Keys to success in an example of inter-competitor cooperation: The case of the "Big Seven" basque chefs

The case of the top chefs relates the two areas that are apparently most distant, nutrition and health technology. It is the element that binds[3] the four, making them into a single whole. The results achieved by our chefs, in terms of their individual and collective success and their international projection of the image of the Basque Country comprise a goal to which other industries in the region should aspire. It is therefore our plan to apply the keys to this successful inter-competitor cooperation to development of the health technology industry. At the same time, we want to fulfil one of the aims that have been established for the food area: to make use of the country’s gastronomy-related assets.

Propiedades eclesiásticas en una ciudad aduanera: los jesuitas en Orduña, 1689-1767

[ES]El colegio de los jesuitas de Orduña, uno de los más tardíos de todo el País Vasco, sigue en su fundación un patrón característico en los casos de mecenazgo indiano: benefactor oriundo, capital consolidado sobre el comercio y el servicio de la Corona, y diseño dirigido desde el otro lado del Atlántico, en este caso desde el Perú. El presente artículo aporta algunas claves sobre esas cuestiones, y ahonda en la formación del patrimonio que la Compañía de Jesús logró reunir en esta ciudad aduanera del Señorío de Vizcaya hasta el momento de la expulsión decretada por el rey Carlos III.

Ikasketa eta zerbitzu solidarioaren izaera inklusiboa: Herritarren konpromiso eta beharretatik, jabekuntza prozesu publiko bezain sozialera.

Gizarte Hezkuntzako Gradu Amaierako Lanaren barruan kokatzen den lan teoriko honek, Ikasketa eta Zerbitzu Solidarioaren gaineko informazio iturri esanguratsuenetarikoak kontuan harturik, bere izaera inklusiboa berrestea du helburu. Horretarako, metodo berritzaile honen argibide kontzeptualak azaltzeaz batera, prozesu demokratizatzaile eta inklusibo bat ematea posible egiten duten gakoak argitu eta bazterketari aurre egitea ahalbidetzen duen jabekuntza prozesuaz eta kapital soziala bereganatzeko moduaz idatzi da. Jendarte eraldaketa gizarte hezitzaileen lanbidearen eginbeharretako bat izanik, asmo hau lortzeko bide berrien emariak jaso beharko liratezke. Arrazoi horregatik, zerbitzu solidario bat eskaintzearen bitartez, ezagutzak areagotzea eta transformazio prozesu bat abian jartzen duen metodologia honen garrantziaz ohartarazten da.

La técnica del interrogatorio judicial

[ES]Al escuchar la palabra interrogatorio, lo que normalmente sucede es que las personas asocien dicho término con el interrogatorio realizado por parte de la policía, debido a la gran cantidad de películas basadas en este tipo de interrogatorio. Lo que se ha pretendido a través de este trabajo es el estudio y análisis de las características y funciones que generalmente invaden el interrogatorio judicial, así como el examen de las distintas técnicas posibles a llevar a cabo para la consecución de su fin: la verdad sobre los hechos probados. Además, se ha querido subrayar la importancia e influencia que tiene la ciencia de la psicología en este campo, estableciendo y exponiendo diferentes claves psicológicas para realizar de una mejor manera el trabajo del abogado en el acto del interrogatorio judicial, ya que, aun siendo imprescindible el conocimiento de la ciencia del Derecho, ha de tenerse muy en cuenta y de hecho, no olvidarse de la ciencia de la Psicología.

Estudio de caso de Organización de Empresas: IBERDROLA y su Programa SAVIA

Fenómenos como la globalización y la tecnología traen consigo cambios que están alterando las reglas del juego en el mundo empresarial. La protagonista del panorama actual es la innovación y para trabajar en ello las claves del éxito son la motivación, el trabajo en equipo y un rol directivo que evolucione hacia el papel de Líder-Coach-Facilitador, afirmando la importancia de los factores organizacionales. Bajo estas premisas, a lo largo del documento se analizan las áreas organizativas de trabajo en equipo, de comunicación, de liderazgo y de motivación, reflejadas en una empresa referente como es IBERDROLA, que profundiza y recopila los aspectos mencionados en su modelo de competencias al que denomina Programa SAVIA. A partir de ahí y siguiendo el camino de la mejora continua, se plantearán unas propuestas personales.

