FIRST REPORT OF A MAGELLANIC HORNED OWL (BUBO MAGELLANICUS) NESTING IN A BUILDING BALCONY

The ability of a species to successfully adapt to urban areas is controlled by certain ecological limiting factors. Many owl species have a negative response to urbanization, while there are others that seem to tolerate, or even thrive, in urban environments. Here, we re- port a nest of the Magellanic Horned Owl (Bubo magellanicus) in a building balcony in a suburban area in the commune of Lo Barnechea, Santiago, Chile. The nest was found in the first week of August 2018, at first bearing a single egg. After 92 days of monitoring, two nestlings successfully abandoned the nest. The use of human-made structures by the Magellanic Horned Owl had not been previously recorded; con- sequently, this record evidences new nesting opportunities for this owl in urban areas, revealing a change in its reproductive behavior

New relative indices of inequality base don the lorenz curve: perimeter and longitudinal ratio measures?

Empleando como fuente estadística la Memoria de la Administración Tributaria del año 2005, este trabajo presenta dos medidas alternativas de la medición de la desigualdad del ingreso en España.inequality, relative indices of inequality

Parametric assessment of a building active façade by means of a combined metallic sandwich panel with an unglazed solar collector

The building sector has a poor performance in terms of energy efficiency and is looking for alternatives to reduce the use of fossil fuels on building use stage. Renewables are unlimited and solar thermal energy is a technology with a demonstrated potential. The façade is a key element able to harness renewable energy coming from the sun becoming in an Active Solar Thermal Façade (ASTF). The main purpose of this study is the development of a parametric study using a numerical model to analyze the behavior of an unglazed solar collector. Thus, evaluating different design and meteorological parameters to show their influence on the heat transfer and the efficiency. The study shows that solar irradiation and mass flow are the most influential on thermal difference. However, for the efficiency ambient temperature and inlet temperature both are the most influencing ones. In brief, a set of parameters have a significant influence on the behavior of the ASTF that are fully governed by environmental conditions. Nevertheless, there are some other parameters that can be controlled during the operation. The challenge is to make a continuous configuration of this adaptable values depending on the external situation to achieve a higher performance for the ASTF

Dominance Measuring Method Performance under Incomplete Information about Weights.

In multi-attribute utility theory, it is often not easy to elicit precise values for the scaling weights representing the relative importance of criteria. A very widespread approach is to gather incomplete information. A recent approach for dealing with such situations is to use information about each alternative?s intensity of dominance, known as dominance measuring methods. Different dominancemeasuring methods have been proposed, and simulation studies have been carried out to compare these methods with each other and with other approaches but only when ordinal information about weights is available. In this paper, we useMonte Carlo simulation techniques to analyse the performance of and adapt such methods to deal with weight intervals, weights fitting independent normal probability distributions orweights represented by fuzzy numbers.Moreover, dominance measuringmethod performance is also compared with a widely used methodology dealing with incomplete information on weights, the stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA). SMAA is based on exploring the weight space to describe the evaluations that would make each alternative the preferred one

Giovanni Boccaccio : intermediary between culture classical and european renaissance culture

El interés de Giovanni Boccaccio por los clásicos se acrecienta cuando conoce personalmente a Francesco Petrarca. La relación con el maestro/amigo lo lleva a escribir sus obras latinas y sobre todo a profundizar la búsqueda de manuscritos, lo que le permite redescubrir obras presuntamente perdidas. De esta manera,participa en el desarrollo del fenómeno humanístico en Italia, que da inicio a la cultura renacentista europeaGiovanni Boccacio growth his interest on classics when meets Francesco Petrarca personally. The master/friend relationship guides him to write his latin works, and more importantly, go deeper on manuscripts researching. This allows him to rediscover works that were allegedly lost. Thus, he participates in the phenom of italian humanistic development, that gives birth to european Renaissance cultureFil: Blanco Jiménez, José. Università degli Studi di Padova (Italia). Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestal

La energía al servicio del desarrollo sostenible: Una reflexión

Se asume con carácter universal que es necesario replantear el modelo energético basado en productos fósiles, que ha sido fuente de progreso durante los últimos 150 años, pero también causa principal de las emisiones GEI a niveles incompatibles con el desarrollo sostenible. La reducción sustancial de esas emisiones para evitar el colapso climático es el gran desafío con medidas sobre todo para ganar en eficiencia energética y sustituir progresivamente los productos fósiles, carbón y productos petrolíferos, por fuentes renovables en la producción y uso de la energía. Sobre esa base, una mayor electrificación, especialmente del transporte, centra los esfuerzos de desarrollo tecnológico donde China parece estar asumiendo el liderazgo mundial. España reúne condiciones objetivas para salir beneficiada con el nuevo modelo energético sostenible si se alcanza un pacto de estado al respecto, se establece una buena gobernanza en su desarrollo y seguimiento y se exige que se cumplan los objetivos de nuevas interconexiones eléctricas con el resto de Europ

On the effect of low blowing ratio continuous jets on wingtip vortex characteristics

Vortices are an unavoidable effect of flight, which appear behind the wing with a bounded length. The strength of these vortices, which are extremely stable, is due to the lift force [1]. That is the reason why this phenomenon is especially relevant during take-off and landing operations. In these situations, when aircraft are departing from or arriving to the airport runways, the following aircraft might feel two counter-rotating vortices which remain long time under normal environmental conditions. Unfortunately, this huge rotation of airflow patterns always destabilizes the following aircraft. Consequently, trailing vortices have a mighty influence on the air traffic control of airport runways, and they have justified the research interest in this topic since the 1960's [2]. However, aeronautical engineers are still searching for different technological strategies to breakdown these wingtip vortices.Short-Term Postdoctoral Stay of Talent Attraction Plan of Andalucía TECH ICE. Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tec