The gender perspective in sustainable urban planning

As for any other discipline, urban planning can only be considered sustainable if it combines care for the environment with the satisfaction of social needs and economic balance. Given that women make up almost 50% of the world's population, urban planning that neglects women’s needs is not sustainable. Numerous studies show that mobility patterns vary according to gender and are linked to people’s daily activities, which also depend, among others, on the economic and educational level. The other way round, limited mobility opportunities lead to some women’s restricted access to particular activities. This work aims to briefly explain existing inequalities and their potential solutions under different boundary conditions.Objectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::5 - Igualtat de GènereObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::5 - Igualtat de Gènere::5.4 - Reconèixer i valorar les cures no remunerades i el treball domèstic no remunerat, mitjançant la prestació de serveis públics, la provisió d’infraestructures i la formulació de polítiques de protecció social, així com mitjançant la promoció de la responsabilitat compartida a la llar i la família, segons escaigui a cada paísObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::11 - Ciutats i Comunitats SosteniblesObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::11 - Ciutats i Comunitats Sostenibles::11.2 - Per a 2030, proporcionar accés a sistemes de transport segurs, assequibles, accessi­bles i sostenibles per a totes les persones, i millorar la seguretat viària, en particular mitjan­çant l’ampliació del transport públic, amb especial atenció a les necessitats de les persones en situació vulnerable, dones, nenes, nens, persones amb discapacitat i persones gransObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::5 - Igualtat de Gènere::5.1 - Posar fi a totes les formes de discriminació contra totes les dones i nenes a tot el mónPostprint (published version

Memoria y olvido en la Historia de la Arqueología: recuperando la figura de Francisco Benítez Mellado (1883-1962), el gran ilustrador arqueológico

Este artículo comienza con una reflexión sobre la memoria y el olvido en la Historia de la Arqueología. Al reservarse las necrológicas casi exclusivamente a profesores de universidad y conservadores de museos, muchas otras personas que hacen posible la práctica arqueológica quedan condenadas al olvido. En este trabajo se recupera la memoria de una de ellas, Francisco Benítez Mellado (1883- 1962). Este cordobés formado como artista profesional con José García Ramos y Joaquín Sorolla, se reconvertiría a dibujante técnico, siendo responsable tanto del dibujo del material recuperado en muchos de los yacimientos prehistóricos clave excavados en la primera mitad del siglo XX en España como de la documentación de arte rupestre prehistórico descubierto en aquellos años y publicado por los prehistoriadores más prestigiosos en la España del momento.This article starts with a discussion of memory and forgetfulness in the history of archaeology. As obituaries are almost exclusively reserved to university professors and museum curators, this pushes most archaeology practitioners to oblivion. This essay aims to recover the memory of one of the latter, Francisco Benítez Mellado (1883-1962). This Córdoba-born archaeologist was trained as an artist painter by José García Ramos and the well-known Joaquín Sorolla. In 1915, however, he became a technician responsible for drawing both the material of many of the key prehistoric sites excavated in the first half of the 20th century and most of the major discoveries of prehistoric cave and rock art published by the major prehistorians at the time in Spain

El ámbito funerario del Bronce Pretalayótico y la plasmación de la difernciación social en la isla de Mallorca durante el Segundo Milenio A.C.

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Las raíces de los primeros libros de texto de Cambridge sobre la prehistoria europea: un análisis de los viajes formativos de Miles Burkitt a España y Francia

[eng] This article examines the roots of the first textbooks produced in Cambridge on European prehistory. The first dedicated lecturer in prehistoric archaeology in Britain, Miles Burkitt, authored these textbooks. Two types of information, archival and printed sources, will be used as the basis for the analysis. A description will be given of the events that made Burkitt´s presence in Spain possible, as a companion of the French archaeologist Henri Breuil, and the program and itinerary they followed in 1913 and 1914 will be detailed. The last section of the article will explore the ways in which Burkitt subsequently translated the knowledge he acquired in his fieldwork into the textbooks that would be used by many generations of Cambridge students.[spa] El presente artículo analiza los orígenes de los primeros libros sobre prehistoria europea producidos en Cambridge escritos por el primer profesor de arqueología prehistórica en Gran Bretaña, Miles Burkitt. Sobre la base de información obtenida en archivos y fuentes publicadas, el presente trabajo describe los acontecimientos que hicieron posible la presencia de Burkitt en España acompañando al arqueólogo francés Breuil, así como el programa e itinerario que ambos siguieron en 1913 y 1914. La última parte del artículo explora cómo se tradujo el conocimiento adquirido por el trabajo de campo de Burkitt en España en los libros de textos que más tarde serían utilizados por sucesivas generaciones de estudiantes en Cambridge

World Heritage and the Public

This dossier is one of the outcomes of the third and final workshop of the European JPI-JHEP Heritage Values Network (H@V) project (www.heritagevalues.net/), partly financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through an "I+D+i Orientada a los retos de la sociedad" project entitled "La Red de los Valores del Patrimonio" (Ref PCIN-2013-036). This workshop was held at the University of Barcelona from 19 to 21 February 2015. The three-day event, inaugurated by Joan Pluma, then the General Director of Archives, Libraries, Museums and Heritage of the Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya), included a combination of papers, round tables, activities, discussions and debates. The discussion topic was "Heritage Values and the Public" and it was attended by a multi-disciplinary group of more than fifty established professionals and student volunteers. From the five discussion lines during the workshop − Inclusivity; Participatory and Sustainable Heritage; Virtual Heritage, Heritage Values and the Public; Tourism; and World Heritage (WH) − this dossier is a compilation of a selection of the contributions to the last of thes

