De la construcción de la identidad a la destrucción del yo en la obra de Simone Weil

From our interpretation of Simone Weil’s works, we propose two lecture lines to understand her conception of individual identity: first, we show that, according to Weil, man builds, through his work, the image of himself that he attempts to be. We will show that, behind this search, there is a structural problem: the repetition of an insatiable mechanism related to the self’s desire of expansion, where, as soon as the instant of contact with the projected image is reached, this image is remodeled and launched forward until the unreachable horizon of desire. And secondly, we will see that in opposition to this path of identity’s construction which arises from work, in the last weilian period it appears a search of destruction of the identification momentum, that implies a conscious discipline of control of the self’s expansion and the desire of power which is related. A partir de nuestra interpretación de la obra de Simone Weil  proponemos dos líneas de lectura para entender su concepción de la identidad individual: primero, mostramos que para la filósofa  el hombre construye  a través de su trabajo  la imagen de sí mismo que él busca ser. Mostraremos que esta búsqueda está habitada por un problema fundamental: la repetición de un mecanismo insaciable ligado al deseo de expansión del yo, en el que apenas se alcanza el instante de contacto con la imagen proyectada, ésta se ve remodelada y vuelta a lanzar al horizonte inalcanzable del deseo. Así, veremos, en segundo lugar, que en oposición a ese camino de construcción de la identidad que emana de la labor  aparece en la última época weiliana una búsqueda de destrucción del impulso de identificación  que implica una disciplina consciente de control de la expansión del yo y del deseo de poder que le es inherente

Suitable task allocation in intelligent systems for assistive environments

The growing need of technological assistance to provide support to people with special needs demands for systems more and more efficient and with better performances. With this aim, this work tries to advance in a multirobot platform that allows the coordinated control of different agents and other elements in the environment to achieve an autonomous behavior based on the user’s needs or will. Therefore, this environment is structured according to the potentiality of each agent and elements of this environment and of the dynamic context, to generate the adequate actuation plans and the coordination of their execution.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Sobre los experimentos de creación de vida de Andrew Crosse

Uno de los personajes más exitosos y conocidos de la historia de la literatura y el cine de ficción es el creado por la escritora Mary Shelley en 1817 en su libro "Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo". Paradójicamente, uno de los científicos menos conocidos y más misteriosos de la historia de la ciencia británica es Andrew Crosse, el individuo real en el que, según se suele afirmar, Mary Shelley basó su historia(Haining, 1979). Durante los trabajos de documentación científica de la exposición “CRISTALES: UN MUNDO POR DESCUBRIR” hemos topado con varios artículos sobre este experto en electrocristalización que protagonizó uno de los episodios más controvertidos de la historia de la ciencia del siglo XIX, cuando se dieron a conocer sus experimentos sobre creación de vida en el laboratorio. Los enigmáticos experimentos que dieron lugar a la polémica son muy similares desde el punto de vista químico a los experimentos conocidos como jardines químicos. En este trabajo discuto esta propuesta y su relevancia en el contexto histórico de las investigaciones sobre creación de vida.European Research Council dentro del European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement nº 340863Peer reviewe

Los itinerarios y la red viaria de época romana en Huelva

Las fuentes literarias, especialmente las itinerarias, pero igualmente las historiográficas y el resto de las geográficas, conforman el marco general adecuado para realizar el estudio de la red viaria de época romana, estudio en el que son integrados los testimonios arqueológicos y toponímicos; estos testimonios aportan los elementos de concreción y las funciones de cada una de las vías particulares del conjunto de las vías estudiadas. Mas para crear ese marco idóneo se ha de partir de la definición de los términos “calzada”, “ruta” e “itinerario” y del posible método compositivo de las fuentes itinerarias, el Itinerario Antonio y el Anónimo de Rávena. Con estos presupuestos de partida se ha realizado un esquema general de las vías más importantes que cruzaron en época romana el territorio de la actual provincia de Huelva._____________________________The literary sources, specially itinerary, but also historical and geographical give the best contex to make the study about the road system at Roma Age, where we've also archaeological and toponimical evidences. These evidences are necesary to decide the route and to analyse the historical reasons and functions of each road. But the first questions is in order to determine the meaning of the words "calzada", "ruta" e "itinerario", and the possible method of composition of the literary sources, the Itinerario de Antonino and the Anónimo de Rávena. With theses initial budgets it has been carried out a general outline of the most important roads that crossed the territory of the current province of Huelva at Roman time

Organic saffron business plan

Treball Final de Grau en Administració d'Empreses. Codi: AE1049. Curs 2020/2021With this work, we intend to propose the creation of a company dedicated to the sowing, harvesting, production and marketing of organic saffron in Albacete in the province of Castilla de la Mancha, which is intended to be an innovative model in the area, where the client is an active participant in the process from the beginning. It is characterized by the sustainability, flavour and quality of the product, which is adjusted to the needs of the customer, always in harmony with legality, so that customer satisfaction is sought, in this case in particular hotels, restaurants, chains of supermarkets and food stores. It is recognized that despite the amount of skills that work in the vicinity of this, the proposed communication plan to make it known, will allow a personalized approach to potential customers which in a short, medium and long term, may need the product either sporadically or for a long time. So the Marketing Plan adjusted to the budget, will undoubtedly allow the feasibility of the implementation of this proposal for entrepreneurship

Effectiveness of values communication through cross-cultural corporate symbol design

