Trabajos de metales (del hierro y sus artífices españoles). Noticia histórica de la cuchillería y de los cuchilleros antiguos en España

Artículo publicado en el Almanaque del Museo de la IndustriaCopia digital. Valladolid : Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, 2009-201

Del vidrio y sus artífices en España /

En portada: Historia del TrabajoForma part del projecte: Biblioteca Digital d'Història de l'Art Hispànic (UAB)Localització de l'original: Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaObra escrita per Manuel Rico y Sinobas (Valladolid 1819-Madrid 1898) dedicada al treball del vidre a Espanya, publicada el 1873. Conté una llista amb els Mestres vidriers que van treballar a Espanya des del segle XVI, amb informació de la seva obra i la seva vida, i amb les ciutats espanyoles on hi havia tallers de fabricació de vidres.Obra escrita por Manuel Rico y Sinobas (Valladolid 1819-Madrid 1898) dedicada al trabajo del vidrio en España, publicada en 1873. Contiene una lista de los Maestros vidrieros que trabajaron en España desde el siglo XVI, con información de su obra y su vida, y con las ciudades españolas donde había talleres de fabricación de vidrios.Book written by Manuel Rico and Sinobas (Valladolid 1819-Madrid 1898) dedicated to the glasswork in Spain, published in 1873. It contains a list of the glasswork masters in Spain since the 16th century, with information on his work and his life, and the Spanish cities with manufacturers of glass

Memoria sobre las causas meteorológico-físicas que producen las constantes sequías de Murcia y Almería : señalando los medios de atenuar sus efectos

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Discurso que sobre los fenómenos de la electricidad atmosférica leyó el Sr. Manuel Rico Sinobas en el acto de su recepción de Académico numerario de la Real Academia de Ciencias

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Discurso inaugural que en la solemne apertura del curso de 1853 en 54, leyó en la Universidad Literaria de Valladolid, el doctor Don Manuel Rico Sinobas, catedrático de física

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Discurso leído en la solemne inauguración del curso académico de 1870 a 1871 en la Universidad Central

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Diccionario de calígrafos españoles

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Some past decision theory models for euro construction model codes and for road drainage in Spain, and modest hints with multi-criteria methods for agro and environmental assurance

The authors are from UPM and are relatively grouped, and all have intervened in different academic or real cases on the subject, at different times as being of different age. With precedent from E. Torroja and A. Páez in Madrid Spain Safety Probabilistic models for concrete about 1957, now in ICOSSAR conferences, author J.M. Antón involved since autumn 1967 for euro-steel construction in CECM produced a math model for independent load superposition reductions, and using it a load coefficient pattern for codes in Rome Feb. 1969, practically adopted for European constructions, giving in JCSS Lisbon Feb. 1974 suggestion of union for concrete-steel-al.. That model uses model for loads like Gumbel type I, for 50 years for one type of load, reduced to 1 year to be added to other independent loads, the sum set in Gumbel theories to 50 years return period, there are parallel models. A complete reliability system was produced, including non linear effects as from buckling, phenomena considered somehow in actual Construction Eurocodes produced from Model Codes. The system was considered by author in CEB in presence of Hydraulic effects from rivers, floods, sea, in reference with actual practice. When redacting a Road Drainage Norm in MOPU Spain an optimization model was realized by authors giving a way to determine the figure of Return Period, 10 to 50 years, for the cases of hydraulic flows to be considered in road drainage. Satisfactory examples were a stream in SE of Spain with Gumbel Type I model and a paper of Ven Te Chow with Mississippi in Keokuk using Gumbel type II, and the model can be modernized with more varied extreme laws. In fact in the MOPU drainage norm the redacting commission acted also as expert to set a table of return periods for elements of road drainage, in fact as a multi-criteria complex decision system. These precedent ideas were used e.g. in wide Codes, indicated in symposia or meetings, but not published in journals in English, and a condensate of contributions of authors is presented. The authors are somehow involved in optimization for hydraulic and agro planning, and give modest hints of intended applications in presence of agro and environment planning as a selection of the criteria and utility functions involved in bayesian, multi-criteria or mixed decision systems. Modest consideration is made of changing in climate, and on the production and commercial systems, and on others as social and financial

Libros del saber de astronomía del rey D. Alfonso X de Castilla

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Fostering English-taught higher education programs in a Spanish university: the "TechEnglish" innovative project

In recent years, coinciding with adjustments to the Bologna process, many European universities have attempted to improve their international profile by increasing course offerings in English. According to the Institute of International Education (IIE), Spain has notably increased its English-taught higher education programs, ranking fifth in the list of European countries by number of English-taught Master's programs in 2013. This article presents the goals and preliminary results of an on-going innovative education project (TechEnglish) that aims to promote course offerings in English at the Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM). The UPM is the oldest and largest of all Technical Universities in Spain. It offers graduate and postgraduate programs that cover all the engineering disciplines as well as architecture. Currently, the UPM has no specific bilingual/multilingual program to promote teaching in English, although there is an Educational Model Whitepaper (with a focus on undergraduate degrees) that promotes the development of activities like an International Semester or a unique shared curriculum. The TechEnglish project is an attempt to foster courses taught in English at 7 UPM Technical Schools, including students and 80 faculty members. Four tasks were identified: (1) to design a university wide framework to increase course offerings, (2) to identify administrative difficulties, (3) to increase visibility of courses offered, and (4) to disseminate the results of the project. First, to design a program we analyzed existing programs at other Spanish universities, and other projects and efforts already under way at the UPM. A total of 13 plans were analyzed and classified according to their relation with students (learning), professors (teaching), administration, course offerings, other actors/institutions within the university (e.g., language departments), funds and projects, dissemination activities, mobility plans and quality control. Second, to begin to identify administrative and organizational difficulties in the implementation of teaching in English, we first estimated the current and potential course offerings at the undergraduate level at the UPM using a survey (student, teacher and administrative demand, level of English and willingness to work in English). Third, to make the course offerings more attractive for both Spanish and international students we examined the way the most prestigious universities in Spain and in Europe try to improve the visibility of their academic offerings in English. Finally, to disseminate the results of the project we created a web page and a workspace on the Moodle education platform and prepared conferences and workshops within the UPM. Preliminary results show that increasing course offerings in English is an important step to promote the internationalization of the University. The main difficulties identified at the UPM were related to how to acknowledge/certify the departments, teachers or students involved in English courses, how students should register for the courses, how departments should split and schedule the courses (Spanish and English), and the lack of qualified personnel. A concerted effort could be made to increase the visibility of English-taught programs offered on-line