Health Econometric:Uncovering the Anthropometric Behavior on Women's Labor Market

Exploring current literature that assess relations between cognitive ability and height, obesity, and its productivity-employability effect on women's labor market we appraised the Argentine case to find these social-physical relations which involve anthropometric and traditional economic variables. Adapting an anthropometric Mincer approach by using probabilistic and censured econometric models which were developed for it. Subtle evidence of discriminative behavior on obese women, and a good performance of height variable as unobserved cognitive ability approximate measure to explain feminine productivity has been found.

The District Energy-Efficient Retrofitting of Torrelago (Laguna de Duero – Spain)

The urban growth is estimated to reach up the 66 % by 2050 and consequently the need of resources within the cities will increase significantly. This, combined with the 40 % of energy consumption and 36 % of CO2 emissions of the building sector, makes necessary to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable cities. The CITyFiED project contributes to this transition, aiming to develop an innovative and holistic methodological approach for energy-efficient district renovation and deliver three large scale demonstration cases in the cities of Lund (Sweden), Laguna de Duero (Spain) and Soma (Turkey). CITyFiED methodology consists of several phases that ease the decision-making tasks towards the district renovation, considering the energy efficiency as the main pillar and local authorities as clients. For the case of Torrelago district (Spain) the intervention consists of a set of energy conservative measures including the facąde retrofitting of 143.025 m2 of living space in 31 twelve-storey buildings; the renovation of the district heating network with a new biomass thermal plant; the integration of renewable energy sources, including a micro-cogeneration system, and the installation of individual smart meters. After the renovation action, one-year monitoring campaign is ongoing. The CITyFiED monitoring platform will collect information from the energy systems and deliver environmental, technical, economic and social key performance indicators by March 2019. At the end of the project the achievement of the predefined goals will be verified: Up to 36 % of energy saving and 3,429 tons-CO2/yr emissions saving covering the 59,4 % of the energy consumption with renewable sources.The research and results presented in this paper evolve from activities related to the CITyFiED project, which has received funding from the European Commission under the Grant Agreement no. 609129. This article is the result of cooperative research work of many experts from various countries and we would like to gratefully acknowledge the rest of the CITyFiED partners

Estudio experimental comparativo de la osteotomía a cielo abierto y percutánea en la elongación ósea

Se ha realizado un trabajo experimental sobre elongacione s femorales en corderos, planteado con los siguiente s objetivos: 1) Determina r el abordaj e (a "cielo abierto" o percutáneo ) y nive l de osteotomí a ideale s en las elongacione s ósea s y 2) Estudiar la integridad de las estructuras endomedulare s tras las osteotomías percutá- neas llamadas corticotomías. Se han utilizado 50 corderos macho s de 2 mese s de edad que se han agrupado según el tipo y nivel de osteotomía empleado para la elongación: percutánea metafisaría, percutánea diafisaria, abierta diafisaria y abierta metafisaría. Además, en otro grupo de 10 corderos se ha estudiado la integridad de los vasos endomedulares tras el intento de osteotomía cortical percutánea diafisaria. Las conclusiones han sido: 1) La osteotomía ideal para las elongaciones óseas es la realizada percutáneament e y de localízación metafisaría. 2) La integridad de las estructuras endomedulare s tras la osteotomía, no parec e ser la responsabl e de las satisfactorias reconstruccione s obtenidas con el uso de osteotomías percutáneas.An experimental study on femoral lengthening in lambs has been performed with the following objetives in mind: 1) To determine the ideal technique and level of osteotomy in bone lengthening: 2) To assess the integrity of the intramedullary vessels after the so-called corticotomies. Fifty 2-month-old male lambs have been included in this experiment. Animal grouping has been made according to the type and level of the lengthening osteotomy performed: percutaneous metaphyseal, percutaneous diaphyseal, open diaphyseal and open metaphyseal. Another group of ten lambs has been included in orde r to asse s the condition of the intramedullary vessels just after a percutaneous diaphyseal osteotomy. The main conclusions of this study are as follows: 1) The ideal tecnique and level of osteotomy for bone lengthening in lambs seem to be percutaneous and metaphyseal. 2) The satisfactory reconstructions of the lengthened segment observed using percutaneous osteotomie s cannot be explained by the maintenanc e of the integrity of the intramedullary vessels after the osteotomy

Design and validity of a badminton observation tool (BOT)

