Tratamiento sobre la acogida e integración de refugiados en Valladolid

Durante los últimos años Europa está advirtiendo la acogida masiva de refugiados provenientes mayoritariamente de Oriente Medio y África Subsahariana. Se trata de una crisis migratoria que todos los países de la Unión Europea deben tratar de paliar de la mejor manera posible, repartiendo las tareas entre todos sus estados miembros. Valladolid también forma parte de esa Unión Europea y debe acoger y ayudar a integrarse a todos los refugiados que han sido enviados a la ciudad. Con este reportaje audiovisual indagaremos en los procedimientos que se llevan a cabo para acoger inmigrantes en la capital castellana, despejaremos la duda de saber si tenemos un número adecuado de ellos en comparación con otras ciudades y cuáles son los métodos para integrar en nuestra sociedad a aquellas personas que se han visto obligadas a huir de sus países originarios. Las organizaciones más activas en estos campos suelen ser las ONG, por lo que hablaremos con sus voluntarios e iremos descubriendo cuál es su papel para afrontar esta crisis que definirá el futuro de Europa.During the last few years, Europe is warning of the massive reception of refugees coming mainly from the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. It is a migratory crisis that all the countries of the European Union must try to alleviate in the best possible way, distributing the tasks among all its member states. Valladolid is also part of that European Union and must welcome and help to integrate all refugees who have been sent to the city. With this audio-visual report we will investigate the procedures that are carried out to welcome immigrants in the Castilian capital, we will clear the doubt of knowing if we have an adequate number of them in comparison with other cities and what are the methods to integrate in our society those people who have forced to flee their native countries. The most active organizations in these fields are usually NGOs, so we will talk with their volunteers and we will discover their role in facing this crisis that will define the future of Europe.Departamento de Historia Moderna, Contemporánea y de América, Periodismo y Comunicación Audiovisual y PublicidadGrado en Periodism

The sensual human nature: a cognitive approach to religious poetry

Sensual experience has traditionally been admitted into religion as a means to convey mystic encounters with divinities. Even the strict Christian dogma gives its consent to the expression of sensual encounters, provided that they can be justified from a religious moral perspective. But the fact is that the use of sensual imagery with a communicative intention seems to have an experientialist base:Any kind of knowledge we have originates from our phenomenological apprehension of the world; and appealing to the motor-sensory domains seems to be the easiest and quickest way to guarantee understanding. Following a cognitive orientation, this paper explores into two samples of religious poetry (San Juan de la Cruz's "Noche Oscura" and G. Herbert's "Love") and shows evidence that meaning conveyance is possible thanks to the use of motor -sensory imagery, which at the same time allows for other more universal readings of the poems

El "Micromegas" de Voltaire y la observación como proceso ideologizado

Voltaire considera el Micromegas una “historia filosófica”, y este artículo desea poner de manifiesto el valor filosófico del cuento a través del problema de la observación. La tesis que se defiende aquí es que Voltaire considera la observación como una forma de proceso ideologizado, y que ese es el objetivo con el que se refiere a hombres de letras como Fontenelle o científicos como Derham, Leeuwenhoek o Hartsoeker.Voltaire calls his Micromegas “a philosophical story”. This article intends to prove the philosophical value of this story focusing on the Problem of Observation. The thesis the paper defends is that Voltaire understands “observation” as a form of ideologized process, and that it is with this goal in mind that he refers to men of letters such as Fontenelle or scientists as Derham, Leeuwenhoek or Hartsoeker

La mujer en la obra de Jean Jacques Rousseau

This paper sums up the various pretexts Rousseau argues as reasons to defend women’s subordination. It seemed interesting to organise the paper in the two parts. The first one intends to decide whether Rousseau’s writing until 1755, date in which his Second Discourse was published, can be object of feminist criticism. The second, on the contrary, means to reconstruct historically the political, pedagogical and religious convictions which Rousseau makes use of in order to exclude women.Este trabajo resume los diversos pretextos que Rousseau argumenta como razones para defender la subordinación de las mujeres. Me ha parecido apropiado dividir el trabajo en dos apartados. El primero de ellos pretende decidir si la producción rousseauniana anterior a 1755 –fecha de publicación del Discurso sobre la Desigualdad– puede ser o no objeto de la crítica feminista. El segundo, en cambio, pretende reconstruir históricamente las convicciones políticas, pedagógicas y religiosas de las que Rousseau se sirve para marginar a la mujer

Moons do not bleed but stare: a cognitive approach to Larkin's "Sad Steps" and Plath's "Edge"

