La formación de los futuros docentes en la Universidad de Córdoba. Actitudes hacia la diversidad cultural

Las ventajas de la educación inclusiva es una apuesta garantizada para la calidad de la educación, y una de la claves de este éxito recae en los docentes. Por esta razón la formación docente se hace imprescindible para paliar las necesidades que se presenta en los contextos educativos. Además en esta trayectoria, se hace necesaria conocer las actitudes de los futuros docentes antes de realizar cualquier cambio en sus planes de estudios en las distintas facultades de educación. Esta investigación estudia las actitudes hacia la diversidad cultural de 378 alumnos de la Universidad de Córdoba, empleando un cuestionario ad hoc con 78 ítems. Los resultados reflejan que los estudiantes participantes presentan actitudes favorables hacia la diversidad cultural. En la discusión, se propone mejoras para los futuros estudios sobre esta línea de trabajo.The advantages of inclusive education is a guaranteed commitment to quality education, and one of the keys to this success lies with teachers. Therefore teacher training is essential to alleviate the needs presented in educational contexts. Also on this path, it is necessary to know the attitudes of future teachers before making any changes in their curricula in the various faculties of education. This research examines attitudes toward cultural diversity of 378 students of the University of Cordoba, using an ad hoc questionnaire with 78 items. The results show that participating students have favorable attitudes toward cultural diversity. In the discussion, improvements for future studies in this line of work is proposed

Scale of Attitudes Towards Cultural Diversity (ADC) for Future Teachers

El objetivo de este estudio ha sido crear una escala de Actitudes ha- cia la Diversidad Cultural (ADC) partiendo de cuatro dimensiones teóri- cas de la actitud cómo son: creencias, emociones, conductas e intencio- nes. Este nuevo instrumento fue aplicado en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Córdoba, a una muestra de 514 sujetos compuesta por estudiantes de Grado de Educación Primaria, Grado de Educación Infantil y Máster de Educación InclusivaThe purpose of this study was to create a scale of attitudes towards cultural diversity (ADC) from four theoretical dimensions of attitude as: beliefs, emotions, behaviors and intentions. This new tool was applied in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cordoba, to a sample of 514 subjects composed of students of Degree of Primary Education Degree in Early Childhood Education and Master of Inclusive Educatio

La formación de los futuros docentes en la Universidad de Córdoba. Actitudes hacia la diversidad cultural

Las ventajas de la educación inclusiva es una apuesta garantizada para la calidad de la educación, y una de la claves de este éxito recae en los docentes. Por esta razón la formación docente se hace imprescindible para paliar las necesidades que se presenta en los contextos educativos. Además en esta trayectoria, se hace necesaria conocer las actitudes de los futuros docentes antes de realizar cualquier cambio en sus planes de estudios en las distintas facultades de educación. Esta investigación estudia las actitudes hacia la diversidad cultural de 378 alumnos de la Universidad de Córdoba, empleando un cuestionario ad hoc con 78 ítems. Los resultados reflejan que los estudiantes participantes presentan actitudes favorables hacia la diversidad cultural. En la discusión, se propone mejoras para los futuros estudios sobre esta línea de trabajo.The advantages of inclusive education is a guaranteed commitment to quality education, and one of the keys to this success lies with teachers. Therefore teacher training is essential to alleviate the needs presented in educational contexts. Also on this path, it is necessary to know the attitudes of future teachers before making any changes in their curricula in the various faculties of education. This research examines attitudes toward cultural diversity of 378 students of the University of Cordoba, using an ad hoc questionnaire with 78 items. The results show that participating students have favorable attitudes toward cultural diversity. In the discussion, improvements for future studies in this line of work is proposed

Strong coupling between mechanical modes in a nanotube resonator

We report on the nonlinear coupling between the mechanical modes of a nanotube resonator. The coupling is revealed in a pump-probe experiment where a mode driven by a pump force is shown to modify the motion of a second mode measured with a probe force. In a second series of experiments, we actuate the resonator with only one oscillating force. Mechanical resonances feature exotic lineshapes with reproducible dips, peaks, and jumps when the measured mode is commensurate with another mode with a frequency ratio of either 2 or 3. Conventional lineshapes are recovered by detuning the frequency ratio using the voltage on a nearby gate electrode. The exotic lineshapes are attributed to strong coupling between the mechanical modes. The possibility to control the strength of the coupling with the gate voltage holds promise for various experiments, such as quantum manipulation, mechanical signal processing, and the study of the quantum-toclassical transition.Comment: manuscript and supporting material, 31 pages, 15 figure

A proposal for normalized impedance functions of inclined piles in non-homogeneous media

