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SINTOMATOLOGIA DEPRESIVA EN ESCOLARES DE 12 A 16 AÑOS Y SU RELACIÓN CON LAS DISTORSIONES COGNITIVAS

The aims of this investigation have been the study of the presence of depressive symptomatology and their relationship with cognitive distortions in adolescent scholars. Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI, Kovacs, 1992), Peer Nomination Inventory of Depression (PNID, Lefkowitz y Tesiny, 1981) and Children’s Cognitive Distortions Questionnaire (CDCN-1, Bas, 1987) have been administered on a representative sample of 908 Sevillian adolescents (aged 12 to 16). The results revealed an 11'78% of depressive symptomatology with an upward lineal tendency regarding the age and with superior scores in the case of women. The number of cognitive distortions has been related positively with the presence of this symptomatology. This point shows to be one of the main predictors of the punctuations in CDI. The depressive symptomatology keeps relation to the most important moments in the youth’s cognitive development. An increase of cognitive distortions has been appreciated on aged 13. Later on, this one stays constant. CDCN-1 is considered as an appropriate complement of CDI, on the contrary that PNID, probably for the process of internalization of depressive manifestations. You cannot grant a causal role on depression to the cognitive biases. It is suggested that the coincidence between CDI and CDCN-1 about raised scores is a sign of a high risk (vulnerability) to develop a first depressive episode.
Linear inverse problems with various noise models and mixed regularizations

In this paper, we propose two algorithms for solving linear inverse problems when the observations are corrupted by noise. A proper data fidelity term (log-likelihood) is introduced to reflect the statistics of the noise (e.g. Gaussian, Poisson) independently of the degradation. On the other hand, the regularization is constructed by assuming several a priori knowledge on the images. Piecing together the data fidelity and the prior terms, the solution to the inverse problem is cast as the minimization of a non-smooth convex functional. We establish the well-posedness of the optimization problem, characterize the corresponding minimizers for different kind of noises. Then we solve it by means of primal and primal-dual proximal splitting algorithms originating from the field of non-smooth convex optimization theory. Experimental results on deconvolution, inpainting and denoising with some comparison to prior methods are also reported.
An Approach for Side Scan Sonar Acoustic Images Segmentation using Programmable Logic

In applications related to maintenance of underwater infrastructure in harbour installations, cables and pipelines, it is necessary to separate the relevant objects of study from the rest of the acoustic image obtained by sonar. Current acoustic image processing techniques require a high computational effort and time consumption due to the manipulation of large volumes of data generated by these devices. Motivated by this problem, in this paper we present an alternative for segmenting acoustic images, proposing a framework for use with programmable logic technology. We propose to perform data segmentation into three types of regions, acoustic highlight, seafloor reverberation and acoustic shadow areas, by using programmable logic and VHDL hardware description language. Finally, results obtained over seafloor images with pipeline presence and acquired with a side scan sonar from a vessel in Salvador de Bahía, Brazil are presented.
A Sequence Alignment Model Based on the Averaged Perceptron

We describe a discriminatively trained sequence alignment model based on the averaged perceptron. In common with other approaches to sequence modeling using perceptrons, and in contrast with comparable generative models, this model permits and transparently exploits arbitrary features of input strings. The simplicity of perceptron training lends more versatility than comparable approaches, allowing the model to be applied to a variety of problem types for which a learned edit model might be useful. We enumerate some of these problem types, describe a training procedure for each, and evaluate the model’s performance on several problems. We show that the proposed model performs at least as well as an approach based on statistical machine translation on two problems of name transliteration, and provide evidence that the combination of the two approaches promises further improvement.
Species are individuals: Therefore human nature is a metaphysical delusion

