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  1. Acidentes de trabalho em Barcelona (Espanha, no período de 1992-1993

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    Rosana F. Sampaio

    1998-08-01

    Full Text Available INTRODUÇÃO: As estatísticas dos acidentes de trabalho, como qualquer outro sistema de notificação, devem servir de base para determinar prioridades e decidir quais medidas preventivas devem ser adotadas. Neste contexto, o objetivo do estudo é aprofundar a análise dos acidentes de trabalho através da utilização de técnicas estatísticas descritivas que permitam estabelecer a relação entre o número de acidentes de trabalho ocorridos em Barcelona (Espanha e as variáveis tipo de acidente, setor econômico, tamanho da empresa e tipo de contrato. MÉTODO: Como fonte de dados foi utilizado o sistema de notificação de acidentes graves e mortais ocorridos na cidade de Barcelona (Espanha, entre 1992 e 1993. Foram examinados 848 registros de acidentes de trabalho em trabalhadores do sexo masculino e a partir desses dados efetuou-se uma análise mediante modelos log-lineares. RESULTADOS E CONCLUSÕES: Os resultados evidenciam que os acidentes traumáticos e o setor de construção têm uma associação positiva, verificada, da mesma forma, entre os acidentes de trânsito e o setor de serviços. Os acidentes traumáticos e de trânsito apresentaram uma associação com as pequenas empresas e os acidentes não traumáticos demonstraram associar-se com as grandes empresas. Verificou-se, ainda, associação entre os trabalhadores temporais e o setor da construção frente aos trabalhadores com contrato fixo, em que se constatou uma associação com os setores de indústria e de serviços. Foi verificada associação positiva entre os acidentes ocorridos com os trabalhadores temporais e as pequenas e médias empresas.

  2. Acidentes de trabalho em Barcelona (Espanha, no período de 1992-1993

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    Sampaio Rosana F.

    1998-01-01

    Full Text Available INTRODUÇÃO: As estatísticas dos acidentes de trabalho, como qualquer outro sistema de notificação, devem servir de base para determinar prioridades e decidir quais medidas preventivas devem ser adotadas. Neste contexto, o objetivo do estudo é aprofundar a análise dos acidentes de trabalho através da utilização de técnicas estatísticas descritivas que permitam estabelecer a relação entre o número de acidentes de trabalho ocorridos em Barcelona (Espanha e as variáveis tipo de acidente, setor econômico, tamanho da empresa e tipo de contrato. MÉTODO: Como fonte de dados foi utilizado o sistema de notificação de acidentes graves e mortais ocorridos na cidade de Barcelona (Espanha, entre 1992 e 1993. Foram examinados 848 registros de acidentes de trabalho em trabalhadores do sexo masculino e a partir desses dados efetuou-se uma análise mediante modelos log-lineares. RESULTADOS E CONCLUSÕES: Os resultados evidenciam que os acidentes traumáticos e o setor de construção têm uma associação positiva, verificada, da mesma forma, entre os acidentes de trânsito e o setor de serviços. Os acidentes traumáticos e de trânsito apresentaram uma associação com as pequenas empresas e os acidentes não traumáticos demonstraram associar-se com as grandes empresas. Verificou-se, ainda, associação entre os trabalhadores temporais e o setor da construção frente aos trabalhadores com contrato fixo, em que se constatou uma associação com os setores de indústria e de serviços. Foi verificada associação positiva entre os acidentes ocorridos com os trabalhadores temporais e as pequenas e médias empresas.

  3. Acidentes de trabalho em Barcelona (Espanha, no período de 1992-1993 Work accidents in Barcelona (Spain, from 1992 to 1993

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    Rosana F. Sampaio

    1998-08-01

    Full Text Available INTRODUÇÃO: As estatísticas dos acidentes de trabalho, como qualquer outro sistema de notificação, devem servir de base para determinar prioridades e decidir quais medidas preventivas devem ser adotadas. Neste contexto, o objetivo do estudo é aprofundar a análise dos acidentes de trabalho através da utilização de técnicas estatísticas descritivas que permitam estabelecer a relação entre o número de acidentes de trabalho ocorridos em Barcelona (Espanha e as variáveis tipo de acidente, setor econômico, tamanho da empresa e tipo de contrato. MÉTODO: Como fonte de dados foi utilizado o sistema de notificação de acidentes graves e mortais ocorridos na cidade de Barcelona (Espanha, entre 1992 e 1993. Foram examinados 848 registros de acidentes de trabalho em trabalhadores do sexo masculino e a partir desses dados efetuou-se uma análise mediante modelos log-lineares. RESULTADOS E CONCLUSÕES: Os resultados evidenciam que os acidentes traumáticos e o setor de construção têm uma associação positiva, verificada, da mesma forma, entre os acidentes de trânsito e o setor de serviços. Os acidentes traumáticos e de trânsito apresentaram uma associação com as pequenas empresas e os acidentes não traumáticos demonstraram associar-se com as grandes empresas. Verificou-se, ainda, associação entre os trabalhadores temporais e o setor da construção frente aos trabalhadores com contrato fixo, em que se constatou uma associação com os setores de indústria e de serviços. Foi verificada associação positiva entre os acidentes ocorridos com os trabalhadores temporais e as pequenas e médias empresas.INTRODUCTION: The statistics related to labor accidents as with any other notification system ought to be the basis for programs and policies with a view to the adoption of preventive measures. In order to establish preventive norms, however, the health system needs data from researchers focussing on the dynamics of and the pitfalls

  4. Espanha: Turismo Mundial em Debate

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    Karina Toledo Solha

    2010-08-01

    Full Text Available Relato de três eventos técnicos cientificos ocorridos na Espanha, no início de 2010. o Exceltur – 5º Foro de Liderazgo Turístico, a Feira Internacional de Turismo – FITUR, uma reunião da Organização Mundial de Turismo – OMT e uma reunião da Associação dos Experts Científicos en Investigación Turística – AECIT, uma excelente oportunidade de conhecer e compreender o panorama  atual do turismo neste país, a partir de abordagens distintas tanto do mundo  empresarial, quanto da academia.

  5. RELATO DE SUSTENTABILIDADE DE EMPRESAS DA CONSTRUÇÃO CIVIL EM PORTUGAL E ESPANHA

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    Dina da Costa Caetano

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available O relatório de sustentabilidade é a prática de medir e divulgar através de um relatório, o desempenho económico, social e ambiental de uma organização empresarial. O processo de divulgação é voluntário, no entanto verifica-se um gradual crescimento na divulgação desta informação. Este estudo pretende caracterizar as práticas de divulgação de sustentabilidade no setor da construção civil em Portugal e em Espanha referente aos anos de 2009 a 2011 que efetuem relatório de sustentabilidade de acordo com a estrutura de divulgação da Global Reporting Initiative. Para recolha dos dados necessários ao estudo utilizou-se a análise de conteúdo. Analisou-se então, os relatórios e contas e relatórios de sustentabilidade da população em estudo.

  6. Melhoramento ético das práticas em saúde: Comitês de Bioética em Espanha e Brasil

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    Doris Gomes

    2017-06-01

    Full Text Available O compartilhamento solidário de experiências entre Brasil e Espanha reposiciona a importância de novos espaços democráticos de participação cidadã e debate ético-político, suscitando questões como: a participação em Comitês Bioéticos pode ir em direção às necessiades-interesses sociais presentes na singularidade da relação profissional-paciente e equipe de saúde? No Brasil, a participação dos profissionais em fóruns construídos para ampliação do controle social e debate da ética, avança como permanente desafio. A ampliação da deliberação em coletivos de debate e equipes de saúde, precisa assumir novo sentido público social na construção da relação profissional-usuário-sistema de saúde-sociedade.

  7. ENVELHECIMENTO POPULACIONAL NA GALÍCIA: O CASO DO MUNICÍPIO DE LUGO NA ESPANHA

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    Judite de Azevedo do Carmo

    2017-06-01

    Full Text Available A Espanha tem sofrido um processo de envelhecimento em uma escala mais rápida que a maioria dos demais países da Europa, fato similar tem ocorrido na Galícia. Neste artigo pretende-se expor o quadro do envelhecimento da população da Espanha e da Galícia; contudo, o objetivo central da pesquisa apresentada consiste em uma análise da estrutura demográfica do município de Lugo, pertencente a província de mesmo nome, que com mais três províncias, compõe a região da Galícia; referenciando as taxas de natalidade e mortalidade, a migração e a composição por sexo. Para tanto recorreu-se a uma larga revisão bibliográfica de obras brasileiras e espanholas, bem como a análise de dados secundários e terciários obtidos junto ao Instituto Nacional de Estadística da Espanha- INE, estimativas elaboradas pela Divisão de População das Organizações Unidas, pelo Instituto Galego de Estatísticas -IGE, e Cadernos Temáticos sobre demografia elaborados pela Fundación Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria-FBBVA. Os resultados da pesquisa comprovam o envelhecimento demográfico da Espanha; no caso da Galícia, esse processo vem ocorrendo desde a metade do século XX, especialmente nas zonas rurais; e, em Lugo, a população já podia ser considerada envelhecida desde 1999, com intensificação desta característica no ano de 2012.

