Francisco Rodríguez Adrados. Historia de la lengua griega, Madrid, Gredos 1999, 315 pp.

Fil: González de Tobia, Ana María. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Francisco Rodríguez Adrados. El cuento erótico griego, latino e indio, Madrid, Ediciones del Orto, 1994, 322 pp.

Fil: Pepe de Suárez, Luz Enriqueta Aurelia. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Francisco Rodríguez Adrados. Historia de la democracia. De Solón a nuestros días, Madrid, Ediciones Temas de Hoy S. A. (T.H.), 1997, 511 pp. ; Francisco Rodríguez Adrados. Democracia y literatura en la Atenas clásica, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1997, 263 pp.

Fil: González de Tobia, Ana María. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

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Acceptance of relapse fears in breast cancer patients: effects of an act-based abridged intervention

Objective: Relapse fear is a common psychological scar in cancer survivors. The aim of this study is to assess the effects of an abridged version of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in breast cancer patients.Method: An open trial was developed with 12 non-metastatic breast cancer patients assigned to 2 conditions, ACT and waiting list. Interventions were applied in just one session and focused on the acceptance of relapse fears through a ‘defusion’ exercise. Interference and intensity of fear measured through subjective scales were collected after each intervention and again 3 months later. Distress, hypochondria and ‘anxious preocupation’ were also evaluated through standardized questionnaires.Results: The analysis revealed that ‘defusion’ contributed to decrease the interference of the fear of recurrence, and these changes were maintained three months after intervention in most subjects. 87% of participants showed clinically significant decreases in interference at follow-up sessions whereas no patient in the waiting list showed such changes. Statistical analysis revealed that the changes in interference were significant when comparing pre, post and follow-up treatment, and also when comparing ACT and waiting list groups. Changes in intensity of fear, distress, anxious preoccupation and hypochondria were also observed.Conclusions: Exposure through ‘defusion’ techniques might be considered a useful option for treatment of persistent fears in cancer patients. This study provides evidence for therapies focusing on psychological acceptance in cancer patients through short, simple and feasible therapeutic methods.

Quantitative estimation of bioturbation based on digital image analysis

Quantitative determination of modification of primary sediment features, by the activity of organisms (i.e., bioturbation) is essential in geosciences. Some methods proposed since the 1960s are mainly based on visual or subjective determinations. The first semiquantitative evaluations of the Bioturbation Index, Ichnofabric Index, or the amount of bioturbation were attempted, in the best cases using a series of flashcards designed in different situations. Recently, more effective methods involve the use of analytical and computational methods such as X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography; these methods are complex and often expensive. This paper presents a compilation of different methods, using Adobe® Photoshop® software CS6, for digital estimation that are a part of the IDIAP (Ichnological Digital Analysis Images Package), which is an inexpensive alternative to recently proposed methods, easy to use, and especially recommended for core samples. The different methods — “Similar Pixel Selection Method (SPSM)”, “Magic Wand Method (MWM)” and the “Color Range Selection Method (CRSM)” — entail advantages and disadvantages depending on the sediment (e.g., composition, color, texture, porosity, etc.) and ichnological features (size of traces, infilling material, burrow wall, etc.). The IDIAP provides an estimation of the amount of trace fossils produced by a particular ichnotaxon, by a whole ichnocoenosis or even for a complete ichnofabric. We recommend the application of the complete IDIAP to a given case study, followed by selection of the most appropriate method. The IDIAP was applied to core material recovered from the IODP Expedition 339, enabling us, for the first time, to arrive at a quantitative estimation of the discrete trace fossil assemblage in core samples.

El amor de Alfonso El Magnánimo y Lucrezia D'Alagno a través de los poemas de Carvajal

Integran este número de la revista ponencias presentadas en Studia Hispanica Medievalia VIII : Actas de las X Jornadas Internacionales de Literatura Española Medieval, 2011, y de Homenaje al Quinto Centenario del Cancionero General de Hernando del Castillo.

