Inscripciones de Agudo (Baetica, conventus Cordubensis) y Alhambra (Hispania citerior, conventus Carthaginiensis)

El número de epígrafes romanos en la provincia de Ciudad Real, donde había muy pocos testimonios cuando comenzaron los trabajos de la nueva edición de CIL II, ha crecido mucho en los últimos años. Una gran parte de los nuevos descubrimientos fue mérito de Géza Alföldy, quien recorrió en muchas ocasiones este territorio y consiguió probar que había tenido una gran intensidad de hábito epigráfico, similar al de otras zonas de Hispania, y que gran parte de ese impulso correspondía al gobierno de Augusto. Presentamos aquí dos epígrafes de diferente naturaleza, procedentes de dos puntos situados en los extremos occidental y oriental de la provincia

Public opinion and political participation: case study of the broad national student board, MANE, and the discussion on higher education in Colombia during the period 2011-2013

Este proyecto de investigación tiene como fin analizar los aportes de las acciones comunicativas en la construcción de Opinión Pública, propiciadas durante el proceso de Reforma a la Educación Superior en Colombia en el período 2011-2013 por el movimiento estudiantil colombiano, Mesa Amplia Nacional Estudiantil, MANE. Así mismo, explicar la MANE, desde la perspectiva de Público Ilustrado y Opinión Pública planteada por Jürgen Habermas; teniendo en cuenta que la participación, es un mecanismo con diversidad de dificultades a la hora de concurrir en escenarios políticos, especialmente en aquellos donde se desarrollan habilidades comunicativas y se adoptan soluciones de participación juvenil.INTRODUCCIÓN 1.ANÁLISIS Y FORMULACIÓN DEL PROBLEMA DE INVESTIGACIÓN ................ 11 1.1. Proyecto de Reforma a la Educación Superior en Colombia: una discusión pública 11 1.2. Justificación 18 2.OBJETIVOS DE LA INVESTIGACIÓN ...................................................................... 24 2.1. Objetivo General 24 2.2. Objetivos Específicos 24 3.MARCO TEÓRICO ...................................................................................................... 25 3.1. Discusión conceptual sobre modelos para una educación incluyente y participativa. entre lo neoliberal y la Acción Comunicativa 25 3.2. La universidad como espacio de participación política y movilización 39 3.3. La Acción Comunicativa como agente orientador de la participación social 45 3.4. Opinión Pública como proceso deliberativo mediado por la comunicación 51 4.METODOLOGÍA ......................................................................................................... 58 4.1. Técnicas e instrumentos 64 4.2. Procedimiento para el análisis de los datos 74 5.RESULTADOS ............................................................................................................ 76 5.1. Participación Política 76 5.1.1. Estudiantes participantes de la MANE ........................................................ 77 5.1.2. Motivación y participación.......................................................................... 82 5.2. Comunicación Participativa 86 5.2.1. Estructura Organizacional de la MANE ...................................................... 86 5.3. Opinión Pública 100 6.CONCLUSIONES ...................................................................................................... 109 ANEXOSMaestríaThis research project aims to analyze the contributions of communicative action in the construction of public opinion, fueled during the Higher Education Reform in Colombia in 2011-2013 by the Mesa Amplia Nacional Estudiantil, MANE. Also, explain the MANE, from the perspective of educated public and public opinion posed by Jurgen Habermas; considering that participation is a mechanism with a variety of difficulties to attend political scenarios, especially where communication skills are developed and where young participants solutions are adopted

Automatic exploitation of non-determinate independent and-parallelism in the basic andorra model

Andorra-I is the first implementation of a language based on the Andorra Principie, which states that determinate goals can (and shonld) be run before other goals, and even in a parallel fashion. This principie has materialized in a framework called the Basic Andorra model, which allows or-parallelism as well as (dependent) and-parallelism for determinate goals. In this report we show that it is possible to further extend this model in order to allow general independent and-parallelism for nondeterminate goals, withont greatly modifying the underlying implementation machinery. A simple an easy way to realize such an extensión is to make each (nondeterminate) independent goal determinate, by using a special "bagof" constract. We also show that this can be achieved antomatically by compile-time translation from original Prolog programs. A transformation that fulfüls this objective and which can be easily antomated is presented in this report

Seeking factors to increase the public’s acceptability of road-pricing schemes: case study of Spain

