United States and Europe against Terrorism of Fundamentalist Origin: Legal Measures and the Shadow of Populism

The United States was the first country to suffer from terrorism of Islamic fundamentalist origin in 2001. Subsequently, several European countries have suffered attacks of the same origin. Legal measures have been enacted on both sides of the Atlantic to combat it. These attacks, and the presence of new religious denominations in some countries, have also led to the increase of populist trends in these territories. This article examines the relationship between Law, politics and populism in the United States and in the European context

Religious freedom in covid-19 pandemic times

This paper aims to explain the legal measures enacted by the European Union and the European countries –and further references to other ones- about the necessity of containing covid-19 spread. The effects of those measures on the religious freedom are also studied, and also the reaction of religious denomination

Single-atom control of the optoelectronic response in sub-nanometric cavities

By means of ab-initio time dependent density functional theory calculations carried out on an prototypical hybrid plasmonic device (two metallic nanoparticles bridged by a one-atom junction), we demonstrate the strong interplay between photoinduced excitation of localized surface plasmons and electron transport through the single atom. Such an interplay is remarkably sensitive to the atomic orbitals of the junction. Therefore, we show the possibility of a twofold tuning (plasmonic response and photoinduced current across the juntion) just by changing a single atom in the device.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure

A RELAÇÃO ENTRE A LIBERDADE DE EXPRESSÃO E A LIBERDADE RELIGIOSA NO CONSELHO DE EUROPA

Este estudio analiza la evolución que ha habido en la relación entre la libertad de expresión y la libertad religiosa en el ámbito internacional. Se centra, de modo especial, en el ámbito del Consejo de Europa y la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos. Se proponen soluciones para lograr una mayor armonización del ejercicio de esos derechos, evitando así lesiones indebidas de cada uno de ellos

Evaluación del conocimiento pedagógico del contenido para enseñar matemáticas elementales

Se presenta un estudio que permitió desarrollar un instrumento para evaluar una componente del conocimiento pedagógico del contenido para enseñar matemáticas: el conocimiento del profesor acerca de cómo aprenden matemáticas los alumnos. Esta componente ha sido descrita teóricamente por otros autores, pero no había podido ser evaluada de manera fiable en pruebas masivas. En los resultados de la aplicación del instrumento a diferentes grupos de personas, se detectan aspectos del conocimiento que el conocimiento disciplinar no explica, aunque este los afecta. Este tipo de conocimiento se encuentra especialmente en profesores de educación primaria con mención en matemáticas tanto en ejercicio como en formación.We present a study that allowed for the development of an instrument to assess a component of pedagogical content knowledge to teach mathematics: the teacher's knowledge about how students learn mathematics. This component has been described theoretically by other authors but could not be assessed reliably in mass testing. In the outcome of applying the instrument to different groups of people, we identify certain aspects of knowledge that cannot be explained by the disciplinary knowledge, although is affected by it. This kind of knowledge is detected particularly in primary school teachers with specialization in mathematics, both in service and in training