The Failure of the Aetolian Deditio as a Didactic Cultural Clash in the Histories of Polybius (20.9-10)

This paper examines the Aetolian deditio in fidem of 191 as described by Polybius 20.9-10. Erich Gruen influentially interpreted Polybius’ description as inconsistent and exaggerated, on the grounds that Greeks and Romans from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC had a common understanding of πίστις and fides and that Polybius’ own evidence on deditio was inconsistent. This paper reasserts the older view: that Greeks generally then had a hazy knowledge of Roman culture, including the practice of deditio, and that—even if weight be granted to factors such as the Roman commander’s personal character and ambitions or the historian’s supposed dislike of the Aetolians or his deployment of a degree of dramatic licence or a possible ‘hardening’ in the Romans’ general practice—this passage properly emphasises a genuine cultural clash, thereby promoting Polybius’ fundamental paideia-objective of teaching Greek readers, above all Greek politicians, how to respond competently to the realities of Roman power.Fil: Moreno Leoni, Álvaro Matías. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentin

Large-scale analysis of Zipf's law in English texts

Despite being a paradigm of quantitative linguistics, Zipf's law for words suffers from three main problems: its formulation is ambiguous, its validity has not been tested rigorously from a statistical point of view, and it has not been confronted to a representatively large number of texts. So, we can summarize the current support of Zipf's law in texts as anecdotic. We try to solve these issues by studying three different versions of Zipf's law and fitting them to all available English texts in the Project Gutenberg database (consisting of more than 30000 texts). To do so we use state-of-the art tools in fitting and goodness-of-fit tests, carefully tailored to the peculiarities of text statistics. Remarkably, one of the three versions of Zipf's law, consisting of a pure power-law form in the complementary cumulative distribution function of word frequencies, is able to fit more than 40% of the texts in the database (at the 0.05 significance level), for the whole domain of frequencies (from 1 to the maximum value) and with only one free parameter (the exponent)

Transcription, intuition, mediation

El artículo indaga en las relaciones entre transcripción e intuición en el trabajo del arquitecto. La interpretación de Oíza sobre la definición de arquitectura dada por Le Corbusier muestra la mediación como forma evidente de relación entre los términos propuestos. Este mediar se convierte así en la misión principal del arquitecto. La consideración de dos ejemplos de viviendas desarrolladas tempranamente por Le Corbusier muestra esta aproximación como un alegato en defensa del papel del arquitecto. La actualidad de este acercamiento permite transponerlo al análisis de obras contemporáneas, como la Maison à Bordeaux de Rem Koolhaas. La diferente consideración por parte de arquitecto e ingeniero que se muestra en faxes de obra respecto a un detalle de la vivienda permite reflexionar en este sentido.The article explores the relationship between transcription and intuition in the architect’s work. Oiza’s interpretation on Le Corbusier’s definition of architecture shows mediation as obvious form of relationship between the proposed terms. This mediation becomes the primary mission of the architect. Consideration of two early examples of homes developed by Le Corbusier shows this approach as a plea in defense of the role of the architect. The current interest of this approach allows to analyze contemporary works, such as Maison à Bordeaux by Rem Koolhaas. The different consideration given by architect and engineer regarding a detail of the housing, and shown on faxes from work, allows for reflection in this way.Peer Reviewe

Valoración de empresas del mercado continuo español

Este Trabajo de Fin de Grado ha consistido en la realización de un análisis empírico sobre una muestra formada por empresas del mercado continuo español. Se han aplicado los modelos del valor contable, valor de mercado, valor ofrecido por la proposición I del Teorema de Modigliani y Miller de 1958 y el valor ofrecido por la reformulación del mismo en 1963.Departamento de Economía Financiera y ContabilidadGrado en Administración y Dirección de Empresa

Prevención de infecciones en oftalmología

Hacer un recorrido cronológico de las infecciones más comunes, en las diferentes etapas de la vida. Reconocer los principales factores de riesgo que pueden llevar a infecciones oftalmología. Principales patologías infecciosas. Métodos higiénicos para la prevención de las infecciones. Medidas para evitar las infecciones nosocomiales.Máster en Enfermería Oftalmológic

Artistic patronage in the Modern Age: The Vélez marquisate and the church of San Antonio de Padua in Mazarrón (Murcia)

La iglesia de San Antonio de Padua de Mazarrón (Murcia), cuya fundación podemos fechar entre finales del siglo xv y mediados del xvi, fue erigida por la influencia y el poder que el marquesado de los Vélez ejerció en el lugar mediante la explotación del mineral del alumbre. Posteriormente, el templo sufrió diferentes reformas y ampliaciones, modificando su sencilla estructura original hasta conferirle las características que definen el edificio en la actualidad. Este trabajo analiza el desarrollo constructivo de la iglesia, así como la intervención y el patronazgo de los marqueses en ella, especialmente desde finales del siglo xvii hasta principios del xviii. Una intervención que, como hemos demostrado, resultó —por lo general— un hecho más aparente que real, puesto que el marquesado no sufragó la totalidad de las obras. Además de otros aspectos, en este trabajo se han investigado tanto la cronología como el desarrollo histórico-artístico de un templo que no había sido profundamente estudiado, y del que no se ha conservado libro de fábrica alguno. También se han aportado nuevos datos mediante el análisis de documentación inéditaThe church of Saint Anthony of Padua (Mazarrón, Murcia), dated from the end of the 15th century to the middle of the 16th century, was built due to the influence and power that the Velez marquisate had on Mazarrón by the exploitation of alum ore. The temple underwent several reforms and extensions over time, modifying its simple original structure to give it the characteristics that define the building today. In this paper we aim to study the patronage of such marquisate on the temple, especially from the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the 18th century. We have proved that this patronage was not completely true, and the building work was not totally sponsored. In addition to other aspects, this paper also studies the chronology and the artistic and historic development of the church, which has not been properly studied and whose books of factory have not been preserved. We have also added unpublished information verified with already known source

Encuentros en la BLOGosfera. El recurso del BLOG de grupo en la enseñanza de DAI en la ETSAM.

The natural evolution of web 2.0, populated by prosumers (persons who consumes and produces media, e.g. blogs), has generated a new economic, social and cultura l scene. In this context, the formation and continuous evolution of a specific blogosphere (hyperlinked blog community) from students of the graphic subjects in the Architecture Schools is a fact. Its potential, yet to be developed, is extraordinary , as vehicle for dissemination, as working tool and as meeting place for graphical references . This work is focused on the Group Blogs emerged in the propaedeutic courses (the subject of Drawing, Analysis and Ideation - D.A.I.) in the ETSAM. Its structure , content, editors, interaction, internal functioning, evolution and integration with physical class are here analyzed. The navigation data (the real use by students and external visitors) are contrasted with its theoretical goals to evaluate those blogs . The findings should serve to develop those blogs (or to make others) as a better tool and as a productive community of shared knowledge