Premios extraordinarios de FP.

Reparto de premios por parte de la Consejería de Educación de Castilla-La Mancha a alumnos que cursaron sus estudios de Formación Profesional en centros de la región.

El plan regional de FP marcará el camino hacia una región competitiva.

La Comisión Permanente del Consejo de Formación Profesional de Castilla-La Mancha comienza a trabajar en la elaboración del Plan Regional de Formación Profesional, plan que definirá el futuro de la FP. Partiendo de un diagnóstico previo sobre la realidad socioeconómica y laboral de la región, se pretende llegar a los siguientes objetivos: adaptar la oferta de FP a la demanda de las empresas, coordinar la oferta formativa, incrementar la competitividad de la región, integrar los sistemas de información y orientación laboral y contribuir al prestigio de la FP en la región.

Inicia FP : aprender a emprender en FP

Descripción de IniciaFP, programa de innovación aplicada en formación profesional, participado por los IES Virgen de Guadalupe y el IES Al-Qázeres de Cáceres,el IES Laguna de Joatzel de Getafe (Madrid) y la Escuela de Hostelería de Madrid. El objetivo de IniciaFP es el desarrollo de las competencias emprendedoras del alumnado y profesorado, mediante la implementación de metodologías que propicien el trabajo colaborativo, la adquisición de habilidades para el emprendimiento y la integración y uso intensivo de las TIC

Formaci??n Profesional e innovaci??n : estudio de la transferencia de innovaci??n entre centros de FP y empresas

Resumen basado en el de la publicaci??n

Instituto de FP Mar??timo-Pesquero de Santa Cruz de Tenerife : 20 a??os de historia; presente y futuro

Se resume la historia de este instituto de FP Mar??timo Pesquero que nace como Secci??n Oficial de FP Mar??timo-Pesquera en 1980, dependiente del Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentaci??n, y al no poseer instalaciones propias, ocupaba parte del inmueble de la Casa del Mar. Desde sus comienzos, el objetivo ha sido cubrir las necesidades de la Provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife en referencia a las ense??anzas Mar??timo y N??utico Pesqueras. Durante 20 a??os se han preparado profesionales es las especialidades de Navegaci??n de Cabotaje, de Pesca Mar??tima y de M??quinas Navales.

Instituto de FP Mar??timo-Pesquero de Santa Cruz de Tenerife : experiencia con el cangrejo de agua

Se presenta una experiencia que forma parte del Ciclo Formativo de Grado Medio de Operador de Cultivos Acu??colas cuyo objetivo principal es que el alumnado se familiarice a trabajar con animales vivos (cangrejo rojo de las marismas) y que sean capaces de mantenerlos en cautividad, en lo que, a peque??a escala, se asemeja a unas condiciones de cultivo. Tambi??n a que busquen las referencias bibliogr??ficas necesarias para poder desarrollar este tipo de actividades.

Blackbody emission under laser excitation of silicon nanopowder produced by plasma-enhanced chemical-vapor deposition

Previous results concerning radiative emission under laser irradiation of silicon nanopowder are reinterpreted in terms of thermal emission. A model is developed that considers the particles in the powder as independent, so under vacuum the only dissipation mechanism is thermal radiation. The supralinear dependence observed between the intensity of the emitted radiation and laser power is predicted by the model, as is the exponential quenching when the gas pressure around the sample increases. The analysis allows us to determine the sample temperature. The local heating of the sample has been assessed independently by the position of the transverse optical Raman mode. Finally, it is suggested that the photoluminescence observed in porous silicon and similar materials could, in some cases, be blackbody radiation

