Los Juegos Olímpicos aplicados a conocimientos de las Ciencias Sociales en Educación Infantil

Los Juegos Olímpicos modernos no son solo un tema de interés deportivo, cultural o social, cuentan además con un espíritu y una filosofía de vida que les da un valor educativo y pedagógico interesante para una educación global. Por la atención que despiertan se destacan como herramienta de motivación, también en infantil. En este Trabajo Fin de Grado he querido explorar el estudio de las Ciencias Sociales, es decir, trabajar distintas áreas como el espacio, el tiempo, la historia, la cultura,…, en las edades más tempranas que son las que abarca la educación infantil a través de un proyecto basado en los Juegos Olímpicos, teniendo en cuenta lo contenido en este currículo. Con este propósito, he realizado un trabajo en el que se puede ver la importancia de las Ciencias Sociales en la Educación Infantil y cómo trabajarlo de la mejor forma posible.The modern Olympic Games are not only a topic of sports, cultural or social interest, they also have a spirit and a philosophy of life that gives them an interesting educational and pedagogical value for a global education. Because of the attention they awaken they stand out as a motivation tool, also in children. In this Final Degree Project I wanted to explore the study of Social Sciences, that is, work different areas such as space, time, history, culture,..., in the earliest ages that are included in early childhood education through a project based on the Olympic Games, taking into account what is contained in the Early Childhood Education curriculum.Grado en Educación Infanti

Do middle classes bring institutional reforms?

We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on health and education becomes more active and the quality of governance regarding democratic participation and official corruption improves. This does not occur at the expense of economic freedom, as an expansion of the middle class also implies more market-oriented economic policy on trade and finance. The impact of a larger middle class appears to be more robust than those of lower poverty, lower inequality, or higher GDP per capita

Implementación de una aplicación para almacenamiento y visualización de imágenes utilizando tecnologías cloud computing

Los sistemas de información son elementos básicos para la gestión de empresas y organizaciones. Cuando el número de estos sistemas y su complejidad son elevados los costes pueden incrementarse de forma drástica. En los últimos años, algunas organizaciones han optado por soluciones basadas en las tecnologías cloud computing con las que han mejorado la calidad del servicio y han ahorrado costes. El objetivo de este proyecto es diseñar e implementar una aplicación web sencilla para gestionar fotografías similar a Flickr empleado dichas tecnologías. Para ello se utilizarán diversos servicios en la nube como la plataforma Heroku donde se ejecutará la aplicación y los servicios auxiliares Amazon S3, MongoHQ y Google Image Charts que facilitan alojamiento masivo de archivos, almacenamiento de datos estructurados y generación de gráficos respectivamente. Finalmente, se realizan una serie de pruebas bajo diferentes condiciones para evaluar su rendimiento utilizando las herramientas Siege y New Relic. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________Information systems are basic elements for business and corporation management. As the number and complexity of these systems increase, the cost of managing them might get too high to be a ffordable. During the last years, some corporations have adopted solutions based on cloud computing technologies which provide better quality service and cost savings. The main purpose of this project is to design and implement a simple web application similar to Flickr that allows a user to manage and view photographies taking advantage of such technologies. In order to do it, several cloud services are used such as Heroku platform on which the application will be deployed and executed and complementary services such as Amazon S3, MongoHQ and Google Image Charts which provide file storage, structured data storage and graphics generation respectively. Finally, application will be benchmarked under di fferent scenarios to check its performance by means of the tools Siege and New Relic.Ingeniería en Informátic

Análisis de costes y ahorros generados en una instalación de autoconsumo solar en soria. Regulación fiscal y marco jurídico

En este trabajo intentaremos dar respuesta a todas estas preguntas. Primero explicaremos el sector energético en España analizando su situación, después analizaremos el ecosistema de la energía Solar en España mediante un estudio de su regulación fiscal y para finalizar analizaremos un caso práctico de una instalación de autoconsumo solar con compensación de excedentes. La instalación la planteamos colocar en una vivienda unifamiliar en la ciudad de Soria. Para ello estudiaremos la tramitación necesaria para llevarla a cabo, el coste de la instalación y los ahorros que nos generaría.Grado en Administración y Dirección de Empresa

On the effect of thin film growth mechanisms on the specular reflectance of aluminum thin films deposited via filtered cathodic vacuum arc

