For effective clinical management of cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease it is important to closely monitor the start and progression of lung damage. The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scoring systems and pulmonary function tests (PFT) to detect changes in lung disease. CF children (n=48) had two HRCT scans in combination with two PF...

BACKGROUND This study analyses the association between rurality and local rate of avoidable hospitalizations in a Spanish region with high population dispersion. METHODS Ecological study using a municipality in the region of Castile and Leon (Spain) as the spatial unit of analysis. The variables used to operationalize rurality included the following: distance to hospital, population density, ...

The connections in a graph generate structure that is independent of coordinate system. This visual metaphor allows creating more flexible representation data than two-dimensional scatterplot. In this article, we present STAD (Simplified Topological Abstraction Data), parameter-free dimensionality reduction method projects high-dimensional into graph. generates an abstract by giving each point ...

In this text, through the Comparative Method in History proposed by Jürgen Kocka, we will specifically analyze penalties imposed on women judged as perpetrators of crime adultery Medieval Castile century. XIII, For this, focus three cases, contained Fuero Juzgo, - legal work sent for translation, adapted and elaborated under reign Fernando III (1217-1252), composed matters ecclesiastical law, l...

Spain has been profoundly transformed by the well-known socio-political and economic changes that have taken place since the end of 1978. In a few short years, the old autocratic State was converted into an important capitalist and liberal economy fully adapted to the commitments of the European Union. Throughout the course of the last decade of the twentieth century, the consequences of full i...

BACKGROUND Adequate access to primary care emergency centers is particularly important in rural areas isolated from urban centers. However, variability in utilization of emergency services located in primary care centers among inhabitants of nearby geographical areas is understudied. The objectives of this study are twofold: 1) to analyze the association between the availability of municipal em...