A Multigrid Optimization Algorithm for the Numerical Solution of Quasilinear Variational Inequalities Involving the pp-Laplacian

In this paper we propose a multigrid optimization algorithm (MG/OPT) for the numerical solution of a class of quasilinear variational inequalities of the second kind. This approach is enabled by the fact that the solution of the variational inequality is given by the minimizer of a nonsmooth energy functional, involving the $p$-Laplace operator. We propose a Huber regularization of the functional and a finite element discretization for the problem. Further, we analyze the regularity of the discretized energy functional, and we are able to prove that its Jacobian is slantly differentiable. This regularity property is useful to analyze the convergence of the MG/OPT algorithm. In fact, we demostrate that the algorithm is globally convergent by using a mean value theorem for semismooth functions. Finally, we apply the MG/OPT algorithm to the numerical simulation of the viscoplastic flow of Bingham, Casson and Herschel-Bulkley fluids in a pipe. Several experiments are carried out to show the efficiency of the proposed algorithm when solving this kind of fluid mechanics problems

Adapting to change: Time for climate resilience and a new adaptation strategy. EPC Issue Paper 5 March 2020

The dramatic effects of climate change are being felt across the European continent and the world. Considering how sluggish and unsuccessful the world has been in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the impacts will become long-lasting scars. Even implementing radical climate mitigation now would be insufficient in addressing the economic, societal and environmental implications of climate change, which are expected to only intensify in the years to come. This means climate mitigation must go hand in hand with the adaptation efforts recognised in the Paris Agreement. And although the damages of climate change are usually localised and adaptation measures often depend on local specificities, given the interconnections between ecosystems, people and economies in a globalised world there are strong reasons for European Union (EU) member states to join forces, pool risk and cooperate across borders. Sharing information, good practices, experiences and resources to strengthen resilience and enhance adaptive capacity makes sense economically, environmentally and socially. The European Commission’s 2013 Adaptation Strategy is the first attempt to set EU-wide adaptation and climate resilience and could be considered novel in that it tried to mainstream adaptation goals into relevant legislation, instruments and funds. It was not very proactive, however. It also lacked long-term perspective, failed to put the adaptation file high on the political agenda, was under resourced, and suffered from knowledge gaps and silo thinking. The Commission’s European Green Deal proposal, which has been presented as a major step forward to the goal of Europe becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent, suggests that the Commission will adopt a new EU strategy on adaptation to climate within the first two years of its mandate (2020-2021). In light of the risks climate change poses to ecosystems, societies and the economy (through inter alia the vulnerability of the supply chain to climate change and its potential failure to provide services to consumers), adaptation should take a prominent role alongside mitigation in the EU’s political climate agenda. Respecting the division of treaty competences, there are important areas where EU-wide action and support could foster the continent’s resilience to climate change. The European Policy Centre (EPC) project “Building a climate-resilient Europe”, which has culminated in this Issue Paper, has identified the following: (i) the ability to convert science-based knowledge into preventive action and responsible behaviour, thus filling the information gap; (ii) the need to close the protection gap through better risk management and risk sharing; (iii) the necessity to adopt nature-based infrastructural solutions widely and tackle the grey infrastructure bias; and (iv) the need to address the funding and investment gap. This Issue Paper aims to help inform the upcoming EU Adaptation Strategy and, by extension, strengthen the EU’s resilience to climate change. To that end, the authors make a call for the EU to mainstream adaptation and shift its focus from reacting to disasters to a more proactive approach that prioritises prevention, risk reduction and resilience building. In doing so, the EU must ensure fairness and distributive justice while striving for climate change mitigation and protecting the environment and biodiversity. To succeed, the new EU Adaptation Strategy will need to address specific challenges related to the information, protection, funding and investment gaps; and the grey infrastructure bias. To tackle and address those challenges, this Paper proposes 17 solutions outlined in Table 1 (see page 6)

Mujeres de azul: la imagen femenina del franquismo

Actas de las Primeras Jornadas Imagen, Cultura y Tecnología celebradas del 1 al 5 de julio de 2002 en la Universidad Carlos III de Madri

Evil women. The femenine deformation like a power's expression among the Civil War and the Franco's Dictatorship