Autonomous vehicles: theoretical and practical challenges

Parte do número especial XIII Conference on Transport Engineering (CIT 2018)[Abstract:] Autonomous driving is expected to revolutionize road traffic attenuating current externalities, especially accidents and congestion. Carmakers, researchers and administrations have been working on autonomous driving for years and significant progress has been made. However, the doubts and challenges to overcome are still huge, as the implementation of an autonomous driving environment encompasses not only complex automotive technology, but also human behavior, ethics, traffic management strategies, policies, liability, etc. As a result, carmakers do not expect to commercially launch fully driverless vehicles in the short-term. From the technical perspective, the unequivocal detection of obstacles at high speeds and long distances is one of the greatest difficulties to face. Regarding traffic management strategies, all approaches share the vision that vehicles should behave cooperatively. General V2V cooperation and platooning are options being discussed, both with multiple variants. Various strategies, built from different standpoints, are being designed and validated using simulation. Besides, legal issues have already been arisen in the context of highly-automated driving. They range from the need for special driving licenses to much more intricate topics like liability in the event of an accident or privacy issues. All these legal and ethical concerns could hinder the spread of autonomous vehicles once technologically feasible. This paper provides an overview of the current state of the art in the key aspects of autonomous driving. Based on the information received in situ from top research centers in the field and on a literature review, authors highlight the most important advances and findings reached so far, discuss different approaches regarding autonomous traffic and propose a framework for future research.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad; TRA2016-79019-

La competencia comunicativa intercultural en la Educación Médica Posgraduada Cubana

El presente artículo muestra resultados fundamentales de la investigación realizada por la autora principal y su tutora, como parte de la tesis de maestría en Ciencias de la Educación Superior: “La Competencia Comunicativa Intercultural (CCI) en la Educación Médica Posgraduada a través del idioma inglés: una propuesta para su desarrollo”, en Cuba, que tuvo como objetivo el diseño del curso de postgrado de Inglés con Fines Específicos, orientado al desarrollo de la CCI en médicos seleccionados para el cumplimiento de misiones en países de habla inglesa o donde el inglés se utilice como lengua franca; dado la carencia de propuestas escolarizadas de superación de estos especialistas ante los retos de su actividad profesional. La propuesta de educación postgraduada se fundamenta en la Pedagogía Desarrolladora, el Enfoque Comunicativo y el Enfoque Basado en Tareas. Incorpora aspectos culturales e interculturales importantes a tener en cuenta durante el proceso comunicativo médico-paciente, médico-médico, medico-familia en un contexto no familiar, que contribuya al desarrollo de la competenciacomunicativa y la competencia comunicativa intercultural. Se trata de establecer diferencias y semejanzas entre algunos aspectos interculturales partiendo de la propia cultura. La investigación tiene un carácter exploratorio, con un enfoque fundamentalmente cuantitativo utilizando recursos del cualitativo. Se ofrece un documento curricular con todos sus componentes didácticos, orientado al desarrollo de la CCI que responde a las necesidades actuales de superación de los participantes. // This article describes the results of the investigation “Developing Communicative Intercultural Competence in Medical Postgraduate Education in Cuba through English”, a master´s degree thesis whose aim was to design a postgraduate course of English for Specific Purposes which would focus on the development of the communicative competence of doctors going to health missions in English-speaking countries or where English is spoken as a lingua franca. This course is based on Developmental Pedagogy, the Communicative Approach and Task-Based Learning. It emphasizes cultural and important intercultural issues to be kept in mind during doctor-patient interviews, doctor-doctor relationships and doctor-family exchanges in a professional context so as to make it possible to establish cultural differences and similarities between the students´ culture and the foreign country´s culture This is an exploratory investigation with a fundamentally quantitative focus using resources of the qualitative one. This design is a curricular document with all its didactic components, aimed at the development of intercultural communicative competence that responds to the current needs of the participants

A simple algorithm for the estimation of road traffic space mean speeds from data available to most management centres

[Abstract:] The control of the evolution of road traffic streams is highly related to productivity, safety, sustainability and, even, comfort. Although, nowadays, the findings from research efforts and the development of new technologies enable accurate traffic forecasts in almost any conditions, these calculations are usually limited by the data and the equipment available. Most traffic management centres depend on the data provided, at best, by double-loop detectors. These loops supply time means over different aggregation periods, which are indiscriminately used as the bases for subsequent estimations. Since space mean speeds are those needed in most applications (note the fundamental relationship between flow and density in traffic flow theory), most current practice begins with an error. This paper introduces a simple algorithm that the allows estimation of space mean speeds from the data provided by the loops without the need for any additional financial outlay, as long as the traffic in each time interval of aggregation is stationary and its speed distribution is log-normal. Specifically, it is focused on the calculation of the variance of the speeds with regard to the time mean, thus making possible to use the relationship between time mean speeds and space mean speeds defined by Rakha (2005). The results obtained with real data show that the algorithm behaves well if the calculation conditions help fulfil the initial hypotheses. The primary difficulties arise with transient traffic and, in this case, other specific methodologies should be used. Data fusion seems promising in this regard. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that the improvement provided by the algorithm turns out to be highly beneficial both when used alone in the case of stationarity or as a part of a fusion