Inversores como nuevos agentes del cambio ambiental de las empresas, Los

Como su propio nombre indica, el objetivo del trabajo de investigación que se presenta en este documento ha sido profundizar sobre la influencia que los inversores han tenido, están teniendo y van a tener en el comportamiento medioambiental de las empresas. A través del análisis del fenómeno de los fondos de inversión «verdes», en este trabajo vemos cómo ética y negocio no han de constituir un «juego de suma cero», sino que, por el contrario, las empresas pueden favorecer su capacidad de crear valor considerando de forma simultánea los aspectos de negocio y su impacto en el medio ambiente y en la sociedad en general.cambio ambiental empresas; medioambiente;

ZONIFICACIÓN Y PRIORIZACIÓN DE LAS MEDIDAS DE GESTIÓN DE LOS ESPACIOS DE LA RED NATURA 2000 EN EL PIRINEO OCCIDENTAL ARAGONÉS

Este estudio realiza un ensayo con objeto de desarrollar una metodología fundamentada en la utilización de los SIG para la generación de herramientas de ordenación territorial que sirvan de apoyo en la aplicación de los planes de gestión de los espacios de la Red Natura 2000. La Directiva de Hábitat, transpuesta por la Ley 42/2007, obliga a la elaboración y aprobación de un plan de gestión de los espacios de la red que determine las acciones a desarrollar para el mantenimiento de un estado de conservación favorable de los hábitat y las especies de interés comunitario. El ensayo ha sido aplicado a una zona comprendida dentro del Plan de Gestión de los Espacios de la Red Natura 2000, Biorregión Alpina de Aragón, Pirineo Occidental (ZEPA Los Valles, LIC Los Valles, LIC Los Valles-Sur y LIC Sierras de los Valles Aísa y Borau). El principal objetivo del método es ofrecer información que ayude a la zonificación y priorización de las medidas recogidas en el plan

Assessment of plasma chitotriosidase activity, CCL18/PARC concentration and NP-C suspicion index in the diagnosis of Niemann-Pick disease type C: a prospective observational study

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Caracterización por medio de ASM de los sistemas de diques de la isla de Santa María (Azores oriental, Portugal)

El análisis de la interacción entre los procesos asociados a plumas mantélicas y el contexto geodinámico sobre el que se encuentran ha propiciado debates sobre su influencia y el desarrollo del vulcanismo insular. En el caso del archipiélago de las Azores, el modelo de alineamiento de promontorios insulares asociado a una pluma estática ha dado paso a la evaluación de la interacción del punto triple de las Azores. En este contexto interaccionan el límite Azores-Gibraltar y el rift de Terceira. La Isla de Santa María, la más oriental del archipiélago, se encuentra en la unión entre ambos sistemas y presenta una distribución de fracturas y diques compatible con los sistemas de fracturación principales. En este trabajo se analizan los sistemas diacrónicos de diques a través de la ASM (Anisotropía de Susceptibilidad Magnética). Los resultados obtenidos permiten interpretar flujos subverticales asociados a cada uno de los sistemas compatibles con una inyección pasiva en fracturas de origen tectónico

Góngora: Problemas de la poética del Barroco. Ideología y cultura popular en los siglos XVI y XVII

This dissertation is a theoretical reappraisal of Góngora’s popular verse which entails a profound questioning of the very foundations of the Spanish ‘Baroque’ as an epistemological framework. It stems from a basic paradox: how can the Baroque, produced by an official, organic ideology, be understood from the standpoint of the vast popular culture that it ultimately seems to create? This question becomes more relevant—and even more acutely intriguing—if we consider that an important number of the canonic and non-canonic greatest works of the period (from the Quixote to Góngora’s Fábula de Píramo y Tisbe, going through the Picaresque novel) pertain to the field of popular culture. My work aims at proving that this prominent streak of literary grotesque is not only relevant but indeed native to the cultural logic of the Spanish Baroque, which can be redefined in terms of a more fluid relation between the official and the popular, in order to finally debunk the fallacy of the two Góngoras. Some of the issues addressed in this dissertation are: the reasons for literary obscurity; the political dimensions of ideological contradiction; the material constitution—if not production—of typically baroque rhetorical devices (hyperbaton, litote, catachresis); and last, but not least, the relation between the social body of the Spanish Absolutist State and Góngora’s own body grotesque

