Principais perfís de visitantes brasileiros à Galiza e a imagem que dela têm / conformam: primeiros resultados

[Resumo] Este relatório tem como objectivo apresentar as possíveis transferências, vínculos, homologias, influências ou simples referências entre os diferentes agentes implicados na translação, importação e exportação de imagens da Galiza no Brasil, e como estas funcionam no estabelecimento e delimitação de perfis específicos de visitantes. Para isto temos trabalhado na análise de alguns textos da autoria de Nélida Piñon — nomeadamente A República dos Sonhos —, da obra de Paulo Coelho Diário de um mago, assim como com alguns dos principais guias de viagem a nível mundial — sobretudo, aqueles de maior divulgação internacional e dentro do Brasil como a Lonely Planet, a Fodor’s ou a Rough Guide —, assim como com outros eventos e produtos culturais relevantes e algumas ideias extraídas dos relatos de experiências vitais explicitadas pelos próprios visitantes em entrevistas em profundidade e em questionários distribuídos eletrónica e pessoalmente.[Abstract] This report aims to present the possible transfers, links, homologies, influences or simple references between the different actors involved in the translation, import and export of the image Galicia has in Brazil, and its function when establishing and defining specific profiles of visitors. Therefore, we analysed texts by Nelida Piñon, namely the Republic of Dreams, by Paulo Coelho, Pilgrimage, as well by some of the major travel guides worldwide, especially those with high dissemination within Brazil — Lonely Planet, Fodor’s or the Rough Guide — together with other events and culturally relevant products, and with aspects that came up in different kinds of interviews

Reconstructing the impact of human activities in a NW Iberian Roman mining landscape for the last 2500 years

This article was made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Little is known about the impact of human activities during Roman times on NW Iberian mining landscapes beyond the geomorphological transformations brought about by the use of hydraulic power for gold extraction. We present the high-resolution pollen record of La Molina mire, located in an area intensely used for gold mining (Asturias, NW Spain), combined with other proxy data from the same peat core to identify different human activities, evaluate the strategies followed for the management of the resources and describe the landscape response to human disturbances. We reconstructed the timing and synchronicity of landscape changes of varying intensity and form occurred before, during and after Roman times. An open landscape was prevalent during the local Late Iron Age, a period of relatively environmental stability. During the Early Roman Empire more significant vegetation shifts took place, reflected by changes in both forest (Corylus and Quercus) and heathland cover, as mining/metallurgy peaked and grazing and cultivation increased. In the Late Roman Empire, the influence of mining/metallurgy on landscape change started to disappear. This decoupling was further consolidated in the Germanic period (i.e., Visigothic and Sueve domination of the region), with a sharp decrease in mining/metallurgy but continued grazing. Although human impact was intense in some periods, mostly during the Early Roman Empire, forest regeneration occurred afterwards: clearances were local and short-lived. However, the Roman mining landscape turned into an agrarian one at the onset of the Middle Ages, characterized by a profound deforestation at a regional level due to a myriad of human activities that resulted in an irreversible openness of the landscape. © 2014 The Authors

Yes scotland versus better together: how did it all happen?

On the 18th of September 2014, Scottish voters have rejected political independence by a margin of 55,3% against 44,7%. Yet during more than 16 weeks, two opposing campaigns - Yes Scotland versus Better Together - have strived to convince Scotland that political independence versus keeping the Union was the best choice for Scotland’s future. Filled with many unexpected moments, the campaign was intense, vibrant and almost breathtaking. The purpose of this article is to deliver a coherent and consistent account of the Scottish campaigns in order to make sense of the “no” vote. In this article, we will proceed in four moments: first, we will put the referendum in context; second, we will highlight major aspects of the campaigns; third, we will bring the political process up to date and will clarify the terms of the agreement reached under the Smith Process. Finally, in the last part, we will summarize the lessons to learn from the political outcome of the referendum

