Descripción de la encuadernación del libro de los muertos de la Guerra Civil Española

Es triste ver que una de las mejores encuadernaciones realizadas en España esté resguardando el libroregistro de cerca de los 22.000 muertos de la guerra civil que se encuentran enterrados en la Basílica del Valle de los Caídos. Este breve trabajo trata de describir minuciosamente la encuadernación de dicha obra, desde los materiales empleados, las técnicas utilizadas en la construcción, la decoración que ornamenta tanto las tapas, guardas, lomo, cortes hasta los elementos de protección de la propia encuadernación como la camisa o sobrecubierta y el estuche, así como el estado de conservación de la obra, custodiada en la actualidad en la Biblioteca de Palacio Real de Madrid.It may be sad to see that one of the best bindings carried out in Spain holds the booking record of about 22.000 people of the Spanish Civil War buried in the Basilica of the Valley of the Fallen. In this short paper the binding is thoroughly described paying close attention to the materials and techniques employed, the decoration that is displayed on the covers, endpapers spines and cuttings, and even the elements of protection of the binding such as the shirt or cover and the case. It is analysed the state of conservation of this work that at present is kept in the Library of the Royal Palace

Las habilidades metacomprensivas dependen del tipo de texto: un análisis desde el Funcionamiento Diferencial de los Ítems.

Background: Metacomprehension skills determine an individual reader’s ability to judge their degree of learning and text comprehension and have considerable importance in their ability to learn from reading. Given that many comprehension processes are influenced by text characteristics, the aim of the present study was to analyze whether different types of text have significant impact on metacomprehension skills at two different points in primary education. Method: A total of 823 students (4th and 6th years of primary school, 9 to 11 years old) read three different texts (narrative, expository and discontinuous texts) taken from ECOM-PLEC.Pri, a standardized Spanish test for reading comprehension (León, Escudero, & Olmos, 2012). Students were classified by their metacomprehension skills. A Differential Item Functioning (DIF) analysis was conducted in order to analyze whether the underlying reading comprehension and metacomprehension processes differed across text types. Results: Results showed a considerable divergence of performance for reading narrative texts as opposed to expository and discontinuous texts. These differences were related to academic level. Conclusion: Text characteristics such as the type of text can have a great impact on metacomprehension skills and, consequently, on learning.Antecedentes: la metacomprensión supone la habilidad que uno mismo posee para juzgar su grado de aprendizaje y comprensión de un texto, adquiriendo una gran importancia en la comprensión lectora. Dado que los procesos de comprensión se encuentran infl uenciados por las características de los textos, el objetivo de este estudio fue analizar si diferentes tipos de texto afectan de manera signifi cativa a la habilidad metacomprensiva de estudiantes de distintos niveles de Educación Primaria. Método: un total de 823 estudiantes de 4º y 6º de Primaria (9 y 11 años) leyeron tres textos diferentes (narrativo, expositivo y discontinuo) tomados de la prueba estandarizada de comprensión lectora ECOMPLEC.Pri (León, Escudero, y Olmos, 2012). Los estudiantes fueron clasifi cados por su nivel de metacomprensión obtenido en la prueba. Un Análisis Diferencial del Ítem (DIF) se aplicó para analizar si los procesos de comprensión lectora y de metacomprensión difi eren entre tipos de texto y niveles académicos de los participantes. Resultados: los resultados mostraron una notable divergencia en el rendimiento metacognitivo del texto narrativo frente a los textos expositivo y discontinuo. Estas diferencias estaban relacionadas con el nivel académico. Conclusión: el tipo de texto puede tener un gran impacto en las habilidades de metacomprensión y, consecuentemente, en el aprendizaje de textosThis study was supported by Grant PSI2013-47219-P from the Ministry of Economic and Competitive (MINECO) of Spain, and European Union

Design and implementation of a wide-band real-time mobile channel emulator

A new wide-band mobile channel emulator for the CODIT project is designed and implemented. The UMTS code-division testbed (CODIT R2020) is a research project within the European RACE-II program set up by the Commission of the European Community. Our goal is to be able to simulate in the laboratory, in real time, the multipath propagation found in the mobile radio channel. As code-division multiple access (CDMA) is the access technique within the CODIT project, it was realized that the channel emulator must have simultaneously good delay resolution between propagation paths and long duration of the impulse response. These considerations led to a very flexible channel emulator specifically designed to host the new wide-band channel models developed within the CODIT project. Our emulator features three independent inputs and two outputs, up to 20 complex propagation paths, 10-MHz radio frequency (RF) bandwidth, a delay resolution of 50 ns, and a maximum duration of the channel impulse response of 80 μs. Starting with an explanation of the global structure of the new channel emulator, we derive the optimum design of the interpolation procedures and present the main implementation issues arising from our initial architecture. Finally, we report the results of the laboratory tests of the first prototype of the channel emulator.Peer Reviewe

