“Singling out individual inventors from patent data”

An increasing number of studies in recent years have sought to identify individual inventors from patent data. A variety of heuristics have been proposed for using the names and other information disclosed in patent documents to establish “who is who” in patents. This paper contributes to this literature by describing a methodology for identifying inventors using patents applied to the European Patent Office (EPO hereafter). As in much of this literature, we basically follow a three-step procedure: (1) the parsing stage, aimed at reducing the noise in the inventor’s name and other fields of the patent; (2) the matching stage, where name matching algorithms are used to group similar names; and (3) the filtering stage, where additional information and various scoring schemes are used to filter out these similarly-named inventors. The paper presents the results obtained by using the algorithms with the set of European inventors applying to the EPO over a long period of time.“Names game”, patent data, unique inventors, name matching algorithms. JEL classification:C8, J61, O31, O33, R0.

La influencia de la música popular en la sociedad contemporánea desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX: Aplicación a la enseñanza de la historia en la Eso y el bachillerato

Este estudio trata de profundizar a través del rock ‘n’ roll (como aglutinador de otras expresiones musicales) y las especiales condiciones en las que surge tanto culturales, como sociales e históricas, en el impacto que la música popular y la cultura juvenil derivada de la misma causaron en el modelo de sociedad tradicional, al surgir abruptamente como fenómeno de masas a mediados de los años cincuenta. El objetivo es establecer elementos identitarios de la sociedad contemporánea surgidos como consecuencia directa de la apertura de este proceso rupturista y sus posteriores derivaciones a lo largo de las décadas siguientes, analizando sus diferentes aplicaciones curriculares al estudio de la historiaThrough rock ‘n’ roll as a cohesive force; this study goes deeper into its singularities from the outset in the mid fifties. This paper focus on the effects of rock music, not only regarded as a new cultural trait but also as a social movement, on the conservative society of those days. The purpose of the author is to make a statement about how the spread of rock ‘n’ roll music and its breakup as a mass movement, were responsible for permanent changes in contemporary society. These key elements will be analyzed within several methods of teaching history at schoo

La Paz Política. Una lectura desde la Filosofía para la Paz

Dissetenes Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la FCHS (Any 2012)La idea de ‹‹paz política›› es una propuesta que elabora la International Peace Academy, en el período de la Guerra Fría, como alternativa a la idea hegemónica de ‹‹paz armada››. La finalidad de la paz armada es evitar la guerra entre dos países, disuadiendo al enemigo de un posible ataque mediante la acumulación y sofisticación tecnológica de material bélico. Entre los años 60 y 90 del siglo XX, ésta fue la estrategia empleada y promovida por las dos superpotencias mundiales, EE. UU. y la URSS, alimentada por la llamada “Guerra de las Galaxias” o “Conquista del Espacio”. Ante este escenario surge la necesidad de adoptar una nueva visión de la paz que supere las concepciones de seguridad militaristas; lo cual conduce a la International Peace Academy a elaborar el concepto de ‹‹paz política››, lanzando una nueva propuesta que vincula la paz con temas de justicia y derechos humanos. En la actualidad, los Estudios de Paz profundizan en la perspectiva de la ‹‹paz política›› y elaboran nuevos modelos de seguridad ciudadana, analizando los conflictos en relación a cuestiones de gobernanza, legitimidad democrática, inclusión social o equidad económica.The idea of ​​ > is a proposal prepared by the  International Peace Academy, in the period of the Cold War , as  alternative to the hegemonic idea > . The purpose of peace armada is to avoid war between two countries, deterring the enemy from a possible attack by the accumulation and technological sophistication material . Between 60 and 90 of the twentieth century , this was the strategy used and promoted by the two world superpowers , USA. UU . and USSR , fueled by the " Star Wars " or "Conquest  Space " . Given this scenario arises the need for a new vision Peace exceeding militaristic conceptions security which leads to the International Peace Academy to develop the concept of peace > , launching a new proposal that links peace -themed justice and human rights . Today, the Peace Studies deepen the perspective of political peace >> << and develop new citizen security models , analyzing conflicts in relation to issues of governance , democratic legitimacy , social inclusion or economic equity

Los trastornos mentales en personas con VIH/SIDA: una revisión sistemática

El objetivo de este estudio fue revisar la evidencia científica sobre los tipos de trastornos mentales comunes y no comunes observados en adultos con VIH /SIDA, y la frecuencia con la que se dan en dicha población. Para ello se realizó una exhaustiva búsqueda de artículos científicos mediante cinco bases de datos en línea (Psycinfo, Scopus, Web of Science, PubMec y Dialnet) entre el 22 de febrero y el 6 de marzo de 2017, seleccionando finalmente tras la criba un total de 11 artículos que evalúan a 2.403 personas con VIH. Los tipos de trastornos más estudiados son en primer lugar los trastornos del estado de ánimo (90%) y los trastornos de ansiedad (100%), seguidos de los trastornos por abuso/uso del alcohol o sustancias (55%) y los trastornos psicóticos (36%). De esta revisión se concluye que los trastornos mentales afectan a un gran número de personas con VIH, por lo que es vital que se trabaje la salud mental de estos individuos, específicamente, sobre los trastornos depresivos, los trastornos por consumo de alcohol y aquellos relacionados con eventos vitales estresantes.Universidad de Sevilla. Grado en Psicologí

