The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12): Reliability,external validity and factor structure in the Spanish population

The purpose of this study was to analyze the internal consistency and the external and structure validity of the 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in the Spanish general population. A stratified sample of 1001 subjects, ages between 25 and 65 years, taken from the general Spanish population was employed. The GHQ-12 and the Inventory of Situations and Responses of Anxiety-ISRA were administered. A Cronbach’s alpha of .76 (Standardized Alpha: .78) and a 3-factor structure (with oblique rotation and maximum likelihood procedure) were obtained. External validity of Factor I (Successful Coping) with the ISRA is very robust (.82; Factor II, .70; Factor III, .75). The GHQ-12 shows adequate reliability and validity in the Spanish population. Therefore, the GHQ-12 can be used with efficacy to assess people’s overall psychological well-being and to detect non-psychotic psychiatric problems. Additionally, our results confirm that the GHQ-12 can best be thought of as a multidimensional scale that assesses several distinct aspects of distress, rather than just a unitary screening measure.

The SEIQS stochastic epidemic model with external source of infection

This paper deals with a stochastic epidemic model for computer viruses with latent and quarantine periods, and two sources of infection: internal and external. All sojourn times are considered random variables which are assumed to be independent and exponentially distributed. For this model extinction and hazard times are analyzed, giving results for their Laplace transforms and moments. The transient behavior is considered by studying the number of times that computers are susceptible, exposed, infectious and quarantined during a period of time (0, t] and results for their joint and marginal distributions, moments and cross moments are presented. In order to give light this analysis, some numerical examples are showed.

Evaluación estructural del implante dental sometido a diferentes torques de inserción. Estudio "in vitro"

El material más frecuentemente utilizado en la implatología oral en la es el titanio comercialmente puro, ya que presenta una gran biocompatibilidad y constituye el material ideal para conseguir la osteointegración con éxito a largo plazo tras la carga funcional 2.HIPÓTESIS DE TRABAJO Las diferentes hipótesis nulas que se plantearon con respecto a la relación de las diferentes variables observadas en nuestro estudio fueron las siguientes: 1.Ho:Fuerzas superiores a 80Nw/cm2 no presentarían ni deformidades,ni alteraciones en la superficie de los implantes de conexión externa ni en los de conexión interna. 2.Ho:Fuerzas superiores a 90Nw/cm2 no presentarían deformidades, ni alteración en la superficie, ni fisuras en los implantes de conexión externa ni en los de conexión interna. 3.Ho:Fuerzas superiores a 100Nw/cm2 no presentarían deformidades en el transportador del implante, ni alteraciones en los hexágonos de los implantes de conexión externa ni en los de conexión interna...