Transdisciplinary Reflections on Glăveanu’s “Crisis” of the Psychology of Creativity

Glăveanu’s essay is a call for a radical re-examination not only of the psychology of creativity, but of the entire academic enterprise. It challenges our disciplinary fragmentation and reminds us of the importance of stepping back and understanding the larger enterprise of inquiry, the need to relate theory and practice, to communicate among disciplines and research programs, and to integrate. Transdisciplinarity is an emerging approach that helps in understanding the challenges ahead, and provides directions for future [email protected] Institute of Integral Studies, USA1224625

Creativity, Society, and Gender: Contextualizing and Redefining Creativity

Creativity is currently being redefined in more inclusive and accurate ways. This article examines old and new ways of viewing creativity, focusing especially on how creativity has been considered a male preserve and the need for a more inclusive definition that includes areas such as “everyday creativity.” It places definitions of creativity in their social and historical context, showing how a society’s orientation to a partnership model or a dominator model affects what and who is considered creative. It proposes an un-gendered definition of creativity; highlights the need for this broader definition to meet the enormous contemporary challenges we face; and distinguishes between innovativeness and creativity

Generating Urban Forms from Ontologies

The paper presents the ongoing research work on a software system for supporting the exploration of the numerous and often interrelated factors that can affect the urban design. The present implementation of the system supports the simulation of different urban scenarios in relation to the uniqueness and constraints peculiar to a design and a site. The paper considers our ongoing research work to formally represent the implicit and explicit knowledge used by means of ontologies. The ontology semantic system administrates a set of rules and relations among urban entities. To this aim, we are dealing with different issues: all the factors involved in the urban design process cross various domain knowledge, from different competencies and sources; the knowledge is both semantic and procedural

BAL Proteomic Signature of Lung Adenocarcinoma in IPF Patients and Its Transposition in Serum Samples for Less Invasive Diagnostic Procedures

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a form of chronic and irreversible fibrosing interstitial pneumonia of unknown etiology. Although antifibrotic treatments have shown a reduction of lung function decline and a slow disease progression, IPF is characterize by a very high mortality. Emerging evidence suggests that IPF increases the risk of lung carcinogenesis. Both diseases show similarities in terms of risk factors, such as history of smoking, concomitant emphysema, and viral infections, besides sharing similar pathogenic pathways. Lung cancer (LC) diagnosis is often difficult in IPF patients because of the diffuse lung injuries and abnormalities due to the underlying fibrosis. This is reflected in the lack of optimal therapeutic strategies for patients with both diseases. For this purpose, we performed a proteomic study on bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) samples from IPF, LC associated with IPF (LC-IPF) patients, and healthy controls (CTRL). Molecular pathways involved in inflammation, immune response, lipid metabolism, and cell adhesion were found for the dysregulated proteins in LC-IPF, such as TTHY, APOA1, S10A9, RET4, GDIR1, and PROF1. The correlation test revealed a relationship between inflammation- and lipid metabolism-related proteins. PROF1 and S10A9, related to inflammation, were up-regulated in LC-IPF BAL and serum, while APOA1 and APOE linked to lipid metabolism, were highly abundant in IPF BAL and low abundant in IPF serum. Given the properties of cytokine/adipokine of the nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase, we also evaluated its serum abundance, highlighting its down-regulation in LC-IPF. Our retrospective analyses of BAL samples extrapolated some potential biomarkers of LC-IPF useful to improve the management of these contemporary pathologies. Their differential abundance in serum samples permits the measurement of these potential biomarkers with a less invasive procedure

Arduino-based prototype to estimate heat stress indices in urban environments

[EN] Thermal comfort indices are normally used for assessing and controlling heat stress conditions in both: insides and outsides environment. In this paper, the results of the design and test of an Arduino-base prototype for estimating heat stress index is presented. This prototype allows the accurate detection of wind speed, air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, irradiation and globe temperature. By means of these parameters, it is possible to obtain indices such as mean radiant temperature (MRT) and wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT). As a result, the indices are estimated, storage in a database and analyzed. These values will be used in the future to measure the mitigation of heat stress in urban environments, by means of the construction of green facades and green roof or tree planting.This work was supported by European Commission through GROW GREEN project (Agreement number: 730283-GROW GREEN-H2020-SCC-2016-2017/H2020-SCC-NBS-2stage-2016. http://growgreenproject.eu/). This work was supported in part by the regional public administration of Valencia under the grant ACIF/2018/106.Vargas Salgado, CA.; Montuori, L.; Bastida Molina, P.; Alfonso Solar, D. (2019). Arduino-based prototype to estimate heat stress indices in urban environments. En Proceedings 5th CARPE Conference: Horizon Europe and beyond. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 173-182. https://doi.org/10.4995/CARPE2019.2019.10199OCS17318

