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.

Influence of music on the growth of koi carp, Cyprinus carpio (Pisces: Cyprindae)

An experiment was carried out to investigate the influence of music on the growth of Koi Carp (Cyprinus carpio) by subjecting the fish to music. Weekly growth in weight was recorded and used to calculate the growth rate and specific growth rate. The difference in growth between the control and experiment groups of fishes was statistically tested for significance. It was observed that the growth of fish subjected to music was significantly higher.

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.

Differential cognitive responses to guqin music and piano music in Chinese subjects: an event-related potential study

目的 研究古琴(一种古老的中国乐器)和钢琴音乐对认知的影响.方法 记录和分析了中国被试在两种音乐背景(古琴音乐,钢琴音乐)下完成听觉oddball任务的行为和事件相关电位(event-related potential,ERP)数据.结果 中国被试在本土文化的音乐环境(古琴音乐)下,前额区诱导出更大的P300,这一结果和已有的相关研究是相符的.同时,不同音乐背景对ERP产生的影响在N1和LPC(包括P300和P500)上也表现出差别:中国被试在古琴音乐背景下比钢琴音乐背景下表现出更多的右前侧颞叶的参与.结论 因为古琴音乐的五声调式和汉语发音的音调具有对应关系,因此我们推断在古琴音乐下所表现出的这种特性与被试的汉语环境有关.

Crossmodal effects of Guqin and piano music on selective attention: An event-related potential study

To compare the effects of music from different cultural environments (Guqin: Chinese music; piano: Western music) on crossmodal selective attention, behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) data in a standard two-stimulus visual oddball task were reco

Crossmodal effects of Guqin and piano music on selective attention: An event-related potential study (vol 466, pg 21, 2009)

Special thanks to Christopher Blair and Mumtaz Baig for their suggestions. This work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, 2007CB411600), National Natural Science Foundation of China (30621092), and Bureau of Science and Technology of Yunnan Province.

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.