Futurism without a Future: Thoughts on The Ministry of Time and Mirage (2015–2018)

The future is not what it used to be. A new strain of futurism has taken over the stage of global science-fiction: one whose understanding of the future cannot be distinguished from its understanding of the present. Gone are the days when extraterrestrials in shiny, extravagant outfits mastered fascinating technologies that flirted with magic. Characters in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror (2015–2020) dress like us, and the dystopian technology they put up with is, for the most part, a technology that has existed for years. Armando Iannucci’s imagining of a space cruise for rich people in Avenue 5 (2020) overlaps with Elon Musk’s actual plans of sending wealthy tourists to the moon, while Albert Robida’s visionary téléphonoscope (1879) amounts to a sad reminder of our everyday Zoom call. Is not the current COVID-19 crisis the blueprint to the ultimate post-apocalyptic script? Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona noted in a recent interview that Steve Soderbergh’s Contagion (2011), originally labeled as a sci-fi movie by IMDB, is now a drama according to the same internet portal. Science is not fiction anymore, which means at least two different things: that science has lost the power to convey the kind of awe that may be later turned into fiction, and that fiction seems to be unable to inspire a narrative of scientific or—broadly speaking—human progress. How can we retrieve the emancipatory value of progress in good old futuristic sci-fi when the future coincides with the present? What should cultural production look like to help us imagine an alternative to financial capitalism in the face of the impossibility of utopia? The answer, I will claim, resides in Franco Berardi’s concept of “futurability”. This paper explores the limits of this concept by reading side by side Javier Olivares’ and Pablo Olivares’ The Ministry of Time (2015) and Oriol Paulo’s Mirage (2018)

Development of a macroporous ceramic passive sampler for the monitoring of cytostatic drugs in water

The aim of this study was to develop and calibrate a macroporous ceramic passive sampler (MCPS) for the monitoring of anticancer drugs in wastewater. This system was designed by the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and consists in a porous ceramic tube to allow a high diffusion of contaminants. The MCPS has been calibrated for 16 cytostatic drugs over time periods up to 9 d in spiked water under controlled laboratory conditions. Optimal uptake was accomplished for 7 compounds, namely ifosfamide, cyclophosphamide, capecitabine, prednisone, megestrol, cyproterone and mycophenolic acid, whereas cytarabine was not adsorbed in the receiving phase and the rest were hydrolyzed over the deployment period. The sampling rate for these 7 compounds was between 0.825 and 3.350 mL day-1 and the diffusion coefficients varied from 1.01E-07 to 4.12E-07 cm2 s-1. To prove the applicability of the MCPSs, samplers (n = 3) were deployed in influent and effluent waters of a WWTP for a period of 6 d and results were compared to grab sampling and extraction with Solid Phase Extraction (SPE). In influent waters, MCPS were clogged due to the high amount of suspended solids in these waters. In effluents, MCPS detected cyclophosphamide and mycophenolic acid at concentrations of 19 ± 3 and 136 ± 28 ng L-1 with a good agreement with the levels obtained by grab sampling. The study discusses the use and performance of the MCPS for the monitoring of stable cytostatic compounds in a complex matrix such as wastewater.This study has been performed thanks to financial support from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain under the projects CTM2014-60199-P and MAT2015-68078-R. H. Franquet acknowledges the FPI grant BES-2012-053000.Peer reviewe

AMS characterization of the Santa María Island dike systems (Eastern Azores, Portugal)

