Scalable method for administration of resource technologies under stochastic procedures

During the development of the S3Unica project (Smart Specialisation University Campus) and its application in the ASSET project (Advanced Systems Studies for Energy Transition), both within the European Commission, the resolution of the distributed energy generation model was proposed through the creation of an algorithm that would allow the shared market between producers and consumers. From this premise arose the need to create a replicable system to resolve this situation in the new shared generation environment, using low-cost technologies. This work develops the scalable method for resource management technologies (SMART), based on stochastic procedures, which generates microgrids with an integrated energy market. The interest of this work is based on the incorporation of real-time analysis, applying stochastic methods, and its fusion with probabilistic predictive methods that evolve and harmonise the results. The fact that the process is self-learning also enables the use of metadomotic as a tool for both comfort improvement and energy sharing. The most important results developed were the design of the internal scheme of the low-cost SMART control device together with the developments of both individual and collective resolution algorithms. By achieving the incorporation of internal and external producers in the same numerical procedure, the distributed and hybrid generation models are solved simultaneously.We thank the support of this paper from University of Malaga and CBUA (funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA) and we thank also the anonymous reviewers whose suggestions helped improve and clarify this manuscript. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors

Embodying the Empire: Singing Slave Girls in Medieval Islamicate Historiography

This thesis explores the ways in which the qiyan—highly trained female singers held as slaves by the courtly elite in ‘Abbasid Baghdad and Umayyad Andalusia—were represented and depicted in Medieval literary and historical narratives. More specifically, I am interested in examining how Medieval authors used depictions of the qiyan as rhetorical strategies for advancing the broader political and philosophical agendas that their texts were intended to address. Because the qiyan did not write their own biographies, our understanding of these singing slave women cannot be separated from the broader literary, political, philosophical, and theological agendas of the texts in which they are discussed. In light of this reality, my thesis does not attempt to reconstruct the experiences of the qiyan themselves. Rather, the following analysis seeks to return the qiyan to their original context by considering how the subject of the qiyan was mobilized for specific narrative purposes by Medieval authors

Protocol to design a CEFR-linked proficiency rating scale for oral production and app implementation

[ES] En su proceso de adaptación al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior, las universidades andaluzas comenzaron en 201O a aprobar Memorias de Grado en las que se exigía a los alumnos universitarios que acreditasen un nivel de dominio en una lengua extranjera. En este contexto, la Universidad de Jaén (UJA) desarrolla sus exámenes de acreditación desde 2011. Esta tesis describe el diseño (a partir del Marco Común Europeo de Referencia) y validación (mediante el modelo logístico paramétrico Rasch) de unas escalas analíticas (o rúbricas) para la producción oral de los exámenes de acreditación de la UJA. Del proceso (llevado a cabo con la colaboración de 8 evaluadores de las diferentes universidades andaluzas y con 128 candidatos a examen) se extrae un protocolo de diseño de rúbricas aplicable en otros contextos. Asimismo, se describe el diseño y creación de una aplicación para dispositivos móviles con la que usar las mencionadas rúbricas.[EN] Since 201O, it is compulsory for students at Andalusian public universities to certify a minimum leve} of proficiency in a foreign language by the end of their degree. The University of Jaén (UJA) started to develop its own language proficiency tests in 2011 to provide its students with the possibility of taking such tests. This doctoral dissertation describes the process of design (based on the Common European Framework of Reference ) and validation (through logistic parametric Rasch models) of one analytic scale (or rubric) to be used during the mentioned proficiency tests. This process (carried out with the collaboration of 8 evaluation experts from different Andalusian universities and 128 candidates) has also yielded a protocol to design rubrics which can be applied in different contexts. The doctoral dissertation finally describes the design of a digital application for mobile devices to implement the aforementioned rubrics.Tesis Univ. Jaén. Departamento de Filología Inglesa, leída el 29 de noviembre de 201

Grand Valley Magazine, vol. 11, no. 4 Spring 2012

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