Intercultural communication occurs between people whose culture, language, and visual perceptions are distinct enough to alter the communication event between them. In this arena, the graphic designer plays the role of a visual ambassador, creating vehicles of communication intended to carry messages within or across cultural barriers. The task is challenging and necessary because of the contemporary tendency toward globalization. In today\u27s global market, multinational corporations are creating brands to express their corporate values. As a result, these corporations are more connected to their customers and are differentiated from their competition.;This study tested the effectiveness of communicating values instead of products in the design of a symbol for a cross-cultural corporation. For this study, the existing corporate symbol of a Colombian coffee company was redesigned into three different versions in an attempt to communicate values to a cross-cultural audience. Each symbol was tested by means of a survey completed by participants from different parts of the world who were studying at Iowa State University. The first survey tested the effectiveness of a symbol that communicates values only. The second survey tested the effectiveness of a symbol that communicates the same values when accompanied by a reference to a product. The final survey tested the influence of values perception when the symbol uses a universally recognized icon. This methodology provided a clear idea of the possibility to universally communicate values through a corporate symbol.;The results of this study showed that the corporate symbol which combined product and values had the highest percentage of values recognition. It can also be suggested that by using this corporate symbol redesign, the Colombian coffee company would effectively communicate what the company is and its brand values to a cross-cultural audience

Assessment of Generic Skills through an Organizational Learning Process Model

This contribution has been published in this repository with the permission of the publisher. This contribution was presented in WEBIST 2018 (http://www.webist.org/?y=2018) and has been published by SCITEPRESS in http://www.scitepress.org/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=y9Yt0eHt02o=&.The performance in generic skills is increasingly important for organizations to succeed in the current competitive environment. However, assessing the level of performance in generic skills of the members of an organization is a challenging task, subject to both subjectivity and scalability issues. Organizations usually lay their organizational learning processes on a Knowledge Management System (KMS). This work presents a process model to support managers of KMSs in the assessment of their individuals’ generic skills. The process model was deployed through an extended version of a learning management system. It was connected with different information system tools specifically developed to enrich its features. A case study with Computer Science final-year students working in a software system was conducted following an authentic learning approach, showing promising results.Visaigle Project (grant TIN2017-85797-R)

Privacy-Preserving Reengineering of Model-View-Controller Application Architectures Using Linked Data

When a legacy system’s software architecture cannot be redesigned, implementing additional privacy requirements is often complex, unreliable and costly to maintain. This paper presents a privacy-by-design approach to reengineer web applications as linked data-enabled and implement access control and privacy preservation properties. The method is based on the knowledge of the application architecture, which for the Web of data is commonly designed on the basis of a model-view-controller pattern. Whereas wrapping techniques commonly used to link data of web applications duplicate the security source code, the new approach allows for the controlled disclosure of an application’s data, while preserving non-functional properties such as privacy preservation. The solution has been implemented and compared with existing linked data frameworks in terms of reliability, maintainability and complexity

Experimental study of visual corona under aeronautic pressure conditions using low-cost imaging sensors

Visual corona tests have been broadly applied for identifying the critical corona points of diverse high-voltage devices, although other approaches based on partial discharge or radio interference voltage measurements are also widely applied to detect corona activity. Nevertheless, these two techniques must be applied in screened laboratories, which are scarce and expensive, require sophisticated instrumentation, and typically do not allow location of the discharge points. This paper describes the detection of the visual corona and location of the critical corona points of a sphere-plane gap configurations under different pressure conditions ranging from 100 to 20 kPa, covering the pressures typically found in aeronautic environments. The corona detection is made with a low-cost CMOS imaging sensor from both the visible and ultraviolet (UV) spectrum, which allows detection of the discharge points and their locations, thus significantly reducing the complexity and costs of the instrumentation required while preserving the sensitivity and accuracy of the measurements. The approach proposed in this paper can be applied in aerospace applications to prevent the arc tracking phenomenon, which can lead to catastrophic consequences since there is not a clear protection solution, due to the low levels of leakage current involved in the pre-arc phenomenon.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

The NADPH-Dependent thioredoxin reductase C-2-Cys peroxiredoxin redox system modulates the activity of thioredoxin x in arabidopsis chloroplasts

The chloroplast redox network is composed of a complex set of thioredoxins (Trxs), reduced by ferredoxin (Fdx) via a Fdx-dependent Trx reductase (FTR), and an NADPH-dependent Trx reductase with a joint Trx domain, NTRC, which efficiently reduces 2-Cys peroxiredoxins (2-Cys Prxs). Recently, it was proposed that the redox balance of 2-Cys Prxs maintains the redox state of f-type Trxs, thus allowing the proper redox regulation of Calvin-Benson cycle enzymes such as fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase). Here, we have addressed whether the action of 2-Cys Prxs is also exerted on Trx x. To that end, an Arabidopsis thaliana quadruple mutant, ntrc-trxx-δ "2cp, which is knocked out for NTRC and Trx x, and contains severely decreased levels of 2-Cys Prxs, was generated. In contrast to ntrc-trxx, which showed a severe growth inhibition phenotype and poor photosynthetic performance, the ntrc-trxx-δ "2cp mutant showed a significant recovery of growth rate and photosynthetic efficiency, indicating that the content of 2-Cys Prxs is critical for the performance of plants lacking both NTRC and Trx x. Light-dependent reduction of FBPase was severely impaired in mutant plants lacking NTRC or NTRC plus Trx x, despite the fact that neither NTRC nor Trx x is an effective reductant of this enzyme. However, FBPase reduction was recovered in the ntrc-trxx-δ "2cp mutant. Our results show that the redox balance of 2-Cys Prxs, which is mostly dependent on NTRC, modulates the activity of Trx x in a similar way as f-type Trxs, thus suggesting that the activity of these Trxs is highly interconnected.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad BIO2017-85195-C2-1-