Does training policy help to attract, retain and develop valuable human resources? Analysis from the Mondragon case

This is an electronic version of the accepted paper in the journal:Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms. Volumen. 12

Mondragon Taldea: Hazkunde-bide ezberdinak

Hurrengo lanean, Mondragon Korporazio Kooperatiboaren parte diren BATZ, S.Coop. eta DANOBAT S.Coop. enpresak aztertuko dira, batez ere hazkunde prozesuan zentratuz. Azterketa hau burutu ahal izateko, lehendabizi sarrera labur bat egingo da gaian kokatzeko eta lan honen bidez lortu nahi diren helburuak finkatuko dira bertan. Era berean, enpresen azterketa hasi baino lehen hauek kokatuta dauden ingurunearen azterketa burutuko da, jardueran eragina izango duten faktore ekonomikoak, politikoak eta abar identifikatzeko. Lanean zehar analizatuko diren bi enpresek azterketa puntu berdinak izango dituzte. Lehendabizi enpresaren ezaugarriak eta historia laburra aztertuko dira. Aurkezpen orokor honen ondoren, ingurune bereziaren azterketa gauzatuko da, enpresak sektore konkretu batean kokatuz eta sektore honen ezaugarriak identifikatuz. Kanpo analisiarekin bukatuz, enpresaren barne analisian aurkitzen diren arlo funtzionala eta baliabide eta gaitasunen azterketa burutuko da eta AMIA analisia gauzatuko da enpresaren ezaugarri espezifikoak ezagutzeko. Enpresaren ezaugarrien analisiarekin bukatu ondoren, hazkunde estrategia izango da aztergai, bertan korporazio estrategia, kanpo hazkundea, barne hazkundea eta lankidetza akordioak ikertuko dira. Azkenik, enpresa bakoitzaren azterketa burutu ondoren ondorio nagusiak aurkituko dira, bertan hasiera batean finkatutako helburuak bete diren ikusi ahal izango da, eta analisiaren ondorioz enpresen hazkundeari buruzko ideia nagusiak aurkituko dira. Erabilitako informazio guztiaren iturriak bibliografia apartatuan ikusi ahal izango dira.

Análisis de las competencias digitales de los estudiantes de tres títulos de grado de Mondragon Unibertsitatea.

Resumen tomado del autor

Definición y contextualización del perfil profesional del maestro en Huhezi (Mondragon Unibertsitatea).

Monográfico con el título: 'La profesión docente: escenarios, perfiles y tendencias'. Resumen basado en el de la publicación

Del nuevo siglo al nuevo grado : la titulación de Educación Infantil en Mondragon Unibertsitatea.

Monográfico con el título: 'Buenas prácticas docentes en la enseñanza universitaria'. Resumen basado en el de la publicación

Innovaci??n curricular en los grados de maestro en la facultad HUHEZI (Mondragon Unibertsitatea) : la materia Educaci??n intercultural y educaci??n en valores

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[Memoria que en cumplimiento á los articulos 28, 29 y 30 del Reglamento de aguas minerales del Reino, dirige al Excmo Sr. Ministro de la Gobernacion de la peninsula el Dr. Don Juan Carlos Guerra, director de las aguas minero-medicinales de Santa Agueda en Mondragon, relativa á lo observado en ellas el corriente año de 1863]

Carece de portada y título. Título tomado del encabezado.

Memoria que en cumplimiento á lo prescrito en el reglamento de aguas del Reino de 3. de Febrero de 1834, dirige al Esmo Señor Ministro de la Governacion del Reino el Dor. en Medicina y Cirujia Dn. Juan Carlos Guerra, Director de las aguas hidro-sulfurosas y ferruginosas de Sta. Agueda en Mondragon, relatibo á lo obserbado en la temporada de uso de aguas del año de 1848.

Carece de portada.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs attitude, height, motion estimation and control using visual systems

This paper presents an implementation of an aircraft pose and motion estimator using visual systems as the principal sensor for controlling an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or as a redundant system for an Inertial Measure Unit (IMU) and gyros sensors. First, we explore the applications of the unified theory for central catadioptric cameras for attitude and heading estimation, explaining how the skyline is projected on the catadioptric image and how it is segmented and used to calculate the UAV’s attitude. Then we use appearance images to obtain a visual compass, and we calculate the relative rotation and heading of the aerial vehicle. Additionally, we show the use of a stereo system to calculate the aircraft height and to measure the UAV’s motion. Finally, we present a visual tracking system based on Fuzzy controllers working in both a UAV and a camera pan and tilt platform. Every part is tested using the UAV COLIBRI platform to validate the different approaches, which include comparison of the estimated data with the inertial values measured onboard the helicopter platform and the validation of the tracking schemes on real flights.

