A century of Carlos Nadal (1917-1998): appraisal of his artwork, collecting and art market value

Se cumplen cien años del nacimiento de Carlos Nadal Ferreres (París, 1917 – Sitges, 1998), uno de los últimos fauves . Cultivó la pintura con un estilo propio, colorista y vital heredero de la joie de vivre fauvista. Como artista exitoso, sus obras se exponen en galerías nacionales e internacionales y está presente en numerosas colecciones, en su mayoría particulares. Aunque Nadal no fue coleccionista, resulta interesante analizar las series tituladas “Colecciones” o “Interiores” donde reúne cuadros-homenaje de sus principales referentes artísticos. Su presencia en el mercado primario y secundario es valorada internacionalmente de forma constante. Con todo, sorprende descubrir la inexistencia de estudios en castellano sobre Carlos Nadal, habiendo recurrido a fuentes primarias e inéditas. Por ello, una buena forma de celebrar su destacada trayectoria es acercándonos a esta sugerente figura.This year we will commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of Carlos Nadal Ferreres (Paris, 1917 – Sitges, 1998), one of the last fauves . Nadal’s own painting style, coloristic and lively, inherited of the fauvist ́s joie de vivre . As a successful artist, his artworks will be displayed in national and international galleries and it is part of many collections, most of them private. Although Nadal was not a collector, it is interesting to analyse the series of “Collections” or “room interiors” where he presents homage- paintings of his main art references. His presence on primary and secondary art markets is internationally and constantly appreciated. However, it is surprising to discover the lack of studies in Spanish about Carlos Nadal. I have studied principal sources and unpublished documentation. Therefore, a good way to commemorate his distinguished career is to elucidate this intriguing figure

New records of Orchids from Morocco

The exploration of the Rif Valley (Morocco) during 2010 revealed the presence of some new taxa and records from Morocco. The new taxa are: Orchis langei subsp. magrebensis and Ophrys neglecta var. riphaea. Ophrys neglecta var. neglecta and Ophrys numida have been detected for the first time in Morocco

Women’s disengagement from legal proceedings for intimate partner violence in southern Spain: Variables related to legal proceedings

This article studies the relationship between a set of variables related to the legal process and women’s disengagement from legal proceedings against their (ex)partners in Southern Spain. A total of 345 women answered a questionnaire. Results evidenced that request for a protection order (PO), granting such PO, imprisonment of the offender, and women’s perception of who decided during the process were significantly related to disengagement (medium effect size). In addition, a logistic regression model was developed to predict disengagement with two variables: granting a PO and women’s perception of who decided. Results are interpreted in terms of the necessity that the judicial system gives support, protects, and provides women with opportunities to participate in the recovery process.Junta de Andalucía 1071/0453Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (España) FPU15/0037

Social geology: a new perspective on geology

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Evaluación estocástica de lagunas de estabilización. Aplicación a lagunas facultativas primarias en la provincia de Villa Clara, Cuba

La evaluación estocástica de lagunas de estabilización (LEs) permite el estudio de su fiabilidad, generandose información de utilidad para su diseño, la evaluación de su desempeno y la elaboración de normas de vertimiento. En este trabajo, se desarrolló un procedimiento para la evaluación estocástica del funcionamiento de LEs en un territorio, a partir de un conjunto de datos de caracterizaciones de residuales existentes. El procedimiento combina la generación de datos aleatorios para un número determinado de días de operación, simulados mediante el empleo de las funciones de densidad de probabilidades (FDPs) de cada componente analizado, con la aplicación, a la serie de datos simulados, de la metodología desarrollada por Niku et al. (1979). El procedimiento se aplicó a un conjunto de 36 caracterizaciones de lagunas facultativas primarias (LFPs) en la provincia de Villa Clara, Cuba. Los resultados arrojaron bajos valores de la fiabilidad para el cumplimiento de la norma cubana de vertimiento. Las concentraciones medias reales en el efluente, en general, fueron inferiores a las concentraciones de proyecto requeridas, indicando que el efluente real no logra cumplir con los límites establecidos en la norma cubana de vertimiento, para un nivel de confiabilidad del 95%. Se discuten las causas de este comportamiento

Vegetation

Due to their complexity, vegetation phenomena are not understandable without a consistent conceptual framework. A few indispensable concepts to explore the northeastern Portuguese ultramafic vegetation are set out in Tables 9 and 10. Association. The Phytosociology fundamental abstract unit is the association or associatio. The concept of association comprises an ecological-taxonomic model of the reality. Therefore, the association includes the notion of a plant community (biological information: floristic, physiognomic etc.) that occupies a particular biotope (chorologic information) where a specific set of environmental conditions can be found, i.e. the habitat (environmental information). The taxonomic element is mainly supported on the floristic composition, which is characteristic and statistically constant between associations. The development of a hierarchical syntaxonomic system (synsystem) is based above all on floristic, but also on environmental, biogeographic and physiognomic characters. Although the association concept is not a true synonym of phytocoenosis the two terms are often used interchangeably, which may result abusiv