Propuesta de zonación polínica para el sector Casablanca (Almenara)-Torreblanca, provincia de Castellón

Proponemos , como hipótesis de trabajo, dos zonas polínicas para el territorio comprendido entre Casablanca (Almenara) y Torreblanca (Fig . 1). La zona A (entre 6280 BP y 2200 BP) presenta elevados porcentajes AP que relacionamos a un paisaje donde la acción antrópica actuaba desde una época anterior a la fOrmación de la turbera. Así , los porcentajes AP estarían relacionados a una dinámi ca de deforestación- reforestación que configura un paisaje tipo l andnam (sen su IVERSEN, 1941). La zona B, entre 2200 BP y la Alta Edad Media (?) , presenta l os el ementos de una agricultura i ntensa, sincrónicamente se asocian los porcentajes de Olea, Vitis y Gramineae tipo Cerealia lo que puede relacionarse a la técnica agrícola denominada arbustrum en los tratatos agrícolas romanos . En este momento la vegetación arbórea del sector sufre un desequilibrio i rreversibleOn propase deux zones pol l iniques 1 comme hypothese de travai l 1 pour l e terr i toire compris entre Casablanca (Almenara) et Torre blanca ( F ig . 1) . La zone A (entre 6280 BP et 2200 BP) presente des i mportantes taux AP repprochés a un paysage oU 11 action humaine agi t depuis quelque te'mps; les hauts pourcentages AP font partie d 1 un systeme de déboisement et boisements constituant un paysage type landnam (sensu IVERSEN, 1941) . La zone B, entre 2200 BP et le r.loyen Age (?) 1 présente tous l es éléments d' une mise e n val eur du territoire tres in tense nommée arbustum dans les trai tés agricoles romaines . Dans cette zone 8 le déboisement du secteur provoque un déséquilibre irreversible du paysage arboréen. A présent, une interpretation climatique des documents polliniques s' avére encere incertain

Cambio tecnológico y organización industrial

Technological Change and Industrial Organization. This paper continues the line of thought about innovations followed in the book, by the same author, "Ensayos Económicos sobre innovación tecnológica", Alianza, 1989. The emphasis lies on the Contribution by Abernathy about the posibilities of industrial renewal thanks to flexible automatization and modular design.Este artículo continúa las reflexiones expuestas en el libro del mismo autor "Ensayos Económicos sobre innovación tecnológica", Alianza, 1989, enfatizando en especial las aportaciones de Abemathy sobre los diferentes patrones de innovación, sus relaciones y las posibilidades de rejuvenecimiento industrial, sobre todo por las posibilidades abiertas por la automatización flexible y el diseño modular con cambios en la proporción costes fijos-costes variables

A ground system for early forest fire detection based on infrared signal processing

This article presents a ground remote automatic system for forest surveillance based on infrared signal processing applied to early fire detection. Advanced techniques, which are based on infrared signal processing, are used in order to process the captured images. With the aim of determining the presence or absence of fire, the system performs the fusion of different detectors that exploit different expected characteristics of a real fire, such as persistence and increase. Theoretical simulations and practical results are presented to corroborate the control of the probability of false alarm. Results in a real environment are also presented to authenticate the accuracy of the operation of the proposed system. In particular, some experiments have been done to evaluate the delay of the system (tens of seconds on average) in detecting a controlled ground fire in a range of 1-10 km. Moreover, temporary evolution of false alarms and true detections are presented to evaluate the long-term performance of the system in a real environment. We have reached a detection probability of 100% at a false alarm rate of around 1 x 10(-9).This work has been supported by Generalitat Valenciana, under grant GVEMP06/001, and by MEC under the FPU programme.Bosch Roig, I.; Gómez, S.; Vergara Domínguez, L. (2011). A ground system for early forest fire detection based on infrared signal processing. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 32(17):4857-4870. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2010.490245S485748703217Arrue, B. C., Ollero, A., & Matinez de Dios, J. R. (2000). An intelligent system for false alarm reduction in infrared forest-fire detection. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 15(3), 64-73. doi:10.1109/5254.846287Bernabeu, P., Vergara, L., Bosh, I., & Igual, J. (2004). A prediction/detection scheme for automatic forest fire surveillance. Digital Signal Processing, 14(5), 481-507. doi:10.1016/j.dsp.2004.06.003Briz, S. (2003). Reduction of false alarm rate in automatic forest fire infrared surveillance systems. Remote Sensing of Environment, 86(1), 19-29. doi:10.1016/s0034-4257(03)00064-6Pastor, E. (2003). Mathematical models and calculation systems for the study of wildland fire behaviour. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 29(2), 139-153. doi:10.1016/s0360-1285(03)00017-0Vergara, L., & Bernabeu, P. (2000). Automatic signal detection applied to fire control by infrared digital signal processing. Signal Processing, 80(4), 659-669. doi:10.1016/s0165-1684(99)00159-0Vergara, L., & Bernabeu, P. (2001). Simple approach to nonlinear prediction. Electronics Letters, 37(14), 926. doi:10.1049/el:20010616Vicente, J., & Guillemant, P. (2002). An image processing technique for automatically detecting forest fire. International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 41(12), 1113-1120. doi:10.1016/s1290-0729(02)01397-

