Price dynamics and market competition in resort industry: An agent-based modelling approach

When resort quality is unclear before consumption, destinations use tools like customer profiles, numbers, and pricing strategies to attract tourists. To understand how these factors influence market dynamics, this study employs an Agent-Based Model (ABM) that simulates interactions between tourists and resorts, incorporating key elements such as pricing strategies, budget constraints, and crowding effects. By comparing competitive and heuristic pricing strategies, the findings reveal that heuristic approaches promote market stability, consumer diversity, and firm resilience, while competitive strategies often lead to market homogenization and reduced profitability. Access to market information is crucial for enhancing consumer utility and fostering healthy competition. These insights emphasize the need to balance short-term competitiveness with long-term sustainability, offering practical guidance for policymakers and destination managers. While based on stylized simulations, this research provides a foundation for further studies incorporating real-world data and addressing tourism market complexities.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study has been carried out in the framework of the research project “Digital Transition and Innovation in the Labor Market and Mature Sectors. Taking Advantage of AI and Platform Economy (DILATO)”, with reference TED2021-129600A-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and by European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR. This work has been also supported by the Ibero-American Programme for Science and Technology for Development (CYTED)

El despido del trabajador durante su baja médica: ¿qué indicios son relevantes para apreciar discriminación?

Pruebas, contexto y criterios jurídicos para determinar la nulidad del despido por motivos de salu

Aplicación móvil para la clasificación automática de residuos en la costa

Este Trabajo de Fin de Grado consiste en una aplicación móvil para la gestión y subida de residuos encontrados en la costa, contando con un módulo de reconocimiento y clasificación automática basado en visión por computador. Esta aplicación permite al usuario recolectar información sobre residuos tanto de manera online como offline, guardando los datos de manera local hasta que el usuario recupere la conexión, eliminando así la necesidad de llevar una libreta y tener que pasar más tarde los apuntes a ordenador. Gracias al módulo de clasificación automática, además, tan solo al hacer una foto al residuo se rellenan casi todos los datos a la vez, haciendo el proceso aún más sencillo

Trastornos mentales a lo largo de la historia: evolución, percepción social y cuidados enfermeros

Introducción: a lo largo de la historia, el concepto de trastorno mental ha ido cambiando desde interpretaciones sobrenaturales y mágicas hasta enfoques más avanzados y científicos. En la antigüedad, se atribuían estos trastornos a posesiones demoníacas o castigos divinos, lo que llevó a realizar tratamientos cuestionables a día de hoy. Objetivo: comprender a través de la bibliografía cuales eran las interpretaciones realizadas sobre los trastornos mentales en diferentes épocas, sus tratamientos y el papel de enfermería. Metodología: se realizó una revisión bibliográfica integradora en las bases de datos (PubMed, sciELO, Scopus y Google Académico), utilizando descriptores DeCS/MeSH y estrategias booleanas. Aplicando filtros de idioma español/inglés y año de publicación abarcando los últimos 15 años (enero de 2010 hasta marzo de 2025). Tras un proceso de selección basado en criterios de inclusión/exclusión mediante el método PRISMA, se analizaron cualitativamente 25 artículos. Resultados: en esta revisión se ha evidenciado cómo la salud mental ha sido entendida y tratada de formas muy distintas durante la historia, realizando prácticas deshumanizadas, como el aislamiento de los pacientes, especialmente en instituciones psiquiátricas. Gracias a avances sociales y éticos, el enfoque hacia las personas con trastornos mentales ha avanzado. Discusión: en este trabajo se ha expuesto cómo la interpretación de los trastornos mentales ha estado influenciada durante toda la historia por factores culturales, religiosos y científicos de cada época y como la enfermería pasó de ocupar un lugar prescindible en el pasado, a ser clave. Conclusión: el papel de la enfermería ha sido crucial para el avance de los cuidados en salud mental y la ética a lo largo de la historia

Where and How as Key Factors for Knowledge-Enhanced Constrained Commonsense Generation

This paper addresses a key limitation in Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems: their struggle with commonsense reasoning, which is essential for generating contextually appropriate and plausible text. The study proposes an approach to enhance the commonsense reasoning abilities of NLG systems by integrating external knowledge framed in a constrained commonsense generation task. The paper investigates strategies for extracting and injecting external knowledge into pre-trained models, specifically BART and T5, in both base and large configurations. Experimental results show that incorporating external knowledge, extracted using a simple strategy, leads to significant performance improvements, with the models achieving 88% accuracy in generating plausible and correct sentences. When refined methods for knowledge extraction are applied, the accuracy further increases to 92%. These findings underscore the crucial role of high-quality external knowledge in enhancing the commonsense reasoning capabilities of NLG systems, suggesting that such integration is vital for advancing their performance in real-world applications.The research work conducted is part of the R&D projects “CORTEX: Conscious Text Generation” (PID2021-123956OB-I00), funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”; “CLEAR.TEXT:Enhancing the modernization public sector organizations by deploying Natural Language Processing to make their digital content CLEARER to those with cognitive disabilities” (TED2021-130707B-I00), funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and “European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR”; “VIVES: “Pla de Tecnologies de la Llengua per al valencià” project (2022/TL22/00215334) from the Ministerio de Transformación Digital y por el Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia – Financiado por la Unión Europea – NextGenerationEU; and the project “NL4DISMIS: Natural Language Technologies for dealing with dis- and misinformation with grant reference (CIPROM/2021/021)" funded by the Generalitat Valenciana. This work is also funded by the Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública and Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia - Funded by EU – NextGenerationEU within the framework of the project Desarrollo Modelos ALIA. Moreover, the experiments were carried out using the DGX units within the framework of project IDIFEDER/2020/003, co-funded by the Valencia Government and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