New Methods for Triangulation-based Shape Acquisition using Laser Scanners

Tradicionalment, la reproducció del mon real se'ns ha mostrat a traves d'imatges planes. Aquestes imatges se solien materialitzar mitjançant pintures sobre tela o be amb dibuixos. Avui, per sort, encara podem veure pintures fetes a ma, tot i que la majoria d'imatges s'adquireixen mitjançant càmeres, i es mostren directament a una audiència, com en el cinema, la televisió o exposicions de fotografies, o be son processades per un sistema computeritzat per tal d'obtenir un resultat en particular. Aquests processaments s'apliquen en camps com en el control de qualitat industrial o be en la recerca mes puntera en intel·ligència artificial. Aplicant algorismes de processament de nivell mitja es poden obtenir imatges 3D a partir d'imatges 2D, utilitzant tècniques ben conegudes anomenades Shape From X, on X es el mètode per obtenir la tercera dimensió, i varia en funció de la tècnica que s'utilitza a tal nalitat. Tot i que l'evolució cap a la càmera 3D va començar en els 90, cal que les tècniques per obtenir les formes tridimensionals siguin mes i mes acurades. Les aplicacions dels escàners 3D han augmentat considerablement en els darrers anys, especialment en camps com el lleure, diagnosi/cirurgia assistida, robòtica, etc. Una de les tècniques mes utilitzades per obtenir informació 3D d'una escena, es la triangulació, i mes concretament, la utilització d'escàners laser tridimensionals. Des de la seva aparició formal en publicacions científiques al 1971 [SS71], hi ha hagut contribucions per solucionar problemes inherents com ara la disminució d'oclusions, millora de la precisió, velocitat d'adquisició, descripció de la forma, etc. Tots i cadascun dels mètodes per obtenir punts 3D d'una escena te associat un procés de calibració, i aquest procés juga un paper decisiu en el rendiment d'un dispositiu d'adquisició tridimensional. La nalitat d'aquesta tesi es la d'abordar el problema de l'adquisició de forma 3D, des d'un punt de vista total, reportant un estat de l'art sobre escàners laser basats en triangulació, provant el funcionament i rendiment de diferents sistemes, i fent aportacions per millorar la precisió en la detecció del feix laser, especialment en condicions adverses, i solucionant el problema de la calibració a partir de mètodes geomètrics projectius.

Aplicações do Laser em Dermatologia

O laser é uma técnica cada vez mais utilizada no tratamento e diagnóstico de variadas doenças, em múltiplas especialidades – desde a neurocirurgia até à ginecologia, da gastroenterologia à ortopedia e da oftalmologia à dermatologia. É extremamente difícil afirmar o quão diferente seria a medicina hoje em dia se a tecnologia laser não se encontrasse disponível. Ao longo desta monografia, a área a abordar vai ser a Dermatologia e as aplicações dos lasers nesta área. Inicialmente irá ser abordada a história dos lasers, desde a sua descoberta até ao dia de hoje, passando pelas suas limitações iniciais e acabando nas suas evoluções e estado actual. De seguida, irá ser analisada a constituição da pele e os fototipos cutâneos. Ao longo do trabalho, irá ser explicado o que são lasers, quais as suas características principais e interacções com o tecido, quais os tipos de lasers existentes e quais os mais utilizados em Dermatologia. Nesta área, os lasers podem ser utilizados em diversas situações e patologias. Nesta monografia, irá ser discutida a utilização dos lasers na remoção de pêlos (epilação), em lesões pigmentares, na remoção de tatuagens e em lesões vasculares, nomeadamente nas PWS e no hemangioma. Além disso, os lasers são igualmente utilizados como técnicas de diagnóstico, pelo que serão descritas três técnicas utilizadas como tal – LDF, CM e LIF. Por último, serão abordadas as considerações práticas dos lasers, isto é, os factores que influenciam a escolha de um laser, os efeitos secundários derivados do uso de lasers e as contra-indicações ao uso de lasers, tal como qual o futuro na utilização dos lasers.

Use of fused airborne scanning laser altimetry and digital map data for urban flood modelling

Flood modelling of urban areas is still at an early stage, partly because until recently topographic data of sufficiently high resolution and accuracy have been lacking in urban areas. However, Digital Surface Models (DSMs) generated from airborne scanning laser altimetry (LiDAR) having sub-metre spatial resolution have now become available, and these are able to represent the complexities of urban topography. The paper describes the development of a LiDAR post-processor for urban flood modelling based on the fusion of LiDAR and digital map data. The map data are used in conjunction with LiDAR data to identify different object types in urban areas, though pattern recognition techniques are also employed. Post-processing produces a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) for use as model bathymetry, and also a friction parameter map for use in estimating spatially-distributed friction coefficients. In vegetated areas, friction is estimated from LiDAR-derived vegetation height, and (unlike most vegetation removal software) the method copes with short vegetation less than ~1m high, which may occupy a substantial fraction of even an urban floodplain. The DTM and friction parameter map may also be used to help to generate an unstructured mesh of a vegetated urban floodplain for use by a 2D finite element model. The mesh is decomposed to reflect floodplain features having different frictional properties to their surroundings, including urban features such as buildings and roads as well as taller vegetation features such as trees and hedges. This allows a more accurate estimation of local friction. The method produces a substantial node density due to the small dimensions of many urban features.

