Codi de Conducta en Competicions Esportives de Petanca

Aquest Codi de Conducta sistematitza tot un conjunt d'elements que pretenen ser una referència en la promoció i el desenvolupament de les competicions esportives de petanca. És un instrument que l'Àrea de Formació de la Federació Catalana de Petanca (FCP) posa a l'abast dels clubs i de les entitats que volen millorar el bon fer esportiu. I que també volen impulsar les conductes, els comportaments, les actituds i els valors positius i desitjables del nostre esport (inclusió, convivència, cooperació, participació, socialització, compromís, organització, democràcia, etc.). Com a eina pedagògica incideix en aspectes positius, reforça les bones conductes i evita les visions exclusives més centrades en les sancions. Per tant, des d'una perspectiva clarament educativa, no pretén substituir altres normatives i reglaments vigents. Tampoc té l'objectiu de rellevar la tasca que puguin realitzar altres òrgans de l'organigrama de la FCP, com per exemple el seu Comitè de Competició i Disciplina o el Comitè d'Àrbitres. La idea és oferir als clubs i les entitats un material útil i profitós, perquè el puguin emprar en les seves comunitats esportives, així com en les competicions esportives de petanca que organitzen

Avances en Informática y Automática. Octavo Workshop

[ES]El Máster Oficial en Sistemas Inteligentes de la Universidad de Salamanca tiene como principal objetivo promover la iniciación de los estudiantes en el ámbito de la investigación. El congreso organizado por el Departamento de Informática y Automática que se celebra dentro del Máster en Sistemas Inteligentes de la Universidad de Salamanca proporciona la oportunidad ideal para que sus estudiantes presenten los principales resultados de sus Trabajos de Fin de Máster y obtengan una realimentación del interés de los mismos. La octava edición del workshop “Avances en Informática y Automática”, correspondiente al curso 2013 - 2014, ha sido un encuentro interdisciplinar donde se han presentado trabajos pertenecientes a un amplio abanico de líneas de investigación, desde los sistemas multiagente, la visualización de la información o la minería de datos hasta la lógica, el reconocimiento de patrones o las redes neuronales. Todos los trabajos han sido supervisados por investigadores de reconocido prestigio pertenecientes a la Universidad de Salamanca, proporcionando el marco idóneo para sentar las bases de una futura tesis doctoral. Entre los principales objetivos del congreso se encuentran: ofrecer a los estudiantes un marco donde exponer sus primeros trabajos de investigación. Proporcionar a los participantes un foro donde discutir ideas y encontrar nuevas sugerencias de compañeros, investigadores y otros asistentes a la reunión. Permitir a cada estudiante una realimentación de los participantes sobre su trabajo y una orientación sobre las futuras direcciones de investigación. Contribuir al desarrollo del espíritu de colaboración en la investigación

CHEMICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF STARCHES FROM LEGUMES AND APPLICATION OF THE EXTRACTION RESIDUES IN EXPANDED EXTRUDED SNACKS

Starches from legumes (carioca bean, white bean and chickpea) were extracted, aiming at their chemical and morphological characterization, as well as evaluating the use ofthe extraction residues to elaborate expanded extruded snacks. The analyses carried out for the starches and their respective residues were moisture, proteins, lipids, ash, dietary fiber and carbohydrates. The starches were also evaluated with respect to their morphological characteristics, using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). The residues were used in formulations containing corn flour to produce expanded extruded snacks. These snacks were evaluated as to their expansion index (EI), water absorption index (WAI) and water solubility index (WSI). WAI and WSI analyses were also performed for the residues. The results demonstrated that the starches presented similar composition regarding moisture and carbohydrates, with a high carbohydrate content (close to 91%). The starch granules presented sizes between 15 and 25μm and a flat oval shape, with the chickpea starch granules being the smallest with a tendency to form agglomerates. The residues presented significant amounts ofcarbohydrates (between 70 and 75%), apart from expressive quantities ofdietary fibers (between 25 and 39%). In the evaluation ofWAI and WSI ofthe residues, IAA values were close for the sources studied (close to 11g/g), WSI was greater for carioca bean (close to 15.6%). The snacks containing the carioca bean residues had the highest EI value (6.3), while the highest values for WAI and WSI (respectively, 14.4g/g and 31.1%) were found for the snacks with white bean residues

Vegetable grafting: The implications of a growing agronomic imperative for vegetable fruit quality and nutritive value

Grafting has become an imperative for intensive vegetable production since chlorofluorocarbon-based soil fumigants were banned from use on grounds of environmental protection. Compelled by this development, research into rootstock–scion interaction has broadened the potential applications of grafting in the vegetable industry beyond aspects of soil phytopathology. Grafting has been increasingly tapped for cultivation under adverse environs posing abiotic and biotic stresses to vegetable crops, thus enabling expansion of commercial production onto otherwise under-exploited land. Vigorous rootstocks have been employed not only in the open field but also under protected cultivation where increase in productivity improves distribution of infrastructural and energy costs. Applications of grafting have expanded mainly in two families: the Cucurbitaceae and the Solanaceae, both of which comprise major vegetable crops. As the main drives behind the expansion of vegetable grafting have been the resistance to soilborne pathogens, tolerance to abiotic stresses and increase in yields, rootstock selection and breeding have accordingly conformed to the prevailing demand for improving productivity, arguably at the expense of fruit quality. It is, however, compelling to assess the qualitative implications of this growing agronomic practice for human nutrition. Problems of impaired vegetable fruit quality have not infrequently been associated with the practice of grafting. Accordingly, the aim of the current review is to reassess how the practice of grafting and the prevalence of particular types of commercial rootstocks influence vegetable fruit quality and, partly, storability. Physical, sensorial and bioactive aspects of quality are examined with respect to grafting for watermelon, melon, cucumber, tomato, eggplant, and pepper. The physiological mechanisms at play which mediate rootstock effects on scion performance are discussed in interpreting the implications of grafting for the configuration of vegetable fruit physicochemical quality and nutritive value