Vincenzo Vincenzi, 'Geometer and Engineer to Cardinal Borja'

This paper analyses the figure of Vincenzo Vincenzi on the basis of documents that place him in Valencia in 1635 as engineer and geometer to Cardinal Gaspar de Borja y Velasco. Vincenzi, who was born in the Urbino region, worked as a hydraulic engineer at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli. In Rome he made his name as the inventor of the windgun and the mobile fountain, inventions that were disseminated through the works of Benedetto Castelli and, above all, those of Giovanni Faber who also served as an intermediary, recommending Vincenzi's services to cardinals such as Emmanuele Pio di Savoia and taking it upon himself to find buyers for the wind gun. Vincenzi worked for the Bentivoglios on the bonifica del Gualtieri, and the Venetian Republic expressed its desire to purchase a number of his inventions, after which he travelled to Spain at the request of Borja in order to drain a salt marsh on the cardinal's estate

Notas sobre la trayectoria universitaria y social del catedrático de historia del arte Felipe María Garín Ortiz de Taranco

En este trabajo se estudia la trayectoria universitaria y social del catedrático de Historia del Arte Felipe María Garín Ortiz de Taranco, para ver como desde la universidad se ayuda no sólo a la promoción universitaria sino también social de sus profesores. Con unos indicadores que analizan las distintas facetas, universitaria, movilidad académica, origen geográfico y social, cargos desempeñados, carrera profesional, política, distinciones¿, valoramos el perfil del profesor universitario del siglo XX y sus contribuciones a la sociedad desde su disciplina. Felipe María Garín Ortiz de Taranco this paper explores the University and social trajectory of art history professor, to view as from the University helps not only the University but also social promotion of their teachers. With indicators which discusses the different facets, University, academic mobility, geographical and social origin, positions, career, political, distinctions, value profile of the University Professor of the 20th century and their contributions to society since their discipline

Felipe María Garín Ortiz de Taranco. Trayectoria académica y social

En este trabajo se estudia la trayectoria universitaria y social del catedrático de Historia del Arte Felipe María Garín Ortiz de Taranco, para ver como desde la universidad se ayuda no sólo a la promoción universitaria sino también social de sus profesores. Con unos indicadores que analizan las distintas facetas, universitaria, movilidad académica, origen geográfico y social, cargos desempeñados, carrera profesional, política, distinciones…, valoramos el perfil del profesor universitario del siglo XX y sus contribuciones a la sociedad desde su disciplina.Felipe María Garín Ortiz de Taranco this paper explores the University and social trajectory of art history professor, to view as from the University helps not only the University but also social promotion of their teachers. With indicators which discusses the different facets, University, academic mobility, geographical and social origin, positions, career, political, distinctions, value profile of the University Professor of the 20th century and their contributions to society since their discipline

Professor of history of the art Felipe María Garín Ortiz of Taranco, between career and University and social

En este trabajo se estudia la trayectoria universitaria y social del catedrático de Historia del Arte Felipe María Garín Ortiz de Taranco, para ver como desde la universidad se ayuda no sólo a la promoción universitaria sino también social de sus profesores. Con unos indicadores que analizan las distintas facetas, universitaria, movilidad académica, origen geográfico y social, cargos desempeñados, carrera profesional, política, distinciones…, valoramos el perfil del profesor universitario del siglo XX y sus contribuciones a la sociedad desde su disciplina.Felipe María Garín Ortiz de Taranco this paper explores the University and social trajectory of art history professor, to view as from the University helps not only the University but also social promotion of their teachers. With indicators which discusses the different facets, University, academic mobility, geographical and social origin, positions, career, political, distinctions, value profile of the University Professor of the 20th century and their contributions to society since their discipline

Tracing microfossil residues of cereal processing in the archaeobotanical record: an experimental approach

Interdisciplinary methodological approaches are fundamental for studying tool use and crop processing patterns in the archaeological record. Many archaeological studies of plant microfossil evidence, primarily those of phytoliths, starch grains and pollen, are concerned with processing methods which can be replicated through experimentally produced plant residues. However, most of these studies rely on crop identification through the presence or absence of such microfossils while giving little or hardly any weight to taphonomy and formation processes, which are critical for interpreting archaeological contexts. An investigation of experimentally produced phytolith and pollen assemblages provides the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cereal processing on both microfossils. Controlled experiments were conducted at the Museum of Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, for assessing microfossil taphonomy using Iron Age Talayotic tools and Hordeum vulgare (hulled barley) grown nowadays on the island. For dehusking, a sandstone mortar and a wooden pestle were used outdoors, whereas grinding took place indoors using a limestone quern and handstone. The results indicate that the size of multicellular or anatomically connected phytoliths decreases as a result of mechanical degradation suffered through processing activities, whereas the proportion of cereal pollen grains increases through these processes. Additionally, experimental samples from dehusking and sieving provided abundant evidence of floral bracts, and also of other plant parts and even different plant species, such as phytoliths from leaves and stems and non cereal pollen taxa, which were also to be found on the surfaces of the ground stone tools. These findings highlight the importance of integrating different lines of microfossil evidence and taking into account formation and taphonomic aspects, as well as the value of experimentally produced data for a better understanding of tool use and crop processing

