Changing family models in Spain: the impact of the sociodemographic factors

Abstract During the last few decades, there has been an increasing international recognition of the studies related to the analysis of the family models change, the focus being the determinants of the female employment and the problems related to the work family balance (Lewis, 2001; Petit & Hook, 2005Saraceno, Crompton & Lyonette, 20062008; Pfau-Effinger, 2012). The majority of these studies have been focused on the analysis of the work-family balance problems as well as the effectiveness of the family and gender policies in order to encourage female employment (Korpi et al., 2013). In Spain, special attention has been given to the family policies implemented, the employability of women and on the role of the father in the family (Flaquer et al., 2015; Meil, 2015); however, there has been far less emphasis on the analysis of the family cultural models (González and Jurado, 2012; Crespi and Moreno, 2016). The purpose of this paper is to present some of the first results on the influence of the socio-demographic factors on the expectations and attitudes about the family models. This study offers an analytical reflection upon the foundation of the determinants of the family ambivalence in Spain from the cultural and the institutional dimension. This study shows the Spanish family models of preferences following the Pfau-Effinger (2004) classification of the famiy living arrangements. The reason for this study is twofold; on the one hand, there is confirmed the scarcity of studies that have focused their attention on this objective in Spain; on the other hand, the studies carried out in the international context have confirmed the analytical effectiveness of researching on the attitude and value changes to explain the meaning and trends of the family changes. There is also presented some preliminary results that have been obtained from the multinomial analysis related to the influence of the socio-demographic factors on the family model chosen by the individuals in Spain (father and mother working full time; mother part-time father full-time; mother not at work father full-time; mother and father part-time). 3 The database used has been the International Social Survey Programme: Family and Changing Gender Roles IV- ISSP 2012-. Spain is the only country of South Europe that has participated in the survey. For this reason it has been considered as a representative case study.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Documentation management application for students of Software Engineering course

Trabajo de Fin de Grado en Ingeniería Informática, Facultad de Informática UCM, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Curso 2019/2020La asignatura Ingeniería del Software, común a todos los grados en Ingeniería ofertados desde la facultad de Informática, inculca al alumno, entre otros conocimientos, la capacidad de planificar, concebir, desplegar y dirigir proyectos fomentando las habilidades de comunicación en todos los ámbitos de desarrollo del software mediante metodologías y ciclos de vida aplicados al mismo. Para reflejar, tanto el proceso de aprendizaje, como el trabajo invertido por el alumno durante el transcurso de la evaluación, los profesores se sirven de tres entregas documentales a lo largo del curso académico. Estas entregas, que responden a unos requisitos bien definidos, acompañan a un proyecto de desarrollo, realizado durante el curso por grupos de entre cinco y ocho alumnos. Actualmente la redacción de esta documentación se hace de forma manual. El proyecto aquí descrito pretende facilitar esta labor, generando de manera automatizada, y uniforme a todos los grupos de trabajo los archivos entregables que solicitarán los profesores. Lo cual facilitará no solo la labor del alumno, sino también la revisión y posterior corrección, por parte del docente, del trabajo realizado al tratarse de un esquema común a todos los grupos de trabajo. En este documento se analizará desde la necesidad, pasando por los requisitos funcionales y no funcionales, las decisiones de diseño y las pruebas de funcionamiento hasta completar el desarrollo de la herramienta.The Software Engineering course, which is a common subject in all 4-Year Bachelor Program of the Faculty of Computer Science, teaches each student, among others, to be able to plan, create, deploy and manage projects, focused on communication skills for software development using applied life cycle and methodologies. Teachers evaluate not only the learning process but also the effort invested in the course, using three deliverables during the academic year. These documents, which must comply with a well-defined requirement, in addition to the software development project, is made during the course by groups of five to eight students. Nowadays, this documentation is made manually. This final paper expects to ease this task, generating these deliverables, required by teachers, automatically and homogeneously among all student working groups. The aim of this project is to ease not only the student tasks but also the reviewing and evaluation made by the teacher, as all the groups will have the same schema in their deliverables. In this final report, the necessity, functional and not functional requirements, the decisions made for the design and the functional testing are explained.Depto. de Sistemas Informáticos y ComputaciónFac. de InformáticaTRUEunpu

Developmental programming: Impact of prenatal testosterone excess on ovarian cell proliferation and apoptotic factors in sheep

Prenatal testosterone (T) excess leads to reproductive dysfunctions in sheep, which include increased ovarian follicular recruitment and persistence. To test the hypothesis that follicular disruptions in T sheep stem from changes in the developmental ontogeny of ovarian proliferation and apoptotic factors, pregnant Suffolk sheep were injected twice weekly with T propionate or dihydrotestosterone propionate (DHT; a nonaromatizable androgen) from Days 30 to 90 of gestation. Changes in developmental expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), BCL2, BAX, activated CASP3, and FAS/FASLG were determined at Fetal Days 90 and 140, 22wk, 10 mo, and 21 mo of age by immunocytochemisty. Prenatal T treatment induced changes in expression of proliferative and apoptotic markers in a follicle-, age-, and steroid-specific manner. Changes in BAX were evident only during fetal life and PCNA, BCL2, and CASP3 only postnatally. Prenatal T and not DHT increased PCNA and decreased BCL2 in granulosa/ theca cells of antral follicles at 10 and 21 mo but decreased CASP3 in granulosa/theca cells of antral follicles at 22wk (prepubertal) and 10 and 21 mo. Both treatments decreased BAX immunostaining in granulosa cells of Fetal Day 90primordial/ primary follicles. Neither treatment affected FAS expression at any developmental time point in any follicular compartment. Effects on BAX appear to be programmed by androgenic actions and PCNA, BCL2, and CASP3 by estrogenic actions of T. Overall, the findings demonstrate that fetal exposure to excess T disrupts the ovarian proliferation/apoptosis balance, thus providing a basis for the follicular disruptions evidenced in these females.Fil: Salvetti, Natalia Raquel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Litoral; ArgentinaFil: Ortega, Hugo Hector. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Litoral; ArgentinaFil: Veiga Lopez, Almudena. University of Michigan; Estados UnidosFil: Padmanabhan, Vasantha. University of Michigan; Estados Unido

