Financial Futures Markets and Their Impact on the Real Economy in Middle and Low Income Countries

This project analyses the influence of the futures market on middle and low income countries. In it, I attempt to show that investments made by large investment funds in this market, as well as by certain pension plans, bring major consequences whose effects are more evident in less developed countries. The cornerstones of the work are as follows; to attempt to see the existing relationship between the commodity futures market and its underlying assets; analysing products such as wheat, rice and corn in-depth, because these are the most basic foodstuffs at a global level; to determine how an increase in trading in these markets can affect the lives of people in the poorest countries; to analyse investor concern regarding the consequences that their investments may have. Throughout the project we will see how large speculators use production forecasting models to determine the shortage of a commodity in order to take a position in the futures market to profit from it. In addition we will see how an increase in trading in this market causes an increase in the price of the underlying asset in the spot market. As for investor concern, I can say it is negligible, but the idea of running pension plans or investment funds that follow some social criteria has been welcomed by those interviewed, which makes me think that different legislation is possible. This legislation will only come into existence if it is demanded by the people. A fact that now becomes complicated because without a minimum financial basis, they cannot even know how the large investment funds trade with hunger in the world. The day when most people understand how large speculators profit from famine will be the day to put pressure on governments to begin to put limits on speculation. This makes financial awareness necessary in order to achieve a curb in excessive speculation.

Redes bipartitas: aplicación a un caso económico real

[ES]El TFG consta de dos partes: en la primera se expondrá la teoría sobre las redes que se utilizarán en la segunda parte, que consistirá en el análisis de un caso real donde se aplicarán las redes estudiadas en la primera parte.

Cuerno electroacústico: restauración de patrimonio en la UPV/EHU

Dirigido por JON BARREDO en colaboración de MAITE INSAUSTI. Diseño gráfico y tratamiento de la imágen HAYDÉ NEGRO .-- 54 p.

Patrimonio cultural subacuático

Con el estudio práctico de este tema, tan rico e interesante, pretendo elaborar una revisión de las normas jurídicas que regulan el régimen del patrimonio cultural subacuático, tanto a nivel internacional (UNESCO 2001) como nacional, parando a analizar un apartado especial dedicado al estudio de esta situación en el País Vasco. Por otra parte, trataré también los aspectos técnico - náuticos en relación con las operaciones de investigación y desarrollo de proyectos, búsqueda, rescate y preservación del patrimonio cultural subacuático describiéndose, a continuación, algunos de los casos más importantes en la materia.

Participación ciudadana, patrimonio cultural y museos: entre la teoría y la praxis

Cap. 1. La Nueva Museología, el patrimonio cultural y la participación ciudadana a debate. Iñaki Arrieta Urtizberea Cap. 2. Museos: del público al ciudadano. Rafael Azuar Ruiz Cap. 3. Los públicos y lo público. De mutismos, sorderas, y de diálogos sociales en museos y espacios patrimoniales. Luz Maceira Ochoa Cap. 4. La restitution du patrimoine: un rôle pour le musée? Études de cas dans les communautés innues du Québec et du Labrador (Canada). Élise Dubuc Cap. 5. El museo de territorio y sociedad, ¿una utopía? el caso del Museo Industrial del Ter. Carles García Hermosilla Cap. 6. El ecomuseo del río Caicena (Almedinilla-Córdoba): un proyecto de desarrollo rural desde el patrimonio histórico-natural, ¿y la participación ciudadana? Ignacio Muñiz Jaén Cap. 7. Mé-tisser les mémoires. Musées indiens du nordeste brésilien. Martin Soares Cap. 8. El patrimonio como proceso social. Intervención, desarrollo y consumo del patrimonio minero en Andalucía. Macarena Hernández Ramírez y Esteban Ruiz Ballesteros Cap. 9. Legislación patrimonial, intervención pública y participación ciudadana en la declaración de un conjunto histórico. Iñaki Arrieta Urtizberea Cap. 10. El castillo de Montsoriu. La participación de la sociedad civil. Joaquim Mateu Gasquet Cap. 11. El patrimonio cultural; espacio de encuentro. Daniel Arnesio Lara Montero

Global movements, national grievances. Mobilizing for “real democracy” and social justice

In the ashes of political and socio-economic collapse, social movements sometimes rise like a phoenix. Little more than a year has passed since the Tunisian uprisings, the spark that ignited a series of “mobilizations of the indignant” that spread like wildfire around the world. Many observers have reported on these unprecedented global protests. They have portrayed citizens who declare feeling marginalized if not scapegoated, and who reject the increasing inequalities between rich and poor, the declining mobility of most, and the “disclassment” of many. They have shown, as well, massive protests against governments and politicians that are perceived as indifferent at best, duplicitous at worst, and in any event as blatantly closed to popular concerns. Many journalists have indeed asked what took so long for people to protest given this fatal combination. For the social scientist, however, the questions of who, why and how mobilizes are not so simple. There are specific problematics of mediation between structure, culture and individual or collective agency that need to be addressed.

