La profesión de policía y su relación con los rasgos obsesivos en un paciente en análisis.

Tesis (Maestría en Área Específica Clínica Psicoanalítica) UANL, 2011.

Competencias profesionales de enfermería en la atención del paciente sometido a terapia transfusional.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias de Enfermería con Énfasis en Administración de Servicios) UANL, 2010.

Medidas preventivas en el proceso de medicación en el paciente hospitalizado.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias con Énfasis en Administración de Servicios) UANL, 2010.

Conciliación de la medicación al ingreso del paciente a la unidad de emergencias.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias de Enfermería) UANL, 2012.

Creencias y actitudes de los estudiantes de enfermería ante el paciente que consume alcohol y el consumo de alcohol.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias de Enfermería) UANL, 2012

Rupturas del ambiente facilitador, que favorecieron a la desorganización del yo en un paciente psicótico.

Tesis (Maestría en Psicología con Orientación en Clínica Psicoanalítica) UANL, 2012.

La dependencia y el control como forma de vinculación en una paciente histérica.

Tesis (Maestría en Psicología con Orientación Clínica Psicoanalítica) UANL, 2012.

Influencia de la estructura familiar en el comportamiento del paciente en la consulta odontopediátrica.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias Odontológicas con Especialidad en Odontopediatría) UANL, 2012.

Estudio de caso : el proceso de la terapia breve en el afrontamiento del estrés en un cuidador de paciente diagnosticado con afasia.

Tesis (Maestría en Psicología con Orientación en Terapia Breve) UANL, 2013.

Consumo de alcohol y actitudes del profesional de enfermería ante el paciente que consume alcohol.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias de Enfermería) UANL, 2014.

Actitudes hacia el paciente que consume alcohol y el consumo de alcohol en el profesional médico y de enfermería.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias de Enfermería) UANL, 2014.

De testigo a la asunción del deseo: avatares del tratamiento psicoanalítico en una paciente testigo de Jehová.

Tesis (Maestría en Psicología con orientación en Clínica Psicoanalítica) UANL, 2014.

Organic consumers' attitudes and preferences regarding alternatives to piglet castration without anaesthesia and analgesia in organic farming - an explorative analysis

In Germany and other European countries piglets are routinely castrated in order to avoid the occurrence of boar taint, an off-flavour and off-odour of pork. Sensory perception of boar taint varies; however, it is regarded as very unpleasant by many people. Surgical castration which is an effective means against boar taint has commonly been performed without anaesthesia or analgesia within the piglets’ first seven days of life. Piglet castration without anaesthesia has been heavily criticised, as the assumption that young piglets perceive less pain than older animals cannot be supported by scientific evidence. Consequently, surgical castration is only allowed with anaesthesia and/or analgesia in organic farming throughout the European Union since January 2012. Abandoning piglet castration without pain relief requires the implementation of alternative methods which improve animal welfare while maintaining sensory meat quality. There are three relevant alternatives: castration with anaesthesia and/or analgesia to reduce pain, a vaccination against boar taint (immunocastration) and the fattening of uncastrated male pigs (fattening of boars) combined with measures to reduce and detect boar taint in meat. Consumers’ attitudes and opinions regarding the alternatives are an important factor with regard to the implementation of alternatives, as they are finally supposed to buy the meat. The objective of this dissertation was to explore organic consumers’ attitudes, preferences and willingness-to-pay regarding piglet castration without pain relief and the three alternatives. Important aspects for the evaluation of the alternatives and influencing factors (e.g. information, taste) on preferences and willingness-to-pay should also be identified. In autumn 2009 nine focus group discussions were conducted each followed by a Vickrey auction including a tasting of boar salami. Overall, 89 consumers of organic pork participated in the study. Information on piglet castration and alternatives (in three variants) was provided as a basis for discussion. The focus group data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. In order to compare the focus group results with those from the auctions, an innovative approach applying an adapted scoring model to further analyse the data set was used. The majority of participants were not aware that piglets are castrated without anaesthesia in organic farming. They reacted shocked and disappointed on learning about this practice which did not fit into their image of animal welfare standards in organic farming. Overall, the results show, that for consumers of organic pork castration with anaesthesia and analgesia as well as the fattening of boars may be acceptable alternatives in organic farming. Considering the strong food safety concerns regarding immunocastration, acceptance of this alternative may be questioned. Communication regarding alternatives to piglet castration without anaesthesia and analgesia should take into account that the relevance of the aspects animal welfare, food safety, taste and costs differs between alternatives. Furthermore, it seems advisable not to address an unappetizing topic like piglet castration directly at the point of sale so as not to deter consumers from buying organic pork. The issue of piglet castration demonstrates exemplarily that it is important for the organic sector to implement and maintain high animal welfare standards and communicate them in an appropriate way, thereby trying to prevent strong discrepancies between consumers’ expectations regarding animal husbandry in organic farming and actual conditions. So, disappointment of consumers and a loss of image due to negative reports about animal welfare issues can be avoided.

Notes on PCA, Regularization, Sparsity and Support Vector Machines

We derive a new representation for a function as a linear combination of local correlation kernels at optimal sparse locations and discuss its relation to PCA, regularization, sparsity principles and Support Vector Machines. We first review previous results for the approximation of a function from discrete data (Girosi, 1998) in the context of Vapnik"s feature space and dual representation (Vapnik, 1995). We apply them to show 1) that a standard regularization functional with a stabilizer defined in terms of the correlation function induces a regression function in the span of the feature space of classical Principal Components and 2) that there exist a dual representations of the regression function in terms of a regularization network with a kernel equal to a generalized correlation function. We then describe the main observation of the paper: the dual representation in terms of the correlation function can be sparsified using the Support Vector Machines (Vapnik, 1982) technique and this operation is equivalent to sparsify a large dictionary of basis functions adapted to the task, using a variation of Basis Pursuit De-Noising (Chen, Donoho and Saunders, 1995; see also related work by Donahue and Geiger, 1994; Olshausen and Field, 1995; Lewicki and Sejnowski, 1998). In addition to extending the close relations between regularization, Support Vector Machines and sparsity, our work also illuminates and formalizes the LFA concept of Penev and Atick (1996). We discuss the relation between our results, which are about regression, and the different problem of pattern classification.

Técnico en cuidados auxiliares de enfermería : ciclo formativo de grado medio : módulo Promoción de la salud y apoyo psicológico al paciente.

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