Perfil social del youtuber adulto en España

El presente trabajo va a estudiar la figura del youtuber de videojuegos español en la edad adulta, es decir jugadores de videojuegos mayores de 30 años desde el punto de vista social. La figura del youtuber del videojuego adulto en nuestro país, no está recogida en estudios relevantes que puedan darnos datos significativos del porqué se comparten las partidas, con que finalidad y sobre todo ser reconocido dentro de una red social como es Youtube. Para la recogida de datos hemos aplicado una metodología mixta, tanto cualitativa, a través de interpretaciones a nivel social de los datos recogidos en los cuestionarios realizados por los youtuber que han participado en la investigación, como cualitativa. El trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivos: Conocer el porqué de la necesidad de compartir partidas con otros jugadores a través de un canal, dentro de una red social. Descubrir los motivos o motivo que llevan a un adulto(personas mayores de 30 años) a ser youtuber dentro de una red social, dotando de notoriedad al personaje. La metodología adecuada para esta tesis sería la metodología mixta, cualitativa y cuantitativa incluyendo análisis de contenidos, entrevistas personalizadas y grupos focales Sobre la investigación realizada se esperan las siguientes conclusiones: El incremento del youtuber del videojuego en la edad a adulta en España ha supuesto una nueva forma de comunicación entre personas con gustos similares que se produce a través de una red social, Youtube. Las motivaciones sociales que llevan a los jugadores a compartir sus partidas Radiografía social del youtuber español, que relacione lo que esconden este tipo de personalidades. Descubrimiento del mundo youtuber a través del videojuego

Impact of time variability in off-line writer identification and verification

Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. F. Alonso-Fernández, J. Fiérrez, A. Gilpérez, J Ortega-García, "Impact of time variability in off-line writer identification and verification" in 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), Salzburg (Austria), 2009, pp. 540 - 545One of the biggest challenges in person recognition using biometric systems is the variability in the acquired data. In this paper, we evaluate the effects of an increasing time lapse between reference and test biometric data consisting of static images of handwritten signatures and texts. We use for our experiments two recognition approaches exploiting information at the global and local levels, and the BiosecurlD database, containing 3,724 signature images and 532 texts of 133 individuals acquired in four acquisition sessions distributed along a 4 months time span. We report results of the recognition systems working both in verification (one-to-one) and identification (one-to-many) mode. The results show the extent of the impact that the time separation between samples under comparison has on the recognition rates, being the local approach more robust to the time lapse than the global one. We also observe in our experiments that recognition based on handwritten texts provides higher accuracy than recognition based on signatures.This work has been supported by Spanish MCYT TEC2006-13141-C03-03 project

Nutrigenomics and Atherosclerosis: The Postprandial and Long-Term Effects of Virgin Olive Oil Ingestion

Metals technology / metallurg

Dyslexia Diagnosis by EEG Temporal and Spectral Descriptors: An Anomaly Detection Approach.

Diagnosis of learning difficulties is a challenging goal. There are huge number of factors involved in the evaluation procedure that present high variance among the population with the same difficulty. Diagnosis is usually performed by scoring subjects according to results obtained in different neuropsychological (performance-based) tests specifically designed to this end. One of the most frequent disorders is developmental dyslexia (DD), a specific difficulty in the acquisition of reading skills not related to mental age or inadequate schooling. Its prevalence is estimated between 5% and 12% of the population. Traditional tests for DD diagnosis aim to measure different behavioral variables involved in the reading process. In this paper, we propose a diagnostic method not based on behavioral variables but on involuntary neurophysiological responses to different auditory stimuli. The experiments performed use electroencephalography (EEG) signals to analyze the temporal behavior and the spectral content of the signal acquired from each electrode to extract relevant (temporal and spectral) features. Moreover, the relationship of the features extracted among electrodes allows to infer a connectivity-like model showing brain areas that process auditory stimuli in a synchronized way. Then an anomaly detection system based on the reconstruction residuals of an autoencoder using these features has been proposed. Hence, classification is performed by the proposed system based on the differences in the resulting connectivity models that have demonstrated to be a useful tool for differential diagnosis of DD as well as a method to step towards gaining a better knowledge of the brain processes involved in DD.This work was partly supported by the MINECO/FEDER under PGC2018-098813-B-C31, PGC2018-098813-B-C32 and PSI2015-65848-R projects. We gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of one of the GPUs used for this research. Work by F.J.M.M. was supported by the MICINN “Juan de la Cierva - Formaci´on” Fellowship. We also thank the Leeduca research group and Junta de Andaluc´ıa for the data supplied and the support

Off-line signature verification using contour features

Proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers in Hadwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2008)An off-line signature verification system based on contour features is presented. It works at the local image level, and encodes directional properties of signature contours and the length of regions enclosed inside letters. Results obtained on a sub-corpus of the MCYT signature database shows that directional-based features work much better than length-based features. Results are comparable to existing approaches based on different features. It is also observed that combination of the proposed features does not provide improvements in performance, maybe to some existing correlation among them.This work has been supported by Spanish project TEC2006-13141-C03-03, and by European Commission IST-2002-507634 Biosecure NoE