Mental health of children and young people in Great Britain, 2004

This report first describes the prevalence of mental disorders among 5- to 16-year olds in 2004 and notes any changes since the previous survey in 1999. It then provides profiles of children in each of the main disorder categories (emotional, conduct, hyperkinetic and autistic spectrum disorders) and , where the sample size permits, profiles subgroups within these categories.

El riu Llobregat i la seva relació amb el territori a l'època romana

L'objectiu principal d'aquest treball és construir un sistema d'informació geogràfica (SIG) que permeti l'anàlisi de la relació del llit del riu Llobregat amb la ubicació dels jacimentsarqueològics i les vies de transport del Baix Llobregat a l'època romana.

Anàlisi i disseny d'un magatzem de valoracions

El treball consisteix a analitzar i dissenyar una aplicació que ha de permetre emmagatzemar i gestionar les valoracions que es fan amb un valorador.

Gestor de fotos geoetiquetades

En aquest treball de final de carrega s¿ha desenvolupat una aplicació que permet la gestió d¿imatges geoetiquetades publicades en els sistemes Flicker i PicasaWeb fent servir les tecnologies de Microsoft .NET i els serveis web que ofereixen les APIs públiques d¿aquestssistemes.

ARB v.1.0 Gestió del Coneixement amb J2EE

Amb aquest projecte s'ha portat a terme la planificació i el desenvolupament d'una aplicació web amb tecnologia J2EE. Es tracta d'un sistema que s'assimila a una eina de gestió de coneixement, ja que permet l'emmagatzematge de dades i coneixement en estructures arborescents. Posteriorment es pot accedir a aquest coneixement molt fàcilment, de manera que persones amb poca o nul·la formació en la matèria poden diagnosticar i, fins i tot, resoldre problemes relacionats amb la temàtica de la informació emmagatzemada.

Creació del web d'uns estudis de la UOC amb un sistema de gestió de continguts de codi obert

L'objectiu d'aquest treball és seleccionar un sistema de gestió de continguts de codi obert i dissenyar el web d'uns estudis de la UOC amb el programari escollit. Per a això, es comproven les capacitats d'aquest programari en la gestió del contingut del web: creació de nous continguts, expansió, permisos d'accés, flux de treball, etc.

Método alternativo a la modelización gráfica en el cálculo del espacio necesario para crear zonas lineales de aparcamiento en vías urbanas

Aquest mètode permet calcular numèricament l¿espai necessari per crear zones lineals d¿aparcament d¿ n places sense haver de recórrer a la modelització gràfica. Està dissenyat especialment per trobar amb facilitat les característiques òptimes de zones d¿aparcament en vies amb limitacions d¿espai. Aquest estudi és una anàlisi trigonomètrica d¿una àrea d¿aparcament tenint en compte el comportament d¿un vehicle estàndard en la maniobra d¿estacionament.

Mètode alternatiu a la modelització gràfica en el càlcul de l'espai necessari per crear zones lineals d'aparcament en vies urbanes

Aquest mètode permet calcular numèricament l'espai necessari per crear zones lineals d'aparcament d' n places sense haver de recórrer a la modelització gràfica. Està dissenyat especialment per trobar amb facilitat les característiques òptimes de zones d'aparcament en vies amb limitacions d'espai. Aquest estudi és una anàlisi trigonomètrica d'una àrea d'aparcament tenint en compte el comportament d'un vehicle estàndard en la maniobra d'estacionament.

Diseño de una herramienta para la visualización de moleculas

L'objectiu d'aquest TFC consisteix a desenvolupar i implementar l'eina de visualització molecular opengl: HVM. Aquesta aplicació, que permet la visualització i la inspecció de molècules, és de gran utilitat en àrees com la química, la farmàcia, la docència, etc., i admet definicions de molècules mitjançant un fitxer d'entrada (una variació simplificada del format XMOL XYZ), construint-ne el model, cosa que afavoreix que s'hi pugui navegar, com també la selecció i la identificació dels seus elements i el càlcul de distàncies i angles de torsió entre ells. A més, permet la definició d'un eix sobre el qual es pot generar una rotació del model i gravar una seqüència de sortida.

Implantación de plataforma de visualización de Worldsensing en dispositivos con sistema operativo Android

El documento muestra el desarrollo de una aplicación para móviles con Sistema Operativo Android. Esta aplicación muestra, por medio de Google Maps, la localización de plazas de aparcamiento con ayuda del sistema de sensores instalado por Worldsensing.

The association between drinking motives and alcohol-related consequences - room for biases and measurement issues?

Aims  To investigate whether the predominant finding of generalized positive associations between self-rated motives for drinking alcohol and negative consequences of drinking alcohol are influenced by (i) using raw scores of motives that may weight inter-individual response behaviours too strongly, and (ii) predictor-criterion contamination by using consequence items where respondents attribute alcohol use as the cause. Design  Cross-sectional study within the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD). Setting  School classes. Participants  Students, aged 13-16 (n = 5633). Measurements  Raw, rank and mean-variance standardized scores of the Drinking Motives Questionnaire-Revised (DMQ-R); four consequences: serious problems with friends, sexual intercourse regretted the next day, physical fights and troubles with the police, each itemized with attribution ('because of your alcohol use') and without. Findings  As found previously in the literature, raw scores for all drinking motives had positive associations with negative consequences of drinking, while transformed (rank or Z) scores showed a more specific pattern: external reinforcing motives (social, conformity) had negative and internal reinforcing motives (enhancement, coping) had non-significant or positive associations with negative consequences. Attributed consequences showed stronger associations with motives than non-attributed ones. Conclusion  Standard scoring of the Drinking Motives Questionnaire (Revised) fails to capture motives in a way that permits specific associations with different negative consequences to be identified, whereas use of rank or Z-scores does permit this. Use of attributed consequences overestimates the association with drinking motives.

