La mujer y la geografia universitaria española

This article lies within the sphere of studies initiated recently in various social sciences and which aim to introduce women's problems as an element of analysis, or in other words, the gender perspective. In the field of geography, the earliest contributions of this nature were made in English-speaking countries. It is only in the 1980s that similar contributions begin to appear in Spanish geography, albeit sporadically . In the first part of this article, an analysis is made of the presence of women geographers in Spanish universities, based on a questionnaire submitted to twenty-six departments of geography. The questionnaires provide information on the age, sex and marital status of women staff, and other relevant facts. It becomes evident that women lecturers are in the minority in Spanish university Geography Departments, especially in the top posts, although the percentage compares favourably with English-speaking countries. The second part of the article consists of a study of the written contributions of women geographers through the analysis of the various geographical magazines published by geography departments and other related bodies. The author reaches the conclusion that the percentage of articles written by women geographers is even lower than the corresponding percentage of staff members. Especially noteworthy is the very limited number of articles in the fields of physical geography and geographical theory, in contrast to a certain tendency to publish studies on, for example, population or urban topics with a highly restricted territorial scope

A method for extracting semantic information from on-line art music discussion forums

In this paper a method for extracting semantic informationfrom online music discussion forums is proposed. The semantic relations are inferred from the co-occurrence of musical concepts in forum posts, using network analysis. The method starts by defining a dictionary of common music terms in an art music tradition. Then, it creates a complex network representation of the online forum by matchingsuch dictionary against the forum posts. Once the complex network is built we can study different network measures, including node relevance, node co-occurrence andterm relations via semantically connecting words. Moreover, we can detect communities of concepts inside the forum posts. The rationale is that some music terms are more related to each other than to other terms. All in all, this methodology allows us to obtain meaningful and relevantinformation from forum discussions.

Behavioral assumptions and management ability

The paper explores the consequences that relying on different behavioral assumptions intraining managers may have on their future performance. We argue that training with anemphasis on the standard assumptions used in economics (rationality and self-interest) is goodfor technical posts but may also lead future managers to rely excessively on rational and explicitsafeguarding, crowding out instinctive relational heuristics and signaling a bad human type topotential partners. In contrast, human assumptions used in management theories, because oftheir diverse, implicit and even contradictory nature, do not conflict with the innate set ofcooperative tools and may provide a good training ground for such tools. We present tentativeconfirmatory evidence by examining how the weight given to behavioral assumptions in the corecourses of the top 100 business schools influences the average salaries of their MBA graduates.Controlling for the self-selected average quality of their students and some other schools characteristics, average salaries are seen to be significantly greater for schools whose core MBAcourses contain a higher proportion of management courses as opposed to courses based oneconomics or technical disciplines.

Parallelizing remote sensing image geometric correction

Remote sensing spatial, spectral, and temporal resolutions of images, acquired over a reasonably sized image extent, result in imagery that can be processed to represent land cover over large areas with an amount of spatial detail that is very attractive for monitoring, management, and scienti c activities. With Moore's Law alive and well, more and more parallelism is introduced into all computing platforms, at all levels of integration and programming to achieve higher performance and energy e ciency. Being the geometric calibration process one of the most time consuming processes when using remote sensing images, the aim of this work is to accelerate this process by taking advantage of new computing architectures and technologies, specially focusing in exploiting computation over shared memory multi-threading hardware. A parallel implementation of the most time consuming process in the remote sensing geometric correction has been implemented using OpenMP directives. This work compares the performance of the original serial binary versus the parallelized implementation, using several multi-threaded modern CPU architectures, discussing about the approach to nd the optimum hardware for a cost-e ective execution.

Saving lives: Evidence from a conditional food supplementation program

Many governments in developing countries implement programs that aim to address nutrionalfailures in early childhood, yet evidence on the effectiveness of these interventions is scant. Thispaper evaluates the impact of a conditional food supplementation program on child mortality inEcuador. The Programa de Alimentaci?n y Nutrici?n Nacional (PANN) 2000 was implementedby regular staff at local public health posts and consisted of offering a free micronutrient-fortifiedfood, Mi Papilla, for children aged 6 to 24 months in exchange for routine health check-ups forthe children. Our regression discontinuity design exploits the fact that at its inception, the PANN2000 was running for about 8 months only in the poorest communities (parroquias) of certainprovinces. Our main result is that the presence of the program reduced child mortality in cohortswith 8 months of differential exposure from a level of about 2.5 percent by 1 to 1.5 percentagepoints.

Amazon.es : incògnites i expectatives. Amb Enric Faura i Pep Torn

Debat a l'Internauta, el primer programa de ràdio del país sobre la xarxa, una col·laboració entre la UOC i Vilaweb. Fa menys d'una setmana que es va confirmar la notícia: la plataforma de comerç electrònic més potent de la xarxa, Amazon, va obrir dimecres de la setmana passada la filial ibèrica. Amazon és actualment el portal de venda en línia més important i divers, amb un catàleg de milions de llibres impresos i electrònics, a més d'un gavadal de productes com ara compactes, DVD, jocs, aparells d'electrònica de consum i, fins i tot, roba, alimentació i mobiliari. De moment, Amazon.es ha aterrat a casa nostra amb una oferta de productes físics, entre els quals hi ha cinquanta mil llibres impresos en català, però obre tantes oportunitats com interrogants. Com afectarà les llibreries convencionals? Tindran mercat ara plataformes de llibre digital més modestes? Estimularà el negoci del llibre electrònic? Facilitarà l'autoedició de llibres? Farà créixer el nombre de lectors en català? En parlem amb Enric Faura, de la plataforma Edi.cat, i amb l'expert Pep Torn, director de l'àrea de Biblioteca i Recursos Documentals de la UOC.