Scaling of a standardized summary test (RESUMeV) for two primary school grades

El objetivo del estudio fue el de mostrar evidencias de fiabilidad y validez para una prueba de resúmenes (RESUMev) que evalúa el grado de comprensión lectora en alumnos de cuarto y sexto de primaria. Participaron un total de 528 estudiantes de primaria, de los cuales 236 fueron estudiantes de 4º de primaria (9 y 10 años) y 292 a 6º de primaria (11 a 13 años). Todos estos alumnos procedían de 21 centros escolares. Para evaluar la consistencia interna, se calculó el alfa de Cronbach en los criterios de evaluación de resúmenes (contenido, coherencia y estilo) y su índice de homogeneidad (Hj). La validez se evaluó mediante la comparación entre niveles académicos. En cuanto a los resultados, se obtuvieron índices elevados significativos de fiabilidad y de validez. Los resultados proporcionan evidencia empírica para la validez de la pruebaThe purpose of this work was to collect construct and criterion-related evidence of validity for a summary test (RESUMeV) designed to assess students from fourth and sixth grade. The sample of this study consisted of 528 children, 236 from fourth grade and 296 from sixth grade. They were drawn from 21 different primary schools. Several criteria were used. To evaluate the internal consistency, Cronbach’s alpha was calculated for all summary evaluation criteria (content, coherence, and style); a homogeneity index (Hj) was calculated too. The validity was evaluated by comparing academic levels. As for the results, both reliability and validity indices were high and significant. These results provide empirical evidence for the validity of the summary testEste trabajo ha sido subvencionado por el MINNECO PSI2013 47219-

La infancia abandonada en España ss.XVI-XIX

Resumen: En el presente trabajo se estudia la infancia abandonada entre los siglos XVI-XIX en España. El siglo XVIII supuso un punto de inflexión para este grupo de la sociedad que hasta entonces tenía poca consideración por parte de la sociedad y los poderes públicos. En el último tercio del siglo XVIII se dio un aumento de la exposición en España debido a la instauración del torno y el abandono secreto. Ya en el siglo XIX se dio el paso definitivo para que las instituciones encargadas de los expósitos pasaran a estar en manos de las Diputaciones Provinciales

SDR in undergraduate engineering education

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3 or 4 years for Anesthesia Residency Program? How to approach the discussion in terms of competency-based education

Ante la disyuntiva de prolongar la duración de la residencia en anestesiología de3a4anos ˜ se han esgrimido varias razones de lado y lado. Sin embargo, la discusión debe partir de un rediseno curricular de los programas nacionales para dar el paso de un entrenamiento de ˜ tiempo fijo y competencias variables al paradigma de educación basada en competencias, es decir, competencias fijas y tiempo variable.Q3Artículo de reflexión128-131Faced with the dilemma of extending the anesthesiology residency from 3 to 4 years, there have been several arguments for and against. However, the starting point of the discussion must be redesigning the national program curricula to move away from a fixed-time training and variable competencies, to a competency-based model; i.e., fixed competencies and variable time frames

Split-enabled 350–630 Gb/s optical interconnect with direct detection NOMA-CAP and 7-core multi-core fiber

The ever-growing data traffic volume inside data centers caused by the popularization of cloud services and edge computing demands scalable and cost-efficient network infrastructures. With this premise, optical interconnects have recently gained more and more research attention as a key building block to ensure end-to-end energy efficient solutions, offering high throughput, low latency and reduced energy consumption compared to current networks based on active optical cables. An efficient way for performing such optical interconnects is to make use of multi-core fibers (MCFs), which enables the multiplexing of several spatial channels, each using a different core inside the same fiber cladding. Moreover, non-orthogonal multiple access combined with multi-band carrierless amplitude and phase modulation (NOMA-CAP) has been recently proposed as a potential candidate to increase the network capacity and an efficiency/flexibility resource management. In this paper, using direct detection we experimentally demonstrate the transmission of NOMA-CAP signals through a 2 km MCF with 7 spatial channels for high capacity optical interconnect applications. The results show negligible transmission penalty for different total aggregated traffics ranging from 350 Gb/s to 630 Gb/s.This work was supported in part by ALLIANCE (TEC2017-90034-C2-2-R) project co-funded by FEDER, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no780997 (plaCMOS), as well as MINECO FPI-BES-2015-074302Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft