Parasitic Infections: Types, Life Cycles, and Impact

Posted by on Mar 14, 2025 in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering | 0 comments

Infection vs. Parasitic Disease:

  • Infection (without symptoms): Presence of a parasite without clinical manifestations.
  • Parasitic Disease: Presence of a parasite with clinical symptoms.

Zoonotic Parasites: Parasitic diseases that impact human health. Consequences include:

  • Low or high mortality
  • Disease outbreaks
  • Debilitating illnesses
  • Economic losses due to hospitalization

Understanding Biological Associations

Parasitism: A biological association where one individual (the parasite) benefits by obtaining habitat

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Motor and Intellectual Disabilities: Types and School Intervention

Posted by on Mar 13, 2025 in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering | 0 comments

1. Introduction: Basic Concepts

  • Deficiency/Deficit: Loss or abnormality of a structure or function (psychological, physiological, or anatomical).

Biological field; assessed by physicians.

  • Disability: Restriction or absence of the ability to carry out activities expected in human beings. Psychological field; assessed by psychologists.
  • Handicap: Disadvantageous situation for a person, due to a deficit or disability, that restricts the performance of an expected role.

Social field; assessed by social workers.

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Effective Testing: Validity, Reliability, and Practicality

Posted by on Mar 12, 2025 in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering | 0 comments

The Ideal Test: Validity, Reliability, and Practicality

1. Validity

A test is valid when it measures precisely the abilities in which we are interested. This involves choosing the appropriate content and techniques.

2. Reliability

A test is reliable when it measures these abilities consistently. This implies, for example, that the same score will be obtained whether the test is taken on one particular day or on the next. Sources of unreliability may be found in some features of the test itself or in

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Psychopedagogical Assessment and Curricular Adaptations in Education

Posted by on Mar 3, 2025 in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering | 0 comments

Psychopedagogical Assessment: Understanding Student Needs

Concept

According to the BOE (1996), psychopedagogical assessment is a process of:

  • Gathering, analyzing, and evaluating relevant information.
  • Considering the elements involved in the teaching-learning process.
  • Identifying the educational needs of pupils who present (or may present) maladjustments in their personal and/or academic development.
  • Establishing and specifying decisions about the syllabus proposal and the support needed to progress in
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Nematocera and Brachycera: Mosquitoes and Horseflies

Posted by on Mar 1, 2025 in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering | 0 comments

Nematocera (Suborder) and Their Medical Importance

The Nematocera include four families of significant health importance. These families share the common characteristic of having a lower lip present in a trunk transformed into a proboscis.

  • Family 1: Culicidae
  • Family 2: Phlebotomidae
  • Family 3 & 4: Not specified, but implied to be of medical importance.

Culicidae Family (Mosquitoes)

True mosquitoes are subdivided into two subfamilies:

  • Culicinae: Genera include Aedes, Culex, Culiseta, and others.
  • Anophelinae:
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Understanding Ostomy and Enema Procedures

Posted by on Feb 28, 2025 in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering | 0 comments

Ostomy

A surgical intervention creating an opening for an organ to communicate with the outside through a non-natural hole.

Ostomy Nutrition

An alternative route of nutrition when natural feeding is prevented due to conditions like mouth or esophageal cancer, or caustic ingestion. This feeding is done through tubes: esophagostomy, pharyngostomy, gastrostomy, jejunostomy.

Stoma Types and Disposal

Externalization of the intestine to the abdominal wall, sutured to the skin to create an artificial outlet

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