Aplicació web pel restaurant Gat Blau

Obtenir una aplicació web útil per al restaurant, que permetés als seus gestors mantenir el contingut des d'una interfície senzilla. L'aplicació havia de ser flexible i havia de seguir criteris de disseny que la fessin escalable i ens permetessin ampliar-la posteriorment.

The Report of the Outbreak Control Team of the investigations of an outbreak of E. coli O157 associated with Flicks Restaurant in Belfast during October 2012

The Report of the Outbreak Control Team of the investigations of an outbreak of E. coli O157 associated with Flicks Restaurant in Belfast during October 2012.

Free Technology Academy : a Joint Venture of Free Software and OER

The decision to publish educational materials openly and under free licenses brings up the challenge of doing it in a sustainable way. Some lessons can be learned from the business models for production, maintenance and distribution of Free and Open Source Software. The Free Technology Academy (FTA) has taken on these challenges and has implemented some of these models. We briefly review the FTA educational programme, methodologies and organisation, and see to which extent these models are proving successful in the case of the FTA.

The relationships between technology and open education in the development of a resilient higher education

The place of technology in the development of coherent educational responses to environmental and socio-economic disruption is here placed under scrutiny. One emerging area of interest is the role of technology in addressing more complex learning futures, and more especially in facilitating individual and social resilience, or the ability to manage and overcome disruption. However, the extent to which higher education practitioners can utilise technology to this end is framed by their approaches to the curriculum, and the socio-cultural practices within which they are located. This paper discusses how open education might enable learners to engage with uncertainty through social action within a form of higher education that is more resilient to economic, environmental and energy-related disruption. It asks whether open higher education can be (re)claimed by users and communities within specific contexts and curricula, in order to engage with an uncertain world.

The future of television : advertising, technology and the pursuit of audiences

La televisió està en crisi. Les noves tecnologies i els dispositius han fragmentat les audiències de televisió en segments més petits. En aquest informe, Marissa Gluck i Meritxell Roca Sales examinen l'explosió dels mitjans de comunicació que han impulsat aquesta fragmentació.

Innovation strategies in the presence of technology markets: evidence from spanish innovative firms

The development of markets for technology has eased the acquisition of technology and reshaped the innovation strategies of firms that we classify as producers of innovations or as imitators. Innovative activities of firms include research, acquisition of technology and downstream activities. Within an industry, firms producing innovations tend to conduct more research and downstream activities than those imitating innovations. Acquisition of technology is equally important for both. To implement innovation strategies, firms producing innovations require both the capability to scan the external environment for technology and the capability to integrate new technology. Firms producing innovations require both, while firms imitating innovations require scan capabilities only

Anàlisi econòmica en un establiment de restauració per a la presa de decisions: Aplicació pràctica en el cas del restaurant Empòrium

Estudi basat en l’anàlisi econòmica d’una empresa turística existent aplicant tècniques i mètodes basats en la comptabilitat de costos per poder prendre decisions. L’objectiu és aconseguir determinar el cost derivat de la producció de l’activitat de l’empresa analitzada, i així plantejar una sèrie d’actuacions estratègiques per poder ésser competitius envers la resta d’empreses de restauració de l’entorn. L'empresa analitzada és el restaurant Empòrium

A comparative evaluation of endemic and non-endemic region of visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-azar) in India with ground survey and space technology

In visceral leishmaniasis, phlebotomine vectors are targets for control measures. Understanding the ecosystem of the vectors is a prerequisite for creating these control measures. This study endeavours to delineate the suitable locations of Phlebotomus argentipes with relation to environmental characteristics between endemic and non-endemic districts in India. A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 25 villages in each district. Environmental data were obtained through remote sensing images and vector density was measured using a CDC light trap. Simple linear regression analysis was used to measure the association between climatic parameters and vector density. Using factor analysis, the relationship between land cover classes and P. argentipes density among the villages in both districts was investigated. The results of the regression analysis indicated that indoor temperature and relative humidity are the best predictors for P. argentipes distribution. Factor analysis confirmed breeding preferences for P. argentipes by landscape element. Minimum Normalised Difference Vegetation Index, marshy land and orchard/settlement produced high loading in an endemic region, whereas water bodies and dense forest were preferred in non-endemic sites. Soil properties between the two districts were studied and indicated that soil pH and moisture content is higher in endemic sites compared to non-endemic sites. The present study should be utilised to make critical decisions for vector surveillance and controlling Kala-azar disease vectors.

Sistema de gestió integral d’ un restaurant amb TPV i Pocket PC

Aquest projecte fi de carrera es centra en un restaurant fictici i genèric anomenat "El Restaurant al Punt". Es tractarà d' una empresa que s' inicia en el sector hostaler amb tot un seguit de coneixements previs per part dels propietaris. L' objectiu principal que es preten assolir en aquest projecte és: desenvolupar l' anàlisi, dissenyar i implementar una aplicació informàtica que permeti gestionar el funcionament d' un restaurant

Utilitats de gestió d'un restaurant.

