Propuestas metodológicas de análisis forense para la detección y la investigación de la tortura y otros tratos o penas crueles, inhumanos o degradantes

Considerando que la ciencia forense es importante para detectar pruebas de tortura y otros tratos o penas crueles, inhumanos o degradantes y siendo consciente del importante papel que las investigaciones forenses pueden desempeñar en la lucha contra la impunidad, por ofrecer elementos probatorios sobre los que basar eficazmente la acusación contra los responsables de graves violaciones de los derechos humanos y del derecho internacional humanitario; comparto este análisis, cuyo objetivo principal es precisamente ser una herramienta útil que permita a los/as investigadores/as forenses conocer los estándares internacionales y actuar de manera conforme a la normativa nacional bajo dichos parámetrosConsidering that forensic science is important for detecting evidence of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment and being aware of the important role that forensic investigations can play in the fight against impunity, to provide evidence on which to base effectively the indictment against those responsible for serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law; I share this analysis, whose main objective is precisely to be a useful tool that allows forensic investigators meet international standards and act in conformity with national regulations under those parameters

La educación musical en la educación primaria

Este trabajo de fin de grado consiste en un estudio de la legislación y la implicación de los docentes de educación musical con respecto a ésta. Para desarrollar la investigación, tomamos como objetivo general conocer la situación actual de la educación musical en la Educación Primaria. Para ello, comenzaremos con un marco teórico que consta en su primera parte de un repaso desde los antecedentes musicales y artísticos hasta la actualidad. Y en la segunda parte, haremos una revisión de la legislación desde unos años atrás hasta el presente. Tratándose de una investigación empírica, el método elegido ha sido la entrevista cualitativa semiestructurada. Mediante esta técnica procuraremos conocer las valoraciones de los docentes especialistas en educación musical en ejercicio de la legislación vigente. Posteriormente, analizaremos las entrevistas y expondremos los resultados y las conclusiones finales.Grado en Educación Primari

Efecto de equipo y procedimiento de medida en la determinación del módulo resiliente y resistencia a tracción indirecta de las mezclas bituminosas

El módulo resiliente es un parámetro que se utiliza para comprobar el estado de una capa de firme. Nos da una idea de la calidad de la capa y de la durabilidad, ya que se obtiene al aplicar cargas cíclicas, lo cual origina un estado tensional similar al de servicio. La resistencia a tracción indirecta se está utilizando en Cataluña como procedimiento de control de calidad de las mezclas bituminosas puestas en servicio, pues se ha demostrado desde la ETSECCPB que tiene una relación directa con las propiedades y características de cada tipo de mezcla, y constituye una herramienta para el diseño de la capa de firme. En esta tesina se han elaborado probetas con tres tipos de mezclas diferentes (S-20, S-12 y G-20) y con los dos tipos de betún, uno normal y el otro modificado con polímeros. Las probetas se ensayaron a módulo resiliente en dos equipos diferentes, el equipo NU y la prensa MTS, con la finalidad de comparar si se obtenían valores parecidos. Posteriormente se ensayaron a tracción indirecta para determinar si había influencia del ensayo previo de módulo resiliente en los valores de resistencia a tracción indirecta. Además se ha analizado la influencia del tipo de betún y del tipo de mezcla en los parámetros estudiados

The Human Factor and the Development of a Second Language.

