Interpretación del análisis paleopalinológico del yacimiento protocogotas de el Castillo (Rábano, Valladolid, España)

El presente artículo presenta los resultados del análisis palinológico del relleno de cuatro fosas en un campo de hoyos de atribución Protocogotas. A partir de los resultados paleopolínicos obtenidos, se propone una interpretación del paleopaisaje regional. Se detecta cerealicultura inmediata al poblado y una actividad pastoril en un paisaje dominado por las zonas de pradera, destacando los herbazales de tipo nitrófilo, y con un avanzado estadio de deforestación del bosque autóctono, formado por las encinas y la sabina albar.The aim of this paper is to give information about the dates obtained in the polinic anal ysis proceeding from four holes in a so named "campo de hoyos" of the Nord-Iberian upland, with a chronology of the Middle Bronze Age: El Castillo (Rábano, Valladolid). Palaeoecological indicators show a cereal agricultural economy near de site as well as a pastoral activity in a notable deforested context with nitrophilous communities

Drivers and Impacts of R&D Adoption on Transport and Logistics Services

Actually, technologies and applications in industries are changing via business restructuring, new business models, new knowledge and supply chains. So R&D is not focused primarily on manufacturing industry as it used to be, but on different kinds of industries as logistics and transport (TLS). Nevertheless, the characteristics of the TLS industry determine the introduction of specific R&D solutions accordingly to sectors operations. The objective of this paper is to describe the R&D opportunities in the TLS industry and how managers use them to make their businesses more innovative and efficient. Using the Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) model the paper identifies the links between R&D adoption and innovation dynamics. Relating the findings, on the driver’s side there are three points that are worth mentioning: increasing market competition, the relationships of firms interacting with each other and the availability and quality of complementary assets such as employee skills and IT know-how. On the impacts’ side, firms advanced in terms of implementing R&D solutions are more likely to implement organizational changes. Finally, a set of recommendations on how to further improve the continuous innovation in the TLS industry is presented

Paisaje y economía durante el Bronce Antiguo en la Meseta Norte desde una perspectiva paleoambiental: algunos casos de estudio

El objeto de este artículo es dar a conocer los datos aportados por los análisis polínicos procedentes de tres yacimientos de la Meseta Norte española, adscribibles al Bronce Antiguo: El Picuezo (Sotalvo, Ávila), El Parpantique (Balluncar, Soria) y Pico Romero (Santa Cruz de la Salceda, Burgos). Aunque el número de secuencias arqueopalinológicas es corto, al menos, sirve para comenzar a interpretar el paleoambiente y la paleoeconomía de este periodo en la Submeseta Norte. El trabajo es un ejemplo de la investigación inspirada en los principios de la arqueología del paisaje.The aim of this paper is to give information about the dates obtained in the polinic anal ysis proceeding from the excavations of three archaeological sites, of the Nord-Iberian upland, with a chronology of the Earlier Bronze Age: El Picuezo (Sotalvo, Ávila), El Parpantique (Balluncar, Soria) y Pico Romero (Santa Cruz de la Salceda, Burgos). Obviously the number of archaeopalinological sequences is short, but, almost, has permitted to begin to interpret the reconstruction of the palaeoenvironment and the palaeoeconomy of this period in Nord Upland. This paper is an example of the research inspired in the principles of landscape archaeology

On the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property for numeri9cal radius in C(K) spaces

[EN] We study the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property for numerical radius within the framework of C(K) spaces. We present several sufficient conditions on a compact space K ensuring that C(K) has the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property for numerical radius. In particular, we show that C(K) has such property whenever K is metrizable.Research supported by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and FEDER under project MTM2011-25377. A. Avilés was supported by Ramón y Cajal contract (RYC-2008-02051). A.J. Guirao was supported by Generalitat Valenciana (GV/2010/036)Avilés López, A.; Guirao Sánchez, AJ.; Rodríguez, J. (2014). On the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property for numeri9cal radius in C(K) spaces. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 419(1):395-421. doi:10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.04.039S395421419

Open Innovation: Organizational Challenges of a New Paradigm of Innovation Management

The goal of this paper is to analyze the main problems that emerge from the open innovation model. Adopting as analytical framework an organizational perspective we divide the main challenges that arise from the management of open innovation in two main categories: coordination problems as a result of open the innovation system to ideas and knowledge that may lie outside the boundaries of the firm and, incentive problems related with the creation and value capture of ideas an knowledge by the innovator. We describe and analyze several problems related with coordination and incentives.Open Innovation, Coordination, Incentives, Intellectual Property

Molecular Mechanisms Regulating the DNA Repair Protein APE1: A Focus on Its Flexible N-Terminal Tail Domain

APE1 (DNA (apurinic/apyrimidinic site) endonuclease 1) is a key enzyme of one of the major DNA repair routes, the BER (base excision repair) pathway. APE1 fulfils additional functions, acting as a redox regulator of transcription factors and taking part in RNA metabolism. The mechanisms regulating APE1 are still being deciphered. Structurally, human APE1 consists of a well-characterized globular catalytic domain responsible for its endonuclease activity, preceded by a conformationally flexible N-terminal extension, acquired along evolution. This N-terminal tail appears to play a prominent role in the modulation of APE1 and probably in BER coordination. Thus, it is primarily involved in mediating APE1 localization, post-translational modifications, and protein–protein interactions, with all three factors jointly contributing to regulate the enzyme. In this review, recent insights on the regulatory role of the N-terminal region in several aspects of APE1 function are covered. In particular, interaction of this region with nucleophosmin (NPM1) might modulate certain APE1 activities, representing a paradigmatic example of the interconnection between various regulatory factors.This work was supported by a grant from the University of the Basque Country (GIU18/172

Do Age and Educational Stage Influence No-Mobile-Phone Phobia?

Technological progress not only brings with it resources that improve and facilitate the day-to-day life of the people who make up society but also entails health risks, with the emergence of terms, such as nomophobia, which is considered an anxiety disorder produced by the fear that not having a mobile phone generates in a person. This research aims to identify the relationship and influence between levels of nomophobia and the age or educational stage of students. The research method is based on a correlational and predictive design of quantitative methodology. The instrument used is the NMP-Q questionnaire. The study population is students from different educational stages (obligatory secondary education, baccalaureate, vocational training and university). The results show that students over 12 years old present an average level of “nomophobia” (no-mobile-phone phobia), namely, not being able to communicate with the family where the highest levels are presented. We conclude that students over 12 years of age and of any educational stage present an average level of nomophobia, and it cannot be determined that either the educational stage or the age are determining factors in the presentation of this problem. This can occur at any age and at any level of the different educational stages, although there are risk indicators that we should bear in mind to avoid the appearance of nomophobia.I+D+I Project Research of Results Transfer Office (OTRI) of the University of Granada (Reference: CNT 4439

Evaluación de la diversidad de Quirópteros en el Paisaje Terrestre Protegido Mesas de Moropotente.

Se describe y compara la riqueza y diversidad de murciélagos en los bosques de carbón, bosque de roble, bosque de galería y huerto caseros (clasificado como un sistema agroforestal simultánea) en el Paisaje terrestre Protegido Mesas de Moropotente en el Departamento de Estelí. Comparando dos épocas del año (Invierno- Verano) en diferentes estaciones de muestreos. Se capturaron un total de 323 especímenes, pertenecientes a tres familias, 16 géneros y 25 especies. Las especies más abundante fueron Artibeus jamaicensis, Dermanura phaeotis, Desmodus rotundus y Artibeus lituratus. De acuerdo con sus hábitos alimenticios se encontraron cuatro gremios tróficos: murciélagos frugívoros, insectívoros, nectarívoros, y hematófagos. Diversidad α el valor más alto fue en la época de invierno en la estación 1 bosque con dominancia de la especie del carbón (Acacia pennatual) (H’= 2.061). Mostró baja semejanza entre los tipos de bosque, lo cual podría deberse a las condiciones en los sitios de captur

R&D Management challenges for the desing and development of an E2E-DRM content business integration platform

Current studies on Digital Rights Management (DRM) have focused on controlling access to and copies of contents, centered exclusively on the end of the value chain (end users). This focus has been oriented towards security and encryption as a means of solving the issue of illegal copying by purchasers. In this paper, we propose End-toEnd Digital Rights Management (E2E DRM) that involves the protection of the content throughout the entire value chain. This concept is given form in the new technologies for representing intellectual property (IP) which, in a secure and unequivocal manner, identify the content at each point in the value chain: from the author to the end user, the content is identifiable in any of the transactions and statuses through which it passes. The key concept which E2E DRM must provide is not only the governability of access and copying, but also that of all the processes associated with the content business. We establish an E2E DRM model and architecture, and propose the R&D management of its design and implementation that makes it possible to protect content from content creator to purchaser. Finally, the paper also analyzes their impact from a global perspective. The research was financed by the Autonomous Region of Madrid through the program “Aid to Promote Technological Innovation in the ICT sector

Nomophobia: An Individual’s Growing Fear of Being without a Smartphone—A Systematic Literature Review

We acknowledge the researchers of the research group AREA (HUM-672), which belongs to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Junta de Andalucía and is registered in the Department of Didactics and School Organization of the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of Granada.This review examines the current literature focused on nomophobia (objectives, methodological design, main variables, sample details, and measurement methods) in the Scopus and Web of Science databases. To this end, we conducted a systematic literature review in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews (PRISMA) guidelines. The initial sample consisted of 142 articles, of which 42 met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed in detail. The findings show that the current research is in an exploratory phase, with a greater predominance of descriptive, nonexperimental, and cross-sectional studies that explore the prevalence of nomophobia mainly in adolescents and university students. The most widely used measurement instrument is the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q) proposed by Yildrim and Correia. In addition, the research suggests that nomophobia negatively affects personality, self-esteem, anxiety, stress, academic performance, and other physical and mental health problems. We are therefore faced with a health problem, which negatively affects a person, causing psychological problems and physical and behavioral changes.This research has received public funding from the Ministry of Education of the Government of Spain (FPU14/04626)