Luis Ferrant, artista de época isabelina

This paper aims to describe the life and works of the Romantic painter Luis Ferrant Llausás, who worked in Madrid during the reign of Elizabeth II and belonged to a well-known family of artists. lnformation regarding bis teaching activities and membership of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando is also provided.Con este estudio se da a conocer la vida y obra del pintor romántico Luis Ferrant Llausás, activo en Madrid, durante el reinado de Isabel 11 y miembro de una destacada familia de artistas. Además, se aportan datos acerca de su actividad como profesor y miembro de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

Mobile craftspeople and orientalising transculturation in seventh-century BC Iberia

During the early first millennium BC, Phoenician peoples settled the Iberian coasts instigating cultural innovations known as the orientalising; indigenous communities of the interior have long been considered as passively dependent on, or isolated from, these developments. Recent excavations at the Early Iron Age village of Cerro de San Vicente in central Spain, however, have yielded domestic contexts that prompt reconsideration of this relationship. The authors use settlement layout, architecture and locally made tablewares to identify heterarchical organisation around virilocal and bilateral kinship and hybrid practices that attest to adoption of know-how and practices from distant places. Emphasis is placed on the role of embodied craftworking skills and female mobility in transculturation processes.Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (research project ARQPARENT, PID2019-104349GA-I00)Autonomous Government of Castile and Leon (grants 41/2017-SA and 21/086-SA

“Ride-hailing” services and motor vehicle crashes in peripheral areas of Madrid, Spain

The fast growth of “ride-hailing” platforms such as Uber or Cabify poses important challenges and questions in the cities where they are implemented. According to an official Uber report, in 2018 the company made 14 million trips a day. This new offer of services could improve the supply to segments of demand that previously had greater difficulties in accessing taxis or public transport, for example, young people who moving for leisure, low-income families or residents in the periphery of the cities. When the number of vehicles is lower, they tend to concentrate in the central areas, leaving relatively more remote areas without efficient service. This paper, with a novel approach, has an objective to analyze the impact of ride-hailing platforms on traffic accidents with at least one dead or seriously injured person in the Madrid municipality from 2014 to 2018 and seeing whether, since their arrival, the most vulnerable districts have reduced traffic accidents with young drivers who had consumed alcohol. For it, a regression analysis has been carried out using a Random-Effects Negative Binomial Regression (RENB). The results of the model show that Uber and Cabify services are related to reducing urban accidents. Moreover, in the case of the most vulnerable districts, accidentality with young people and presence of alcohol has also been reduced

Food Antimicrobials Nanocarriers

Natural food antimicrobials are bioactive compounds that inhibit the growth of microorganisms involved in food spoilage or food-borne illness. However, stability issues result in degradation and loss of antimicrobial activity. Nanoencapsulation allows protection of antimicrobial food agents from unfavorable environmental conditions and incompatibilities. Encapsulation of food antimicrobials control delivery increasing the concentration of the antimicrobials in specific areas and the improvement of passive cellular absorption mechanisms resulted in higher antimicrobial activity. This paper reviews the present state of the art of the nanostructures used as food antimicrobial carriers including nanoemulsions, nanoliposomes, nanoparticles, and nanofibers

Diagnóstico relativo a las viviendas de uso turístico ofertadas por plataformas on-line en Denia

Durante los últimos años hemos asistido al extraordinario crecimiento de la oferta de viviendas turísticas a través de plataformas on-line, lo que ha impactado de lleno en el sector turístico al tratarse un servicio disruptivo respecto al alojamiento tradicional. En España, este fenómeno surgió con fuerza a partir de 2012 y, en la actualidad, se ha convertido en parte esencial de la oferta turística del país. En este sentido, las viviendas de uso turístico han tenido una gran implantación en los municipios turísticos de “sol y playa” de la provincia de Alicante, entre las que se encuentra la ciudad de Denia. Denia es uno de los destinos turísticos más importantes de la Comunitat Valenciana. Los numerosos activos turísticos presentes en el territorio, marcados por su historia y tradición, destacan por la búsqueda de la excelencia, que se demuestra en la elevada calidad de vida de la que disfrutan tanto residentes como turistas. En este marco, el objetivo de este trabajo es llevar a cabo un diagnóstico de la situación actual de las viviendas turísticas en Denia con objeto de aprovechar los efectos positivos que pueden traer consigo estas nuevas formas de alojamiento al tiempo que limitar aquellos que resulten negativos. Específicamente, el contenido del trabajo que se desarrollará a continuación es el siguiente: 1. Introducción al fenómeno de la oferta de viviendas turísticas a través de plataformas on-line: causas de su aparición, crecimiento durante los últimos años y perspectivas futuras. Análisis regulatorio en el marco de la Comunitat Valenciana. Diagnóstico socioeconómico de su implantación en Denia atendiendo a los resultados ofrecidos por las plataformas líderes – Airbnb y Vrbo (HomeAway) -. Para ello, se analizará la oferta y demanda de alojamientos diferenciando por zona urbanas (Les Rotes y El Montgó, Les Marines y Casco Urbano). Se estudiarán los resultados de la temporada 2021/22, además de 2019, como año previo a la pandemia, detallando los resultados mensuales para conocer su comportamiento tanto en temporada alta como baja. Maximización de la satisfacción para los turistas e ingresos para los propietarios de viviendas turísticas, conociendo aquellas variables que influyen en mayor medida en mejorar las opiniones de los turistas y la generación de ingresos para los propietarios. Conclusiones del diagnóstico a fin de facilitar la toma de decisiones en una fase posterior