  8. O individualismo-coletivismo no Brasil e na Espanha: correlatos sócio-demográficos Individualim-collectivism in Brazil and Spain: socio-demographic correlates

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    Valdiney V. Gouveia

    2000-12-01

    Full Text Available O presente estudo pretendeu conhecer os correlatos sócio-demográficos do individualismo-coletivismo, considerando três cidades do Brasil (João Pessoa, Brasília e São Paulo e três da Espanha (Pontevedra, Madri e Barcelona. Um total de 471 brasileiros e 476 espanhóis, estudantes universitários de diversos contextos sócio-demográficos, providenciaram os dados; a maioria era do sexo feminino (76% e solteiro (91%, com uma média de idade de 22 anos (amplitude de 16 a 55 anos. Estes responderam ao Questionário de Individualismo-Coletivismo e ao Questionário Sócio-Demográfico. Os resultados indicaram que as seguintes variáveis se correlacionaram sistematicamente com a dimensão individualismo-coletivismo: intensidade das amizades, identificação endogrupal e gênero, nesta ordem. Comprovou-se, também, que algumas variáveis são mais adequadas em um país que em outro; por exemplo, a religiosidade no Brasil e o número de amigos íntimos na Espanha. Tais resultados são discutidos à luz dos previamente encontrados na literatura.The socio-demographic correlates of individualism and collectivism were investigated in three Brazilian cities (Joao Pessoa, Brasilia and Sao Paulo and in three Spanish cities (Pontevedra, Madrid and Barcelona. A sample of 471 Brazilian and 476 Spanish undergraduates, from a wide variety of socio-demographic contexts, provided data for the study. The majority was female (76% and unmarried (91%, with an average age of 22 years (range from 16 to 55. They answered the Individualism-Collectivism Questionnaire and the Socio-Demographic Questionnaire. The results indicated that the following variables are consistently correlated to the individualism-collectivism dimension: degree of friendship, index of identification with in-groups and gender, in this order. It was also observed that some variables are more adequate in one country than another; for example, religiosity in Brazil and the number of close friends in

  9. Mistura, Identidade e Memória na Alimentação de Imigrantes Brasileiros em Barcelona

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    da Silva, Marilda Checcucci Gonçalves

    2013-01-01

    Resumo: no artigo se apresentam resultados de pesquisa com imigrantes brasileiros em Barcelona (ES) sobre seu processo de adaptação alimentar. Nela constatou-se que a comida além de se constituir em um marcador identitário, ao diferenciar a comida de ??um prato só?? (espanhola) da comida brasileira, que ??mistura tudo??, se encontra vinculada com a memória e a saudade das relações familiares que ocorrem em torno da comida. Palavras-chave: Comida. Identidade. Memória. Imigrantes brasi...

  10. Os (des)caminhos da identidade

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    Oliveira,Roberto Cardoso de

    2000-01-01

    A conferência procurou apresentar uma interpretação das vicissitudes da identidade étnica e/ou nacional quando observada em situações de ambigüidade. É quando o processo identitário expressa crises reais ou virtuais, como as que têm lugar entre imigrantes latino-americanos nos Estados Unidos, entre povos de diferentes regiões da Espanha emigrados para Barcelona, entre catalães espanhóis, franceses e andorranos residentes em Andorra, e entre povos indígenas em regiões de fronteira do Brasil co...

  11. Antropologia ao acaso dos encontros: experimentações com alguns colombianos em São Paulo e Barcelona

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    Rafael Estrada Mejía

    2010-02-01

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    O presente artigo propõe como via de acesso à alteridade o conceito de encontro  (<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">occursusem>, lapidado e polido  por Baruch Spinoza e resgatado recentemente por Gilles Deleuze. Procuro fugir do trilhado discurso da identidade e sua tediosa pretensão hermenêutica,  para tentar me aproximar de um pensamento que libera o acontecimento de seus grandes inimigos: o eu, o mundo e Deus. A partir de uma prática etnográfica, realizada entre 2007 e 2008 com colombianos em São Paulo e Barcelona, retrato alguns dos encontros que implicaram me adentrar em múltiplos devenires: estrangeiros, imigrantes, indocumentados, exilados, refugiados, místicos, agnósticos, militantes políticos, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">latinosem>, hispânicos, sul-americanos, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sudacasem>, guerrilheiros, paramilitares, etc.

  12. Construção das identidades de jovens de origem imigrante em Europa: resultados dum projeto europeu

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    Beatriz Padilla

    Full Text Available Este artigo descreve e analisa alguns dos elementos que influenciam a construção das identidades dos jovens de origem imigrante na Europa. Os resultados derivam dum projeto de investigação europeu intitulado "Rumo à construção social duma juventude europeia: a experiência de inclusão e exclusão na esfera pública dos jovens migrantes de segunda geração"¹, desenvolvido entre 2006 e 2009 em nove cidades localizadas em cinco países: Espanha (Madrid e Barcelona, Itália (Génova e Roma, Portugal (Lisboa e Porto, França (Metz, Alemanha (Berlim e Holanda (Utrecht. A primeira parte analisa os dados quantitativos recolhidos nos contextos de estudo, comparando os jovens descendentes de imigrantes com os jovens autóctones, focando a questão da identidade como um assunto central no processo de inclusão dos jovens imigrantes. A segunda parte aborda alguns dos marcadores identitários presentes nos jovens descendentes de imigrantes em Portugal, à luz de dados etnográficos recolhidos especificamente para o caso dos jovens na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa focando as questões de identidade, género e discriminação.

  13. Transformações espaciais na zona costeira : um estudo das relações entre economia, turismo e urbanização no Brasil, Espanha e Marrocos

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    Andréa Máximo Espínola

    2013-01-01

    Esta tese investiga a correlação entre os ciclos econômicos, os ciclos urbanos e os ciclos turísticos. O litoral foi escolhido como lócus de investigação por apresentar especificidades em sua trajetória econômica e urbana e três estudos de caso foram analisados: Brasil, Espanha e Marrocos. Para abordar o tema proposto optou-se por uma análise baseada em teorias que tratam o ambiente construído como elemento central da dinâmica do capitalismo associados a constante criação de novas localidades...

  14. Cultura Organizacional e Gestão de Equipes de Alto Rendimento: Os Casos FC Barcelona, Sporting Club de Portugal e AFC Ajax

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    Ary José Rocco Júnior

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available 800x600 Em todo o mundo, a chamada Indústria do Esporte vêm experimentando vertiginoso crescimento financeiro. Com isso, o papel das agremiações esportivas adquiriu especial importância dentro da sociedade contemporânea global. A relevância do planejamento estratégico dessas organizações fez crescer a necessidade dos clubes esportivos investirem em estratégias que permitam o seu correto posicionamento no mercado e as suas conquistas no campo esportivo. A implantação e o desenvolvimento de uma cultura organizacional que permita o desenvolvimento de uma identidade do clube que agregue todos os seus stakeholders – atletas, torcedores, patrocinadores, marcas, investidores e outros -, é uma dessas estratégias. A criação estratégica e planejada de valores e princípios organizacionais que equilibrem resultados econômicos, mercadológicos e financeiros, com a performance esportiva, colabora para o desenvolvimento e implantação de uma cultura, que gera receita e traz conquistas no campo esportivo. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar três casos de sucesso – FC Barcelona, da Espanha; Sporting Club de Portugal; e, AFC Ajax, da Holanda -, de organizações esportivas que implantaram estratégias dessa natureza na Europa. Pretendemos, com isso, estimular agremiações esportivas do Brasil a adotarem estratégias semelhantes. Normal 0 21 false false false PT-BR X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4

  15. Os invasores:as ameaças que representam as migrações subsaariana na Espanha e haitiana no Brasil

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    Antônio Tadeu Ribeiro de Oliveira

    Full Text Available Este artigo apresenta os processos que envolvem a migração subsaariana para Espanha e a haitiana para o Brasil, passando pelos fatores que impulsionam os deslocamentos, as rotas migratórias utilizadas, a inserção social e laboral desses migrantes e o momento das políticas migratórias em cada um dos países de destino, ressaltando as semelhanças e algumas diferenças em cada um desses processos. O objetivo é demonstrar que longe de se constituírem numa ameaça invasora, mais bem são vítimas de um sistema que produz exclusão e exploração, que nos casos de subsaarianos e haitianos se amplifica pelos componentes da discriminação e racismo.

  16. Barcelona A ja B = Barcelona A and B / Inga Raukas

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    Raukas, Inga, 1967-

    2006-01-01

    Barcelona arendamisest. Herzog ja de Meuroni büroos kavandatud Foorumi näitusekeskuses 2006. a. märtsist juuni alguseni avatud näitusest "Barcelona in Progress", mis püüab haarata eduloo ajalugu ja tulevikku. Bibliograafia lk. 71

  17. O doutor Audouard em Barcelona (1821 e a repercussão de sua tese sobre a febre amarela no Brasil

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    Kaori Kodama

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available O artigo pretende analisar parte dos trabalhos do médico militar francês Mathieu François Maxime Audouard, que observara a epidemia de febre amarela em Barcelona em 1821. Audouard passaria a acusar o tráfico negreiro como principal causa da doença. Embora suas idéias fossem controversas e nem sempre aceitas pelos médicos de diferentes partes do mundo, elas apresentaram repercussão entre aqueles engajados no fim do tráfico e no movimento contra a escravidão da primeira metade do século XIX. Um caso de particular interesse para análise é a recepção de seus trabalhos no Brasil, frente ao momento de fim do tráfico negreiro no país, e a concomitância com a chegada da grande epidemia de febre amarela.

  18. Regulamentação da internet: perspectiva comparada entre Brasil, Chile, Espanha, EUA e França

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    Rosemary Segurado

    2014-01-01

    Full Text Available A governança global ocupa lugar privilegiado na agenda de debates sobre o funcionamento da rede mundial de computadores, e o Brasil assumiu um papel de destaque nesse processo, principalmente após a aprovação do Marco Civil da Internet (lei n.12.965, de 23 de abril de 2014, que contém princípios, garantias, direitos e deveres para internautas e provedores no país. O estudo comparado foi desenvolvido a partir da seleção de categorias consideradas fundamentais para a análise: a neutralidade de rede, o direito à privacidade dos cidadãos internautas e a discussão sobre direitos autorais sob a lógica da propriedade intelectual. Foram esses os aspectos centrais que utilizamos para a análise das regulamentações em cinco países, Brasil, Chile, Espanha, EUA e França.

