A Fuzzy Logic Programming Environment for Managing Similarity and Truth Degrees

FASILL (acronym of "Fuzzy Aggregators and Similarity Into a Logic Language") is a fuzzy logic programming language with implicit/explicit truth degree annotations, a great variety of connectives and unification by similarity. FASILL integrates and extends features coming from MALP (Multi-Adjoint Logic Programming, a fuzzy logic language with explicitly annotated rules) and Bousi~Prolog (which uses a weak unification algorithm and is well suited for flexible query answering). Hence, it properly manages similarity and truth degrees in a single framework combining the expressive benefits of both languages. This paper presents the main features and implementations details of FASILL. Along the paper we describe its syntax and operational semantics and we give clues of the implementation of the lattice module and the similarity module, two of the main building blocks of the new programming environment which enriches the FLOPER system developed in our research group.Comment: In Proceedings PROLE 2014, arXiv:1501.0169

Geografia emocional d'un exode: La retirada republicana de 1939

This thesis proposes to trace and explore an emotional geography and cartography of the republican withdrawal at the end of the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia during the months of January and February 1939. Thus, it complements existing historiographical scholarship on the Spanish Civil War and Spanish Republican Exile, especially with regard to what was experienced in Catalan territory. However, its main purpose is not that of the historian, to reveal and explain unexplored stories, but to locate existing narratives, memoirs, journals and testimonies carefully in the landscape in which they took place, exposing their emotional bonds with the places and spaces of the withdrawal of the protagonists of the Republican exodus of 1939. Whilst there has been significant work in recent years to “recover” spaces associated with violent of traumatic memories of conflict and displacement, including the creation of a network of “Democratic Memory” places in Catalonia, the spaces explored in this thesis have not so far been construed as places of memory. In part, this is because of the diversity of emotions and affective responses they provoked and continue to evoke, but also because the geography of the Retirada is characterized by mobility and multiplicity. So instead of an historical approach, despite being influenced by Walter Benjamin's concept of history, this thesis draws on existing methods and approaches related to cultural geography, in particular, the emerging interdisciplinary field known as emotional geographies. In order to create a vision of La Retirada that is sensitive to its mobility and multiplicity, the primary methodology used has been that of interdisciplinary assemblage, juxtaposing images, documents and stories of past and present, in a process redolent of that which Marianne Hirsch calls "post-memory"

Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima

In this paper, we adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial differences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: salespersons, secretaries and (accounting and administrative) assistants. The adapted pseudo-audit study methodology allow us to reduce the room for existence of statistical discrimination. The results suggest the existence of no significant differences in hiring rates for different gender-race groups but some systematic (and significant) differences in the aimed wages of the individuals in their job search processes.field experiments, discrimination, occupational segregation

Chimalhuacan in a social, socio-urban and regional context

This work aims to generate better understanding of Chimalhuacán municipality located in the eastern part of the State of Mexico, which has different urban and social characteristics. It describes and analyzes the characteristics of the territory, the importance of the local trend and the municipality sociourban shaping urban dynamics embedded in the Metropolitan Zone of Mexico City, the largest in the country and Latin America. The analysis of social, urban are issues that are attached for setup, the profile and the vocation of local territories, immersed in the metropolis, which are related to factors such as emigrant people of this area, economic reality, and transformation experienced by the population in the municipality.Este trabajo tiene la finalidad de generar mejor conocimiento del municipio de Chimalhuacán ubicado en la región oriente del Estado de México, la cual presenta diferentes características urbanas y sociales. Se describen y analizan las características del territorio, la importancia que adquiere lo local, su tendencia y conformación sociourbana del municipio inserto en la dinámica urbana de la Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México, la más grande del país y de Latinoamérica. El análisis de lo social y lo urbano son temas que se encuentran unidos para conocer la onfiguración, el perfil y la vocación de los territorios locales, inmersos en las metrópolis, que se relacionan con factores como las personas que migran a esta zona, situación económica y transformación que experimenta la población en el municipio

Reproducible SUmmation under HUB Format

Version diferente del paper presentado en el congresoFloating point reproducibility is a property claimed by programmers and end users. Half-Unit-Biased (HUB) is a new representation format in which the round to nearest is carried out by truncation, preventing any carry propagation and saving time and area. In this paper we study the reproducible summation of HUB numbers by using a errorfree vector transformation technique, providing both a specific architecture and the usage of combined HUB/Standard floating point adders to achieve a reproducible resultUniversidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Microhistory of a Microscopic Society: An Approximation to the Jesuit Mission of the Upper Napo (Ecuador), 1870-1896

El presente estudio representa una reevaluación de la historia jesuita en el Alto Napo ecuatoriano a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Se trata de una mirada micro-histórica a las relaciones socioeconómicas existentes entre religiosos, indígenas, mercaderes y autoridades civiles, en una época de grandes transformaciones –tanto en Ecuador como en la Amazonía. El artículo está basado en fuentes primarias, publicadas y de archivo, muchas de las cuales no han sido estudiadas hasta la fecha.This study represents a re-evaluation of the Jesuit experience in the Upper Napo of Ecuador at the turn of the twentieth century. The article is a micro-historical approach to the links that existed between Jesuits, Indians, merchants and civil authorities, in a time of great transformations –both in Ecuador and in the Amazon. This research is based on primary sources, published as well as archival, many of which have not been studied to this day