Humanitarian crisis and public opinion. Treatment of immigration in the Spanish media

TextoAccording with several authors (Entman, 1993; Goffman, 1986; Gitlin, 1980; Snow et al, 1986; De Vreese & Claes, 2005; Reese, 2007; Scheufele, 1999) framing is a process of generating emphasys about a certain piece of information in news. We are interested in knowing how do Spanish media of reference frame immigration issues in the Mediterranean Sea. Through a mixed method of content analysis in over 774 news, we made a comparison between the last five months of the former President Rajoy´s Administration and five months of the actual Sánchez´s Administration. The findings suggest that in the most read newspapers in Spain the coverage changes between both Administrations. Also, that the coverage of the issue is focused more in the informative aspect of the irregular immigration, than in the political and economical conditions of the migrants. Besides, the political actors that are present in the news are mostly Governamental Institutions or NGO´s, and the presence of the migrant voice is rather low. The problematic news frame about immigration is hegemonic; the benefits of immigration is mostly absent in their news coverage

Fuerzas, tendencias, entelequias: vida y finalidad inmanente según Leibniz

El objetivo de este texto es mostrar que en la concepción leibniziana de la vida ocupa un lugar importante no sólo la finalidad externa vinculada al dios trascendente de la teodicea, sino también una finalidad estrictamente inmanente. Partiendo del protagThe aim of this paper is to show that, in the leibnizian view of life, it has a fundamental role not only the external finality linked to the transcendent god, but also a finality strictly immanent. From the relevant place that leibniz conceded to the ca

Derecho de sucesiones : elementos históricos y praxis civil, mercantil e internacional

Traballo fin de grao (UDC.DER). Dereito. Curso 2012/201

Morphological changes, beach inundation and overwash caused by an extreme storm on a low-lying embayed beach bounded by a dune system (NW Mediterranean)

The geomorphological evolution of a low-lying, micro-tidal sandy beach in the western Mediterranean, Pals beach, was characterized using airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data. Data were collected in prior to and six months after the impact of an extreme storm with a return period of approx. 50 years, with the aim of characterizing the beach's response to the storm. The use of repeated high-resolution topographic data to quantify beach geomorphic changes has allowed assessment of the accuracy of different proxies for estimating beach volume changes. Results revealed that changes in the shoreline position cannot accurately reproduce beach volume changes on low-lying beaches where overwash processes are significant. Observations also suggested that volume estimations from beach profiles do not accurately represent subaerial volume changes at large profile distances on beaches with significant alongshore geomorphological variability. Accordingly, the segmentation of the beach into regularly spaced bins is proposed to assess alongshore variations in the beach volume with the accuracy of the topographic data. The morphological evolution of Pals beach during the study period showed a net shoreline retreat (- 4 m) and a significant sediment gain on the subaerial beach (+ 7.5 m3/m). The net gain of sediment is mostly due to the impact of the extreme storm, driving significant overwash processes that transport sediment landwards, increasing volume on the backshore and dunes. The increase of volume on the foreshore and the presence of cuspate morphologies along the shoreline also evidence post-storm beach recovery. Observed morphological changes exhibit a high variability along the beach related to variations in beach morphology. Changes in the morphology and migration of megacusps result in a high variability in the shoreline position and foreshore volume changes. On the other hand, larger morphological changes on the backshore and larger inundation distances occur when the beach and the dunes are lower, favouring the dominance of overwash. The observed storm-induced morphological changes differ from predicted beach storm impacts because of spatial and temporal variations in the beach morphology, suggesting that detailed morphological parameters and indicators used for predicting beach vulnerability to storms should be regularly updated in order to represent the pre-storm beach conditions. Finally, observed morphological changes in Pals Bay evidenced a different behaviour between natural and urban areas, with better post-storm beach recovery on natural areas where the beach is not artificially narrowed.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Conectividad, hipermedialidad y multimodalidad: de la cultura digital al espacio escolar

This paper presents the main results achieved in the doctoral dissertation: “Hypertextuality and connectivity: alternatives of digital culture for the configuration of educative environments”. It focused on identify and describe the elements that characterize educational practices in educational environments in which connectivity, hypermediality and multimodality, along with the context of cyberculture, are promoted as central theoretical categories. The research corresponds to a micro-technographic study developed in IED, with a group of 30 students of 5th grade, in a specialized classroom equipped with tablets and full connectivity. The most important results and insights of the study are: 1) the emergence of the space of interaction as hypermedia itself; 2) a relationship between play and learning processes; 3) new dynamics of distributed attention; 4) symbolic distinction between the laboratory and the classroom; 5) to realize that pedagogical proposals are not as new as digital technologies; 6) due to its architecture, tablets do not help hypermedial writing; but multimodal writing and hybridization between digital and analogic technologies.Este artículo da cuenta de los resultados de la tesis doctoral: “Hipertextualidad y conectividad: alternativas de la cultura digital para la configuración de ambientes educativos”, que tuvo como objetivo identificar y describir los elementos que caracterizan las prácticas educativas en ambientes en los que se favorece la conectividad, la hipermedialidad y la mutimodalidad, y que, junto con la cibercultura, se erigieron como categorías teóricas. La investigación consistió en un estudio microtecnográfico desarrollado en una Institución Educativa Distrital (IED) con un grupo de 30 estudiantes de grado quinto, en aulas dotadas con tabletas y plena conectividad. Dentro de los hallazgos y conclusiones del estudio se destacan: 1) el surgimiento del espacio de interacción como un hipermedio en sí mismo; 2) una relación entre procesos de juego y aprendizaje; 3) la aparición de nuevas dinámicas de atención distribuida; 4) la diferenciación simbólica entre el laboratorio y el aula de clase; 5) el reconocimiento de que las propuestas pedagógicas no son tan nuevas como las tecnologías digitales; 6) las tabletas no favorecen la escritura hipermedial, pero sí la multimodal y la hibridación entre lo digital y lo análogo

A Mediterranean coastal database for assessing the impacts of sea-level rise and associated hazards

We have developed a new coastal database for the Mediterranean basin that is intended for coastal impact and adaptation assessment to sea-level rise and associated hazards on a regional scale. The data structure of the database relies on a linear representation of the coast with associated spatial assessment units. Using information on coastal morphology, human settlements and administrative boundaries, we have divided the Mediterranean coast into 13 900 coastal assessment units. To these units we have spatially attributed 160 parameters on the characteristics of the natural and socio-economic subsystems, such as extreme sea levels, vertical land movement and number of people exposed to sea-level rise and extreme sea levels. The database contains information on current conditions and on plausible future changes that are essential drivers for future impacts, such as sea-level rise rates and socio-economic development. Besides its intended use in risk and impact assessment, we anticipate that the Mediterranean Coastal Database (MCD) constitutes a useful source of information for a wide range of coastal applications.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Censos y alodios o alous

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Naturaleza y funciones de los Tribunales Superiores de Justicia desde una perspectiva constitucional

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Fundamentos de la confianza

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La anulación del Laudo arbitral

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