The species of the Neotropical genus Fractipons Townes, 1970 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae)

In this paper, two new species of the Neotropical genus Fractipons Townes, 1970 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) are described. A new diagnosis for the genus, a re-description of Fractipons cincticornis Townes, 1970 and a key to known species are provided. New distribution records for the genus now include Argentina, Costa Rica, Panama and Peru.This paper was partially supported by Project A/026909/09 of the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación), Spain, and grant BEST/2010/036 from the Conselleria d’Educacio (Generalitat Valenciana, Spain)

Libertad e inconformismo: sobre la concepción del relato de José Jiménez Lozano

José Jiménez Lozano is a unique writer in the Hispanic literary scene of these last decades. His work is vast and diverse, and this initial observation does not escape his narrative, which genre the write demonstrates more prolifically. Despite the apparent diversity, there is outstanding unity underlying Jiménez Lozano´s entire work. This unity lies not only on the constant return to the same matters, but also on the approaches or the reasons, from which his literary work begins. The writer reflects over his work and lets his ideas expand through the diverse manifestations of his ideas on prose. It is a talk about the rhetorical writing of this article, valuing the coherent existence between reflection and literary practice.José Jiménez Lozano es un escritor singular dentro del panorama literario hispánico de las últimas décadas. Su obra es vasta y diversa y a esta observación inicial no escapa su narrativa, género en el que el escritor se muestra más prolífico. A pesar de la diversidad aparente, existe una notable unidad subyacente a toda la obra de Jiménez Lozano. Esta unidad reposa no sólo sobre el regreso constante a unos mismos asuntos sino también sobre los planteamientos o fundamentos de los que parte su creación literaria. El escritor reflexiona sobre su labor y deja diseminado, a través de las diversas manifestaciones de su prosa de ideas, un discurso sobre la escritura que este artículo sintetiza, valorando, asimismo, la coherencia existente entre esta reflexión y la praxis literaria

Asuntos recurrentes en la propuesta narrativa de José Jiménez Lozano

Este artículo parte de la concepción de la narrativa de José Jiménez Lozano como lugar de confluencia de sus intereses éticos y estéticos, analizando la importancia de los ideales de libertad, tolerancia y verdad, inherentes a toda su obra y sintetizando las nociones sobre las que reposa la concepción del relato del escritor. Partiendo de la diferenciación de tres parcelas distintas en esta propuesta narrativa, basadas en las coincidencias temáticas, las relaciones intertextuales y la actitud estética, se sintetizan y analizan los asuntos recurrentes que se repiten en diferentes obras

Asuntos recurrentes en la propuesta narrativa de José Jiménez Lozano

This article discusses the concept of José Jiménez Lozano´s narrative as a meeting place of his ethic and aesthetic interests, analysing the importance of the ideals of tolerance and truth, inherent to his work, and summarising the notions on which the concept of the writer´s narrative lies. Coming from the difference among three different fields in this narrative proposal, based on the thematic coincidences, the intertextual relationships and the aesthetic attitude are summarised and analyse the themes that are repeated in different works.Este artículo parte de la concepción de la narrativa de José Jiménez Lozano como lugar de confluencia de sus intereses éticos y estéticos, analizando la importancia de los ideales de libertad, tolerancia y verdad, inherentes a toda su obra y sintetizando las nociones sobre las que reposa la concepción del relato del escritor. Partiendo de la diferenciación de tres parcelas distintas en esta propuesta narrativa, basadas en las coincidencias temáticas, las relaciones intertextuales y la actitud estética, se sintetizan y analizan los asuntos recurrentes que se repiten en diferentes obras

Review of the New World species of Oxytorus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Oxytorinae), with description of two new species from Brazil

The New World fauna of the genus Oxytorus Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) comprises 11 species, two of them, O. bahiensis new species and O. sinopae new species, both from eastern Brazil, are described as new. New data about distribution and variation of several species are reported. Oxytorus peruvianus Alvarado, Bordera, and Rodríguez-Berrío, 2011 is reported for the first time from Brazil and Ecuador, and O. alfredi Gauld and Mallet, 2000 from Guatemala, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago. An illustrated key to the New World species of Oxytorus is provided.This paper was supported partially by project A/013484/07 from Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación, Spain)

