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This article studies the presence of consonant rhymes in dramatic romances from Lope's autograph comedias. After examining ideas about this curious phenomenon among Golden Age poets and theorists, we focus on those romances that accumulate more consonant rhymes, in which they appear to be not mere oversights, but burlesque resources. This is suggested by the playful atmosphere of the fragments, by the protagonism they bestow upon the gracioso, and by the oxytonous rhymes, a trait already used at the end of the sixteenth century for parodic effect, as it happens with these romance consonant rhymes. In addition, we analyze other parallels among the aforesaid comedies (their date of composition, details about their writing and publication, the onomastic coincidences regarding the gracioso) that reinforce the feeling that, in those cases in which they are the most insistant, romance consonant rhymes are an intentional resource of Lope's. When they appear isolated, they may be due to mere oversight, a minor metrical defect in which Lope incurred less often than most of his contemporaries. In addition, we examine certain data pertinent to the frecuency and use of these rhymes as a tool to attribute comedies to Lope.

From Plato to Dionysius of Halicarnassus one has postulated a possible relationship between sound and meaning. Although modern linguistics, from Ferdinand de Saussure to Noam Chomsky, ascertains that any possible relationship between them would be arbitrary and conventional, recent philologists like Iván Fónagy and Jorge M. Guitart have proposed, as Plato and Dionysius had done earlier, that some specific sounds strongly suggest particular emotions. In this essay I should like to propose the possible relationship between sound and expression in the autos sacramentales (‘morality plays’) of Pedro Calderón de la Barca as evinced by the use of the poetic form of the silva.

Soledades and Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea have earned Góngora several recognitions, such as the most sonorous poet of the Spanish Baroque. However, in the very short space of the sonnet «Prisión del nácar era articulado» manages to generate an acoustic artifice whose semantics amplifies and expands the sense of the poetic narrative. After an analysis of the relationship of sound and meaning in the sonnet, this article puts into context the way of reading it aloud with the reading habits of the Spanish Golden Age and the rhetorical demands for the speaker. Gongora’s sonnet dedicated to the lady who pricked herself with a pin is thus framed in a time when the poetic word tries to seduce the ear through experimentation and hybridity.

This paper aims to analyse the character of the maid in the dramatic production of Ángela de Acevedo, a Baroque playwright who authored two comedies of «cloak and sword», El muerto disimulado and Dicha y desdicha del juego y devoción de la Virgen; and a hagiographic play, La margarita del Tajo que dio nombre a Santarén. The study of these works illustrates the importance of the maid character in the comedia nueva and, in particular, in Acevedo’s texts: the maid is essential to the development of the plot, the characterization of the female lead and her contact with the outside world; she takes part in the metatheatrical games common in Golden Age theatre, along with the gracioso; and she frequently voices thoughts of social criticism, especially those specifically linked to the female experience.  

The article investigates two groups of theatrical romances from the work of Pedro Calderón de la Barca: those that rhmye on -ú, u-a, u-e and u-o and those that base their assonance on the i. Comparing passages from different plays that use the first group's assonance, the article argues that these rhymes are used to arouse negative emotions and associations, based mainly on the sonority of the verse. After the same procedure with the second group of romances, the i-based assonances are linked to the love theme. Based on the debate about the semantic value of the different letters, contemporary to Calderón, the text shows that the asonances of the Calderonian theatre have discernible functions. Finally, the author relates this use of asonances to the ideas of universal harmony that were widespread at the time.

Objective: To determine the relationship between eating habits, nutritional status and gastrointestinal problems in university students aged 18-30 in Guápiles, Pococí. Materials and methods: It is a correlational study, in which 99 university students participated, to which a questionnaire based on nutritional history and frequency of consumption was applied Results: the nutritional status according to overweight body mass index was higher the male sex, women mostly presented a normal index. According to eating habits, the majority make three to four mealtimes a day. Gastrointestinal diseases with the highest incidence, gastritis (n = 15, 15.2%), food intolerances (n = 6, 6.1%), irritable bowel syndrome (n = 5, 5.1%), colitis (n = 4, 4.0%), constipation (n = 4, 4.0%), celiac disease (n = 2, 2.0%). Conclusions: There is a close relationship between eating habits and gastrointestinal problems. By having healthy eating habits there will be absence of disease and, later, it will be reflected in the nutritional status of individuals.

