First Record of the Pacific Fanfish Pteraclis aesticola (Jordan and Snyder, 1901) in the Tropical Eastern Pacific

José De La Cruz Agüero,Víctor Manuel Cota Gómez 한국해양과학기술원 2008 Ocean science journal Vol.43 No.3

One specimen of Pteraclis aesticola was collected off San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, México (22°54'N, 109°45'W), in March 2007. Present record is the first reported occurrence of the species in the Tropical Eastern Pacific biogeographic region (Gulf of California to southern Ecuadorian waters). Its large fan-like anal and dorsal fins and its counts of fin rays and vertebrae can distinguish the Pacific fanfish from the other species in the genus. This fish may have not yet been recorded in the region because its presence has been overlooked in the past because of rarity and lack of commercial value. One specimen of Pteraclis aesticola was collected off San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, México (22°54'N, 109°45'W), in March 2007. Present record is the first reported occurrence of the species in the Tropical Eastern Pacific biogeographic region (Gulf of California to southern Ecuadorian waters). Its large fan-like anal and dorsal fins and its counts of fin rays and vertebrae can distinguish the Pacific fanfish from the other species in the genus. This fish may have not yet been recorded in the region because its presence has been overlooked in the past because of rarity and lack of commercial value.

Therapeutic Effects of Resiniferatoxin Related with Immunological Responses for Intestinal Inflammation in Trichinellosis

José Luis Muñoz-Carrillo,José Luis Muñoz-López,José Jesús Muñoz-Escobedo,Claudia Maldonado-Tapia,Oscar Gutiérrez-Coronado,Juan Francisco Contreras-Cordero,María Alejandra Moreno-García 대한기생충학ㆍ열대의학회 2017 The Korean Journal of Parasitology Vol.55 No.6

The immune response against Trichinella spiralis at the intestinal level depends on the CD4+ T cells, which can both suppress or promote the inflammatory response through the synthesis of diverse cytokines. During the intestinal phase, the immune response is mixed (Th1/Th2) with the initial predominance of the Th1 response and the subsequent domination of Th2 response, which favor the development of intestinal pathology. In this context, the glucocorticoids (GC) are the pharmacotherapy for the intestinal inflammatory response in trichinellosis. However, its therapeutic use is limited, since studies have shown that treatment with GC suppresses the host immune system, favoring T. spiralis infection. In the search for novel pharmacological strategies that inhibit the Th1 immune response (proinflammatory) and assist the host against T. spiralis infection, recent studies showed that resiniferatoxin (RTX) had anti-inflammatory activity, which decreased the serum levels of IL-12, INF-γ, IL-1β, TNF-α, NO, and PGE2, as well the number of eosinophils in the blood, associated with decreased intestinal pathology and muscle parasite burden. These researches demonstrate that RTX is capable to inhibit the production of Th1 cytokines, contributing to the defense against T. spiralis infection, which places it as a new potential drug modulator of the immune response.

Identification and Tuning Methods for PI Control Systems Based on Symmetric Send-on-delta Sampling

José Sánchez Moreno,María Guinaldo Losada,Antonio Visioli,Sebastián Dormido Bencomo 제어·로봇·시스템학회 2019 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Vol.17 No.11

Two procedures for the definition of an autotuning algorithm for event-based proportional-integral (PI) control systems are proposed in this contribution. Firstly, a method for the identification of the most common transfer functions used for tuning PI controllers is explained. The rationale of the identification method is based on the limit cycles that the event-based sampler and a convenient tuning of the PI controller can produce in the closed loop. The identification method is designed for controller tuning, that is, fitting the behaviour of the process in the range of frequencies between ω−180◦ and ω−135◦ . Secondly, a new method for tuning the event-based PI controller is explained. The main control objective of the new tuning rule is to generate a set of parameters that introduces the process in a limit cycle at a user-specified inter-event time. However, by introducing an oscillation margin in the tuning rule, the method generalizes to produce controller parameters that avoid limit cycles with a certain robustness margin. Simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the tuning rule to force the system to oscillate at a specified frequency as a consequence of the events triggered by the event-based sampler.