Using airborne laser altimetry to improve river flood extents delineated from SAR data

Flood extent maps derived from SAR images are a useful source of data for validating hydraulic models of river flood flow. The accuracy of such maps is reduced by a number of factors, including changes in returns from the water surface caused by different meteorological conditions and the presence of emergent vegetation. The paper describes how improved accuracy can be achieved by modifying an existing flood extent delineation algorithm to use airborne laser altimetry (LiDAR) as well as SAR data. The LiDAR data provide an additional constraint that waterline (land-water boundary) heights should vary smoothly along the flooded reach. The method was tested on a SAR image of a flood for which contemporaneous aerial photography existed, together with LiDAR data of the un-flooded reach. Waterline heights of the SAR flood extent conditioned on both SAR and LiDAR data matched the corresponding heights from the aerial photo waterline significantly more closely than those from the SAR flood extent conditioned only on SAR data.

Benchmarking 2D hydraulic models for urban flooding

This paper describes benchmark testing of six two-dimensional (2D) hydraulic models (DIVAST, DIVASTTVD, TUFLOW, JFLOW, TRENT and LISFLOOD-FP) in terms of their ability to simulate surface flows in a densely urbanised area. The models are applied to a 1·0 km × 0·4 km urban catchment within the city of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and are used to simulate a flood event that occurred at this site on 30 July 2002. An identical numerical grid describing the underlying topography is constructed for each model, using a combination of airborne laser altimetry (LiDAR) fused with digital map data, and used to run a benchmark simulation. Two numerical experiments were then conducted to test the response of each model to topographic error and uncertainty over friction parameterisation. While all the models tested produce plausible results, subtle differences between particular groups of codes give considerable insight into both the practice and science of urban hydraulic modelling. In particular, the results show that the terrain data available from modern LiDAR systems are sufficiently accurate and resolved for simulating urban flows, but such data need to be fused with digital map data of building topology and land use to gain maximum benefit from the information contained therein. When such terrain data are available, uncertainty in friction parameters becomes a more dominant factor than topographic error for typical problems. The simulations also show that flows in urban environments are characterised by numerous transitions to supercritical flow and numerical shocks. However, the effects of these are localised and they do not appear to affect overall wave propagation. In contrast, inertia terms are shown to be important in this particular case, but the specific characteristics of the test site may mean that this does not hold more generally.

Calibration of uncertain flood inundation models using remotely sensed water levels

A traditional method of validating the performance of a flood model when remotely sensed data of the flood extent are available is to compare the predicted flood extent to that observed. The performance measure employed often uses areal pattern-matching to assess the degree to which the two extents overlap. Recently, remote sensing of flood extents using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and airborne scanning laser altimetry (LIDAR) has made more straightforward the synoptic measurement of water surface elevations along flood waterlines, and this has emphasised the possibility of using alternative performance measures based on height. This paper considers the advantages that can accrue from using a performance measure based on waterline elevations rather than one based on areal patterns of wet and dry pixels. The two measures were compared for their ability to estimate flood inundation uncertainty maps from a set of model runs carried out to span the acceptable model parameter range in a GLUE-based analysis. A 1 in 5-year flood on the Thames in 1992 was used as a test event. As is typical for UK floods, only a single SAR image of observed flood extent was available for model calibration and validation. A simple implementation of a two-dimensional flood model (LISFLOOD-FP) was used to generate model flood extents for comparison with that observed. The performance measure based on height differences of corresponding points along the observed and modelled waterlines was found to be significantly more sensitive to the channel friction parameter than the measure based on areal patterns of flood extent. The former was able to restrict the parameter range of acceptable model runs and hence reduce the number of runs necessary to generate an inundation uncertainty map. A result of this was that there was less uncertainty in the final flood risk map. The uncertainty analysis included the effects of uncertainties in the observed flood extent as well as in model parameters. The height-based measure was found to be more sensitive when increased heighting accuracy was achieved by requiring that observed waterline heights varied slowly along the reach. The technique allows for the decomposition of the reach into sections, with different effective channel friction parameters used in different sections, which in this case resulted in lower r.m.s. height differences between observed and modelled waterlines than those achieved by runs using a single friction parameter for the whole reach. However, a validation of the modelled inundation uncertainty using the calibration event showed a significant difference between the uncertainty map and the observed flood extent. While this was true for both measures, the difference was especially significant for the height-based one. This is likely to be due to the conceptually simple flood inundation model and the coarse application resolution employed in this case. The increased sensitivity of the height-based measure may lead to an increased onus being placed on the model developer in the production of a valid model