Crisis y condiciones de vida. Algunos comentarios

¿Cuáles son las verdaderas consecuencias de la crisis y de la política de ajuste sobre los trabajadores, los campesinos y otros grupos sociales? En este artículo se destacan de manera crítica algunos elementos relacionados con el ingreso, el empleo, la distribución del ingreso y el gasto público en los llamados sectores de atención social. A juicio del autor, se está en el inicio de un periodo de mayor empobrecimiento para millones de personas si se mantiene la actual capacidad estatal para imponer las políticas que ya muestra consecuencias tan negativas en lo social o en lo productivo

Student-Athlete: A Study of Student-Athlete Workload Compared with Traditional Student Workload

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to collect and analyze data on the workload of students and student-athletes to determine if there is a significant difference in the workloads of student-athletes compared with non-athletes, including undergraduate and graduate students. It was hypothesized that student-athletes would spend more time in athletic activities, but would sacrifice time in other areas. Method: This analysis of variance study collected data from 22 students at South Dakota State University using the Student Activity Log and categorized those students using a combination of three of six labels (student-athlete or non-athlete, undergraduate or graduate, and working or nonworking). Once students were categorized, they submitted data using the Student Activity Log to show how much time was spent doing various activities, which were divided into the four major groups Academic, Athletic, Work, and Social. Those hours were then analyzed using a Mann-Whitney U Test to determine significant differences in the time expenditures between student-athletes and non-athletes. Statistical Analysis: Results: There was a significant difference in the time demands between student-athletes and nonathletes in their Academic, Athletic, and Work activities. There was no significant difference in the time demands between student-athletes and non-athletes in their Social activities. When adjusted to include only undergraduate students, the Academic time spent was no longer significantly different, but the results in the other categories remained the same. Conclusions: The time demands on student-athletes is similar to that of other students on campus in academic and social categories when only undergraduates are considered, but the time spent on athletic participation replaces that of having a job among other students. When all participants are included, athletes spend more time on academics than non-athletes. More research is needed to further validate these results

Solar integration in a district heating and cooling network

The purpose of this project is to perform an analysis of the feasibility of integrating solar energy into a district network, that supplies the demand of the domestic hot water, space heating and cooling. The project is divided into two main parts: the first part makes an exposition of the district networks, their situation in Spain, as well as the main solar heating and cooling systems and their components. The second part is the case of study where the district network is defined and the performance of the solar installation model are analysed, as well as the most significant elements that make up the system are presented.Ingeniería de la Energí

Indicadores lingüísticos para un discurso igualitario

Han pasado ya varios años desde la aprobación de leyes orgánicas, reales decretos, etc. sobre igualdad entre mujeres y hombres en el ámbito académico universitario. Tras una primera valoración sobre la repercusión que ha tenido la normativa en el uso de un lenguaje inclusivo e igualitario en los discursos académicos orales y escritos que tienen lugar en las aulas universitarias, se puede afirmar que, de momento, todavía queda camino por recorrer. Por ese motivo, el objetivo de esta comunicación es presentar los indicadores o elementos lingüísticos que puede utilizar el profesorado para detectar la inclusión o no de la perspectiva de género en los materiales docentes que pone a disposición del alumnado (guías docentes, textos, presentaciones). Para ello, se mostrarán los recursos más útiles que nos proporciona la lengua para hacer visibles en nuestros discursos orales y escritos a la mujer y al hombre. La visibilización no se reduce solo al desdoblamiento de sustantivos (alumnas y alumnos, profesores y profesoras), la lengua española es muy rica en opciones y estrategias lingüísticas (formas genéricas, cambios en la redacción) ausentes de sexismo lingüístico y que visibilizan a ambos sexos, sin que por ello quebrantemos las normas gramaticales

Achieving super-realtime performance for tennis table ball tracking

Treballs Finals de Grau d'Enginyeria Informàtica, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2018, Director: Eloi Puertas i Prats[en] Table Tennis is inherently a sport where the ball itself moves extremely fast. In this paper, we present a super-realtime optimization of the work done by Christian Soler’s algorithm for tennis table ball and bounce detection. We also provide a proof-of-concept in the form of a C++/CUDA program that achieves rates of up to 1,000 frames per second processed

Measuring Disaster Resiliency in the Rio Grande Valley

People are now becoming more conscious of the effects of climate change. They are seeking to understand how to manage their resources and prepare for when a disaster strikes. The growing studies of disaster resilience lend that opportunity. In this spatial and temporal study, disaster resilience was measured for each census tract within the four counties of the Rio Grande Valley. Utilizing GIS tools and methods, the study examines resilience patterns between 2010 and 2017. Results showed that even though various census tracts from each of the four counties increased in resilience from 2010 to 2017, the overall total resilience for each county still decreased throughout the study years. Findings also showed the importance of socio-economic resiliency in the study areas

Achieving super-realtime performance for tennis table ball tracking

Treballs Finals de Grau d'Enginyeria Informàtica, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2018, Director: Eloi Puertas i Prats[en] Table Tennis is inherently a sport where the ball itself moves extremely fast. In this paper, we present a super-realtime optimization of the work done by Christian Soler’s algorithm for tennis table ball and bounce detection. We also provide a proof-of-concept in the form of a C++/CUDA program that achieves rates of up to 1,000 frames per second processed

Genomic analyses of microdissected Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells: mutations in epigenetic regulators and p53 are frequent in refractory classic Hodgkin lymphoma

This work was supported by grants from the Plan Nacional de I + D + I cofinanced by the ISCIII-Subdirección General de Evaluación and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), PI12/1832, the Spanish Association for Cancer Research (AECC), and Programas para Grupos de Investigación de la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid (Biomedicina 2017)

A missense variant (P10L) of the melanopsin (OPN4) gene in seasonal affective disorder

Background: Melanopsin, a non-visual photopigment, may play a role in aberrant responses to low winter light levels in Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). We hypothesize that functional sequence variation in the melanopsin gene could contribute to increasing the light needed for normal functioning during winter in SAD. Methods: Associations between alleles, genotypes, and haplotypes of melanopsin in SAD participants (n = 130) were performed relative to controls with no history of psychopathology (n = 90). Results: SAD participants had a higher frequency of the homozygous minor genotype (T/T) for the missense variant rs2675703 (P10L) than controls, compared to the combined frequencies of C/C and C/T. Individuals with the T/T genotype were 5.6 times more likely to be in the SAD group than the control group, and all 7 (5%) of individuals with the T/T genotype at P10L were in the SAD group. Limitations: The study examined only one molecular component of the non-visual light input pathway, and recruitment methods for the comparison groups differed. Conclusion: These findings support the hypothesis that melanopsin variants may predispose some individuals to SAD. Characterizing the genetic basis for deficits in the non-visual light input pathway has the potential to define mechanisms underlying the pathological response to light in SAD, which may improve treatment. © 2008 Elsevier B.V