¿Está ayudando la cooperación española a conseguir los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio?

La Declaración del Milenio del año 2000 constituye el acuerdo internacional con mayor consenso político de la historia, apoyado por Naciones Unidas y los gobiernos de 191 países.1 Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio son fruto de este acuerdo y constituyen un programa operativo formado por tres objetivos de salud, como son la reducción de la mortalidad infantil, de la mortalidad materna y de las enfermedades infecciosas, y cinco orientados a determinantes de la salud, como la pobreza, la educación, la igualdad de género, el medio ambiente y diversos factores políticos y económicos. Puesto que el límite para cumplir con estos objetivos se estableció en el año 2015, es pertinente examinar en este momento las políticas de los gobiernos para comprobar cuál ha sido su contribución al proyecto.2 El objetivo de este editorial es, en concreto, explorar si la política de cooperación española para el desarrollo está contribuyendo al alcance de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio.

Spin-transfer torque on a single magnetic adatom

We theoretically show how the spin orientation of a single magnetic adatom can be controlled by spin polarized electrons in a scanning tunneling microscope configuration. The underlying physical mechanism is spin assisted inelastic tunneling. By changing the direction of the applied current, the orientation of the magnetic adatom can be completely reversed on a time scale that ranges from a few nanoseconds to microseconds, depending on bias and temperature. The changes in the adatom magnetization direction are, in turn, reflected in the tunneling conductance.

Proline and pyrrolidine derivatives: new drug cadidates for hepatitis C treatment

The more advantageous hepatitis C virus (HCV) inhibitors (most of them incorporating polysubstituted prolines or pyrrolidines) are detailed in this paper. The improvement of current treatments by combination of antiviral drugs is the driving force of this race to reduce the fast proliferation of this virus. The enhancement of efficiency in short periods of treatment is crucial in the economical point of view and for the hope of all infected people. New protease or polymerase inhibitors have been recently developed in order to substitute the traditional highly toxic PEG-interferon α-2b/ribavirin tandem. The contribution of our group in this field concerns the elaboration of the first and second generation GSK polymerase inhibitors through enantioselective processes based on silver(I)- and gold(I)-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of azomethine ylides.

A Computational Model of the Belief System Under the Scope of Social Communication

This paper presents an approach to the belief system based on a computational framework in three levels: first, the logic level with the definition of binary local rules, second, the arithmetic level with the definition of recursive functions and finally the behavioural level with the definition of a recursive construction pattern. Social communication is achieved when different beliefs are expressed, modified, propagated and shared through social nets. This approach is useful to mimic the belief system because the defined functions provide different ways to process the same incoming information as well as a means to propagate it. Our model also provides a means to cross different beliefs so, any incoming information can be processed many times by the same or different functions as it occurs is social nets.