Fray Francisco Hernandez ... de la Regular Observancia de nuestro Serafico Padre San Francisco, en esta Santa Provincia de Valencia, a todos los Religiosos ... derecho del General, y sisa por los sayales que la Provincia toma para vestir a los religiosos ...

Fecha de la carta: Valencia 3 de febrero de 1662

How network operators can enhance ambient assisted living applications through next generation networks

Within the technological framework of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), consumers are currently requesting multimedia services with simplicity of use, reliability, security and service availability through mobile and fixed access. Network operators are proposing the Next Generation Networks (NGN) to address the challenges of providing both services and network convergence. Apart from these considerations, there is a need to provide social and healthcare assistance services in order to support the progressive aging in the elderly population. In order to achieve this objective, the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) initiative proposes ICT systems and services to promote autonomy and an independent life among the elderly. This paper describes the design and implementation of a group of services, called “service enablers”, which helps AAL applications to be supported in NGN. The presented enablers are identified to support the teleconsulting applications requirements in an NGN environment, involving the implementation of a virtual waiting room, a virtual whiteboard, a multimedia multiconference and a vital-signs monitoring presence status. A use case is defined and implemented to evaluate the developed enablers' performance.

Surface fitting in geomorphology - examples for regular-shaped volcanic landforms

In nature, several types of landforms have simple shapes: as they evolve they tend to take on an ideal, simple geometric form such as a cone, an ellipsoid or a paraboloid. Volcanic landforms are possibly the best examples of this ?ideal? geometry, since they develop as regular surface features due to the point-like (circular) or fissure-like (linear) manifestation of volcanic activity. In this paper, we present a geomorphometric method of fitting the ?ideal? surface onto the real surface of regular-shaped volcanoes through a number of case studies (Mt. Mayon, Mt. Somma, Mt. Semeru, and Mt. Cameroon). Volcanoes with circular, as well as elliptical, symmetry are addressed. For the best surface fit, we use the minimization library MINUIT which is made freely available by the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). This library enables us to handle all the available surface data (every point of the digital elevation model) in a one-step, half-automated way regardless of the size of the dataset, and to consider simultaneously all the relevant parameters of the selected problem, such as the position of the center of the edifice, apex height, and cone slope, thanks to the highly performing adopted procedure. Fitting the geometric surface, along with calculating the related error, demonstrates the twofold advantage of the method. Firstly, we can determine quantitatively to what extent a given volcanic landform is regular, i.e. how much it follows an expected regular shape. Deviations from the ideal shape due to degradation (e.g. sector collapse and normal erosion) can be used in erosion rate calculations. Secondly, if we have a degraded volcanic landform, whose geometry is not clear, this method of surface fitting reconstructs the original shape with the maximum precision. Obviously, in addition to volcanic landforms, this method is also capable of constraining the shapes of other regular surface features such as aeolian, glacial or periglacial landforms.

A genetic algorithm for slope stability analyses with concave slip surfaces using custom operators

Heuristic methods are popular tools to find critical slip surfaces in slope stability analyses. A new genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed in this work that has a standard structure but a novel encoding and generation of individuals with custom-designed operators for mutation and crossover that produce kinematically feasible slip surfaces with a high probability. In addition, new indices to assess the efficiency of operators in their search for the minimum factor of safety (FS) are proposed. The proposed GA is applied to traditional benchmark examples from the literature, as well as to a new practical example. Results show that the proposed GA is reliable, flexible and robust: it provides good minimum FS estimates that are not very sensitive to the number of nodes and that are very similar for different replications

Alegacion en derecho en fauor de la Generalidad del Reyno de Valencia con el Conuento del Serafico P.S. Francisco desta ciudad y otros de la regular obseruancia [Texto impreso]

Port. con grab. xil. de los tres Estamentos

Desarrollo de un sistema de control por DSP para regular generadores sincronos de imanes permanentes

En el siguiente proyecto se va a llevar a cabo la simulación en la plataforma Matlb Simulink de una maquina síncrona de imanes permanentes (MSIP) en su funcionamiento como generador, emulando un aerogenerador con tecnología SGFC. El generador tendrá como variable de consigna la velocidad de giro del eje y se ajustara el sistema de control para que sea capaz de seguir la señal de consigna ante cambios bruscos del par. Posteriormente se va a detallar y construir todos los elementos que se consideren necesarios para, en proyectos futuros, llevar a la práctica en una maquina real este sistema de control ABSTRACT The object of this Project is to carry a simulation in Matlab Simulink of a synchronous permanent magnets machine (MSIP) in its operation as a generator, emulating a wind turbine technology SGFC. The variable setpoint will be the rotational speed of the shaft, the control system will fit so that it is capable of following the setpoint signal before sudden changes of the pair. Afterward the elements considered necessary for to put into practice this control system in a real machine will be detailed.

