Creació d'eines per a la gestió de la ventilació en ArcGIS

La funció principal del sistema de ventilació en una activitat subterrània és la proveir d’aire fresc les zones necessàries, i així diluir els gasos nocius, regular la temperatura i assegurar unes condicions bones de treball. El correcte funcionament de la ventilació requereix una important despesa econòmica, tant en el manteniment de les instal·lacions i equips, com en el consum energètic del qual depenen. A més a més, la correcte interpretació, comprensió i anticipació en el dia a dia de l’explotació determinaran l’èxit del sistema de ventilació. Així doncs, el processament de dades de manera digital, permet aconseguir un model de ventilació més ajustat i contrastat en menys temps. En el present projecte es desenvolupen eines que ajuden a la consulta, gestió, interpretació i visualització de dades, que configuren la base més important del disseny i la simulació

Duty to God/my Dharma/Allah/Waheguru: diverse youthful religiosities and the politics and performance of informal worship

This article was published in the journal, Social and Cultural Geography [© Taylor & Francis] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2012.698749This paper draws on a case study of the Scout Movement in the UK to explore the everyday, informal expressions of ‘worship’ by young people that occur outside of ‘designated’ religious spaces and the politics of these performances over time. In analysing the explicit geographies of how young people in UK scouting perform their ‘duty to God’ (or Dharma and so forth), it is argued that a more expanded concept of everyday and embodied worship is needed. This paper also attends to recent calls for more critical historical geographies of religion, drawing on archival data to examine the organisation's relationship with religion over time and in doing so contributes new insights into the production of youthful religiosities and re-thinking their designated domains

Velocity-space sensitivity of the time-of-flight neutron spectrometer at JET

The velocity-space sensitivities of fast-ion diagnostics are often described by so-called weight functions. Recently, we formulated weight functions showing the velocity-space sensitivity of the often dominant beam-target part of neutron energy spectra. These weight functions for neutron emission spectrometry (NES) are independent of the particular NES diagnostic. Here we apply these NES weight functions to the time-of-flight spectrometer TOFOR at JET. By taking the instrumental response function of TOFOR into account, we calculate time-of-flight NES weight functions that enable us to directly determine the velocity-space sensitivity of a given part of a measured time-of-flight spectrum from TOFOR

Relationship of edge localized mode burst times with divertor flux loop signal phase in JET

A phase relationship is identified between sequential edge localized modes (ELMs) occurrence times in a set of H-mode tokamak plasmas to the voltage measured in full flux azimuthal loops in the divertor region. We focus on plasmas in the Joint European Torus where a steady H-mode is sustained over several seconds, during which ELMs are observed in the Be II emission at the divertor. The ELMs analysed arise from intrinsic ELMing, in that there is no deliberate intent to control the ELMing process by external means. We use ELM timings derived from the Be II signal to perform direct time domain analysis of the full flux loop VLD2 and VLD3 signals, which provide a high cadence global measurement proportional to the voltage induced by changes in poloidal magnetic flux. Specifically, we examine how the time interval between pairs of successive ELMs is linked to the time-evolving phase of the full flux loop signals. Each ELM produces a clear early pulse in the full flux loop signals, whose peak time is used to condition our analysis. The arrival time of the following ELM, relative to this pulse, is found to fall into one of two categories: (i) prompt ELMs, which are directly paced by the initial response seen in the flux loop signals; and (ii) all other ELMs, which occur after the initial response of the full flux loop signals has decayed in amplitude. The times at which ELMs in category (ii) occur, relative to the first ELM of the pair, are clustered at times when the instantaneous phase of the full flux loop signal is close to its value at the time of the first ELM

Actualització i innovació pedagògiques: el doble salt que ha de fer el sistema educatiu

Els models d’ensenyament al llarg de la història han anat evolucionant. Adaptar-se als contextos i a les exigències de la societat és una obligació si el que es vol és crear una ciutadania competent i crítica. Catalunya ha tingut sempre una pulsió per impulsar projectes de renovació o modernització del sistema educatiu; ara ens trobem en un d’aquests moments. Plantejaments com els d’Escola Nova 21 recullen el bagatge dels moviments modernitzadors de principis del segle XX amb la voluntat de posar l’alumnat al centre de tot i deixar enrere concepcions memorístiques i repetitives de l’educació