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Regional devolopment and solidarity in Spain: the relationship between the E.C. and the internal solidarity funds.
This paper will analyse the importance that the Regional Solidarity Funds have acquired in the financial systems of those Autonomous Communities able to benefit from them, and the influence that these Funds have had in their development. In addition, the special role that Structural Funds have had in order to bring the Autonomous Communities’ development in line with the average level of the European Member States will be referred to. Then, the different EC tools that are connected with regional development will be described and analysed; next, the Spanish regions that have benefited from these tools since Spain joined the European Union in 1986 will be studied. The Internal Solidarity Funds and their relationship with the EC Structural Funds will also be analysed. The effects of these mechanisms will be examined from three different points of view. First of all, the impact of these resources on the regional financial system will be considered; secondly, the coordination between the EC Structural Funds and the Internal Solidarity Funds, and the impact of this relationship will be analysed; and finally, whether or not these mechanisms are efficient enough to achieve the aim of regional unity will be determined, and their influence in different areas of production will also be observed. Key words: Fiscal Federalism, Spanish Autonomous Communities, Structural Funds, Inter-regional Solidarity. JEL Codes: H7, H77.
A "quick look" at ultrafast ablation using fs-resolved phase-change microscopy
A pump-probe phase-change microscope with fs temporal resolution has been used to understand the transformation induced in the sample surface as a consequence of laser-matter interaction.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
Strong and weak thermalization of infinite non-integrable quantum systems
When a non-integrable system evolves out of equilibrium for a long time,
local observables are expected to attain stationary expectation values,
independent of the details of the initial state. However, intriguing
experimental results with ultracold gases have shown no thermalization in
non-integrable settings, triggering an intense theoretical effort to decide the
question. Here we show that the phenomenology of thermalization in a quantum
system is much richer than its classical counterpart. Using a new numerical
technique, we identify two distinct thermalization regimes, strong and weak,
occurring for different initial states. Strong thermalization, intrinsically
quantum, happens when instantaneous local expectation values converge to the
thermal ones. Weak thermalization, well-known in classical systems, happens
when local expectation values converge to the thermal ones only after time
averaging. Remarkably, we find a third group of states showing no
thermalization, neither strong nor weak, to the time scales one can reliably
simulate.Comment: 12 pages, 21 figures, including additional materia
Analysis and improvement of security and privacy techniques for genomic information
The purpose of this thesis is to review the current literature of privacy preserving techniques for genomic information on the last years. Based on the analysis, we propose a long-term classification system for the reviewed techniques. We also develop a security improvement proposal for the Beacon system without hindering research utility
Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells transplantation produces a tissue recovery in hydrocephalic mice
In congenital hydrocephalus, cerebrospinal fluid accumulation is associated to ischemia/hypoxia, metabolic impairment, neuronal damage and astrocytic reaction, which cause significant mortality and life-long neurological complications. Currently, there are no effective therapies for congenital hydrocephalus. Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSC) are considered as a potential therapeutic tool for neurodegenerative diseases due to their ability for migrating and producing neuroprotector factors when they are transplanted.
The aim of this research was to study the ability of BM-MSC to reach the degenerated regions and to detect their neuroprotector effects, using an animal model of congenital hydrocephalus, the hyh mouse.
Fluorescent BM-MSC were analyzed by flow-cytometry and multilineage cell differentiation. BM-MSC were brain-ventricle injected into hyh mice. Wild-type and saline-injected hyh mice were used as controls. Inmunohistochemical, RT-PCR and High Resolution Magic Angle Spinning spectroscopy (HRMAS) analyses were carried out.
After administration, integrated BM-MSC were identified inside the periventricular astrocyte reaction. They were detected producing glial-derived neuroprotector factor (GDNF), neural growth factor (NGF), and brain-derived neuroprotector factor (BDNF). Tissue recovery was detected with a reduction of apoptotic cells in the periventricular walls and of the levels of glutamate, glutamine, taurine, and creatine, all of them markers of tissue damage in hydrocephalus.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
ISCIII PI15/00619 y FEDE
Femtosecond time-resolved phase-change microscopy and ablation threshold calculations to understand ultrafast laser ablation
El trabajo recoge experimentos realizados en una configuración sonda-prueba haciendo uso de un láser de femtosegundos, con el objetivo de comprender los fenómenos de ablación de materiales sólidos ras irradiación con láseres de pulso ultracorto.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
Resonating valence bond states in the PEPS formalism
We study resonating valence bond (RVB) states in the Projected Entangled Pair
States (PEPS) formalism. Based on symmetries in the PEPS description, we
establish relations between the toric code state, the orthogonal dimer state,
and the SU(2) singlet RVB state on the kagome lattice: We prove the equivalence
of toric code and dimer state, and devise an interpolation between the dimer
state and the RVB state. This interpolation corresponds to a continuous path in
Hamiltonian space, proving that the RVB state is the four-fold degenerate
ground state of a local Hamiltonian on the (finite) kagome lattice. We
investigate this interpolation using numerical PEPS methods, studying the decay
of correlation functions, the change of overlap, and the entanglement spectrum,
none of which exhibits signs of a phase transition.Comment: 11+9 pages, 28 figures. v2: More numerical results, and a few minor
improvements. v3: Accepted version (minor changes relative to v2),
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