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Tiempo y escuela. Aportación desde la cronobiología y cronopsicología a la Sociología de la Educación. Anotaciones para la reflexión
2021
La preocupación por una correcta organización de los horarios escolares se centra en el qué (curriculum), el cómo (metodología) y en el cuándo hay que enseñar, pero este cuando se centra en la mayoría de las veces en cómo distribuir las materias a lo largo de la jornada, o en el tipo de jornada escolar. La cronobiología y cronopsicología centran su mirada en la organización de la propia actividad del ser vivo, la persona, y aportan conocimientos sobre los momentos óptimos de determinadas actividades y la conveniencia de respetarlas dentro de unos márgenes adaptativos, como son la activación y el reposo /sueño, el ritmo atencional, la memoria, y la actividad intelectual en su conjunto, mostr…
“Vendor-Affected” WLAN experimental results: A Pandora’s Box?
2008
Experimental results are typically envisioned as the ultimate validation reference for any theoretical and/or simulation modelling assumptions. However, in the case of Wireless LANs, the situation is not nearly as straightforward as it might seem. In this paper, we discuss to what (large) extent measurement results may depend on proprietary undocumented algorithms implemented in the vendor-specific card/driver employed. Specifically, we focus on the experimental study of IEEE 802.11 b/g outdoor links based on the widely used Atheros/MADWiFi card/driver pair. We show that unexpected performance divergences do emerge in two classes of comparative experiments run on a same outdoor link: broadc…
On Applying Adaptive Data Structures to Multi-Player Game Playing
2013
In the field of game playing, the focus has been on two-player games, such as Chess and Go, rather than on multi-player games, with dominant multi-player techniques largely being an extension of two-player techniques to an \(N\)-player environment. To address the problem of multiple opponents, we propose the merging of two previously unrelated fields, namely those of multi-player game playing and Adaptive Data Structures (ADS). We present here a novel move-ordering heuristic for a dominant multi-player game playing algorithm, namely the Best-Reply Search (BRS). Our enhancement uses an ADS to rank the opponents in terms of their respective threat levels to the player modeled by the AI algori…
Social Network Analysis of Sicilian Mafia Interconnections
2019
In this paper, we focus on the study of Sicilian Mafia organizations through Social Network Analysis. We analyse datasets reflecting two different Mafia Families, based on examinations of digital trails and judicial documents, respectively. The first dataset includes the phone calls logs among suspected individuals. The second one is based on police traces of meeting that have taken place among different types of criminals. Our breakthrough is twofold. First in the method followed to generate these new datasets. Second, in the method used to carry out a quantitative phenomena investigation that are hard to evaluate. Our networks are weighted ones, with each weight catching the frequency of …
The evolution of the local role(s) of the university in a low-tech region
2013
The present case study addresses the case of a geographical area neglected by most of the literature about the changing role of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs): the low-tech contexts. This literature has traditionally exhibited two primary aspects. First, a focus on success stories such as entrepreneurial universities located in high-tech regions (e.g. Silicon Valley). Second, it reveals an inclination towards an evolution from ivory towers to entrepreneurial universities. The article argues that this oversimplification does not apply exactly to some environments where the HEIs have maintained links with industry since their inception. The purpose is to demonstrate HEIs' relevance in l…
A Chronic Lack of Perceived Personal Control Increases Women and Men’s Self-Reported Preference for High-Status Characteristics When Selecting Romant…
2021
The question what people desire in their romantic partner has hitherto been dominated by a focus on gender. It has been repeatedly found that, when asked what they find important in selecting a partner, women indicate that they find status more important compared to men. Across five studies, we move beyond gender and base ourselves on general theories of control deprivation to test the effect of differences in perceived personal control on stated partner preferences. We find that low-control people—both women and men—value characteristics associated with status more in romantic partners at the expense of other desirable traits (Study 1a and 1b). Furthermore, in simulated dating settings, l…
Social Work in Germany: Between a Nation State Focus and Transnational Horizons
2020
In this contribution, authors point out the history of social work in Germany and its interweaving within nation state structures. The chapter explores the central organisations and agencies in Germany and its working methods. At the same time, it also deals with transnational tendencies of social work.
Women’s bodies in festivity spaces: feminist resistance to gender violence at traditional celebrations
2019
ABSTRACTInequality and gender violence in the cultural sphere have become the focus of media attention in recent years. Moreover, the centrality of traditional festivities as areas which produce an...
Social mechanisms and strategic action fields: The example of the emergence of the European Research Area
2017
The point of departure of this article is Fligstein and McAdam’s A Theory of Fields. It is argued that their theoretical framework would be strengthened by a more systematic focus in social mechanism-based explanations since this would increase understanding of how new strategic action fields (SAFs) emerge. This argument is illustrated by exploring the emergence of the European Research Area (ERA) as a SAF. In identifying social mechanisms the article draws both on Fligstein and McAdam’s studies and on academic capitalism literature. The main conclusion is that the emergence of the ERA was brought about by multiple social mechanisms such as collective attribution of threat/opportunity, soc…
The Challengers: Kymmene, United Paper Mills, and Metsäliitto
2006
Firms attempt to adapt themselves through their business strategies to the present and forthcoming (institutional and technical) environments. Whether these strategy choices are planned or implemented is the classic question in business history and strategic management. It is generally agreed that the basic aims of a firm is to be profitable (at least over the long term) and to survive. These basic assumptions seems to fit most of the current, publicly owned companies, but when we are dealing with e.g. governmental owned or cooperatives, this seemingly clear picture becomes fuzzy. This article aims to analyse three major Finnish forestry industry companies, namely Kymmene, United Paper Mill…