Study of the relationship between Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti egg and adult densities, dengue fever and climate in Mirassol, state of São Paulo, Brazil

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Aedes aegypti egg and adult density indices, dengue fever and climate in Mirassol, state of São Paulo, Brazil, between November 2004-November 2005. Weekly collections of adults and eggs were made using, respectively, manual aspirators and oviposition traps that produced four entomological indices (positivity and average of females and eggs). Weekly incidence coefficients were calculated based on dengue cases. Each week, the data obtained from entomological indices were related to each other, dengue, and climate variables. The first index to show an association with dengue transmission was the female average, followed by female positivity and egg average. Egg positivity did not show a relationship with risk for dengue, but was sensitive to identifying the presence of the vector, principally in dry seasons. The relationship between climatic factors, the vector and the disease found in this study can be widely employed in planning and undertaking dengue surveillance and control activities, but it is a tool that has not been considered by the authorities responsible for controlling the disease. In fact, this relationship permits the use of information about climate for early detection of epidemics and for establishing more effective prevention strategies than currently exist.

Diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis: prenatal and neonatal evaluation of methods used in Toulouse University Hospital and incidence of congenital toxoplasmosis

The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of congenital toxoplasmosis (CT) and to assess the performances of prenatal and neonatal diagnoses. From 1994-2005, in Toulouse University Hospital, France, amniocentesis was performed on 352 pregnant women who were infected during pregnancy. All women were treated with spiramycin and pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine when prenatal diagnosis was positive. Among the 275 foetuses with follow-up, 66 (24%) were infected. The transmission rates of Toxoplasma gondii were 7%, 24% and 59% in the first, second and third trimesters, respectively. The sensitivity and specificity of PCR on amniotic fluid (AF) were 91% and 99.5%, respectively. One case was diagnosed by mouse inoculation with AF and six cases were diagnosed by neonatal or postnatal screening. The sensitivity and specificity of PCR on placentas were 52% and 99%, respectively. The sensitivity of tests for the detection of specific IgA and IgM in cord blood was 53% and 64%, respectively, and specificity values were 91% and 92%. In conclusion, PCR performed on AF had the highest levels of sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of CT. This permits an early diagnosis of most cases and should be recommended.

Predicting random level and seasonality of hotel prices. A structural equation growth curve approach

This article examines the effect on price of different characteristics of holiday hotels in the sun-and-beach segment, under the hedonic function perspective. Monthly prices of the majority of hotels in the Spanish continental Mediterranean coast are gathered from May to October 1999 from the tour operator catalogues. Hedonic functions are specified as random-effect models and parametrized as structural equation models with two latent variables, a random peak season price and a random width of seasonal fluctuations. Characteristics of the hotel and the region where they are located are used as predictors of both latent variables. Besides hotel category, region, distance to the beach, availability of parking place and room equipment have an effect on peak price and also on seasonality. 3- star hotels have the highest seasonality and hotels located in the southern regions the lowest, which could be explained by a warmer climate in autumn

Solució mental i solució motriu en la iniciació als esports col·lectius en l'Educació Primària

The adjustment of the teaching learning contents in Physical Education, requires of a rigorous analysis that permits to adjust them to the maximum with the educational needs of the student body. It has been approached an investigation study in the one which have intervened pupils, boys and girls, of two different populations, Girona and Madrid in order to prove and analyse the motor and mental components of the student body in the real situation of the game. The hypothesis that we have treated are:if it exists differences between the boys and girls of the educational levels studied in the motor and mental solution in the sports initiation, additionally, the differences that they can exist between the courses and what distance is verified between the study ages to approach a physical activity that implies an initial step to the hour of teaching the collective sports in the classes of Physical education. They have been employed three measure instruments: the first permits to analyse the mental solution without need of practice employing situation photographs of the real game with those which the pupils must choose to who to happen; the second is a pass test that permits to prove the technical dominance to use in a collective sport and the third is a real game situation that permits to put in manifesto the relationship between the mental behaviour and the motor of the pupil. This real game situation is ‘the game of ten pass’ (Blázquez,1986; Torres,1993). The results demonstrate that it do not exist differences between the two sexes in the study ages. In the case of the technical execution level, there is a considerable increase with the age and it is slightly greater in the kids that in the girls. In the case of the real game, we find ourselves with a great variability in the results and we cannot conclude that there are relative differences to the sex in none of the three courses. Respect at participation level during the game is confirmed that the pupils that more participate are not the pupils than more balls lose, what permits to guarantee the idea of the fact that it is convenient to use the real game practice as direct learning element. Finally, there is no a high correlation between the execution level measured in the test of technical execution and the decision execution during the game