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

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

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

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

Forget the Umbrella - Culture Shock

Postcard from Rachelle Agosti, during the Linfield College Year Abroad Program at the Center for Cross Cultural Study in Seville, Spai

Endings

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

Seville and the Seville 1(1972-2015)

En 2012 el edificio de oficinas Sevilla 1 cumplía cuarenta años desde su inauguración. Obra de Fernando Villanueva, Manuel Trillo y Luis Fernando Gómez-Estern, arquitectos de la firma OTAISA, fue pionero en la ciudad en cuanto a su funcionalidad exclusiva, concepto de espacio de trabajo diáfano y técnica constructiva utilizada, basada en el empleo riguroso de un módulo de fachada en hormigón prefabricado con el que se controló la totalidad de la envolvente del inmueble. Después de este tiempo, en un entorno urbano muy evolucionado y consolidado, el edificio sigue teniendo un aspecto saludable. Su estudio y análisis subrayaran la importancia del edificio en el crecimiento de la ciudad y en el prolífico periodo de la oficina de arquitectura OTAISA que ocupó su onceava planta durante nueves años. Dirigida por Felipe Medina, oficina de arquitectura extensa y plural, importó la manera americana de entender la profesión como empresa, persiguiendo el equilibrio de la calidad, la capacidad y del rendimiento. Sus relaciones con una incipiente Escuela de Arquitectura sevillana, en una aún pequeña ciudad poco profesionalizada, resultaron inevitables.In 2012, the Seville 1-office building is forty years old since its inauguration. A work by architects Fernando Villanueva, Manuel Trillo and Luis Fernando Gómez-Estern, in the company OTAISA (Oficinas Técnicas de Arquitectura e Ingeniería Sociedad Anónima/ Technical Offices of Architecture and Engineering SA) . They were pioneers in the city in terms of their unique functionality, their concept of working open spaces and constructive technique, based on the rigorous use of a façade module in prefabricated concrete with which the whole building envelope is controlled. After all this time, in a highly evolved and consolidated urban environment, the building still has a healthy look. Its study and analysis highlights the importance of the building in city growth and the prolific period of the OTAISA architectural office that occupied the eleventh floor for nine years. Directed by Felipe Medina, the extensive and plural architecture office, imported the American way of understanding the profession as a company, pursuing the balance of quality, capacity and performance. Its relations with the emerging Seville School of Architecture, in a small town still lacking in professionalism, were inevitable

Thresholds, long delays and stability from generalized allosteric effect in protein networks

Post-transductional modifications tune the functions of proteins and regulate the collective dynamics of biochemical networks that determine how cells respond to environmental signals. For example, protein phosphorylation and nitrosylation are well-known to play a pivotal role in the intracellular transduction of activation and death signals. A protein can have multiple sites where chemical groups can reversibly attach in processes such as phosphorylation or nitrosylation. A microscopic description of these processes must take into account the intrinsic probabilistic nature of the underlying reactions. We apply combinatorial considerations to standard enzyme kinetics and in this way we extend to the dynamic regime a simplified version of the traditional models on the allosteric regulation of protein functions. We link a generic modification chain to a downstream Michaelis-Menten enzymatic reaction and we demonstrate numerically that this accounts both for thresholds and long time delays in the conversion of the substrate by the enzyme. The proposed mechanism is stable and robust and the higher the number of modification sites, the greater the stability. We show that a high number of modification sites converts a fast reaction into a slow process, and the slowing down depends on the number of sites and may span many orders of magnitude; in this way multisite modification of proteins stands out as a general mechanism that allows the transfer of information from the very short time scales of enzyme reactions (milliseconds) to the long time scale of cell response (hours).Comment: 5 figures, submitted to Physica