A deposit of large boulders, interstratified in Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments has been studied in the coast of Cádiz (SW Spain). The deposit is constituted by conchiferous large boulders, medium and small size clasts and shell fragments. The facies indicate a marine origin of the deposit, and the re-worked character of the sediments and fossils, which were deposited in a high energy marine environment, previously to that they were mobilized and re-deposited by action of a high energy directional flow. The most appropriate depositional mechanism to explain the formation of this deposit, is the action of big waves, generated by a great energy marine event, probably a very strong storm or a tsunami. The tsunami action is probable since the area is located in a seismically active area, near to the limit of the African and Euro-Asian plates, at the same that several earthquakes and tsunamis are historically documented in the Cadiz coast. The event should happen during the early Pleistocene, coincident with a highstand stage. The isotopic analysis by means of the Method 87Sr/86Sr carried out, has established an age interval from 1.35 to 1.1 million years, corresponding to the Calabriense (Lower Pleistocene).

Depto. de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y PaleontologíaFac. de Ciencias GeológicasTRUEpu

Litofacies del Plioceno en el registro geológico marino de la Bahía de Cádiz (SW de España): ambientes y procesos

Mediante el estudio sedimentológico de los afloramientos Pliocenos de la costa de Cádiz (SO de España), se ha establecido la tendencia deposicional que caracteriza el relleno sedimentario ost-orogénico en el sector sur de la cuenca del Guadalquivir. Las facies indican variaciones importantes del régimen deposicional, alternando períodos estacionales de calma y tormenta con eventos ocasionales de muy alta energía, caracterizados por el depósito de materiales clásticos y bioclásticos de mayor tamaño. De acuerdo con las características sedimentarias y el contenido fósil, varios tipos de litofacies han sido identificadas. Las arenas, areniscas y calcarenitas muestran características que indican un régimen estacional, mientras que las capas bioclásticas y los depósitos de bloques muestran características completamente distintas a los depósitos intra y suprayacentes, habiendo sido clasificados como depósitos de eventos. También se ha discutido el origen de estos depósitos y los mecanismos deposicionales involucrados en su formación. Tanto las litofacies como el marco tectónico y el registro histórico, indican que estos depósitos fueron generados por eventos oceanográficos de muy alta energía, tales como grandes olas generadas por importantes temporales o tsunamis.Depositional trend that characterized the post-orogenic sedimentary fill in the southern sector of the Guadalquivir Basin has been established by means of sedimentological analysis of Pliocene marine deposits from the Cadiz coast (SW Spain). Lithofacies indicate important variations of depositional regime, alternating calms and storm periods with occasional oceanographic events, which are characterized by the deposition of bioclastic and boulder deposits. According to the features and fossil content, several lithofacies types have been identified, from muddy sands to sandstones, calcarenites, bioclastic accumulations, and large boulder accumulations. Sands, sandstones and calcarenites show features which indicate a seasonal depositional regime, while bioclastic and large boulder beds show different features respect to the over and underlying beds, having been classified as event deposits. The origin of the event deposits and the involved depositional processes is also discussed. Both, lithofacies and tectonic setting are coherent with historical data, and indicate that these deposits were generated by very-high energy oceanographic events, such as major storms or tsunamis.Depto. de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y PaleontologíaFac. de Ciencias GeológicasTRUEpu

Goal Orientation Test: An Objective Behavioral Test

The aim of the present research is to assess goal orientation (mastery and performance) by developing an objective behavioral test. We elaborated the Mastery Performance-Goal Orientation Test, a task that allows assessment of goal orientation along a single dimension. We studied its reliability and validity by conducting two studies. In Study 1 (N = 293 adults), the distribution of scores along the goal orientation variable showed wide variability and high internal consistency. The mastery-oriented participants demonstrated higher levels of category learning, whereas the performance-oriented participants responded in a less discriminative way but achieved higher scores. In Study 2 (N = 41 undergraduate students), the mastery-oriented participants achieved higher scores on a learning task than the performance-oriented subjects. The results also showed that the test had the potential to predict subsequent learning. We conclude that it might be a useful instrument to assess goal orientatio

Applying model-driven paradigm: CALIPSOneo experience

Model-Driven Engineering paradigm is being used by the research community in the last years, obtaining suitable results. However, there are few practical experiences in the enterprise field. This paper presents the use of this paradigm in an aeronautical PLM project named CALIPSOneo currently under development in Airbus. In this context, NDT methodology was adapted as methodology in order to be used by the development team. The paper presents this process and the results that we are getting from the project. Besides, some relevant learned lessons from the trenches are concluded.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN2010-20057-C03-02Junta de Andalucía TIC-578

