Fear Detection in Multimodal Affective Computing: Physiological Signals versus Catecholamine Concentration.

Affective computing through physiological signals monitoring is currently a hot topic in the scientific literature, but also in the industry. Many wearable devices are being developed for health or wellness tracking during daily life or sports activity. Likewise, other applications are being proposed for the early detection of risk situations involving sexual or violent aggressions, with the identification of panic or fear emotions.

Opinions of nurses regarding conscientious objection.

Background: In the last decades, there have been important developments in the scientific and technological areas of healthcare. On certain occasions this provokes conflict between the patients' rights and the values of healthcare professionals which brings about, within this clinical relationship, the problem of conscientious objection.

Aims: To learn the opinions that the Nurses of the Madrid Autonomous Community have regarding conscientious objection.

Influence of acupuncture on the third stage of labor: a randomized controlled trial.

Introduction: A prolonged third stage of labor is considered to be a risk factor for postpartum hemorrhage. The objective of this study was to determine the ability of acupuncture to reduce the length of the third stage of labor.

Methods: Seventy-six puerperal women who had a normal spontaneous birth at the Hospital Universitario Principe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, were included in a single-blind randomized trial and evaluated by a third party.

[Knowledge and attitudes about advance directives on physicians and nurses].

Objectives: To describe and compare the knowledge and attitudes of the physicians and nurses towards the advance directives.

Design: A descriptive, cross-sectional pilot study.

Setting: East healthcare area of the Community of Madrid (Spain)

Participants: Primary care and specialized care physicians and nurses.

[The rights of the person at the end of life, in light of the new legislation].

In the last two years there has been a major legislative developments on the individual rights at the end of life process. The aim of this paper is to analyze the content of these new laws in order to know how are regulated the individual rights during the process of death, the duties of health workers who treat these patients and guarantees that public authorities and health institutions are required to provide to ensure the proper exercise of these rights.

[Historical evolution of breastfeeding. Rights and family conciliation].

Human milk has been and it is an important means of survival for the human being. The history of the breastfeeding has been linked to the woman's social and cultural situation and it has gone by different vicissitudes. During a long period the breastfeeding was considered as an unsightly unworthy practice and characteristic of low classes, women that had resources nurses used.

[Does the right to die with dignity exist?].

Death is one of the few certainties in human beings. This reality generates uneasiness regarding how death will occur especially in circumstances of loneliness or suffering which can become agony. In this report, the author first analyzes the existence of the right to die with dignity as a human right which takes on the nature of being a subjective right.