Places to Develop Democracy: Relevance of Relph's Concept of Place for the History of Education

Presentación conferenciaThis paper, based on the research developed in the Erasmus+ project Reimagining Creative Democracy (2018-1-SE01-KA203-039115), provides a synthesis of Relph’s concept of place giving examples of its use in the study of past and present educational spaces. The reappraisal of Relph’s concept might help address new perspectives from which spaces and places of education may be seen differently. Spaces are relevant to the History of Education and Relph’s essay is important for us because it represents the phenomenological approach to the study of place and space from at least two perspectives: 1. The distinction between place and space; 2. The delimitation, when writing about educational spaces, of the emotional attachment to or detachment from a specific learning place (inside or outside the school buildings).Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

La rítmica Dalcroze: desarrollo y actuales desafios

En julio de 2016 nos encontramos con Silvia del Bianco, directora del Instituto Jaques-Dalcroze de Ginebra. Esto, con motivo de las actividades de cierre de la primera versión del Diplomado en la Metodología Dalcroze ofrecido por la Escuela Moderna de Música y Danza de Santiago, en convenio con el Insyituto Jaques-Dalcroze. Nuestro encuentro se llevó a cabo en dependencias de la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad de Chile, y a él asistieron también estudiantes y académicos interesa- dos en la rítmica corporal y vinculados a la pedagogía, al teatro, la danza, la composición, la dirección orquestal y la teoría de la música

Antropología americana y museos estatales españoles: pasado, presente y ¿futuro?

The Museo Nacional de Antropología, at Madrid, became a centenary institution in the year 2010. Because of this, the author reviewed the distribution of the ethnographic heritage in the Spanish state museums. This article focuses on the American heritage, analyzing their historical and current belonging to a specific museum.El Museo Nacional de Antropología, en Madrid, celebró su primer centenario en el año 2010. Con este motivo, el autor realizó una revisión de la distribución de bienes culturales de naturaleza etnográfica que integran la colección estable de distintos museos españoles de titularidad y gestión estatal. En este artículo, esa revisión se ciñe a bienes de procedencia americana, analizando su asignación histórica y actual a un museo en concreto

Problemática procesal de la aplicación de la Ley de Tasas Judiciales de 2012

La Ley 10/2012 (y su posterior reforma en marzo de 2013) ha supuesto la generalización de la obligación de abonar la tasa judicial por los actos de inicio del proceso y los recursos devolutivos en los procesos civiles, contencioso-administrativos y sociales. El autor realiza una exposición crítica del contenido de los puntos más controvertidos de la Ley, un análisis del tratamiento procesal de la ausencia de pago de la tasa y, por último, se recogen unas refl exiones sobre la situación actual de la Administración de Justicia que no justifi ca la regulación contenida en la Ley 10/2012Act 10/2012 (and its subsequent reform in March 2013) has led to the generalization of the obligation to pay the court fees for the procedural and the appeals in civil, administrative and social proceedings. The author provides a critical assessment of the content of the most controversial points of the Act, an analysis of the procedural treatment of non-payment of the fee and, fi nally, set out some refl ections about the current situation of the Justice Administration does not justify the regulations contained in Act 10/201

El Blog como consuelo

Sección: Así somosEl Blog Kemixon Reporter 2.0 nació hace ya más de un año como una invitación de la Biblioteca CID a la mezcla y a la curiosidad: la idea era, por una parte, ser útiles para el trabajo de nuestros usuarios, ofreciéndoles instrumentos tanto de investigación como de análisis y, por otra, ser útiles para poner cara, color, discurso, poesía, imagen, desorden… y, en último caso, sentido, a todos los alrededores de las ciencias experimentales que estos usuarios practican.N

Numerical analysis of embedded walls for design with Eurocode 7

Anglès: The possibility of applying numerical methods, particularly Finite Element Models (FEM), for geotechnical design permits to cope with more complexity and therefore model reality with better accuracy and precision. Elaborated models are relatively inexpensive, increasingly less time-consuming and can be aided by commercial software. The introduction of Eurocodes has changed the standard lumped factored practise to geotechnical design in the direction of limit state analysis and partial factoring. As a result, the implementation of numerical models is more complicated, raising issues on how to apply partial factors of safety, particularly in the strength parameters. Finite Element Methods are considered a valid tool for design in Eurocode 7. However, guidelines are provided typically on limit equilibrium models. The application of partial factors of safety is regulated by the design approaches in Eurocode 7. When using FEM, the application of partial safety factors in the soil strength parameters can be considered by means of two methods: · Numerical simulation with characteristic values without factoring as an input. Then in a required Ultimate Limit State check stage the software undertakes a stepped reduction of strength parameters until geotechnical failure occurs and the factor of safety is determined. · Factored strength parameters are the input of the analysis. No failure occurring in any stage implies satisfying the requirements from the code. Eurocode 7 gives no guidance on which of these two approaches is more appropriate; neither on the appropriate algorithm to perform the required strength reduction during the analysis in the first approach mentioned. As long as the results may differ between the procedures for the same input, developing guidelines is considered necessary. The objective of this project is to apply the above methods to the case of a retaining wall and assess the suitability of the approaches for predicting the ultimate limit state. Special attention is to be put on bringing to light the effect of the dilation angle

Evolutionary ecology of reproduction in two mediterranean pine species: Pinus Pinaster Ait.and Pinus Halepensis Mill.