THE EFFECT OF BRAND FAMILIARITY AND REPETITION OF PRODUCT PLACEMENT IN VIDEO GAMES

José Martí-Parreño,Jesús Bermejo-Berros,Joaquín Aldás-Manzano 글로벌지식마케팅경영학회 2016 Global Marketing Conference Vol.2016 No.7

A factorial design 2 (high repetition vs low repetition) x 2 (high brand familiarity vs low brand familiarity) is used to test the effects of repetition and brand familiarity on consumers’ memory for brands placed in video games. Consumers recalled better familiar brands and repetition increased recall for familiar brands.

Lengua y gramática en El Quijote

José María Brucart 한국스페인어문학회 2016 스페인어문학 Vol.0 No.80

A recent biography of Cervantes characterizes his literary career as “the conquest of irony”. This appreciation is particularly on target when addressing the study of El Quijote, which in itself represents a satire on the genre of cavalry novels. The aim of this paper is to explore some linguistic mechanisms that are widely present in the novel and relate them with the general context of the Spanish language at the beginning of the 17th century. The first part of El Quijote is published slightly over a century after the first Spanish grammar. During that period, Castilian Spanish had become a language of culture, with a rich and growing literary legacy. However, the situation of grammatical studies on Spanish was still very incipient. After the publication of Nebrija’s grammar in 1492, the few grammatical treatises of Spanish published before 1605 were specifically addressed to foreign learners. But the idea of publishing grammars for native speakers was going to make headway in the following decades due to two independent factors. On the one hand, the extraordinary progression of Castilian as a language of culture, in which Cervantes is a fundamental cornerstone. On the other hand, the rationalist turn that conceives the study of grammar as an inquiry concerning human reason. When analyzing the language of El Quijote, it is important to take into account that there was not a well-established normative codification of Spanish at that moment. Some critics in the 19th century, following the Neoclassic norms, criticized a large number of alleged grammatical errors in the novel (anacolutha, syllepses, expletive reiterations), but the vast majority correspond to variants that were usual in the colloquial speech of that period. An important trait of the language of Cervantes is the stylistic use of the grammatical resources. We will study a case in point: the literary exploitation of the noun ellipsis or zeugma.

Parodie et humour chez Cervantès : Don Quichotte, tradition iconique et diversité culturelle.

José María Paz Gago 한국영상문화학회 2015 영상문화 Vol.0 No.26

ARFIMA REFERENCE FORECASTS FOR WORLDWIDE CO2 EMISSIONS AND THE NATIONAL DIMENSION OF THE POLICY EFFORTS TO MEET IPCC TARGETS

JOSÉ M. BELBUTE,ALFREDO M. PEREIRA 중앙대학교 경제연구소 2022 Journal of Economic Development Vol.47 No.1

We use an ARFIMA approach to develop reference scenario projections for CO2 emissions worldwide and for seven different regions. Our objective is to determine the magnitude of the policy efforts necessary to achieve the IPCC emissions reductions goals. For worldwide emissions, the aggregate policy effort required to achieve the 2050 goals is equivalent to 97.4% of 2010 emissions. This policy effort is frontloaded as about 60% of such efforts would have to occur by 2030. In order to achieve the IPCC target the policy efforts in the cases of the USA, EU(28), Russia, and Japan are lower and less frontloaded than the IPCC goals themselves. In the case of China, India and the ROW, additional policy efforts are necessary to achieve reductions in emissions of 105.0%, 156.0% and 111.4%, of the 2010 levels, respectively. In the case of India, policy efforts are not only rather severe but also rather dramatically frontloaded, as about 74% of the policy efforts would have to occur by 2030.