Suelos de Gipuzkoa sobre argilitas : factores limitantes a su uso y conservación

En este estudio se caracterizan las propiedades de los suelos de Gipuzkoa desarrollados sobre argilitas y se evalúan en función de las limitaciones que presentan para su uso y conservación, por medio del Soil Fertility Capability Classification System de Buol (1972). Las principales características de estos suelos son su textura limosa a arcillosa, alta densidad aparente, contenidos bajos a moderados de materia orgánica, reacción ácida, déficit importante de nutrientes y elevada saturación de aluminio en el complejo de intercambio, además de situarse en áreas de topografía colinada. Estas propiedades hacen que sean muy susceptibles a la erosión y tengan problemas considerables para la nutrición de las plantas y toxicidad potencial por aluminioLan honetan Gipuzkoan argiliten gainean moldaturiko lurzoruen ezaugarriak aztertzen dira eta beraien erabilpen eta kontserbaziorako aurkezten dituzten mugak ebaluatzen dira, Buol-en Soil Fertility Capability Classification System delakoaren bidez (1972). Lurzoru hauen ezaugarri nagusiak: limo eta buztinaren arteko egitura, materia organikoen kopuru txiki edo moderatuak, erreakzio azidoa, nutrienteen eskasia nabarmena eta aluminio-saturazio handia elkartrukearen konplexuan, muino-topografia duten lekuetan kokatuak izateaz gain. Ezaugarri horiek direla eta, higaduraren menpe daude, landareen nutriziorako arazo handiak dituzte eta aluminiozko toxizitate potentzial handia duteDans la présente étude nous signalons les caractéristiques des sols de Gipuzkoa développés sur des argilites et nous les évaluons en fonction des limitationes qu'ils présentent du point de vue de leur utilisation et de leur conservation, en utilisant le Soil Fertility Capability Classification System de Buol (1972). Les principales caractéristiques de ces sols sont leur texture de limoneuse à argileuse, leur haute densité apparente, leurs contenus de bas à modérés de matière organique, leur réaction acide, leur déficit important en matiéres nourricières et leur importante saturation en aluminium dans le complexe d'échange, et également le fait qu'ils se trouvent dans des zones d'une topographie de collines. Ces caractéristiques les rendent très sensibles à l'érosion et posent des problèms considérables du point de vue de l'alimentation des plantes et de la toxicité potentielle par aluminiu

Diaglexia: una aplicación informática para el diagnóstico de la dislexia

[Resumen] En esta comunicación pretendemos dar una opción diferente al profesor de Audición y Lenguaje, al Logopeda o al Psicopedagogo de un departamento de orientación, a la hora de hacer un diagnóstico a un discente con trastornos lectoescritores, en concreto la dislexia. Se trata de una aplicación informática llamada Diaglexia,en la que se ponen a disposición del niño las herramientas de la nueva era, la tecnología informática. Se pretende explorar los fallos del sujeto a la vez que se divierte, realmente este programa pide una segunda parte, en el que se propongan diversas actividades para la intervención o reeducación de la dislexia. Por otra parte, hay una segunda comunicación que explica el manual de usuari

Diaglexia: manual de usuario de una aplicación informática para el diagnóstico de la dislexia (II)

[Resumen] En esta segunda parte, queremos presentar el manual de usuario para la aplicación de nuestro programa Diaglexia, ya que en la primera parte sólo presentamos algunas pantallas que reflejan la evaluación que se pretende llevar a cabo con el sujeto que presente problemas lectoescritores. Realmente queremos facilitar la tarea tanto del profesional, en el que puede crear sus propias pruebas diagnóstica adaptándose a la problemática individual del discent

Post-disturbance vegetation dynamics during the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene: An example from NW Iberia

