Satisfacción vital, autodeterminación y práctica deportiva en las personas con discapacidad intelectual

En este artículo se analiza la relación entre la práctica deportiva, la satisfacción vital y la autodeterminación en un grupo de 74 personas con discapacidad intelectual, de las cuales 42 practican alguna actividad deportiva con regularidad y 32 no practica ningún deporte. Los instrumentos utilizados fueron la Escala de Satisfacción General con la Vida (SWLS) y la Escala ARC de Autodeterminación aplicadas en formato de entrevista estructurada. Cada una de las personas fue entrevistada individualmente y en presencia de una persona significativa. Los resultados encontrados señalan que la práctica deportiva tiene un impacto moderado en la satisfacción vital y en la autodeterminación de las personas deportistas, observándose, además, una mayor satisfacción vital en aquellas personas que practican un deporte cooperativo.In this article, the influence of sport practice on self-determination and life satisfaction is analysed in a sample of 74 people with intellectual disability, 42 practiced sport with regularity and 32 participants did not practice sport. The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) and the ARC Self Determination Scale were used, applying a structured interview format. Each person was interviewed individually and in the presence of a significant person. Results show that the sport practice has a moderate impact on self-determination, and also on life satisfaction of people who practiced sport, and, this group also had a higher life satisfaction compared to people who did not practice sport.Este artigo discute a relação entre esportes, satisfação com a vida e auto-determinação de um grupo de 74 pessoas com deficiência intelectual é analisado, dos quais 42 prática algum esporte regularmente e 32 não praticam qualquer desporto. Os instrumentos utilizados foram a Escala de Satisfação Geral com a Vida (SWLS) e a Escala ARC de Autodeterminação en formato de entrevista estruturada. Cada pessoa foi entrevistada individualmente e na presença de uma pessoa significativa. Os resultados indicam que o esporte tem um impacto moderado sobre satisfação com a vida e auto-determinação dos desportistas pessoas, também observaram uma satisfação com a vida maior em aqueles que praticam um esporte cooperativa

Notes introductòries sobre l'anàlisi de la producció en termes de treball

Introductory Notes on the Analysis of Production in Physical Terms. The analysis of production in physical terms reveals a set of properties of an economic system. This is usually done in terms of heterogeneus commodities delaying the problem of homogeneization to the analysis of prices. This paper approaches the analysis in terms of labour by using, in a very elementary way, the notíon of subsistems developed by Sraffa. A relationship between labour and net product is established as a first level of homogeneization previours to the analysis of distribution, values and prices.El análisis de la producción en términos físicos permite aclarar un conjunto de propiedades de un sistema económico. Este análisis se hace a menudo en términos de bienes producidos heterogéneos, dejando los problemas de la homogeneización para el tratamiento de los precios. Este artículo pretende plantear el análisis en términos de trabajo mediante una utilización muy elemental del método de los subsistemas de Sraffa que permite establecer una relación entre el trabajo y el producto neto como un primer nivel de homogeneización previo al análisis de la distribución y por tanto al análisis de los valores y los precios

Kinetics of tetrabromobisphenol A pyrolysis. Comparison between correlation and mechanistic models

Brominated flame retardants are well recognized as being highly effective flame retardants. 4-4′-Isopropylidenebis(2,6-dibromophenol), commonly known as tetrabromobisphenol A, is the brominated flame retardant with the largest production volume and is used to improve fire safety, mainly of laminates in electrical and electronic equipment. A kinetic study of the pyrolysis of TBBA has been carried out to obtain decomposition parameters under different operating conditions and taking into account that TBBA is a compound with a high boiling point and that vaporization occurs simultaneously to decomposition. Dynamic runs and dynamic + isothermal run at different heating rates and using different masses of sample were correlated simultaneously. All TG runs were fitted with a unique set of kinetic parameters that is able to explain all the experiments. Moreover, a simplified detailed kinetic model has been developed and the kinetic parameters obtained satisfactorily reproduce the thermal decomposition of TBBA.Support for this work was provided by PROMETEO/2009/043/FEDER and ACOMP2011/224 of Generalitat Valenciana (Spain) and CTQ2008-05520 (Spanish MCI/research)

