Propuesta de actividades outdoor en los polideportivos del Gran Bilbao gestionados integralmente por la empresa Emtesport S.L.

Hoy en día se ha demostrado estudiando los hábitos deportivos de la gente que las personas prefieren practicar un deporte no reglado o federativo volcándose los practicantes hacia un deporte más libre, menos competitivo y con una flexibilidad mayor. Pero se ha podido ver como por lo general en los polideportivos no se ofrecen actividades que cumplan con estas características. Por eso este trabajo va enfocado a crear una propuesta innovadora relacionada con las actividades outdoor o actividades en el medio natural en los polideportivos de la comarca vizcaína del Gran Bilbao. Estas actividades se llevaran a cabo en los polideportivos que la empresa Emtesport S.L. tenga competencias administrativas y gestoras integrales. De esta manera se podrá fomentar una vía alternativa de practicar deporte y realizar ejercicio físico en diferentes municipios de la comarca. Estas actividades se llevaran a cabo mediante la empresa Emtesport S.L. porque siendo esta una empresa referente que ofrece diferentes servicios y gestiona muchas de las instalaciones de los municipios de Vizcaya será más fácil llegar con un mismo proyecto a un mayor número de usuarios que busquen una práctica esporádica. Es decir, creando un único proyecto con un cuadrante de horarios y de grupos adecuado servirá para aplicarlo en todos los polideportivos que gestiona Emtesport S.L. Además el hecho de aplicarlo en más de un polideportivo a la vez podrá ayudar a crear grupos con un número de gente suficiente. Fenómeno que no se conseguiría en muchos casos aplicando este proyecto en un único polideportivo o municipio. En un principio se optará por externalizar este servicio creando convenios entre empresas que se dedican en estos momentos a ofertar este tipo de actividades, pero viendo la viabilidad y éxito de estas actividades se intentara estudiar la posibilidad de crear una línea de servicios propia dentro de la empresa Emtesport S.L llevada a cabo por los recursos humanos especializados de esta. Las actividades con las que se emprenderá este proyecto serán en un principio actividades desarrolladas en el medio acuático, puesto que el hecho de que sea necesario el uso de material específico para la práctica de las mismas y que normalmente el público al que se quiere llegar no dispone de este material, creara una situación favorable para que esta idea tenga un éxito social y económico en el futuro. Por último cabe mencionar que entre las actividades que se llevaran a cabo en este proyecto se encuentran las siguientes: cursillos de surf y paddlesurf, buceo, cursillos de vela, wáter slackline y rutas en piragua.

Reconstruction of Outdoor Sculptures from Silhouettes under Approximate Circular Motion of an Uncalibrated Hand-Held Camera

This paper presents a novel technique for reconstructing an outdoor sculpture from an uncalibrated image sequence acquired around it using a hand-held camera. The technique introduced here uses only the silhouettes of the sculpture for both motion estimation and model reconstruction, and no corner detection nor matching is necessary. This is very important as most sculptures are composed of smooth textureless surfaces, and hence their silhouettes are very often the only information available from their images. Besides, as opposed to previous works, the proposed technique does not require the camera motion to be perfectly circular (e.g., turntable sequence). It employs an image rectification step before the motion estimation step to obtain a rough estimate of the camera motion which is only approximately circular. A refinement process is then applied to obtain the true general motion of the camera. This allows the technique to handle large outdoor sculptures which cannot be rotated on a turntable, making it much more practical and flexible.

Effect of cooking and drying on carbonyls of oil sardine

Changes in the total as well as major individual carbonyls of oil sardine during steam cooking, oven drying, sun drying and freeze drying are presented. Carbonyls extracted with hexane were converted to their 2:4 dinitro phenyl hydrazone (DNPH) derivatives and were separated into major classes by column chromatography on celite/magnesia. Individual carbonyls were then identified by capillary gas chromatography of the DNPH derivatives. Dehydration and heating increase the carbonyl production from highly unsaturated fish lipids. The carbonyls produced react with other muscle constituents leading to complex changes. The influence of the mode of dehydration on these different aspects and their net effect on flavour are discussed.