Why Do Regions Differ in Growth? The Productivity of the Eurozone and Its Contribution to the Added Value of Its European Neighbors

Despite the fact that the European integration process has intensified cooperation among European partners, the significant impact on growth represented by the recent lengthy periods of productivity stagnation in European countries still remains unexplained, as are the growing disparities among the more advanced countries of the integrated economy. This paper focuses on long-term economic growth based on productivity and its components, as well as on the effects of integration of EMU and non-EMU member states. The use of spatial econometric models allows us to incorporate the interactions among European countries into growth models. In line with neoclassical growth models, our results contribute to explaining how the growth of a eurozone country is related to the economic growth of its neighbors. Moreover, we confirm the relevance of eurozone countries’ interactions in times of crisis (2009–2018), as European countries generate spatial spillover effects that link their economic cycles. Although capital stock (i.e., investment) has a positive effect on the eurozone’s growth, its slowdown cannot compensate for the effect of declining labor-force participation, which is proven to be a crucial factor for growth. Likewise, immigration flows affect economic growth, but this differs according to the workers’ level of education.SEJ-60

Automatic silence events detector from smartphone audio signals: a pilot mHealth system for sleep apnea monitoring at home

© 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a prevalent disease, but most patients remain undiagnosed and untreated. Recently, mHealth tools are being proposed to screen OSA patients at home. In this work, we analyzed full-night audio signals recorded with a smartphone microphone. Our objective was to develop an automatic detector to identify silence events (apneas or hypopneas) and compare its performance to a commercial portable system for OSA diagnosis (ApneaLink™, ResMed). To do that, we acquired signals from three subjects with both systems simultaneously. A sleep specialist marked the events on smartphone and ApneaLink signals. The automatic detector we developed, based on the sample entropy, identified silence events similarly than manual annotation. Compared to ApneaLink, it was very sensitive to apneas (detecting 86.2%) and presented an 83.4% positive predictive value, but it missed about half the hypopnea episodes. This suggests that during some hypopneas the flow reduction is not reflected in sound. Nevertheless, our detector accurately recognizes silence events, which can provide valuable respiratory information related to the disease. These preliminary results show that mHealth devices and simple microphones are promising non-invasive tools for personalized sleep disorders management at homePostprint (published version

Dimensional and scale analysis in forest fire modeling

The aim of this work is to discuss about the use of Dimensional and Scale Analysis in forest fires modeling.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Flame structure modeling in forest fires

This work in progress presentation wants to summarize the work done in flame modeling applied so far to forest fires and to present the on-going efforts at empirical and physical level that CERTEC is devoting to reach in a near future the goals set in this subject. We are distinguishing here two different approaches depending on whether flame modeling is based on spreading fires or on stationary fires.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Actividades domésticas y molienda en el asentamiento talayótico de Cornia Nou (Menorca, Islas Baleares): resultados del estudio de microfósiles vegetales

Cornia Nou es un yacimiento localizado en el extremo oriental de Menorca (Islas Baleares), con una larga secuencia de ocupaciones. La fase situada entre los siglos iv y iii aC en el talayot del sector este, corresponde a un contexto de hábitat caracterizado por la presencia de abundante material doméstico y utillaje de molienda: molinos manuales y morteros. En este trabajo se presentan los resultados del estudio de microfósiles vegetales (fitolitos y polen) en sedimentos asociados a molinos. Las concentraciones de fitolitos de las inflorescencias de gramíneas de tipo Pooideae en las superficies activas de las piezas, indican una funcionalidad relacionada con el procesado del grano. Los espectros polínicos en los sedimentos asociados denotan la presencia de vegetación herbácea de carácter nitrófilo-ruderal, relacionada con actividad ganadera. El estudio integrado de estos microfósiles proporciona evidencias directas de la diversidad de prácticas económicas de las comunidades talayóticas que ocuparon el asentamiento, entre las que se incluyen actividades de forrajeo, procesado de alimentos y molienda