Influencia de enfermería en la educación para modificar estilos de vida en niños con sobrepeso y obesidad

La obesidad es una enfermedad crónica, compleja y multifactorial que suele iniciarse en la infancia y la adolescencia. La prevalencia de la obesidad está aumentando tanto en países en vías de desarrollado como en países desarrollados. Según la OMS, la obesidad está declarada como una epidemia global que incluye tanto a los niños como a la población adulta. La obesidad supone un mayor riesgo para enfermedades crónicas como la diabetes tipo 2, la enfermedad cardiovascular, hipertensión, accidente cerebrovascular y ciertas formas de cáncer. He llevado a cabo un estudio cualitativo, basándome en la investigación-acción, para modificar estilos de vida en adolescentes con obesidad y sobrepeso. Durante un periodo de dos meses, he realizado una observación participante en la consulta de pediatría de Atención Primaria de Novelda, para investigar los factores que intervienen en el desarrollo de la obesidad infantil entre niños de 10 a 13 años. Entre los factores externos más influyentes en el desarrollo de la obesidad, fueron el ambiente familiar, psicosocial y escolar. Para apoyar mi teoría, hice una búsqueda bibliográfica. Los resultados obtenidos en el estudio confirmaron la gran influencia que ejercen estos factores y por eso, la educación sanitaria es de gran importancia para que abarque todos ellos y se consiga una disminución del IMC en la población infantil.

Tourism potential analysis of the castles of Vinalopó, Spain: an opportunity for social and tourist development of cultural heritage

Within the overall framework of the renewal process of coastal tourist destinations, cultural heritage has frequently been used as a key argument for the introduction and development of strategies for the diversification and differentiation of the traditional tourist product based on sun and sand. This is the situation of the province of Alicante, identified with the Costa Blanca geotourism brand, where there are important economic issues that could contribute to the renewal of this coastal tourist destination. One of the most significant heritage values of this space consists of a series of medieval fortresses located along the axis of the Vinalopó River, which has acted since prehistoric times as a natural route from within the provincial mainland to the coast. It is precisely the argument of this historical, territorial and landscape content that has been used repeatedly in recent years to develop initiatives aimed at the creation of a tourist product, currently inexistent, based on the route of the castles of Vinalopó. This communication aims to analyse the degree of tourism potential of the fortresses located in the towns of Biar, Banyeres de Mariola, Sax, Villena, Novelda, Elda, Petrer and Elche, which constitute the core of municipalities where these medieval fortresses are located, finally pointing out some proposals for the creation of a heritage tourism product.

Design and implementation of a non-destructive defect detection technique based on UWB-SAR imaging

In the last twenty years aerospace and automotive industries started working widely with composite materials, which are not easy to test using classic Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) techniques. Pairwise, the development of safety regulations sets higher and higher standards for the qualification and certification of those materials. In this thesis a new concept of a Non-Destructive defect detection technique is proposed, based on Ultrawide-Band (UWB) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging. Similar SAR methods are yet applied either in minefield [22] and head stroke [14] detection. Moreover feasibility studies have already demonstrated the validity of defect detection by means of UWB radars [12, 13]. The system was designed using a cheap commercial off-the-shelf radar device by Novelda and several tests of the developed system have been performed both on metallic specimen (aluminum plate) and on composite coupon (carbon fiber). The obtained results confirm the feasibility of the method and highlight the good performance of the developed system considered the radar resolution. In particular, the system is capable of discerning healthy coupons from damaged ones, and correctly reconstruct the reflectivity image of the tested defects, namely a 8 x 8 mm square bulge and a 5 mm drilled holes on metal specimen and a 5 mm drilled hole on composite coupon.