  19. Os (descaminhos da identidade

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    Oliveira Roberto Cardoso de

    2000-01-01

    Full Text Available A conferência procurou apresentar uma interpretação das vicissitudes da identidade étnica e/ou nacional quando observada em situações de ambigüidade. É quando o processo identitário expressa crises reais ou virtuais, como as que têm lugar entre imigrantes latino-americanos nos Estados Unidos, entre povos de diferentes regiões da Espanha emigrados para Barcelona, entre catalães espanhóis, franceses e andorranos residentes em Andorra, e entre povos indígenas em regiões de fronteira do Brasil com países vizinhos. O exame do processo identitário que tem lugar em diferentes latitudes, nas Américas e na Europa, sugere que os fenômenos socioculturais de etnicidade e de nacionalidade possuem em comum características tais como a busca de reconhecimento da pessoa moral, o respeito à diferença e, como corolário ético, a elevação do que se pode definir como "taxa de consideração".

  20. A ESPANHA NA DIPLOMACIA COMERCIAL PORTUGUESA NA SEGUNDA METADE DO SÉC. XIX E O TRATADO DE COMÉRCIO E NAVEGAÇÃO DE 1893

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    Teresa NUNES

    2017-08-01

    Full Text Available RESUMO Este artigo analisa a diplomacia comercial portuguesa face à Espanha, no decurso da segunda metade do séc. XIX. Pretende, especialmente, acompanhar as várias negociações comerciais desenvolvidas entre os países ibéricos, nas décadas de 1860, 70, 80 e 90, as quais culminaram na celebração do tratado de comércio e navegação de 1893. Procura, igualmente, avaliar as tendências políticas nacionais sobre os aspectos positivos e negativos associados ao fortalecimento das ligações econômicas com a Espanha. Neste exercício, é possível identificar um papel renovado da Espanha na geopolítica portuguesa, como nas perspectivas de crescimento econômico subsequentes ao Ultimatum (1890 e à denúncia dos tratados de comércio e navegação celebrados com a Inglaterra (1842/1878.

  1. Proposta de programa de televisió sobre igualtat de gènere a Barcelona : La balança

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    Navarro Gómez, Tatiana

    2016-01-01

    En els darrers anys s'ha donat un pas de gegant cap a la igualtat de gènere, però la desigualtat entre homes i dones encara està present en alguns aspectes de la vida de les dones. Per aquesta raó es proposa l'elaboració d'un programa de televisió que mostri els anomenats micromasclismes amb l'objectiu que, tant homes com dones, els identifiquin i hi plantin cara. És una proposta d'un programa centrat en la ciutat de Barcelona i pensat per ser emès a Barcelona Televisió, la televisió local de...

  2. Orígenes del Fútbol en Barcelona (1892-1903. | Origins of Fooball in Barcelona (1892-1903.

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    Xavier Torrebadella Flix

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available This article shows some unpublished data that seek to clarify the origins of football in Spain and particularly in Barcelona. Apart from the influence of the English colony in the dissemination of football, the background of school sport is described and evaluated. It is provided data about football in Barcelona which reveal that before the constitution of the Football Club Barcelona, often considered the first team of the city, there were ten associations that practiced this sport. It emphasizes the importance of the British colony, gyms and sports clubs of Barcelona from 1892 to 1903, to generate the enabling environment that made ​​the modern sport of football triumph, stimulating in turn the context Regenerationism and the emergence of associations sports from the early twentieth century. The research method has focused on historical analysis techniques, with the treatment of the original documentary sources and complemented with historicist indirect sources.ResumenEn este artículo se presentan algunos datos inéditos que pretenden esclarecer los orígenes del fútbol en España y más concretamente en Barcelona. Aparte de la influencia que ejerce la colonia inglesa en la divulgación del fútbol, se describen y se valoran los antecedentes del deporte escolar. Sobre el fútbol en Barcelona se aportan datos que revelan que antes de la constitución del Fútbol Club Barcelona, considerado frecuentemente como el primer equipo de fútbol de la ciudad, existieron una decena de asociaciones que practicaron este deporte. Se acentúa la importancia que tuvo la colonia inglesa, los gimnasios y las sociedades deportivas de Barcelona entre 1892 y 1903, para generar el ambiente favorable que hizo que el fútbol triunfase como deporte moderno, estimulando a su vez el contexto regeneracionista y la emergencia del asociacionismo deportivo de principios del siglo XX. El método de investigación se ha centrado en técnicas de análisis histórico en

  3. BARCELONA: URBANSCAPES OF MODERNITY

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    Antoni Remesar

    2015-04-01

    The Do.Co.Mo.Mo’s. database, referring to Barcelona, lists 34 buildings that could be classified as rationalists and / or modern. According to other sources, we could reach fifty constructed buildings between the late 1920s and the end of the war in Spain. The article presents the results of a field work that, using different sources, has tried to to order and record the architectural production that can be considered modern / rationalist in Barcelona in the 1920s and 1930s

  4. Sur o no Sur: a construção transnacional da América Latina desde as migrações e os usos sociais da internet

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    Liliane Dutra Brignol

    2010-12-01

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  5. A vida por um trabalho: população estrangeira e ilegal na Espanha

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    Márcia Siqueira de Carvalho

    2008-04-01

    Full Text Available Os dados do recenseamento revelaram um perfil da população estrangeira na Espanha, confirmaram algumas impressões e desfizeram outras. Eles refletem também a desigualdade na distribuição dos aumentos demográficos no território daquele país, com o destaque para a costa mediterrânea, a região da Catalunha (Nordeste do país e na cidade de Madri e arredores, enquanto houve perda populacional no interior e na região norte. O peso da população estrangeira na população total da Espanha cresceu de 7,0% em 2004 para 8,5% em 2005. Apesar da dificuldade na análise dos dados populacionais em relação aos estrangeiros legalizados e os ilegais, essa tendência não será revertida tão cedo. Setores da economia espanhola dependem da imigração, legal ou não. A Caixa Catalunya, entidade financeira desta comunidade autônoma, estimou que 50% do crescimento da PIB catalão nos últimos anos deve-se ao fenômeno da imigração.Les données du recensement ont révélé un profil de la population étrangère en Espagne, ont confirmé quelques impressions et en ont défait autres. Ils reflètent aussi l'inégalité dans la distribution des augmentations démographiques dans le territoire de ce pays, avec la prééminence de la côte méditerranéenne, de la Catalogne (Nord-est du pays et de la ville de Madrid et de sa banlieue, alors que l'intérieur et la région nord ont vu leur population décliner. Le poids de la population étrangère dans la population totale de l'Espagne a grandi de 7,0% dans 2004 à 8,5% en 2005. Malgré la difficulté de l'analyse des données démographiques concernant les étrangers légalisés et les illégaux, cette tendance ne se retournera pas de sitôt. Des secteurs de l'économie espagnole dépendent de l'immigration, légale ou non. La Caixa Catalunya, organisme financier de cette communauté indépendante, a estimé que 50% de la croissance du PIB catalan dans les dernières années est due au phénomène de l

  6. GESTÃO INTERNACIONAL DE PESSOAS: CONSIDERAÇÕES A PARTIR DO AJUSTAMENTO INTERNACIONAL DE EXPATRIADOS NA CHINA E ESPANHA

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    Flavia Luciane Scherer

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available O ajustamento internacional do expatriado é considerado fator preponderante ao desenvolvimento das atividades internacionais da empresa e é definido por Ali (2003 como o grau de conforto do trabalhador no país hospedeiro. O objetivo deste artigo foi avaliar como ocorreu o processo de ajustamento internacional de expatriados brasileiros na China e na Espanha, considerando os dois níveis de análise propostos no modelo de Black, Mendenhall e Oddou (1991: ajustamento antecipado (antes da mudança para o exterior e ajustamento no país hospedeiro. Foi realizado um estudo exploratório de natureza qualitativa com dez expatriados brasileiros: cinco residentes na Espanha e cinco na China. Dentre as principais constatações, percebeu-se a ausência do preparo prévio à expatriação por parte da equipe de Gestão de Pessoas e verificou-se que a diferença psíquica influencia negativamente o ajustamento, mas a avidez a desafios e a mentalidade global do executivo apaziguariam esse fator.

  7. Análise e reflexão sobre a educação especial inclusivo em Maringá/BR e em Guadalajara/ES

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    Maria de Jesus Cano Miranda

    2013-12-01

    Full Text Available O objetivo do presente estudo é conhecer o percurso da Educação Especial em contextos distintos, cidade de Maringá/Brasil e Guadalajara/Espanha e analisar as bases que fundamentam a organização, estrutura e o funcionamento dessa modalidade de ensino tendo como ponto de partida o processo de escola inclusiva. Os pressupostos que embasam este trabalho fundamentam-se na concepção Histórico Cultural proposta por Vygotski que defende a existência de princípios essenciais que embasam o desenvolvimento da criança com deficiência. Se, por um lado, a deficiência impõe limitações ao indivíduo, dificultando seu desenvolvimento, por outro, justamente por ocasionar dificuldades, possibilita o movimento para a compensação, ampliando o desenvolvimento de outras capacidades. O déficit em si é o de menos. Portanto, trata-se de uma pesquisa de campo, realizada por meio de observações, pesquisa na literatura e análise documental em instituições de educação infantil visitadas, nas cidades já referidas. Os resultados mostraram que há peculiaridades quanto ao percurso, organização e funcionamento da Educação Especial em cada um dos contextos analisados. Referentemente ao movimento de educação inclusiva, evidencia-se que a Espanha é precursora desse processo, por consequência apresenta condições adequadas nas diferentes formas de conduzir o atendimento às crianças com necessidades especiais, e por outro lado, as escolas dispõem dos recursos humanos e materiais especializados de que necessitam. Enquanto no Brasil a operacionalização dessas medidas ocorre mais lentamente. Assim, podese dizer que esse processo de educação inclusiva não acontece de forma linear dentro das escolas regulares e tão pouco nas diferentes formas de ação da educação especial nos dois contextos analisados.

