Evaluation of Non-Technical Skills in Students Throughout the Medical Course in Ecuador.

Objectives: This research focuses on assessing non-technical skills (NTS), comprising behavioral aspects that support an individual's expertise in personal and professional performance. Due to varied terminology, including "soft skills" and other terms, NTS is less understood, leading to a potential gap in the literature and limited attention to their development. This study establishes the need for a comprehensive evaluation of NTS to obtain an objective and complete profile of NTS in students pursuing medicine at the Universidad Central del Ecuador (UCE) during 2023, using a standardized and benchmarked psychometric instrument.

Exploring the role of ecology and social organisation in agropastoral societies: A Bayesian network approach.

The present contribution focuses on investigating the interaction of people and environment in small-scale farming societies. Our study is centred on the particular way settlement location constraints economic strategy when technology is limited, and social division of work is not fully developed. Our intention is to investigate prehistoric socioeconomic organisation when farming began in the Old World along the Levant shores of Iberian Peninsula, the Neolithic phenomenon.

New leishmanicidal stilbenes from a Peruvian folk medicine, Lonchocarpus nicou.

Two new stilbenes, 1 and 2, were isolated as leishmanicidal constituents from the methanolic extract of Lonchocarpus nicou leaves and stem, together with five known stilbenes and rotenoids. Their chemical structures were determined by spectral methods. Among them, the cis stilbene-type compounds 1 and 4 showed potent leishmanicidal activity (IC50: 5.

[The effect of the essential oil from Aloysia triphylla britton (lemon verbena) on Trypanosoma cruzi in mice].

Objectives: To determine the in-vivo anti-Trypanosoma cruzi activity of the essential oil from Aloysia triphylla in mice.

Materials And Methods: The mice (n = 15) in the study were randomly assigned to the following groups: infected and untreated (G1), infected and treated with benznidazole 100 mg/kg (G2), infected and treated with of Aloysia triphylla essential oil 100 mg/kg (G3), infected and treated with of Aloysia triphylla essential oil 250 mg/kg (G4), uninfected and untreated (G5), and uninfected and treated with 250 mg/kg of Aloysia triphyla (G6). The infection was conducted using 104 blood T.

[HEPATITIS E IgG ANTIBODIES SEROPREVALENCE IN A PERUVIAN RISK GROUP].

We study the seroprevalence and risk factors on hepatitis E virus infection in 191 healthy subjects, which are workers of the drinking water and sewerage system of Lima city, and the main activity of them was to handle sewage at present or early past. We tested for IgG hepatitis E antibodies (anti-HEV IgG) a two recombinant antigen based enzyme immunoassay (Abbott IL USA).Anti-HEV IgG were positive in 20 subjects (10.