Dynamical features of reaction-diffusion fronts in fractals

The speed of front propagation in fractals is studied by using (i) the reduction of the reaction-transport equation into a Hamilton-Jacobi equation and (ii) the local-equilibrium approach. Different equations proposed for describing transport in fractal media, together with logistic reaction kinetics, are considered. Finally, we analyze the main features of wave fronts resulting from this dynamic process, i.e., why they are accelerated and what is the exact form of this acceleration

Effect of initial conditions on the speed of reaction-diffusion fronts

The effect of initial conditions on the speed of propagating fronts in reaction-diffusion equations is examined in the framework of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory. We study the transition between quenched and nonquenched fronts both analytically and numerically for parabolic and hyperbolic reaction diffusion. Nonhomogeneous media are also analyzed and the effect of algebraic initial conditions is also discussed

Speed of reaction-diffusion fronts in spatially heterogeneous media

The front speed problem for nonuniform reaction rate and diffusion coefficient is studied by using singular perturbation analysis, the geometric approach of Hamilton-Jacobi dynamics, and the local speed approach. Exact and perturbed expressions for the front speed are obtained in the limit of large times. For linear and fractal heterogeneities, the analytic results have been compared with numerical results exhibiting a good agreement. Finally we reach a general expression for the speed of the front in the case of smooth and weak heterogeneities

La teoría de Morales-Ramis y el algoritmo de Kovacic

La teor\'\ı a de Morales–Ramis es la teor\'\ı a de Galois en el contextode los sistemas din\'amicos y relaciona dos tipos diferentes de integrabilidad:integrabilidad en el sentido de Liouville de un sistema hamiltonianoe integrabilidad en el sentido de la teor\'\ı a de Galois diferencial deuna ecuaci\'on diferencial. En este art\'\i culo se presentan algunas aplicacionesde la teor\'\i a de Morales–Ramis en problemas de no integrabilidadde sistemas hamiltonianos cuya ecuaci\'on variacional normal a lo largode una curva integral particular es una ecuaci\'on diferencial lineal desegundo orden con coeficientes funciones racionales. La integrabilidadde la ecuaci\'on variacional normal es analizada mediante el algoritmode Kovacic.

La influencia de la percepción de la imagen del locutor: estudio comparativo entre la voz del locutor aislada o asociada a una imagen

La voz es el esqueleto de la radio y su importancia en la comunicación radiofónica essustancial. Sin embargo son pocos los estudios que sobre ella se han realizado y menos aun los dedicados a comparar la impresión que una voz causa en el oyente cuando éste conoce la imagen del locutor y cuando la desconoce. Este estudio experimental muestra las reacciones manifestadas por un grupo de sujetos ante la escucha de una serie de voces y las compara con las expresadas por otro grupo de sujetos ante las mismas voces aunque en este caso en conocimiento de la imagen de los locutores. Los resultados apuntan a que los oyentes que desconocen la imagen del locutor tienden a recrear en sus mentes el aspecto del locutor mientras que los sujetos que conocen la imagen de éste se concentrar en imaginar el contenido de la noticia.