The debate about the credentials of sociobiology has persisted because scholars have failed to distinguish the varieties of sociobiology and because too little attention has been paid to the details of the arguments that are supposed to support the provocative claims about human social behavior. I seek to remedy both deficiencies. After analysis of the relationships among different kinds of sociobiology and contemporary evolutionary theory, I attempt to show how some of the studies of the behavior of nonhuman animals meet the methodological standards appropriate to evolutionary research. I contend that the efforts of E. O. Wilson, Richard Alexander, Charles Lumsden, and others to generate conclusions about human nature are flawed, both because they apply evolutionary ideas in an unrigorous fashion and because they use dubious assumptions to connect their evolutionary analyses with their conclusions. This contention rests on analyses of many of the major sociobiological proposals about human social behavior, including: differences in sex roles, racial hostility, homosexuality, conflict between parents and adolescent offspring, incest avoidance, the avunculate, alliances in combat, female infanticide, and gene-culture coevolution. Vaulting Ambition thus seeks to identify what is good in sociobiology, to expose the errors of premature speculations about human nature, and to prepare the way for serious study of the evolution of human social behavior.
The challenges of coordination in national security management – the case of the terrorist attack in Norway

The article addresses a ‘wicked problem’: Organizing for internal security and societal safety. It examines the central emergency and crisis management under the terrorist attack in Norway in July 2011, with a special focus on the coordinating role of the Ministry of Justice (MJ). Our analysis is based on an in-depth qualitative analysis of relevant official documents and interviews with government officials, using a structural-instrumental and a cultural-institutional perspective to understand outcomes. There is a consensus when it comes to diagnosing the problems, identified as fragmentation, pulverization of accountability and weak coordination arrangements. The organizational changes have been cautious and incremental, however. A gradual upgrading of the MJ as an overarching coordinating ministry does not challenge the existing principles of ministerial responsibility. Suggested solutions are beset with ambiguity and conflicts, and there is a mismatch between problems and available solutions. Points for practitioners Challenges of coordination are evident in modern public administration, related to both vertical and horizontal coordination, and particularly so within the field of internal security and crisis management. New Public Management (NPM)-related reforms have created further coordination problems, especially in policy areas and public services that cross sector boundaries. New arrangements, labeled post-NPM reforms, have tried to counter the alleged increasing fragmentation. The challenges are quite evident when it comes to crisis management, where a combination of organizing for coordination and flexibility is necessary. Major crises do not always lead to radical changes, however. Instrumental and formal changes are often mediated by the existing culture. The result is a rather hybrid and multi-layered modern public administration.
Introduction: Organizational Discourses and Practices

This article provides a brief introduction to the other articles in this Special Issue, and sets out some of the traditions in linguistics and discourse analysis which have engaged in organizational research. The article then addresses some of the issues that define organizationality, such as impersonalization, power, and (re)production. The latter of these three is focused on in greater detail and is linked to current concerns with what is now termed the `recontextualization' of professional and organizational phenomena (Bernstein, 1990; Iedema, 1997a; Linell and Sarangi, 1998). Here, recontextualization is proposed to be at the heart of organizationality itself; that is, organizationality is seen as constituted in (re)productive processes which apply discipline/scientific technologies to human/exosomatic resources, producing lasting effects. These effects include both specialized practices and alternative social and material realities. Relatedly, we argue that organizational meaning making practices are to be considered as `multimodal' chains of recontextualization, with alternative semiotics such as design and built construction forming equally important links as does language in the chains of organizational processes.
Different Characteristics of the Corticospinal Tract According to the Cerebral Origin: DTI Study

