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The flood of the Turia River of 1731. An approximation to the literature of the catastrophe
2015
Los sucesos naturales de carácter extraordinario que se han sucedido a lo largo de la historia han dejado tras de sí un gran legado documental. Fenómenos como los terremotos, las erupciones volcánicas, las sequías, las plagas, etc. han constituido desde siempre un motivo de preocupación para las poblaciones expuestas y una ocasión para desatar la imaginación de los cronistas. En el caso de la ciudad de Valencia, ningún fenómeno natural ha influido tanto en su historia como las avenidas recurrentes del río Turia. Una de ellas, la riada extraordinaria de septiembre de 1731, quedó registrada en documentos de todo tipo que pueden englobarse bajo la denominación común de literatura de la catástr…
Signalling and Reception
2002
Communication, a widespread natural phenomenon, occurs in both animals and plants. Signals are evolved traits that transfer information from one individual (the signaller) to another (the receiver); they can occur in any sensory modality. Keywords: cost and benefits; honesty; mimicry; predation; sexual selection
Fake Nodes approximation for Magnetic Particle Imaging
2020
Accurately reconstructing functions with discontinuities is the key tool in many bio-imaging applications as, for instance, in Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI). In this paper, we apply a method for scattered data interpolation, named mapped bases or Fake Nodes approach, which incorporates discontinuities via a suitable mapping function. This technique naturally mitigates the Gibbs phenomenon, as numerical evidence for reconstructing MPI images confirms.
Seernes opplevelse av nettbaserte gudstjenester
2021
Author's accepted manuscript. When the corona pandemic became a fact, many parishes within the Church of Norway chose to start video streaming of services as a substitute for gatherings in the church. This article is based on a survey done among viewers of these broadcasts and sheds light on how online worship services were received. The findings from the survey show that the viewers value recognizability and authenticity, but at the same time expect the service to be adapted to the medium since the situation of viewing on a screen is quite different from being in a church.
Adaptive rational interpolation for cell-average
2020
Abstract In this paper, we extend the rational interpolation introduced by G. Ramponi et al. (1997, 1998, 1996, 1995) to the cell average setting. We propose a new family of non linear interpolation operator. It consists on constructing new approximations using a non linear weighted combination of polynomials of degree 1 or 2 to obtain new interpolations of degree 2 or 4 respectively. New weights are proposed and analyzed. Gibbs phenomenon is studied and some experiments are performed comparing the new methods with classical linear and non linear interpolation as Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (WENO).
Amphiphilic Dendrimers Control Protein Binding and Corona Formation on Liposome Nanocarriers
2020
Amphiphilic polyphenylene dendrimers (PPDs) with distinct lipophilic and positively or negatively charged surface groups were adsorbed onto liposomes and their impact on protein adsorption in blood plasma was studied. The PPD corona reduced binding of specific opsonins and increased the adsorption of proteins controlling cellular uptake based on their surface patches.
Tratamiento jurídico de una enfermedad social. Los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCA)
2018
The boundless increase of people suffering from an Eating Disorder (ED), makes necessary to develop measures related to other factors, in order to overcome the ones characterized of being strictly sanitary. The disease has become a social and cultural phenomenon. The exaltation of the cult to the body, with the stereotype of the extreme thinness linked with beauty and success is causing that, particularly young people, try to achieve an image which, in many cases, can jeopardize their health, that is the reason why the rearrangement of values has become an objective of paramount importance. Therefore, the fight against this social illness requires legal actions in order to prevent it from g…
Rewarding ageing employees—means used in the public sector
2005
Abstract Finland along with the rest of Europe will face considerable challenges in the next five to ten years due to changing age structures. The large number of ageing and aged employees, the baby-boomers, as well as the remarkably low birth rates that have occurred ever since the beginning of the 1980s, have led to a social phenomenon never experienced before. These changes should be considered when designing and implementing human resource strategies in organisations and institutions. This study considers the rewarding of ageing employees as a function of human resource management, and moreover rewarding is considered as an important function of age management. The purpose of this study…
The Labour Market Crisis in Romania Causes, Effects and Potential Solutions
2020
Abstract We are going through troubled times, with worldwide pandemic crises affecting us altogether: citizens, companies and states. This article presents analyses and solutions to the workforce crisis of December 2019 and the workplace crisis of March 2020. Things have escalated from a workforce crisis to a new stage, namely an accelerated loss of workplaces and to a workplace crisis. In a matter of weeks, the labour market has moved from one extreme to the other extremely fast because of a very rough natural phenomenon which could not have been predicted, i.e. the global pandemic crisis caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus. It goes without saying that we all wish to achieve a relative bala…
Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors : from Childhood to Adulthood
2021
Obesity has become a major epidemic in the 21st century. It increases the risk of dyslipidemia, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes, which are known cardiometabolic risk factors and components of the metabolic syndrome. Although overt cardiovascular (CV) diseases such as stroke or myocardial infarction are the domain of adulthood, it is evident that the CV continuum begins very early in life. Recognition of risk factors and early stages of CV damage, at a time when these processes are still reversible, and the development of prevention strategies are major pillars in reducing CV morbidity and mortality in the general population. In this review, we will discuss the role of well-known but also …