Interceptación del agua de lluvia en sistema de café (Coffea arábica L) en monocultivo y agroforestal, CENECOOP, Masaya, Nicaragua, 2013

La intercepción de lluvia por el dosel de la vegetación es uno de los factores que intervienen en la humedad del suelo y escurrimiento, debido a que gran parte retorna a la atmosfera en forma de evaporación. El estudio tiene como propósito analizar la distribución del agua de lluvia a través del proceso de intercepción por dosel en un sistema de café agroforestal y a pleno sol. Los indicadores evaluados fuero el flujo cortical y traslocacion, Índice de área foliar por el método directo en cafetos e indirecto con fotografías hemisféricas en árboles. Se instalaron un total de 76 pluviómetros a 1.80 m. de altura y 54 pluviómetros distribuidos debajo de los arbustos de café, se monitoreo el flujo cortical en árboles y cafetos, en un sistema de tres parcelas bajo sombra y una parcela a pleno sol. Un total de 36 eventos, fueron analizados, eliminando los datos de escurrimiento de fuste que rebasaron su capacidad de almacenamiento. Como resultado en los árboles de roble (T. rosea) presentaron mayor flujo cortical que el acetuno (S. glauca), debido a la arquitectura del dosel y las características de la corteza del fuste del árbol. El flujo de translocación del roble fue similar al del acetuno. Y la interceptación en Roble fue (30,5 mm), mayor al de acetuno con (28,8 mm). La interceptación en los arbustos de café fue mayor bajo sombra con (105,3 mm) a los cafetos a pleno sol con (62,47 mm). Este estudio preliminar sugiere continuar desarrollando esta metodología para obtener balances hídricos en sistemas agroforestales con café.

El outsourcing y su influencia en los objetivos de la estrategia de operaciones. Una aplicación empírica

[ES] El outsourcing de servicios permite mejorar los recursos y capacidades de la empresa, al obtener una mejor calidad de los servicios externalizados y un mejor resultado, ya que permite a la empresa centrarse en lo que realmente sabe hacer. Este artículo trata de ver las percepciones que tienen los directivos del sector hotelero acerca de la influencia que puede tener la externalización en la estrategia de operaciones y concretamente en los objetivos de operaciones relacionados con la reducción del coste, la mejora de la calidad, el aumento de la flexibilidad y el aumento del servicio. El estudio demuestra que los directivos consideran que la externalización tiene un gran potencial al presentar una influencia no sólo en la reducción del coste, sino también en los otros objetivos de la estrategia de operaciones, dando así un carácter más estratégico a la externalización.

Improving bilingual higher education: Training university professors in content and language integrated learning

With increasing international mobility, higher education must cater to the varying linguistic and cultural needs of students. Successful delivery of courses through English as the vehicular language is essential to encourage international enrollment. However, this cannot be achieved without preparing university professors in the many intricacies delivering their subjects in English may pose. This paper aims to: share preliminary data concerning Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) at Laureate Network Universities worldwide as few studies have been conducted at the tertiary level, reflect upon data regarding student and teacher satisfaction with CLIL at the Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM), and to propose improvements in English-taught subjects.

Toward a comprehensive care of HIV patients: Finding a strategy to detect depression in a Spanish HIV cohort

Depression is a common but frequently undiagnosed feature in individuals with HIV infection. To find a strategy to detect depression in a non-specialized clinical setting, the overall performance of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the depression identification questions proposed by the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) guidelines were assessed in a descriptive cross-sectional study of 113 patients with HIV infection. The clinician asked the two screening questions that were proposed under the EACS guidelines and requested patients to complete the HADS. A psychiatrist or psychologist administered semi-structured clinical interviews to yield psychiatric diagnoses of depression (gold standard). A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis for the HADS-Depression (HADS-D) subscale indicated that the best sensitivity and specificity were obtained between the cut-off points of 5 and 8, and the ROC curve for the HADS-Total (HADS-T) indicated that the best cut-off points were between 12 and 14. There were no statistically significant differences in the correlations of the EACS (considering positive responses to one [A] or both questions [B]), the HADS-D ≥ 8 or the HADS-T ≥ 12 with the gold standard. The study concludes that both approaches (the two EACS questions and the HADS-D subscale) are appropriate depression-screening methods in HIV population. We believe that using the EACS-B and the HADS-D subscale in a two-step approach allows for rapid, assumable and accurate clinical diagnosis in non-psychiatric hospital settings.