A comprehensive human minimal gut metagenome extends the host’s metabolic potential

Accumulating evidence suggests that humans could be considered as holobionts in which the gut microbiota play essential functions. Initial metagenomic studies reported a pattern of shared genes in the gut microbiome of different individuals, leading to the definition of the minimal gut metagenome as the set of microbial genes necessary for homeostasis and present in all healthy individuals. This study analyses the minimal gut metagenome of the most comprehensive dataset available, including individuals from agriculturalist and industrialist societies, also embodying highly diverse ethnic and geographical backgrounds. The outcome, based on metagenomic predictions for community composition data, resulted in a minimal metagenome comprising 3412 genes, mapping to 1856 reactions and 128 metabolic pathways predicted to occur across all individuals. These results were substantiated by the analysis of two additional datasets describing the microbial community compositions of larger Western cohorts, as well as a substantial shotgun metagenomics dataset. Subsequent analyses showed the plausible metabolic complementarity provided by the minimal gut metagenome to the human genomeThis work was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, grant numbers BIO2016-80101-R and PID2019-108797RB-I0

A service-oriented architecture for scientific computing on cloud infrastructures

This paper describes a service-oriented architecture that eases the process of scientific application deployment and execution in IaaS Clouds, with a focus on High Throughput Computing applications. The system integrates i) a catalogue and repository of Virtual Machine Images, ii) an application deployment and configuration tool, iii) a meta-scheduler for job execution management and monitoring. The developed system significantly reduces the time required to port a scientific application to these computational environments. This is exemplified by a case study with a computationally intensive protein design application on both a private Cloud and a hybrid three-level infrastructure (Grid, private and public Cloud).The authors wish to thank the financial support received from the Generalitat Valenciana for the project GV/2012/076 and to the Ministerio de Econom´ıa y Competitividad for the project CodeCloud (TIN2010-17804)Moltó, G.; Calatrava Arroyo, A.; Hernández García, V. (2013). A service-oriented architecture for scientific computing on cloud infrastructures. En High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2012. Springer Verlag (Germany). 163-176. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-38718-0_18S163176Vaquero, L.M., Rodero-Merino, L., Caceres, J., Lindner, M.: A break in the clouds. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 39(1), 50 (2008)Armbrust, M., Fox, A., Griffith, R., Joseph, A.: Above the clouds: A berkeley view of cloud computing. Technical report, UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory (2009)Rehr, J., Vila, F., Gardner, J., Svec, L., Prange, M.: Scientific computing in the cloud. Computing in Science 99 (2010)Keahey, K., Figueiredo, R., Fortes, J., Freeman, T., Tsugawa, M.: Science Clouds: Early Experiences in Cloud Computing for Scientific Applications. In: Cloud Computing and its Applications (2008)Carrión, J.V., Moltó, G., De Alfonso, C., Caballer, M., Hernández, V.: A Generic Catalog and Repository Service for Virtual Machine Images. In: 2nd International ICST Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp 2010) (2010)Moltó, G., Hernández, V., Alonso, J.: A service-oriented WSRF-based architecture for metascheduling on computational Grids. Future Generation Computer Systems 24(4), 317–328 (2008)Krishnan, S., Clementi, L., Ren, J., Papadopoulos, P., Li, W.: Design and Evaluation of Opal2: A Toolkit for Scientific Software as a Service. In: 2009 IEEE Congress on Services (2009)Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF): The Open Virtualization Format Specification (Technical report)Raman, R., Livny, M., Solomon, M.: Matchmaking: Distributed Resource Management for High Throughput Computing. In: Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, pp. 28–31 (1998)Wei, J., Zhang, X., Ammons, G., Bala, V., Ning, P.: Managing security of virtual machine images in a cloud environment. ACM Press, New York (2009)Keahey, K., Freeman, T.: Contextualization: Providing One-Click Virtual Clusters. In: Fourth IEEE International Conference on eScience, pp. 301–308 (2008)Foster, I.: Globus toolkit version 4: Software for service-oriented systems. Journal of Computer Science and Technology 21(4), 513–520 (2006)Moltó, G., Suárez, M., Tortosa, P., Alonso, J.M., Hernández, V., Jaramillo, A.: Protein design based on parallel dimensional reduction. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 49(5), 1261–1271 (2009)Calatrava, A.: In: Use of Grid and Cloud Hybrid Infrastructures for Scientific Computing (M.Sc. Thesis in Spanish), Universitat Politècnica de València (2012)Keahey, K., Freeman, T., Lauret, J., Olson, D.: Virtual workspaces for scientific applications. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 78(1), 012038 (2007)Pallickara, S., Pierce, M., Dong, Q., Kong, C.: Enabling Large Scale Scientific Computations for Expressed Sequence Tag Sequencing over Grid and Cloud Computing Clusters. In: Eigth International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2009), Citeseer (2009)Merzky, A., Stamou, K., Jha, S.: Application Level Interoperability between Clouds and Grids. In: 2009 Workshops at the Grid and Pervasive Computing Conference, pp. 143–150 (2009)Thain, D., Tannenbaum, T., Livny, M.: Distributed computing in practice: the Condor experience. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 17(2-4), 323–356 (2005)Simmhan, Y., van Ingen, C., Subramanian, G., Li, J.: Bridging the Gap between Desktop and the Cloud for eScience Applications. In: 2010 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing, pp. 474–481. IEEE (2010)Chappell, D.: Introducing windows azure. Technical report (2009