Teaching telecommunication standards: bridging the gap between theory and practice

©2017 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Telecommunication standards have become a reliable mechanism to strengthen collaboration between industry and research institutions to accelerate the evolution of communications systems. Standards are needed to enable cooperation while promoting competition. Within the framework of a standard, the companies involved in the standardization process contribute and agree on appropriate technical specifications to ensure diversity and compatibility, and facilitate worldwide commercial deployment and evolution. Those parts of the system that can create competitive advantages are intentionally left open in the specifications. Such specifications are extensive, complex, and minimalistic. This makes telecommunication standards education a difficult endeavor, but it is much demanded by industry and governments to spur economic growth. This article describes a methodology for teaching wireless communications standards. We define our methodology around six learning stages that assimilate the standardization process and identify key learning objectives for each. Enabled by software-defined radio technology, we describe a practical learning environment that facilitates developing many of the needed technical and soft skills without the inherent difficulty and cost associated with radio frequency components and regulation. Using only open source software and commercial of-the-shelf computers, this environment is portable and can easily be recreated at other educational institutions and adapted to their educational needs and constraints. We discuss our and our students' experiences when employing the proposed methodology to 4G LTE standard education at Barcelona Tech.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Solidaridad comunicativa y reconocimiento: contribuciones de la filosofía para la paz al proyecto unesco de un nuevo humanismo

Profundizando en el significado actual del Humanismo como filosofía práctica, y destacando su potencial para orientar procesos democráticos de transformación social no-violenta, el objetivo de este artículo es explicar la contribución que hace la Cátedra Unesco de Filosofía para la Paz al proyecto Unesco de un Nuevo Humanismo. El artículo presenta dos categorías centrales en torno a las cuales la Filosofía para la Paz contribuye al desarrollo de la renovación del Humanismo, a saber: la ‘solidaridad comunicativa’ y el ‘reconocimiento’. En este dominio de investigación, el artículo expone los principios éticos que ponen en juego estas dos categorías analíticas

Automated Discovery of porous molecular materials facilitated by characterization of molecular porosity

Porous materials are critical to many industrial sectors, including petrochemicals, energy and water. Traditional porous polymers and zeolites are currently most widely employed within membranes, as adsorbents for separations and storage, and as heterogeneous catalysts. The emerging advanced porous materials, e.g. extended framework materials and molecular porous materials, can boost performance and energy-efficiency of the current technologies because of the unprecedented level of control of their structure and function. The enormous possibilities for tuning these materials by changing their building blocks mean that, in principle, optimally performing materials for a variety of applications can be systematically designed. However, the process of finding a set of optimal structures for a given application could take decades using the traditional materials development approaches. These is a substantial payoff for developing tools and approaches that can accelerate this process. Among advanced porous materials, porous molecular materials are one of the most recent members though they have already attracted significant interest......Programa de Doctorado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de Materiales por la Universidad Carlos III de MadridPresidente: Germán Ignacio Sastre Navarro.- Secretario: Javier Carrasco Rodríguez.- Vocal: Andreas Mavrantonaki

Singling out individual inventors from patent data

An increasing number of studies in recent years have sought to identify individual inventors from patent data. A variety of heuristics have been proposed for using the names and other information disclosed in patent documents to establish who is who in patents. This paper contributes to this literature by describing a methodology for identifying inventors using patents applied to the European Patent Office, EPO hereafter. As in much of this literature, we basically follow a threestep procedure : 1- the parsing stage, aimed at reducing the noise in the inventor’s name and other fields of the patent; 2- the matching stage, where name matching algorithms are used to group similar names; and 3- the filtering stage, where additional information and various scoring schemes are used to filter out these similarlynamed inventors. The paper presents the results obtained by using the algorithms with the set of European inventors applying to the EPO over a long period of time

Robust PID tuning. Application to a Mobile Robot Pathtraking problem.

IFAC Digital Control: Past,Present and Future of PlO Control.Terrassa.Spain.2000This paper presents a methodology for tuning PIDs considering the nominal performance and the robustness as control specifications. The synthesis procedure is similar to the Ziegler-Nichols method for PID controllers and can be easily used for industrial processes. As a workbench for testing the PID controller a mobile robot has been used. The path tracking problem of a mobile robot has been used as a workbench for testing the PID controller

Extremal cosmological black holes in Horndeski gravity and the anti-evaporation regime

Producción CientíficaExtremal cosmological black holes are analysed in the framework of the most general second order scalar-tensor theory, the so-called Horndeski gravity. Such extremal black holes are a particular case of Schwarzschild-De Sitter black holes that arises when the black hole horizon and the cosmological one coincide. Such metric is induced by a particular value of the effective cosmological constant and is known as Nariai spacetime. The existence of this type of solutions is studied when considering the Horndeski Lagrangian and its stability is analysed, where the so-called anti-evaporation regime is studied. Contrary to other frameworks, the radius of the horizon remains stable for some cases of the Horndeski Lagrangian when considering perturbations at linear order.European Union’s Horizon 2020 (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) (action CA15117)Fundação para a Ciència e a Tecnologia (FCT) (grant number PD/BD/114435/2016