10th International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN). Sapienza University Rome, September, 10-13, 2017.This work presents impedance functions for inclined pile groups embedded in different half spaces whose stiffness continuously increases with depth. The results are obtained through a three-dimensional harmonic model where the soil response is modelled through the reciprocity theorem in elastodynamics and the use of Green’s functions for the layered half space, while the piles are represented by finite elements as Timoshenko’s beams. Linear behaviour of soil and piles is assumed. The use of several normalization schemes for the representation of the impedance functions is discussed, highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of each choice and their effects on the interpretation of the obtained results. As a result, expressions for the dimensionless impedance functions and frequency are proposed in order to synthesize the results of the different soil profiles into the same curves. The final objective of the proposed normalization is to transform the well-known impedance functions for the homogeneous halfspace into the corresponding curves for a specific non-homogeneous profile that can be used, e.g., in a substructuring methodology. Despite the fact that the presence of soil non-homogeneity increases the dependence of the impedance functions on the frequency, good agreements between the homogeneous and non-homogeneous profiles can be achieved for a range of frequency of interest.This work was supported by Subdirección General de Proyectos de Investigación of the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain and FEDER through research project BIA2014-57640-R. G.M. Álamo is a recipient of FPU research fellowship FPU14/06115 from the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte of Spain

Environmental monitoring of marine aquaculture facilities

Aquaculture, like any other productive activity which uses natural resources, can have an impact on the environment. Both the magnitude and dimension of this influence are related to the type of culture being carried out, and the geographic location of the farm. The present study focuses on the environmental impact associated with aquaculture activities (both inland and off-shore), and identifies the best indicators in the water column and the seabed, in order to further our knowledge of the environmental impact of this activity, thus helping to improve the design of aquaculture environmental monitoring.Aunque la acuicultura marina, en comparación con otros sectores productivos y otras actividades que se desarrollan en el litoral, origine un efecto menor sobre el medio ambiente, es obvio que puede producir algún impacto, y por ello, para asegurar el respeto a los valores medioambientales del entorno y cumplir correctamente los principios del desarrollo sostenible, lo importante es conocer cuáles pueden ser esos impactos, para tratar de corregirlos o, según los casos, minimizarlos. En el presente estudio se trata de establecer los indicadores ambientales para el seguimiento de la actividad, tanto en instalaciones en mar abierto como en instalaciones en tierra, contribuyendo a mejorar el diseño de programas de vigilancia ambiental para cada tipo de instalación.Instituto Español de Oceanografí

Recovery of the physiological status in professional basketball players using NESA neuromodulation treatment during different types of microcycles in season: A preliminary randomized clinical trial.

The purpose of the study was to describe and compare recovery status after official basketball competition in players who underwent NESA neuromodulation treatment (NNT) in weeks with one or two matches. The recovery parameters of 12 professional male basketball players (mean ± SD, age: 20.6 ± 2.7 yr; height: 197.8 ± 11.7 cm; and body mass: 89.0 ± 21.2 kg) that competed in the LEB Plata (Spanish third division) were monitored 2 days after match-play over 6 weeks, and included: 1) the Hooper Test, which combines four subjective variables (sleep, stress, fatigue and soreness); 2) common biochemical markers (e.g., testosterone, cortisol and ratio T:C); and 3) lowest heart rate [HR], average HR, HR variability, sleep duration, awake time during night and onset latency before asleep). Players that completed NNT presented differences compared to the control group in sleep data. For instance, the lowest HR (p < 0.001), average HR (p < 0.001) and total awake time (p = 0.04) were significantly reduced in the NNT group. On the contrary, the control group presented greater values than the NNT group in the subjective Hooper Test, although only stress presented significant differences (Control 2.5 ± 1.2 vs. NNT cost or 3.2 ± 0.9; p = 0.01). Additionally, there were no significant differences in recovery parameters between weeks with one or two matches. In conclusion, the results suggest that players that underwent NNT tended to improve their sleep quality. Nevertheless, player’s values in the biochemical markers and wellness status remained similar in both groups. The fact that no significant differences were found between weeks with one or two matches could help basketball professionals to determine that a congested schedule does not seem to negatively alter recovery status.post-print1317 K

Energetic Modes in Turbulent Pipe Flow From Resolvent Analysis

We describe a method to investigate the mode shapes in turbulent pipe flow at a given wavenumber pair that are most responsive to harmonic forcing in the sense that the they correspond to the largest singular value in a Schmidt decomposition of the linear Navier-Stokes operator using the turbulent mean profile as the base flow. The ideas follow logically from the work of Sharma & McKeon (2009), who considered a similar approach for laminar pipe flow