Masculinidades y calidad de vida:un programa formativo que promueve un nuevo modelo de relaciones en el ámbito carcelario

El proyecto ¿Masculinidades y calidad de vida: un programa formativo que promueve un nuevo modelo de relaciones en el ámbito carcelario¿ se ha planteado como objetivo central el diseño, desarrollo y evaluación de un programa de investigación acción para la prevención de la violencia en el ámbito carcelario. Se finalidad es la de generar una concienciación de las diversas formas de violencia, hacer ver las consecuencias de los actos violentos y, por tanto, ayudar a reducir el uso de la misma en todos los ámbitos de la vida cotidiana presente y futura. Han participado cuarenta reclusos, divididos en dos grupos, y dos investigadores principales apoyados por tres observadores externos. Se ha caracterizado por la utilización de la investigación acción y la combinación de contenidos sobre las masculinidades, género, las distintas formas de violencia, así como la interculturalidad y la cultura de paz. La implementación del programa se ha desarrollado formalmente de marzo a mayo de 2012, un período de dos meses que comprenden veinte sesiones de trabajo de dos horas cada una de ellas que finalmente suponen cuarenta horas de intervención. Los resultados muestran que la violencia en sus más variadas formas es entendida como una forma de vida altamente negativa, aumentando el grado de conciencia acerca de la misma. Igualmente, la importancia en hacerse conscientes de la previsibilidad de las acciones hacen que el valor preventivo del programa sea visto positivamente. Todos los procesos desarrollados a lo largo de la intervención a través del programa de investigación han sido descritos de manera pormenorizada. La implementación del programa ha mejorado la calidad de vida de los participantes, considerando los mismos que les servirá en el futuro para enfrentarse, tras la puesta en libertad, a su realidad cotidiana. Las posibilidades de una generalización ecológica a otros colectivos adultos es posible tras los resultados obtenidos

An analysis of safety evidence management with the Structured Assurance Case Metamodel

SACM (Structured Assurance Case Metamodel) it a standard for assurance case specification and exchange. It consists of an argumentation metamodel and an evidence metamodel for justifying that a system satisfies certain requirements. For assurance of safety-critical systems, SACM can be used to manage safety evidence and to specify safety cases. The standard is a promising initiative towards harmonizing and improving system assurance practices, but its suitability for safety evidence management needs to be further studied. To this end, this paper studies how SACM 1.1 supports this activity according to requirements from industry and from prior work. We have analysed the notion of evidence in SACM, its evidence lifecycle, the classes and associations of the evidence metamodel, and the link of this metamodel with the argumentation one. As a result, we have identified several improvement opportunities and extension possibilities in SACM

Towards Effective SysML Model Reuse

The Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is spreading very fast. Most modelling tool vendors support it and practitioners have adopted it for Systems Engineering. The number of SysML models is growing, increasing the need for and the potential benefit from platforms that allow a user to reuse the knowledge represented in the models. However, SysML model reuse remains challenging. Each tool has its own implementation of SysML, hindering reuse between tools. The search capabilities of most tools are also very limited and finding reusable models can be difficult. This paper presents our vision and initial work towards enabling an effective reuse of the knowledge contained in SysML models. The proposed solution is based on a universal information representation model called RSHP and on existing technology for indexing and retrieval. The solution has been used to index models of all SysML diagram types and preliminary validated with requirements diagrams. The results from the validation show that the solution has very high precision and recall. This makes us confident that the solution can be a suitable means for effective SysML model reuse.European CommissionThe research leading to this paper has received funding from the AMASS project (H2020-ECSEL grant agreement no 692474; Spain's MINECO ref. PCIN-2015-262)

Assessment of the Quality of Safety Cases: A Research Preview

Proceedings of the 25th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2019, Essen, Germany, March 18–21, 2019.[Context and motivation] Safety-critical systems in application domains such as aerospace, automotive, healthcare, and railway are subject to assurance processes to provide confidence that the systems do not pose undue risks to people, property, or the environment. The development of safety cases is usually part of these processes to justify that a system satisfies its safety requirements and thus is dependable. [Question/problem] Although safety cases have been used in industry for over two decades, their management still requires improvement. Important weaknesses have been identified and means to assess the quality of safety cases are limited. [Principal ideas/results] This paper presents a research preview on the assessment of the quality of safety cases. We explain how the area should develop and present our preliminary work towards enabling the assessment with Verification Studio, an industrial tool for system artefact quality analysis. [Contribution] The insights provided allow researchers and practitioners to gain an understanding of why safety case quality requires further investigation, what aspects must be considered, and how quality assessment could be performed in practice.The research leading to this paper has received funding from the AMASS project (H2020-ECSEL ID 692474; Spain’s MINECO ref. PCIN-2015-262). We also thank REFSQ reviewers for their valuable comments to improve the paper

SAVASA project @ TRECVID 2012: interactive surveillance event detection

In this paper we describe our participation in the interactive surveillance event detection task at TRECVid 2012. The system we developed was comprised of individual classifiers brought together behind a simple video search interface that enabled users to select relevant segments based on down~sampled animated gifs. Two types of user -- `experts' and `end users' -- performed the evaluations. Due to time constraints we focussed on three events -- ObjectPut, PersonRuns and Pointing -- and two of the five available cameras (1 and 3). Results from the interactive runs as well as discussion of the performance of the underlying retrospective classifiers are presented

