Disseny d'una nau bioclimàtica sense ús determinat, ubicat al Polígon Industrial "Camí dels Frares" de Lleida

L'objecte del present projecte tècnic és la descripció de la climatització d'una nau industrial bioclimàtica, fent ús de sistemes passius i si fos necessari, de sistemes actius. El concepte de bioclimàtic procedeix de bios-vida i clima - orientació. El propòsit d'aquest disseny arquitectònic és que des del punt de vista energètic permeti que la nau mantingui un nivell de confort tant en hivern com en estiu, aplicant una sèrie de criteris de disseny a fi d'utilitzar els elements constructius i funcionals propis de l'edifici per tal d'aconseguir un bon control del seu comportament energètic.

Course à pied et consommation: le cas des coureurs genevois

Autrefois reléguée à l'intérieur des stades comme une discipline secondaire de l'athlétisme, la course à pied ne cesse, depuis les années 80, de se réinventer pour accueillir de nouveaux venus, jusqu'à en devenir la pratique populaire que l'on connaît aujourd'hui. Cet éclatement de la course à pied dite « libre », qui a l'avantage d'être un sport avec un coût de pratique relativement faible, a permis de toucher toutes les classes sociales. Parallèlement, le développement économique et touristique que connaît la course à pied donne aux coureurs, outre le statut de sportif, celui d'un consommateur. Dans ce contexte, cette étude adopte une approche socio-économique pour comprendre ce que consomment et ce qui influence la consommation des coureurs genevois dans leur pratique de la course à pied. La méthode qualitative, basée sur des entretiens individuels semi-directifs, a été choisie pour récolter les données sur la pratique, la consommation touristiques, le textile et le matériel, la nutrition, le coaching ou encore la consultation médicale et paramédicale.

Is blood still thicker than water? A life-course perspective on the transformation of family and friends' roles in personal networks

This thesis addresses the issue of the moving boundaries between family and friends' roles in personal networks, adopting a life-course perspective and using Switzerland as a case study. In a period of major changes in personal life happening in contemporary Western societies, understanding the organization of personal networks intertwined with the unfolding of individual life courses is of prime importance in facing new challenges with regard to social integration. The data stem from a representative national survey carried out in 2011 named Family tiMes, including 803 individuals born either in 1950-1955 or in 1970-1975. An innovative research design was adopted, combing cross-sectional ego-centered network data and retrospective longitudinal life-course data. The results show continuing boundaries between family and friends' roles and that family keeps a prominent role in personal networks despite the notable importance of friendship ties. One relationship stands out above all, that with the partner, followed quite a few steps behind by those with children. Regarding life courses, de-standardization tendencies were found in family formation and also a persistent gendering of occupational trajectories. Two kinds of life trajectories are particularly intertwined with personal networks, co-residence and partnership trajectories, both related to the unfolding of family life. In particular, transition to parenthood functions as a turning point in individuals' lives, deeply transforming their sociability. Finally, a twofold pluralization process was identified, affecting simultaneously the organization of personal networks and the unfolding of individual life courses. This thesis contributes to the literature on the sociology of family and personal life, and to fruitful interlinkage between the network approach and the life-course perspective.

Memory Revisited in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending

An accumulation of years brings with it an accumulation of experiences. The revision of such experiences usually becomes more recurrent after retirement, a transition time from one period of life to another and, as such, a time in which we, human beings, have a tendency to take stock of our lives. This is actually one of the main issues present in Julian Barnes's last novel The Sense of an Ending (2011). When the main protagonist, a retired man quite comfortable and contented with his present life, receives an unexpected inheritance from the mother of a girlfriend from his university years, he is forced to track down a part of his life that he had left at the back of his mind a long time ago. As he explains his story, the protagonist and narrator of the novel raises a number of questions related to the quality and function of memory as one gets into old age. He experiments the unreliability of memory and questions to what extent memory is constructed through the remembered emotions that invaded him over that episode of his life rather than through the events as they actually took place. On the other hand, the act of revisiting and revising that specific episode, brings with it feelings of guilt and remorse as the protagonist realises that his past acts were not as noble as he remembered them to be. However, these acts are part of the past and they cannot be changed; thus, another question that the novel raises is how to account for those actions of which one does not feel proud and, more importantly, how to manage those bad memories as one gets older.

Accions sense vot en l'empresa familiar

L'article 98 del Reial decret Legislatiu 1/2010, de la Llei de Societats de Capital (TRLSC), brinda a les societats anònimes la possibilitat de créixer a partir d'un nou mecanisme de finançament, les accions sense vot. Aquesta classe d'accions, van ser introduïdes de la mà del sistema anglosaxó en ple s. XIX, amb la vocació d'aportar finançament extern a les societats mercantils, sense afectar al control de les mateixes. Aquest mecanisme, d'escàs ús en general, no ha passat desapercebut per a l'empresa familiar. L'objectiu d'aquest article, és analitzar i determinar el grau d'utilitat i servei que suposen les accions sense vot per a l'empresa familiar, com a eina per facilitar el seu finançament i alhora creixement.