Neurology-based models of human personality have a relevant proposal in the work of Jeffrey A. Gray. This author proposed the existence of neurological systems that regulate behavioral inhibition and activation (BIS and BAS), as well as flight-fight-freeze responses (FFFS). Based on their work, self-report measurements have been created to evaluate such traits, in this work the reliability and factorial construct validity of a free-use scale was tested to evaluate the behaviors associated with BIS and BAS. The results showed that the instrument scales have good reliability (Cronbach ᾳ = 0,85 for both BIS and BAS). An exploratory factor analysis established that the measurement items were effectively grouped into two dimensions according to expectations, such a bifactorial model reaching an explained variance of 54,21%. Confirmatory factor analysis yielded adequate fit indices (χ2^(8) = 10,02, p = 0,264; NFI = 0,987; TLI = 0,995; CFI = 0,997; SRMR = 0,038; RMSEA = 0,031). Methodological aspects are discussed as well as possible lines of work for further investigation.

Objective: to analyze the nutritional status and lifestyle of the population attending the INA Health Fair, Uruca, San José. Materials and methods: A descriptive, prospective cross-sectional study was conducted. Anthropometric evaluations and population lifestyle surveys were conducted. Results: the population shows an important cardiovascular risk with the female gender being the most affected, and the province of San José the most predominant; and overweight stands out as one of the main risk factors. According to physical activity, only a little more than half of the respondents do some type of activity. In the consumption of fruits the study reflects a low consumption of fruits and vegetables in general of these nutrients. Conclusions: The Costa Ricans have unhealthy lifestyles that not only affect their nutritional status but also their quality of life.

Fabry disease is an X-linked lysosomal deposit disease that produces alpha A galactosidase deficiency. It is a difficult to diagnose disease due to the heterogeneity of its clinical manifestations, where classic manifestations such as angiokeratomas, cornea verticillata, proteinuria, chronic kidney disease that requires replacement therapy, left ventricular hypertrophy, arrhythmias and cerebrovascular disease predominate. Two phenotypes are mainly described, a classic one that is very rare, more severe and manifests itself at an early age, and a late phenotype which manifests itself at an older age and has heart, kidneys and nervous system as its main target organs. Its pathophysiology is complex, related to the accumulation of metabolites derived from glycosphingolipids, as well as the endothelial dysfunction and prothrombotic state that these generate at a systemic level. The diagnosis is made with evidence of decreased enzymatic function, after which a confirmatory genetic study is performed. Timely diagnosis is highly relevant, since there is an effective enzyme replacement therapy, which potentially modifies the natural history of the disease and increases patient survival.

Nada hacía presumir en esos primeros días de enero del año 2020, que iba a suceder algo diferente en el campo de la salud mundial. Todo lucía igual, tranquilo, sin ningún oleaje amenazador. En occidente, la población apenas estaba reponiéndose de los festejos del año que recién acababa de fenecer y en todas partes, la gente se adentraba de lleno a las actividades cotidianas. El ambiente lucía despejado, sin nubarrones en el horizonte, con una economía dispar, pero ebulliciente en casi todas partes. De tal manera que cuando el 7 de enero, los Centros de  Control de Enfermedades (CDC) de China anunciaron que en la pujante y moderna ciudad de Wuhan, en la provincia de Hubei, habían aparecido unos casos de neumonía, cuya etiología fue  prontamente identificada como un nuevo coronavirus1, nadie se alarmó y más bien se pensó, que se trataba de uno de esos diagnósticos volátiles y pasajeros que con tanta frecuencia se anuncian en China y que desaparecen con velocidad de rayo, dejando nada más que conocimiento y enseñanzas sobre novedosas etiologías de enfermedades, que afortunadamente no pasan a más. Pero esta vez iba a ser diferente.