This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Global and Planetary Change. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. Copyright @ 2012 Elsevier B.V.There is a wealth of studies dealing with the reconstruction of past environmental changes and their effects on vegetation composition in NW Iberia, but none of them have focused specifically on the post-disturbance dynamics (i.e. the type of response) of the vegetation at different space and time scales. To fill this gap, we analysed the record of pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs (NPP) of a 235-cm thick colluvial sequence spanning the last ~ 13,900 years. The aims were to detect the changes in vegetation, identify the responsible drivers and determine the type of responses to disturbance. To extract this information we applied multivariate statistical techniques (constrained cluster analysis and principal components analysis on transposed matrices, PCAtr) to the local (hydro-hygrophytes and NPP) and regional (land pollen) datasets separately. In both cases the cluster analysis resulted in eight local and regional assemblage zones, while five (local types) and four (regional types) principal components were obtained by PCAtr to explain 94.1% and 96.6% of the total variance, respectively. The main drivers identified were climate change, grazing pressure, fire events and cultivation. The vegetation showed gradual, threshold and elastic responses to these drivers, at different space (local vs. regional) and time scales, revealing a complex ecological history. Regional responses to perturbations were sometimes delayed with respect to the local response. The results also showed an ecosystem resilience, such as the persistence of open Betula-dominated vegetation community for ~ 1700 years after the onset of the Holocene, and elastic responses, such as the oak woodland to the 8200 cal yr BP dry/cold event. Our results support the notion that palaeoecological research is a valuable tool to investigate ecosystem history, their responses to perturbations and their ability to buffer them. This knowledge is critical for modelling the impact of future environmental change and to help to manage the landscape more sustainably.The Spanish Governmen

Differentiation between pine woods according to species and growing location using FTIR-ATR

Attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (FTIR-ATR) spectroscopy was applied to 120 samples of heartwood rings from eight individual pine trees from different locations in Spain. Pinus sylvestris cores were collected at the Artikutza natural park (Ps-ART). Pinus nigra cores were collected in Sierra de Cazorla (Pn-LIN) and in La Sagra Mountain (Pn-LSA). Three discriminant analysis tests were performed using all bands (DFT), lignin bands only (DFL) and polysaccharides bands only (DFP), to explore the ability of FTIR-ATR to separate between species and growing location. The DFL model enabled a good separation between pine species, whereas the DFP model enabled differentiation for both species and growing location. The DFT model enabled virtually perfect separation, based on two functions involving twelve FTIR bands. Discrimination between species was related to bands at 860 and 1655 cm−1, which were more intense in P. sylvestris samples, and bands at 1425 and 1635 cm−1, more intense in P. nigra samples. These vibrations were related to differences in lignin structure and polysaccharide linear chains. Discrimination between growing locations was mainly related to polysaccharide absorptions: at 900, 1085 and 1335 cm−1 more representative of Pn-LIN samples, and at 1105 and 1315 cm−1 mostly associated to Pn-LSA samples. These absorptions are related to β-glycosidic linkages (900 cm−1), cellulose and hemicellulose (C–O bonds, 1085 and 1105 cm−1) and content in amorphous/crystalline cellulose (1315 and 1335 cm−1). These results show that FTIR-ATR in combination with multivariate statistics can be a useful tool for species identification and provenancing for pine wood samples of unknown originS

Expansión urbana cerrada y representaciones sociales : La mirada de los habitantes del barrio Villa Alcira en torno a las incidencias socio territoriales del country Nuevo Quilmes (Bernal)

Desde las últimas décadas del siglo XX, en la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires (RMBA), se asiste a una nueva forma de producción del espacio urbano a partir de la irrupción de las urbanizaciones cerradas. Pero, es durante el modelo neodesarrollista que parece consolidarse esta lógica. Las urbanizaciones cerradas fueron la opción elegida por sectores medios-altos y altos, en principio en búsqueda de mayor seguridad, y gracias a la gran difusión y publicidad que se ha hecho sobre ellas. En general, han procurado localizarse en áreas periféricas de la ciudad, pero bien conectadas por el sistema de vialidades. En los últimos años también han tendido a localizarse en zonas bajas o de humedales, por sus particularidades paisajísticas o sus oportunidades de negocio a partir de la obtención de rentas extraordinarias. Así pues, éstas áreas se transformaron en el campo de disputa por el control de territorios antes marginales (Pintos, 2012). Esta investigación incorpora nuevos planteos a la discusión, que diferencian la manera en que los clásicos trabajos de countries encaran el estudio de las urbanizaciones cerradas, ya que puede ser de utilidad para proponer una mirada complementaria. El propósito de esta tesina es analizar las representaciones sociales en torno a las incidencias que genera el proceso de expansión residencial cerrada en humedales urbanos. El caso a estudiar se desarrolló en Quilmes, a través del barrio náutico Nuevo Quilmes construido en Don Bosco, y el barrio aledaño, hacia el sur, Villa Alcira en Bernal, entre los años 2008 y 2015.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació