Image Tagging and Gearing Resources applied to students’ graphic materials: Learning techniques in pursuit of Inclusiveness for Urban and Landscape Design

Inclusiveness can be considered a requirement for contemporary statements in urban and landscape design referring to age, condition, gender or nature. But how is inclusiveness influenced by spatial design? Can this relation be measured or proven? And more precisely, which interactions are considered across different generations or between human and non-human agents? This paper describes student’s work evaluation procedures through a methodology consisting of selecting picture-based content from initial reference materials provided by teaching staff, as well as graphic material designed and produced by the students, to further analyze these through data visualization techniques and the production of info-graphics. In a latter step, a gearing game – which is a type of sociogram used to understand agents and matters of interest – is utilized to drive a discussion about design statements for further stages of development concerning students’ design projects. The first stages of the methodology are strongly influenced by how the students perceive elements from reference materials and represent these in their own design productions. A literature review further investigates the dichotomy between representation and perception, and the generation of subjective images. As a final consideration, this work aims to create combined methodologies by incorporating participatory observation methods (e.g. photovoice and flow charts) from the social sciences into urban and landscape design, as they are understood through an accurate design of the learning experience. Similarly, non-representational design and dataviz diagrams from urban and landscape design could potentially be implemented in the teaching of social sciences

Effect of row orientation on soil water content and vine water status on a Cabernet franc vineyard in Madrid, spain

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of row orien¬tation on vine and soil water status in an irrigated vineyard. The trial was developed during 2006, 2007 and 2008, in the South East region of Madrid (Spain) on 5-year old Cabernet franc grapevines (Vitis vinifera L.) grafted onto 140Ru. Plant spacing was 2.5 m x 1.5 m and vines were trained to a VSP. Four orientations were stu¬died: North-South (N-S), East-West (E-W), Northeast-Southwest (N+45) and North-South +20o (N+20). Irrigation (0.4•ET0) started when shoot growth stopped. Soil water availability was measured using a TDR technique with forty buried probes. Row orientation did not have any effect on water consumption in the vineyard. At maturity, leaf water potential was measured at predawn, early mor¬ning, midday and 14:00 solar time, on both canopy sides - sun and shade – ; the early morning measurement was the one that better differentiated treatments. Leaf water potential was a good indica¬tor of plant water status. Differences between (N-S and E-W) and (N+20 and N+45) treatments were obtained both on sun and shade canopy sides, N+20 and N+45 having lower leaf water potentials then drier leaves. The water stress integral shows that N-S and E-W reach the end of maturation with a greater level of hydration than N+45 and N+20. As a whole, N+45 and N+20 orientations, without affecting too much the soil available water content, induce regularly more water stress to the vine at some periods, probably due to an higher sunlight interception in early morning which makes water limitation for the vine more early and thus more severe during the day

Evaluación funcional avanzada y efectividad de una intervención educativa domiciliaria en personas con ictus desde terapia ocupacional

El marco empírico tiene como factor común el ictus, aunque esta patología ha sido estudiada desde la investigación preclínica, con un muestreo por intención de 30 casos repartidos entre los cinco estudios llevados a cabo para la evaluación avanzada de la funcionalidad, y la investigación clínica, en la que se realizó un muestreo estratificado de 27 casos para el desarrollo de una intervención educativa domiciliaria. Ambas ramas de esta tesis encuentran su nexo de unión en la investigación translacional, la cual hace referencia al uso de la investigación con una gran e inmediata aplicabilidad al ámbito clínico, lo que conocemos como índices ambulatorios. Por un lado, la objetivación de los test funcionales permite globalizar las mediciones realizadas en una población para así poder clasificar las limitaciones que padecen en los diferentes componentes de la funcionalidad y facilitar, de esta forma, la evaluación del paciente en el ámbito clínico. Y por otro lado, una intervención de baja intensidad con probada factibilidad y demostrados cambios en los pacientes con ictus que la reciben tras el alta a sus domicilios, lo que podría favorecer la aplicabilidad al ámbito clínico en un corto periodo de tiempo tras analizar su efectividad y realizar un estudio exhaustivo de coste-efectividad.La incidencia del ictus en España es de 186,9 casos por cada 100.000 habitantes al año, de forma que se produce un nuevo caso de ictus cada seis minutos. La mayoría de las personas que sufren un ictus sobreviven al mismo pero padecen déficits cognitivos y neurológicos, déficits de comunicación y déficits motores. Estos últimos, provocados principalmente por la hemiparesia, causan una serie de secuelas que repercuten en la funcionalidad del paciente, ya que afectan directamente al control postural, el equilibrio, la movilidad y la marcha Debido a la gran relación existente entre la funcionalidad y el desempeño de las actividades de la vida diaria, se entiende fundamental la valoración de dichas capacidades mediante test funcionales con contrastada fiabilidad, validez y sensibilidad. El desempeño de las ocupaciones de la vida diaria es fundamental para dar sentido y orden a la vida de las personas. Cuando una persona sufre un ictus, este afecta directamente al desempeño de las ocupaciones, provocando, por tanto, disfunciones severas en sus roles y rutinas. Por ello, es necesaria la perspectiva de la terapia ocupacional en el proceso rehabilitador, la cual debe ser componente esencial en la rehcuperación de estos pacientes. Los objetivos generales de esta tesis son: evaluar el equilibrio estático, semiestático y dinámico, y la funcionalidad de los miembros inferiores de las personas que han sufrido un ictus, a través de la parametrización de test funcionales mediante el uso de sensores inerciales y smartphones. Así como, evaluar la efectividad de una intervención educativa llevada a cabo en el domicilio de personas en fase aguda de ictus desde el enfoque de la terapia ocupacional

Selección y provisión de personal estatutario en instituciones sanitarias de la Generalitat Valenciana, Conselleria de Sanidad Universal y Salud Pública

La presente tesis tiene como objetivo analizar la normativa relativa a la selección y provisión de personal estatutario al servicio de instituciones sanitarias de la Generalitat Valenciana, Conselleria de Sanidad, estudiando como se conjugan en la practicas los principios de igualdad, mérito y calidad, así como publicidad con la necesaria celeridad y rapidez en la selección del personal estatutario, para garantizar la selección de los mejores profesionales y a la mayor brevedad posible, todo ello para garantizar la protección al derecho de la salud contenido en el artículo 43 de la Constitucuón Española. Este análisis se realiza teniendo en consioderación los intereses públicos y sociales que confluyen en esta materia, y que hace necesario que estos intereses se vean respetado y confluyan en una regulación normativa ágil y que ofrezca la necesaria seguridad jurídica para todas las partes afectadas en esta materia.Esta tesis doctoral dispone de una introducción, en la que se trata de aquellos factores sociales, económicos y jurídicos que inciden de forma directa o indirecta en la materia de selección y provisión del personal estatutario. A continuación se hace una analisis de la normativa vigente en materia de selección, tomando como punto de partida la normativa contenida en los tres textos estaturarios y sus múltiples normas de desarrollo, hasta llegar al momento actual , en el año 2022 en que se analiza la normativa de la Comunidad Valenciana en materia de selección y provisión de personal. Este anlisis de la normativa se divide en tres bloques, a saber: uno primero en el que se analiza la diversa normativa propia de cada estamento sanitario, es decir, personal facultativo, personal sanitario no facultativo y personal no sanitario, contenida en los textos estatutario de 1966, 1973 y 1977. A continuación, se analiza la normativa relativa a la selección de personal estatutario contenida en una única norma común para todo el personal estatutario, norma básica de carácter nacional, en la que se regula un único procedimiento de selección y provisión de personal estatutario, común para todo el personal sanitario. Y en tercer lugar se realiza un análisis de las dos normas autonomías d ella Comunidad Valencian, que han regulado la selección y provisión de personal estatutario hasta el día de hoy.Finalmente continentemente las conclusiones las cuales contienen propuesta de mejora en la normativa autonómica