Oral health in 6-year-old schoolchildren from Berisso, Argentina : falling far short of WHO goals

Objectives: Dental diseases in children have been reduced in recent decades in developed countries, although trends remain unclear in other countries. Oral healthcare in Argentina is based on demand and depends on a patient?s health insurance coverage. The objective of this study was to determine the oral health situation of the population of six-year-olds in Berisso, Buenos Aires province (Argentina). Study design: A cross-sectional observational study was performed on schoolchildren from public and private schools. The following factors were evaluated: DMFT, DMFS, dft, dfs, significant caries (SiC), filled, decayed and missing teeth, and the prevalence of caries in both primary and permanent teeth. Data was recorded concerning malocclusion, ankylosis, dental fluorosis, DDE index modified, urgent healthcare needs, healthcare system use, orthodontic treatments, filling materials, school type and socioeconomic position. Results: The study was carried out on 804 schoolchildren. The overall prevalence of caries was 70% (temporary dentition 67.9%, permanent dentition 16.3%). The dft index was 4.52 for males and 4.77 for females. For males, dfs index scored 8.78 and for females, it scored 9.27. DMFT index was 0.45 for males and 0.51 for females. DMFS index scored 0.68 for males and 0.80 for females. There were differences between socioeconomic groups (employees and manual workers) in DMFT and DMFS indexes. Of the study population, 54% had never been seen by a dentist prior to the study. For children who had visited a dentist, 71% attended state public services. Conclusions: Oral indices in Berisso were worse than in other Argentinean studies and were far from the World Health Organization global goals. There is an urgent need to strengthen the effectiveness of preventive care

A modo de epílogo. La Ría de Huelva: conclusiones y perspectivas

Ejemplar dedicado a: Ritos de paso y puntos de paso: la ría de Huelva en el mundo del Bronce Final europeo / coord. por Marisa Ruiz-Gálvez PriegoLa Ría parece haberse depositado en un lapso relativamente breve, en torno al s. X a.C., como parece desprenderse de los test de igualdad de medios y de varianza, realizados por Angel Rodríguez Alcalde. Ello vendría asimismo avalado por las dataciones des. IX a.C., para los inicios de la colonización fenicia del Mediodía peninsular. Por criterios tipológicos y de cultura material, habría que aceptar idénticas dataciones, entre los s. X a VIII a.C. para los castros portugueses de Baióes y Coto da Pena y para la fase de Bronce Final del asentamiento levantino de Peña Negra.Peer reviewe

A modo de epílogo. La Ría de Huelva: conclusiones y perspectivas

Ejemplar dedicado a: Ritos de paso y puntos de paso: la ría de Huelva en el mundo del Bronce Final europeo / coord. por Marisa Ruiz-Gálvez PriegoLa Ría parece haberse depositado en un lapso relativamente breve, en torno al s. X a.C., como parece desprenderse de los test de igualdad de medios y de varianza, realizados por Angel Rodríguez Alcalde. Ello vendría asimismo avalado por las dataciones des. IX a.C., para los inicios de la colonización fenicia del Mediodía peninsular. Por criterios tipológicos y de cultura material, habría que aceptar idénticas dataciones, entre los s. X a VIII a.C. para los castros portugueses de Baióes y Coto da Pena y para la fase de Bronce Final del asentamiento levantino de Peña Negra.Peer reviewe

Enabling system artefact exchange and selection through a linked data layer

The use of different techniques and tools is a common practice to cover all stages in the systems development lifecycle, generating a very good number of system artefacts. Moreover, these artefacts are commonly encoded in different formats and can only be accessed, in most cases, through proprietary and non-standard protocols. This scenario can be considered a real nightmare for software or systems reuse. Possible solutions imply the creation of a real collaborative development environment where tools can exchange and share data, information and knowledge. In this context, the OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration) initiative pursues the creation of public specifications (data shapes) to exchange any artefact generated during the development lifecycle, by applying the principles of the Linked Data initiative. In this paper, the authors present a solution to provide a real multi-format system artefact reuse by means of an OSLC-based specification to share and exchange any artefact under the principles of the Linked Data initiative. Finally, two experiments are conducted to demonstrate the advantages of enabling an input/output interface based on an OSLC implementation on top of an existing commercial tool (the Knowledge Manager). Thus, it is possible to enhance the representation and retrieval capabilities of system artefacts by considering the whole underlying knowledge graph generated by the different system artefacts and their relationships. After performing 45 different queries over logical and physical models stored in Papyrus, IBM Rhapsody and Simulink, results of precision and recall are promising showing average values between 70-80%.The research leading to these results has received funding from the AMASS project (H2020-ECSEL grant agreement no 692474; Spain's MINECO ref. PCIN-2015-262) and the CRYSTAL project (ARTEMIS FP7-CRitical sYSTem engineering AcceLeration project no 332830-CRYSTAL and the Spanish Ministry of Industry)