Preliminary study of the impact of Guadalhorce river mouth channeling (Málaga, Spain) on groundwater and related wetlands

Se trata de resultados preliminares que se están obteniendo en el Bajo Guadalhorce, en el marco de la tesis doctoral del primer firmanteIn riverine areas, many anthropogenic actions (modification of natural water courses, burying or channeling works, etc.) have been commonly applied worldwide to prevent floods in rivers, having negative environmental impacts on their dependent ecosystems. In the Guadalhorce River mouth (Málaga, Southern Spain), channeling works -including the splitting of the main channel into two branches before arriving to the sea- were conducted to reduce the flood risk in the surrounding urbanized areas near to the Mediterranean coast. In the framework of the monitoring program of the Guadalhorce Delta Wetlands, located between the branches of the ending river stretch, measurements of electrical conductivity in wetland water and groundwater table were performed, as well as the sampling of both water types. The results show a progressive increasing in the mineralization of wetland water, reaching values 50 times higher than the original ones. In the underlying aquifers, the mineralization of groundwater is generally less variable and lower than the recorded in the eighties and nineties, when a salt intrusion episode occurred. Before the river channel modification, the water flow from the aquifer to the wetlands and toward the river in its mouth was deduced. Today, the wetlands recharge locally the Quaternary aquifer and, consequently, induce the groundwater flow towards the both branches of the river and Mediterranean Sea. The variation of the morphodynamics in the Guadalhorce River mouth and the associated changes in land use have caused significant impacts on ground and surface water and their dependent wetlands.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

L’analyse de la valeur et l’analyse fonctionnelle pour concevoir les outils des systèmes régionaux d’innovation.

The phenomenon of globalization has changed the codes of conduct of many of the actors operating on the global stage. Among these, those responsible in local governments have seen how they have had to strengthen their economic, technological and/or social development strategies for positioning their influence area in a good place in the global competitive ranking for competing on a global scale. However, the governance structures, the knowledge generation, and the power to influence citizen decisions occur at a local level. Nevertheless, in this new scenario, people responsible in local governments have generally been unable to provide an appropriate response, while lacking sufficient skills for carrying out this challenge that the new framework requires. For this reason, it is important to provide local governments with tools capable of assisting in the process of designing innovation policies, to successfully build the leadership of the territory on the global stage. This article is aimed at presenting an application of the methodology of the functional and value analysis as an effective formula to reach the outlined goals.El fenómeno de la globalización ha modificado los códigos de conducta de muchos de los actores que operan en la escena mundial. Entre estos, los responsables de los gobiernos locales han visto cómo han tenido que reforzar sus estrategias de desarrollo económico, tecnológico o social para conseguir posicionar su área de influencia en una buena situación en el ranking competitivo global. Se compite a escala mundial pero las estructuras de gobierno, la generación de conocimiento, el poder de influencia sobre las decisiones ciudadanas ocurren a nivel local. Sin embargo, en este nuevo escenario, los responsables de gobiernos locales se han visto, de forma generalizada, incapaces de dar la respuesta adecuada que el nuevo marco exige, carentes de las competencias suficientes para llevar este reto a buen término. Por ello, es oportuno dotar a los gobiernos locales de herramientas capaces de ayudar en el proceso de diseño de políticas de innovación, de manera que los agentes encargados de vertebrar el liderazgo del territorio en el panorama mundial puedan hacerlo con las mayores garantías de éxito. En el presente artículo se propone una aplicación de la metodología de análisis del valor y del análisis funcional como fórmula eficaz para alcanzar el objetivo reseñado.La mondialisation a changé les codes de conduite d’un bon nombre d’acteurs de la scène mondiale. Parmi eux, les responsables gouvernementaux locaux, ils ont dû renforcer leurs stratégies de développement économique, technologique et social afin de parvenir à un bon positionnement de leur zone d’influence dans le classement compétitif mondial. En contrepartie, les structures gouvernementales, la génération de la connaissance et le pouvoir d’influence sur les décisions citoyennes se produisent à niveau local. Néanmoins, dans ce nouveau scénario et de manière générale, ces responsables gouvernementaux locaux ont montré leur incapacité de fournir une réponse appropriée par manque de compétences nécessaires à surmonter ce défi. Il est opportun de fournir aux gouvernements locaux des outils capables de les aider dans le processus de conception des politiques d’innovation, afin que les agents en charge puissent réussir à renforcer le leadership du territoire sur la scène mondiale. Ainsi, cet article présente une application méthodologie de l’analyse fonctionnelle et l’analyse de valeur comme une formule efficace pour atteindre les objectifs abordés

Smart Environment Vectorization : An Approach to Learning of User Lighting Preferences

The automation of smart environment systems is one of the main goals of smart home researching. This paper focus on learning user lighting preference, considering a working field like a standard office. A review of the smart environment and devices setup is done, showing a real configuration for test purposes. Suitable learning machine techniques are exposed in order to learn these preferences, and suggest the actions the smart environment should execute to satisfy the user preferences. Learning machine techniques proposed are fed with a database, so a proposal for the vectorization of data is described and analyzed.Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TSI2006-13390-C02-02Junta de Andalucía TIC-214

Production of Transglutaminase by Streptoverticillium ladakanum NRRL-3191 Grown on Media Made from Hydrolysates of Sorghum Straw

