Managing in Brazil a guide for American managers

As the Brazilian economy is growing, more and more companies are looking to open businesses in Brazil. This may require some managers to hire Brazilian employees. By using the Hofstede and GLOBE studies, as well as other cultural traits, I have gathered a significant amount of knowledge on the Brazilian culture. I compared these traits to the American culture to find what American managers should focus on changing to best manage Brazilian employees. This guide determined techniques that American managers should follow when traveling to Brazil. In addition I have added other traits that American managers should look into before choosing to work with Brazilian companies. After reading this Thesis, managers should be able to manage Brazilian employees more effectively

Quantum scalar fields in the half-line. A heat kernel/zeta function approach

In this paper we shall study vacuum fluctuations of a single scalar field with Dirichlet boundary conditions in a finite but very long line. The spectral heat kernel, the heat partition function and the spectral zeta function are calculated in terms of Riemann Theta functions, the error function, and hypergeometric PFQ functions.Comment: Latex file, 11 pages, 7 figure

The Residual Spaces of Developmental Urbanism as Opportunity for Green Cities and Improvement of Human Wellbeing

City densification and greening are two priority urban-policy objectives, for the coming years, aimed at making cities more resilient to climate change, slowing the spread of urbanization and improving the quality of life in cities. These are sometimes contradictory objectives that require fine and deep analysis to create approaches and methods that combine them. The most recent research has presented so-called small urban green spaces (SUGSs) as a viable alternative to achieve this double objective. This was the starting point of this research, which used GIS digital analysis and microscale fieldwork to study the possibilities of greening an excessively dense and low-quality urban space in the city of Pamplona (Spain). The results thereof showed that the urban structure of this neighbourhood contains a large number of small spaces with no specific use or function—residual, surface and vertical spaces—and that are simply undefined remnants between buildings and streets, or party walls that were never built. Only these surface spaces occupy a total area that is twice the size of the existing green spaces. Based on these results, this work explores the possibility of increasing the green areas of the neighbourhood through new SUGSs and the creation of a green corridor that increases environmental and social connectivity and the quality of life in the studied space.This research was supported by the EKOPOL research group, funded in 2022 by the Department of Universities and Research of the Basque Government with the project “Iraunkortasunerako bideak”-”Ecosocial Transition for Sustainability” IT1567-22. This research was funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Agencia Estatal de Investigación MCIN, Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento 2021-PID2021-128356NB-I00-, Research Project: Proposal for institutional and community design for integrated territorial planning in the transition to a sustainable economy

Quantum fluctuations around low-dimensional topological defects

In these Lectures a method is described to analyze the effect of quantum fluctuations on topological defect backgrounds up to the one-loop level. The method is based on the spectral heat kernel/zeta function regularization procedure, and it is first applied to various types of kinks arising in several deformed linear and non-linear sigma models with different numbers of scalar fields. In the second part, the same conceptual framework is constructed for the topological solitons of the planar semilocal Abelian Higgs model, built from a doublet of complex scalar fields and one U(1) gauge field.Comment: 63 pages, 14 figures, expanded version of two lectures given by J.M.G. in 5th International School on Field Theory and Gravitation, Cuiaba, Brazi

Desarrollo de una interfaz gráfica con pantalla táctil para el manejo de un sistema robótico

El objetivo de este proyecto fin de carrera es la creación de una aplicación gráfica para una pantalla táctil. En esta aplicación se introducirán los datos y controles necesarios para el manejo de un brazo robótico con nanotecnología.Ingeniería Técnica en Informática de GestiónKudeaketa Informatikako Ingeniaritza Tekniko

Urban Green Infrastructure as a Strategy to Address Urban Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. A Case Study of Milagrosa (Pamplona)

Green Infrastructure (GI) has gained importance in recent years as it has been revealed as an essential piece to face the environmental problem generated by the incessant growth of urbanization, loss of biodiversity, and climate change. In this vein, the results of a research aimed at investigating the challenges posed by the implementation of the GI in the usual compact urban spaces in the cities of the Mediterranean area are presented, based on the analysis of indicators on green spaces in the Spanish city of Pamplona. A comparative analysis of the indicators (green spaces and trees) in the city’s neighbourhoods using GIS tools reveals the high intra-urban inequalities as well as the existence of, particularly, underfunded areas. The morphological analysis of one of the underfunded spaces (La Milagrosa neighbourhood) also shows that the narrowness of the road and the shortage of green spaces constitute obstacles that must be addressed from the planning tools of the GI. The results allow us to reflect on the importance of the scale of analysis in the planning processes of the UGI (Urban Green Infrastructure) and on neighbourhood the suitability of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) as an alternative for the design and implementation of the UGI.This research was funded by EKOPOL research group, benefited in 2019 from the recognition and grant from the Basque Government’s Department of Universities and Research, with the project “Iraunkortasunerako bideak”—“Ecosocial Transition for Sustainability” (IT1365-19). The publication fees of the paper have been funded by the organization of the 12th European Congress on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Architecture and Urbanism (EESAP 12) and the 5th International Congress of Advanced Construction (CICA 5), through a prize awarded to the material of this publication in recognition of the best communication submitted to the congress