This report shows the different types of women existing in the thirties and the beginning of the Franco years, directed towards noticing how the dominant idea made use of them on each period, establishing a feminine pattern which exciuded an important group of women. The women were punished to live outside cause of their autonomy and political ideology, and were also caricaturised from the ruling misogyny and homophobia. So sexuality was transformed to the way to direct most of the criticisms, describing as immoral, prostitutes and gays and conferring job whoever simply refused the instructions of the authority. However, each deviation from domesticity —and separate spheres— ideas, as in the republic as in the dictatorship, would suffer the biggest traditionalist social sentence, fact that exceptionally included the named «red» and «blue» women, liberal and religious in the same group: the singles.En el artículo se presentan distintas tipologías de mujeres existentes en los años treinta y la primera etapa de la dictadura franquista, para observar cómo el discurso dominante en cada momento hizo uso de ellas, al establecer un modelo femenino del que se desprendía un gran conjunto de excluidas. Las mujeres castigadas a vivir en los márgenes por su autonomía e ideología política, fueron también caricaturizadas por la misoginia y homofobia imperantes. La sexualidad fue el medio a través del que canalizar la mayoría de las críticas, calificando de inmorales, a las prostitutas y homosexuales, y otorgando «oficio» a quienes simplemente se resistían a los dictámenes del poder. No obstante, cualquier desviación del esquema de la domesticidad y las esferas separadas, tanto en la República como la dictadura, sufriría la condena social más tradicionalista, hecho que excepcionalmente incluía a «rojas» y «azules», liberales y religiosas, en un mismo «saco»: el de la soltería

Women’s Association and Mobilization (19th and 20th Centuries)

Plantear un estado de la cuestión sobre el asociacionismo de las mujeres y su movilización social en época contemporánea puede resultar un objeto de estudio demasiado ambicioso, por la extensión temporal y la variedad de frentes que abordar. De ahí que en este monográfico hayamos pensado ofrecer una visión amplia de los trabajos que se están llevando a cabo en diversas universidades nacionales e internacionales, sin pretensión de abarcarlo todo, pero sí de ofrecer una buena muestra de las preocupaciones actuales de las historiadoras/es especializadas en la materia

The Russian Woman in the imaginary of the Friends and Enemies of the Soviet Union (1905-1945)

En este artículo abordaremos tanto un estado de la cuestión sobre el papel de las mujeres rusas en la Revolución de 1917, como la propaganda que circuló en España sobre su situación en el Estado comunista. En este sentido, veremos cuáles fueron las principales publicaciones, las afiliadas a la Asociación de Amigos de la Unión Soviética entre 1933 y 1938, así como sus vínculos personales con Rusia, o qué aspectos interesaban a nivel legislativo, laboral, familiar o sexual sobre lo que el imaginario entendía cómo «nueva mujer», «amor libre», etc., dentro de la dialéctica fascismo/antifascismo. Por otra parte, veremos cómo el bando franquista, la dictadura después y especialmente la Sección Femenina de Falange se encargaron de denostar a esas «madres desnaturalizadas» tras el telón de acero y caricaturizarlas, al menos hasta el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, como representación de la Anti-España y la No-Mujer.In this article, we review the current knowledge on the role of Russian women in the Revolution of 1917 and the propaganda that circulated in Spain about their situation in the Communist State. This involves an analysis of the main publications, affiliated to the Association of Friends of the Soviet Union between 1933 and 1938, their personal links with Russia and the aspects of interest in legislative, labor, family and sexual areas regarding the imaginary's understanding of the "new woman", "free love", etc., within the dialectic fascism/antifascism. This is supplemented by an exploration of how Francoist supporters, the dictatorship and especially the Feminine Section of the Phalange took it upon themselves to insult these "denatured mothers" behind the iron curtain, caricaturing them, at least until the end of the Second World War, as an Anti-Spain and No-Woman representation

