Seasonal concentration of cruise tourism in the Mediterranean

This research delves into analyzing the seasonality of cruise tourism in the Mediterranean by using the decomposition of the Gini index, used in the field of cruise tourism for the first time in literature. This study specifically used the decomposition to evaluate the contribution degree of each port to the global seasonal concentration of each Mediterranean region. Moreover, a cluster analysis technique (bootstrapped bagged clustering) was applied to classify the ports into homogeneous groups according to their seasonal patterns given the significant heterogeneity revealed in the major regions of the Mediterranean. The methodology applied can serve as a control and monitoring tool for measuring seasonal concentration levels in cruise tourism, allowing for policies against seasonality to be tailored in the cruise tourism segment.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech. Programa de FPU del Ministerio de Educació

Impact of the Information and Communication Technologies on the Education of Students with Down Syndrome: a Bibliometric Study (2008- 2018)

This article analyzes the impact of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on students with Down syndrome through the consult of scientific articles published during the 2008 to 2018 period, in five scientific journal databases utilized in the academic world. Through a descriptive and quantitative methodology, the most significant bibliometric data according to citation index is shown. Likewise, a methodology based on the analysis of co-words and clustering techniques is applied through a bibliometric maps, in order to determine the fields of scientific study. The results show that articles published have a medium-low index of impact. There are linked with the importance of using ICT with these students, from educational inclusion and accessibility perspective

See5 Algorithm versus Discriminant Analysis. An Application to the Prediction of Insolvency in Spanish Non-life Insurance Companies

Prediction of insurance companies insolvency has arised as an important problem in the field of financial research, due to the necessity of protecting the general public whilst minimizing the costs associated to this problem. Most methods applied in the past to tackle this question are traditional statistical techniques which use financial ratios as explicative variables. However, these variables do not usually satisfy statistical assumptions, what complicates the application of the mentioned methods.In this paper, a comparative study of the performance of a well-known parametric statistical technique (Linear Discriminant Analysis) and a non-parametric machine learning technique (See5) is carried out. We have applied the two methods to the problem of the prediction of insolvency of Spanish non-life insurance companies upon the basis of a set of financial ratios. Results indicate a higher performance of the machine learning technique, what shows that this method can be a useful tool to evaluate insolvency of insurance firms.Insolvency, Insurance Companies, Discriminant Analysis, See5.

El concepto de lenguaje universal

The aim of the paper is to differentiate three different notions of universality (ontologic, semantic and weak universality) and to discuss some well-known results that show that there exist no universal languages, due to the semantical paradoxes

miraQA: Initial experiments in Question Answering

We present the miraQA system that constitutes MIRACLE first experience in Question Answering for monolingual Spanish and has been developed for QA@CLEF 2004. The architecture of the system is described and details of our approach to Statistical Answer Extraction based on Hidden Markov Models are presented. One run that uses last year question set for training purposes has been submitted. The results are presented together with ideas for improvement

Optimal security-constrained power scheduling by Benders decomposition

This paper presents a Benders decomposition approach to determine the optimal day-ahead power scheduling in a pool-organized power system, taking into account dispatch, network and security constraints. The study model considers the daily market and the technical constraints resolution as two different and consecutive processes. The daily market is solved in a first stage subject to economical criteria exclusively and then, the constraints solution algorithm is applied to this initial dispatch through the redispatching method. The Benders partitioning algorithm is applied to this constraints solution process to obtain an optimal secure power scheduling. The constraints solution includes a full AC network and security model to incorporate voltages magnitudes as they are a critical factor in some real power systems. The algorithm determines the active power committed to each generator so as to minimize the energy redispatch cost subject to dispatch, network and security constraints. The solution also provides the reactive power output of the generators, the value of the transformers taps and the committed voltage control devices. The model has been tested in the IEEE 24-bus Reliability Test System and in an adapted IEEE 118-bus Test System. It is programmed in GAMS mathematical modeling language. Some relevant results are reported.Publicad

La Capilla del MIT de Eero Saarinen: construcción y acústica

El artículo se centra en la Capilla del MIT y en la búsqueda de respuestas para aclarar cuestiones y soluciones constructivas que hacen de este modelo prototipo un nuevo ejemplo para reconsiderar y medir el papel jugado por la arquitectura religiosa en la universidad Norteamericana moderna. En este artículo se ofrece la posibilidad de discernir la relación entre construcción y acústica, dentro de un marco unitario proyectado. El artículo usa como método de base la recopilación de documentación original del proyecto en distintas universidades americanas, así como los datos y documentos publicados en revistas internacionales, en referencia a la capilla y en particular a su estudio acústico. El procedimiento empleado para la redacción del texto se desarrolla entre textos y gráficos obtenidos en la investigación, concluyendo con aclaraciones constructivas sobre algunos detalles técnicos dibujados. ---------- ABSTRACT---------- The article focuses on the chapel at MIT (Kresge Chapel), clarifying issues and identifying the constructive solutions that make this structure a prototype, a model that reconsiders the role played by religious architecture at modern American universities. The article explores the relationship between the chapel’s structure and acoustics within a unitary framework. The article is based on a collection of the original documentation of the project found at various American universities, as well as data and documents that refer to the chapel and studies of its acoustics published in international journals. The article employs both text and graphics found during the research, concluding with clarifications of some of the technical details depicted

La Capilla del MIT versus La Capilla del ITT

El artículo compara la capilla del Instituto de Tecnología de Massachussets ,del arquitecto Eero Saarinen y la capilla del Instituto de Tecnología de Illinois,del arquitecto Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, como dos de los cuatro ejemplos destacados prototípicos construidos en los ¿50, (hoy en uso), correspondientes a la nueva arquitectura religiosa interconfesional universitaria norteamericana, como representantes de una segunda modernidad de posguerra 4 en lo religioso y universitario. A pesar de que las administraciones correspondientes de cada universidad, creyeron necesario fomentar la educación religiosa y moral de sus alumnos, al interior de sus capillas no se consiguió transmitir, en la misma medida, la experiencia sensorial de sus espacios. El modelo propuesto en la capilla del M.I.T., no se repite en el tiempo, ni en ninguna otra universidad y además se posiciona como el mejor ejemplo prototípico de su década, hito de una nueva arquitectura religiosa universitaria. El artículo destaca la principal diferencia concluyente que engloba el total de las distancias entre los ejemplos comparados, correspondiente al ?sincretismo? capaz de la unión de la ciencia y la fe en la armoniosa arquitectura de la capilla del M.I.T. ; capaz de servir al científico y al religioso. Esta capacidad sintética y mixta, queda referida no sólo a lo interconfesional y aconfesional, sino a la validez del ejemplo por encima del resto de los construidos en los ¿50

De la influencia literaria a la huella textual

This article considers the various reworkings which the old concept of "influence" has undergone during the course of this century in relation to the differing theoretical and critical tendencies that succeeded one another from positivism onwards, especially the growth of structuralim, deconstruction, the aesthetics of reading and the theory of multiple systems. Its conclusion is that the relationship between texts, which was the basis of the old concept, continues to offer guidelines and new approaches for Comparative Literature.Este artículo tiene en cuenta numerosas reelaboraciones que el viejo concepto de “influencia” ha sufrido durante el trascurso de este siglo, en relación con las diferentes tendencias teóricas y críticas que se han ido sucediendo a raíz del positivismo (especialmente, el crecimiento del estructuralismo, la deconstrucción, la estética de la lectura y la teoría de los sistemas múltiples). Concluye que la relación entre textos (lo cual era la base del concepto antiguo) continua ofreciendo pautas y nuevos planteamientos para la Literatura Comparada