The optimisation of the specular reflectance of solar collectors is a key parameter to increase the global yield of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. In this work, the influence of filtered cathodic vacuum arc deposition parameters, particularly working pressure and deposition time, on the specular and diffuse reflectance of aluminium thin films, was studied. Changes in specular reflectance, measured by ultraviolet–visible and near-infrared spectroscopy (UV-vis-NIR) spectro photometry, were directly correlated with thin film elemental concentration depth profiles, obtained by Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS), and surface and cross-sectional morphologies as measured by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and profilometry. Finally, atomic force microscopy (AFM) provided information on the roughness and growth mechanism of the films. The two contributions to the total reflectance of the films, namely diffuse and specular reflectance, were found to be deeply influenced by deposition conditions. It was proven that working pressure and deposition time directly determine the predominant factor. Specular reflectance varied from 12 to 99.8% of the total reflectance for films grown at the same working pressure of 0.1 Pa and with different deposition times. This transformation could not be attributed to an oxidation of the films as stated by RBS, but was correlated with a progressive modification of the roughness, surface, and bulk morphology of the samples over the deposition time. Hence, the evolution in the final optical properties of the films is driven by different growth mechanisms and the resulting microstructures. In addition to the originally addressed CSP applications the potential of the developed aluminium films for other application rather than CSP, such as, for example, reference material for spectroscopic diffuse reflectance measurements, is also discussed

Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (LRP1) as a modulator of the vascular inflammatory response to modified LDL

Low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (LRP1) is a ubiquitously expressed cell surface receptor that mediates the internalization of more than 40 different ligands and participates in cell signaling. LRP1 plays a key pathophysiological role in the onset, development and thrombotic resolution of the atherosclerotic process due to its role in the intracellular lipid accumulation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). During last years, LRP1 has also been proposed as a modulator of the inflammatory phenomenon in atherosclerosis. However, the investigations have obviated the function of LRP1 as a binding receptor of modified-lipids. In addition, the studies that analysed the relation between inflammation and LRP1 are focused on immunological cells from mice models. Whether LRP1 can respond to its modified-LDL ligands developing an inflammatory response in human VSMCs is unknown. Further investigations are, thus, necessary

Shimura correspondence for level p^2 and the central values of L-series

Given a weight 2 and level p^2 modular form f, we construct two weight 3/2 modular forms (possibly zero) of level 4p^2 and non trivial character mapping to f via the Shimura correspondence. Then we relate the coefficients of the constructed forms to the central value of the L-series of certain imaginary quadratic twists of f. Furthermore, we give a general framework for our construction that applies to any order in definite quaternion algebras, with which one can, in principle, construct weight 3/2 modular forms of any level, provided one knows how to compute ideal classes representatives.Comment: 17 page

Departamento Rosario Vera Peñaloza: un camino de organización y articulación popular

EEA La RiojaFil: Llorente, Gonzalo. Cáritas; ArgentinaFil: Moyano, María Ester. Asociación Kölping Argentina; ArgentinaFil: Mena, Ramiro. Asociación de Emprendedores Chepes La Rioja (A.E.Che.La.R.); ArgentinaFil: Mendez, Carla Rebeca. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria La Rioja. Agencia de Extensión Rural Chepes; Argentin

Sensitivity of fire weather index to different reanalysis products in the Iberian Peninsula

Wildfires are a major concern on the Iberian Peninsula, and the establishment of effective prevention and early warning systems are crucial to reduce impacts and losses. Fire weather indices are daily indicators of fire danger based upon meteorological information. However, their application in many studies is conditioned to the availability of sufficiently large climatological time series over extensive geographical areas and of sufficient quality. Furthermore, wind and relative humidity, important for the calculation of fire spread and fuel flammability parameters, are relatively scarce data. For these reasons, different reanalysis products are often used for the calculation of surrogate fire danger indices, although the agreement with those derived from observations remains as an open question to be addressed. In this study, we analyze this problem focusing on the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) ? and the associated Seasonal Severity Rating (SSR) ? and considering three different reanalysis products of varying resolutions on the Iberian Peninsula: NCEP, ERA-40 and ERA-Interim. Besides the inter-comparison of the resulting FWI/SSR values, we also study their correspondence with observational data from 7 weather stations in Spain and their sensitivity to the input parameters (precipitation, temperature, relative humidity and wind velocity). As a general result, ERA-Interim reproduces the observed FWI magnitudes with better accuracy than NCEP, with lower/higher correlations in the coast/inland locations. For instance, ERA-Interim summer correlations are above 0.5 in inland locations ? where higher FWI magnitudes are attained ? whereas the corresponding values for NCEP are below this threshold. Nevertheless, departures from the observed distributions are generally found in all reanalysis, with a general tendency to underestimation, more pronounced in the case of NCEP. In spite of these limitations, ERA-Interim may still be useful for the identification of extreme fire danger events. (e.g. those above the 90th percentile value) and for the definition of danger levels/classes (with level thresholds adapted to the observed/reanalysis distributions).We are grateful to the Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET) for providing the observational data used in this study and to Jes´us Fern´andez for useful comments that helped to improve the original manuscript. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement 243888 (FUME Project) and 265192 (CLIMRUN Project), and from the CICYT project CGL2010-21869