UV durable colour pigment doped SmA liquid crystal composites for outdoor trans-reflective bi-stable displays

High brightness trans-reflective bi-stable displays based on smectic A (SmA) liquid crystals (LCs) can have nearly perfect transparency in the clear state and very high reflection in the scattered state. Because the LC material in use is stable under UV radiation, this kind of displays can stand for strong day-light and therefore be ideal for outdoor applications from e-books to public signage and advertisement. However, the colour application has been limited because the traditional colourants in use are conventional dyes which are lack of UV stability and that their colours are easily photo bleached. Here we present a colour SmA display demonstrator using pigments as colourant. Mixing pigments with SmA LCs and maintain the desirable optical switching performance is not straightforward. We show here how it can be done, including how to obtain fine sized pigment nano-particles, the effects of particle size and size distribution on the display performance. Our optimized pigments/SmA compositions can be driven by a low frequency waveform (∼101Hz) to a scattered state to exhibit colour while by a high frequency waveform (∼103Hz) to a cleared state showing no colour. Finally, we will present its excellent UV life-time (at least >7.2 years) in comparison with that of dye composition (∼2.4 years). The complex interaction of pigment nano-particles with LC molecules and the resulting effects on the LC electro-optical performances are still to be fully understood. We hope this work will not only demonstrate a new and practical approach for outdoor reflective colour displays but also provide a new material system for fundamental liquid crystal colloid research work. © 2012 SPIE.

Growth kinetics of 1-2 mm and 3-4 mm colonies of Nostoc sphaeroides (Cyanophyta) in outdoor culture

Nostoc sphaeroides Kutzing was cultivated in paddlewheel-driven raceway ponds and the growth kinetics of 1-2 mm and 3-4 mm colonies of N. sphaeroides was studied. The biomass productivities in 2.5 m(2) raceway ponds inoculated with 1-2 mm and 3-4 mm colonies were 5.2 and 0.25 g dry wt m(-2) stop d(-1), respectively. Furthermore, differently sized colonies showed different relative water content, total soluble carbohydrates, chlorophyll a content and density of filaments. This is the first report on mass culture of N. sphaeroides under outdoor conditions.

Synthesis of biodiesel from waste cooking oil using immobilized lipase in fixed bed reactor

Waste cooking oil (WCO) is the residue from the kitchen, restaurants, food factories and even human and animal waste which not only harm people's health but also causes environmental pollution. The production of biodiesel from waste cooking oil to partially substitute petroleum diesel is one of the measures for solving the twin problems of environment pollution and energy shortage. In this project, synthesis of biodiesel was catalyzed by immobilized Candida lipase in a three-step fixed bed reactor. The reaction solution was a mixture of WCO, water, methanol and solvent (hexane). The main product was biodiesel consisted of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME), of which methyl oleate was the main component. Effects of lipase, solvent, water, and temperature and flow of the reaction mixture on the synthesis of biodiesel were analyzed. The results indicate that a 91.08% of FAME can be achieved in the end product under optimal conditions. Most of the chemical and physical characters of the biodiesel were superior to the standards for 0(#)diesel (GB/T 19147) and biodiesel (DIN V51606 and ASTM D-6751).

Characteristics of indoor/outdoor PM2.5 and elemental components in generic urban；roadside and industrial plant areas of Guangzhou City；China

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Indoor/outdoor relationships for PM2.5 and associated carbonaceous pollutants at residential homes in Hong Kong - case study

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Aging in EPDM used for outdoor insulation

The effect of accelerated weather aging an ethylene-propylene-diene monomer(EPDM) rubber used for outdoor insulation was studied by surface roughness measurement and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(xps). The surface roughness of EPDM rubber changed with aging time. The surface oxygen and aluminum content were found to increase and that of carbon, silicon and nitrogen to decrease with time. The detailed XPS analysis indicated that the concentration of carbon in C-C decreased and that of highly oxidized carbons in C-O, C=O and O=C-O increased with time, which was due to the oxidation of EPDM rubber polymer. The appearance of O=C-O on the surface of EPDM rubber was a signal that EPDM rubber became aged. The aging speed decreased with time. The aging mechanism is discussed also.