Opus Dei women (1930-1980): Gender, class and faith

Este artículo aborda un colectivo de mujeres tan significativo como poco conocido. La asociación laica creada por José María Escrivá de Balaguer en 1928 no dispuso de sección femenina hasta un simbólico 14 de febrero de 1930. Desde entonces las socias de “la Obra” se cuentan por miles, aunque también son muchas las que han decidido abandonarla. En estas páginas recorreremos su historia a través de fuentes documentales antes reservadas y la bibliografía existente. Analizaremos su estatus interno en el Opus Dei y externo en la vida secular, a través de las categorías de clase y género, tratando de diferenciarlas de las miembros de otras organizaciones similares. Por último, nos plantearemos los atractivos y revulsivos que su libro fundacional Camino y los estatutos o constituciones de la Obra ofrecieron para ellas, teniendo sus propios testimonios como referencia.This article addresses a collective of women as significant as little known. The secular association created by José María Escrivá de Balaguer in 1928 did not have a feminine section until February 14, 1930. Since then, the members of "la Obra" count by thousands, although there are also many who have decided to abandon it. In these pages we will go through its history through documentary sources before reserved and bibliography. We will analyze their internal status in Opus Dei and external in secular life, through class and gender categories, trying to differentiate them from members of other similar organizations. Finally, we will consider the attractions and revulsives that “The Father”, his fundational book Camino and La Obra´s statutes or constitutions offered for them, based on their testimonies as a reference

Fictionalising Psychoanalysis: Roger Kennedy´s Couch Tales: Short Stories (2009)

Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura inglesas. Curso 2018-2019This essay will approach "Couch Tales: Short Stories" by Roger Kennedy from a psychoanalytical point of view and how psychoanysis as a therapy is presented in a fictional work. The author, himself a practicing psychoanalyst, presents a series of cases of some patients and their private, emotional life as they attend therapy. These tales are based on his own experience as a therapist althogh both the stories and the psychoanalyst are fictional, a fact that is remarked in the work's "Prologue". In each case, both the therapist and the secondary characters' behavior, speech and thought alow us to witness the mental processes of some of the characters and the therapist's interpretation of those as part of the fiction itself to which we, readers, contribute our interpretation in each case. What is said and how it is, or can be, said/understood is essential for this study. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytical theory will work as my fundamental theoretical tool for a detailed reading of these short stories. I will also have recourse to the contributions of later theorists such Jacques Lacan to complet the set of Freudian concepts. The interest of how emotional life is expressed in literary forms is the general frame and my inspiration to embark on this research proje

Plagiarism in academic writing: the case of EFL students in higher education.

Nowadays, undergraduates have access to information faster and easier because of the Internet. This phenomenon has facilitated dishonesty practices among students, to mention one: Academic plagiarism. This concept is derived from a lack of Academic Integrity. Academic Integrity and Plagiarism vary from different cultures. In fact, according to McDonnell (2004), undergraduates might plagiarize because of different factors, to mention one: lack of academic writing skills (especially non-English native speakers). This action research project took place at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) in San Nicolás de Los Garza, Nuevo León. The participants are 38 English as Foreign Language (EFL) undergraduates of 10th semester from the major of Sciences of language. This didactic proposal aims at finding out if there is any relationship between the students’ level of plagiarism, lack of academic writing skills, and plagiarism awareness. The participants answered a validated Likert-scale survey to discover how much they know about plagiarism, and then they were asked to write an essay as part of their academic program to verify their actual level of plagiarism and academic writing skills. The data gathered were analyzed through an SPSS program to get the correlation between the variables (lack of academic writing and plagiarism). The results demonstrated that students are aware of plagiarism. Even though, SPSS showed that the lack of academic writing skills is one of the factors that lead undergraduates to do plagiarism. Therefore, this proposal will benefit undergraduates to be aware of their level of plagiarism by educating professors about the importance of academic integrity and providing them with tools that might help detect academic dishonesty practices

Desarrollo de una estrategia de comunicación corporativa, alineada a la estrategia organizacional, con el fin de mejorar clima organizacional en la compañía GE OIL & GAS

52 Páginas.Esta investigación, tiene como objetivo buscar el desarrollo de una estrategia de comunicación, enfocada en el desarrollo de un programa de intervención en las diferentes áreas de la organización, que generan un impacto en diferentes variables correlacionadas con el clima y la cultura organizacional. El impacto que pueden llegar a tener herramientas de comunicación en el desarrollo corporativo, tienen una incidencia significativa en todos los aspectos de la organización reflejándose finalmente en el éxito del negocio y el planes de acción que permitan minimizar riesgos a partir de elementos que contribuyan a generar cambios positivos en la organización