The analysis of the interaction between mantle plumes and the geodynamical context has produced debates about their influence in the development of insular volcanism. In the case of the Azores archipielago, the alignment of islands related to a static plume has led to models associated with the interaction of the Azores triple point. In this context, the interaction between the Azores-Gibraltar fault and the Terceira rift has been evaluated for the current volcanism distribution. The Santa María Island, the eastern most one from the Azores archipielago, is located in the intersection between both systems and presents fracturation and dike networks agreeing with the two main fracture systems. In this work diachronic dike systems are analyzed through AMS (Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility) with the aim of giving information about the emplacement conditions of dikes during the fracturation stages. The obtained results allow us to identify subvertical dike injections that are compatible with a passive injection through tectonic fracturesEl análisis de la interacción entre los procesos asociados a plumas mantélicas y el contexto geodinámico sobre el que se encuentran ha propiciado debates sobre su influencia y el desarrollo del vulcanismo insular. En el caso del archipiélago de las Azores, el modelo de alineamiento de promontorios insulares asociado a una pluma estática ha dado paso a la evaluación de la interacción del punto triple de las Azores. En este contexto interaccionan el límite Azores-Gibraltar y el rift de Terceira. La Isla de Santa María, la más oriental del archipiélago, se encuentra en la unión entre ambos sistemas y presenta una distribución de fracturas y diques compatible con los sistemas de fracturación principales. En este trabajo se analizan los sistemas diacrónicos de diques a través de la ASM (Anisotropía de Susceptibilidad Magnética). Los resultados obtenidos permiten interpretar flujos subverticales asociados a cada uno de los sistemas compatibles con una inyección pasiva en fracturas de origen tectónic

Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility and flow directions in recent dykes. Volcanic complex of Corvo and Flores Islands (Western Azores, North-American plate)

Different models of relation between flow and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility axis have been postulated. The main models link the magnetic foliation with the dyke wall, where the magnetic lineation is parallel to the flow direction or where the magnetic foliation develops an imbrications disposition respect the dyke wall. At a first approximation the main differences resides in the turbulence caused by the dyke walls during the flow. In this work is presented a systematic sampling along different Quaternary dykes (Western Azores) that show both models within the same dykes, differing in the position on it: imbrication models developed in the borders and magnetic lineation parallel to the flow direction in the center of the dyke. However, some dykes only show magnetic lineation parallel to the flow without any imbrication pattern. In these cases the magnetic parameters show the same trends, at different scale, between dykes with only one or two kind of fabrics. The magmatic flow direction, in some cases, can be better defined if the dyke is sampled just at the center of it, in contrast with the expected results in the borders which can be influenced by the local irregularities of the flow and the dyke wal

Synthetic criticality in cellular brains

Cognitive networks have evolved to cope with uncertain environments in order to make reliable decisions. Such decision making circuits need to respond to the external world in efficient and flexible ways, and one potentially general mechanism of achieving this is grounded in critical states. Mounting evidence has shown that brains operate close to such critical boundaries consistent with self-organized criticality (SOC). Is this also taking place in small-scale living systems, such as cells? Here, we explore a recent model of engineered gene networks that have been shown to exploit the feedback between order and control parameters (as defined by expression levels of two coupled genes) to achieve an SOC state. We suggest that such SOC motif could be exploited to generate adaptive behavioral patterns and might help design fast responses in synthetic cellular and multicellular organisms.This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Grant PID2019-111680GB-I00, an MICIN Grant PID2019-111680GB-I00, an AGAUR FI 2018 Grant, and the Santa Fe Institute (where the key idea was first conceptualized at the Cormac McCarthy's library). JS has been partially funded by the CERCA Programme of the 'Generalitat de Catalunya', by 'Agencia Estatal de Investigación' Grant RTI2018-098322-B-I00 and by the 'Ramón y Cajal' contract RYC-2017-22243. AG has been funded by the AGAUR Grant 2017-SGR-1049 and by the MINECO-FEDER-UE Grants PGC-2018-098676-B-100 and RTI2018-093860-B-C21. JP was funded by FPI 2020