Spatial genetic structure in the saddled sea bream (Oblada melanura [Linnaeus, 1758]) suggests multi-scaled patterns of connectivity between protected and unprotected areas in the Western Mediterranean Sea

Marine protected areas (MPAs) and networks of MPAs are advocated worldwide for the achievement of marine conservation objectives. Although the knowledge about population connectivity is considered fundamental for the optimal design of MPAs and networks, the amount of information available for the Mediterranean Sea is currently scarce. We investigated the genetic structure of the saddled sea bream ( Oblada melanura) and the level of genetic connectivity between protected and unprotected locations, using a set of 11 microsatellite loci. Spatial patterns of population differentiation were assessed locally (50-100 km) and regionally (500-1000 km), considering three MPAs of the Western Mediterranean Sea. All values of genetic differentiation between locations (Fst and Jost's D) were non-significant after Bonferroni correction, indicating that, at a relatively small spatial scale, protected locations were in general well connected with non-protected ones. On the other hand, at the regional scale, discriminant analysis of principal components revealed the presence of a subtle pattern of genetic heterogeneity that reflects the geography and the main oceanographic features (currents and barriers) of the study area. This genetic pattern could be a consequence of different processes acting at different spatial and temporal scales among which the presence of admixed populations, large population sizes and species dispersal capacity, could play a major role. These outcomes can have important implications for the conservation biology and fishery management of the saddled sea bream and provide useful information for genetic population studies of other coastal fishes in the Western Mediterranean Sea

Anomaly and Condensate in the Light-Cone Schwinger Model

The axial anomaly and fermion condensate in the light cone Schwinger model are studied following path integral methods. This formalism allows for a simple and direct calculation for these and other vacuum dependent phenomena.Comment: 10pp, Revte

Using the Generic Synteny Browser (GBrowse_syn)

Genome Browsers are software that allow the user to view genome annotations in the context of a reference sequence, such as a chromosome, contig, scaffold, etc. The Generic Genome Browser (GBrowse) is an open-source genome browser package developed as part of the Generic Model Database Project (see UNIT ; Stein et al., 2002). The increasing number of sequenced genomes has led to a corresponding growth in the field of comparative genomics, which requires methods to view and compare multiple genomes. Using the same software framework as GBrowse, the Generic Synteny Browser (GBrowse_syn) allows the comparison of colinear regions of multiple genomes using the familiar GBrowse-style Web page. Like GBrowse, GBrowse_syn can be configured to display any organism, and is currently the synteny browser used for model organisms such as C. elegans (WormBase; http://www.wormbase.org; see UNIT 1.8) and Arabidopsis (TAIR; http://www.arabidopsis.org; see UNIT 1.1). GBrowse_syn is part of the GBrowse software package and can be downloaded from the Web and run on any Unix-like operating system, such as Linux, Solaris, or MacOS X. GBrowse_syn is still under active development. This unit will cover installation and configuration as part of the current stable version of GBrowse (v. 1.71)

Optically probing symmetry breaking in the chiral magnet Cu2OSeO3

We report on the linear optical properties of the chiral magnet Cu2OSeO3, specifically associated with the absence of inversion symmetry, the chiral crystallographic structure, and magnetic order. Through spectroscopic ellipsometry, we observe local crystal-field excitations below the charge-transfer gap. These crystal-field excitations are optically allowed due to the lack of inversion symmetry at the Cu sites. Optical polarization rotation measurements were used to study the structural chirality and magnetic order. The temperature dependence of the natural optical rotation, originating in the chiral crystal structure, provides evidence for a finite magneto-electric effect in the helimagnetic phase. We find a large magneto-optical susceptibility on the order of V(540nm)~10^4 rad/(T*m) in the helimagnetic phase and a maximum Faraday rotation of ~165deg/mm in the ferrimagnetic phase. The large value of V can be explained by considering spin cluster formation and the relative ease of domain reorientation in this metamagnetic material. The magneto-optical activity allows us to map the magnetic phase diagram, including the skyrmion lattice phase. In addition to this, we probe and discuss the nature of the various magnetic phase transitions in Cu2OSeO3.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figure