Catalogación y análisis de los sistemas de envolvente neumática, a través del estudio de sus principales parámetros cualitativos

El diseño de sistemas neumáticos como envolvente arquitectónica ha experimentado un importante desarrollo, desde que a principios del s.XX las nuevas necesidades militares, sociales y económicas requirieran nuevos sistemas para la cubrición de grandes luces, con un rápido y fácil montaje. Sin embargo, los múltiples proyectos y experiencias, se han desarrollado sin una línea constante de documentación y catalogación. Su revisión histórica y crítica, a través de artículos y publicaciones especializadas, ha mantenido un ciclo paralelo al interés global mostrado por este tipo de sistemas constructivos; apareciendo picos de máxima desarrollo, como el de los años setenta, y valles de escasa documentación como el de décadas posteriores. La investigación ha tenido como objetivo la realización de una nueva revisión histórica y crítica de esta todavía “joven” tecnología, complementando los periodos de menor catalogación y permitiendo establecer los condicionantes principales y los puntos de afianzamiento y de inflexión, desarrollados en el ámbito de los sistemas de envolvente neumática arquitectónica. La metodología de análisis se ha focalizado en la localización y documentación de aquellos proyectos, tanto construidos como conceptuales, cuyas propiedades cualitativas hayan supuesto una especial innovación en el ámbito de las tecnologías de envolvente neumática. De modo que sobre cada una de las estrategias catalogadas, se ha procedido al estudio pormenorizado de sus parámetros morfológicos, funcionales, constructivos, energéticos y medioambientales. La metodología de organización de datos, se ha coordinado a través de la realización de una base de datos de carácter interactiva y abierta, facilitanto tanto el estudio individualizado de cada una de las propuestas, como el análisis comparativo de los diferentes proyectos, en función de los diferentes parámetros y subparámetros de caracterización. La catalogación de más de 660 estrategias, ha permitido el estudio comparativo y evolutivo de las principales tipologías neumáticas; a través de un sistema organizativo de código abierto, que ha facilitado una lectura de resultados no lineal, interactiva y dinámica

The cyclical trend of local public service governance: evidence from urban water management in Spain

The level of public and private involvement in economic activity in societies has changed over time. One may talk about the existence of a cyclical trend in which the most important periods of public governance are replaced by periods in which private management dominates the situation. This phenomenon may also be observed in local areas. Some authors have pointed out the existence of an alternation in the provision of municipal services, resulting in periods dominated by governance compared to other stages dominated by private management. In order to illustrate this cyclical trend at local level, this paper intends to analyze the evolution of the governance of the Spanish water supply since the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Recent evidence from the industry suggests the possibility that we may currently be witnessing a further change in the trend.: Local Government, urban water supply, privatization, municipalization

A new multisensor software architecture for movement detection: Preliminary study with people with cerebral palsy

A five-layered software architecture translating movements into mouse clicks has been developed and tested on an Arduino platform with two different sensors: accelerometer and flex sensor. The archi-tecture comprises low-pass and derivative filters, an unsupervised classifier that adapts continuously to the strength of the user's movements and a finite state machine which sets up a timer to prevent in-voluntary movements from triggering false positives. Four people without disabilities and four people with cerebral palsy (CP) took part in the experi-ments. People without disabilities obtained an average of 100% and 99.3% in precision and true positive rate (TPR) respectively and there were no statistically significant differences among type of sensors and placement. In the same experiment, people with disabilities obtained 97.9% and 100% in precision and TPR respectively. However, these results worsened when subjects used the system to access a commu-nication board, 89.6% and 94.8% respectively. With their usual method of access-an adapted switch- they obtained a precision and TPR of 86.7% and 97.8% respectively. For 3-outof- 4 participants with disabilities our system detected the movement faster than the switch. For subjects with CP, the accelerometer was the easiest to use because it is more sensitive to gross motor motion than the flex sensor which requires more complex movements. A final survey showed that 3-out-of-4 participants with disabilities would prefer to use this new technology instead of their tra-ditional method of access

Estado De Nutrición Y Su Relación Con La Condición Física En Adolescentes De Escuelas Preparatorias.

