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Discrete-time multioverlapping controller design for structural vibration control of tall buildings under seismic excitation
2012
Published version of an article from the journal: Mathematical Problems in Engineering. Also available from the publisher:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/636878 In this paper, a computationally effective strategy to obtain multioverlapping controllers via the Inclusion Principle is applied to design discrete-time state-feedback multioverlapping LQR con- trollers for seismic protection of tall buildings. To compute the corresponding control actions, the proposed semidecentralized controllers only require state information from neighboring stories. This particular configuration of information exchange allows introducing a dramatic reduction in the transmission range required for a wireless imp…
Active-passive control strategy for adjacent buildings
2011
Author's version of a chapter in the book: 2011 Proceedings of the American Control Conference. Also available from the publisher at: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=05991059 In this paper, a control strategy to mitigate the vibrational response of adjacent buildings under seismic excitation is presented. The proposed strategy combines inter-building passive actuators with active actuators placed in the building stories. The main ideas are presented by means of a simplified two-building model; however, a semi-decentralized overlapping approach via the inclusion principle has been used to impose a proper information exchange structure suitable for wireless control of larg…
Crowdfunding Education: Objectives, Content, Pedagogy, and Assessment
2020
AbstractDespite its rapid growth, little attention has been given to education and training in crowdfunding. Such training is important for ensuring the healthy and ethical development of the crowdfunding industry by educating the public about the challenges and risks as well as the merits and benefits of crowdfunding. While many may have heard the term ‘crowdfunding’, it often remains poorly understood by the larger public. Hence, this chapter argues the need for crowdfunding dedicated education programmes, while presenting a concrete course programme based on the Crowdfunding Lab developed at the University of Agder in Norway. The Crowdfunding Lab is to our knowledge one of the first univ…
Parenting, Peer Relationships, Academic Self-efficacy, and Academic Achievement: Direct and Mediating Effects
2017
The aim of the present study is to analyze the relation between authoritative and permissive parenting styles with the kinds of adolescent peer relationships (attachment, victimization, or aggression), and of the latter ones, in turn, with academic self-efficacy, and academic performance, in three waves that range from the early-mid adolescence to late adolescence. Five hundred Spanish adolescents, of both sexes, participated in a three-wave longitudinal study in Valencia, Spain. In the first wave, adolescents were either in the third year of secondary school or the fourth year of secondary school. The mean age in the first wave was 14.70 (SD = 0.68; range = 13–16 years). Child Report of Pa…
Investigation of data encryption impact on broadcasting visible light communications
2014
Este trabajo investiga el impacto de la encriptación y desencriptación de datos en un sistema de comunicaciones de luz visible (VLC) de difusión en interiores incrustado en la capa física. Se ha implementado el cifrado RSA para proporcionar una transmisión de datos segura en la capa física. El artículo muestra el rendimiento de la tasa de error de bits (BER) para los sistemas VLC seguros y no seguros (8 y 12 bits) para velocidades de datos de 2 y 12 Mbps. Para una BER de 10e-4 mostramos que hay penalizaciones de potencia de 2-4 dB con las VLC seguras. También se investiga el impacto de la longitud de la clave en la propagación del error y la penalización de potencia. EU Cost Action IC1101 T…
Valencia: de bastión del PP a símbolo del cambio de ciclo
2015
Las ciudades –y la ciudad de Valencia no suele ser una excepción– tienden a anticipar los escenarios de cambio electoral. La victoria de la izquierda en muchos ayuntamientos de capitales de provincia en 1979, entre ellas Valencia, sirvió de preludio al histórico triunfo socialista en las elecciones generales de 1982. La pér- dida de algunas ciudades clave por parte de los socialistas en 1991 también pre - guró el escenario para el posterior vuelco en las elecciones autonómicas de 1995 y generales de 1996. Muy particularmente, en la Comunidad Valenciana, donde la hegemonía del PP se ha prolongado a lo largo de veinte años (cinco legislaturas) tanto en los principales ayuntamientos como en la…
Elaboración un instrumento para conocer las características de la banda sonora de la programación infantil de televisión
2014
Television is one of the most important elements in the construction of the musical and audible reality of children and teenagers. It offers a selected and edited version of a musical environment, with an indisputable level of communicative and patrimonial influence. This paper is part of a research project that sets out to know what children are listening to in children’s television programming, in a sample of Latin American television coverage. The general objective has been to establish the parameters of everyday listening experiences and to create an instrument which is able to determine the objective elements of listening environments through their most notable medium: the soundtrack o…
Moral values, empathy and identification with fictional characters: the representative universe at “Cuéntame cómo pasó” (TVE)
2012
En la presente investigación se muestran los resultados de un estudio de base experimental sobre el análisis de los valores morales presentes en la serie emitida por Televisión Española “Cuéntame cómo pasó”. La discusión se centra en los valores morales como el aspecto nuclear de este constructo audiovisual, en especial en su posible correlación con la identificación de los personajes y la empatía ficcional del formato. En el estudio participaron 47 estudiantes universitarios y 36 personas de más edad, quienes fueron sometidos a unos cuestionarios analíticos anteriores y posteriores al visionado de dos capítulos de la serie televisiva. Tras la aplicación pre-test y post-test de la Escala de…
Comparación del valor democrático de las discusiones de Facebook entre perfiles de candidatos políticos españoles a las elecciones generales de 2011
2017
This article examines the democratic value of user-generated comments on the Facebook profiles of three Spanish candidates during the Spanish General Election campaign of 2011 through a content analysis that operationalizes deliberative democracy. The findings show that these online spaces do not meet deliberative standards, but that they still serve democratic functions, such as citizen self-expression, democratic socialization and reinforcement of social cohesion among party activists and sympathizers. Moreover, results indicate that democratic value might vary depending on the size of the party where talk takes place. Political conversation on the walls of hegemonic candidates who belong…
Estereotipos corporales en las imágenes de los libros de texto de inglés
2017
La educación es el camino para generar conductas positivas en niños y niñas y promover un ambiente social y armónico, así como respeto de los valores éticos y democráticos de nuestra sociedad. Un valor ético y democrático importante es la actitud no discriminante, sin prejuicios y no estereotipada. El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar la frecuencia de ocurrencia de posibles estereotipos ligados a género, edad, raza y somatotipo presentes en las imágenes de los libros de texto de inglés del tercer ciclo de Primaria del sistema educativo español. Para ello, se ha realizado un estudio descriptivo con 1774 imágenes de 5 colecciones de libros de texto de la asignatura de inglés (Bugs Wo…