Succumbing to the moon’s enchantment seems nothing out of the ordinary, however much the post-modern human mind wants to deny the fact. The present article shows the way art –particularly post-modern poetry– makes use of this ordinary romantic imaginative attraction in order to convey everlasting human stances towards real life. As an example we shall consider the moon from two different perspectives: Philip Larkin’s “Sad Steps” helps the reader view it from a quasi-philosophical position, whereas Sylvia Plath’s “Edge” uses it as an objective correlative for a woman’s complexity. For the analysis of the poems we have adopted a cognitive poetic approach, based on the cognitive linguistic theories on mental spaces, cognitive-conceptual metaphor and sensing-conceptualising connection among others. Por mucho que las mentes de hombres y mujeres de la era post-moderna quieran negarlo, sucumbir al encanto de la luna forma parte de nuestra vida cotidiana. En este artículo queremos mostrar el modo en que el arte, y en particular la poesía postmoderna, emplea esta atracción de cariz romántico imaginativo para transmitir posturas siempre presentes ante la realidad vital del ser humano. De la mano de Philip Larkin y Sylvia Plath exploramos distintos modos de percibir la entidad lunar: con “Sad Steps” Larkin nos ayuda a observarla desde una perspectiva casi filosófica, y el poema “Edge” de Plath nos lleva a reconocerla como correlato objetivo de la complejidad femenina. Para el análisis de los poemas hemos adoptado un enfoque poético-cognitivo, basado en las teorías lingüístico-cognitivas sobre espacios mentales, sobre metáfora conceptual-cognitiva, y sobre las conexiones existentes entre experiencia sensorial y conceptualización, entre otras

The use of tracer gases to study the air exchange in the Altamira cave

Póster elaborado para la European Geosciences Union General Assembly, celebrada en Viena del 8 al 13 de abril de 2018

Continuous monitoring of radon gas as a tool to understand air dynamics in the cave of Altamira (Cantabria, Spain)

The use of radon as an atmospheric tracer in the Altamira Cave over the past 30 years has provided relevant information about gaseous exchanges between the Polychromes Room, the adjoining Chambers inside the cave, and the outside atmosphere. The relatively simple physico-chemical behaviour of radon gas provides a marked advantage over other tracer gases that are usually present in high concentrations in hypogeous environments, such as CO2. Two types of continuous radon measurement were undertaken. The first involves active detectors located in the Hall and Polychromes Room, which provide radon concentration values at 1-hour intervals. In addition, nuclear solid track etched detectors (CR-39) are used in every chamber of the cave over 14-day exposure periods, providing average radon concentrations. In this paper we show some of the specific degassing and recharge events identified by anomalous variations in the concentration of radon gas in the Polychromes Room. In addition, we update knowledge regarding the degree of connection between chambers inside the cave and with the outside atmosphere. We verify that the connection between the Polychromes Room and the rest of the cave has been drastically reduced by the installation of the second closure in 2008. Except for point exchanges with the Crossing zone generated by a negative temperature gradient in that direction, the atmosphere of the Polychromes Room remains stable, or else it exchanges matter with the outside atmosphere through the karst interface. The role of radon as a tracer is demonstrated to be valid both to reflect seasonal cycles of degassing and recharge, and to analyse shorter (daily) period fluctuations.This research was funded by the Project “Estudios analíticos para una propuesta de accesibilidad pública de la Cueva de Altamira” funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Spain (MECD)

The Laboratory of Natural Radiation (LNR) - a place to test radon instruments under variable conditions of radon concentration and climatic variables

The publication of the new European Union Basic Safety Standards represents a remarkable milestone in the fi eld of radiological protection in terms of adding radon exposure to this framework. Therefore, the coming years will bring the need to measure radon not only in the workplaces but also in the living spaces as a direct outcome of the application of the new EU Directive. So, the importance of having reliable instruments is evident and interlaboratory exercises are becoming more and more popular. However, most of them are carried out under constant conditions of meteorological variables. We present in this paper a facility to broaden the interlaboratory comparisons further by adding the study of radon exposures under real conditions of changes in climatic parameters. In addition, the facility has the possibility to verify the response of radon monitors when the radon concentration changes several orders of magnitude in a short period of time. Our work shows some results of one of the interlaboratory exercises carried out in the premises, where the radon levels were rather homogeneous in the testing room

Variations in radon dosimetry under different assessment approaches in the Altamira Cave

The atmosphere of caves is a special environment where it is necessary to take into account some particular characteristics when assessing the radon dose. The equilibrium factor (F) between radon and its progeny, and especially its unattached fraction ( fp), is a key parameter in radon dose evaluation. In order to consider the specific features of the atmosphere in the Altamira Cave, the radon and particle concentrations have been measured. The mean annual radon concentration inside the cave over the period 2013?2019 is around 3500 Bq m?3 with a standard deviation of 1833 Bq m?3 and this exhibits seasonal variations. This value surpasses all international (WHO, IAEA, ICRP) upper action and reference levels (occupational and non-occupational). Dose rate levels expressed in ?Sv h?1 were estimated for four different equilibrium scenarios between radon and its progeny 218Po, 214Pb, 214Bi and 214Po. The most recent dose conversion factors have been used and the contribution made to the dose by the unattached fraction of radon progeny fp has been also assessed from the particle concentration. The results suggest that the mean annual dose levels show variations of up to 500% due to the range of F and the fp considered in this study. Given the high radon concentrations usually found in show caves, the best way to reduce this variability and its associated uncertainty in dose assessment is to conduct specific studies aimed at determining both F and fp.This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Spain (MECD) (grant number J180052) under the Project ‘Servicio de control y seguimiento de las condiciones ambientales y del biodeterioro de la Cueva de Altamira’, and The Cantabrian International Institute for Prehistoric Research (IIIPC)