Una aproximación a la evolución de la ciencia regional en España a través de las contribuciones a las Reuniones de Estudios Regionales (1973-2004)

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the contributions that have been presented to the 30 Spanish Regional Studies Meetings which have been hold since 1973. Firstly, the paper displays rankings of the authors and institutions that have participated more actively in the Meetings. Secondly, the paper analyses the main changes in the objectives, topics and research techniques of the contributions, as well as in the scientific specialisation of their authors. This analysis allows drawing some conclusions on the evolution of Regional Science in Spain throughout the last 30 years.

The Spanish Infrastructure Stock, 1844-1935

This paper presents the first estimates of Spanish infrastructure stock and investment for the period 1845-1935. Several sources and techniques have been used in the estimation, and the new series are reasonably reliable to the standards of historical statistics. Two distinct periods may be distinguished in the series: the years before 1895 (characterized by the prominence of railroads) and the period 1895-1935 (when most investment was addressed to other assets). The new series allow a preliminary comparison of the Spanish infrastructure endowment with that of the most advanced countries, showing a gradual process of convergence before 1936.

La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes a la nueva luz de Barcarrota

El ejemplar único de la edición de Medina del Campo de 1554 de la Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y sus fortuna y adversidades , impresa por Mateo y Francisco del Canto , que es ahora la joya de la Biblioteca de Bancarrota, nos dice hoy muchas cosas sobre esta espléndida obra...

Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Spain, 1845-1935

Between the mid-nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Spain undertook a sustained process of economic growth and structural change, but was unable to converge with the core European economies.1 The reasons behind Spain"s failure to converge have been a subject of debate among historians for decades. 2 This dissertation aims to analyze the role played by infrastructure in Spanish economic growth during that period, and tries to find out to what extent the potential shortage or inadequacy of the Spanish infrastructure endowment was one of the factors to blame for the country"s nonconvergence. The dissertation draws on recent research on the economic impact of infrastructure, and on the numerous attempts to measure that impact which have been undertaken in the wake of David Aschauer"s work on the United States.

The Role of Railways in Export-Led Growth: The Case of Uruguay, 1870-1913

The social saving literature has highlighted the indispensable role that railways played before 1914 in several Latin American export-oriented economies, such as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. The article analyses the case of Uruguay, a country that, by 1914, had built one of the densest railway networks in Latin America. The article shows that, in contrast to what happened in other economies of the region, the resource saving effects of the Uruguayan railways during the first globalisation were tiny due to the small share that railway output accounted for within the country's gross domestic product (GDP). Three complementary reasons are suggested to explain that result, namely: the geographical structure of the country; its sectoral specialisation; and the small scale of the Uruguayan economy. Due to these three characteristics, Uruguay was unable to benefit from railways in the way that other export-oriented Latin American economies did during the first period of globalisation. This conclusion draws attention to the geographic-specific character of railway technology.

Estratigrafia del Cretacico inferior continental de la Cordillera Iberica Central

El Cretácico inferior continental de la Cordillera Ibérica Central está representado en dos subcuencas de sedimentación: las Cubetas de Aguilón y Oliete. Los estudios realizados sobre estos materiales han permitido definir nuevas unidades litoestratigráficas, cuya caracterización bioestratigráfica se realiza a partir de su contenido en carofitas. La identificación de discontinuidades significativas permiten definir tres secuencias de depósito que abarca en el intervalo temporal Valanguniense y/o Hauteriviense-Barremiense inferior y que son correlacionables con las S.D.K1.2 y/o K1.3, K1.4 YK1.5 y/o K1.6 definidas en Salas et al. (1991) y Salas y Casas (1993) para la Cuenca del Maestrazgo. Estos resultados ponen de manifiesto que el registro estratigráfico de la zona central de la Cordillera Ibérica tiene una entidad similar al de los márgenes de las Cuencas del Maestrazgo, Aliaga- Peñagolosa y Cameros.

Growth and magnetic characterization of Co nanoparticles obtained by femtosecond pulsed laser deposition.