Aerial object following using visual fuzzy servoing

This article presents a visual servoing system to follow a 3D moving object by a Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (MUAV). The presented control strategy is based only on the visual information given by an adaptive tracking method based on the colour information. A visual fuzzy system has been developed for servoing the camera situated on a rotary wing MAUV, that also considers its own dynamics. This system is focused on continuously following of an aerial moving target object, maintaining it with a fixed safe distance and centred on the image plane. The algorithm is validated on real flights on outdoors scenarios, showing the robustness of the proposed systems against winds perturbations, illumination and weather changes among others. The obtained results indicate that the proposed algorithms is suitable for complex controls task, such object following and pursuit, flying in formation, as well as their use for indoor navigation

Omnidirectional bearing-only see-and-avoid for small aerial robots

Motivated by the growing interest in unmanned aerial system’s applications in indoor and outdoor settings and the standardisation of visual sensors as vehicle payload. This work presents a collision avoidance approach based on omnidirectional cameras that does not require the estimation of range between two platforms to resolve a collision encounter. It will achieve a minimum separation between the two vehicles involved by maximising the view-angle given by the omnidirectional sensor. Only visual information is used to achieve avoidance under a bearing-only visual servoing approach. We provide theoretical problem formulation, as well as results from real flight using small quadrotors.

Strengthening the Foundations: Mutuality and the Performing Arts

Following the positive response by governments to the report of Helen Nugent's major performing arts inquiry, urgent attention needs to be given to the seedbed companies where so often audiences are introduced to the performing arts and practitioners are launched on their professional careers. Doing so calls for lateral thinking such as will enable the widest possible range of stakeholders to become involved. One solution may be to develop multi-stakeholder arts mutuals from the simpler arts mutuals such as co-operatives which are already widespread in many spheres of arts activity. Relevant models include the multi-stakeholder mutuals of the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation and the employee mutuals which are being trialled currently in Britain. Possible stakeholders in an arts mutual could include employed, unemployed and trainee practitioners, professional, quasi-professional and amateur theatre bodies, community groups, municipal councils and statutory bodies such as the ABC. Mutualist models may also be helpful to major performing arts companies facing erosion of their subscription incomes or incurring higher support services costs.

UAS See-and-Avoid using two different approaches of Fuzzy Control

This work presents two UAS See and Avoid approaches using Fuzzy Control. We compare the performance of each controller when a Cross-Entropy method is applied to optimase the parameters for one of the controllers. Each controller receive information from an image processing front-end that detect and track targets in the environment. Visual information is then used under a visual servoing approach to perform autonomous avoidance. Experimental flight trials using a small quadrotor were performed to validate and compare the behaviour of both controllers

Vision based control for micro aerial vehicles : Application to sense and avoid

This work presents a collision avoidance approach based on omnidirectional cameras that does not require the estimation of range between two platforms to resolve a collision encounter. Our method achieves minimum separation between the two vehicles involved by maximising the view-angle given by the omnidirectional sensor. Only visual information is used to achieve avoidance under a bearing- only visual servoing approach. We provide theoretical problem formulation, as well as results from real flights using small quadrotors

Probing the role of the fully conserved Cys126 in triosephosphate isomerase by site-specific mutagenesis - distal effects on dimer stability

Cys126 is a completely conserved residue in triosephosphate isomerase that is proximal to the active site but has been ascribed no specific role in catalysis. A previous study of the C126S and C126A mutants of yeast TIM reported substantial catalytic activity for the mutant enzymes, leading to the suggestion that this residue is implicated in folding and stability [Gonzalez-Mondragon E et al. (2004) Biochemistry43, 3255–3263]. We re-examined the role of Cys126 with the Plasmodium falciparum enzyme as a model. Five mutants, C126S, C126A, C126V, C126M, and C126T, were characterized. Crystal structures of the 3-phosphoglycolate-bound C126S mutant and the unliganded forms of the C126S and C126A mutants were determined at a resolution of 1.7–2.1 Å. Kinetic studies revealed an approximately five-fold drop in kcat for the C126S and C126A mutants, whereas an approximately 10-fold drop was observed for the other three mutants. At ambient temperature, the wild-type enzyme and all five mutants showed no concentration dependence of activity. At higher temperatures (> 40 °C), the mutants showed a significant concentration dependence, with a dramatic loss in activity below 15 μm. The mutants also had diminished thermal stability at low concentration, as monitored by far-UV CD. These results suggest that Cys126 contributes to the stability of the dimer interface through a network of interactions involving His95, Glu97, and Arg98, which form direct contacts across the dimer interface.