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Menores en riesgo de vulnerabilidad social: el caso de un aula de apoyo de Save the Children-Valencia

2015

espanolUna tercera parte de la poblacion infantil del Estado espanol vive en riesgo de pobreza o exclusion social (Save the Children, 2014). Por ello, se deben articular mecanismos de prevencion sobre el riesgo de dificultad social ante los y las menores. En esta linea, presentamos un estudio sobre un aula del programa ProInfancia-Save the Children-Valencia que, a partir de trabajos anteriores (Grau y Sancho, 2013a; 2013b; 2014), se exponen los resultados de la ultima fase del estudio sobre el post-test de Clima Social Aula (Perez, Ramos y Lopez, 2009), el sociograma final y la observacion participante, en un grupo donde se ha implementado la asamblea de aula. Algunas primeras conclusiones …

Las infraestructuras viarias de Saguntum en época imperial: propaganda, prestigio social y poder municipal

2015

During the government of Augustus the city of Sagunto was transformed in a place symbol of modernity. It is no coincidence that the necessary developing infrastructures were consolidated around it for an optimal development: higher quality viae or better port platforms. Different type of streets emerged following an order of importance depending many times on the wealth of their users. Towards the exit of the city burial monuments were placed honoring relevant citizens. As many other major towns of Hispania, Saguntum is not an exception of great transformations.

Measuring self-esteem in Spanish adolescents: Equivalence across gender and educational levels

2015

Rosenberg's self-esteem scale (RSES) has been applied in many areas of psychology, highlighting the interest in the study of gender differences and educational level. At the same time, there was a methodological debate on its psychometric properties. Evidence points at a scale measuring a single trait confounded by a method factor associated to negatively worded items. The aim of the study is to examine RSES differences due to gender and educational level at the factor level, while controlling for the presence of method effects, in Spanish students. A completely a priori model was separately tested in four subsamples: college men and women, and high school men and women, and an invariance r…

LaDy: Software for assessing local landscape diversity profiles of raster land cover maps using geographic windows

2003

Landscape ecology starts from the assumption that diversity and spatial arrangement of ecosystem mosaics have ecological implications and tries to understand the interactions between diversity and structure of large spatially heterogeneous areas and their ecological functions. These assumptions imply effective use of earth observation techniques and geographic information systems, enabling a global view of the landscape mosaics. In this paper, a software, LaDy (Landscape Diversity Software), for computing Re´nyi’s local landscape diversity profile on raster land cover maps is presented. LaDy is based on the use of Merchant’s adaptive geographic window, which is designed to operate on a neig…

A population density grid for Spain

2013

This article describes a high-resolution land cover data set for Spain and its application to dasymetric population mapping (at census tract level). Eventually, this vector layer is transformed into a grid format. The work parallels the effort of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, in collaboration with Eurostat and the European Environment Agency (EEA), in building a population density grid for the whole of Europe, combining CORINE Land Cover with population data per commune. We solve many of the problems due to the low resolution of CORINE Land Cover, which are especially visible with Spanish data. An accuracy assessment is carried out from a simple aggregation of …

Paesaggio, piano, progetto: problemi lessicali e altro

2012

The notion of landscape and the techniques for landscape design must necessarily be based on two principal regulatory provisions, the European Landscape Convention and in Italy the law on cultural heritage and landscape. Consideration must also be given to what is meant by the term ‘landscape' in normal and specialist parlance and to the nature of the training of landscape architects, because it is from all this that the ambiguities and misunderstandings that surround the notion of landscape originate. Consideration must also be given to the relations between planning and real and local transformations, because the contents and procedures for the formulation of designs depend on them. Lands…

Michelangelo Blasco versus Ferdinando Fuga: una nuova attribuzione per il ponte sul Milicia in Sicilia

2015

The finding at the National Library of Spain of an eighteenth-century engraving of the bridge over the river Milicia, along the coast to the east of Palermo, is a chance not only to shed light on the complex history of the design and construction of one of the main Sicilian bridges, but also to attribute the real paternity rather than to the famous architect Ferdinando Fuga to the lesser-known military engineer, serving the Austrian Crown, Michelangelo Blasco, whose long and successful career is reconstructed: from Sicily, through Milan, Wien and Lisbon, to the uncharted territory of Brazil.

SIGNA VETUSTA MANENT. Interventi di conservazione e restauro su materiale codicologico musicologico archivistico e librario dei secoli XII - XVIII (2…

2014

I nomi dei venti in Sicilia tra toponomastica, geomorfologia e “mondo magico”. Possibili itinerari di ricerca

2014

Il sistema anemonomastico siciliano appare leggibile su due livelli: da un lato i nomi dialettali dei venti ripropongono in larga misura quelli presenti nell’italiano tramontana, maestrale, greco, scirocco, libeccio, dall’altro si rileva un numero impressionante di anemonimi rifatti su un toponimo e, più spesso, sull’etnico corrispondente, se il paese che dà il nome al vento è situato lungo la direzione da cui esso spira. Ciò è particolarmente evidente per i nomi dei venti “freddi”. Per essi, mediante una ricerca su una piccola porzione del territorio siciliano le Madonie , è stato possibile raccogliere almeno due anemonimi di origine toponimica in ciascuno dei centri indagati. Mediante lo …

COMPARISON OF TWO SIMPLIFICATION METHODS FOR SHORELINE EXTRACTION FROM DIGITAL ORTHOPHOTO IMAGES

2018

Abstract. The coastal ecosystems are very sensitive to external influences. Coastal resources such as sand dunes, coral reefs and mangroves has vital importance to prevent coastal erosion. Human based effects also threats the coastal areas. Therefore, the change of coastal areas should be monitored. Up-to-date, accurate shoreline information is indispensable for coastal managers and decision makers. Remote sensing and image processing techniques give a big opportunity to obtain reliable shoreline information. In the presented study, NIR bands of seven 1:5000 scaled digital orthophoto images of Riga Bay-Latvia have been used. The Object-oriented Simple Linear Clustering method has been utili…