Lola Badia i Albert Soler (eds.), 'Intel·lectuals i escriptors a la Baixa Edat Mitjana' /

Volum commemoratiu dels set anys d'activitat del Seminari de Literatura Medieval de la Universitat de Barcelona (1988-1994)Presentació dels nous treballs del volum

Los inicios de la economía de producción en el estuario Tinto-Odiel : el asentamiento prehistórico de Casa del Río (Aljaraque, Huelva)

La investigación arqueológica sobre el proceso de génesis y consolidación de estrategias productoras en el marco global del suroeste penínsular y en los contextos fluviomarítimos de la provincia de Huelva, en particular, apenas cuenta, hoy por hoy con resultados contrastados que puedan contribuir a esclarecer la cuestión. La excavación en el asentamiento de Casa del Río (Aljaraque, Huelva) ha aportado bases tanto para el análisis y definición del proceso histórico de aquellos grupos, su organización social, economía, etc., cuanto para el planteamiento de un modelo hipotético zonal del tránsito de sociedades cazadoras-recolectoras a productoras._______________________Nowadays, the archaeological research on the process of genesis and consolidation of producing strategies in the Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, specially, on the fluvial and maritime context of the province of Huelva, hardly posseses contrasting results that clarify the isue. Anyway, thexcavations in the settlement of "Casa del Río" (Aljaraque, Huelva) have provided foundations for both the analysis and definition of the historical process, social organisation, economy, etc, for these groups. Besides, they have introduced a hypothetical model that enables the shift from hunting-farming societies to producing ones

Unprecedented layered coordination polymers of dithiolene group 10 metals: Magnetic and electrical properties

One-pot reactions between Ni(ii), Pd(ii) or Pt(ii) salts and 3,6-dichloro-1,2-benzenedithiol (HSC6H2Cl2SH) in KOH medium under argon lead to a series of bis-dithiolene coordination polymers. X-ray analysis shows the presence of a common square planar complex [M(SC6H2Cl2S)2]2- linked to potassium cations forming either a two-dimensional coordination polymer network for {[K2(μ-H2O)2(μ-thf)(thf)2][M(SC6H2Cl2S)2]}n [M = Ni (1) and Pd (2)] or a one-dimensional coordination polymer for {[K2(μ-H2O)2(thf)6][Pt(SC6H2Cl2S)2]}n (3). In 3 the coordination environment of the potassium ions may slightly change leading to the two-dimensional coordination polymer {[K2(μ-H2O)(μ-thf)2][Pt(SC6H2Cl2S)2]}n (4) that crystallizes together with 3. The physical characterization of compounds 1-3 show similar trends, they are diamagnetic and behave as semiconductorsWe thank financial support from MICINN (MAT2013-46753-C2-1-P, CTQ2014-52758-P and MAT2014-56143-R) and Generalitat Valenciana (PrometeoII/2014/076

Redefining the role of obstacles in pedestrian evacuation

The placement of obstacles in front of doors is believed to be an effective strategy to increase the flow of pedestrians, hence improving the evacuation process. Since it was first suggested, this counterintuitive feature is considered a hallmark of pedestrian flows through bottlenecks. Indeed, despite the little experimental evidence, the placement of an obstacle has been hailed as the panacea for solving evacuation problems. In this work, we challenge this idea and experimentally demonstrate that the pedestrians flow rate is not necessarily altered by the presence of an obstacle. This result - which is at odds with recent demonstrations on its suitability for the cases of granular media, sheep and mice - differs from the outcomes of most of existing numerical models, and warns about the risks of carelessly extrapolating animal behaviour to humans. Our experimental findings also reveal an unnoticed phenomenon in relation with the crowd movement in front of the exit: in competitive evacuations, an obstacle attenuates the development of collective transversal rushes, which are hazardous as they might cause falls.Fil: Garcimartín, A.. Universidad de Navarra; EspañaFil: Maza, D.. Universidad de Navarra; EspañaFil: Pastor, J. M.. Focke Meler Gluing Solutions S.A.; EspañaFil: Parisi, Daniel Ricardo. Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Martín Gómez, C.. Universidad de Navarra; EspañaFil: Zuriguel, I.. Universidad de Navarra; Españ

Formation of asymmetric arms in barred galaxies

ABSTRACTWe establish a dynamical mechanism to explain the origin of the asymmetry between the arms observed in some barred disc galaxies, where one of the two arms emanating from the bar ends is very well defined, while the second one displays a ragged structure, extending between its ridge and the bar. To this purpose, we study the invariant manifolds associated with the Lyapunov periodic orbits around the unstable equilibrium points at the ends of the bar. Matter from the galaxy centre is transported along these manifolds to the periphery, forming this way the spiral arms that emanate from the bar ends. If the mass distribution in the galaxy centre is not homogeneous, because of an asymmetric bar with one side stronger than the other, or because of a non-centred bulge, the dynamics about the two unstable Lagrange points at the ends of the bar will not be symmetric as well. One of their invariant manifolds becomes more extended than the other, enclosing a smaller section and the escaping orbits on it are fewer and dispersed in a wider region. The result is a weaker arm and more ragged than the one at the other end of the bar

Com les varietats invariants formen espirals i anells en galaxies barrades

L'espectacularitat de les galàxies barrades consisteix no solament en la presència de la barra, allargada en el centre de la galàxia, sinó també en els braços espirals o anells que es desenvolupen en les parts exteriors. No hi ha una teoria clara per a la formació d'anells i, fins fa poc, només n'hi havia una que explicava l'origen dels braços espirals en galàxies no barrades. En els darrers anys hem desenvolupat una teoria basada en els sistemes dinàmics que relaciona els braços espirals i els anells amb les varietats invariants hiperbòliques associades a òrbites periòdiques i quasiperiòdiques al voltant de punts d'equilibri colineals del sistema.The spectacularity of barred galaxies resides not only in the presence of their bars, extended in the center of the galaxy, but also in the rings and spiral arms developed in the exterior regions. There is no clear theory on the rings formation and, until recently, there was only one explaining the origin of spiral arms in non-barred galaxies. In recent years, and based on dynamical systems, we have developed a theory that relates rings and spiral arms with hyperbolic invariant manifolds associated with periodic and quasiperiodic orbits about the collinear points of the system