Electroacústica: la expresión del gesto sonoro

El vínculo que existe entre la percepción sonora y la visual en entornos de creación musical ha constituido uno de los argumentos más recurrentes y naturales en cuanto a comprensión, análisis y valoración estética de una obra musical. Parámetros referentes al espacio, manipulación sensorial y cognitiva y gestualidad interpretativa, a través de dispositivos de registro e interacción, como sensores, establecen un marco renovado en los planteamientos de expresión musical. La investigación se ha realizado en 6 partes: en el ensayo O se presenta el contexto teórico, que definirá los caminos por los que discurrirá la investigación y en el que se acotarán los conceptos y planteamientos que servirán como cimiento en los siguientes 5 capítulos. Los siguientes 5 capítulos conforman la parte práctica. En el primer ensayo titulado Contrapunto Acusmático en Vivo se aborda el diseño y composición de una obra para soporte grabado (cinta) de tipo abierto en el que se cuestiona la flexibilidad y adaptabilidad de los medios fijados (fixed media) y el análisis de parámetros ajenos a la producción sonora. En este caso, una persona lee un poema asociado a una temática concreta (cultura Peranakan en Singapur). En el siguiente ensayo, TanGram, se investiga el escenario interpretativo de un cuarteto de percusión con electroacústica; en este se desarrolla una obra para 4 tam tams y 4 mandos de control remoto Wii de Nintendo, que los 4 intérpretes llevan asido al brazo y que permite explorar la gestualidad y las posibilidades expresivas en una interpretación musical para grupo instrumental con electrónica en vivo. En el tercer ensayo, Sonido Aumentado, se propone una instalación visual que reacciona al sonido y movimiento de los intérpretes de una formación jazzística; en este caso se crea un entorno sonoro de Realidad Aumentada. En el cuarto ensayo, Electroacústica y video--performanza, se investiga la creación musical electroacústica para una video--danza con un planteamiento y un perfil específico como es el site--specific. En el último ensayo, Espectromorfología y gesto visual, se investigan las concordancias y coherencias entre imagen y sonido a partir de los postulados de la espectromorfología del lenguaje electroacústico; el resultado de este ensayo dará lugar a la composición de la parte sonora de un video--documental titulado 'Manos que dan forma'.Perales Cejudo, CD. (2011). Electroacústica: la expresión del gesto sonoro [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/10686Palanci

Estudio del perfil del cliente de un restaurante en Córdoba (España) incluido en guías de alto interés gastronómico

Culinary tourism based on visiting restaurants and tasting dishes where a strong link and identity exist with the destination is increasingly becoming an opportunity to attract tourists. Visiting a fine-dining restaurant is one of the features of culinary tourism and it also leads to greater dissemination of the historical and cultural heritage of the region. Therefore, this paper seeks to learn more about the socalled gastronomic tourist who visits a prestigious restaurant attracted by the information in gastronomic guides or ratings of the chef working there. The field work was conducted at the ReComiendo Restaurant in Cordoba, when the motivations and satisfaction of the customers who visit this type of establishment were studied. The analysis shows that developing culinary tourism based on visiting a well-known establishment influences the perception of the culture of the area. Therefore, increasing and enhancing the number of visitors at a culinary destination will, to a large extent, depend on the local culinary heritage being featured at its restaurants, the updating of its offer, a tasting menu based on a common thread, together with the updating of traditional gastronomy using cutting-edge techniques.El turismo culinario basado en visitar restaurantes y probar platos que mantienen un fuerte vínculo e identidad con las tradiciones culturales del destino, se está convirtiendo cada vez más en una oportunidad para atraer turistas. Visitar un restaurante de alta cocina es una de las características del turismo culinario y también conduce a una mayor difusión del patrimonio histórico y cultural de la región visitada. Por lo tanto, este trabajo busca aprender más sobre el llamado turista gastronómico que visita un prestigioso restaurante atraído por la información existente en las guías gastronómicas o las calificaciones del chef que trabaja allí. El trabajo de campo se realizó en el restaurante “ReComiendo” de Córdoba, donde se estudiaron las motivaciones y la satisfacción de los clientes que visitan este tipo de establecimientos. El análisis muestra que el desarrollo del turismo culinario basado en la visita a un establecimiento conocido influye en la percepción de la cultura y la oferta turística de la zona. Por lo tanto, aumentar y mejorar el número de visitantes en un destino culinario dependerá, en gran medida, del patrimonio culinario local que se presenta en sus restaurantes, la actualización de su oferta, un menú de degustación basado en un hilo común, junto con la innovación de la gastronomía tradicional utilizando técnicas de vanguardia