Parameterisation and reliability of the functional reach test in people who suffer stroke

AIM: The aim of this study is to analyse the reliability, sensitivity and specificity of the parameterisation of FRT using inertial sensors to record kinematic variables in subjects who have had a stroke. Our hypothesis is that the IS will be reliable instruments for kinematic study of the FRT. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study of 5 subjects over 65 years who suffer of stroke. During the execution of Funtional Reach Test the subjects carried two inertial sensors, one was placed in the lumbar and the other in the trunk. After analysing the data obtained in the kinematic registration by inertial sensors a number of direct and indirect variables were obtained. The variables extracted directly from FRT through the IS were distance, maximun angular lumbosacral/thoracic displacement, time maximun angular lumbosacral/thoracic displacement, time return starting position and total time. Using this data the speed and the acceleration of each one of them were calculated. A descriptive analysis of all kinematic outcomes recorded by the two inertial sensors was developed (trunk and lumbar) and the average range achieved in the FRT. Reliability measures were calculated by analysing the internal consistency the measures with 95% confidence interval of each outcome variable. The reliability was calculated in the functional reach and the outcomes measured by the IS. RESULTS: The values in the the Functional Reach Test obtained in the present study (2.06 ± 12.75cm) are similar to those obtained in other studies with this population and in the same age range. Intrasubject reliability values observed in the use of inertial sensors are all located above 0.820, ranging from 0.829 (time B_C lumbar area) and 0.891 (A_B displacement of the trunk). Likewise, the observed intersubject values range from 0.821 (Time B_C lumbar area) and 0.883 (B_C trunk displacement). On the other hand, the reliability of the FRT was 0.987 (0.983-0.992) and 0.983 (0.979-0.989) intersubject and intrasubject respectively. CONCLUSION: The main conclusion that can be reached is that the inertial sensors are a tool with excellent reliability, validity, sensitivity and specificity in the parameterisation of the Functional Reach Test in people who have had a stroke.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Brachiopod faunal exchange through an epioceanic-epicontinental transitional area from the Early Jurassic South Iberian platform system

The La Mola region (eastern External Betic Zone) can be regarded as one of the easternmost complete Jurassic successions of the Betic Cordillera in the Iberian Peninsula, but the paleogeographical setting of their outcrops remains widely discussed. Analysis of brachiopod assemblages from the Lower Jurassic improves the accuracy of previous paleogeographical data, enabling identification of a mainly epioceanic transitional area in which influences of epicontinental habitats are also detected. Assemblage 1, mainly with a Mediterranean affinity but also sharing several constituents with the African and Northeastern Iberian basins, typifies the Sinemurian–Pliensbachian transition. Assemblage 2, as a whole, shows a transitional character between epioceanic and epicontinental habitats; it is subdivided into two successive and interrelated sub-assemblages: Ass. 2a (Demonense–Tenuicostatum Zones) reveals a free connection with the epioceanic Subbetic area, whereas Ass. 2b (Uppermost Pliensbachian–Lower Toarcian) shows a closer relationship with epicontinental environments. Assemblage 3 (Uppermost Spinatum–basal Serpentinum Zones) is commonly recorded in the peri-Iberian epicontinental platform system integrated within the NW-European bioprovince, but it can also be regarded as a marginal assemblage that is widespread in the westernmost Tethyan margin prior to the Early Toarcian extinction event. Assemblage 2 constitutes a suitable index for assessing the paleobiogeographical affinity of the La Mola region, as Ass. 2a is progressively replaced by Ass. 2b, thus triggering the arrival of epicontinental taxa to the more intra-epioceanic Subbetic environments, inferring a possible connection through the La Mola transitional slope. Consequently, this region enabled a faunal mixing and exchange between both environments, and La Mola likely remained as an area that would facilitate migration and an effective dispersal seaway or, at least, did not constitute an ecological filter-barrier for brachiopods. Biostratigraphical data from brachiopods and ammonites are correlated for the first time in La Mola, refining and calibrating biochronostratigraphical gaps in the pre-Domerian deposits where biochronological markers are usually scarce, and around the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary, a crucial timespan in which the Early Toarcian extinction event took place.This research is a contribution to projects CGL2015-66604-R (MINECO/FEDER) and to Research Group VIGROB-167 (University of Alicante)

