Analyzing Eurocities’ role in the Urban Agenda for the EU. Empowering cities in sustainable urban governance

Màster en Diplomàcia i Organitzacions Internacionals, Centre d'Estudis Internacionals. Universitat de Barcelona. Curs: 2022-2023. Tutora: Andrea NoferiniThis investigation aims to analyze the role of Eurocities’ network in the UAEU. Unveiling the implications this framework has for empowering cities and local entities within the urban governance structure at the EU level

Activity monitoring in patients with depression : A systematic review

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The rise and development of parenthetical needless to say: An assumed evidential strategy

The article traces the diachronic development of the assumed evidential needless to say. This parenthetical expression allows the speaker to make certain assertions regarding the obviousness of what s/he is about to say, thus serving as an evidential strategy that marks the information conveyed as being based on inference and/or assumed or general knowledge. Parenthetical needless to say has its roots in the Early Modern English needless to-INF construction (meaning ‘it is unnecessary to do something’), which originally licensed a wide range of infinitives. Over the course of time, however, it became restricted to uses with utterance verbs, eventually giving rise to the grammaticalized evidential expression needless to say. In fact, it is only in Late Modern English that the evidential pragmatic inferences become conventionalized and that the first parenthetical uses of the construction are attested. In Present-day English, parenthetical needless to say occurs primarily at the left periphery with forward scopeS

Detecting the ultra low dimensionality of real networks

Reducing dimension redundancy to find simplifying patterns in high dimensional datasets and complex networks has become a major endeavor in many scientific fields. However, detecting the dimensionality of their latent space is challenging but necessary to generate efficient embeddings to be used in a multitude of downstream tasks. Here, we propose a method to infer the dimensionality of networks without the need for any a priori spatial embed ding. Due to the ability of hyperbolic geometry to capture the complex con nectivity of real networks, we detect ultra low dimensionality far below values reported using other approaches. We applied our method to real networks from different domains and found unexpected regularities, including: tissue specific biomolecular networks being extremely low dimensional; brain con nectomes being close to the three dimensions of their anatomical embedding; and social networks and the Internet requiring slightly higher dimensionality. Beyond paving the way towards an ultra efficient dimensional reduction, our findings help address fundamental issues that hinge on dimensionality, such as universality in critical behavior.Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2019-106290GB-C22/AEI/10.13039/501100011033Generalitat de Catalunya 2017SGR106

Information from Automated Evaluation in an Engineering School

[EN] The paper introduces the need for automated evaluation and presents the experience of automating all the evaluations of a course in Computer Science in the sophomore year of an engineering degree. First, the paper describes the features needed and developed for that course and the positive results for both professors and students. The main advantage of automated evaluation is that it allows real continuous grading for all types of activities: short answers and exercises during the class, homework, short exercises evaluated every 10 days in class, medium term evaluations and the final grade for the course. A significant benefit of this practice is that it allows the professor, from the very beginning of the course, to monitor how the students perform each task. The professor can see in real time the marks of an exercise or evaluation, the global evolution of the class or the status of a specific student. The students also have immediate feedback from their exercises and the total points obtained at any given time providing greater involvement in the course. http://ocs.editorial.upv.es/index.php/HEAD/HEAD18Serrano, N.; Blanco, C.; Carias, F.; Reina, E. (2018). Information from Automated Evaluation in an Engineering School. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 987-994. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD18.2018.8132OCS98799

Sobre el origen de las razas caprinas españolas

Aún hoy, transcurridos más de 50 años desde que Aparicio Sánchez estableciera el origen de las razas caprinas españolas, su hipótesis está llena de contenido y actualidad. Las tres formas prehistóricas propuestas por este autor como troncos originarios, la Capra Prisca, la Capra Aegagrus y otra forma desconocida de procedencia africana son asumidas, así como las variedades Alpina y Pirenaica de la cabra Aegagrus anteriormente reconocida por Sanson (1903) y que fueron desarrolladas por este autor para el ámbito español. En este trabajo, matizamos las convergencias y divergencias con los autores antes mencionados, se reconoce al Íbice africano como posible forma prehistórica que intervino en la formación del sustrato a partir del cual se formaron nuestras razas y añadimos los posibles orígenes de razas actuales que no estaban caracterizadas ni reconocidas hace 50 años (Verata, Retinta Cacereña, Florida, Canaria, etc), si bien aún, no es posible determinar los orígenes de algunas de ellas ante los escasos conocimientos que se tienen de sus caracteres étnicos

Antigens and antibodies of the antiphospholipid syndrome as new allies in the pathogenesis of COVID-19 coagulopathy

High prevalence of both criteria and extra-criteria antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) has been reported in COVID-19 patients. However, the differences in aPL prevalence decreased when an age-matched control group was included. The association of aPL with thrombotic events in COVID-19 is very heterogeneous. This could be influenced by the fact that most of the studies carried out were conducted on small populations enriched with elderly patients in which aPL was measured only at a single point and they were performed with non-standardized assays. The few studies that confirmed aPL in a second measurement showed that aPL levels hardly changed, with the exception of the lupus anticoagulant that commonly reduced. COVID-19 coagulopathy is an aPL-independent phenomenon closely associated with the onset of the disease. Thrombosis occurs later in patients with aPL presence, which is likely an additional prothrombotic factor. B2-glycoprotein deficiency (mainly aPL antigen caused both by low production and consumption) is very common during the SARS-CoV2 infection and has been associated with a greater predisposition to COVID-19 complications. This could be a new prothrombotic mechanism that may be caused by the blockage of its physiological functions, the anticoagulant state being the most important