26 research outputs found
Recommendations on seismic actions on bridges
The paper describes the main features of a technical Recommendation first draft on Seismic Actions on Bridges, promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Public Works (MOPT). Although much more research is needed to clarify the seismic behaviour of the vast class of problems present in port structures the current state of the art allows at least a classificaton of subjects and the establishment of minimum requirements to guide the design. Also the use of more refined methods for specially dangerous situations needs some general guidelines that contribute to mantein the design under reasonable safety margins. The Recommendations of the Spanish MOPT are a first try in those directions
Business Process Optimization in Madrid City Council.
While designing systems and products requires a deep understanding of influences that achieve desirable
performance, the need for an efficient and systematic decision-making approach drives the need for optimization
strategies. This paper provides the motivation for this topic as well as a description of applications in Computing
Center of Madrid city Council. Optimization applications can be found in almost all areas of engineering. Typical
problems in process, working with a database, arise in query design, entity model design and concurrent processes.
This paper proposes a solution to optimize a night process dealing with millions of records with an overall performance
of about eight times in computation time
Loss of smell and taste can accurately predict COVID-19 infection: a machine-learning approach
The COVID-19 outbreak has spread extensively around the world. Loss of smell and
taste have emerged as main predictors for COVID-19. The objective of our study is to develop a
comprehensive machine learning (ML) modelling framework to assess the predictive value of smell
and taste disorders, along with other symptoms, in COVID-19 infection. A multicenter case-control
study was performed, in which suspected cases for COVID-19, who were tested by real-time reversetranscription
polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), informed about the presence and severity of their
symptoms using visual analog scales (VAS). ML algorithms were applied to the collected data to
predict a COVID-19 diagnosis using a 50-fold cross-validation scheme by randomly splitting the
patients in training (75%) and testing datasets (25%). A total of 777 patients were included. Loss of
smell and taste were found to be the symptoms with higher odds ratios of 6.21 and 2.42 for COVID-19
positivity. The ML algorithms applied reached an average accuracy of 80%, a sensitivity of 82%, and
a specificity of 78% when using VAS to predict a COVID-19 diagnosis. This study concludes that
smell and taste disorders are accurate predictors, with ML algorithms constituting helpful tools for
COVID-19 diagnostic prediction.Junta de Andalucí
Desarrollo e implementación de un sistema coordinado y progresivo de evaluación de actividades académicamente dirigidas en el Grado en Relaciones Laborales y Recursos Humanos.
Artículo en el que se exponen los resultados del proyecto de innovación docente: "Desarrollo e implementación de un sistema coordinado y progresivo de evaluación de actividades académicamente dirigidas en el Grado en Relaciones
Laborales y Recursos Humanos". Contiene una rúbrica con criterios de evaluación de trabajos prácticos cuyo nivel va aumentando medida que los alumnos avanzan en los cursos del Grado. En concreto la rúbrica propone criterios para evaluar las siguientes competencias: búsqueda, gestión y análisis de la informacion, expresión escrita, estructuración del trabajo, y expresión oral.Este proyecto se enmarca en la línea de trabajo propuesta en la convocatoria de Proyectos de Innovación y Mejora Docente sobre “Cómo coordinar las actividades académicamente dirigidas entre distintas asignaturas”. El objetivo general del mismo es desarrollar un sistema de evaluación coordinado y progresivo de las actividades académicamente dirigidas y, más concretamente, de los trabajos escritos (y, en su caso, las presentaciones orales) que deben llevar a cabo los estudiantes en distintas asignaturas del Grado en RRLL y RRHH. Se han llevado a cabo reuniones entre los profesores participantes a fin de consensuar los niveles de exigencia y los criterios de corrección y evaluación aplicables en las distintas asignaturas dependiendo del curso en el que se impartan. El resultado final es una rúbrica que contiene unos criterios de evaluación cuyo nivel de exigencia va aumentando a medida que se avanza en los cursos del Grado. Esta rúbrica se aplicará en las asignaturas que imparten los profesores que participan en este proyecto, una vez adaptada a los criterios generales de evaluación y a las particularidades propias de las mismas.Proyecto aprobado por la Unidad de Innovación Docente de la UCA8 página
Labour and social security law in Spain in 2015
El informe ha sido elaborado por la Sección Juvenil de la Asociación Española de Derecho del Trabajo y Seguridad SocialEste Informe deja constancia de los cambios normativos más relevantes y de las tendencias judiciales más paradigmáticas del ordenamiento laboral en 2015. En él se observa el imparable dinamismo del Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social en España. El documento, consciente de tal mutabilidad, recoge una minuciosa selección de cuestiones esenciales, a juicio de las personas que abordan cada una de las materias, de las que son especialistas; los autores y las autoras, que forman parte de la Sección Juvenil de la Asociación Española de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social, se adscriben a los grupos temáticos por afinidad con sus principales líneas de investigación y su labor docente universitaria. En síntesis, en el Informe “El Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social en España en 2015” se puede encontrar información muy útil para los profesionales del iuslaboralismo en materia de derechos fundamentales inespecíficos, contratación laboral y empleo, vicisitudes del contrato de trabajo, derechos colectivos, igualdad y corresponsabilidad, Seguridad Social o prevención de riesgos laborales.This report has as aim leaving a record of the most relevant normative changes and the most paradigmatic judicial trends in Labour Law in 2015. One can easily observe the unstoppable dynamismof Labour and Social Security Law in Spain. The document, conscious of that mutability, collects a thorough selection of key issues, according to the judgement of the authors, all of them specialists and all of them members of the Young Scholars’ Section of the Spanish Association for Labour and Social Security Law. They are part of thematic groups, linked to their main research lines and their teaching task. Summing up, in this report “Labour and Social Security Law in Spain in 2015”, one can easily find useful information for labour lawyers in subjects such as unspecific fundamental rights, work contracts and employment, issues of the labour relationship, collective rights, equality and co-responsibility, Social Security or occupational risk prevention
El Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social en España en 2015. Sección Juvenil de la Asociación Española de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social.