Marketing de la moda. Condicionantes y claves de éxito

El presente trabajo analiza algunas de las claves más importantes de la comercialización de la moda, actualmente condicionada por los muchos e importantes cambios experimentados en el mercado. Entre los que más han afectado a esta industria, destacan los avances tecnológicos, el nuevo comportamiento del consumidor o las nuevas formas de distribución. Se muestran algunas de las diferentes estrategias y herramientas que han adoptado las marcas para la comercialización de los productos, teniendo en cuenta los gustos y preferencias de los consumidores. Finalmente, se aborda el efecto que ha tenido la aparición de los blogs para la venta de moda, gracias a entrevistas realizadas a personas influyentes en este ámbito.

Feature Selection for Speech Emotion Recognition in Spanish and Basque: On the Use of Machine Learning to Improve Human-Computer Interaction

Study of emotions in human-computer interaction is a growing research area. This paper shows an attempt to select the most significant features for emotion recognition in spoken Basque and Spanish Languages using different methods for feature selection. RekEmozio database was used as the experimental data set. Several Machine Learning paradigms were used for the emotion classification task. Experiments were executed in three phases, using different sets of features as classification variables in each phase. Moreover, feature subset selection was applied at each phase in order to seek for the most relevant feature subset. The three phases approach was selected to check the validity of the proposed approach. Achieved results show that an instance-based learning algorithm using feature subset selection techniques based on evolutionary algorithms is the best Machine Learning paradigm in automatic emotion recognition, with all different feature sets, obtaining a mean of 80,05% emotion recognition rate in Basque and a 74,82% in Spanish. In order to check the goodness of the proposed process, a greedy searching approach (FSS-Forward) has been applied and a comparison between them is provided. Based on achieved results, a set of most relevant non-speaker dependent features is proposed for both languages and new perspectives are suggested.

Methodological keys for the acquisition and long-term use of photographic collections representing elements of Heritage

Contributed to: Fusion of Cultures. XXXVIII Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – CAA2010 (Granada, Spain, Apr 6-9, 2010)

Music-Theoretic Estimation of Chords and Keys from Audio

This paper proposes a new method for local key and chord estimation from audio signals. This method relies primarily on principles from music theory, and does not require any training on a corpus of labelled audio files. A harmonic content of the musical piece is first extracted by computing a set of chroma vectors. A set of chord/key pairs is selected for every frame by correlation with fixed chord and key templates. An acyclic harmonic graph is constructed with these pairs as vertices, using a musical distance to weigh its edges. Finally, the sequences of chords and keys are obtained by finding the best path in the graph using dynamic programming. The proposed method allows a mutual chord and key estimation. It is evaluated on a corpus composed of Beatles songs for both the local key estimation and chord recognition tasks, as well as a larger corpus composed of songs taken from the Billboard dataset.

Prioritization of candidate cancer genes-an aid to oncogenomic studies

The development of techniques for oncogenomic analyses such as array comparative genomic hybridization, messenger RNA expression arrays and mutational screens have come to the fore in modern cancer research. Studies utilizing these techniques are able to highlight panels of genes that are altered in cancer. However, these candidate cancer genes must then be scrutinized to reveal whether they contribute to oncogenesis or are coincidental and non-causative. We present a computational method for the prioritization of candidate (i) proto-oncogenes and (ii) tumour suppressor genes from oncogenomic experiments. We constructed computational classifiers using different combinations of sequence and functional data including sequence conservation, protein domains and interactions, and regulatory data. We found that these classifiers are able to distinguish between known cancer genes and other human genes. Furthermore, the classifiers also discriminate candidate cancer genes from a recent mutational screen from other human genes. We provide a web-based facility through which cancer biologists may access our results and we propose computational cancer gene classification as a useful method of prioritizing candidate cancer genes identified in oncogenomic studies.

Making object-oriented databases more knowledgeable (From ADAM to ABEL)

Tesis leida en la Universidad de Aberdeen. 178 p.

Brand image and lexicographic analysis: an application to shopping malls

[EN] The concept of image in its different aspects is very important in today s society as well as in the business management field. Some authors reports that most of the studies that measure image do not take into account neither previous theoretical and conceptual models nor other possible empirical evidence alternatives. Given this need, a research regarding the concept of brand image applied to shopping malls was conducted based on the conceptual model of the consumer cognitive response in order to empirically explore and contrast it. For this reason, a survey was applied to 420 consumers in five shopping malls in Bogotá, achieving a database of 3.749 cases. The results show attribute-shopping mall associations expressed in unique, differentiated, and notorious vocabulary obtained applying lexicometric and multivariate analysis techniques. Attribute-shopping mall associations such as spacious , good location , good variety of stores , and the existence of movie theaters . Finally, this research aims to potentially improve the management of shopping malls and increase their attractiveness and customer loyalty by applying the development of service quality systems, integral communication, segmentation, and positioning.