The aim of this work was to elucidate the suitability of the biotechnological production of transglutaminase by Streptoverticillium ladakanum NRRL-3191 grown on media made from hydrolysates of sorghum straw. Transglutaminase activity was determined in fermentations on sorghum straw hydrolysates and commercial xylose with initial xylose 10, 20 or 30 g/L. Using media containing commercial xylose 20 g/L, transglutaminase activity up to 0.282 U/mL was obtained in 96 h. Using neutralized, charcoal-treated hydrolysates of sorghum straw with xylose 30 g/L sterilized in autoclave at 121 °C, up to 0.155 U/mL was obtained in 96 h. However, when the sterilization was performed by filtration, using the same hydrolysates with xylose 20 g/L, up to 0.348 U/mL was obtained in 72 h. It was demonstrated that hydrolysates of sorghum straw are suitable media for transglutaminase production by Streptoverticillium ladakanum

Defining Adaptive Learning Paths For Competence-Oriented Learning

This paper presents a way to describe educational itineraries in a competence-oriented learning system in order to solve the problem of sequencing several independent courses. The main objective is to extract adaptive learning paths composed by the subset of needed courses passed in the right order. This approach improves the courses’ re-usability allowing courses to be included in different itineraries, improving the re-usability of the courses, and making possible the definition of mechanisms to adapt the learning path to the learner’s needs in execution tim

Neuro-Fuzzy System for Compensating Slow Disturbances in Adaptive Mold Level Control

[EN] Good slow disturbances attenuation in a mold level control with stopper rod is very important for avoiding several product defects and keeping down casting interruptions. The aim of this work is to improve the accuracy of the diagnosis and compensation of an adaptive mold level control method for slow disturbances related to changes of stopper rod. The advantages offered by the architecture, called Adaptive-Network-based Fuzzy Inference System, were used for training a previous model. This allowed learning based on the process data from a steel cast case study, representing all intensity levels of valve erosion and clogging. The developed model has high accuracy in its functional relationship between two compact input variables and the compensation coefficient of the valve gain variations. The future implementation of this proposal will consider a combined training of the model, which would be very convenient for maintaining good accuracy in the Fuzzy Inference System using new data from the process.This work is supported by a Project (AA-ELACERO, P211LH021-023) of the National Key Research and Development Program of Automatic, Robotic and Artificial Intelligence of Cuba.González-Yero, G.; Ramírez Leyva, R.; Ramírez Mendoza, M.; Albertos, P.; Crespo, A.; Reyes Alonso, JM. (2021). Neuro-Fuzzy System for Compensating Slow Disturbances in Adaptive Mold Level Control. Metals. 11(1):1-21. https://doi.org/10.3390/met1101005612111

Production of Transglutaminase by Streptoverticillium ladakanum NRRL-3191 Grown on Media Made from Hydrolysates of Sorghum Straw

The aim of this work was to elucidate the suitability of the biotechnological production of transglutaminase by Streptoverticillium ladakanum NRRL-3191 grown on media made from hydrolysates of sorghum straw. Transglutaminase activity was determined in fermentations on sorghum straw hydrolysates and commercial xylose with initial xylose 10, 20 or 30 g/L. Using media containing commercial xylose 20 g/L, transglutaminase activity up to 0.282 U/mL was obtained in 96 h. Using neutralized, charcoal-treated hydrolysates of sorghum straw with xylose 30 g/L sterilized in autoclave at 121 °C, up to 0.155 U/mL was obtained in 96 h. However, when the sterilization was performed by filtration, using the same hydrolysates with xylose 20 g/L, up to 0.348 U/mL was obtained in 72 h. It was demonstrated that hydrolysates of sorghum straw are suitable media for transglutaminase production by Streptoverticillium ladakanum

Extended sensations on interactive telecommunication

Although computer science and telecommunications have evolved from the 90’s to nowadays, the way people communicate each other through electronic devices has stuck since the appearance of the videoconference. The audiovisual interaction seems enough, but we think the sensation of presence gets higher when we allow the person who we are talking to, taking part in our environment using and enriching it. In that way, the interaction is improved with new sensations which come from outside of our device. In this article, we propose a communication service which provides not only videoconference, but manages the smart environment where the interlocutor of the communication is, allowing him to access to any device connected through domotic and/or wireless network. The application is developed under the OSGi open specification and it almost doesn’t imply any cost increase over the bandwidth used during communication. Once explaining the technical foundations, its diverse applications in ubiquitous meetings and on-line games will be commented

Systemic comparison of dielectric and plasmonic biosensors on a silicon photonics platform

Plasmonic and dielectric based waveguides are widely used for biosensing applications. However, the use of different sensing architectures and platforms hinders the fair comparison of their respective figures of merit. In this paper, plasmonic and dielectric-based photonic waveguide biosensors are compared in terms of attainable limit of detection, using in both cases a coherent-readout interferometric architectureUniversidad de Málaga; Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (MECD) (FPU16/06762); Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) (PRE2020-096438, PID2019-106747RB-I00); Consejería de Economía, Conocimiento, Empresas y Universidad (CECEU) (UMA18-FEDERJA-219, PY18-793); Consejería de Salud y Familia (CSF) (PIN-0113-2020), Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Experiencias en entornos de Computación Ubicua mediante Arquitecturas Orientadas a Servicios

El desarrollo del proyecto Domoweb, cuyo objetivo principal, es la creación de un entorno domótico gestionado vía Web, nos ha permitido acumular experiencia sobre las arquitecturas orientadas a servicio, concretamente sobre la plataforma basada en la especificación de OSGi e implementada con software de fuentes abiertas. En este artículo, comentamos las decisiones tomadas durante el desarrollo del proyecto y ampliamos la visión inicial hacia ámbitos de computación ubicua más genéricos que el hogar digital. Además, señalamos la necesidad de integrar en la arquitectura propuesta, la gestión de los Servicios Web, ampliando de ese modo las capacidades del entorno y su funcionalidad