Thermal increment due to ErCr: YSGG and CO2 laser irradiation of different implant surfaces. A pilot study

Objective: An evaluation and comparison is made of the thermal increment at different implant surfaces during irradiation with CO2 and ErCr:YSGG lasers. Study design: Five threaded and impacted implants with four types of surfaces were inserted in an adult pig rib: two implants with a hydroxyapatite surface (HA)(impacted and threaded, respectively), a machined titanium surface implant (TI mach), a titanium plasma spray surface implant (TPS), and a sandblasted, acid-etched surface implant (SBAE). A 0.5-mm diameter bone defect was made in the implant apical zone, and a type-K thermocouple (Termopar)® was placed in contact with the implant. The implants were irradiated in the coronal zone of each implant with a CO2 (4 W continuous mode) and an ErCr:YSGG laser (1.5 W, pulsed mode) first without and then with refrigeration. The temperature variations at the implant apical surface were recorded. Results: An apical temperature increase was recorded in all cases during CO2 and ErCr:YSGG laser irradiation without refrigeration. However, when the ErCr:YSGG was used with a water spray, a decrease in temperature was observed in all implants. The acid-etched and sandblasted surfaces were those most affected by the thermal changes. Conclusions: The ErCr:YSGG laser with a water spray applied to the sealing cap or coronal zone of the implants does not generate thermal increments in the apical surface capable of adversely affecting osseointegration and the integrity of the peri-implant bone tissue

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La identidad en disputa. Conflictos alrededor de la construcción de la transexualidad

Como toda categoría identitaria, transexual tiene una definición normativa —en este caso, muy marcada por su origen médico—, hay unos agentes sociales que controlan su uso y existe un conflicto alrededor de los límites que abarca. En este artículo, analizamos cómo el conflicto por la delimitación de esta categoría se articula a nivel individual y colectivo. En base al análisis de entrevistas, grupos de discusión y mensajes en foros de Internet, se ha observado que hay un choque entre dos concepciones de la transexualidad. La primera defiende, desde postulados biologistas, que los criterios para entrar dentro de esta categoría son el cambio corporal y una identificación normativa con el género reivindicado. La segunda propone una interpretación más inclusiva y estratégica de la categoría. El choque entre estas dos concepciones permite entender el trasfondo de este debate aparentemente terminológico e invita a repensar la forma de entender la conexión entre el género y el cuerpo.

Frontal gòtic de Sant Llorenç de Morunys. Estudi del suport de fusta: tècnica de construcció i estat de conservació

Estudi preliminar realitzat a partir de la inspecció visual d’un frontal d’altar a les sales de reserva del Museu Diocesà i Comarcal de Solsona, lloc on es custodien les restes del que fou aquesta magnífica obra policromada de tombants del segle XIII executada en l’àmbit del bisbat d’Urgell. Avui en dia, la capa pictòrica ofereix un precari estat de conservació, però encara es conserven els estats preparatoris i una gran part del suport ligni. Les dades per a l’elaboració d’aquest estudi han estat recollides en diferents visites al museu durant els anys 2008-09. El suport del frontal de Sant Llorenç, de fusta de conífera, està constituït per quatre llargues posts disposades en sentit horitzontal que formen un plafó perfectament encaixat dins un marc que, en origen, tancava el conjunt. Actualment, les parts superior i inferior d’aquest marc no existeixen, degut a les nombroses vicissituds sofertes per l’obra al llarg del temps.L’encadellat de totes les peces es resolgué mitjançant espigues o clavilles de fusta, no detectant-se cap unió amb elements metàl·lics. Observant el revers del frontal amb llum rasant, s’aprecien les marques de l’eina que va desgruixar la superfície del suport, l’aixa. Pel sentit dels senyals deixats en la fusta, sembla que cada post va ser desbastada per separat. Després s’uniformaren els gruixos de cadascuna, tot passant un ribot per la zona que toca els cantells i es rebaixà la fusta tocant al perímetre del plafó per a facilitar l’encadellat del marc. Les labors de rebaix i allisat es durien a terme un cop el panell ja estava muntat. L’estat de conservació del suport ligni no és bo. La mancança de les peces superior i inferior del marc afecten l’estabilitat del conjunt que, al no quedar ben travat, acusa certs moviments de les peces amb les manipulacions i els trasllats, moviments que es transmeten també als estrats superiors, portadors de l’escassa policromia. Pel revers de l’obra es poden observar diverses pèrdues, de més o menys entitat, ocasionades per un antic i agressiu atac de xilòfags, de greus conseqüències per l’estructura lígnia, ja que ha debilitat molt les zones perimetrals del frontal, fent-les esdevenir poroses i fràgils.