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Little is known about differences in corticospinal tract fibers according to cerebral origin. Using diffusion tensor tractography, we attempted to investigate the characteristics of the CST according to the cerebral origin in the human brain. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty-six healthy subjects were recruited for this study. A 1.5T Gyroscan Intera system was used for acquisition of DTI. CSTs were reconstructed by selection of fibers passing through seed and target ROIs: seed ROIs, the area of the CST at the pontomedullary junction; target ROIs, the primary motor cortex, the primary somatosensory cortex, the dorsal premotor cortex, and the supplementary motor area. RESULTS: A significant difference in tract volume was observed in each ROI (P < .05): M1 (2373.6, 36.9%), S1 (2037.7, 31.7%), SMA (1588.0, 24.7%), and dPMC (429.8, 6.7%). Regarding fractional anisotropy values, the dPMC or SMA showed higher values than the M1 or S1; however, the opposite occurred in terms of the mean diffusivity value (P < .05). In addition, fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity values of the dPMC differed from those of the SMA (P < .05); in contrast, no significant difference was observed between the M1 and S1 (P > .05). CONCLUSIONS: Tract volume was found to differ according to cerebral origin and was, in descending order, M1, S1, SMA, and dPMC. In addition, the directionality and diffusivity of CST fibers in the SMA and the dPMC differed from those of the M1 and S1, which showed similar characteristics.
Multi-source Conflating Index Construction for Local Search in a Low-Coverage Country

Local search is a well-established mode of Web search engines today. For most developed countries, a huge amount of data is directly available on the Web and can be extracted and processed by search engines. In many developing countries, the Web coverage is much lower and only little information is directly available. To develop a Local Search that still can provide sufficient coverage, a hybrid mode of index construction has to be followed that identifies and integrates other sources of geospatial information to increase the coverage. The location part can be exceptionally difficult, as imprecise addresses and low-coverage geocoders do not allow precise coordinates to be used in mapping. We present an approach that is designed to increase coverage and precision. We use the example of Honduras, a country in Latin American, to describe the approach and potential data sources.
On the Other (Invisible) Hand...

The invisible hand as it appears in the Theory of Moral Sentiments is commonly treated as an afterthought in discussions of the version in the Wealth of Nations, but it deserves attention in its own right. I will argue that there is an entirely coherent (if not entirely plausible) economic argument underpinning the invisible hand of the Theory of Moral Sentiments. It is quite different from the invisible hand argument of the Wealth of Nations, not because of any conflict but because they address different questions. The argument in the Theory of Moral Sentiments allowed Smith to maintain an ironic distance from the inequality and greed that he saw around him while arguing that it did no harm, and allowed him to resolve, at least to his own satisfaction, an age-old debate about the ethical and political consequences of luxury consumption. Some of these themes were further developed in the Wealth of Nations, but without the phrase 'invisible hand', which was switched to a different part of the argument.
A longitudinal study of executive function and theory of mind development in autism

Abstract Both executive function and theory of mind impairment have been suggested as primary deficits of autism. One test of the primacy of a deficit is its persistence and stability throughout development. This longitudinal study examined development of executive function and theory of mind abilities over a 3-year time period, comparing nonretarded autistic adolescents with learning-disabled controls matched on age, IQ, gender, and socioeconomic status (SES). Results indicate that both executive function and theory of mind abilities are seriously deficient in autistic individuals, improve little with development, may never reach normal functioning levels, and appear to eventually hit a developmental ceiling. Developmental variables showed little relationship to overall task performance or improvement in either cognitive domain. The similar developmental trajectories of executive function and theory of mind performance found in this investigation suggest that these skills may be related and interdependent, rather than independent modules of cognitive function. Implications for the neurological basis of autism and intervention are also discussed.
Fas ligand mediates activation-induced cell death in human T lymphocytes

A significant proportion of previously activated human T cells undergo apoptosis when triggered through the CD3/T cell receptor complex, a process termed activation-induced cell death (AICD). Ligation of Fas on activated T cells by either Fas antibodies or recombinant human Fas- ligand (Fas-L) also results in cytolysis. We demonstrate that these two pathways of apoptosis are causally related. Stimulation of previously activated T cells resulted in the expression of Fas-L mRNA and lysis of Fas-positive target cells. Fas-L antagonists inhibited AICD of T cell clones and staphylococcus enterotoxin B (SEB)-specific T cell lines. The data indicate AICD in previously stimulated T cells is mediated by Fas/Fas-L interactions.
Coworkers' and Supervisor Interactional Justice: Correlates of Extension Personnel's Job Satisfaction, Distress, and Aggressive Behavior