  8. A ESQUERDA RADICAL NO PERÍODO PÓS-2008: NADA DE (MUITO) NOVO EM PORTUGAL?

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    Santana Pereira, José; ICS, Universidade de Lisboa

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    A crise económica que eclodiu nas democracias europeias periféricas a partir de 2009 teve, em vários países da Europa do Sul, consequências graves em termos de estabilidade governativa e dos sistemas partidários. Neste contexto, o caso português tem sido apontado como excecional, visto que o agravamento da situação económica e as suas consequências políticas não provocaram uma afirmação eleitoral sem precedentes de forças de esquerda radical (como na Espanha e na Grécia). Neste artigo, aprese...

  9. First Barcelona Conference on Epigenetics and Cancer

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    Palau, Anna; Perucho, Manuel; Esteller, Manel; Buschbeck, Marcus

    2014-01-01

    The Barcelona Conference on Epigenetics and Cancer (BCEC) entitled “Challenges, opportunities and perspectives” took place November 21–22, 2013 in Barcelona. The 2013 BCEC is the first edition of a series of annual conferences jointly organized by five leading research centers in Barcelona. These centers are the Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer (IMPPC), the Biomedical Campus Bellvitge with its Program of Epigenetics and Cancer Biology (PEBC), the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Institute for Biomedical Research (IRB), and the Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona (IBMB). Manuel Perucho and Marcus Buschbeck from the Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer put together the scientific program of the first conference broadly covering all aspects of epigenetic research ranging from fundamental molecular research to drug and biomarker development and clinical application. In one and a half days, 23 talks and 50 posters were presented to a completely booked out audience counting 270 participants. PMID:24413145

  10. ATRIBUTOS FÍSICO-QUÍMICOS E ACEITABILIDADE DOS FRUTOS DE FIGUEIRAS CULTIVADAS NA ESPANHA

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    Manoel Euzébio de Souza

    2014-09-01

    Full Text Available O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar as características físico-químicas e sensoriais dos frutos de quatro variedades de figueira (Colar, San Antonio, Cuello de Dama Negro e Tiberio cultivadas no sudeste da Espanha. Para este estudo foram utilizados figos oriundos de uma área experimental da Escola Politécnica Superior de Orihuela da Universidade Miguel Hernández de Elche/Espanha. Os frutos foram avaliados no Laboratório de Pós-Colheita da Universidade Politécnica de Cartagena/Espanha. Foram mensuradas características como firmeza, pH, sólidos solúveis, açúcares, polifenóis totais, capacidade antioxidante e a análise sensorial dos frutos de quatro variedades de figueiras. Foram considerados 4 tratamentos (variedades e 3 repetições por tratamento, para cada repetição foram utilizados 5 frutos. Os frutos da variedade Tiberio mostraram menor firmeza e baixa qualidade sensorial, indicando menor aceitabilidade. As variedades Colar e Cuello de Dama Negro apresentaram frutos com maiores teores de polifenóis totais e capacidade antioxidante. Palavras-chave: Ficus carica L, qualidade, análise sensorial.   PHYSICO-CHEMICAL ATTRIBUTES AND ACCEPTABILITY OF FIG FRUITS CULTIVATED IN SPAIN ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to analyze the morphological, physicochemical and sensory characteristics of four fig fruits varieties grown in southeast Spain. For this study were used fig fruits coming from the experimental area of Orihuela Polytechnic School, University Miguel Hernández of Elche/Spain. After harvesting the fruits were brought to the Postharvest laboratory of Cartagena Polytechnic University/ Spain, where the weight characterization, longitudinal and equatorial diameter, ostiole diameter (morphological, consistency, pH,  soluble solids,  sugars, total polyphenols and antioxidant capacity (physico-chemical , , was performed, and sensory analysis of four fig fruits varieties (Colar, San Antonio, Cuello de Dama Negro and Tiberio

  11. Notas feministas sobre o marco jurídico da migração e do tráfico de mulheres na Europa e Espanha

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    Claudia Mayorga

    2012-07-01

    Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1807-1384.2012v9n1p278   Neste trabalho, buscamos compreender aspectos do marco jurídico da migração, tráfico de mulheres e prostituição na Europa de forma geral e na Espanha de forma específica a partir de uma análise das principais regulamentações vigentes entre 2005/2007 nesses contextos. Para isso, buscamos conhecer como a legislação e a tendência ao fechamento de fronteiras oferecem brechas que levam a situações de exploração e vulnerabilização para mulheres migrantes que estão na Espanha exercendo a prostituição. Foram analisados os seguintes documentos: Protocolo para prevenir, reprimir e sancionar o tráfico de pessoas, especialmente mulheres e crianças, do ano 2000, que complementa a Convenção das Nações Unidas contra a delinqüência organizada internacional; Protocolo contra o tráfico ilícito de migrantes por terra, mar e ar, que complementa a Convenção das Nações Unidas contra a delinqüência organizada internacional e a Lei de Migração espanhola de 1985. A política sobre o tráfico de mulheres e as posições mais conservadoras sobre a migração na União Européia tem tido conseqüências específicas para as mulheres. Os tratados e leis enfatizam, sobremaneira, as medidas de controle de fronteiras e repressão aos Possíveis delitos cometidos. Tal perspectiva deixa em segundo plano os direitos dos/as migrantes e das pessoas vitimas do tráfico (é importante ressaltar que os textos dos tratados e leis dão margem para que se identifique tráfico de mulheres com migração para a prostituição. Com relação à prostituição, o direito espanhol não penaliza, mas também não regulamenta, o exercício da prostituição; deixa tal atividade em uma situação de completa alegalidade, o que acaba por incrementar a vulnerabilização das prostitutas frente abusos e explorações de todos os tipos.

  12. Construyendo la Barcelona creativa: nuevos actores, nuevas estrategias

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    Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway

    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available Building A creative Barcelona: new actors, new strategies.Barcelona is under the international spotlight. The city that triumphed with the organisation of the Olympic Games in 1992 now wants to become a 21st Century creative city. In order to achieve this goal, the city must establish conditions that facilitate the emergence of a shared discourse around its ability to become an attractive city for creative talent and for businesses. The recognition of the historical-economic heritage, as a starting point for the creative city, along with the driving role played by culture in the generation of a exclusive and distinctive experience, turnBarcelona into a unique city. However, this is not sufficient. The participation and involvement of all the actors in a shared strategy pose significant challenges to Barcelona, as does the need to minimise the negative effects that inevitably accompany success. Companies, institutions and citizens constitute the city’s best assets: they must work in partnership and take advantage of the synergies generated amongst them. Consensus and participation are more than mere utopias in Barcelona: they have become requirements for the city of tomorrow. Moreover, leadership in Barcelona is largely left to public initiative: the emergence of linkages across the needs of the various creative sectors, based on public intervention mechanisms is the best way to ensure success.

  13. Jornada “Usos i abusos del <em>peer-to-peer>”

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    Raquel Xalabarder

    2010-07-01

    Full Text Available El 3 de desembre de 2009, els Estudis de Dret i Ciència Política de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC, juntament amb l'Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3, van organitzar la jornada "Usos i abusos del <em>peer-to-peer">, que va tenir lloc a la seu central de la UOC a Barcelona. La jornada la van coordinar els professors d'aquests Estudis integrants del grup de recerca Interdret de l'IN3.

  14. Optimal football strategies: AC Milan versus FC Barcelona

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    Papahristodoulou, Christos

    2012-01-01

    In a recent UEFA Champions League game between AC Milan and FC Barcelona, played in Italy (final score 2-3), the collected match statistics, classified into four offensive and two defensive strategies, were in favour of FC Barcelona (by 13 versus 8 points). The aim of this paper is to examine to what extent the optimal game strategies derived from some deterministic, possibilistic, stochastic and fuzzy LP models would improve the payoff of AC Milan at the cost of FC Barcelona.

  15. Air pollution and mortality in Barcelona.

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    Sunyer, J; Castellsagué, J; Sáez, M; Tobias, A; Antó, J M

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    STUDY OBJECTIVES: Studies conducted in Barcelona reported a short term relation between daily air pollutant values and emergency department admissions for exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and asthma. Air pollution in Barcelona is mainly generated by vehicle exhaust and is below the World Health Organization air quality guidelines. The acute relation between air pollution and mortality was assessed. DESIGN: Daily variations in total mortality, mortality in subjects older ...

  16. Viabilidade económica da implementação de um reactor nuclear para a produção de energia eléctrica em Portugal

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    Pedro, Miguel António de Morais

    2012-01-01

    O presente trabalho tem como objectivo avaliar economicamente e determinar a viabilidade da implementação de um reactor nuclear para produção de energia eléctrica. Faz-se uma abordagem a aspectos da energia nuclear no mundo e em particular a energia nuclear na união europeia, faz-se uma análise sobre a estrutura do sector nuclear em Espanha e o futuro da energia no mundo. É realizada uma análise sobre a energia nuclear em Portugal, são abordados aspectos como o planeamento energético, a local...

  17. DETERMINANTES DA DIVULGAÇÃO DOS INDICADORES DE DESEMPENHO DA GRI NAS EMPRESAS DO BRASIL E DA ESPANHA

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    Alan Diógenes Góis

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available O estudo tem por objetivo investigar os fatores determinantes da divulgação dos indicadores de desempenho de sustentabilidade da GRI nas empresas listadas nas bolsas do Brasil e da Espanha. Para tanto, foram analisados os dados de 94 empresas de capital aberto dos dois países que publicaram relatórios anuais e/ou de sustentabilidade, referentes a 2011, no padrão GRI-G3. A pesquisa é descritiva, com abordagem quantitativa dos dados, utilizando-se a Regressão Linear Múltipla para quatro modelos de disclosure (econômico, ambiental, social e de sustentabilidade. Os resultados mostram que as empresas da Espanha apresentam um nível de disclosure de sustentabilidade mais elevado, e que o nível de evidenciação geral, considerando o conjunto das dimensões da sustentabilidade (econômica, social e ambiental, corresponde a 72,7%. Quanto ao resultado dos modelos de regressão, observa-se que as variáveis independentes (Tamanho, Rentabilidade, Endividamento, Auditoria, Setor de Impacto Ambiental e Idade não explicam o disclosure econômico; porém, quanto aos disclosures ambiental, social e de sustentabilidade, as variáveis Tamanho e Idade são fatores determinantes.

