Tendiendo puentes virtuales entre la Educación para la Muerte y la escuela. Una propuesta educativa innovadora mediante el uso de las TIC

La sociedad actual se encuentra inmersa en la era digital, experimentando a lo largo de los últimos años una vertiginosa evolución tecnológica. Asimismo, el contexto educativo posee un desafío centrado en la capacitación de las competencias imprescindibles de los discentes del S.XXI, mediante el uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje. El presente Trabajo de Fin de Grado corresponde a la línea de innovación tecnológica aplicada en el ámbito educativo de la etapa de educación primaria, cuya modalidad pertenece a una propuesta de actuación basada en la revisión del conocimiento científico disponible. En especial, un nexo entre las tecnologías emergentes y la pedagogía de la muerte como elemento transversal. Mediante esta fusión entre el tratamiento de la educación para la vida y la muerte con el uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación, se apuesta por el abordaje de un tema tabú en las instituciones educativas causando un fomento y desarrollo personal e íntegro del alumnado. La finalidad principal se centra en el diseño de una propuesta educativa cuya temática central sea la educación para la muerte a través de la aplicación de las TIC. Esta propuesta invita a la reflexión y evidencia la viabilidad de la inclusión de la educación para la muerte como línea transversal en la etapa de educación primaria, fomentando y cultivando simultáneamente el desarrollo emocional del alumnado, aspecto clave en esta temática. Para ello, se diseña una plataforma e-learning colmada de una serie de recursos tecnológicos, digitales y didácticos para el alumnado de 6º de primaria de la comunidad de aprendizaje Maestra Caridad Ruiz. Se aboga por el conectivismo, una estrategia metodológica emergente acorde a la línea de trabajo. En relación con la evaluación, esta se lleva a cabo mediante distintas técnicas e instrumentos pudiendo destacar el portafolio online

Operators on Lp and the role of the image of the unit ball

Let p ∈ [1, +∞] such that its conjugate exponent q is not an even integer and let T be an operator defined on Lp(λ) with values in a Banach space. In this note we discuss how the image of the unit ball determines whether T belongs to some classes of operators such as operator ideals or the class of representable operators. We also study the monotonicity of these properties, proving that a Banach space is Cisomorphic to a subspace of an Lq space if and only if the representability of every operator on Lp is monotone with respect to the image of the unit ball.Plan Nacional I+D+I (Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología)Junta de Andalucí

Deployment of Digital Video and Audio Over Electrical SCADA Networks

With the arrival of new hardware and software technologies, supervisory control and data acquisition human-machine interfaces (SCADA/HMI), usually text-based, can now benefit from the advantages the inclusion of multimedia information brings. However, due to the special requirements imposed by such systems, integrating audio and video data into the SCADA interfaces is not a trivial task. In this document we analyze those special characteristics and propose solutions so this integration is possible in power systems communication.Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TIC2000-0367-P4-0

Power Systems Monitoring and Control using Telecom Network Management Standards

Historically, different solutions have been developed for power systems control and telecommunications network management environments. The former was characterized by proprietary solutions, while the latter has been involved for years in a strong standardization process guided by criteria of openness. Today, power systems control standardization is in progress, but it is at an early stage compared to the telecommunications management area, especially in terms of information modeling. Today, control equipment tends to exhibit more computational power, and communication lines have increased their performance. These trends hint at some conceptual convergence between power systems and telecommunications networks from a management perspective. This convergence leads us to suggest the application of well-established telecommunications management standards for power systems control. This paper shows that this is a real medium-to-long term possibility

Mitigating energy poverty: Potential contributions of combining PV and building thermal mass storage in low-income households

The issue of energy poverty has devastating implications for the society, and it has been aggravated in the past years due to the economic crisis and the increase of energy prices. Among the most affected are those with low incomes and living in inefficient buildings. Unfortunately, the bitter reality is that sometimes this part of the population are facing the next question: Heating, or eating? The declining prices of distributed energy technologies such as photovoltaics provides an opportunity for positive social change. Although their use does not address energy poverty directly, substantial contributions may be made. Measurements of indoor temperatures in a social housing district of southern Spain in 2017 have revealed the unbearable temperatures that the occupants have to endure, both in summer and winter. Using this district as a case study, the present work aims to evaluate the benefits of exploiting its rooftop PV potential to cover part of the electricity consumption of the district (reducing the energy bills), and use the surplus electricity to supply power for the heat pumps in the district. Optimal alternatives regarding maximum PV production, maximum self-sufficiency ratio and minimum investment costs have been found, considering as well different options when sharing the available electricity surplus to improve the thermal comfort of the occupants. As far as the authors know, no previous study has followed an approach aimed at energy poverty alleviation such as the one presented in this work. The results show that using the surplus electricity to heat or cool the whole dwellings would improve the thermal comfort of the occupants in average up to 11% in winter and 26% in summer. If all the PV generation was used or more buildings in the area were employed to install PV modules, improvements up to 33% in winter and 67% in summer could be obtained, reducing at the same time the thermal comfort differences among the dwellings of the district