Application of the homogenization techniques to the determination of the effective flexure constants of plate structural systems

A Mindlin plate with periodically distributed ribs patterns is analyzed by using homogenization techniques based on asymptotic expansion methods. The stiffness matrix of the homogenized plate is found to be dependent on the geometrical characteristics of the periodical cell, i.e. its skewness, plan shape, thickness variation etc. and on the plate material elastic constants. The computation of this plate stiffness matrix is carried out by averaging over the cell domain some solutions of different periodical boundary value problems. These boundary value problems are defined in variational form by linear first order differential operators on the cell domain and the boundary conditions of the variational equation correspond to a periodic structural problem. The elements of the stiffness matrix of homogenized plate are obtained by linear combinations of the averaged solution functions of the above mentioned boundary value problems. Finally, an illustrative example of application of this homogenization technique to hollowed plates and plate structures with ribs patterns regularly arranged over its area is shown. The possibility of using in the profesional practice the present procedure to the actual analysis of floors of typical buildings is also emphasized.

ALUNOS COM DEFICIÊNCIA NO ENSINO REGULAR: E AGORA PROFESSOR, VAMOS FALAR DE INCLUSÃO?

A inclusão de alunos com deficiência em ensino regular no Brasil é um movimento que vem denotando constante crescimento nos últimos anos. Embora muitos avanços sejam observados, por ser um processo que suscita mudanças conceituais, legais e de prática, traz consigo dúvidas, decorrentes das contradições existentes entre os discursos que proclamam a inclusão e a realidade educacional brasileira. Sob o prisma da docência, no contexto da escola inclusiva, são inúmeras as dificuldades que os professores vêm enfrentando na prática com esse alunado. Considerando essa problemática, apesar da produção já existente, faz-se necessário o aprofundamento de estudos deste tema do ponto de vista do professor. Portanto, esta pesquisa investiga a voz e a ótica dos professores das classes regulares que possuem alunos em situação de inclusão, mais especificamente os que têm deficiência, e aborda os diferentes aspectos da inclusão no cotidiano escolar e o apoio ao professor como uma das ações necessárias para a prática pedagógica inclusiva à luz de teóricos que discutem o processo inclusivo. O estudo, de caráter qualitativo, foi realizado em quatro escolas do Ensino Fundamental (séries iniciais) da rede pública municipal de São Bernardo do Campo, e contou com a participação de nove professores, quatro diretores e quatro famílias de alunos com deficiência. Considerando a análise dos aspectos observados, pode-se inferir que os professores têm buscado a ressignificação de suas práticas, mas desvelam a necessidade de um apoio constante, que lhes dê sustentação para o atendimento à diversidade dos seus alunos.(AU)

ALUNOS COM DEFICIÊNCIA NO ENSINO REGULAR: E AGORA PROFESSOR, VAMOS FALAR DE INCLUSÃO?

A inclusão de alunos com deficiência em ensino regular no Brasil é um movimento que vem denotando constante crescimento nos últimos anos. Embora muitos avanços sejam observados, por ser um processo que suscita mudanças conceituais, legais e de prática, traz consigo dúvidas, decorrentes das contradições existentes entre os discursos que proclamam a inclusão e a realidade educacional brasileira. Sob o prisma da docência, no contexto da escola inclusiva, são inúmeras as dificuldades que os professores vêm enfrentando na prática com esse alunado. Considerando essa problemática, apesar da produção já existente, faz-se necessário o aprofundamento de estudos deste tema do ponto de vista do professor. Portanto, esta pesquisa investiga a voz e a ótica dos professores das classes regulares que possuem alunos em situação de inclusão, mais especificamente os que têm deficiência, e aborda os diferentes aspectos da inclusão no cotidiano escolar e o apoio ao professor como uma das ações necessárias para a prática pedagógica inclusiva à luz de teóricos que discutem o processo inclusivo. O estudo, de caráter qualitativo, foi realizado em quatro escolas do Ensino Fundamental (séries iniciais) da rede pública municipal de São Bernardo do Campo, e contou com a participação de nove professores, quatro diretores e quatro famílias de alunos com deficiência. Considerando a análise dos aspectos observados, pode-se inferir que os professores têm buscado a ressignificação de suas práticas, mas desvelam a necessidade de um apoio constante, que lhes dê sustentação para o atendimento à diversidade dos seus alunos.(AU)