El nostre projecte, tracta de desenvolupar una aplicació que ha de proporcionar diverses utilitats de gestió per a un restaurant. Es gestionaran les reserves a través d'Internet, també es farà la gestió d'usuaris registrats i campanyes de publicitat per e-mail dirigides als mateixos. L'aplicació haurà de mantenir la base de dades dels clients registrats. El restaurant els hi farà arribar informació periòdica a traves de llistes de correu i campanyes puntuals que l'aplicació haurà de gestionar.La part privada de l'aplicació, ha de tractar l'accés de personal autoritzat. El personal autoritzat podrà fer el manteniment de diverses parts: els clients, les reserves, els menús, places disponibles,... També ha de permetre la gestió dels continguts de les llistes de correu i les campanyes de publicitat.La nostra aplicació, sobre la plataforma JEE, segueix el disseny en capes, concretament en les capes de presentació, negoci i dades. A la capa de presentació, s'han utilitzat les tecnologies de JSP, HTML i CSS intentant aconseguir una interfície gràfica que sigui entenedora i fàcil d'usar. Desitgem fer servir el patró Model Vista Controlador, per tal de separar la interfície d'usuari de la lògica de negoci, a tal efecte s'ha utilitzat el "framework" STRUTS. A la capa de negoci és on estarà el gruix de l'aplicació que s'executarà sobre un servidor d'aplicacions, que en el nostre cas serà el GlassFish.La capa de dades, fa servir el SGBD MySQL. Per interactuar amb la base de dades, s'ha fet servir el "framework", Hibernate, que ens permet tractar les taules de la base de dades com si fossin objectes Java ordinaris.

Substrate specificity of human kallikrein 2 (hK2) as determined by phage display technology.

Human glandular kallikrein 2 (hK2) is a trypsin-like serine protease expressed predominantly in the prostate epithelium. Recently, hK2 has proven to be a useful marker that can be used in combination with prostate specific antigen for screening and diagnosis of prostate cancer. The cleavage by hK2 of certain substrates in the proteolytic cascade suggest that the kallikrein may be involved in prostate cancer development; however, there has been very little other progress toward its biochemical characterization or elucidation of its true physiological role. In the present work, we adapt phage substrate technology to study the substrate specificity of hK2. A phage-displayed random pentapeptide library with exhaustive diversity was generated and then screened with purified hK2. Phages displaying peptides susceptible to hK2 cleavage were amplified in eight rounds of selection and genes encoding substrates were transferred from the phage to a fluorescent system using cyan fluorescent protein (derived from green fluorescent protein) that enables rapid determination of specificity constants. This study shows that hK2 has a strict preference for Arg in the P1 position, which is further enhanced by a Ser in P'1 position. The scissile bonds identified by phage display substrate selection correspond to those of the natural biological substrates of hK2, which include protein C inhibitor, semenogelins, and fibronectin. Moreover, three new putative hK2 protein substrates, shown elsewhere to be involved in the biology of the cancer, have been identified thus reinforcing the importance of hK2 in prostate cancer development.

Appropriation of technology in "non-western" societies: an approximation to the case of Bulgaria

The principal focus of the PhD thesis lies in the Social Software area and the appropriation of technology in "non-Western" societies taking the example of Bulgaria. The term "non-Western" is used to explain places considered technologically underdeveloped. The aims have been to capture how Bulgarian users creatively interpret and appropriate Internet identifying the sociocultural, political and subjective conditions in which that appropriation occurs, to identify emerging practices based on the interpretation and use of Internet and the impact they had on society and what conditions could influence the technological interpretation and the meaning these practices had for both users and social configuration of Internet as media in Bulgaria. An ethnographic approach has been used simultaneously in different online and offline contexts. On the one hand, this study is based on exploration of the Bulgarian Internet Space through online participant observation in forums and websites reviews and on the other hand, on semi-structured interviews with different types of users of the virtual platforms found, made both face to face and online and finally online participant observation at the same platforms. It is based on some contributions of the ethnographic work of Christine Hine in virtual environments and the notions of time and space of Barbara Czarniawska contextualized in the modern form of organization that occurs in a network of multiple and fragmented contexts across many movements.

Assisted reproductive technology and obstetric outcome in couples when the male partner has a chronic viral disease.

BACKGROUND Assisted reproductive technology (ART) with washed semen can achieve pregnancy with minimal risk of horizontal and vertical transmission of chronic viral diseases (CVD) such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepati- tis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) among serodiscordant couples. How- ever, few studies have been made of the use made by these couples of ARTs or of the obstetric results achieved. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this retrospective study, 93 men who were seropositive for HIV, HCV or HBV and who underwent assisted reproduction treatment at our centre (Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain) were included. Washed semen was tested to detect viral particles. Non-infected women were tested before and after each treatment, as were the neonates at birth and after three months. RESULTS A total of 62 sperm samples were washed, and none were positive for the detec- tion of viral molecules. Semen samples from 34 HBV positive males were not washed since the female partner had immunity to hepatitis B. In total, 38 clinical pregnancies were achieved (22% per cycle and 40.9% per couple) out of 173 cycles initiated, and 28 births were achieved (16.2% per cycle and 30.1% per couple), producing 34 live births. The rate of multiple pregnancies was 21.4%. Obstetric and neonatal results were similar in the groups of couples studied. At follow-up, no seroconversion was detected in the women or neonates. CONCLUSION Sperm washing and intracytoplasmic sperm injection are shown to be a safe and effective option for reducing the risk of transmission or super infection in serodiscordant or concordant couples who wish to have a child. Pregnancies ob- tained by ART in couples when the male is CVD infected achieve good obstetric and neonatal results.