A Real-Time Sliding Mode Control for a Wind Energy System Based on a Doubly Fed Induction Generator

In this paper, a real time sliding mode control scheme for a variable speed wind turbine that incorporates a doubly feed induction generator is described. In this design, the so-called vector control theory is applied, in order to simplify the system electrical equations. The proposed control scheme involves a low computational cost and therefore can be implemented in real-time applications using a low cost Digital Signal Processor (DSP). The stability analysis of the proposed sliding mode controller under disturbances and parameter uncertainties is provided using the Lyapunov stability theory. A new experimental platform has been designed and constructed in order to analyze the real-time performance of the proposed controller in a real system. Finally, the experimental validation carried out in the experimental platform shows; on the one hand that the proposed controller provides high-performance dynamic characteristics, and on the other hand that this scheme is robust with respect to the uncertainties that usually appear in the real systems.

Incidental Memory of Younger and Older Adults for Objects Encountered in a Real World Context

Effects of context on the perception of, and incidental memory for, real-world objects have predominantly been investigated in younger individuals, under conditions involving a single static viewpoint. We examined the effects of prior object context and object familiarity on both older and younger adults' incidental memory for real objects encountered while they traversed a conference room. Recognition memory for context-typical and context-atypical objects was compared with a third group of unfamiliar objects that were not readily named and that had no strongly associated context. Both older and younger adults demonstrated a typicality effect, showing significantly lower 2-alternative-forced-choice recognition of context-typical than context-atypical objects; for these objects, the recognition of older adults either significantly exceeded, or numerically surpassed, that of younger adults. Testing-awareness elevated recognition but did not interact with age or with object type. Older adults showed significantly higher recognition for context-atypical objects than for unfamiliar objects that had no prior strongly associated context. The observation of a typicality effect in both age groups is consistent with preserved semantic schemata processing in aging. The incidental recognition advantage of older over younger adults for the context-typical and context-atypical objects may reflect aging-related differences in goal-related processing, with older adults under comparatively more novel circumstances being more likely to direct their attention to the external environment, or age-related differences in top-down effortful distraction regulation, with older individuals' attention more readily captured by salient objects in the environment. Older adults' reduced recognition of unfamiliar objects compared to context-atypical objects may reflect possible age differences in contextually driven expectancy violations. The latter finding underscores the theoretical and methodological value of including a third type of objects-that are comparatively neutral with respect to their contextual associations-to help differentiate between contextual integration effects (for schema-consistent objects) and expectancy violations (for schema-inconsistent objects).

Diseño y programación del control numérico para el mecanizado del escudo del Real Madrid.

[ES]El objetivo de este proyecto es programar el control numérico para la mecanización del escudo del Real Madrid. Para conseguir esto, primero es necesario aprender cómo funcionan los programas que se van a usar. Después de esto se va a crear el archivo CAD, usando el programa Solid Edge. Luego, usando el programa SurfCam Velocity 4.0 se programará el control numérico necesario para la fabricación del escudo.

Programa de intervención de actividades acuáticas con personas con parálisis cerebral en aspace de Vitoria -Gasteiz : caso real

[ES] El objetivo del presente trabajo de investigación es la elaboración de un programa de intervención de actividades acuáticas dirigido a personas con parálisis cerebral en ASPACE de Vitoria-Gasteiz (Álava). Se han diseñado, aplicado y evaluado las actividades en función de los objetivos pretendidos en el programa. Consideramos que su puesta en práctica servirá para favorecer la convivencia entre nuestros participantes del programa. Este programa pretende ser un modelo de acción que puede ser aplicado tanto en el ámbito del ocio y del tiempo libre como en el ámbito educativo, considerados estos estos como elementos favorecedores de su desarrollo

Impuesto sobre el patrimonio: divergencias normativas en la Comunidad Autónoma Vasca

El presente trabajo analiza las principales divergencias que se dan a nivel autonómico en cuanto a la normativa que sanciona el patrimonio neto. Tratando de este modo de esclarecer de un modo técnico cuales son y qué efectos producen dichas diferencias, y si realmente es tanta la diferencia existente, en cuanto a tributación, entre las tres Haciendas Forales. A pesar de que son muchas las diferencias existentes, he considerado que las que mayor diferencia suponen para el contribuyente son las derivadas de la tarifa del impuesto, del mínimo exento, del tratamiento y valoración de las participaciones y del límite conjunto renta patrimonio. De ahí, que una vez realizada una introducción en lo referente a los aspectos más genéricos del impuesto se analizan los aspectos del impuesto que mayor debate generan en el ámbito tributario, y que son los que mayor parte del trabajo soportan. Con los resultados obtenidos del análisis el lector podrá evaluar, de manera objetiva y apoyándose en un trabajo técnico, los diferentes aspectos analizados.