Border Crossings: Images of the Pachuco in Mexican Literature

This study suggests that an analysis of the image of the pachuco in Mexican literature can provide useful insights about the role and position of subaltern expressions as they become integrated into a larger mapping of cultural production. The paper argues that the pachuco\u27s representation in Mexican culture undergoes a series of transformations that ultimately materialize in a symbolic entity which functions as a buffer mechanism of inclusion and/or exclusion. The pachuco is then a contra modern element that becomes de-territorialized from both Mexican and U.S. culture due to its aesthetic and linguistic hybridity which becomes a menace for essentialist and monolithic visions of the nation. Thus, the image of the pachuco is sees as a transnational and translational figure that develops into a two-sided cultural marker in the writings of Octavio Paz and José Revueltas, promoters of Mexico\u27s post-revolutionary cultural project; while in the writings of Carlos Monsiváis the image of the pachuco becomes an indicator of the relationship between the centralized forces that dictate what is to be Mexican and its chaotic periphery, specifically the northern border with the U.S

Bidimensional Cross-Cloud Application Management with TOSCA and Brooklyn (summary)

The diversity in the way different cloud providers offer their services, give their SLAs, present their QoS, support different technologies, etc., complicates the portability and interoperability of cloud applications, and favors vendor lock-in. Standards like TOSCA, and tools supporting them, have come to help in the provider-independent description of cloud applications. After the variety of proposed cross-cloud application management tools, we propose going one step further in the unification of cloud services with a deployment tool in which IaaS and PaaS services are integrated into a unified interface. We provide support for applications whose components are to be deployed on different providers, indistinctly using IaaS and PaaS services. The TOSCA standard is used to define a portable model describing the topology of the cloud applications and the required resources in an agnostic, and providers- and resources-independent way. We include in this paper some highlights on our implementation on Apache Brooklyn and present a non-trivial example that illustrates our approach. Resumen del artículo publicado en: Jose Carrasco, Javier Cubo, Francisco Durán, Ernesto Pimentel. Bidimensional Cross-Cloud Application Management with TOSCA and Brooklyn, 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2016), San Francisco, (EEUU). IEEE Computer Society, 2016.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

UCM BH MSS 133: catalogación de los once manuscritos encuadernados en este volumen facticio

En 1878 Villa-Amil y Castro publicó el primer catálogo impreso de los manuscritos procedentes del Colegio de San Ildefonso de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Para su trabajo Villa-Amil dependió estrechamente de las catalogaciones efectuadas antes en 1745 y de nuevo en 1800. Recientemente, Paul Oskar Kristeller ha puesto su atención en los manuscritos humanistas de esta colección; la cual es esencial para el estudio del humanismo en la universidad hispana del Renacimiento temprano. Desde este punto de vista se hace necesaria una nueva catalogación de los manuscritos del Colegio de San Ildefonso. Por ejemplo, el volumen facticio MSS 133 contiene once manuscritos de mediados del siglo XV entre los cuales se conserva el único testimonio de una de las obras latinas de Alfonso de Palencia. El objeto de este trabajo es una descripción bibliográfica más detallada de estos once manuscritos encuadernados en UCM BH MSS 133. [ABSTRACT]In 1878 Villa-Amil y Castro published the first printed catalogue of the manuscript collection of the old Colegio de San Ildefonso at the University of Alcalá de Henares. In his work Villa-Amil followed closely the catalogues produced earlier in 1745 and again in 1800. More recently, Paul Oskar Kristeller has focused his interest on the humanistic manuscripts of this collection, as this library becomes essential in the study of humanism in the hispanic universities during the early Renaissance. From this point of view it is necessary a closer examination to the manuscripts belonging to the old Colegio de San Ildefonso. For example, volume MSS 133 contains eleven manuscritpts from the mid 15th century among them a unique testimony of a Latin composition by Alfonso de Palencia. The object of this paper is a more detailed bibliographical description of these eleven manuscripts in UCM BH MSS 133

On the Modular Specification of NFPs: A Case Study

The modular specification of non-functional properties of systems is a current challenge of Software Engineering, for which no clear solution exists. However, in the case of Domain-Specific Languages some successful proposals are starting to emerge, combining model-driven techniques with aspect-weaving mechanisms. In this paper we show one of these approaches in practice, and present the implementation we have developed to fully support it. We apply our approach for the specification and monitoring of non-functional properties using observers to a case study, illustrating how generic observers defining non-functional properties can be defined in an independent manner. Then, correspondences between these observers and the domain-specific model of the system can be established, and then weaved into a unified system specification using ATL model transformation. Such a unified specification can also be analyzed in a natural way to obtain the required non-functional properties of the system.This work is partially funded by Research Projects TIN2011-23795 and TIN2011-15497-E

Deporte, violencia y educación

El deporte moderno ha eliminado gran parte de los componentes de violencia física que caracterizaron históricamente la práctica deportiva. En la actualidad, el deporte espectáculo exalta a través de los medios de comunicación otro tipo de agresividad, aquella que glorifica la competitividad y exige la existencia de ganadores y perdedores en cualquier ámbito de la vida social. Frente a dicho modelo deportivo debe fomentarse el deporte educativo, que enseña que lo verdaderamente importante es jugar y divertirse, y que el contrincante es el compañero de juegosThe modern conception of sports avoid the most part of the physical violence associated historicaly to the sportive practice. Now, the show-sport enhance -by means the media- a different type of agressivity. This agressivity points to the competition and the existence of both winners and losers in all the society fields. Face to this sportive pattern, we shall encourage the educative sport, which can learn the importance of the play and fun, and the idea that the opposer is really the game companio

Incentivo al desarrollo rural mediante la integración del gobierno y la comunidad

Partiendo de la latente necesidad que tiene el país, de generar una cultura sostenible y evolutiva, que permita un desarrollo económico y social, capaz de competir y fortalecer el sector agrícola, saliendo del mercado emergente, se plantea la alternativa de integrar la comunidad y el estado en el desarrollo del sector agropecuario, implementando practicas tecnificadas y altamente competitivas, encaminadas a generar recursos de valor, tanto económicos como de apertura al mercado nacional e internacional, capacitando al agricultor, cooperativizando la comunidad, haciéndolos fuertes y dinámicos en el mercad

New records of Eunapius fragilis (Leidy, 1851) and Ephydatia fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1759) (Porifera, Spongillidae) in Ebro River Basin (N Spain)

Esta nota representa una contribución al conocimiento sobre la presencia de algunas especies de esponjas dulceacuícolas (Porifera, Spongillidae) en la cuenca del río Ebro. Se identificaron dos especies (Eunapius fragilis y Ephydatia fluviatilis), las cuales fueron halladas en cuatro ríos. Mediante la comparación de los tamaños medidos de las espículas con los datos existentes en la literatura, se confirmó la presencia de Eunapius fragilis en la Peninsula IbéricaThis note represents a contribution to the knowledge of the presence of some species of freshwater sponges (Porifera, Spongillidae) in the Ebro River Basin. Two species (Eunapius fragilis and Ephydatia fluviatilis) collected in four rivers were identifed. The presence of Eunapius fragilis in the Iberian Peninsula was confirmed comparing spicules measurements with existing literature dat