El estudio de los caracteres de historia vital es central en biología evolutiva y ecología, pues están íntimamente relacionados con el entorno vital de los organismos. Entre los caracteres de historia vital destacan los reproductivos, tales como el tamaño umbral de reproducción, la fecundidad y el reparto del esfuerzo reproductor a lo largo de la vida. Su estudio ayuda a entender procesos adaptativos pasados y a inferir los futuros. En el caso de los árboles forestales, este conocimiento es particularmente valioso y urgente dado el papel básico de los árboles forestales en ecosistemas de todo el mundo. Los caracteres de historia vital pueden ser estudiados a nivel de especie, pero comúnmente también existe variación intraespecífica entre y dentro de poblaciones. En el caso de numerosas especies vegetales es común observar cómo el momento de floración es variable y está relacionado con presiones selectivas naturales. Esta relación puede deberse a causas plásticas o genéticas. Un requisito para que se den respuestas a nivel genético es la existencia de variación genética aditiva. Ésta puede ser revelada mediante estudios de genética cuantitativa o estudios de selección artificial. Además, según la teoría de historia vital, la expresión de caracteres relacionados con la aptitud biológica (fitness) está limitada por la existencia de costes o compensaciones entre funciones. Pinus pinaster Ait. y P. halepensis Mill. son dos especies de pinos mediterráneos que presentan numerosas ventajas para el estudio de caracteres reproductivos en árboles desde un enfoque ecológico-evolutivo. Usando estas especies como modelo es posible integrar aspectos como la diferenciación entre poblaciones, adaptación local pasada y futura, plasticidad, arquitectura genética y relación con otros caracteres adaptativos.The study of life-history traits is central to evolutionary biology and ecology, as life-history traits are closely linked to the environment where organisms thrive. Among them, traits related to reproduction such as the threshold size for reproduction, fecundity and the schedule of reproductive investment along life are particularly relevant. Their study helps to understand past adaptive processes as well as to infer future ones. For forest trees, this knowledge is particularly valuable and urgent, given their founding role in ecosystems all over the world. Life-history traits can be addressed at the species level but usually, intraspecific within- and among-population variation also exists. This is the case for numerous plant species, as flowering time is commonly very variable and found to be correlated with natural selective pressures. This correlation may be due to plastic or genetic causes. A requirement for genetic responses to take place is the existence of additive genetic variation, which can be revealed by quantitative genetic studies or artificial selection experiments. Moreover, according to life-history theory, the expression of particular fitness-related traits is limited by costs or trade-offs with other traits also related to fitness. Pinus pinaster Ait. and P. halepensis Mill. are two Mediterranean pine species showing numerous advantages for the study of tree reproductive traits from an evolutionary-ecological standpoint. Using these species as a model, it is possible to integrate aspects such as population differentiation, past and future local adaptation, plasticity, genetic architecture and multi-trait adaptive relationships

Energy harvesting from vehicular traffic over speed bumps: A review

Energy used by vehicles to slow down in areas of limited speed is wasted. A traffic energy-harvesting device (TEHD) is capable of harvesting vehicle energy when passing over a speed bump. This paper presents a classification of the different technologies used in the existing TEHDs. Moreover, an estimation of the energy that could be harvested with the different technologies and their cost has been elaborated. The energy recovered with these devices could be used for marking and lighting of roads in urban areas, making transportation infrastructures more sustainable and environmentally friendly

Homological Region Adjacency Tree for a 3D Binary Digital Image via HSF Model

Given a 3D binary digital image I, we define and compute an edge-weighted tree, called Homological Region Tree (or Hom-Tree, for short). It coincides, as unweighted graph, with the classical Region Adjacency Tree of black 6-connected components (CCs) and white 26- connected components of I. In addition, we define the weight of an edge (R, S) as the number of tunnels that the CCs R and S “share”. The Hom-Tree structure is still an isotopic invariant of I. Thus, it provides information about how the different homology groups interact between them, while preserving the duality of black and white CCs. An experimentation with a set of synthetic images showing different shapes and different complexity of connected component nesting is performed for numerically validating the method.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad MTM2016-81030-