I Can Not Wear My Sunglasses: An Unusual Sarcoidosis Presentation

José Pablo Miramontes González,Virginia Velasco Tirado,Pablo González García,Marta Sánchez García,Ángeles Fidalgo Fernández 대한가정의학회 2017 Korean Journal of Family Medicine Vol.38 No.4

A 39-year-old Caucasian man was referred to University Hospital Salamanca from a primary care unit due to the presence of an erythematous violaceous nodule at the superior portion of his nose. Physical examination indicated that the firm, fixed erythematous violaceous nodule measured approximately 2 cm in diameter and was located in-ferior to a scar on the nasal bridge. Cutaneous involvement in sarcoidosis occurs in 25% of cases. A wide range of clinical presentations of cutaneous sarcoidosis is recognized. Skin lesions are classified as either non-specific, of which erythema nodosum is the most representative and specific, or as granulomatous, which includes maculo-papular nodules, plaques, infiltrated scars, lupus pernio, ulcerations, warty lesions and erythroderma. Scar sarcoid-osis is a type of cutaneous sarcoidosis.

Prospective study analyzing risk factors and characteristics of healthcare-associated infections in a Urology ward

José Medina-Polo,Raquel Sopeña-Sutil,Raúl Benítez-Sala,Alba Lara-Isla,Manuel Alonso-Isa,Javier Gil-Moradillo,Juan Justo-Quintas,Esther García-Rojo,Daniel Antonio González-Padilla,Juan Bautista Passas- 대한비뇨의학회 2017 Investigative and Clinical Urology Vol.58 No.1

Purpose: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in urological patients have special features due to specific risk factors. Our objective was to evaluate the characteristics and risk factors for HAIs in patients hospitalized in a Urology ward. Materials and Methods: We evaluated prospectively, from 2012 to 2015, the incidence, types and risk factor for HAIs, microbiological and resistance patterns. Results: The incidence of HAIs was 6.3%. The most common types were urinary infections (70.5%) and surgical site infections (22.1%). Univariate analysis showed an increased risk of HAIs among patients with American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification system III–IV (odds ratio [OR], 1.39; p<0.001), immunosuppression (OR, 1.80; p=0.013), previous urinary infection (OR, 4.46; p<0,001), and urinary catheter before admission (OR, 1.74; p<0.001). The surgical procedures with the highest incidence of HAIs were radical cystectomy (54.2%) and renal surgery (8.7%). The most frequently isolated microorganisms were Escherichia coli (25.1%), Enterococcus spp. (17.5%), Klebsiella spp. (13.5%) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (12.3%). Enterococcus sp was the most common microorganism after radical cystectomy and in surgical site infections, E. coli showed resistance rates of 53.5% for fluoroquinolones, 9.3% for amikacin. The percentage of extended-spectrum betalactamase producing E. coli was 24.7%. Klebsiella spp. showed resistance rates of 47.8% for fluoroquinolones, 7.1% for amikacin and 4.3% for carbapenems. Enterococcus spp showed resistance rates of 1.7% for vancomycin and; P. aeruginosa of 33.3% for carbapenems and 26.2% for amikacin. Conclusions: Comorbidities, previous urinary infections, and urinary catheter are risk factors for HAIs. The microorganisms most commonly isolated were E. coli, Enterococcus and P. aeruginosa. Prospective monitoring may decrease the incidence of infections.

Prediction of the transfer length of prestressing strands with neural networks

José R. Martí-Vargas,Víctor Yepes,Francesc J. Ferri 사단법인 한국계산역학회 2013 Computers and Concrete, An International Journal Vol.12 No.2

This paper presents a study on the prediction of transfer length of 13 mm seven-wire prestressing steel strand in pretensioned prestressed concrete members with rectangular cross-section including several material properties and design and manufacture parameters. To this end, a carefully selected database consisting of 207 different cases coming from 18 different sources spanning a variety of practical transfer length prediction situations was compiled. 16 single input features and 5 combined input features are analyzed. A widely used feedforward neural regression model was considered as a representative of several machine learning methods that have already been used in the engineering field. Classical multiple linear regression was also considered in order to comparatively assess performance and robustness in this context. The results show that the implemented model has good prediction and generalization capacity when it is used on large input data sets of practical interest from the engineering point of view. In particular, a neural model is proposed -using only 4 hidden units and 10 input variables- which significantly reduces in 30% and 60% the errors in transfer length prediction when using standard linear regression or fixed formulas, respectively.