A CASE STUDY OF IDENTIFY IMPORTANCE OF LAND USE PLANNING IN ROAD SAFETY, BENIDORM

[EN] This research analyses how urban form, land use and urban density, may influence the incidence of traffic-related crashes injuries and deaths. It begins with a theoretical overview of studies which deal with the study of the relationship between urban patterns and road safety. Next, it details the development of a database of crash incidence and urban form at the district level for the city of Benidorm (Alicante, Spain) in 2010. Subsequently, it is developed a negative binomial approach for intra-city motor vehicle crash analysis. One-year crash data for Benidorm (the fourth largest tourism destination of Spain, after Barcelona, Madrid and San Bartolomé de Tirajana, and exclusively tourist-oriented city) are analyzed using a geographic information system (GIS) to generate relevant inputs for the analysis. In general, the study finds that a strong land use mix results on fewer road accidents, whereas accidents are more common but less severe in areas of high urban density. Finally, pedestrian accidents research showed that rural and low density environment is related to an important road accident numbers unlike tourism-oriented zones, much more safe for them. Based on these findings, the paper discusses the implications for urban design practice.Authors wish to acknowledge City Council of Benidorm for sharing databases and the Office of the Vice President for Research, Development and Innovation of University of Alicante within Programa Propio to encourage R&D&I, which beneficiary is the co-author Patricia Fernández Aracil.Casares Blanco, J.; Sánchez Galiano, J.; Fernández Aracil, P.; Ortuño Padilla, A. (2016). A CASE STUDY OF IDENTIFY IMPORTANCE OF LAND USE PLANNING IN ROAD SAFETY, BENIDORM. En XII Congreso de ingeniería del transporte. 7, 8 y 9 de Junio, Valencia (España). Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 1701-1708. https://doi.org/10.4995/CIT2016.2016.3429OCS1701170

Abandono de terrazas de cultivo: recolonización vegetal y erosión en el sureste peninsular

[Resumen] El paisaje del sureste peninsular ha estado marcado, en los últimos decenios, por los cambios en los aprovechamientos de las laderas subáridas. Frente a concepciones lineales de los procesos erosivos que afectan a estos espacios, la metodología empleada y los resultados obtenidos evidencian la necesidad de abordar este tema con planteamientos puramente geográficos, donde se valora el papel de los factores abióticos y bióticos del medio, sin olvidar que ambos son decisivos en la comprensión y explicación del paisaje desde una visión antropocéntrica.[Abstract] In the last decades the southeast peninsular landscape has been affected by the changes in the used subarid slopes. Opposite to lineal conceptions of erosive processes in these areas, the employed methodology and the obtained resu1ts show the need to research this subject with purely geographic patterns in which the abiotic and biotic factors are valued without forgetting that both are decisives in the understanding and explication of the lanscape from an human perspectiv

A comparison of Clinical Risk Index for babies (CRIB-II), Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology (SNAP-II) and SNAPPE-II in predicting parenteral nutrition necessity in low birth weight preterm neonates.

Advances in perinatal care have made it possible to improve survival of low birth weight neonates. Clinical risk index for babies (CRIB-II), score for neonatal acute physiology (SNAP-II), and SNAP-perinatal extension-II (SNAPPE-II) have been used as mortality predictors for preterm infants. Feeding intolerance is very frequent in preterm neonates, and the development of an early effective biomarker for its prediction could be useful for carrying out a proper feeding strategy. Our aim was to compare the ability of CRIB-II, SNAP-II and SNAPPE-II in predict the feeding intolerance and parenteral nutrition necessity in preterm neonates. Methods: A retrospective cohort study on preterm neonates’ born at Jaen Hospital Complex with low birth weight and ≤ 36 weeks of gestation was done. Epidemiological, clinical and clinical scores CRIB II, SNAP-II and SNAPPE-II were recorded. Results: 255 low birth weight preterm neonates, 131 males (51.4%), aged ≤32 weeks of gestation (71%), were enrolled at our hospital. Parenteral nutrition needed were significantly higher in preterm neonates weighed 2500-1500 g (73.3%) and ≤ 1000g (87%). CRIB-II, SNAP-II and SNAPPE-II mean values were higher in neonates group subjected to parenteral nutrition compared with oral nutrition (p<0.05). CRIB-II and SNAPPE-II scores significantly correlated with parenteral nutrition days (p<0.05). Overall mortality rate was 11%. The 78.6% of all deceased infants needed parenteral nutrition. Conclusion: Clinical Risk Index for babies (CRIB-II) better than SNAPPE-II correlated with the feeding intolerance and thus the parenteral nutrition days in preterm neonates with low birth weight.Subvencionado: Ayuda del Plan Propio de Investigación de la UMA. Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

A Socio-Economic and Environmental Analysis of the Implementation of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems in Vega Baja—Alicante (Spain)

One of the territories most affected by flooding in Spain is the district of Vega Baja del Segura, located in the southernmost point of the province of Alicante. The objective of this article is to estimate the socio-economic and environmental efficiency of implementing sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) as part of the Vega Baja Nature Plan. This plan seeks to optimise rainfall management by reproducing and restoring the natural hydrological processes altered by the urban development of cities through integrated actions that generate new natural areas to be used and enjoyed by the residents. To this end, a cost–benefit analysis was carried out in accordance with the methodology established by the European Commission, and a social profitability of 4.3% (IRR) was obtained for the project, which shows the social benefit to be gained from its execution.This research was funded by HIDRAQUA, Gestión Integral de Aguas de Levante, S.A