User acceptability has become a critical issue for the successful implementation of transport pricing measures and policies. Although several studies have addressed the public acceptability of road pricing, little evidence can be found of the effects of pricing strategies. The acceptability of alternative schemes for a toll network already in operation is an issue to be tackled. This paper contributes to the limited literature in this field by exploring perceptions toward road-pricing schemes among toll road users. On the basis of a nationwide survey of toll road users in Spain, the study developed several binomial logit models to analyze user acceptability of three approaches: express toll lanes, a time-based pricing approach, and a flat fee (vignette) system. The results show notable differences in user acceptability by the type of charging scheme proposed. Express toll lanes were more acceptable by travelers who perceived greater benefits from saving travel time. The acceptability of time-based approaches (peak versus off-peak) decreased for users who felt forced to use the toll road, whereas this was not an aspect that significantly influenced users’ support for flat fee schemes. In addition, a flat fee strategy was more acceptable for long-distance trips and truck drivers who regularly used the toll facilities. The results from this analysis can inform policy makers and planners for the promotion of more efficient, socially inclusive, and publicly acceptable road-pricing schemes

License Plate Detection based on Genetic Neural Networks, Morphology, and Active Contours

This paper describes a new method for License Plate Detection based on Genetic Neural Networks, Morphology, and Active Contours. Given an image is divided into several virtual regions sized 10×10 pixels, applying several performance algorithms within each virtual region, algorithms such as edge detection, histograms, and binary thresholding, etc. These results are used as inputs for a Genetic Neural Network, which provides the initial selection for the probable situation of the license plate. Further refinement is applied using active contours to fit the output tightly to the license plate. With a small and well–chosen subset of images, the system is able to deal with a large variety of images with real–world characteristics obtaining great precision in the detection. The effectiveness for the proposed method is very high (97%). This method will be the first stage of a surveillance system which takes into account not only the actual license plate but also the model of the car to determine if a car should be taken as a threat

Nonuniversal large-size asymptotics of the Lyapunov exponent in turbulent globally coupled maps

Globally coupled maps (GCMs) are prototypical examples of high-dimensional dynamical systems. Interestingly, GCMs formed by an ensemble of weakly coupled identical chaotic units generically exhibit a hyperchaotic “turbulent” state. A decade ago, Takeuchi et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 124101 (2011)] theorized that in turbulent GCMs the largest Lyapunov exponent (LE), λ(N), depends logarithmically on the system size N: λ∞−λ(N)≃c/lnN. We revisit the problem and analyze, by means of analytical and numerical techniques, turbulent GCMs with positive multipliers to show that there is a remarkable lack of universality, in conflict with the previous prediction. In fact, we find a power-law scaling λ∞−λ(N)≃c/Nγ, where γ is a parameter-dependent exponent in the range 0<γ≤1. However, for strongly dissimilar multipliers, the LE varies with N in a slower fashion, which is here numerically explored. Although our analysis is only valid for GCMs with positive multipliers, it suggests that a universal convergence law for the LE cannot be taken for granted in general GCMs.D.V. acknowledges support by Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spain), and European Social Fund (EU) under Grant No. BES-2017-081808 of the FPI Programme. We acknowledge support by Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spain), and European Regional Development Fund (EU) under Project No. FIS2016-74957-P (AEI/FEDER, EU)

Gut Microbiota of Great Spotted Cuckoo Nestlings is a Mixture of Those of Their Foster Magpie Siblings and of Cuckoo Adults

Diet and host genetic or evolutionary history are considered the two main factors determining gut microbiota of animals, although studies are scarce in natural populations. The system of great spotted cuckoos (Clamator glandarius) parasitizing magpies (Pica pica) is ideal to study both effects since magpie adults feed cuckoo and magpie nestlings with the same diet and, consequently, differences in gut microbiota of nestlings of these two species will mainly reflect the importance of genetic components. Moreover, the diet of adults and of nestling cuckoos drastically differ from each other and, thus, differences and similarities in their microbiotas would respectively reflect the effect of environmental and genetic factors. We used next-generation sequencing technologies to analyze the gut microbiota of cuckoo adults and nestlings and of magpie nestlings. The highest -diversity estimates appeared in nestling cuckoos and the lowest in nestling magpies. Moreover, despite the greatest differences in the microbiome composition of magpies and cuckoos of both ages, cuckoo nestlings harbored a mixture of the Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) present in adult cuckoos and nestling magpies. We identified the bacterial taxa responsible for such results. These results suggest important phylogenetic components determining gut microbiome of nestlings, and that diet might be responsible for similarities between gut microbiome of cuckoo and magpie nestlings that allow cuckoos to digest food provided by magpie adults.This work was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades and European (FEDER) funds (CGL2017-83103-P)