SOSelectiva

Este trabajo nace de la idea de que el sistema de recogida selectiva de residuos en Barcelona puede mejorarse. Para respaldar esta hipótesis previa, hemos utilizado tanto datos de organismos oficiales (La EMMA o el Ayuntamiento de BCN por citar algunos de los más relevantes) como encuestas realizados por nosotros mismos y que han sido distribuidas a una muestra de aproximadamente 180 personas de la ciudadcondal.Con la información obtenida de estas fuentes, podemos afirmar que, definitivamente, estábamos en lo correcto: el sistema puede mejorarse.En este punto es necesario ser precisos y explicar qué entendemos por mejorar.Concretamente, lo que nosotros queremos hacer es incrementar el porcentaje de cantidad recogida de papel-cartón, vidrio y envases ligeros sobre el total consumido deestos materiales. Este será nuestro objetivo durante todo el estudio. Y, como el lectordescubrirá, hemos propuesto dos vías para conseguir tal cosa: incrementar el número decontenedores (método extensivo) o implementar una nueva tecnología (métodointensivo). El planteamiento y desarrollo de estas dos propuestas será la piedra angulardel trabajo.Ahora bien, a modo de anticipo, ¿qué podemos decirle al lector sobre estas vías?¿Consiguen el objetivo que se proponen? ¿Son aplicables? La respuesta es que, como severá a lo largo de estas páginas, el método extensivo consigue efectivamente incrementar el porcentaje de cantidad recogida mientras que la vía intensiva, aunque tiene la ventaja de que es capaz de reducir los costes que se derivan del proceso (costesde transporte…) y es consecuente con políticas de sostenibilidad medioambiental (higieniza los residuos, reduce enormemente los desechos destinados a depósitoscontrolados e incineradoras) presenta la gran desventaja de que precisamente por seruna tecnología nueva, no hay suficientes datos para estudiar su comportamiento en unperiodo de tiempo largo. Por tanto, en este estudio se abogará por la estrategia extensiva, en pos de mostrar un análisis más coherente y de implementación rápida.

Bands width, credibility and exchange risk: Lessons from the EMS experience

This paper presents an analysis of the credibility of the EMScurrencies that covers the period before and after the increase in thebands of fluctuation. Our credibility indicator is based on the inferredprobabilities derived from the estimation of a Markov-switching model(Hamilton (1989)) applied to the expected rate of depreciation. Theresults show that, for most of the currencies, credibility has improved,at least transitorily, after the increase in the bands. However, for allcurrencies, the credibility measured by the indicator proposed in thispaper has been eroded recently even with the widened bands.

Influència de les característiques de les activitats educatives en el nivell de motivació i d'aprenentatge de l'alumnat

El propòsit final d’aquest treball de fi de màster, és esbrinar la influència que tenen els trets característics de diferents activitats educatives, sobre el nivell de motivació i d’aprenentatge dels alumnes. Es tracta d’avaluar, durant la pràctica docent, els indicadors adients que permetin extreure unes conclusions sobre la idoneïtat d’aquestes característiques pel que fa a la seva eficàcia en atraure l’atenció de l’alumnat sobre la tasca i en l’assoliment dels objectius d’aprenentatge d’una unitat didàctica concreta. Per a tal fi, s’han esmicolat totes les activitats triades en el disseny de l’esmentada unitat d’acord a uns trets generals que es poden distingir en qualsevol activitat educativa, assignant-les un valor determinat. Posteriorment s’han valorat els seus resultats d’acord als indicadors esmentats anteriorment

Gender and family firms: an interdisciplinary approach

This study contributes to developing our understanding of gender and family business, a topic so crucial to recent policies about competitive growth. It does so by providing an interdisciplinary synthesis of some major theoretical debates. It also contributes to this understanding by illuminating the role of women and their participation in the practices of the family and the business. Finally, it explores gender relations and the notion that leadership in family business may take complex forms crafted within constantly changing relationships. Leadership is introduced as a concept that captures the reality of women and men in family firms in a better way than other concepts used by historians or economists like ownership and management.

Non-constant discounting in finite horizon: The free terminal time case

This paper derives the HJB (Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman) equation for sophisticated agents in a finite horizon dynamic optimization problem with non-constant discounting in a continuous setting, by using a dynamic programming approach. A simple example is used in order to illustrate the applicability of this HJB equation, by suggesting a method for constructing the subgame perfect equilibrium solution to the problem.Conditions for the observational equivalence with an associated problem with constantdiscounting are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the case of free terminal time. Strotz¿s model (an eating cake problem of a nonrenewable resource with non-constant discounting) is revisited.

