A Cautionary Tale: The True Cost of Austerity and Inequality in Europe

European austerity programmes have dismantled the mechanisms that reduce inequality and enable equitable growth. With inequality and poverty on the rise, Europe is facing a lost decade. An additional 15 to 25 million people across Europe could face the prospect of living in poverty by 2025 if austerity measures continue. Oxfam knows this because it has seen it before. The austerity programmes bear a striking resemblance to the ruinous structural adjustment policies imposed on Latin America, SouthEast Asia, and sub-Saharan African in the 1980s and 1990s. These policies were a failure: a medicine that sought to cure the disease by killing the patient. They cannot be allowed to happen again. Oxfam calls on the governments of Europe to turn away from austerity measures and instead choose a path of inclusive growth that delivers better outcomes for people, communities, and the environment

Urban Data in the primary classroom: bringing data literacy to the UK curriculum

As data becomes established as part of everyday life, the ability for the average citizen to have some level of data literacy is increasingly important. This paper describes an approach to teaching data skills in schools using real life, complex, urban data sets collected as part of a smart city project. The approach is founded on the premise that young learners have the ability to work with complex data sets if they are supported in the right way and if the tasks are grounded in a real life context. Narrative principles are used to frame the task, to assist interpretation and tell stories from data and to structure queries of datasets. An inquiry-based methodology organises the activities. This paper describes the initial trial in a UK primary school in which twelve students aged 9-10 years learnt about home energy consumption and the generation of solar energy from home solar PV, by interpreting existing visualisations of smart meter data and data obtained from aerial survey. Additional trials are scheduled with older learners which will evaluate learners on more challenging data handling tasks. The trials are informing the development of the Urban Data School, a web-based platform designed to support teaching data skills in schools in order to improve data literacy among school leavers

Sancha Raimúndez : an Infanta in the Exercise of her Power

In mid-12th century, Infanta Sancha Raimúndez played an important role both in the political life of Alfonso VII’s reign and in the ecclesiastical scene in general, and monastic in particular, using the infantado as a base of her power. We study that kind of power from three angles: the political scene at the wedding of her niece, Infanta Urraca, with Garcia, king of Navarre; the transformation of the female monastery of Saint Isidore of León into a male one, which became the home of a community of Canons Regular; and her support to the monastic federation which arose around abbot Florencio and the renewed monastery of Saint Saviour of Carracedo

Green's Dyadic Approach of the Self-Stress on a Dielectric-Diamagnetic Cylinder with Non-Uniform Speed of Light

We present a Green's dyadic formulation to calculate the Casimir energy for a dielectric-diamagnetic cylinder with the speed of light differing on the inside and outside. Although the result is in general divergent, special cases are meaningful. It is pointed out how the self-stress on a purely dielectric cylinder vanishes through second order in the deviation of the permittivity from its vacuum value, in agreement with the result calculated from the sum of van der Waals forces.Comment: 8 pages, submitted to proceedings of QFEXT0

Les mots du transport et de la gestion : approche sémantique-contextuelle

Les exigences inhérentes au traitement automatique des langues ont mis en exergue la nécessité de formaliser l’articulation forme / sens et impliquent une procédure descriptive de la langue susceptible de rendre compte finement du rôle et du fonctionnement sémantique, dans les discours, de chaque unité lexicale, puisque nous avons affaire à des langues vivantes.Privilégiant une approche sémantique du lexique dans la ligne de Benveniste et nous appuyant sur un corpus de documents préalablement sélectionné appartenant aux domaines spécialisés objet d’analyse (transport — gestion), nous étudierons les changements sémantiques qui militent en faveur de la créativité néologique ainsi que les difficultés que cela pose dès une perspective traductologique. Cela nous permettra de conclure la façon dont les nouveaux lexèmes s’inscrivent dans le système linguistique considéré ; en définitive, le fonctionnement interactif langue / discours.Automatic treatment of languages states the need to formalize the form / sense articulation. So that, is necessary to know how the semantic of the lexical units works in the speech, its evolution and its sociocultural elements that delimit their sense, as we are in front of a living language.Taking as bases a corpus of documents previously selected on the specific scopes object of study (transport — management), and from a semantic approach in Benveniste line, we will analyze the semantic changes which has been put under this terminology, its present interpretation and the difficulties that raises from the translation. All of it will allow us to conclude the way the new lexemes are registered in the analysed linguistic system ; really, the interactive operation language / speech