We present a detailed study on the morphology and magnetic properties of Co nanostructures deposited onto oxidized Si substrates by femtosecond pulsed laser deposition. Generally, Co disks of nanometric dimensions are obtained just above the ablation threshold, with a size distribution characterized by an increasingly larger number of disks as their size diminishes, and with a maximum disk size that depends on the laser power density. In Au/Co/Au structures, in-plane magnetic anisotropy is observed in all cases, with no indication of superparamagnetism regardless of the amount of material or the laser power density. Magnetic force microscopy observations show coexistence of single-domain and vortex states for the magnetic domain structure of the disks. Superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism measurements point to saturation magnetization values lower than the bulk, probably due to partial oxidation of the Co resulting from incomplete coverage by the Au capping layer.

Infrastructure Investment and Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-1935

This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investment on Spanish economic growth between 1850 and 1935. Using new infrastructure data and VAR techniques, this paper shows that the growth impact of local-scope infrastructure investment was positive, but returns to investment in large nation-wide networks were not significantly different from zero. Two complementary explanations are suggested for the last result. On the one hand, public intervention and the application of non-efficiency investment criteria were very intense in large network construction. On the other hand, returns to new investment in large networks might have decreased dramatically once the basic links were constructed.

The Spatial Distribution of Spanish Transport Infrastructure between 1860 and 1930

The origin of Spanish regional economic divergence can be traced back at least until the seventeenth century, although its full definition took place during industrialisation. Historians have often included uneven regional infrastructure endowments among the factors that explain divergence among Spanish regions, although no systematic analysis of the spatial distribution of Spanish infrastructure and its determinants has been carried out so far. This paper aims at filling that gap, by offering a description of the regional distribution of the main Spanish transport infrastructure between the middle of the nineteenth century and the Civil War. In addition, it estimates a panel data model to search into the main reasons that explain the differences among the Spanish regional endowments of railways and roads during that period. The outcomes of that analysis indicate that both institutional factors and the physical characteristics of each area had a strong influence on the distribution of transport infrastructure among the Spanish regions.

Tindara Addabbo, Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, Cristina Borderías y Alastair Owens (eds.), Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-being in Modern Europe

Ressenya del llibre: 'Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-being in Modern Europe'

La formulación magistral: adquisición de compètencias mediante ABP y estrategias no presenciales

[cast] La formulación magistral, una de las actividades profesionales más representativas del farmacéutico, consiste en la elaboración, de acuerdo con una prescripción médica, de un medicamento personalizado, adaptado a un paciente concreto, en un compromiso profesional de solucionar un problema de salud específico. La amplia oferta de medicamentos industriales ha reducido considerablemente esta actividad, que a pesar de todo, debe considerarse una herramienta de futuro en sintonía con la tendencia personalizadora actual de la medicina y las necesidades del paciente. Los conocimientos y competencias requeridas para dicha actividad profesional se introducen actualmente en la carrera de Farmacia mediante una asignatura optativa. En el presente trabajo se presenta el planteamiento metodológico diseñado por el Grupo de Innovación Docente de Tecnología Farmacéutica (GIDTF) y el grupo e-Galenica, ambos de la Universidad de Barcelona, para esta asignatura. Dicha metodología esta basada en el Aprendizaje Basado en Problemas (ABP) incluyendo tutorías y prácticas de campo, apoyada en estrategias no presenciales como foro de debate, recursos on-line, cuestionarios y tareas de autoevaluación a través de la plataforma Moodle del Campus Virtual de la UB. Se evalúan asimismo los resultados académicos y las respuestas de los estudiantes a las encuestas realizadas en relación al sistema de impartición de la asignatura. [eng] The pharmaceutical compounding, one of the most representative professional activities of pharmacists, involves the preparation of an individualized medicine tailored to a specific patient in a professional commitment to solve a specific health problem, according to a prescription. The wide range of industrial medicine has significantly reduced this activity, which nevertheless should be considered a tool of the future in line with the current trend of personalizing medicine and patient needs. The knowledge and competences required for this professional activity are introduced to the students of Pharmacy through an optional subject. In this paper we present the ethodological approach developed for this subject by the Teaching Innovation Group of pharmaceutical Technology (GIDTF) and e-Galenica group, both from the University of Barcelona. This methodology is based on Problem-Based Learning (PBL) including tutorials and practices in other centres, supported by out of class strategies as discussion forum, online resources, self-assessment questionnaires and work through the platform Moodle of Virtual Campus UB. The academic performance and student responses to surveys in relation to the didactic methodology are also assessed.