  18. Planos de classificação em arquivos: estudo comparativo de Planos de Classificação no cenário Brasileiro, Espanhol e Português

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    Thiago Roberto Lopes

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    Full Text Available O propósito desta pesquisa mostra um estudo comparativo de Planos de Classificação arquivística no cenário do Brasil, Portugal e Espanha. Trata-se de uma pesquisa documental, caracterizando-se como descritiva e bibliográfica. O instrumento de coleta das informações foi um documento da Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica, contendo o Plano de Classificação do órgão e, também, documentos da Administração Local de Portugal e O Cuadro de Clasificación de Fondos para a Administração Local da Espanha, além do Cuadro general de clasificación archivística. Por meio de estudos comparativos destes Planos de Classificação, da análise dos dados contidos nesses documentos e da revisão bibliográfica, foi possível apontar características em comum entre os Planos de Classificação em cada país, assim como as diferenças e os pontos positivos e negativos.

  19. Just Physio kidding: NUI and Gamification based Therapeutic Intervention for Children with Special Needs

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    Madeira, Rui Neves; Antunes, André; Postolache, Octavian

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    Trabalho apresentado na MindCare2016, 28-29 de novembro de 2016, Barcelona, Espanha This paper presents the “just Physio kidding” approach, which intends to improve the engaging qualities of therapy programmes towards children with special needs, mainly with cerebral palsy, spinal muscular atrophy, or developmental delay. Therefore, “just Physio kidding” intends to address both physiotherapy and cognitive stimulation therapy. The system is functioning as a complement to the ...

  20. Barcelona más allá de Barcelona. La ciudad cinematográfica transformada en otras ciudades

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    Carlota Bonet Balaguer

    2016-07-01

    Full Text Available Since the late twentieth century, the duality tourism and cinema, commonly referred to as film-induced tourism, has become one of the most emerging and dynamic tourist modalities. Amongst the various types of film-induced tourism accepted by the academia, this research has been based on one that has a double filmic identity: as film destination and as film setting. Meaning a film that is shot in a particular place but is actually representing elsewhere. The main objective of this research is to identify and analyse the international audio-visual productions or co-productions that have been partially or completely shot in Barcelona yet in fiction represent another city. The results were essentially obtained from an analytical-descriptive methodology. As a main conclusion of the study, it can be stated that international films which are shot in Barcelona but represent elsewhere in the film, have great potential to strengthen or create a competitive offer of film-induced tourism in Barcelona.

  1. Wikipédia como fonte de informação monolíngue e multilíngue sobre o patrimônio histórico da Espanha

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    María-Dolores OLVERA-LOBO

    Full Text Available Resumo Este trabalho analisa a enciclopédia online Wikipédia como uma ferramenta de difusão de informação monolingue e multilingue sobre patrimônio histórico da Espanha. A amostra é composta por bens imóveis de interesse cultural catalogados de várias províncias espanholas. Para o efeito, estudou-se em que medida estes bens estão representados na Wikipédia através de um artigo próprio, ou seja, com informação independente dedicada a cada um deles. Procedeu-se à realização de três diferentes tipos de pesquisa na enciclopédia (navegação, por meio de anexos e através do motor de busca interno durante vários meses. Por outro lado, determinou-se o grau em que a Wikipédia inclui informação multilingue em relação à amostra, identificando o número e tipos de línguas nas quais se representa essa informação, bem como os artigos presentes noutras línguas diferentes do espanhol que são o resultado de uma tradução propriamente dita. Os resultados mostram que apenas 21,73% dos bens que constituem a amostra final possuem um artigo independente na Wikipédia, destes, somente 20,85% se encontram em várias línguas, sendo 50,00% traduções propriamente ditas. Isto leva-nos a concluir que, dada a natureza colaborativa desta ferramenta e dada também a importância cultural e econômica do patrimônio histórico, as próprias instituições deveriam responsabilizar-se em promover a difusão multilingue deste tipo de informação.

  2. O PROCESSO DE IMPLANTAÇÃO DE NORMAS DE DESEMPENHO NA CONSTRUÇÃO: UM COMPARATIVO ENTRE A ESPANHA (CTE E BRASIL (NBR 15575/2013

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    Andrea Parisi Kern

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    Full Text Available A preocupação com o desempenho das edificações é uma tendência mundial. No Brasil, em 2010, foi proposta a NBR 15.575, sob o título geral de Edifícios habitacionais até cinco pavimentos – Desempenho. Embora esteja em vigor as iniciativas de utilização do documento por profissionais da construção ainda são incipientes, tendo em vista a complexidade das questões que envolvem o conceito de desempenho e desafiam especialmente arquitetos e engenheiros projetistas. Por outro lado, na Europa é comum o uso de leis, normas ou códigos baseados no conceito de desempenho. Por exemplo, o Código Técnico das Edificações (CTE da Espanha que estabelece desempenho e durabilidade às edificações, em vigor desde 2007, relativamente bem sucedido. Esse artigo tem o objetivo de discutir o processo de implantação do CTE e comparar ao da NBR 15.575/2010. Como contribuições são apontadas algumas estratégias utilizadas na implantação do CTE que poderiam ser consideradas no Brasil tais como a implantação gradual, a criação de meio de comunicação entre responsáveis pela Norma e usuários, a definição de documentos e conteúdos para o cumprimento da norma para projetistas, programas de divulgação e discussão com principais fornecedores de cada área envolvida, e, por fim, a consideração de parâmetros da NBR 15.575/2010 na aprovação dos projetos pelo Município, no Brasil, Códigos de obras.

  3. Cinco puntos sobre la revista Barcelona

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    Bertone Crippa, Mauro

    2012-01-01

    El humor, como género y narrativa mediática, ocupa un lugar destacado al interior del campo del periodismo gráfico argentino. Como emergente contemporáneo dentro de este ámbito, la revista Barcelona se vuelve un objeto de estudio sugestivo al trabajar, a partir del registro del humor, sobre la agenda y la enunciación de los medios gráficos de actualidad. De esta manera, se analizan las condiciones de producción del discurso de Barcelona para ver qué novedades aporta al campo del hu...

  4. Pensar o homem como corpo: a cunhagem Simbólica em Portugal e Espanha (século 19 - Thinking man as body: symbolic coinage in Portugal and Spain (19th century

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    José Viegas Brás

    2014-05-01

    Full Text Available Neste artigo investigamos a construção do corpo pelos manuais de civilidade publicados em Portugal e em Espanha no século 19. Os manuais de civilidade constituíram um mecanismo de poder-saber disciplinador da burguesia em ascensão eque marcaram certo processo de subjectivação. A partir do corpo estabeleceu-se uma nova ordem, que elevou o orgânico ao funcional e simbólico, em sintonia com a classe burguesa em ascensão, e que buscou orientar cada indivíduo a constituir-se como um sujeito moral, dando-lhe distinção e prestígio.Palavras-chave: corpo, história, manuais, civilidade.THINKING MAN AS BODY: SYMBOLIC COINAGE IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN (19TH CENTURYAbstractIn this paper, we study the construction of the body through civility course books published in Portugaland Spainin the 19th century. The civility course books were a mechanism of power-knowledge relationship disciplinary of the rising bourgeoisie which un le as he da certain process of subjectivity. From the body a new order was set up, which raised the organic to functional and symbolic-in line with the growing bourgeois class-and guide de ach individual to establish him/herself as a moral subject, giving him/her distinction and prestige.Key-words: body, history, manuals, civility.PENSANDO EN EL HOMBRE COMO CUERPO: INVENCIÓN SIMBÓLICAEN PORTUGAL Y ESPAÑA (SIGLO 19ResumenEn este trabajo, investigamos la construcción del cuerpo a través de los manuales de civilidad publicado en Portugal y en España en el siglo 19. Los manuales de civilidad eran un mecanismo de poder-saber disciplinador de la burguesía naciente que marcaron cierto proceso de subjetividad. Partiendo del cuerpo, si establece un nuevo orden que eleva el orgánico al funcional y simbólico, según la naciente burguesía, y que guío a cada individuo para constituirse como sujeto moral, dándole prestigio y distinción.Palabras-clave: cuerpo, historia, manuales, civilidad.PENSER L'HOMME COMME CORPS

  5. Saalivalvurid varastavad ka Barcelonas

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    Hispaania politsei tabas Barcelona Arheoloogiamuuseumi saalivalvuri Manuel Gasca, kes varastas muuseumi hoidlaist umbes 35 miljoni Eesti krooni ulatuses vana-egiptuse, foiniikia, etruski ja vana-rooma arheoloogilisi leide (mündid, keraamika, skulptuur jt.) ning itaalia graafiku Giambattista Piranesi 150 gravüüri.

  6. @City: technologising Barcelona

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    Rojas, Jesús

    2007-05-01

    Full Text Available This article is about the concept of the contemporary city - the influence that technology has when one thinks about, plans and lives in a city. The conjunction of technology and city reformulates customs and social practices; it can even determine the way one constitutes one's own identity. One can see how close the relation is between technology (specifically, TICS and the structures of the city in a wide variety of situations: in social interactions on the street, in transport, and in ways of buying, of working and entertainment. "@City" is a concept that very well reflects the emergent properties of a current city, that is, the coexistence of a physical and a virtual urban space. The "22@Barcelona" project attempts to bring together different types of spaces. By combining the physical with the virtual, 22@Barcelona, as a neighborhood of @City, creates an uncertain and blurred border between both spaces.The article also examines the impact that these spaces have on the psycho-social processes involved in the daily life of a traditionally working-class neighborhood, now strongly limited by technological boundaries.