El cronotopo en el cuento romántico

[Resumen] La mesa redonda pretende analizar la función que el cronotopo desempeña en el cuento romántico. Hemos de tener en cuenta que el cuento moderno surge en varios países simultáneamente, Alemania, Estados unidos, Rusia, y posteriormente en Gran Bretaña, Francia, Italia y España, entre finales del siglo XVIII y principios del siglo XIX. El paso del cuento tradicional al moderno implica una serie de transformaciones profundas en la narración, entre ellas el tipo y papel del narrador, la diégesis narrativa y el cronotopo. En la mesa redonda nos queremos centrar en este último, conscientes como somos de que la localización espacial y temporal de cualquier relato tiene un papel determinante en su transformación. Para ello analizaremos relatos de Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe y Nathaniel Hawthorne. Creemos que no es simple causalidad que los tres autores busquen escenarios y épocas alejadas de su tempo y país. Tradicionalmente, la localización en Europa ha sido considerada como un rasgo romántico propio de su interés por lo exótico. Sin embargo, creemos que hay otras razones que tienen que ver con la evolución del cuento como género moderno que llevan a situar los relatos en un espacio que los lectores conceptualizarían como exótico para más adelante localizar los cuentos en otros más cercanos a los lectores. Así Beatriz Gómez Moreno (Universidad de Castilla la Mancha) analizará los relatos de Mary Shelley, José Ramón Ibáñez Ibáñez (Universidad de Almería) los de Edgar A. Poe y Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan (Universidad de Valladolid), los de Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Neotropical species of Clistopyga (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae). Part I: the C. chaconi species group, with the description of eleven new species

The New World Clistopyga chaconi species group is revised. Eleven species are described as new: C. amazonica sp. nov., C. cinnamoptera sp. nov., C. cuscoensis sp. nov., C. hayesiana sp. nov., C. melanoptera sp. nov., C. misionensis sp. nov., C. mocaguae sp. nov., C. orellanae sp. nov., C. porteri sp. nov., C. rondoniae sp. nov. and C. yabuquensis sp. nov. Additional morphological data are provided for the previously known species, C. caramba Castillo & Sääksjärvi and C. chaconi Gauld. An illustrated identification key to all species of the group is provided. The Clistopyga chaconi species group appears to be most diverse at the Andean and Amazonian interface in western South America.This study was partially supported by the projects “El valor de las Reservas Privadas en la conservación de la diversidad de insectos parasitoides” (Instituto Tecnológico Nacional de México, Code: 5554.15-P) and “Biodiversity and multitrophic interactions” (Kone Foundation, Finland)

Motion planning using fast marching squared method

Robotic motion planning have been, and still is, a very intense research field. Many problems have been already solved and even real-time, optimal motion planning algorithms have been proposed and successfully tested in real-world scenarios. However, other problems are not satisfactory solved yet and also new motion planning subproblems are appearing. In this chapter we detail our proposed solution for two of these problems with the same underlying method: non-holonomic planning and outdoor motion planning. The first is characterized by the fact that many vehicles cannot move in any direction at any time (car-like robots). Therefore, kinematic constrains need to be taken into account when planning a new path. Outoor motion planning focuses on the problem that has to be faced when a robot is going to work in scenarios with non-flat ground, with different floor types (grass, sand, etc.). In this case the path computed should take into account the capabilities of the robot to properly model the environment. In order to solve these problems we are using the Fast Marching Square method, which has proved to be robust and efficient in the recent past when applied to other robot motion planning subproblems.Publicad

Generalization Process by Second Grade Students

This study is part of a broader study on algebraic reasoning in elementary education. The research objective of the present survey, namely to describe generalization among second grade (7- to 8-year-old) students, was pursued through semi-structured interviews with six children in connection with a contextualized generalization task involving the function y = x + 3. Particular attention was paid to the structures recognized and the type of generalization expressed by these students as they reasoned. In all six, we observed three phases of inductive reasoning: (a) abductive, (b) inductive and (c) generalization. The students correctly recognized the structure at least once during the interview and expressed generalization in three ways.Spanish National Research Agency (AEI)European Fund for Regional Development (FEDER)Government of Spain - BES-2017-08012