Integración de microorganismos benéficos (hongos micorrícicos y bacterias rizosféricas) en agrosistemas de las Islas Canarias

Microbial activity in the rhizosphere is greatly responsible for the good functioning of the ecosystem and for the fertility of agricultural soil. Amongst the micro-organisms that are beneficial to the soil, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) such as the plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), key constituents of the rhizosphere zone, contribute to improved growth and feeding of the plant, in addition to increased plant tolerance to biotic or abiotic stress. Introducing these micro-organisms to systems guarantees sustainability by helping to optimise soil quality and health, to reduce the release of nutrients and increase yield. This chapter summarises advances in the handling of these rhizospheric micro-organisms in Canary agricultural systems and some of the effects of their being applied, in the first stages of plant growth, to various species of agricultural interest in the archipelago (fodder crops, horticultural crops, tropical fruits, etc.), with or without the presence of root pathogens.La actividad microbiana de la rizosfera es, en gran medida, responsable del funcionamiento del ecosistema y de la fertilidad de los suelos agrícolas. Entre los microorganismos benéficos del suelo, tanto los hongos formadores de micorrizas arbusculares (MA) como las bacterias rizosféricas promotoras del crecimiento (BRPC), constituyentes claves de la zona rizosférica, contribuyen a mejorar el desarrollo y la nutrición de la planta, así como a incrementar la tolerancia de los cultivos frente a determinadas situaciones de estrés de tipo biótico o abiótico. La integración de estos microorganismos en los sistemas garantizan la sostenibilidad, contribuyendo a optimizar la calidad y la salud del suelo, limitar el aporte de nutrientes e incrementar los rendimientos. En el presente capitulo, se resumen los avances en el manejo de estos microorganismos rizosféricos en los agrosistemas de Canarias, así como algunos resultados de los efectos de su aplicación durante las primeras fases del cultivo, sobre diferentes especies de interés agrícola en el archipiélago (forrajeras, hortícolas, frutales tropicales, etc.), en presencia o no de patógenos de raíz

IDOLO: Multimedia Data Deployment on SCADA Systems

IDOLO project was born with the objective of adding audiovisual information to the usually text-based Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI) used on Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. This is not a simple task, as SCADA systems have traditionally been based on proprietary, low transmission speed networks, due to the special requirements that such systems impose in terms of network reliability and timing requirements. Within this paper we describe our efforts on the design, implementation and deployment of a networked computer system that adds multimedia information to the usually textbased SCADA/HMI systems. IDOLO system is based on wellknown hardware and software solutions, such as Ethernet networks or MPEG codecs, resulting in a flexible and expandable system that has succesfully been deployed on a real electrical facility

A Distributed Approach for Estimating Battery State-Of-Charge in Solar Farms

A common problem in solar farms is to predict when accumulators stop working optimally and start losing efficiency. This paper proposes and describes how to use Bayesian networks together with expert systems to predict this moment by using a telecontrol multiagent system for monitoring solar farms with distributed sensors, which was developed in a previous work. To this end, a Bayesian network model and its implementation are proposed. The resulting system meets the requirements of telecontrol systems (reliability, flexibility, and response time), yields a solution for the prediction of lifespan batteries, and provides the multiagent system with autonomous intelligent capabilities and integrated learning.Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresas (Junta de Andalucía) P08-TIC-0386

Gene network downstream plant stress response modulated by peroxisomal H2O2

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) act as secondary messengers that can be sensed by specific redox-sensitive proteins responsible for the activation of signal transduction culminating in altered gene expression. The subcellular site, in which modifications in the ROS/oxidation state occur, can also act as a specific cellular redox network signal. The chemical identity of ROS and their subcellular origin is actually a specific imprint on the transcriptome response. In recent years, a number of transcriptomic studies related to altered ROS metabolism in plant peroxisomes have been carried out. In this study, we conducted a metaanalysis of these transcriptomic findings to identify common transcriptional footprints for plant peroxisomal-dependent signaling at early and later time points. These footprints highlight the regulation of various metabolic pathways and gene families, which are also found in plant responses to several abiotic stresses. Major peroxisomal-dependent genes are associated with protein and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protection at later stages of stress while, at earlier stages, these genes are related to hormone biosynthesis and signaling regulation. Furthermore, in silico analyses allowed us to assign human orthologs to some of the peroxisomal-dependent proteins, which are mainly associated with different cancer pathologies. Peroxisomal footprints provide a valuable resource for assessing and supporting key peroxisomal functions in cellular metabolism under control and stress conditions across species.Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MCIU)State Research Agency (AEI)FEDER grant PGC2018-098372-B-I00MCIU Research Personnel Training (FPI) grant BES-2016-07651