Influence of Production Strategy on Gross Waste Output and Temporal Pattern of Gilthead Seabream (Sparus Aurata) Farming: Implications for Environmental Management

This study compares the farm management model used in the Mediterranean gilthead seabream (GHSB; Sparus aurata) industry (S1)—stepped entry of juveniles throughout the year with several production cycles and fish ages overlapping in a single farm—with that used in the salmon industry (S2)—the whole is farm filled with fish that are the same age at once with a fallowing period between rearing cycles—in terms of waste production by coupling digestibility coefficients with growth, feeding, and eating behavior models into a mass balance model. We considered the total C, N, and P content in the different waste fractions (particulate and dissolved wastes). The model, which simulated real farming conditions, showed relevant quantitative and qualitative differences between both strategies, with stocked biomass and water temperature as the main drivers, the amount of feed wasted by chewing as the most relevant fraction differentiating both strategies, and the fallowing period as the main distinguishing management feature. We discuss the influence of both farming strategies on some key performance and environmental aspects, such as benthic recovery, the breakdown of the life cycle of pathogens, and adaptability to climate change. Our results suggest that changing the GHSB industry’s production model is necessary for its sustainability.Versión del edito

Los salarios de los trabajadores de las empresas de trabajo temporal

Accésit Premio Estudios Financieros 2001 La publicación en julio de 1999 de la Ley 29/1999, de 16 de julio, de modificación de la Ley 14/1994, de 1 de junio, por la que se regulan las Empresas de Trabajo Temporal, no fue la última actuación normativa en materia de contratos de trabajo de las Empresas de Trabajo Temporal, pero sí la más significativa. Sus efectos han sido patentes en el texto y en las reformas que introduce el III Convenio Colectivo Estatal, sectorial, de las Empresas de Trabajo Temporal acordado el 28 de julio del año 2000. La presencia simultánea de un legislador que interviene decisivamente en el ámbito de parcelas habitualmente atribuidas al ámbito de la autorregulación, y un sector económico, cada vez más significativo, que reivindica su propia autorregulación, es un elemento determinante del marco jurídico de la contratación y utilización de trabajadores puestos a disposición de empresas usuarias. En el caso de la negociación colectiva de las Empresas de Trabajo Temporal, la prevalencia de la Ley adopta una importancia tan decisiva como, en ocasiones, exorbitante. La Ley 29/1999 ha supuesto una perturbación considerable en la complementariedad normativa entre el Convenio Colectivo sectorial y la Ley. Esta perturbación, más allá de la intención, sin duda, progresiva del legislador, ha supuesto más un retroceso que un avance en el carácter mínimo que la legislación estatal ha pretendido atribuir a su intervencionismo específico respecto de los trabajadores puestos a disposición de las empresas usuarias, y particularmente respecto de la determinación de las condiciones de trabajo salariales de estos trabajadores. Cuestión bien distinta hubiera sido que la propia autonomía de la negociación sectorial impusiera, obligacionalmente, con resultado normativo la determinación de los salarios efectivos de los trabajadores en misión a