Prioritizing objectives to evaluate the environmental, economic and social impacts of biofuel in Spain

A variety of opinions either in favour or against development of biofuels has risen in the last years related to the environmental, economic and social impacts that its diffusion could entail compared to petroleum. Although the EU, in general, and Spain, in particular, are strongly supporting the development of biofuels they highlight that energy planning must be based on a sound analysis of the impacts of the diverse alternatives. This poster is a preliminary approach to this analysis. The main aim is to prioritize a set of environmental, economic and social objectives to identify the most relevant issues that would allow evaluating the impacts of the biofuel production and consumption in Spain. Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) are the multicriteria decision-making methodologies implemented to deal with the problem based on experts’ knowledge. The superiority of ANP versus AHP is discussed and the former is recommended. Results indicate that the most important objectives for a sustainable development of biofuels in Spain are conservation of non-renewable resources, within the environmental issues, the ease to be technically implemented in production, storage, distribution, and consumption, within the economic issues, and the direct employment in the agro-energy system, within the social issues.Biofuel, sustainability, ANP, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

\u3cem\u3eEl Caballero Lobo \u3c/em\u3eas a Compendium of Manuel Linares Rivas\u27 Theories for Reforming Society

The name Manuel Linares Rivas (1867 -1938) usually calls to mind the name of his best-known play, La garra, written in 1914, but this is by no means the extent of his dramatic output; actually, he wrote more than sixty plays, some novels and also adapted and translated a number of foreign musical comedies for presentation in Spain. His plays resemble those of his contemporary Jacinto Benavente in themes and style. He also shared with Benavente and with the other members of the Generation of \u2798 a desire to regenerate Spain. He was able to use two very viable means to achieve this end: his plays and his legal career, for he was not only a lawyer, but a politician, magistrate, member of the Spanish parliament and senator for life

Psychiatric assessment of a Spanish understanding patient who is deaf – A Literature Review

Mental illness can be misdiagnosed amongst the population who are deaf or hearing impaired. It is important to have the effective tools and resources necessary to appropriately diagnose mental health diseases within this population. In this paper, the authors present a review of the literature on this topic and its significance

Rehabilitación de funciones ejecutivas

V Congreso Internacional y X Nacional de Psicología Clínica (Santander-España 26, 27 y 28 de abril de 2012)Depto. de Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y LogopediaFac. de PsicologíaTRUEpu

Systemic lupus erythematosus-associated anetoderma and anti-phospholipid antibodies

Anetoderma is characterized by a loss of normal elastic tissue that presents clinically as localized areas of wrinkled or flaccid skin. We describe the case of a 30-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus-associated anetoderma and positive anti-phospholipid antibodies. We discuss the possible role of these antibodies in the pathogenesis of anetoderma, and, when detected, the need to check for an associated anti-phospholipid syndrome in such patients