Design and manufacturing of master alloys for sintering activation in high performance structural parts

Nowadays, the development of high performance structural parts, is limited by the fact that the alloying systems are being modifying by requirements associated to envorimental guideline as well as to the increase in the price of raw materials. The use of masteralloys allows to activate the mass transport processes during sintering with a minimum modification of final composition (low cost) acting on densification, and hence, on final properties. The research group of “Powder Technology” from Carlos III University, has a wide experience and qualification on the design of new alloying systems and in manufacturing the powders by atomization and mechanical alloying techniques. The Group is looking for companies interested in technical cooperation or manufacturing agreement

Anti-Immigrant Sentiments, Actions, and Policies: the North American Region and the European Union / Sentimientos, acciones y políticas antiinmigrantes: América del Norte y la Unión Europea

Introduction /Mónica Verea; Introducción / Mónica Verea; Visión General; Aproximaciones teóricas para entender las políticas migratorias restrictivas y los sentimientos antiinmigrantes en el siglo XXI / Mónica Verea; Conflicto social; América del Norte; Constitutional Failure or Anti-Immigrant Success? Local Anti-Immigrant Ordinances and Sentiments in the United States / Liette Gilbert and Kathy A. Kolnick; The Complexity of Immigration Attitudes in the United States:Public Opinion; the Border States of Arizona and California / Frederic I. Solop and Nancy A. Wonders; State-Level Immigrant-Related Legislation: What It Means for the Immigration Policy Debate / Robert Donnelly; Local Anti-Immigration Politics in California’s Inland Empire / Michal Kohout Mixed-Immigration-Status Households in the Context of Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Policies: Implications for Health Care Disparities / Anna Ochoa O’Leary and Azucena Sanchez; Sentimientos antiinmigrantes en el estado de Georgia / Elaine Levine; “Godzilla con sombrero de charro”: visiones testimoniales y el imaginario anti(in)migrante estadunidense post-11 de septiembre / Claire Joysmith; Constructing Security on the U.S.Mexico Border: An Analysis of the Minutemen Movement / Julie Dufort; “This is America — Speak English.” The English-Only Movement and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments in the United States / Anna Kaganiec-Kamienska; Xenofobia y discriminación en México / Manuel Ángel Castillo y Germán G. Guerra; Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in Canada / Yolande Pottie-Sherman and Rima Wilkes; Economic Opportunity; La situación de los inmigrantes ilegales en Canadá; Unión Europea; The Future of the European Social Policy Model and perceptions of immigration / Xavier Escandell; Migration to Europe in an Age of Terror: What Effect on Public Opinion? / Anthony M. Messina; Anti-Immigrant Politics and the Crisis of Models of Integration in Western Europe: A Critical Perspective / Christophe Bertossi; Anti-Immigrant Sentiments; Similitudes y particularidades del endurecimiento del control fronterizo en España; y Estados Unidos entre 1989 y 2010 / Guillermo Alonso y Michal Weres; Las consignas antiinmigración en los partidos políticos españoles. Los casos de Democracia Nacional y Plataforma per Catalunya / Pablo Nicolás Biderbost Moyan

Customer-oriented risk assessment in Network Utilities

For companies that distribute services such as telecommunications, water, energy, gas, etc., quality perceived by the customers has a strong impact on the fulfillment of financial goals, positively increasing the demand and negatively increasing the risk of customer churn (loss of customers). Failures by these companies may cause customer affection in a massive way, augmenting the intention to leave the company. Therefore, maintenance performance and specifically service reliability has a strong influence on financial goals. This paper proposes a methodology to evaluate the contribution of the maintenance department in economic terms, based on service unreliability by network failures. The developed methodology aims to provide an analysis of failures to facilitate decision making about maintenance (preventive/predictive and corrective) costs versus negative impacts in end-customer invoicing based on the probability of losing customers. Survival analysis of recurrent failures with the General Renewal Process distribution is used for this novel purpose with the intention to be applied as a standard procedure to calculate the expected maintenance financial impact, for a given period of time. Also, geographical areas of coverage are distinguished, enabling the comparison of different technical or management alternatives. Two case studies in a telecommunications services company are presented in order to illustrate the applicability of the methodology

Estudio socio-jurídico sobre el tratamiento de los delitos de violencia de género : análisis del discurso de profesionales del ámbito judicial y policial

En este trabajo analizamos desde una aproximación cualitativa los discursos sobre la violencia de género por parte de profesionales del ámbito jurídico-penal. Nuestro objetivo se centra en reflexionar y valorar aquellos aspectos más problemáticos que se originan en el tratamiento de esta violencia en relación al sistema jurídico-penal, la aplicación de la Ley, haciendo especial referencia a la prohibición de aproximación, considerando las barreras que dificultan su aplicación y eficacia. Este estudio cualitativo se basa en entrevistas en profundidad con informantes claves, aplicando el Análisis Social del Discurso como método para analizar e interpretar los datos obtenidos, concretamente, a través de la identificación de repertorios interpretativos. Los resultados revelan que los operadores jurídicos mantienen un discurso similar, típico de la comunidad jurídica, que se caracteriza por un discurso científico y profesionalizado, en el que se echa en falta una mirada desde las mujeres, más próxima a ellas, abierta a empatizar con las víctimas y tener en cuenta su experiencia subjetiva.In this paper we analyze from a qualitative approach the discourses on gender violence by professionals of the legal-criminal field. Our focus is to ponder and evaluate those most problematic issues that arise in the treatment of domestic violence in relation to the criminal justice system, the implementation of the Law, with particular reference to the prohibition to approach the victim, considering the barriers that hinder their application and effectiveness. This qualitative study is based on in-depth interviews with key informants, using the Social Discourse Analysis as a method to analyze and interpret the data, specifically through the identification of interpretative repertoires. Results show that legal operators maintain a similar discourse, typical of the legal community, characterized by a scientific and professionalized discourse, which is missing a look from women, nearer to them, open to empathize with victims and take into account their subjective experience

Impacts of the Recent Economic Crisis (2008-2009) on International Migration

Foreword / Silvia Núñez García; Introduction: A Brief Overview of Some Impacts of The Recent Economic Crisis on International Migration / Mónica Verea and Elaine Levine; The Impact of the 2008-2009 Economic Crisis on Latinos And Latino Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market / Elaine Levine; Immigration and Policy: New Challenges after The Economic Crisis in Portugal / Maria Lucinda Fonseca and Jennifer McGarrigle; The Impact of the Recession on Migration in the United Kingdom / Jon Simmons; Immigration To and Emigration From Germany in the Last Few Years / Bernd Geiss; Immigrant Employment and Managing Labor Migration in Finland / Paula Kuusipalo; The Economic Crisis and Overseas Filipinos’ Remittances: Learning to Build a Future Back Home / Imelda Nicolas; Europe’s Backlash against Multiculturalism / Jan Rath; The Rise of Anti-immigrant Sentiments in the U.S.: Arizona and Alabam