Social Profiles and Social Behaviour and Attitudes towards Gaming and On-Line Gaming in Spain

For the last two decades our world has experienced increasing globalization linked to the revolution in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) leading to new business spheres escaping from the traditional Nation-State control. The gaming business is one of these areas and has recorded a notable increase in profits in the last decade: gambling, betting and network games constitute some of the main issues developed by ICT companies located beyond State control. The action of the States is focusing on the formulation of new public policies that allow them to control these activities. But first a deep social description of gaming is needed to know which actors are involved in this field of activities, which is the profile of the gamer and what kind of social attitudes are carried out by users and companies taking part of the business. This article focuses on the social profiles and the social behaviour and attitudes towards gaming in Spain, and specially in the transition from traditional gaming to on line gaming.gaming, internet, social profiles, social behaviour, social attitudes.

On the Utility of the Inverse Gamma Distribution in Modeling Composite Fading Channels

We introduce a general approach to characterize composite fading models based on inverse gamma (IG) shadowing. We first determine to what extent the IG distribution is an adequate choice for modeling shadow fading, by means of a comprehensive test with field measurements and other distributions conventionally used for this purpose. Then, we prove that the probability density function and cumulative density function of any IG-based composite fading model are directly expressed in terms of a Laplace-domain statistic of the underlying fast fading model, and in some relevant cases, as a mixture of well-known state-of-the-art distributions. We exemplify our approach by presenting a composite IG/two-wave with diffuse power fading model, for which its statistical characterization is directly attained in a simple form.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Translating Pasteur to the Maghreb

More than 125 years after its foundation (*), the Pasteur Institute is still one of the world’s largest, best known and most powerful biomedical research institutionsUID/HIS/00057/2013 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007702

A thread of life: Mahbub Al-Mahmud and medical modernization in early twentieth-century Morocco

The medical auxiliary Mahbub al-Mahmud (Tangier, 1888–ca. 1970) remains a neglected figure in the history of Morocco’s medical modernization. However, his life and professional trajectory can provide a fruitful standpoint from which to question the persisting nationalist bias that has pervaded the modest postcolonial medical historiography about that farthest corner of North Africa. Mahbub’s multiple mobilities—temporal, social, geographical, professional—transcend the “colonial fractures” created by the complex European partition of Morocco, which have resulted in Moroccans playing no significant role in the narratives of the origin and development of modern medicine in the country. This paper is divided into three sections, each of which deals with a distinctive phase of Mahbub’s itinerary, his connections with various groups of irregular medical practitioners, and the modernizing initiatives they embodied from the times of Hassan I’s late nineteenth-century reforms to the rise of Moroccan anticolonial nationalism in the 1930s

Understanding the impact of line-of-sight in the ergodic spectral efficiency of cellular networks

In this paper we investigate the impact of lineof-sight (LoS) condition in the ergodic spectral efficiency of cellular networks. To achieve this goal, we have considered the kappa-mu shadowed model, which is a general model that provides an excellent fit to a wide set of propagation conditions. To overcome the mathematical complexity of the analysis, we have split the analysis between large and small-scale effects. Building on the proposed framework, we study a number of scenarios that range from heavily-fluctuating LoS to deterministic-LoS. Finally, we shed light on the interplay between fading severity and spectral efficiency by means of the amount of fading.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Regeneracionismo, sanidad y discurso racial: Felipe Ovilo Canales y la confluencia entre España y Marruecos a finales del siglo XIX.

El médico militar Felipe Ovilo Canales fue una figura destacada y representativa de los proyectos coloniales españoles en Marruecos durante la Restauración. A diferencia de las iniciativas de otros países europeos, dichos proyectos se orientaron a impulsar y controlar el proceso de reformas del Estado marroquí. En este trabajo se analizará cómo, en el plano de las ideas políticas, esta estrategia llevó a Ovilo a formular un discurso de confluencia entre España y Marruecos; en el ámbito sanitario, a tener un papel protagonista en el Consejo Sanitario de Tánger y en la Escuela de Medicina militar de Tánger; y, finalmente, en su discurso científico, a adoptar una perspectiva racial sobre los «moros» basada en consideraciones históricas y morales, más que biológicas. // The army medical officer, Felipe Ovilo Canales, was a prominent and representative figure in Spanish colonialist projects in Morocco at the end of the 19th century. Unlike other European powers, Spain aimed not at colonising the Sherifian Empire but at fostering and controlling the ongoing process of Moroccan administrative reform. In the context of this strategy, Ovilo developed a political discourse that affirmed the historic convergence of Spanish and Moroccan interests; he played a leading role in Moroccan public health through the Sanitary Council of Tangiers and the Tangiers School of Military Medicine. Finally, he formulated a racial discourse on the "Moors" that was based on historical and moral rather than biological criteria.Peer reviewe