Este Informe deja constancia de los cambios normativos más relevantes y de las tendencias judiciales más paradigmáticas del ordenamiento laboral en 2015. En él se observa el imparable dinamismo del Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social en España. El documento, consciente de tal mutabilidad, recoge una minuciosa selección de cuestiones esenciales, a juicio de las personas que abordan cada una de las materias, de las que son especialistas; los autores y las autoras, que forman parte de la Sección Juvenil de la Asociación Española de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social, se adscriben a los grupos temáticos por afinidad con sus principales líneas de investigación y su labor docente universitaria. En síntesis, en el Informe “El Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social en España en 2015” se puede encontrar información muy útil para los profesionales del iuslaboralismo en materia de derechos fundamentales inespecíficos, contratación laboral y empleo, vicisitudes del contrato de trabajo, derechos colectivos, igualdad y corresponsabilidad, Seguridad Social o prevención de riesgos laborales.
This report has as aim leaving a record of the most relevant normative changes and the most paradigmatic judicial trends in Labour Law in 2015. One can easily observe the unstoppable dynamismof Labour and Social Security Law in Spain. The document, conscious of that mutability, collects a thorough selection of key issues, according to the judgement of the authors, all of them specialists and all of them members of the Young Scholars’ Section of the Spanish Association for Labour and Social Security Law. They are part of thematic groups, linked to their main research lines and their teaching task. Summing up, in this report “Labour and Social Security Law in Spain in 2015”, one can easily find useful information for labour lawyers in subjects such as unspecific fundamental rights, work contracts and employment, issues of the labour relationship, collective rights, equality and co-responsibility, Social Security or occupational risk prevention
Performance Characteristics of OpenMP Language Constructs on a Many-core-on-a-chip Architecture
Recent emerging many-core-on-a-chip architectures present massive on-chip parallelism through hardware support for multithreading. In order to achieve fast development of parallel applications that exploit this massive intrachip parallelism to achieve highly sustainable performance, suitable programming models are needed. OpenMP, the industry de facto standard for writing parallel programs on shared memory systems, could become a reasonable candidate
Landing OpenMP on Cyclops-64: An Efficient Mapping of OpenMP to a Many-Core System-on-a-Chip
This paper presents our experience mapping OpenMP parallel programming model to the IBM Cyclops-64 (C64) architecture. The C64 employs a many-core-on-a-chip design that integrates processing logic (160 thread units), embedded memory (5MB) and communication hardware on the same die. Such a unique architecture presents new opportunities for optimization. Specifically, we consider the following three areas: (1) a memory aware runtime library that places frequently used data structures in scratchpad memory; (2) a unique spin lock algorithm for shared memory synchronization based on in-memory atomic instructions and native support for thread level execution; (3) a fast barrier that directly uses C64 hardware support for collective synchronization. All three optimizations together, result in an 80% overhead reduction for language constructs in OpenMP. We believe that such a drastic reduction in the cost of managing parallelism makes OpenMP more amenable for writing parallel programs on the C64 platform
Tiny threads: A thread virtual machine for the cyclops64 cellular architecture
This paper presents the design and implementation of a thread virtual machine, called TNT (or TiNy-Threads) for the IBM Cyclops64 architecture (the latest Cyclops architecture that employs a unique multiprocessor-on-a-chip design with a very large number of hardware thread units and embedded memory) — as the cornerstone of the C64 system software. We highlight how to achieve high efficiency by mapping (and matching) the TNT thread model directly to the Cyclops ISA features assisted by a native TNT thread runtime library. Major results of our experimental study demonstrate good efficiency, scalability and usability of our TNT model/implementation