Consideraciones a la nueva regulación de la ordenación del tiempo de trabajo en el contrato a tiempo parcial: de cómo la realidad puede dinamitar las estructuras legales

El artículo parte de una descripción de las nuevas modificaciones implementadas en el contrato a tiempo parcial, tras la entrada en vigor del Real Decreto-ley 16/2013, para analizar algunos de los problemas prácticos que se pueden suscitar en las empresas, especialmente como consecuencia de la pérdida de control del trabajador sobre sus tiempos de vida y llamar la atención sobre la necesidad de que la aplicación de la norma no relaje la tensión que debe mantenerse sobre la calidad de los sistemas organizativos en las empresas

LA TUTELA FAMILIAR EN LOS PROCESOS DE RESTRUCTURACIÓN EMPRESARIAL: COMENTARIO A LA STSJ DE MADRID DE 3 DE FEBRERO DE 2014

This paper discusses the implementation of the right to non-discrimination based on gender in the context of internal flexibility measures, and in particular, in relation to cases of geographical mobility. It also delves into the caution that employers must follow when making certain restructuring decisions, to adequately manage potential legal risks in the field of protection of fundamental rights.El comentario analiza la aplicación del derecho a la no discriminación por razón de género en el marco de las medidas de flexibilidad interna y, en particular, en relación con los supuestos de movilidad geográfica. Profundiza sobre las cautelas que deben seguir los empresarios a la hora de tomar determinadas decisiones de restructuración, para gestionar adecuadamente los riesgos legales potenciales en el ámbito de la tutela de derechos fundamentales

Comparing MapReduce and pipeline implementations for counting triangles

A common method to define a parallel solution for a computational problem consists in finding a way to use the Divide and Conquer paradigm in order to have processors acting on its own data and scheduled in a parallel fashion. MapReduce is a programming model that follows this paradigm, and allows for the definition of efficient solutions by both decomposing a problem into steps on subsets of the input data and combining the results of each step to produce final results. Albeit used for the implementation of a wide variety of computational problems, MapReduce performance can be negatively affected whenever the replication factor grows or the size of the input is larger than the resources available at each processor. In this paper we show an alternative approach to implement the Divide and Conquer paradigm, named dynamic pipeline. The main features of dynamic pipelines are illustrated on a parallel implementation of the well-known problem of counting triangles in a graph. This problem is especially interesting either when the input graph does not fit in memory or is dynamically generated. To evaluate the properties of pipeline, a dynamic pipeline of processes and an ad-hoc version of MapReduce are implemented in the language Go, exploiting its ability to deal with channels and spawned processes. An empirical evaluation is conducted on graphs of different topologies, sizes, and densities. Observed results suggest that dynamic pipelines allows for an efficient implementation of the problem of counting triangles in a graph, particularly, in dense and large graphs, drastically reducing the execution time with respect to the MapReduce implementation.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

MapReduce vs. pipelining counting triangles

In this paper we follow an alternative approach named pipeline, to implement a parallel implementation of the well-known problem of counting triangles in a graph. This problem is especially interesting either when the input graph does not fit in memory or is dynamically generated. To be concrete, we implement a dynamic pipeline of processes and an ad-hoc MapReduce version using the language Go. We explote the ability of Go language to deal with channels and spawned processes. An empirical evaluation is conducted on graphs of different size and density. Observed results suggest that pipeline allows for the implementation of an efficient solution of the problem of counting triangles in a graph, particularly, in dense and large graphs, drastically reducing the execution time with respect to the MapReduce implementation.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Influence of Cardiorespiratory Clinical Placements on the Specialty Interest of Physiotherapy Students

Clinical placements are an important part of health students’ training. Whilst much value is placed on the clinical environment as a place to learn, there is a paucity of direct evidence about its effectiveness. The aim of this study was to compare the competence, importance, and interest in cardiorespiratory physiotherapy of students before and after one month of clinical practice. A preand post-placement questionnaire about students’ interest in different physiotherapy subspecialties was used. The students with a cardiorespiratory clinical placement showed a significant change in their perception about the importance of the cardiorespiratory specialty (0.348 1.01; p < 0.001), while no significant change was observed in the students without cardiorespiratory placement (-0.014 0.825; p = 0.883). The presence or absence of clinical placements seems to have a definitive impact on students’ choice of a specialty. This implies the need for developing a set of clinical placements in all the subareas of physiotherapy in order to give undergraduate students the opportunity to make a better decision