Francisco García del Cid Arias

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Resultats de l'expedició oceanogràfica "Sahara I" a les costes del NW africà

17 pages, 1 figureEl vaixell Cornide de Saavedra ha estat equipat amb una sèrie d'instruments adaptats tots ells, de forma mes o menys directa, al treball continu i preparats per a fornir informació a un sistema d'adquisicio de dades que permet de processar-les mitjancant un computador digital intal·lat a bord. Els objectius en aquesta campanya han estat limitats; en primer lloc precisament perquè es tractava de la primera campanya, i en segon lloc perquè hom hi assajava de fer funcionar un sistema realnlent complex. [...]Peer reviewe

Communication policies and the protection of pluralism in the European Union and the United States

This article describes and analyses the regulatory frameworks and the current pluralism protection policies in the United States and several countries of the European Union (Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain). The data obtained allowed a qualitative assessment to be carried out, through a comparative analysis, in order to identify certain similarities and some significant differences. Thus, it was found that pluralism protection is a common denominator in the communication policies of these countries. However, regulatory and legislative differences depend on social, geographical and media contexts, and time variations in the application of policies depend on audiovisual media market liberalisation processes.Este texto describe y analiza el marco reglamentario y la política actual de protección del pluralismo en Estados Unidos y en diversos países de la Unión Europea (Alemania, Francia, Reino Unido, Holanda, Italia y España). Los datos obtenidos permiten plantear una valoración cualitativa, gracias al análisis comparativo, donde se identifican ciertas semejanzas y también algunas diferencias significativas. Así, se observa que la protección del pluralismo es un referente común en las políticas de comunicación de estos países. No obstante, el marco reglamentario y normativo presenta diferencias, según el contexto social, geográfico y comunicativo, y la aplicación de dichas políticas presenta variaciones temporales en función del proceso de liberalización del mercado audiovisual

External pluralism protection in five EU countries and the U.S. : the regulatory authorities' views

The protection of pluralism in a cross-media scenario is a major concern for regulatory authorities in all democratic countries. This paper presents the outcome of in-depth interviews with members of six independent audiovisual regulatory authorities. They were questioned about the assessment of measures being taken to protect external pluralism in their respective countries, and about the problems and shortcomings they encounter during their implementation. In spite of the difficulties that arise when trying to compare different national realities and to gather qualitative data from legal bodies, this paper draws several conclusions on current policy trends for the protection of pluralism

SafeSU-2: a safe statistics unit for space MPSoCs

Advanced statistics units (SUs) have been proven effective for the verification, validation and implementation of safety measures as part of safety-related MPSoCs. This is the case, for instance, of the RISC-V MPSoC by CAES Gaisler based on NOEL-V cores that will become commercially ready on FPGAs by the end of 2022. However, while those SUs support safety in the rest of the SoC, they must be built to be safe to be part of commercial products. This paper presents the SafeSU-2, the safety-compliant version of the SafeSU. In particular, we perform a Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) for the SafeSU for relevant fault models, and implement fault detection and tolerance features needed to make it compliant with the requirements of safety-related devices in general, and of space MPSoCs in particular.This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 871467. This work has also been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under grant PID2019-107255GBC21/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Genetic diversity of Contracaecum rudolphii sp. A (Nematoda: Anisakidae) parasitizing the European Shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis desmarestii from the Spanish Mediterranean coast

Sibling species of the Contracaecum rudolphii (s.l.) complex are habitual endoparasites of cormorants of the Phalacrocoracidae family, worldwide. In Europe, the two species, C. rudolphii sp. A and C. rudolphii sp. B, have been identified. However, information regarding the occurrence and distribution of these anisakids in cormorants from Spain is scarce. In the present study, 20 specimens of the European Shag, Ph. aristotelis desmarestii, from the western Mediterranean Spanish marine coast were parasitologically analyzed for the presence of nematodes. All hosts were found parasitized with Contracaecum specimens (n D 1,517). A representative subsample was genetically identified as C. rudolphii sp. A by sequence analysis of the mtDNA cox2 gene and the ITS1 and ITS2 regions of the rDNA. This represents the first report of C. rudolphii sp. A from the Spanish Mediterranean waters. Population genetic analysis was performed including other C. rudolphii sp. A specimens from the west Sardinian and the Tyrrhenian Sea. At the intraspecific level, a significant genetic dierentiation (Fst 0.08, p < 0.00001) between the metapopulation from the Spanish Mediterranean coast and that from the Sardinian waters was observed; whereas, no dierentiation was found between metapopulations of the parasite from the Spanish and the Tyrrhenian Italian coast. The findings highly support the hypothesis of the adaptation of the life cycle of C. rudolphii sp. A in brackish and marine ecosystems. Furthermore, the results on the population genetics of C. rudolphii sp. A suggest the possible role of the migration routes of wintering populations of cormorants in the Mediterranean Sea in influencing the parasite genetic structure