La metodología observacional permite analizar deportes en contexto y dinámicas habituales. El objetivo principal fue la construcción y validación de una herramienta observacional ad hoc para analizar el bádminton individual, que incluye la trayectoria de los desplazamientos como variable no analizada anteriormente. Constituida por 13 criterios y 47 categorías mutuamente excluyentes, fueron analizadas 287 acciones del Campeonato de Mundo de Bádminton 2015. Para la validación se utilizó el coeficiente Kappa de Cohen y la teoría de la generalizabilidad. Se han obtenido resultados, tanto para la herramienta como para cada uno de los criterios de forma individual, superiores a 0,98 estando por encima de 0,81 que propone la literatura como “casi perfecto”. El análisis de la generalizabilidad se realizó mediante un modelo de dos facetas (Categoría/Observador = C/O) y reveló que la fiabilidad era excelente (1,00). La herramienta diseñada es válida y fiable para el análisis de las conductas del bádminton individualObservational methodology allows analysing sports’ specific behaviour context. The main purpose of this manuscript was to develop and validate an ad hoc observational tool for badminton singles games, which includes lunges trajectories as a non-analysed variable till this study. For that reason, the observational tool consists of 13 criteria and 47 categories mutually exclusive. 287actions of the 2015 Badminton World Championship were analysed. With the aim to assess the tool’s validity Cohen’s Kappa and generalizability theory were used. The outcomes for complete observational tool and for each criterion exceed 0.98, being above 0.81 proposed by literature as “almost perfect”. Generalizability analysis was done by two sides model (Category/Observer = C/O) and showed an excellent reliability (1.00). It could be said that it is a reliable tool designed for recording and analyzing the behaviour of badminton singles playersEste trabajo ha sido posible gracias a la Generalitat Valenciana y su programa de becas ACIF 2016/121 para la contratación de personal investigador en formación y al apoyo del proyecto de la Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir: Estudios en el deporte de élite desde los Mixed Methods: técnicas de estudio de análisis comparativos [UCV2017/230/002

La Formación de los Profesionales de la Actividad Física y del Deporte

En este estudio se describe la formación inicial y permanente de las personas que trabajan en funciones de actividad física y deporte. La metodología utilizada en este estudio es cuantitativa de corte descriptivo, cuyo instrumento de recogida de datos ha sido una entrevista individual, oral y estandarizada por medio de cuestionario llevada a cabo a 600 personas que trabajan en funciones de actividad física y deporte en entidades y/o instalaciones deportivas de la Comunidad Autónoma Valenciana. Los resultados de la investigación determinan que en el mercado laboral y profesional de la actividad física y deporte existe una gran cantidad de personas trabajando en funciones de actividad física y deporte sin posesión de ninguna de las titulaciones oficiales de actividad física y deporte. La formación continua de las personas con alguna de las distintas titulaciones de actividad física y deporte es amplia y diversificada

Light Collimation and Focussing by a Thin Flat Metallic Slab

We present experimental and theoretical work showing that a flat metallic slab can collimate and focus light impinging on the slab from a punctual source. The effect is optimised when the radiation is around the bulk, not at the surface, plasma frequency. And the smaller the imaginary part of the permittivity is, the better the collimation. Experiments for Ag in the visible as well as calculations are presented. We also discuss the interesting case of the Aluminium whose imaginary part of the permittivity is very small at the plasma frequency in UV radiation. Generalization to other materials and radiations are also discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. To be published on Optics Lette

Notas sobre Descomposiciones Microeconométricas: Un Análisis Antropométrico

This essay presents a theoretic approximation on the microeconometric decompositions analysis by incorporating anthropometric variables, and apprainsing theirs presumable effects on the income distribution. A new body-mass-index based equivalent scale is proposed toward more accurate individual income's representativeness. By assuming an hypothetical empiric case, interesting interpretations would be arriving on the possible interactions among anthropometry and inequality which were accounted through a set of parameter's interpretations on whose meaning could be useful at the time by developing policies to cope with eventual not desired anthropometric effects on income distribution

Health Econometric: Uncovering the Anthropometric Behavior on the Women's Labor Market

Exploring current literature which assess relations between cognitive ability and height, obesity, and its productivity-employability effect on women's labor market, we appraised the Argentine case to quantify for social-physical interactions which involve anthropometric and traditional economic variables. Hence, an anthropometric Mincer approach has been adapted by using probabilistic and censured econometric models which were developed for it. There has been found evidence that could be understood as the existence of discriminative behavior on the obese women to market entrance; besides, a good performance of women height as an unobserved approximation of the cognitive ability measure to explain feminine productivity

Social networks research for sustainable smart education

Social networks research has grown exponentially over the past decade. Subsequent empirical and conceptual advances have been transposed in the field of education. As the debate on delivering better education for all gains momentum, the big question is how to integrate advances in social networks research, corresponding advances in information and communication technology (ICT) and effectively employ them in the domain of education. To address this question, this paper proposes a conceptual framework (maturity model) that integrates social network research, the debate on technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and the emerging concept of smart education