Tesis de licenciaturaDe acuerdo a la investigación se concluye que no hay relación entre el estado de nutrición y la condición física de los alumnos de las escuelas preparatorias, al obtenerse por X2 valores no significativos. La comparación que encontramos en los diferentes nos muestra que la mayor parte del grupo de estudio tiene normopeso 73%, sobrepeso 16% y obesidad 6% cifras que no concuerdan con el estudio ENSANUT MC 2016. En cuanto al porcentaje de grasa por IMC y por medición de panículos adiposos relacionado con la condición física se encontró en este trabajo de tesis que existe una significancia estadística (valor P≤0.05) en el grupo de las mujeres. El empleo de la batería EUROFIT es un procedimiento sencillo y de fácil aplicación que puede mejorar la realización de pruebas a este grupo de estudio

Database interactive and analysis of the pneumatic envelope systems, through the study of their main qualitative parameters

The design of pneumatic envelope systems has experienced an important development since the beginning of the 20th century; when military, social and economic necessities required new systems to cover large rooms with easy and quickly technologies. However, many projects and experiences have been developed in periods without constant compilation and cataloguing studies. The historical review of these technologies has had an intermittent analyse process; existing periods of maximal researches, like the 70´s and others with lower publication levels, like the ´80s and early ´90s. Because of that, the research had the main objective of developing a new critical and historical review of the evolution of this technology; in order to complement low catalogued periods and also to allow the study of the main conditions that had influenced the use of pneumatic envelopes applied in architecture. The methodology of study has been focussed on the location and documentation of projects, not only constructed also utopian and non built proposals, which qualitative properties have supposed special innovation in the field of this technology. In this way, it has been studied the following parameters in each of the documented projects: contextual, morphological, functional, constructive, climatic and comfort-energy efficiency. The organization methodology has been coordinated by the construction of an interactive and open data-base, helping not only the individual study of each proposal, also the comparative analyse of different projects, associated to the different parameters and sub-parameters of characterization. More than 660 different strategies have been catalogued, since the first patent of F.W. Lanchester in 1917, to the last projects developed in 2010. The proposal of the interactive database also has helped to define a dynamic, non-linear and open study of the results, allowing the comparison between the main pneumatic envelope typologies and the selection of new research strategies in this engineering and architectural field

Políticas urbanas de intervención en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México bajo el modelo de Estado Neoliberal, 1989-2010

La transición de un modelo de Estado a otro ha significado para la política urbana la modificación de sus formas de ocupar e intervenir los núcleos históricos en temas relacionados con la vivienda, la rehabilitación del patrimonio y el espacio público, lo cual ha motivado la construcción de nuevos valores para interpretar la significación cultural del lugar. La cuestión que se plantea desarrollar en este trabajo tiene como marco a los planes y programas de la política urbana neoliberal para determinar: cómo la lógica de actuación del Estado ha contribuido al proceso de revalorización y transformación espacial del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México, durante el periodo de 1989-2010. Las conclusiones obtenidas expresan la visión elitista con que la política urbana neoliberal ha reformado ciertas áreas del centro histórico en favor del desarrollo económico e inmobiliario, pero ajena a las demandas de infraestructura y seguridad de los barrios populares. Dicha disparidad ha sido causa de conflictos que han alimentado la percepción de un centro histórico fragmentado por la inequidad de resultados de una política urbana que no ha comprendido que la valorización de un territorio pasa por la construcción de una visión unitaria que dicte una intervención equilibrada sobre el patrimonio, sus funciones sociales, prácticas culturales y rescate de su tradición

Influence of emotional intelligence on performance in an emotionally Laden Cognitive Task: an ERP Study.