The focus of this study is to investigate how motivation, language learning strategies, and transfer of first language (L1) knowledge of grammar influence the learner’s second language proficiency level. The study was done in a Thames Valley University undergraduate Spanish beginners course (n = 96). The central question on which the research is based can be given as: “What student characteristics have the potential to influence the ultimate level of Spanish language achievement in particular in integrated classes of full time undergraduate (FTU) students and part time associated (PTA) students? This exploratory ex post facto study in social science is approached in a linguistic and educational ontology. The analysis of variance ANOVA was carried out to find the differences in the mean scores between the dependent variables across groups and gender. In addition, a Pearson product moment correlation was employed to find the relationship between L1 knowledge of grammar and an achievement test. A multiple regression analysis was used to investigate the relationship between the total scores in Spanish and the dependent variable, using a Part correlation to see the shared variance of these variables. The results show that there are only statistically significant differences in the mean scores between the full time undergraduate group and the part time associated group in relation to motivation, language learning strategies (LLS) and L1 knowledge of grammar. On the contrary, no significant differences were found between interaction with gender and groups. The results show high correlation among the dependent variable and the tests. However, there is no statistical significance among the tests for the FTU or the PTA groups. The results show statistical significant correlation among the total scores in Spanish and the L1 knowledge of grammar, Cognitive-LLS (C-LLS), and integrative motivation for the FTU; and L1 knowledge of grammar and C-LLS for the PTA It was concluded that the PTA group achieve a higher proficiency level than the FTU group after the same period of time learning Spanish. In addition, L1 knowledge of grammar has a strong influence on L2 proficiency level. Integrative motivation and metacognitive LLS (M-LLS) enhances second language (L2) proficiency level

Las definiciones léxicas de Las Partidas y de los actuales Código Civil y Penal

[Resumo] As Partidas e os actuais Códigos Civil e Penal definen os tecnicismos xurídicos mediante unha gráfica remisión ao referente. Esta representación determina as definicións hiponímicas, metafóricas, metonímicas e as de adxacentes nominais. Á súa vez, os Códigos Civil e Penal delimitan a intensión e extensión do definido e presupoñen no destinatario un coñecemento xurídico inexistente na enciclopedia afonsí[Resumen] Las Partidas y los actuales Códigos Civil y Penal definen los tecnicismos jurídicos mediante una gráfica remisión al referente. Esta representación determina las definiciones hiponímicas, metafóricas, metonímicas y las de adyacentes nominales. A su vez, los Códigos Civil y Penal delimitan la intensión y extensión del definido y presuponen en el destinatario un conocimiento jurídico inexistente en la enciclopedia alfonsí.[Abstract] The Partidas and the present Law and Penal Codes (Códigos Civil y Penal) define the legal technical terms by a graphic reference to the referent. This representation determines the hyponymic, metaphorical and metonymical definitions as well as those of nominal adjacents. In their turn, the Law and Penal Codes delimit the intension and the extension of the defined thing and presuppose a juridical knowledge by the addressee that does not exist in Alfonso X´s encyclopaedi

Multi-modal joint embedding for fashion product retrieval

© 20xx IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Finding a product in the fashion world can be a daunting task. Everyday, e-commerce sites are updating with thousands of images and their associated metadata (textual information), deepening the problem, akin to finding a needle in a haystack. In this paper, we leverage both the images and textual meta-data and propose a joint multi-modal embedding that maps both the text and images into a common latent space. Distances in the latent space correspond to similarity between products, allowing us to effectively perform retrieval in this latent space, which is both efficient and accurate. We train this embedding using large-scale real world e-commerce data by both minimizing the similarity between related products and using auxiliary classification networks to that encourage the embedding to have semantic meaning. We compare against existing approaches and show significant improvements in retrieval tasks on a large-scale e-commerce dataset. We also provide an analysis of the different metadata.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Economía ecológica : la imposición energética como variable condicional en el proceso de convergencia europeo

