tube Antibody positive test in Intensive Care Unit patients

Background: Poor outcomes of invasive candidiasis (IC) are associated with the difficulty in establishing the microbiological diagnosis at an early stage. New scores and laboratory tests have been developed in order to make an early therapeutic intervention in an attempt to reduce the high mortality associated with invasive fungal infections. Candida albicans IFA IgG has been recently commercialized for germ tube antibody detection (CAGTA). This test provides a rapid and simple diagnosis of IC (84.4% sensitivity and 94.7% specificity). The aim of this study is to identify the patients who could be benefited by the use of CAGTA test in critical care setting. Methods: A prospective, cohort, observational multicentre study was carried out in six medical/surgical Intensive care units (ICU) of tertiary-care Spanish hospitals. Candida albicans Germ Tube Antibody test was performed twice a week if predetermined risk factors were present, and serologically demonstrated candidiasis was considered if the testing serum dilution was >= 1: 160 in at least one sample and no other microbiological evidence of invasive candidiasis was found. Results: Fifty-three critically ill non-neutropenic patients (37.7% post surgery) were included. Twenty-two patients (41.5%) had CAGTA-positive results, none of them with positive blood culture for Candida. Neither corrected colonization index nor antifungal treatment had influence on CAGTA results. This finding could corroborate that the CAGTA may be an important biomarker to distinguish between colonization and infection in these patients. The presence of acute renal failure at the beginning of the study was more frequent in CAGTA-negative patients. Previous surgery was statistically more frequent in CAGTA-positive patients. Conclusions: This study identified previous surgery as the principal clinical factor associated with CAGTA-positive results and emphasises the utility of this promising technique, which was not influenced by high Candida colonization or antifungal treatment. Our results suggest that detection of CAGTA may be important for the diagnosis of invasive candidiasis in surgical patients admitted in ICU.

Intraobserver error associated with anthropometric measurements made by dietitians

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Aplicación de redes neuronales artificiales para la caracterización del error en trayectorias circulares por WEDM

El objeto del presente trabajo, titulado “Aplicación de redes neuronales artificiales para la caracterización del error en trayectorias circulares por WEDM”, es el estudio y posterior optimización del error en trayectorias circulares mecanizadas mediante electroerosión por hilo. Se pretende desarrollar un modelo predictivo de dicho error a través de la implementación de una Red Neuronal Artificial (RNA), que deberá ser alimentada con resultados empíricos resultantes de una batería de ensayos. El modelo desarrollado permitirá conocer a priori los errores que se producirán al cortar formas circulares en distintos espesores y con distintos radios sin necesidad de recurrir a costosas baterías de ensayos.

Caracterización del error en el corte de desbaste de trayectorias circulares mediante WEDM.

[ES]En la actualidad el proceso de mecanizado mediante electroerosión por hilo (WEDM) posee varias problemáticas a la hora de la ejecución de los cortes para producir diferentes formas, ya sean esquinas, radios de redondeo o de acuerdo y por último la realización de círculos. Es por ello por lo que se elabora el presente trabajo cuya finalidad es llegar a caracterizar los errores cometidos en el corte de desbaste de probetas con trayectorias circulares y tecnología estándar. De esta manera se podrá cuantificar las desviaciones que se producen en las piezas en función del espesor y de sus radios. Toda la información obtenida en el trabajo permitirá una futura actuación en diversos parámetros máquina, elaborando nuevas tecnologías o bien poder mitigarlos realizando correcciones geométricas, ajustando sus tolerancias.