A higher level of emotional intelligence (EI), understood as a greater ability to perceive, use, understand, and manage emotions, is associated with an increase in performance on emotionally laden cognitive tasks. The main objective of this research was to study the neural basis underlying the execution of an emotional cognitive control task (GoNogo) as a function of ability EI. Forty-four participants were divided into two groups depending on EI level (High EI vs. Low EI). The participants’ task consisted of an emotional face GoNogo task, in which happy, fear and neutral facial expressions were the go and no go stimulus. Results showed a larger N170 and smaller N2 amplitude for the low EI group than for the high EI one. Greater levels of cognitive control were associated to participants with high EI. Our findings show the importance of studying emotion and cognition interaction to explain our behavior and performance. This work was partially supported by the project Innovation and Development Agency of Andalusia, Spain (SEJ-07325) to Pablo Fernández-Berrocal. Alberto Megías is supported by a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship from the Spanish MINECO (FJCI-2015-25600).Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Emotional intelligence and hot and cool working memory capacity

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to perceive, use, understand and manage our emotions and the emotions of others. EI, measured through performance-based ability models, seems to favour performance on hot tasks. The aim of the present study is to analyse the relationship between EI, measured through its three main models, and performance on a hot (emotional) and cool (non-emotional) working memory task. 203 undergraduate students of psychology took part in the experiment. They completed an EI test for each of its three main models (performance-based ability model, self-report ability model and self-report mixed model) and a hot and cool working memory task. We found a better performance for higher EI participants, measured through the performance-based ability model instrument (but not with self-report instruments), in the hot working memory task. This result was obtained for the managing branch of the EI instrument. Similar evidence was not found when using the cool working memory task. Our study takes a step forward in the conceptualization of the EI construct within the domain of cognitive processes. They show that, at least when using hot stimuli, the managing branch of the performance-based ability model of EI is a better determinant measure for the working memory capacity than the self-report models.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Are psychopaths emotionally intelligent?

Psychopathy is a serious personality disorder, characterized by proneness to low anxiety, egocentricity, failure to form close emotional bonds, superficial charm and dishonesty, that has very negative consequences for society as aggression, delinquency and even crime. Therefore, its control and treatment are of great importance. Psychopathy has been related to important emotional deficits as such as a lack of impulse, low empathy and deficits in moral expressions. These findings have led to a growing interest in exploring if psychopathic traits are associated with emotional intelligence (EI) or to the ability to perceive, use, understand, and regulate emotions in one’s self and others. However, the literature exploring this association has revealed conflicting results. The aim of the present study was to provide a reliable estimate of the relationship between psychopathy traits and EI (measured as performance-based ability) through meta-analysis. A quantitative and systematic review of the literature using Scopus, Medline, Pubmed, and PsicINFO and for both Spanish and English studies that included measures of EI and psychopathy, showed a total of 13 studies meeting inclusion criteria with a combined sample of 2401 participants. The meta-analysis revealed a significant negative relationship between both constructs, showing that higher psychopathic trait scores are related to lower EI levels. We propose several future research lines to clarify possible gaps and ambiguities in the current literature and a set of interesting clinical implications for the prevention, evaluation, and treatment of psychopathy by including EI factors in traditional models of psychopathy.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Grey water phytodepuration systems integrated in flat green roofs

The research about new grey water reuse systems can not only help to reduce the volume of drinkable water applied in domestic uses, besides allows to diminish the urban wastewater volume to be treated. Because of that, the proposal aims the adjustment of green roof surfaces to new uses, in relation with grey water phytodepuration systems. The main problems of traditional reed bed systems are their large dimensions, their high weight and the roots growth in the substrate subsurface. The developed system optimizes the traditional treatments with the design of industrialized channels, improving the contact between bacteria-roots and water. This optimization allows to reduce the treatment surface needed. The analysis of the most suitable species and their roots length, facilitates to diminish the channels depth; and for this reason the system is much lighter than the traditional ones. Moreover, the use of floating systems, reduce the common roots problems and diminish the maintenance requirements. Also, grey water phytodepuration systems integrated in flat green roofs, contribute not only to develop the hygrothermal benefits of green roofs, but allow to incorporate low energy water treatment systems in buildings, and to reuse it by flushing toilets and irrigation, with drinkable water saving of more than 40%