Just transitions to renewables in mining areas: Local system dynamics

[EN] In the field of just energy transitions, local scales have been relegated and limited to qualitative approaches with non-specific methods by observation. Local quantitative approaches have gained popularity but remain far from the topic of just transitions and elude rural areas, probably because of data scarcity. Amid the quantitative panoply, system dynamics is attracting greater attention to alleviate such data shortages. Yet, despite the claim for holistic approaches, its application is scarce in rural contexts. This research presents an intuitive, scalable, and easily adaptable modelling exercise through system dynamics to estimate the effects on net employment and land availability of restructuring towards renewable energy sources in the rural mining areas of León (Spain), presenting possible lessons and policy implications for local and rural just transitions. A partially just transition is feasible in the short term, but a properly just transition is three decades late. The most optimistic projections suggest the potential creation of around five thousand jobs per zone, which is significantly fewer than the approximately forty-five thousand jobs that were recorded during the peak years of coal mining exploitation. Renewables fail to keep a young, qualified population in the areas, therefore showing the need to potentiate alternative activities, as well as causing sensitive trade-offs between land requirements and potential net employment. Land reductions for renewable projects vary depending on the scenario, ranging from 6 % to 17 %. This range poses a threat to the ecological integrity of these areas.S

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Hermes, el dios que envejece. Un ejemplo: La Ilíada

El autor, a través del caso concreto de las traducciones de la Ilíada al castellano, muestra cómo las traducciones 'envejecen' y necesitan ser reemplazadas, periódicamente, por otras nuevas. Pero también advierte que, paradójicamente, las nuevas traducciones persiguen cierto aire de antigüedad. Así, frente al involuntario 'envejecimiento' de aquéllas, encontramos el voluntario de éstas. Aquí es donde el autor trata de desarrollar el concepto de 'envejecimiento' e intenta delimitar los ámbitos de ambos tipos de 'envejecimiento'. El título, mediante una metáfora, apunta a dicha paradoja. Secundariamente, queda actualizado el elenco de las traducciones de la Ilíada al castellanoThe author, by judging the concrete case of the translators of the Iliad into Spanish, shows how translations become old and have to be replaced by modern ones. But the also realizes that, paradoxically, these ones pursue a certain appearance of antiquity. So, besides the involuntary 'ageing' of old translations we find a voluntary 'ageing' in the modern ones. Here is where the author tries to develop the concept of 'ageing' and tries to delimitate the areas of both sorts of 'ageing'. The title, metaphorically, refers to this paradox. An up-to-date list of the translations of the Iliad into Spanish is also established in this wor

Histriones novohispanos del siglo XVI : indios, militares, frailes y comediantes

El propósito de este trabajo es distinguir, a través de un recorrido documental, a los histriones novohispanos que participaron en las primeras manifestaciones teatrales en tierras mexicanas y, a la par, la manera en que se apropiaron de sus propios espacios de representación. El artículo desarrolla un ejercicio de identificación y de denominación en donde podamos identificar los eventos teatrales o espectaculares que se fueron generando en los primeros años de vida de la Nueva España del siglo xvi y, dentro de ellos, la participación de los primeros histriones de nuestra historia teatral mexicana.Based on a review of contemporary documents and literature, this article seeks to identify the actors and performers who took part in the first theatrical manifestations of 16th century colonial Mexico and to describe how they succeeded in appropriating their own performance spaces. The article analyzes the theatrical representations and performances that characterized the early years of colonial Mexico and describes the participation and role of their actors, the first actors in the history of Mexican theatre

Els fetus pateixen els efectes de la nicotina

El consum de tabac durant l'embaràs exposa al fetus a possibles efectes deleteris de la nicotina que poden afectar els resultats perinatals i la salut del nen. La nicotina sembla afectar el desenvolupament neurològic normal del fetus al principi de la vida. A més, s'ha observat que l'exposició del fetus dins de l'úter al consum de tabac per part de la mare podria induir una síndrome d'abstinència neonatal a la nicotina.El consumo de tabaco durante el embarazo expone al feto a posibles efectos dañinos de la nicotina que pueden afectar a los resultados perinatales y a la salud del niño. La nicotina parece afectar el desarrollo neurológico normal del feto al principio de la vida. Además, se ha observado que la exposición del feto, dentro del útero, al consumo de tabaco por parte de la madre podría inducir un síndrome de abstinencia neonatal a la nicotina

Welfare regimes as enablers of just energy transitions: Revisiting and testing the hypothesis of synergy for Europe

.Welfare States are considered key tools to provide just transitions. The hypothesis of synergy states that Social-democratic regimes are in a better position to accomplish them. While synergy has been widely theorised, its empirical verification has remained less studied and provided contradictory results. The weaknesses detected in the state-of-the-art, such as the misalignment of empirical testing and the theoretical drivers of synergy, as well as inconsistencies in the selection of variables and biases imposed by classifications in discrete timings, lead us to define an improved methodological framework. We apply the continuous observation of Ward's hierarchical clustering in squared Euclidean distances under Thorndike's criterium to twenty-three European countries between 2008 and 2016 and reject synergy after detecting that Social-democratic regimes display the best social conditions but the worst environmental performances and that society and the environment are not linked. This outcome motivates us to propose a discussion with a focus on the sustainability of economic growth and the opportunities for sustainable welfare scholarship to settle it.S

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Automatic design of neuromarkers for obsessive compulsive disorder characterisation

This bacherlor thesis proposes a new paradigm to discover biomarkers capable of characterizing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) by means of machine learning methods. These biomarkers, named neuromarkers, will be obtained through the analysis of sets of magnetic resonance images of the brains of OCD patients and healthy control subjects. The design of the neuromarkers stems from a method for the automatic discovery of clusters of voxels, distributed in separate brain regions, relevant to OCD. This method was recently published by Dr. Emilio Parrado Hernández, Dr. Vanessa Gómez Verdejo and Dr. Manel Martínez Ramón. With these clusters as a starting point, we will de ne the neuromarkers as a set of measurements describing features of these individual regions. Then we will perform a selection of these neuromarkers, using state of the art feature selection techniques, to arrive at a reduced, relevant and intuitive set. The results will be sent to Dr. Carles Soriano Mas at the Bellvitge University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain. His feedback will be used to determine the e cacy of our neuromarkers and their usefulness for psychiatric analysis. The main goal of the project is to come up with a set of neuromarkers for OCD characterisation that are easy to interpret and handle by the psychiatric community. A paper presenting the methods and results described in this bachelor thesis, of which the student is the main author, has been submitted and accepted for presentation in the 2014 European Congress of Machine Learning (ECML/PKDD 2014). The ECML reported a 23.8% paper acceptance rate for 2014.Ingeniería de Sistemas Audiovisuale