Entonación de las interrogativas absolutas del español meridional en habla espontánea

Este trabajo tiene como objetivos, en primer lugar, comprobar si los cuatro patrones interrogativos descritos para el castellano peninsular en pruebas de percepción se encuentran en el habla espontánea de los hablantes nativos de español peninsular meridional de Andalucía, Extremadura, Murcia, Castilla-La Mancha y Canarias; en segundo, saber si existen rasgos melódicos específicos de cada zona, y, finalmente, identificar los significados semántico-pragmáticos de cada patrón. Para llevar a cabo la investigación nos hemos basado en 186 preguntas absolutas, emitidas en un contexto de habla espontánea y siguiendo la metodología Análisis Melódico del Habla (AMH). Tras el análisis acústico, los resultados obtenidos han permitido: a) constatar la existencia de los cuatro patrones en las cinco zonas dialectales; b) determinar que, desde el punto de vista de la entonación lingüística, no parece que haya rasgos melódicos que distingan unas zonas de otras, sino una distinta representatividad de los patrones en cada una; y c) describir los significados sociopragmáticos apuntados por Escandell (1998, 2002), que nos permiten discriminar el patrón que se usa en cada contexto.

Proyecto de una Torre Grúa. Normas de seguridad y salud laboral

This project is a tool for engineers and technicians in the development and knowledge of the most important construction equipment, tower crane. It consists of a memory, 10 annexes and an Excel spreadsheet to do the calculations automatically . Some of these annexes are: Annex 1. Types of cranes and elements of them. Annex 2. Mounting and dismounting. Annex 3. Useful clamping loads. Annex 4. Safety systems , etc. Every single annex separately, provides detailed explanations , both written and visual of problems and solutions in the world of tower cranes . Professionals are able to learn in an orderly way, definitions, developments, calculations, processes etc., Which will greatly easy people's job in the construction and in the writing of a project. Also a spreadsheet with the Excel program has been made to help engineers on calculations. This sheet is protected and it can be accesed only to enter the data needed to perform the calculations of the safety factor and weight of shoes . The results will tell us if there is a risk of tipping of the tower crane and the weight of shoes. This tool will greatly help engineers on their calculations. All documentation is based on laws, regulations and no legal rules status, they guarantee that we are always within the Spanish and legislative Autonomous framework. This fact makes the professional carries out a project to a successful future and a legalistic view. Also note that these rules are in constant change, which makes it necessary for the professional to always be in a constant revision of the legislation.

Analyzing OpenCourseWare usage by means of social tagging

Anàlisi de l'ús de OpenCourseWare per mitjà de marcadors socials

Brand ideas: narrar historias mediante la vida de la marca. ¿Cómo se generan los conceptos creativos que otorgan significado y forma a las marcas?

El present projecte analitza la creació i el desenvolupament dels conceptes que donen forma a les marques des d'un punt de vista creatiu. El treball proposa l'estudi del concepte de les brand idees com a resposta a l'evolució que han seguit les marques per aconseguir comunicar la seva essència. La finalitat de l'escrit és disseccionar les dues parts principals del procés creatiu d'una marca, les big ideas i les brand ideas, per trobar la forma més adequada de transmetre l'essència de les marques durant un recorregut de diversos anys. Un escenari que ens ensenyarà si aquest procés és tan nou com es creu, si realment les marques apliquen aquestes teories i els diferents elements a tenir en compte per fer créixer una marca des del punt de vista de la comunicació creativa.