  7. A emergência de microcervejarias diante da oligopolização do setor cervejeiro (Brasil e Espanha)

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    Limberger, Silvia Cristina; Tulla, Antoni

    2017-01-01

    A saturação do mercado de cervejas tradicionais nos países desenvolvidos a partir da década de 1970 trouxe novos elementos para a análise do setor. As grandes empresas passaram a estender seus mercados para países onde o consumo tornava­‑se crescente, assim como aumentaram os investimentos na diversificação da produção. No Brasil e Espanha, as empresas multinacionais chegaram nos anos 90 e os esforços para produzir novas cervejas concretizaram­‑se nos anos 2000, a partir da iniciativa de prod...

  8. A emergência de microcervejarias diante da oligopolização do setor cervejeiro (Brasil e Espanha)

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    Limberger, Silvia Cristina; Tulla, Antoni

    2017-01-01

    A saturação do mercado de cervejas tradicionais nos países desenvolvidos a partir da década de 1970 trouxe novos elementos para a análise do setor. As grandes empresas passaram a estender seus mercados para países onde o consumo tornava-se crescente, assim como aumentaram os investimentos na diversificação da produção. No Brasil e Espanha, as empresas multinacionais chegaram nos anos 90 e os esforços para produzir novas cervejas concretizaram-se nos anos 2000, a partir da iniciativa de produt...

  9. Lymphogranuloma venereum: a hidden emerging problem, Barcelona, 2011.

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    Vargas-Leguas, H; Garcia de Olalla, P; Arando, M; Armengol, P; Barbera, Mj; Vall, M; Vives, A; Martin-Ezquerra, G; Alsina, M; Blanco, J; Munoz, C; Caballero, E; Andreu, A; Ros, M; Gorrindo, P; Dominguez, A; Cayla, Ja

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    From the beginning of 2007 until the end of 2011, 146 cases of lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) were notified to the Barcelona Public Health Agency. Some 49% of them were diagnosed and reported in 2011, mainly in men who have sex with men. Almost half of them, 32 cases, were reported between July and September. This cluster represents the largest since 2004. This article presents the ongoing outbreak of LGV in Barcelona.

  10. Feasibility study of introducing smart technologies in Barcelona Airport

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    Garcia Guiu, Anna

    2016-01-01

    The objectives of the project are to define and evaluate the diferent alternatives for implementing new Smart concepts and technologies in Barcelona Airport. The structure of the project activities will follow an initial approach (not exhaustive) consisting of: Context and background, justification of the project, assessment of Barcelona Airport baseline, identification of needs, technolgy Stae-of the art, definition of potential solutions and implementation scenarios, evaluation of altern...

  11. Xafardera?. No, esclava. Etnografia sobre les porteres de Barcelona

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    Joana Brufau

    2010-06-01

    Full Text Available Bestard, Joan (ed. (2006. Les porteries a Barcelona. Entre l’espai públic i l’espai privat. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura. “Un poco dura esta profesión. Aunque ellos [els veïns] no lo crean, o es. Siempre hay un mal humor de ellos. Siempre hay alguna cosa, que la paga el trabajador” Testimoni d’una portera recollit en el llibre

  12. A Família Homoparental na Ficção Televisiva: As Práticas Narrativas do Brasil e da Espanha como Relatos das Novas Representações Afetivo-Amorosas

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    Aline Martins Mesquita

    2015-03-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo analisa o tratamento da família homoparental nas televisões do Brasil e Espanha. Destaca-se a interdisciplinaridade entre família, sociedade e ficção através de um recorte das obras Hospital Central (Telecinco, 2000-2012 e Páginas da Vida (Rede Globo, 2006-2007, com análise, em ambos os casos, de atributos de uma família homoparental de cada, e análise textual de conteúdo. Foi aplicada também técnica de suporte metodológico por meio de questionários com coletivos homossexuais dos dois países, a fim de obter dados sobre consumo e percepção. Os resultados encontrados ratificam a representação articulada entre desejo e tradição nas relações, e a tendência das obras de evitar o estereótipo homossexual. Observa-se a prática narrativa atrevida da série espanhola e o tratamento aprofundado de um casal formado por duas mulheres, à diferença da novela brasileira, em que o amor entre dois homens apresentou restrição na abordagem afetivo-amorosa e paterno-filial. Finalmente, detectam-se elementos para uma nova linha de estudo internacional: a família homoparental na televisão.

  13. X Congreso Panamericano de Ingeniería de Tránsito y Transporte

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    Luis Antonio Lindau; Orlando Strambi

    2010-01-01

    No texto o autor apresenta os temas que foram apresentados e discutidos no X PANAM, Congreso Panamericano de Ingeniería de Tránsito y Transporte, realizado em setembro de 1998 em Santander, na Espanha.

  14. Universidades populares en España y su relación con la universidad suramericana Universidades populares em Espanha e sua relação com a universidade sul-americana Popular Universities in Spain and their Relationship with South American Universities

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    Juan Antonio López-Núñez

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    Full Text Available El trabajo presenta las claves para entender el Proyecto Universidad Popular, iniciado en España en 1901. Tras analizar brevemente su pasado, se explica su presente a través de la educación de adultos como filosofía de fondo, y se hace ver que en la actualidad no deja de estar vigente en nuestra sociedad. La principal nota característica de este proyecto es su organización en red, no solo a nivel nacional, sino que sus relaciones con otras universidades populares, sobre todo de Suramérica, constituyen su principal fuente de trabajo. A pesar de sus más de cien años de existencia en Europa y Suramérica, en la actualidad el proyecto es toda una institución de educación de adultos, por su peculiar oferta formativa, totalmente adaptada a las necesidades de sus alumnos.Este trabalho apresenta a clave para compreender o Projeto Universidade Popular, que começou em Espanha em 1901. Depois analisar seu passado, explica-se seu presente através da educação de adultos como filosofia de fundo, e descobre-se que na atualidade é em vigor na nossa sociedade. A característica principal deste projeto é sua organização em rede nacional. Suas relações com outras universidades populares, especialmente da América do Sul, são sua fonte de trabalho fundamental. No entanto sua antigüidade de mais de cem anos em Europa e América do Sul, na atualidade o projeto é uma instituição de educação de adultos por sua particular forma de oferta de formação, adaptada as necessidades dos alunos.This study outlines the aspects that are crucial to understanding the Popular University Project begun in Spain in 1901. After a brief historical analysis, its present situation is explained against the backdrop of adult education as an in-depth philosophy, and the project is shown to be valid even today, in our society. The primary feature of the project is its organization in the form of a network, not only nationwide, but in terms of its relationship with

  15. Panorama brasileiro e espanhol sobre teses de doutorado na área das altas habilidades/superdotação

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    Ketilin Mayra Pedro

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    Full Text Available No Brasil a área das Altas Habilidades/Superdotação (AH/SD foi contemplada inicialmente na LDB 5692/71 (BRASIL, 1971, enquanto na Espanha o marco inicial se dá a partir do Real Decreto 696/1995 (ESPANHA, 1995, garantindo a esse alunado ao direito a identificação e atendimento. Visando contribuir com as pesquisas desta área, elaboramos o atual panorama brasileiro e espanhol em relação as teses de doutorado sobre AH/SD. Para a realização desta investigação consultamos a Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações e a Base de datos de Tesis Doctorales. Foram localizadas um total de 70 teses, sendo 20 brasileiras e 50 espanholas. Com base na análise do título, do resumo e das palavras-chaves, elencamos categorias temáticas, sendo que foram predominantes: Identidade, Identificação e Avaliação. A primeira tese brasileira defendida data de 1989, enquanto que na Espanha a primeira tese é de 1990. Em relação ao local de publicação, no Brasil percebemos que há uma predominância em relação as universidades federais, enquanto na Espanha, a Universidade Complutense de Madrid destaca-se em número de publicações. Percebemos que embora o número de publicações tenha aumentado progressivamente, esse ainda figura-se como incipiente frente ao número de publicações de outras áreas e a demanda de trabalho que esses estudantes requerem.

  16. Factores determinantes del retorno de los ecuatorianos en España; Fatores determinantes do retorno dos equatorianos à Espanha; Determinants factors of the return of the Ecuadorians in Spain

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    Ronny Correa-Quezada

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    Full Text Available Resumen: El presente estudio tiene como objetivos analizar el efecto de la crisis económica en España, e identificar los determinantes por los cuales los migrantes desean retornar a Ecuador. Para ello se realizó un estudio de campo y 96 entrevistas a la población inmigrante en Madrid que se encuentra en edad de trabajar y se utilizaron modelos econométricos de elección discreta para su verificación y comprobación de resultados. La crisis ha afectado más a los ecuatorianos que a las  ecuatorianas, estas últimas han perdido menos puestos de trabajo y sufren menos desempleo. En general se han encontrado diferencias significativas para la decisión de retorno al Ecuador, entre ellas: género, remuneración, movilidad laboral y bienes que poseen en el país de origen. Palabras clave: migración, retorno, Ecuador, España.   Resumo: O presente estudo tem como objetivo analizar o efeito da crise econômica na Espanha, e identificar as determinantes pelas quais os imigrantes desejam retornar ao Equador. Para isso se realizou um estudo de campo e 96 entrevistas com a população imigrante de Madrid que se encontra em idade de trabalho e se utilizou modelos econométricos de escolha discreta que apontou para sua verificação e comprovação de resultados. A crise afetou mais aos equatorianos que às equatorianas, estas últimas perderam menos postos de trabalho e sofrem menos desemprego. Em geral encontramos diferenças significativas para a decisão de retorno ao Equador, entre elas: gênero, remuneração; mobilidade trabalhista e bens que posuem no país de origem. Palavras-chaves: migração, retorno, Equador, Espanha.   Abstract: The following study objective is to analyze the effect of the economic crisis in Spain and to identify determining factors for migrants to wish to return to Ecuador. The sample originate on a field study and 96 interviews to working-age Ecuadorian immigrants in Madrid. The analysis consist on discrete

  17. A esquerda radical no período pós-2009: nada de (muito) novo em Portugal? = The radical left in the post-2009 period: nothing (very) new in portugal?