los convenios colectivos de referencia. Ésta es la decisión que, sin duda, ha adoptado el III Convenio Colectivo Estatal de Empresas de Trabajo Temporal firmado en el año 2000. No obstante, la remisión de plano en su nueva regulación retributiva de los trabajadores puestos a disposición sólo puede entenderse desde la imposición forzada de una Ley que más que complementaria es sustitutiva de la autonomía de la negociación colectiva. El análisis de la situación actual y su comprensión, que pasa por una referencia al proceso de convergencia del Convenio Colectivo de 1997, al texto de la Ley 29/1999 y a los criterios del Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales aplicables a la compatibilización complementaria entre la Ley y el Convenio Colectivo, así como el estudio de los conceptos y los criterios de aplicación práctica del régimen retributivo de los trabajadores puestos a disposición, es el objeto del estudio que se reproduce en las páginas siguientes

Effect of Temperature, Atmosphere and Metals on the Thermal Degradation of Printed Circuit Boards

The permanent expansion of the market of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and the shorter innovation cycles, lead to a faster replacement of these appliances, making EEE a fast-growing source of waste (WEEE). As stated in Directive 2012/19/EU1 on waste electrical and electronic equipment, the content of hazardous components in EEE is a major concern during the waste management phase, and recycling of WEEE is not currently undertaken to a sufficient extent, resulting in a loss of valuable resources.Support for this work was provided by: Ministry of Education and Science (Spain) (CTQ2008-05520 project); Valencian Community Government (Spain) (PROMETEO/2009/043/FEDER project)

Pirólisis y combustión de residuos electrónicos

Resumen de la comunicación presentada en el I Congreso de Estudiantes de Ingeniería Química de la Universidad de Alicante, 13-14 abril 2010.Los costes de producción cada vez menores y el aumento de la disponibilidad de equipos electrónicos de todo tipo, incluyendo teléfonos móviles, equipos de audio y vídeo y ordenadores personales, así como sus accesorios, unido a los avances en tecnología que hacen que estos productos queden rápidamente obsoletos, supone un problema de creciente importancia. A este respecto, la Directiva 2002/96/CE del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo de 27 de enero de 2003 sobre residuos de aparatos eléctricos y electrónicos (RAEE) regula la gestión y eliminación de estos residuos por separado, promoviendo su reutilización, reciclado y recuperación.Las ayudas para la realización de este trabajo proceden de los proyectos CTQ2008-05520 de Ministerio de Educación, Prometeo/2009/043 y ACOM2009/135 de la Generalitat Valenciana

Thermogravimetric Study of the Decomposition of Printed Circuit Boards from Mobile Phones

Paper submitted to the 19th International Symposium on Analytical & Applied Pyrolysis, Linz, Austria, 21-25 May 2012.Printed circuit boards (PCB) are particularly problematic to recycle because of the heterogeneous mix of organic material, metals, and glass fibre. More specifically, the presence of Fe and Cu can catalyze the debromination/hydrogenation reaction, accelerating the formation of chlorinated and brominated dioxins and furans.Ministry of Education and Science (Spain): CTQ2008-05520; Valencian Community Government (Spain): PROMETEO/2009/043/FEDER and ACOMP2011/224