Classical predictive electrodynamics of two charges with radiation: Energy and 3. momentum balance and scattering crossections-II

We deal with a classical predictive mechanical system of two spinless charges where radiation is considered and there are no external fields. The terms (2,2)Paa of the expansion in the charges of the HamiltonJacobi momenta are calculated. Using these, together with known previous results, we can obtain the paa up to the fourth order. Then we have calculated the radiated energy and the 3-momentum in a scattering process as functions of the impact parameter and the incident energy for the former and 3-momentum for the latter. Scattering cross-sections are also calculated. Good agreement with well known results, including those of quantum electrodynamics, has been found.

Gender and family firms: an interdisciplinary approach

This study contributes to developing our understanding of gender and family business, a topic so crucial to recent policies about competitive growth. It does so by providing an interdisciplinary synthesis of some major theoretical debates. It also contributes to this understanding by illuminating the role of women and their participation in the practices of the family and the business. Finally, it explores gender relations and the notion that leadership in family business may take complex forms crafted within constantly changing relationships. Leadership is introduced as a concept that captures the reality of women and men in family firms in a better way than other concepts used by historians or economists like ownership and management.

Non-constant discounting in finite horizon: The free terminal time case

This paper derives the HJB (Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman) equation for sophisticated agents in a finite horizon dynamic optimization problem with non-constant discounting in a continuous setting, by using a dynamic programming approach. A simple example is used in order to illustrate the applicability of this HJB equation, by suggesting a method for constructing the subgame perfect equilibrium solution to the problem.Conditions for the observational equivalence with an associated problem with constantdiscounting are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the case of free terminal time. Strotz¿s model (an eating cake problem of a nonrenewable resource with non-constant discounting) is revisited.

Us explico un conte? Ús de llibres il·lustrats per a la didàctica de l'educació visual i plàstica

L'objectiu d'aquest article és promoure la incorporació de llibres il-lustrats a l'espai docent, tot defensant la interacció entre escola i entorn. Amb aquesta intenció es presenta una experiència docent que es du a terme a les classes de Didàctica de l'Educació Visual i Plàstica (UB), en la formació inicial del professorat d'educació primària, que empra el llibre il-lustrat com a eina docent. Es tracta d'un corpus d'obres de gran qualitat, la temàtica dels quals està relacionada amb el fet artístic i la seva didàctica. Amb l'ús a les aules universitàries d'aquest tipus de llibres es volen aconseguir principalment tres objectius: donar-los a conèixer als futurs mestres per a la seva formació i perquè els puguin compartir amb els seus futurs alumnes a les aules d'Educació Primària; tractar temes específics de l'àrea de plàstica, i fomentar la reflexió sobre la pràctica docent o altres temes específics.

Seismic detection and characterization of landslides and other mass movements

Seismic methods used in the study of snow avalanches may be employed to detect and characterize landslides and other mass movements, using standard spectrogram/sonogram analysis. For snow avalanches, the spectrogram for a station that is approached by a sliding mass exhibits a triangular time/frequency signature due to an increase over time in the higher-frequency constituents. Recognition of this characteristic footprint in a spectrogram suggests a useful metric for identifying other mass-movement events such as landslides. The 1 June 2005 slide at Laguna Beach, California is examined using data obtained from the Caltech/USGS Regional Seismic Network. This event exhibits the same general spectrogram features observed in studies of Alpine snow avalanches. We propose that these features are due to the systematic relative increase in high-frequency energy transmitted to a seismometer in the path of a mass slide owing to a reduction of distance from the source signal. This phenomenon is related to the path of the waves whose high frequencies are less attenuated as they traverse shorter source-receiver paths. Entrainment of material in the course of the slide may also contribute to the triangular time/frequency signature as a consequence of the increase in the energy involved in the process; in this case the contribution would be a source effect. By applying this commonly observed characteristic to routine monitoring algorithms, along with custom adjustments for local site effects, we seek to contribute to the improvement in automatic detection and monitoring methods of landslides and other mass movements.