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    Pereira, José Santana

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    A crise económica que eclodiu nas democracias europeias periféricas a partir de 2009 teve, em vários países da Europa do Sul, consequências graves em termos de estabilidade governativa e dos sistemas partidários. Neste contexto, o caso português tem sido apontado como excecional, visto que o agravamento da situação económica e as suas consequências políticas não provocaram uma afirmação eleitoral sem precedentes de forças de esquerda radical (como na Espanha e na Grécia). Neste artigo, aprese...

  18. El riesgo emergente que constituyen las agresiones y violencia que sufren los médicos en el ejercicio de su profesión: el caso de España

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    Martínez León, María de las Mercedes

    2010-01-01

    Producción Científica O artigo analisa dados sobres as agressões na área da saúde, considerando esse fato como um fenômeno internacional que se manifesta tanto em países europeus (Espanha, França, Grã-Bretanha) quanto em outras latitudes (América Latina, Estados Unidos, Canadá, Austrália e Nova Zelândia). A discussão se reporta a estudos realizados na Espanha com pessoal médico, os quais demonstram que a taxa de agressão é de 0,2/100.000 atos médicos, aproximadamente. O obje...

  19. Vaikne torm Barcelonas / Katrin Koov

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    2009-01-01

    2008. a. sügisel Barcelonas toimunud 5. Euroopa maastikuarhitektuuri biennaalist "Torm ja tung", sümpoosionist. Rosa Barba nimelise võistluse peaauhinna võitis Kristine Jenseni büroo Taanist projektiga "Nicolai". Auhinnavõistlusel ja valitud tööde näitusel esindas Eestit Tallinna Harju tänava park

  20. The Barcelona agreement: a manifesto towards the spearfishing of the future

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    Valerio Sbragaglia

    2016-09-01

    Full Text Available The Spearfishing Association of Barcelona (APS recently celebrated its 70th anniversary and decided to write a manifesto called: “The Barcelona Agreement: A Manifesto Towards the Spearfishing of the Future”. The Manifesto was discussed and approved during a round table at the Maritime Museum of Barcelona on 27 February 2016, in which delegates of several stakeholders took part. The Agreement is a revision of the most important points that the authors consider to be fundamental for a sustainable development of spearfishing in the future. The authors expect that this manifesto will be a starting point for a constructive discussion to increase knowledge, efficient practice and effective management of spearfishing.

  1. The pergolas of Barcelona Forum, an example of sustainable architecture; Las pergonas de Barcelona Ejemplo de arquitectura sostenible

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    2008-07-01

    The use of technologies FV in Barcelona Forum Claims the goal of reducing the greenhouse gases emission to the atmosphere. The pergolas allow reducing the emission of approximately 440 Mg/year of CO{sub 2}.

  2. Geodetic infrastructure at the Barcelona harbour for sea level monitoring

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    Martinez-Benjamin, Juan Jose; Gili, Josep; Lopez, Rogelio; Tapia, Ana; Pros, Francesc; Palau, Vicenc; Perez, Begona

    2015-04-01

    The presentation is directed to the description of the actual geodetic infrastructure of Barcelona harbour with three tide gauges of different technologies for sea level determination and contribution to regional sea level rise and understanding past and present sea level rise in the Barcelona harbour. It is intended that the overall system will constitute a CGPS Station of the ESEAS (European Sea Level) and TIGA (GPS Tide Gauge Benchmark Monitoring) networks. At Barcelona harbour there is a MIROS radar tide gauge belonging to Puertos del Estado (Spanish Harbours).The radar sensor is over the water surface, on a L-shaped structure which elevates it a few meters above the quay shelf. 1-min data are transmitted to the ENAGAS Control Center by cable and then sent each 1 min to Puertos del Estado by e-mail. The information includes wave forescast (mean period, significant wave height, sea level, etc.This sensor also measures agitation and sends wave parameters each 20 min. There is a GPS station Leica Geosystems GRX1200 GG Pro and antenna AX 1202 GG. The Control Tower of the Port of Barcelona is situated in the North dike of the so-called Energy Pier in the Barcelona harbor (Spain). This tower has different kind of antennas for navigation monitoring and a GNSS permanent station. As the tower is founded in reclaimed land, and because its metallic structure, the 50 m building is subjected to diverse movements, including periodic fluctuations due to temperature changes. In this contribution the 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 the necessary monitoring campaigns are described. In the framework of a Spanish Space Project, the instrumentation of sea level measurements has been improved by providing the Barcelona site with a radar tide gauge Datamar 2000C from Geonica S.L. in June 2014 near an acoustic tide gauge from the Barcelona Harbour installed in 2013. Precision levelling has been made several times in the last two years because the tower is founded in reclaimed land and

  3. Edificio Atalaya Barcelona

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    Correa, Federico

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    Full Text Available This unique building, situated at the crossing Diagonal-Carretera of Sarría of Barcelona, consists of four basements, two levels for premises and offices that occupy the entire site and of twenty two of apartments that assume the shape of a cross so as to obtain the maximum independence of view between the different wings, in addition to other aesthetic and volumetric considerations. The structure is of reinforced concrete with flat floors without beams and the curtain walls of prefabricated pieces and artificial stone. An attempt has been made, and we consider the aim to have been achieved to construct a well planned and well balanced tall building, viewed from close by as well as from a distance.Este edificio singular, situado en el cruce Diagonal-Carretera de Sarria, de Barcelona, consta de cuatro plantas de sótanos, dos de locales y oficinas que ocupan todo el solar y veintidós de apartamentos, que adoptan la forma de cruz gamada con el fin de conseguir la máxima independencia de vistas de unos con respecto a otros, aparte de otras consideraciones estéticas y volumétricas. La estructura es de hormigón armado con forjados planos, sin vigas, y los cerramientos, modulares, de piezas prefabricadas de piedra artificial. Se ha pretendido, y consideramos logrado, el doble efecto de un rascacielos humano que se aprecia ponderado y equilibrado, tanto si se mira desde lejos como si se contempla desde cerca.

  4. The Experience of Implementing Urban HEART Barcelona: a Tool for Action.

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    Novoa, Ana M; Pérez, Glòria; Espelt, Albert; Echave, Cynthia; de Olalla, Patricia G; Calvo, M Jesús; Pasarín, Maribel; Diez, Èlia; Borrell, Carme; Calvo, M Jesús; Cormenzana, Berta; Cortés, Imma; Diez, Èlia; Echave, Cynthia; Espelt, Albert; de Olalla, Patrícia G; Gòmez, Josep; Novoa, Ana M; Pallarès, Montserrat; Pérez, Glòria; Rodríguez-Sanz, Maica

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    Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (HEART) is a tool developed by the World Health Organization whose objective is to provide evidence on urban health inequalities so as to help to decide the best interventions aimed to promote urban health equity. The aim of this paper is to describe the experience of implementing Urban HEART in Barcelona city, both the adaptation of Urban HEART to the city of Barcelona, its use as a means of identifying and monitoring health inequalities among city neighbourhoods, and the difficulties and barriers encountered throughout the process. Although ASPB public health technicians participated in the Urban HEART Advisory Group, had large experience in health inequalities analysis and research and showed interest in implementing the tool, it was not until 2015, when the city council was governed by a new left-wing party for which reducing health inequalities was a priority that Urban HEART could be used. A provisional matrix was developed, including both health and health determinant indicators, which allowed to show how some neighbourhoods in the city systematically fare worse for most of the indicators while others systematically fare better. It also allowed to identify 18 neighbourhoods-those which fared worse in most indicators-which were considered a priority for intervention, which entered the Health in the Barcelona Neighbourhoods programme and the Neighbourhoods Plan. This provisional version was reviewed and improved by the Urban HEART Barcelona Working Group. Technicians with experience in public health and/or in indicator and database management were asked to indicate suitability and relevance from a list of potential indicators. The definitive Urban HEART Barcelona version included 15 indicators from the five Urban HEART domains and improved the previous version in several requirements. Several barriers were encountered, such as having to estimate indicators in scarcely populated areas or finding adequate

  5. Trabajo sexual en Barcelona. Sobre la gestión municipal del espacio público

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    Julieta Vartabedian

    2011-02-01

    Full Text Available In this paper, the author will reflect on the management of public spaces in Barcelona through the case of sex work. The different ways that the Barcelona City Council has promoted the control and restriction of the free exercise of street sex work will be discussed. Recognising that the spaces are not fully accessible to everyone, the model of "civility" that Barcelona plans to implement will be explained. As a result of former zoning practices, there is a political will to make this activity "invisible", which perpetuates the vulnerability of sex workers themselves. En este artículo la autora reflexionará sobre la gestión del espacio público en Barcelona a través del caso del trabajo sexual. Se analizarán las distintas modalidades que el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona ha promovido para, en definitiva, controlar y restringir el libre ejercicio del trabajo sexual callejero. Partiendo del reconocimiento que los espacios no son plenamente accesibles para todas y todos, se explicará el modelo de “civismo” que Barcelona pretende implementar. Mediante antiguas prácticas de zonificación, se observa una voluntad política de invisibilizar esta actividad al mismo tiempo que se perpetúa la vulnerabilidad de las propias trabajadoras.Download this paper from SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1953623

  6. Os sentidos da formação acadêmica e do trabalho para estudantes de mestrados no Brasil e na Espanha

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    Figuera Gazo, Pilar; Raitz, Tânia Regina; Llanes Ordóñez, Juan

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    Este texto analisa os sentidos da formação acadêmica e do trabalho para estudantes dos mestrados na área da Educação – Brasil e Espanha. Esta representação está atualmente marcada por instabilidades que se configuram como turbulência, flexibilidade e impermanência nas trajetórias estudantis e laborais, isto não quer dizer que o trabalho não seja uma esfera importante na vida dos indivíduos, mas ganha novas dimensões. É visível a própria diversidade que caracteriza o mercado de trabalho atualm...