Early Jurassic brachiopods from northern Spain in the Jiménez de Cisneros collection

Se actualizan sistemáticamente las especies de braquiópodos del Jurásico Inferior procedentes de varias localidades del N y NE de España alojados en la colección Jiménez de Cisneros, refiriéndolas a contextos actualmente contrastados, dotándolas así de un conveniente marco lito- y cronoestratigráfico. Se encuentran representados especímenes de la Rama Castellana y Aragonesa de la Cordillera Ibérica, Asturias, Pirineos y la Cordillera costera Catalana. La actualización ha permitido identificar 18 especies distintas desde el Sinemuriense al Aaleniense basal, contextualizándolas y comparándolas paleobiogeográficamente con el conjunto de plataformas que ocupaban los paleomárgenes de la Subplaca Ibérica durante el Jurásico Inferior.Early Jurassic brachiopods from several localities in North and Northeast Spain housed in the Jiménez de Cisneros historical collection have been updated.These specimens have been referred to nowadays widely recognized geological settings in the Iberian Peninsula, thus providing a lithological and cronostratigraphical context. As a results of this updating, eighteen species were identified derived from the Castilian and Aragonese branches of the Iberian Range as well as Asturias, Pyrenees and the Coastal Catalan Range. These species are dated in the Sinemurian-earliest Aalenian timespan and they have been paleobiogeographically settled and compared within the platforms system existing in the Early Jurassic Iberian paleomargins.Este trabajo se ha realizado bajo el marco del grupo de investigación VIGROB-167 (Universidad Alicante) y de los proyectos CGL2011-25894 y CGL2011-23947 del MICINN

Evolution of the last koninckinids (Athyridida, Koninckinidae), a precursor signal of the early Toarcian mass extinction event in the Western Tethys

Koninckinids are a suitable group to shed light on the biotic crisis suffered by brachiopod fauna in the Early Jurassic. Koninckinid fauna recorded in the late Pliensbachian–early Toarcian from the easternmost Subbetic basin is analyzed and identified as a precursor signal for one of the most conspicuous mass extinction events of the Phylum Brachiopoda, a multi-phased interval with episodes of changing environmental conditions, whose onset can be detected from the Elisa–Mirabile subzones up to the early Toarcian extinction boundary in the lowermost Serpentinum Zone (T-OAE). The koninckinid fauna had a previously well-established migration pattern from the intra-Tethyan to the NW-European basins but a first phase with a progressive warming episode in the Pliensbachian–Toarcian transition triggered a koninckinid fauna exodus from the eastern/central Tethys toward the westernmost Mediterranean margins. A second stage shows an adaptive response to more adverse conditions in the westernmost Tethyan margins and finally, an escape and extinction phase is detected in the Atlantic areas from the mid-Polymorphum Zone onwards up to their global extinction in the lowermost Serpentinum Zone. This migration pattern is independent of the paleogeographic bioprovinciality and is unrelated to a facies-controlled pattern. The anoxic/suboxic environmental conditions should only be considered as a minor factor of partial control since well-oxygenated habitats are noted in the intra-Tethyan basins and this factor is noticeable only in the second westward migratory stage (with dwarf taxa and oligotypical assemblages). The analysis of cold-seep proxies in the Subbetic deposits suggests a radiation that is independent of methane releases in the Subbetic basin.This research is a contribution to the projects CGL2011-25894 and CGL2011-23947 (Ministry of Science and Innovation, Government of Spain) and to the Research Group VIGROB-167 (University of Alicante)