Violencia y sociedad en una villa medieval : Castellón de la plana en el siglo XV

A partir de los registros judiciales locales, este artículo estudia el modelo de violencia en una pequeña ciudad valenciana orientada, en gran medida, a las actividades agrarias. Se trataba sobre todo de una violencia estructural y cotidiana, que habitualmente no era provocada por delincuentes profesionales, sino por gente común e incluso por miembros del grupo dirigente. El abuso de la fuerza solía producirse desde los poderosos hacia los débiles (de ricos a pobres, de amos a criados, de maridos a mujeres, de cristianos a musulmanes) de manera que estas formas de violencia reafirmaban las jerarquías internas que dividían a la comunidad local.On the evidence of local court rolls, this paper studies the patters of violence in a valencian small town oriented to a great extent toward agrarian activities. It was especially a structural and daily violence, that usually it was not caused by habitual criminals but by common people and even by members of the ruling group. Abuse of force usually taked place from poweful to weak (from richs to poors, from masters to serviants, from husbands to wives, from christians to muslims), so that these forms of violence reaffirmed internal hierarchies that divided local [email protected]

Frame Synchronization for Next Generation Uplink Coding in Deep Space Communications

In this paper we develop two new approaches for frame synchronization in the binary-input AWGN channel, in which we account for the sign ambiguity of the received symbols and exploit knowledge of an alternating sequence which precedes the synchronization word. We present an approach based on an extended sliding window and the appropriate decision metric. For the common case that the synchronization word is followed by encoded data we present a solution which exploits the error detection capability of the channel decoder and applies a list decoding approach for frame synchronization. The proposed methods are validated through computer simulations in the deepspace communication uplink and show significant performance gains compared to current solutions

Sobre els carrers de Castelló de 1928. Nomenclatura Oficial vs Nomenclatura Popular

Terceres Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la FCHS (Any 1997-1998

Psychosocial risk and protective factors for the health and well-being of professionals working in emergency and non-emergency medical transport services, identified via questionnaires

Medical transport (MT) professionals are subject to considerable emotional demands due to their involvement in life-or-death situations and their exposure to the serious health problems of their clients. An increase in the demand for MT services has, in turn, increased interest in the study of the psychosocial risk factors affecting the health of workers in this sector. However, research thus far has not distinguished between emergency (EMT) and non-emergency (non-EMT) services, nor between the sexes. Furthermore, little emphasis has been placed on the protective factors involved. The main objective of the present study is to identify any existing differential exposure - for reasons of work setting (EMT and non-EMT) or of gender - to the various psychosocial risk and protective factors affecting the health of MT workers.Descriptive and transversal research with responses from 201 professionals.The scores obtained on the various psychosocial scales in our study - as indicators of future health problems - were more unfavourable for non-EMT workers than they were for EMT workers. Work setting, but not gender, was able to account for these differences.The scores obtained for the different psychosocial factors are generally more favourable for the professionals we surveyed than those obtained in previous samples.The significant differences observed between EMT and non-EMT personnel raise important questions regarding the organization of work in companies that carry out both services at the same time in the same territory. The relationships among the set of risk/protective factors suggests a need for further investigation into working conditions as well as a consideration of the workers' sense of coherence and subjective well-being as protective factors against occupational burnout syndrom

A look at energy efficient system opportunities with community network clouds

Community networking is an emerging model of a shared communication infrastructure in which communities of citizens build and own open networks. Community networks offer successfully IP-based networking to the user. In addition, some hosts are connected to the network nodes in order to provide network management and end user services. Recently, clouds have been proposed for community networks. Some research projects such as Clommunity have started deploying computational infrastructure to enable cloud computing within community networks. In this paper we propose different options for such community clouds to contribute to energy efficient systems, in particular regarding cloud-based services and in relation to Smart Grid. Further discussion and interaction with the research initiatives on energy efficient systems should identify the most promising approach and outline possible ways for implementation.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version