Les bombolles de l'Anton, unes bombolles matemàtiques

Espectáculo científico sobre pompas de jabón explicadas matemáticamente

The origins of wine tourism in France: itinéraires, promenades, routes. Trois jours en Beaujolais by Victor Vemorel (1900)

Con el surgimiento del viaje de placer o viaje turístico en el siglo XIX, unido al desarrollo y modernización de los transportes, se multiplican los desplazamientos de todo tipo. Nuestro objetivo con el presente estudio consiste en poner de manifiesto cómo ya a finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX, entre las nuevas propuestas de actividades turísticas, se comienzan a contemplar, en algunas guías turísticas, las rutas enológicas, lo que podría considerarse como un posible antecedente del actual enoturismo. En efecto, hemos constatado la publicación de guías turísticas o guías de viajero decimonónicas en las que se promocionaba un itinerario turístico que abarcaba una zona de viñedos. Si bien se presentan otras guías similares, se ha seleccionado una de ellas y se ha rastreado en ella la presencia de aquellos elementos que la caracterizan y la configuran como un nuevo subgénero textual decimonónico que preconiza los actuales folletos turísticos y páginas web promocionales 2.0 sobre enoturismo.The emergence of leisure travel or tourism in the 19th century, along with the development and modernization of transportation, meant that all types of travel increased significantly. The main goal of this paper is to highlight how, by the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, some tourist guides began to include enological routes among the new proposals for tourist activities. We regard this as a possible precursor to modern wine tourism. In fact, we have found 19th-century tourist or travel guides that promoted a tourist itinerary covering a vineyard area. One of these guides has been selected, and we have traced in it the presence of those elements that characterize and define it as a new 19th-century textual subgenre that foreshadows today’s promotional brochures and 2.0 web pages on wine tourism

José Saramago’s Caim in the light of Aristotelian emotions

A cultura europeia ocidental tem Rómulo e Remo, Caim e Abel como arquétipos das relações fraternas e fratricidas, demonstrando uma força seminal da mitologia e da História muitas vezes impulsionada pelo litígio, pelo conflito, pelo paradoxo, e ambivalência, na tensão de forças contrárias e contraditórias. José Saramago revisita alguns episódios do Antigo Testamento, no romance Caim, num exercício retórico de síntese e amplificatio para caricaturar a natureza humana e divina. O propósito do romance não é o ataque à religião mas alegorizar a Humanidade que a criou. O âmago é a violência nas suas múltiplas manifestações, desnudando as ações de um deus sádico, irado, caprichoso, vingativo e invejoso. As emoções expandem-se pelo núcleo feminino, que enriquecem as passiones animi com os seus afectos, medos, impulsos, chantagens e loucuras. O presente trabalho pretende analisar o romance saramaguiano Caim, numa perspectiva da retórica das emoções, sob o molde de alguns preceitos aristotélicos sem desconsiderar a divergência que muitos destes conceitos têm nas noções modernas. Numa primeira parte, reconheceremos que os desvios e paródias contribuem para a reescrita mitológica e bíblica, assente na posição post-modernista entre História e Ficção; numa segunda parte, iremos identificar a palete de emoções e estados internos de sentimentos, colocando a lupa nos episódios mais disfóricos e distópicos. Daremos especial enfoque à cólera/ira decorrentes de comportamentos de desdém, insulto e menosprezo. O pano de fundo não é a relação de Caim e Abel mas antes de Caim com Deus, colocando-os como antagonistas, com ênfase para a dimensão trágica, sem margem para remissões, nesta relação violenta, conturbada e insanável.Western European culture has Romulus and Remus, Cain and Abel as archetypes of fraternal and fratricidal relationships, demonstrating the seminal force of history driven by litigation, conflict, paradox, dialectics and ambivalent forces. José Saramago revisits some episodes from the Old Testament in his novel Caim, in an exercise of synthesis and amplification to better caricature human and divine nature. The purpose of this novel is not to attack religion but to allegorize the Humanity; the core is the violence and its manifestations, laying bare the actions of a sadistic, wrathful, capricious, vengeful God. Emotions are expanded by feminine gallery, responsible to nuance the dimension of affections, fears, guilt, impulses, blackmail and madness. This paper aims to analyze Saramago’s novel Caim from the perspective of the rhetoric of emotions, under the Aristotelian mold and precepts, without ignoring the divergence that many of these concepts have in modern notions. In the first part, we will recognize how the parodic deviations contribute to mythological and biblical rewriting, without disregarding the post-modernist position between History and Fiction. In a second part, we will identify the palette of emotions in the most dysphoric and dystopian episodes. We will give special attention to the anger and wrath resulting from disdainful, insulting and contemptuous behavior. The main framework is not the relationship between Cain and Abel, but between Cain and God, placing them as antagonists, with an emphasis on the tragic dimension, with no space for major remissions in a violent and troubled relationship