This paper examined the effects of coworkers and supervisor interactional fairness on employees' job satisfaction, distress, and aggressive behavior. Surveys were employed to elicit data from 270 extension personnel from two Agricultural Development Programs in Nigeria. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that fairness from both supervisors and coworkers were negatively related to job distress and aggressive behaviors and employees would respond with dissatisfaction to unfair treatments from their supervisors. The implications of findings are discussed.
Cooperation Controlled Competitive Learning Approach for Data Clustering

Rival penalized competitive learning (RPCL) and its variants can perform clustering analysis efficiently with the ability of selecting the cluster number automatically. Although they have been widely applied in a variety of research areas, some of their problems have not yet been solved. Based on the semi-competitive learning mechanism of competitive and cooperative learning (CCL), this paper presents a new robust learning algorithm named Cooperation controlled competitive learning (CCCL), in which the learning rate of each seed points within the same cooperative team can be adjusted adaptively. CCCL has not only inherited the merits of CCL, RPCL and its variants, but also overcome most of their shortcomings. It is insensitive to the initialization of the seed points and applicable to the heterogeneous clusters with an attractive accurate convergence property. Experiments have shown the efficacy of CCCL. Moreover, in some case its performance is prior to CCL and some other variants of RPCL.
Constant Time Updates in Hierarchical Heavy Hitters

Monitoring tasks, such as anomaly and DDoS detection, require identifying frequent flow aggregates based on common IP prefixes. These are known as hierarchical heavy hitters (HHH), where the hierarchy is determined based on the type of prefixes of interest in a given application. The per packet complexity of existing HHH algorithms is proportional to the size of the hierarchy, imposing significant overheads. In this paper, we propose a randomized constant time algorithm for HHH. We prove probabilistic precision bounds backed by an empirical evaluation. Using four real Internet packet traces, we demonstrate that our algorithm indeed obtains comparable accuracy and recall as previous works, while running up to 62 times faster. Finally, we extended Open vSwitch (OVS) with our algorithm and showed it is able to handle 13.8 million packets per second. In contrast, incorporating previous works in OVS only obtained 2.5 times lower throughput.
Neurocognitive profiles in autism spectrum disorder

The current research project examines the performance of a group of high functioning young adult males with autism spectrum disorders on standardized measures of neurocognitive functioning to determine whether distinct cognitive profiles of strengths and weaknesses emerge. Neuropsychological test data across various domains: general cognitive ability, visuospatial processing, verbal learning and memory, visual learning and memory, working memory, reasoning, cognitive flexibility, attention, receptive language, expressive language, social and emotional processing, and fine motor skills were examined. Data were analyzed using cluster analysis to assess for the presence and nature of unique clusters/subgroups based on neuropsychological test performance. Three unique clusters were derived from the analyses. This study highlights the well-documented heterogeneity across the spectrum of autism and suggests a method for parsing a heterogeneous sample of ASD subjects into smaller and more meaningful homogeneous groups using standardized neuropsychological assessments.
Phylogenetic analyses and molecular epidemiology of European salmonid alphaviruses (SAV) based on partial E2 and nsP3 gene nucleotide sequences.

