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Human activity and damaging landslides and floods on Madeira Island
2011
Abstract. Over the last few decades, the island of Madeira has become an important offshore tourism and business center, with rapid economic and demographic development that has caused changes to the landscape due to human activity. In Madeira's recent history, there has been an increase over time in the frequency of occurrence of damaging landslide and flood events. As a result, the costs of restoration work due to damage caused by landslide and flood events have become a larger and larger component of Madeira's annual budget. Landslides and floods in Madeira deserve particular attention because they represent the most serious hazard to human life, to property, and to the natural environme…
La poesia catalana i el boom de l'any 1972
2021
The year of 1972 is a very important date in the understanding of the evolution of Catalan poetry, during the decade of the 70's. The changes in this year make up the basic framework for the future characterization of the genre. The article aims to establish a syncronized break away from the year previously mentioned to choose the objective facts that this break demonstrates and interpret them in order to show the repercussion of all. There are four basic elements: the death of Gabriel Ferrater; the publication of three fundamental poetry books by significant poets (Pere Gimferrer, Narcís Comadira and Francesc Parcerisas); the appearance of new names like Xavier Bru de Sala or Ramon Pinyol,…
Un nuevo ejemplar del Amadís de Gaula veneciano de 1533 en la biblioteca de la Universidad de Arkansas
2009
This article deals with a new copy of Amadís de Gaula, printed in Venice in 1533, which was found by the author within the Special Collections of the University of Arkansas Library. This work focuses on the origin of the copy, as well as on one of its first owners, most likely an Italian reader. Through this paper we provide a physical description of this copy, according to the model proposed by Professor Lucía Megías.
Empresas y Derechos Humanos. O cómo llevar la pedagogía crítica al aula de español como lengua extranjera
2013
Este artículo expone un estudio de caso llevado a cabo con estudiantes universitarios del Collège Européen Franco Allemand de Sciences Po París en Nancy basado en la pedagogía crítica. El objetivo principal fue hacer tomar conciencia a los participantes (futuros miembros de empresas y organizaciones europeas e internacionales) del irrespeto de Derechos Humanos por parte de algunas corporaciones transnacionales en América Latina. Mediante este estudio también se buscó generar reflexión en los estudiantes y llevarlos a evaluar problemas precisos, tratar de encontrar soluciones y actuar a corto y mediano plazo para aportar una solución. Las conclusiones arrojadas revelan que se puede aprender …
De cargar algo a cargarse a alguien: verbos y expresiones que se prestan a confusión
2013
Nuestra propuesta práctica va a centrarse en presentar situaciones (graduadas en dificultad) en las que el léxico a utilizar es muy parejo en lo que a la forma se refiere;no así su significado y sentido, muy distante de unas voces a otras. El abanico de variedades distintivas es amplio: vacilación (ausencia/presencia/cambio) preposicional,derivaciones o reflexividad, etc. Se comenzará con la oposición de únicamente dos términos, haciendo notar su cercanía fónica y parecido gráfico para destacar su gran distancia semántica. Una segunda actividad ampliará tanto el repertorio de palabras y expresiones con estas características como el repertorio de disparidades, volviendo a hacer hincapié en e…
ANTERIOR PALATOPLASTY: EFFECTIVENESS FOR TREATMENT OF SIMPLE SNORING AND MILD OSAS
2017
Positive airway pressure is the treatment of choice among obstructive sleep apnea syndrome patients. Among surgical options, multilevel approach is a good option in patients with an involvement of all tract of first airway. The aim of the present work is to establish the efficacy of anterior palatoplasty in the treatment of selected patients with mild obstructive sleep apnea syndrome or simple snoring, within a multilevel surgery. The group was composed of 16 mild obstructive sleep apnea syndrome adult patients collected from January 2015 to June 2016 at University of Palermo, Ear, Nose and Throat Department. To make diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, we employed polysomnography…
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN OBSTRUCTIVE APNEA SYNDROME DURING SLEEP AND DAMAGES TO ANTERIOR LABYRINTH: OUR EXPERIENCE.
2019
The obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is a chronic condition characterized by frequent episodes of collapse of the upper airways during sleep. It can be considered a multisystem disease. Among the districts involved, even the auditory system was seen to be concerned. It was enrolled a population of 20 patients after polysomnographic diagnosis of OSAS (Apnea Hypopnea Index > 10) and a control group of 28 healthy persons (Apnea Hypopnea Index < 5). Each patient has been subjected to Pure Tone Audiometry, Tympanometry, study of Acoustic Reflex, Otoacoustic Emissions and Auditory Brainstem Response. Moreover they were submitted to endoscopy of upper airway with Muller Maneuver and Epworth Sleepi…
The measurement invariance of Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) across three university student groups
2016
Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to apply a multigroup confirmatory analysis to examine the measurement invariance (MI) of the adapted version of the Job Diagnosis Survey (JDS) as a measurement tool that analyses the relationship between the features of teaching methodologies with university students’ motivation and satisfaction across data collected on different degrees and academic years. Design/methodology/approach: Confirmatory factor analysis was carried out using a multigroup structural equation model, using the program EQS 6.1 to test the invariance of the adapted version of JDS in a sample constituted by 535 student of a Spanish public university. The assessment of invaria…
Penyagolosa Trails: From Ancestral Roads to Sustainable Ultra-Trail Race, between Spirituality, Nature, and Sports. A Case of Study
2019
[EN] The organization of an open-air sporting event involves a series of challenges. People are drawn by the desire to do sport, preferably in close contact with nature, so as to complement healthy lifestyles, and in search of air purity. Sporting organizations are increasingly searching for new locations that do not only attract athletes, but spectators and companions too. Races in natural parks provide the additional benefit of doing sport in a unique space, usually a transmitter of simplicity, pure air, and tranquillity. Organizing a mountain race in a natural park implies some issues. These are areas of great environmental richness that must be protected. Natural parks are places of ind…
Task Planner for Robotic Disassembly of Electric Vehicle Battery Pack
2021
The rapidly growing deployment of Electric Vehicles (EV) put strong demands on the development of Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs) but also into its dismantling process, a necessary step for circular economy. The aim of this study is therefore to develop an autonomous task planner for the dismantling of EV Lithium-Ion Battery pack to a module level through the design and implementation of a computer vision system. This research contributes to moving closer towards fully automated EV battery robotic dismantling, an inevitable step for a sustainable world transition to an electric economy. For the proposed task planner the main functions consist in identifying LIB components and their locations, …