Judgmental-analytical procedures for adapting tests: Adaptation to Spanish of the Reasoning Tests Battery

Adapting a test between cultures or languages requires taking into account legal, linguistic, metric, and use-related considerations. Significantly more attention has been paid to the methodological aspects involved in the study of metric equivalence than to judgmental-analytical procedures prior to the empirical confirmation stage. However, considering the latter is crucial in the adaptation process. Along these lines, this paper seeks to describe and focus on the relevance of the previous stages, thereby offering a systematization process that comprises ten sections. This approach contributes to ensuring the construction of a test adapted and equivalent in as much as possible to the original. This process is exemplified by means of a Spanish language adaptation of a cognitive test originally designed in Portuguese for the Portuguese population, the Reasoning Test Battery. Copyright (C) 2013, Konrad Lorenz University Foundation. Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U.

Frecuencia de la extensión etmoidal de la sinusitis maxilar odontógena y respuesta al tratamiento quirúrgico

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Alveolar nitric oxide and its role in pediatric asthma control assessment

Resumen Background: Nitric oxide can be measured at multiple flow rates to determine proximal (maximum airway nitric oxide flux; Jaw(NO)) and distal inflammation (alveolar nitric oxide concentration; CA(NO)). The main aim was to study the association among symptoms, lung function, proximal (maximum airway nitric oxide flux) and distal (alveolar nitric oxide concentration) airway inflammation in asthmatic children treated and not treated with inhaled glucocorticoids. Methods: A cross-sectional study with prospective data collection was carried out in a consecutive sample of girls and boys aged between 6 and 16 years with a medical diagnosis of asthma. Maximum airway nitric oxide flux and alveolar nitric oxide concentration were calculated according to the two-compartment model. In asthmatic patients, the asthma control questionnaire (CAN) was completed and forced spirometry was performed. In controls, differences between the sexes in alveolar nitric oxide concentration and maximum airway nitric oxide flux and their correlation with height were studied. The correlation among the fraction of exhaled NO at 50 ml/s (FENO50), CA(NO), Jaw(NO), forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and the CAN questionnaire was measured and the degree of agreement regarding asthma control assessment was studied using Cohen's kappa. Results: We studied 162 children; 49 healthy (group 1), 23 asthmatic participants without treatment (group 2) and 80 asthmatic patients treated with inhaled corticosteroids (group 3). CA(NO) (ppb) was 2.2 (0.1-4.5), 3 (0.2-9.2) and 2.45 (0.1-24), respectively. Jaw(NO) (pl/s) was 516 (98.3-1470), 2356.67 (120-6110) and 1426 (156-11805), respectively. There was a strong association (r = 0.97) between FENO50 and Jaw(NO) and the degree of agreement was very good in group 2 and was good in group 3. There was no agreement or only slight agreement between the measures used to monitor asthma control (FEV1, CAN questionnaire, CA(NO) and Jaw(NO)). Conclusions: The results for CA(NO) and Jaw(NO) in controls were similar to those found in other reports. There was no agreement or only slight agreement among the three measure instruments analyzed to assess asthma control. In our sample, no additional information was provided by CA(NO) and Jaw(NO).

Spectroscopic properties of Er3+/Yb3+ codoped fluorophosphate glasses

Er3+/Yb3+ cocloped fluorophosphate glasses were prepared and their thermal stabilities, Raman spectra, absorption spectra, and fluorescence spectra were measured. It is found that proper content of NaF or PbF2 is helpful for the increase of stability against crystallization. The variation of AI(PO3)3 or NaF content in the composition affects not the maximum phonon energy but the phonon density. The introduction of PbF2 decreases the phonon energy slightly. Intense green and red upconversion luminescence was observed for the fluorophosphate glass with low phosphate content. A glass matrix for upconversion luminescence requiring neither expensive raw material nor special atmospheric conditioned preparation is provided. Infrared luminescence around 1530 nm was researched. Fluorophosphate glasses with bandwidth properties and stimulated-emission cross sections better than tellurite, germanate and silicate glasses are obtained. Through the introduction of NaF, the bandwidth properties are decreased. Through the introduction of PbF2 the gain properties are increased. On the whole, it is difficult to obtain a material with the best gain properties and bandwidth properties simultaneously. There should be a compromise between them according to the demand. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Cuantificación de la carga interna en jóvenes futbolistas de élite

Objetivo: El objetivo de este estudio es analizar los diferentes métodos existentes para la cuantificación de la carga interna (CI) en el fútbol y estudiar las diferencias existentes en la CI en jóvenes jugadores élite de fútbol dependiendo de las características de las sesiones, equipo y puestos. Métodos: Se obtuvo la carga percibida, y la frecuencia cardiaca de 36 jóvenes jugadores élite (18,87 ± 1,24 años, masa:70,81 ± 5,62 kg) de las sesiones de entrenamiento realizadas durante tres semanas. Resultados: Las correlación encontrada entre el método de Edwards-TL y Stagno-TL fue de r=0,921 ± 0,126 entre Edwards-TL y el método de Foster r=0,47 ± 0,343 y entre el método de Stagno-TL y el método de Foster fue de r=0,451 ± 0,386. Los distintos indicadores, sRPE, Edwards-TL y Stagno-TL describen una CI similar en los diferentes tipos de sesión analizadas (Recuperación, Simulación, Resistencia, Fuerza y Velocidad) aunque no siempre coincidían. Siendo la sesión denominada Resistencia la que acumulaba más CI (172,68 ± 47,87; 76,01 ± 28,62y 445,49 ± 115,02 AU; Edwards-TL, Stagno-TL y Foster respectivamente). No se encontraron diferencias significativas en la CI dependiendo de los puestos jugadores, y solo se encontraron diferencias significativas entre los jugadores más veteranos y jóvenes en la carga percibida. Conclusiones: Los diferentes tipos de sesión suponen una CI diferente para los jugadores. Las diferencias existentes entre los tipos de sesión varían dependiendo del método de cuantificación utilizado. Los indicadores de CI basados en la FC y en la carga percibida no siempre pueden ser intercambiables y pueden aportar información distinta a los técnicos.

Módulo de generación de trayectorias para el vuelo autónomo de un cuadricóptero.

[ES]La finalidad de este TFG es dotar a un Parrot AR Drone de un módulo que, en conjunto con otros desarrollos anteriores, sea capaz de realizar trayectorias evitando obstáculos. Después de realizar las simulaciones necesarias, utilizando un software de comunicación con el cuadricóptero, se pretenden obtener pruebas físicas de los avances en la programación.