Sequence data were generated for portions of the E2 and nsP3 genes of 48 salmonid alphaviruses from farmed Atlantic salmon (AS), Salmo salar L. , and rainbow trout (RT), Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum), in marine and freshwater environments, respectively, from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, Norway, France, Italy and Spain between 1991 and 2007. Based on these sequences, and those of six previously published reference strains, phylogenetic trees were constructed using the parsimony method. Trees generated with both gene segments were similar. Clades corresponding to the three previously recognized subtypes were generated and in addition, two further new clades of viruses were identified. A single further strain (F96-1045) was found to be distinct from all of the other strains in the study. The percentage of nucleotide divergence within clades was generally low (0-4.8% for E2, 0-6.6% for nsP3). Interclade divergence tended to be higher (3.4-19.7% for E2, 6.5-28.1% for nsP3). Based on these results and using current SAV terminology, the two new clades and F96-1045 were termed SAV subtypes 4, 5 and 6, respectively. SAV4 contained AS strains from Ireland and Scotland, while SAV5 contained only Scottish AS strains. Recently identified SAV strains from RT in Italy and Spain were shown to belong to SAV2. In addition, marine AS strains belonging to SAV2 were identified for the first time. Analysis of the origin of several clusters of strains with identical E2 and nsP3 sequences strongly support horizontal transmission of virus between farms and aquaculture companies. Evidence in support of vertical transmission was not found.
New model of ErbB‐2 over‐expression in human mammary luminal epithelial cells

The ErbB‐2 receptor has been strongly implicated in the development of breast cancer. To establish a new model system to investigate the role of erbB‐2 in tumorigenesis of the breast, the conditionally immortalised human mammary luminal epithelial cell line HB4a was transfected with erbB‐2 cDNA. Biological and biochemical characterisation of the resulting cell lines demonstrated that high levels of ErbB‐2 expression were sufficient to cause transformation in vitro but did not cause tumours in vivo. Transformation by over‐expression of ErbB‐2 correlated with ligand‐independent tyrosine phosphorylation of ErbB‐2 and the adaptor protein Shc. Over‐expression of ErbB‐2 also resulted in the ligand‐independent constitutive association between Shc and another adaptor protein, Grb2, indicating that receptor activation was sufficient to activate downstream signalling pathways. Using the model described, it was found that elevation of ErbB‐2 expression levels caused marked quantitative and qualitative alterations in responses to the ligands epidermal growth factor and heregulin. Data indicate a central role for ErbB‐2 in mediating the responses induced by these ligands and suggest that these altered ligand‐dependent responses play an important role in tumorigenesis in vivo. Int. J. Cancer 80:477–484, 1999. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
The dyslipophobias: a view of the psychopathologies involved and the hazards of construing anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as ‘eating disorders’

The term ‘eating disorder’ is in widespread use. Like a ‘cough’ due to underlying tuberculosis or lung cancer, it may be all that is symptomatically evident but it is of little diagnostic value in itself. Simply to attempt to modify the eating pattern is likely to be ineffectual and may be counterproductive or dangerous. The powerful force at work in both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa is the underlying ‘dyslipophobia’ (a distressing fear of ‘fatness’). In the case of anorexia nervosa it is fear of and a need to avoid the ‘fatness’ of normal (female) mature body weight, which is promoted by puberty. In mainstream bulimia nervosa occurring at or above normal adult body weight, it is the intense fear of excessive fatness, reinforced by the belief that others also see this as a shameful ‘loss of control’. Problems of control relate to the pubertally-driven sexual impulse with normal ‘fatness’ as its marker, especially when this process is threatened by periodic or sustained gorging on excess calories. Under such circumstances vomiting becomes the necessary first line of defence if periodic abstinence and laxative abuse are insufficient to curb weight gain. The overlap between these conditions relates to the perceived level of acceptable body weight. The individual female with bulimia nervosa who nurses a secret wish to be about 7-7.5 stone (45-48 kg) or less has the seeds of anorexia nervosa and a worse prognosis than the individual accepting of a weight about 8.5-9 stone (54-57 kg). A complicating variant of bulimia nervosa (and potentially a feature of some individuals currently in the avoidant posture of anorexia nervosa) takes a multi-impulse-ridden form, with the individual also prone to equally unfulfilling and sometimes promiscuous sexual behaviour, violence, self-harm, stealing, drug and alcohol abuse. These pubertally-driven disorders have little in common with the more aptly designated ‘eating disorders’ of childhood wherein unwillingness to eat food as such is ‘chosen’ by the child as the family battleground in an otherwise unequal struggle.