Algae-Bacteria Consortia as a Strategy to Enhance H2 Production

Biological hydrogen production by microalgae is a potential sustainable, renewable and clean source of energy. However, many barriers limiting photohydrogen production in these microorganisms remain unsolved. In order to explore this potential and make biohydrogen industrially affordable, the unicellular microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is used as a model system to solve barriers and identify new approaches that can improve hydrogen production. Recently, Chlamydomonas–bacteria consortia have opened a new window to improve biohydrogen production. In this study, we review the different consortia that have been successfully employed and analyze the factors that could be behind the improved H2 production

Smart vest for respiratory rate monitoring of COPD patients based on non-contact capacitive sensing

In this paper, a first approach to the design of a portable device for non-contact monitoring of respiratory rate by capacitive sensing is presented. The sensing system is integrated into a smart vest for an untethered, low-cost and comfortable breathing monitoring of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients during the rest period between respiratory rehabilitation exercises at home. To provide an extensible solution to the remote monitoring using this sensor and other devices, the design and preliminary development of an e-Health platform based on the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) paradigm is also presented. In order to validate the proposed solution, two quasi-experimental studies have been developed, comparing the estimations with respect to the golden standard. In a first study with healthy subjects, the mean value of the respiratory rate error, the standard deviation of the error and the correlation coefficient were 0.01 breaths per minute (bpm), 0.97 bpm and 0.995 (p < 0.00001), respectively. In a second study with COPD patients, the values were -0.14 bpm, 0.28 bpm and 0.9988 (p < 0.0000001), respectively. The results for the rest period show the technical and functional feasibility of the prototype and serve as a preliminary validation of the device for respiratory rate monitoring of patients with COPD.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PI15/00306Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación DTS15/00195Junta de Andalucía PI-0010-2013Junta de Andalucía PI-0041-2014Junta de Andalucía PIN-0394-201

Sinonoma de herbis

RESUMEN: Edición de un texto de índole científi ca, concretamente un synonoma, incluido dentro de Cambridge, Magdalene College, ms Pepys 1661. En él se recogen nombres de plantas en tres idiomas (inglés medio, francés medio y latín), sinónimos de los mismos y breves descripciones de hierbas, ungüentos y otras sustancias médicas.ABSTRACT: Edition of a scientifi c text (a synonoma) included in Cambridge, Magdalene college, MS Pepys 1661. It contains plant names in three languages (Middle English, Middle French and Latin), synonyms for those names and short descriptions on some herbs, ointments and other medical substances

Cambridge, Magdalene College MS Pepys 1661, PP. 245-266: An Edition

RESUMEN: Edición de un texto de índole científi ca, concretamente un synonoma, incluido dentro de Cambridge, Magdalene College, ms Pepys 1661. En él se recogen nombres de plantas en tres idiomas (inglés medio, francés medio y latín), sinónimos de los mismos y breves descripciones de hierbas, ungüentos y otras sustancias médicas.ABSTRACT: Edition of a scientifi c text (a synonoma) included in Cambridge, Magdalene college, MS Pepys 1661. It contains plant names in three languages (Middle English, Middle French and Latin), synonyms for those names and short descriptions on some herbs, ointments and other medical substances

