Clubs de lectura

El Club de Lectura de la UC3M está organizado por la Biblioteca y Espacio Estudiantes, y ofrece encuentros para grupos de entre ocho y dieciocho participantes. Los clubs de lectura de Getafe y Leganés están en su séptimo año y el de Colmenarejo, en el tercero. Ignacio J. Dufour, es socio fundador del Club de Lectura de Leganés-Getafe y del Club de Lectura de Colmenarejo.Contiene: Literatura al alcance de la mano (p.28) .-- Libros, autores y buen ambiente / Ignacio J. Dufour (p.29)

A Body Broken for a Broken People: Divorce, Remarriage, and the Eucharist

Book Review by Angela McCarthy. Francis J MOLONEY. A Body Broken for a Broken People: Divorce, Remarriage, and the Eucharist, New York: Paulist Press, 3rd ed., 2015

Onsager reciprocity in premelting solids

The diffusive motion of foreign particles dispersed in a premelting solid is analyzed within the framework of irreversible thermodynamics. We determine the mass diffusion coefficient, thermal diffusion coefficient and Soret coefficient of the particles in the dilute limit, and find good agreement with experimental data. In contrast to liquid suspensions, the unique nature of premelting solids allows us to derive an expression for the Dufour coefficient and independently verify the Onsager reciprocal relation coupling diffusion to the flow of heat

Sharing the Eucharistic Bread: The Witness of the New Testament

Reviewed Book: Léon-Dufour, Xavier. Sharing the Eucharistic Bread: The Witness of the New Testament. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1987

Cluster structure in stable and unstable nuclei

Cluster structure in stable and unstable nuclei has been studied. We report recent developments of theoretical studies on cluster aspect, which is essential for structure study of light unstable nuclei. We discuss negative parity bands in even-even Be and Ne isotopes and show the importance of cluster aspect. Three-body cluster structure and cluster crystallization are also introduced. It was found that the coexistence of cluster and mean-field aspect brings a variety of structures to unstable nuclei.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Euro. Phys. J.

Increasing compliance with wearing a medical device in children with autism

Health professionals often recommend the use of medical devices to assess the health, monitor the well-being, or improve the quality of life of their patients. Children with autism may present challenges in these situations as their sensory peculiarities may increase refusals to wear such devices. To address this issue, we systematically replicated prior research by examining the effects of differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) to increase compliance with wearing a heart rate monitor in 2 children with autism. The intervention increased compliance to 100% for both participants when an edible reinforcer was delivered every 90 s. The results indicate that DRO does not require the implementation of extinction to increase compliance with wearing a medical device. More research is needed to examine whether the reinforcement schedule can be further thinned

Howard R. DuFour: The Cold War Aerospace Technology History Project (Interview 1)

James Kohler interviewed Howard DuFour on May 17, 2006 for the Cold War Aerospace Technologies History Project. In the interview Mr. DuFour discusses his role in the development of military technology during the Cold War. This is the first of three interviews with Mr. DuFour

Testing interval forecasts: a GMM-based approach

This paper proposes a new evaluation framework for interval forecasts. Our model free test can be used to evaluate intervals forecasts and High Density Regions, potentially discontinuous and/or asymmetric. Using a simple J-statistic, based on the moments de ned by the orthonormal polynomials associated with the Binomial distribution, this new approach presents many advantages. First, its implementation is extremely easy. Second, it allows for a separate test for unconditional coverage, independence and conditional coverage hypotheses. Third, Monte-Carlo simulations show that for realistic sample sizes, our GMM test has good small-sample properties. These results are corroborated by an empirical application on SP500 and Nikkei stock market indexes. It con rms that using this GMM test leads to major consequences for the ex-post evaluation of interval forecasts produced by linear versus nonlinear models.Interval forecasts, High Density Region, GMM.

Adolescent Internet gambling: what do we actually know?

To date, little research has been done on the relationship between adolescent children and online gambling, especially regarding the conditions in which they can access e-gaming sites or the regularity with which they play. Professor Mark Griffiths, of Nottingham Trent University, examines how various studies, conducted in the EU and in the US, account for the links uniting adolescents and remote gaming