Assessing the increase of solar fields in Iberian Peninsula

[EN] Spanish electrical generation has traditionally included high pollutant energy resources, like fuel or carbon. However, disturbing ever-increase in the average temperature of Planet Earth has led to a search for sustainability in the energy scenario. Therefore, Spanish electrical generation mix is prone to replace contaminant energy resources by non-contaminant, such renewables. Concretely, Spain is one of the countries with more solar peak annual hours. Nevertheless, having enough space to increase solar fields has been widely question. In this paper, an unrealistic scenario where all the annual Spanish consumption would be covered by photovoltaics is deeply analysed. Considering real electrical Spanish consumption data from 2017, required total quantity of solar panels has been quantified. Additionally, the study takes the hypothesis that all the panels should be placed on Spanish desert zones for two main reasons. First, total solar peak annual hours there are higher than in other Spanish regions. Last, making there the installation would give use to previous wasted zones. Obtained results indicate that around 691 million of 330Wp solar panels would be required for this issue, taking up 492175 km2. This space means only a 0.77% of all Iberian Peninsula. These outcomes clearly show that there is suitable and enough space to increase solar fields in Iberian Peninsula.This work was supported in part by the regional public administration of Valencia under the grant ACIF/2018/106.Bastida-Molina, P.; Alfonso Solar, D.; Vargas Salgado, CA.; Montuori, L. (2019). Assessing the increase of solar fields in Iberian Peninsula. En Proceedings 5th CARPE Conference: Horizon Europe and beyond. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 106-113. https://doi.org/10.4995/CARPE2019.2019.10205OCS10611

Procedure for the evaluation of transversal competences in lab practices: application to the course on heat transfer at the Polytechnic University of Valencia

[EN] In this paper, a procedure for the systematic evaluation of lab practices based on the development of transversal competences is presented. This procedure includes the design and completion of specific rubrics (complemented with a personal interview at the end of the session) for each of the experiments carried out during the practice, considering both individual and group educational sides. So, aspects related to the student’s behavior when working in-group (and the specific contribution of each student to the group), but also related to the individual performance, attitude, abilities and knowledge which the student should have previously acquired during the theoretical classes are considered. A practical application of the developed method to the practices related to the course on Heat Transfer at the Polytechnic University of Valencia is presented, where some results are also summarized. In such application, the suitability of the proposed procedure is highlighted as a proper mean not just to evaluate, but also to help students developing both specific and transversal competences, which they will use during their whole career and professional life.Montuori, L.; Vargas Salgado, CA.; Alfonso Solar, D.; Bastida Molina, P. (2019). Procedure for the evaluation of transversal competences in lab practices: application to the course on heat transfer at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. En Proceedings 5th CARPE Conference: Horizon Europe and beyond. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.4995/CARPE2019.2019.10173OCS1

Monitoring and evaluation of thermal comfort in urban areas: application to Valencia city

[EN] In this paper, it is presented preliminary results of a methodology for thermal comfort monitoring and evaluation in urban areas based on local metering of ambient conditions and Rayman model application. In the framework of GROWGREEN European project it was installed six monitoring stations for data acquisition of air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiation and black globe temperature. Data of first 5 months of monitoring and modelling of one location with Rayman model to calculate PET (physiological equivalent temperature) is presented. Based on PET it was calculated the percentage of hours with thermal comfort per month, and it was made a comparison between PET and black globe temperature (GT) in order to evaluate the suitability of GT as a single, low cost and robust indicator of thermal comfort in urban areas.This work was supported by European Commission through GROW GREEN project (Agreement number: 730283 -GROW GREEN -H2020-SCC-2016-2017/H2020-SCC-NBS-2stage-2016. http://growgreenproject.eu/). This work was supported in part by the regional public administration of Valencia under the grant ACIF/2018/106.Alfonso Solar, D.; Bastida Molina, P.; Montuori, L.; Vargas Salgado, CA. (2019). Monitoring and evaluation of thermal comfort in urban areas: application to Valencia city. En Proceedings 5th CARPE Conference: Horizon Europe and beyond. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 98-105. https://doi.org/10.4995/CARPE2019.2019.10198OCS9810

Advancing Creativity Theory and Research: A Socio-cultural Manifesto

This manifesto, discussed by 20 scholars, representing diverse lines of creativity research, marks a conceptual shift within the field. Socio-cultural approaches have made substantial contributions to the concept of creativity over recent decades and today can provide a set of propositions to guide our understanding of past research and to generate new directions of inquiry and practice. These propositions are urgently needed in response to the transition from the Information Society to the Post-Information Society. Through the propositions outlined here, we aim to build common ground and invite the community of creativity researchers and practitioners to reflect up, study, and cultivate creativity as a socio-cultural phenomenon

Optimization of a hybrid renewable system for high feasibility application in non-connected zones

Renewable systems are especially suited for electricity generation in remote areas but, where high reliability of the electricity supply is required, a hybrid system including electricity storage could be the only solution to avoid the lack of feasibility in single renewable systems. In this paper a hybrid system composed by photovoltaic panels, a biomass gasifier and a battery bank is presented. The system was designed and constructed at the Distributed Energy Resources Laboratory (LabDER) in order to supply electricity to a laboratory complex in the Institut Superieur des Techniques Appliquees, Democratic Republic of Congo (ISTA-DRC). System behavior was also tested in LabDER prior being installed and operated in the final place. Design characteristics and commissioning results are presented together with the experimental verification of the capability to fulfill the demand with very low fluctuations in the generated electricity supply. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Hurtado Pérez, EJ.; Peñalvo López, E.; Pérez-Navarro Gómez, Á.; Vargas Salgado, CA.; Alfonso-Solar, D. (2015). Optimization of a hybrid renewable system for high feasibility application in non-connected zones. Applied Energy. 155:308-314. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.05.097S30831415