Have Spanish companies built greater entrepreneurship after privatization?

This study analyses some of the strategic and organizational changes experienced in public firms following privatization in its double facet: sale of companies and deregulation. Specifically, we analyse the process of innovation in terms of products, processes and organization. We also look into the development of new businesses and strategic renewal, which in the end shape the entrepreneurial capacity of a company. A sample of Spanish firms which were privatized between 1985 and 2000 shows that after privatization, these companies have experienced a significant increase in entrepreneurship. These changes are even more appreciable when a high sector competition is added to the ownership shift. Once they join the private sector, their level of product, process and organizational innovation is higher. They also develop new businesses at national level, reinforce their international activity and embark on strategic renewal processes by shedding the lesser profitable businesses and modifying their competitive strategy so as to gain efficiency

Performance analysis of joint precoding and MUD techniques in multibeam satellite systems

This paper considers interference mitigation techniques in the forward link of multibeam satellite systems. In contrast to previous works, either devoted to receiver interference mitigation (e.g. multiuser detection) or transmitter interference mitigation (precoding), this work evaluates the achievable rates of the joint combination of both techniques. On the one hand, precoding cannot properly mitigate all the inter- beam interference while maintaining a sufficiently high signal-to-noise ratio. On the other hand, the receiver cost and complexity exponentially increases with the number of signals to be simultaneously detected. This highlights that the receiver cannot deal with all the interferences so that in general only 2 signals are jointly detected. As a result, the use of precoding within a coverage area jointly with multiuser detection can both benefit from each other and extremely increase the achievable rates of the system. This is numerically evaluated in a close-to-real coverage area considering simultaneous non-unique decoding strategies. The results show the benefits of this joint scheme that eventually can increase the current precoding performance a 23%.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

NOMA and interference limited satellite scenarios

This paper deals with the problem of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in multibeam satellite systems, where the signals are jointly precoded. It is considered that the number of frames that are simultaneously transmitted is higher than the number of feeds, reducing the precoding interference mitigation capabilities as the system becomes overloaded. In order to solve this problem, we assume that the satellite user terminals are able to perform multi-user detection to mitigate the interference. In the current NOMA approach, it is assumed a successive interference cancellation (SIC) receiver. To increase the spectral efficiency, this paper investigates NOMA with simultaneous non-unique detection (SND). Compared to the case where user terminals perform single user detection (SUD), conventional scheduling heuristic rules do not longer apply in this scenario. Therefore, different scheduling algorithms are proposed considering both SIC and SND strategies. As the numerical evaluations show, SND yields larger average data rates than the SIC receiver. Concerning the scheduling, the best strategy is to pair users with highly correlated channels and the lowest channel gain difference. It is also shown that the sum-rate can be increased in overloaded satellite systems with respect to satellite scenarios, where the number of transmitted frames and feeds is the same.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Consecuencias legales derivadas de un accidente laboral

Traballo fin de grao (UDC.DER). Dereito. Curso 2014/201

Calidad química y sensorial de alimentos: desarrollo de metodologías analíticas basadas en la utilización de HS-SPME/GC y aceptabilidad sensorial para la caracterización de plantas aromáticas y productos alimenticios.

El concepto de calidad ha evolucionado en los últimos años adquiriendo un extraordinario protagonismo. Un alimento puede ser descripto mediante una serie de parámetros o variables que se transforman en atributos de calidad por la percepción y preferencias de un usuario. Los valores que deben alcanzar los atributos para que la adecuación sea positiva, son las especificaciones de calidad. Entre los atributos de calidad de un alimento se encuentra la organoléptica o sensorial, que puede ser definida, medida y ponderada, estableciéndose niveles de confianza para el cumplimiento de las especificaciones de calidad acordadas. Los componentes químicos volátiles del alimento, estimulan las terminales sensitivas de boca y nariz, afectando a los atributos olor, aroma, fragancia, gusto y flavor. Por lo tanto, identificar dichos componentes y determinar su proporción en el producto es de vital importancia para establecer correlaciones con las respuestas sensoriales. En el presente proyecto se desarrollarán metodologías analíticas basadas en Microextracción en Fase Sólida del Espacio de Cabeza seguida de Cromatografía Gaseosa (HS-SPME/GC) y en aceptabilidad sensorial para su aplicación en la caracterización de plantas aromáticas y productos alimenticios, con la finalidad de identificar los compuestos volátiles responsables de la aceptación o rechazo de los productos investigados, de evaluar el efecto del almacenamiento sobre las características de los mismos, y establecer similitudes y diferencias entre los perfiles químicos de diferentes productos del mismo tipo. Además, se realizarán protocolos de control de calidad para las muestras estudiadas