A Survey on Nikodým and Vitali-Hahn-Saks Properties

[EN] Let ba(A) be the Banach space of the real (or complex) finitely additive measures of bounded variation defined on an algebra A of subsets of Omega and endowed with the variation norm. . A subset B of A is a Nikod ́ym set for ba(A) if each B-pointwise bounded subset M of ba(A) is uniformly bounded on A and B is a strong Nikod´ym set for ba(A) if each increasing covering (Bm)1 m=1 of B contains a Bn which is a Nikod´ym set for ba(A). If, additionally, the Nikod´ym subset B verifies that the sequential B-pointwise convergence in ba(A) implies weak convergence then B has the Vitali-Hahn-Saks property, (VHS ) in brief, and B has the strong (VHS ) property if for each increasing covering (Bm)1m=1 of B there exists Bq that has (VHS ) property Motivated by Valdivia result that every -algebra has strong Nikod´ym property and by his 2013 open question concerning that if Nikod´ym property in an algebra of subsets implies strong Nikod´ym property we survey this Valdivia theorem and we get that in a strong Nikod´ym set the (VHS ) property implies the strong (VHS ) property.Research supported for the second named author by Grant PGC2018-094431-B-I00 of Ministry of Science, Innovation & Universities of Spain.López Alfonso, S.; López-Pellicer, M.; Mas Marí, J. (2021). A Survey on Nikodým and Vitali-Hahn-Saks Properties. Montes Taurus Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics. 3(3):112-121. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/181186S1121213

Collaborative Engineering: an Airbus case study

This document introduces the main concepts of Collaborative Engineering as a new methodology, procedures and tools to design and develop an aircraft, as Airbus Military is implementing. Airbus designs and industrializes aircrafts under Concurrent Engineering techniques since decades with success. The introduction of new PLM methodologies, procedures and tools, mainly in the industrialization areas, and the need to reduce time-to-market conducted Airbus Military to push the engineering teams to do things in a different way. Traditional Engineering works sequentially, Concurrent Engineering basically overlaps tasks between teams using maturity states and taking assuming risks. Collaborative Engineering promotes a single team to develop product, processes and resources from the conceptual phase to the start of the serial production. The deliverable of the team is an iDMU (industrial DMU), a complete definition and verification of the virtual manufacturing of the product

Adaptation and Validation the State Mindfulness Scale (SMS) to Physical Education in a Spanish Context

The aim of this study is to validate and adapt to the Spanish context of Physical Education (PE) the State Mindfulness Scale (SMS). The study included 1428 students aged 13–19. In order to analyse the psychometric properties of the SMS, an exploratory factorial analysis was carried out to confirm the presence of two factors, a confirmatory factorial analysis that has offered support for both the structure of two factors. We also included an analysis of temporal stability, an analysis of invariance across gender, an analysis of internal consistency and an analysis of predictive validity through a t-test in which mental health (β = −0.28, p < 0.001) and physical or bodily experience (β = −0.16, p < 0.001) negatively predicted anxiety, respectively. The structure of the questionnaire was valid and reliable, gender-neutral and with adequate levels of temporal stability

Cooperación internacional al desarrollo: cartografía colaborativa en los sectores de Rukara y Huye (Rwanda)

El proyecto de Cartografía Colaborativa en los sectores de Rukara y Huye (Rwanda), como acción geográfica de cooperación al desarrollo, se ha centrado en la implementación de una cartografía generada desde cero por estudiantes locales de enseñanza secundaria dentro de un proyecto de cartografía participativa como es OpenStreetMap, mediante la colaboración de cuatro socios: Colegio de Geógrafos de España, Universidad de Alicante, Nacional University of Rwanda y la ONGD Nueva Fraternidad de Torrevieja (Alicante)

Effectiveness of a Multifactorial Intervention in the First 1000 Days of Life to Prevent Obesity and Overweight in Childhood: Study Protoco

(1) Background: Obesity is a global health problem, and its prevention must be a priority goal of public health, especially considering the seriousness of the problem among children. It is known that fetal and early postnatal environments may favor the appearance of obesity in later life. In recent years, the impact of the programs to prevent obesity in childhood has been scarce. The aim of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention based on the concept of early programming. (2) Methods: Non-randomized controlled trial design. Inclusion criteria are: two-year-old infants whose gestational period begins in the 14 months following the start of the intervention, and whose mothers have made the complete follow-up of their pregnancy in the same clinical unit of the study. The intervention will be developed over all the known factors that affect early programming, during pregnancy up to 2 years of life. Data will be collected through a data collection sheet by the paediatricians. A unibivariate and multivariate analysis of the data will be carried out. (3) Ethics and dissemination: The trial does not involve any risk to participants and their offspring. Signed informed consent is obtained from all participants. Ethical approval has been obtained. (4) Results: It is expected that this study will provide evidence on the importance of the prevention of obesity from the critical period of the first 1000 days of life, being able to establish this as a standard intervention in primary care

How to foster learning? By limiting the response speed

The aim of this research is to analyse the relevance of speed response and its regulation for learning. In order to avoid the biases of self-reports, we used a computerized objective test, The Category Learning Test (CLT). It measures the student’s actual behaviour while completing a learning task. In the first study (N = 41), we found that university students that achieved a high learning index performed slower than their mates did (t (37) = −4.05, p < .001, η2 = .307). Therefore, acting too fast was associated with poor performance in the task. In the second study (N = 184), we divided the sample into two groups and we applied a speed limit to the intervention group in order to promote learning. The intervention group achieved a higher learning index than the control group (t (129) = −8.36, p < .001, η2 = .298). Hence, the speed limit fostered learning. Therefore, regulation of the speed may be appropriate to foster learnin