Arginine is a component of the ammonium- CYG56 signalling cascade that represses genes of the nitrogen assimilation pathway in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Nitrogen assimilation and metabolism are essential processes for all living organisms, yet there is still much to be learnt on how they are regulated. The use of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a model system has been instrumental not only in identifying conserved regulation mechanisms that control the nitrogen assimilation pathway, but also in understanding how the intracellular nitrogen status regulates metabolic processes of industrial interest such as the synthesis of biolipids. While the genetic regulators that control the nitrogen pathway are successfully being unravelled, other layers of regulation have received less attention. Amino acids, for example, regulate nitrogen assimilation in certain organisms, but their role in Chlamydomonas has not thoroughly been explored. Previous results had suggested that arginine might repress key genes of the nitrogen assimilation pathway by acting within the ammonium negative signalling cascade, upstream of the nitric oxide (NO) inducible guanylate cyclase CYG56. We tested this hypothesis with a combination of genetic and chemical approaches. Antagonising the effects of arginine with an arginine biosynthesis mutant or with two chemical analogues released gene expression from ammonium mediated repression. The cyg56 and related non1 mutants, which are partially insensitive to ammonium repression, were also partially insensitive to repression by arginine. Finally, we show that the addition of arginine to the medium leads to an increase in intracellular NO. Our data reveal that arginine acts as a negative signal for the assimilation of nitrogen within the ammonium-CYG56 negative signalling cascade, and provide a connection between amino acid metabolism and nitrogen assimilation in microalgae

BK Lyncis: The Oldest Old Nova?... And a Bellwether for Cataclysmic-Variable Evolution

We summarize the results of a 20-year campaign to study the light curves of BK Lyncis, a nova-like star strangely located below the 2-3 hour orbital period gap in the family of cataclysmic variables. Two apparent "superhumps" dominate the nightly light curves - with periods 4.6% longer, and 3.0% shorter, than P_orb. The first appears to be associated with the star's brighter states (V~14), while the second appears to be present throughout and becomes very dominant in the low state (V~15.7). Starting in the year 2005, the star's light curve became indistinguishable from that of a dwarf nova - in particular, that of the ER UMa subclass. Reviewing all the star's oddities, we speculate: (a) BK Lyn is the remnant of the probable nova on 30 December 101, and (b) it has been fading ever since, but has taken ~2000 years for the accretion rate to drop sufficiently to permit dwarf-nova eruptions. If such behavior is common, it can explain other puzzles of CV evolution. One: why the ER UMa class even exists (because all members can be remnants of recent novae). Two: why ER UMa stars and short-period novalikes are rare (because their lifetimes, which are essentially cooling times, are short). Three: why short-period novae all decline to luminosity states far above their true quiescence (because they're just getting started in their postnova cooling). Four: why the orbital periods, accretion rates, and white-dwarf temperatures of short-period CVs are somewhat too large to arise purely from the effects of gravitational radiation (because the unexpectedly long interval of enhanced postnova brightness boosts the mean mass-transfer rate). These are substantial rewards in return for one investment of hypothesis: that the second parameter in CV evolution, besides P_orb, is time since the last classical-nova eruption.Comment: PDF, 46 pages, 4 tables, 10 figures; in preparation; more info at http://cbastro.org

Estudo dos pombais como elemento característico da arquitectura tradicional de La Mancha, Espanha

El palomar es un espacio presente en toda casa de labor de la región, dedicado a la cría de pichones e integrado, de forma más o menos evidente, en las cámaras de los edificios residenciales y/o sus dependencias anexas. Existen también ejemplos de palomares aislados y de carácter singular, que ponen de manifiesto la enorme relevancia de esta actividad en el pasado, así como su importancia en la configuración de la imagen de las aldeas en el medio rural. Por desgracia este tipo de edificaciones están abocadas a su ruina una vez que han perdido su función y carecen de mantenimiento. Con ello se están perdiendo los últimos vestigios y testimonios de esta actividad complementaria a la agricultura. El presente artículo expone los resultados del análisis de más de 50 edificaciones de este tipo, y describe su estado actual y sus diversos tipos, que están relacionados con la influencia de las costumbres locales y el aprovechamiento de los recursos locales en su construcción.The dovecote is a space present in every farmhouse in this region, dedicated to the breeding of pigeons and integrated, more or less clearly, in the garrets of residential buildings and/or their annexes. There are also examples of isolated dovecotes of a singular character, that show the enormous relevance of this activity in the past, as well as its importance in shaping the image of villages in rural areas. Unfortunately, this type of building inevitably falls into disrepair, once it has lost its function and lacks maintenance. This way, the last vestiges and testimonies of this complementary activity to agriculture are being lost. This article is aimed at presenting the results of the analysis of more than 50 buildings of this kind, and describing their current situation and their diverse types, which are linked to the influence of local customs and the use of local resources in their construction