Design’s role on the [re]habilitation of social and urban structure

Abstracts aceptados sin presentacion / Accepted abstracts without presentatio

No cities: design and strategies of comunication: interactive innovations as a vehicle for communication and patrimony

International Conference Arquitectonics Network: Architecture, Education and Society (2015: Barcelona

La Sanidad naval española: De Lepanto a Trafalgar

This article analyses the characteristics of the Spanish Navy’s Health Care System by dividing them in two well differentiated time periods: on the one hand, the 16th and 17th centuries; and on the other, the beginning of the 18th century, following the establishment of the Bourbon dynasty. The medical attendance of the crews, the therapeutic resources, and the functioning of general and ship hospitals, on the occasion of certain military journeys, are some examples of the many aspects studied for each period. It is worth highlighting the foundation of the Royal College of Naval Surgeons of Cádiz (Real Colegio de Cirugía de la Armada en Cádiz) and its consequences, although the reforms undertaken were of a rather ephemeral nature. Finally, the emphasis is put on the need to consider every health care model according to the specific circumstances of each time period

Survival, Mortality, Causes of Death and Risk Factors of Poor Outcome

Systemic sclerosis is a rare autoimmune disorder with a historically bad prognosis. Survival has been improving over time and we can currently estimate a 1-year survival, 94.9; a 5-year survival, 84.4; a 10-year survival, 70.9 and a 20-year survival, 44.9%, from the time of diagnosis. Accordingly, mortality has been decreasing over time, being the overall standardized mortality ratio (SMR) 2.72 (1.90–3.83), SMR 2.4 after 1990. Among the SSc-related causes of death, the lung death is the most important cause and its relative percentage is increasing over time since the introduction of ACE inhibitors for the treatment of scleroderma renal crisis (SRC) in early 1990s. Among the SSc-non-related causes of death, cancer, infection and cardiovascular disorders are the leading causes of death. Risk factor predictors of poor outcomes are an elder age at diagnosis, the male gender, diffuse subset, visceral involvement and non-Raynaud’s phenomenon onset

Rotational Instability of a Long Liquid Column

A liquid column is. apart from its intrinsic interest from the basic science point of view, a good mechanical model of a crystal growth process known as the floating zone technique. In this technique, rotation of the supporting rods is used to uniformize the usually non-axisymmetric temperature field otherwise produced by the directional heating. The theory of the influence of solid rotation on the stability limit is already available and early experimental results showed the existence of two different kinds of unstable shapes (in absence of other perturbations): the amphora mode and the C-mode. The existence of the amphora mode was realized in SL-D1 experiments but C-mode breakages could not be obtained, probably due to unexpected existence of body forces that always excited the amphora mode breakage. As none of these modes can be realistically simulated on Earth, an experiment in microgravity conditions (TEXUS-23) was performed in order to obtain C-mode deformations (not achieved up to now in a reproducible way). However, experiments on Earth using the Plateau Tank Technique have been performed in order to obtain more insight in the problem and to prepare experiments aboard sounding rockets. Results of the experiment aboard TEXUS-23 show a reasonably good agreement with the theoretical predictions

On the steady streaming flow due to high-frequency vibration in nearly inviscid liquid bridges

The steady streaming flow due to vibration in capillary bridges is considered in the limiting case when both the capillary Reynolds number and the non-dimensional vibration frequency (based on the capillary time) are large. An asymptotic model is obtained that provides the streaming flow in the bulk, outside the thin oscillatory boundary layers near the disks and the interface. Numerical integration of this model shows that several symmetric and non-symmetric streaming flow patterns are obtained for varying values of the vibration parameters. As a by-product, the quantitative response of the liquid bridge to high-frequency axial vibrations of the disks is also obtained

11-M: Apuntes sobre el fracaso de la desinformación o de cómo prevalece la información sobre la convicción

La atribución de la autoría de los atentados del 11-M en Madrid es un ejemplo irrefutable de que no habrá desinformación si los periodistas hacen su trabajo con rigor y contrastan las fuentes, aunque sean del mismo presidente del Gobierno.information is never misleading if journalists do their job correctly and contrast theirs sources, even if one of them is the Prime Minister himself