Las reformas fiscales medioambientales se encuentran inmersas en un intenso proceso de remodelación adquiriendo progresivamente mayor trascendencia. En el contexto europeo, los impuestos medioambientales están formados en más de tres cuartas partes por impuestos sobre la energía, cuyo uso se incrementa de forma indiscriminada en las economías desarrolladas. Con el objetivo de estudiar el grado de aproximación en fiscalidad energética, en este trabajo se utilizan diferentes métodos en el análisis de la convergencia, en primer lugar se lleva a cabo un análisis de beta convergencia condicional, y a continuación se aplican las técnicas de beta y sigma convergencia en términos absolutos para cada uno de los grupos de países definidos. Como resultados se pone de manifiesto la existencia de dos grandes grupos de países en función del uso intensivo en energía, los cuales de manera independiente presentan un claro proceso de convergencia en presión fiscal energética.Environmental fiscal reform is undergoing an intense restructuring process, progressively acquiring greater significance. In the European context, more than three quarters of environmental taxes are made up by tax on energy, the use of which is indiscriminately on the increase in developed economies. With the objective studying the degree of harmonization within energy taxation, this paper analyses different methods in the analysis of convergence, first it performed an analysis of conditional convergence beta is used, then the techniques and apply beta sigma absolute convergence for each of the groups defined terms countries. As results revealed the existence of two groups of countries in terms of energy intensive, which independently have a clear process of convergence in energy fiscal pressure

Adopción y parejas de hecho

El siguiente artículo tiene por objeto analizar la situación actual en nuestro país de las parejas de hecho, con especial incidencia en las homosexuales, que quieren optar por una paternidad o maternidad adoptiva. Así destacamos situaciones en la que la regulación jurídica en la que actualmente se enmarca dicha situación cae en serias incongruencias con respecto a otras figuras de protección del menor tales como el acogimiento permanente . También señalamos circunstancias en las que la imposibilidad de que una pareja homosexual adopte puede vulnerar el interés superior de un menor.The following article intend to analize the situation in Spain of not married couples, specially homosexual couples, who wish to be adoptives parents. We would like to insist on some specific circunstances which the actual law doesn ́t cover. It happens to be seriously incongruous with others areas of protection of under age children as for instance, fostering them. We insist on the circunstances which the imposibility of the adoption of the homosexual couples may vulnere the children right

A Hemispherical Contact Model for Simplifying 3D Occlusal Surfaces

Statement of problem Currently, dental articulators can recreate mandibular movements and occlusal contacts. However, whether virtual articulators can also provide information about occluding dental surfaces, functional movements, and the mandibular condyles is unclear. Purpose The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate the occluding surfaces on dental casts obtained from a patient and approximate them to a hemispherical contact model. Both models were tested by digitizing the Dentatus ARL dental articulator. Material and methods A combination of photogrammetry and structure from motion methods were used to scan a Dentatus ARL articulator and representative dental casts. Using computer-aided engineering and finite element analysis, contact points and action vectors to the forces on occluding surfaces and condyles were obtained for cast and hemispherical models. This experiment was performed using centric occlusion and 3 different condylar inclinations. The Kruskal-Wallis 1-way analysis of variance on ranks test was used to allow all pairwise comparisons between condylar inclination and mechanical action vector values in each location (α=.05). Results Action vectors from the cast model and each location of the hemispherical model were calculated to show the mechanical consequences and the similarity among models. Overall, no significant differences were observed for action vectors (A20 versus A40 versus A60) at each location (dental cast/hemisphere, right condylar, and left condylar) in the analysis of dental casts and the hemisphere model (.382≤P≤.999). Conclusions This study provided graphical information that may assist the dental professional in determining which occlusal contacts should be modified to attain condylar and balanced centric occlusion

HINODE Observations of Chromospheric Brightenings in the Ca II H Line during small-scale Flux Emergence Events

\ion{Ca}{2} H emission is a well-known indicator of magnetic activity in the Sun and other stars. It is also viewed as an important signature of chromospheric heating. However, the \ion{Ca}{2} H line has not been used as a diagnostic of magnetic flux emergence from the solar interior. Here we report on Hinode observations of chromospheric \ion{Ca}{2} H brightenings associated with a repeated, small-scale flux emergence event. We describe this process and investigate the evolution of the magnetic flux, G-band brightness, and \ion{Ca}{2} H intensity in the emerging region. Our results suggest that energy is released in the chromosphere as a consequence of interactions between the emerging flux and the pre-existing magnetic field, in agreement with recent 3D numerical simulations.Comment: 12 Pages, 6 Figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ Letter