Analysis of international tourism in Seville

The following project consists in the analysis and delineation of a general international touristic profile of visitors to the city of Seville, in order to draw relevant, meaningful conclusions on this particular issue. To get to that point, a section essentially introductory in nature will be laid out in the first place, thus providing the necessary ground floor to grasp the fundamental aspects of the origin, development and operation of tourism in Spain, with an additional, specific focus on Seville. In turn, once the touristic profile for Seville as a thriving destination is delimited and defined, a series of measures and initiatives will be put forward which might contribute to further promotion of tourism in Seville, as well as increase international tourists’ overall level of satisfaction.Universidad de Sevilla. Grado en Turism

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Postcard from Jory Gibson, during the Linfield College Year Abroad Program at the Center for Cross-Cultural Study in Seville, Spai

Explanatory factors of university student participation in flamenco

The present work offers a study exploring University of Seville students’ cultural participation and how often they attend live flamenco shows. Based on the statistical yearbook of this university, a sample of 452 students from different fields was selected and, by applying a questionnaire, a binomial logit model and an ordered finance model were constructed. Our empirical findings offer descriptive, explanatory and predictive statistical results regarding participation and frequency. For example, the results evidence that 43% of the University of Seville students have never attended a live flamenco show and that one of the main issues influencing attendance is human and cultural capital

The Barber of Seville (1968)

Playwright: Rossini Director: Kenneth Dorst/Edwin Dunning Set Design: Philip J. Flad Costumes: Berneice Prisk Academic Year: 1967-1968https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/productions_1960s/1013/thumbnail.jp

The 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes and organisational learning at the University of Canterbury: does practice make perfect?

In September 2010 and again in February 2011, the city of Christchurch was rocked by earthquakes of magnitude 7.1 and 6.3 respectively. The second earthquake was shallow and caused extensive damage and loss of life, destroying most of the Central Business District. This paper focuses on recovery management at the University of Canterbury, exploring the extent to which the senior management team learned lessons from the September event which informed the way that the recovery was managed after the February earthquake. It examines the counter-intuitive possibility that successfully dealing with a prior, lesser event, may not necessarily better equip managers to deal with a subsequent, more extreme event

Influence of excipients on spray-dried powders for inhalation

Two areas attracting considerable attention when developing effective pulmonary drug delivery systems include the improvement of aerosolisation efficiency of the inhaled formulation and the controlled release of drug from the formulation following deposition within the lung. In this study, four saccharides were employed as excipients in the preparation of spray-dried powder formulations for the pulmonary drug delivery. Beta-cyclodextrin-, starch-, and sodium carboxymethylcellulose (NaCMC)-based spray-dried powders showed a significant (one-way ANOVA, Duncan's test, p < 0.05) increase in lower stage drug deposition in the Next Generation Impactor (NGI) when compared to lactose-based spray-dried powders. Furthermore, NaCMC-based spray-dried powder formulations exhibited a sustained drug release profile in dissolution testing; approximately 80% of salbutamol sulphate was released after an hour, whereas drug from the lactose-based spray-dried powder formulation was released within 5 min. Our results clearly demonstrate that the inclusion of NaCMC in spray-dried powder formulations increases the aerosolisation efficiency of the powder and also offers the potential for sustained drug release, which may be of benefit in the treatment of local and systemic conditions

Foresight to reduce asymmetry of information : the experience of the french national research agency

ANR is a public organization devoted to competitive project funding in both fundamental and applied research. ANR was created in 2005 after the vote of a law whose objective was to improve the French Research and Innovation system. ANR is both a result of the evolution of the French research and innovation system and a tool to confirm and stabilize this evolution. The objective of ANR is to promote creativity, to bring more flexibility and, subsequently, reactivity, and to increase competitiveness while keeping a good balance between fundamental research and applied research. ANR addresses both public research institutions and industries with a double mission of producing new knowledge and promoting interaction between public laboratories and industrial laboratories through the development of partnerships. ANR disposes of programs and calls for proposals, but it cannot define on its own the content of these programs. It needs knowledge about the evolution of science at national and international levels, about the evolution of society at national and international levels, about national priorities as well as European ones, about the strategy of research institutions, universities and industries, about competencies, markets¿ and needs¿ analysis. Each year, at the beginning of the programming step, there is asymmetry of information between ANR and scientists from French and European research organisations and universities, scientists from industries and policymakers in different ministries. The agency currently has three broad approaches to define its programs and reduce asymmetry of information: (a) monitoring and Intelligence; (b) expert opinion, i.e. consultations of individuals or panels in the form of an annual epistolary consultation, international consultations and foresight workshops, a Foresight Council as well as sectoral and steering committees; and (c) analysis, i.e. extrapolation of perceived trends through the analyses of proposals and end of programs workshops. The approaches adopted by ANR leave important challenges for the future: ANR must express its underlying paradigms as it has entered the political and the economic arenas; it must stay close to frontier research and reduce the time span between anticipation and action; last but not least, it must drastically increase the number of foreign scientists in its committees. (Résumé d'auteur

Historical SDI, thematic maps and analysis of a complex network of medieval towers (13th-15th century) in the moorish strip

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLII-4, 2018 ISPRS TC IV Mid-term Symposium “3D Spatial Information Science – The Engine of Change”, 1–5 October 2018, Delft, The NetherlandsThis work is part of an investigation into the use of GIS for the documentation and comprehension of medieval architectural heritage in the ancient Kingdom of Seville. The research was done in the framework of the project “Sustainable guardianship of cultural heritage through digital BIM and GIS models: contribution to knowledge and social innovation”, an interdisciplinary project focused on the applications of information technology in architectural heritage in Spain. The study case of this paper is located in the Guadalquivir valley during the period between 13th and 15th centuries. It concerns the Moorish Strip site, fortified by the Christian Kingdom of Castile with the aim of creating a barrier with the Moorish Kingdom. Its deteriorated state has led us to create a historical and spatial database in order to contribute to its conservation management plan. Apart from the historical documentation research and the data gathering, intensive fieldwork was also done to collect information about the buildings. In this paper we present a Historical SDI to investigate the hypothesis that the spatial patterns of the Moorish Band obey rules of “inter-visibility” control. Some analysis has been done on the site scale, such as: i) a thematic map of building material; ii) a spatiotemporal analysis; iii) the density of the distribution of towers over the territory; iv) a simulation of the territory visibility from the towers; v) the inter-visibility among towers; iv) thematic maps using attribute values. These analyses permitted us to highlight the need to create a preservation plan that should consider the network visibility system as an important value for heritage interpretation and knowledge.Spain’s Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness HAR2016–78113-

The Study of the Scale through Space. Teaching Innovation Experience among Architecture Schools: Malaga, Seville and Palermo

The educational innovation project object of this communication focuses on the scale problems that arise in the projects of territorial planning carried out in architecture schools, but also in the loss of the scale concept related to thought and drawing. The project involved collaboration among the Schools of Architecture of Malaga, Palermo and Seville with the aim of carrying out a practical exercise among the students of two subjects that, working on different scales, addressed similar concepts. In particular, following an PBL methodology based on collaborative projects, the planning of the N-340 road in the city of Nerja (Málaga) was carried out. Firstly, the territorial scale is addressed in the subject of Urbanism IV at the School of Architecture of Malaga, proposing the continuity of its development at the scale of landscape design in another place and with other designers of the course of Landscape Laboratory at the School of Architecture of Palermo. Besides, having verified that the academic results have been -in general terms- more satisfactory, the project has allowed consolidating the academic relationship between the three schools, which has translated into the development of complementary training actions