  7. Online network organization of Barcelona en Comú, an emergent movement-party.

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    Aragón, Pablo; Gallego, Helena; Laniado, David; Volkovich, Yana; Kaltenbrunner, Andreas

    2017-01-01

    The emerging grassroots party Barcelona en Comú won the 2015 Barcelona City Council election. This candidacy was devised by activists involved in the Spanish 15M movement to transform citizen outrage into political change. On the one hand, the 15M movement was based on a decentralized structure. On the other hand, political science literature postulates that parties develop oligarchical leadership structures. This tension motivates to examine whether Barcelona en Comú preserved a decentralized structure or adopted a conventional centralized organization. In this study we develop a computational methodology to characterize the online network organization of every party in the election campaign on Twitter. Results on the network of retweets reveal that, while traditional parties are organized in a single cluster, for Barcelona en Comú two well-defined groups co-exist: a centralized cluster led by the candidate and party accounts, and a decentralized cluster with the movement activists. Furthermore, results on the network of replies also shows a dual structure: a cluster around the candidate receiving the largest attention from other parties, and another with the movement activists exhibiting a higher predisposition to dialogue with other parties.

  8. Barcelona - Talent Latent 09 / Ahto Sooaru

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    2010-01-01

    Fotonäitusest "Talent Latent 09" Barcelonas Arts Santa Monica kunstikeskuses. Loetletud näitusel eksponeeritud fotode autorid. Pikemalt Rafael Milach'i (sünd. 1978), Lucia Ganieva, Javier Marquerie Thomas'i (sünd. 1986), Amaury da Cunha (sünd. 1976) töödest. Lühidalt ka teistest näitustest Arts Santa Monica kunstikeskuses

  9. Ildefonso Cerdà and the development of gas in Barcelona

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    Arroyo Huguet, Mercedes

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    Este artículo explica las hasta ahora escasamente conocidas actuaciones del Ingeniero de Caminos Ildefonso Cerdà en la instalación del gas en Barcelona. Desde su puesto como concejal primero y como síndico más tarde en el ayuntamiento de Barcelona y por su amistad con el promotor francés Charles Lebon, Cerdà tuvo oportunidad de marcar algunas políticas administrativas tendentes a evitar el monopolio sobre un proceso unitario de producción, distribución y consumo de un artículo, el gas, que p...

  10. Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality in Barcelona: 1992–2003

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    Pasarín M Isabel

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available Abstract Background The objective of this study was to assess trends in cancer mortality by educational level in Barcelona from 1992 to 2003. Methods The study population comprised Barcelona inhabitants aged 20 years or older. Data on cancer deaths were supplied by the system of information on mortality. Educational level was obtained from the municipal census. Age-standardized rates by educational level were calculated. We also fitted Poisson regression models to estimate the relative index of inequality (RII and the Slope Index of Inequalities (SII. All were calculated for each sex and period (1992–1994, 1995–1997, 1998–2000, and 2001–2003. Results Cancer mortality was higher in men and women with lower educational level throughout the study period. Less-schooled men had higher mortality by stomach, mouth and pharynx, oesophagus, larynx and lung cancer. In women, there were educational inequalities for cervix uteri, liver and colon cancer. Inequalities of overall and specific types of cancer mortality remained stable in Barcelona; although a slight reduction was observed for some cancers. Conclusion This study has identified those cancer types presenting the greatest inequalities between men and women in recent years and shown that in Barcelona there is a stable trend in inequalities in the burden of cancer.

  11. Relatório de Estágio em La Casa Amarilla (Barcelona)

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    Serrazina, Catarina Lopes

    2013-01-01

    Relatório de Estágio apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Práticas Culturais para Municípios Este relatório procura apresentar os resultados das 570 horas de estágio em La Casa Amarilla e lançar uma base de reflexão acerca da pertinência que entidades como aquela que acolheu o estágio possuem nas cidades que as albergam. La Casa Amarilla é uma associação cultural sem fins lucrativos, com estatuto de organização não governamental, sediada e...

  12. [A prospective study of drug-facilitated sexual assault in Barcelona].

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    Xifró-Collsamata, Alexandre; Pujol-Robinat, Amadeo; Barbería-Marcalain, Eneko; Arroyo-Fernández, Amparo; Bertomeu-Ruiz, Antonia; Montero-Núñez, Francisco; Medallo-Muñiz, Jordi

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    To determine the frequency and characteristics of suspected drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) among the victims of sexual assault in Barcelona. Prospective study of every adult consulting an emergency service because of alleged sexual assault and receiving forensic assessment in the city of Barcelona in 2011. A total of 35 of 114 cases (30.7%) met suspected DFSA criteria. Compared with the other victims, suspected DFSA cases were more likely to experience amnesia, to have been assaulted by night, after a social situation and by a recently acquainted man, to have used alcohol before the assault and to be foreigners. In this group ethanol was detected in blood or urine in 48.4% of analyzed cases; their mean back calculated blood alcohol concentration was 2.29g/l (SD 0.685). Also, at least one central nervous system drug other than ethanol was detected in 60,6%, mainly stimulant drugs of abuse. Suspected DFSA is frequent among victims of alleged sexual assault in Barcelona nowadays. The depressor substance most commonly encountered is alcohol, which contributes to victims' vulnerability. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

  13. Estabilidade constitucional e acordos constitucionais: os processos constituintes de Brasil (1987-1988 e Espanha (1977-1978 Constitutional stability and constitutional agreements: the constituent process of Brazil (1987-1988 and Spain (1977-1978

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    Antonio Gomes Moreira Maués

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available O artigo analisa os acordos que formaram as maiorias nas assembléias constituintes de Brasil (1987-1988 e Espanha (1977-1978, buscando indentificar sua contribuição para a estabilidade constitucional dos dois países. O estudo foi desenvolvido em três níveis: estudo das normas regimentais das assembléias constituintes; tabulação das votações que aprovaram dispositivos constitucionais; e análise dos debates constitucionais, na qual foram identificados três processos de formação de maiorias, concessões mútuas, não-decisão e maioria aritmética. O trabalho demonstra que o uso de concessões mútuas e da não-decisão na constituinte favorece o processo de construção do consenso em torno da constituição, contribuindo para sua estabilidade.The article analyses the agreements which formed the majorities in the constituent assemblies of Brazil (1987-1988 and Spain (1977-1978, trying to identify its contribution to the constitutional stability in both countries. This analysis is developed through three steps: study of the rules that governed the constituent assemblies; organization of data about the votings which approved constitutional provisions; and analysis of the constitutional debates, in which three process of majority formation have been identified, mutual concessions; no-decision and arithmetical majority. The work shows that the use of mutual concessions and no-decision in the constituent assembly promotes the process of consensus building regarding the constitution, contributing to its stability.

  14. Cervantes, el Quijote y Barcelona. (Hipótesis de una estancia barcelonesa de Cervantes en 1571

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    Carme Riera

    2005-12-01

    Full Text Available The paper "Cervantes, the Quixot and Barcelona (Hypotesis of Cervantes' stage in Barcelona in 1571" tries to establish the possibility of Cervantes visit in Barcelona in 1571 with the soldiers of Miguel de Moneada when they were leaving for Lepanto. Theses remambrances (the feast of San Juan, the arrival of Sir Juan of Austria to the city would help him to readress his book, by making his hero visit Catalonia. This would happen in the summer of 1614, after reading Avellaneda.

  15. Nature-based solutions for urban landscapes under post-industrialization and globalization: Barcelona versus Shanghai.

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    Fan, Peilei; Ouyang, Zutao; Basnou, Corina; Pino, Joan; Park, Hogeun; Chen, Jiquan

    2017-07-01

    Using Barcelona and Shanghai as case studies, we examined the nature-based solutions (NBS) in urban settings-specifically within cities experiencing post-industrialization and globalization. Our specific research questions are: (1) What are the spatiotemporal changes in urban built-up land and green space in Barcelona and Shanghai? (2) What are the relationships between economic development, exemplified by post-industrialization, globalization, and urban green space? Urban land use and green space change were evaluated using data derived from a variety of sources, including satellite images, landscape matrix indicators, and a land conversion matrix. The relationships between economic development, globalization, and environmental quality were analyzed through partial least squares structural equation modeling based on secondary statistical data. Both Barcelona and Shanghai have undergone rapid urbanization, with urban expansion in Barcelona beginning in the 1960s-1970s and in Shanghai in the last decade. While Barcelona's urban green space and green space per capita began declining between the 1950s and 1990s, they increased slightly over the past two decades. Shanghai, however, has consistently and significantly improved urban green space and green space per capita over the past six decades, especially since the economic reform in 1978. Economic development has a direct and significant influence on urban green space for both cities and post-industrialization had served as the main driving force for urban landscape change in Barcelona and Shanghai. Based on secondary statistical and qualitative data from on-site observations and interviews with local experts, we highlighted the institution's role in NBS planning. Furthermore, aspiration to become a global or globalizing city motivated both cities to use NBS planning as a place-making tool to attract global investment, which is reflected in various governing policies and regulations. The cities' effort to achieve a

  16. Los Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona, 25 años después (3

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    Francesc Solanellas Donato

    2017-09-01

    Full Text Available Uno de los ejes básicos de la organización de unos juegos olímpicos son sus instalaciones deportivas. Desde esta perspectiva se analizan la inversión, la gestión y el impacto que estas han tenido en la ciudad de Barcelona. Las instalaciones olímpicas de Barcelona 1992 no se situaron únicamente en la ciudad ni todas ellas fueron explotadas en base al mismo deporte que albergaron. Uno de los éxitos de Barcelona fue dimensionar la inversión de acuerdo con las necesidades reales de la ciudad. También en materia de instalaciones deportivas se cumplió este principio. En este tercer artículo se aportan datos económicos, información sobre la construcción y posterior gestión de las instalaciones deportivas y su impacto en el incremento de la práctica deportiva de la ciudadanía de Barcelona.

  17. Bioaerosols in the Barcelona subway system.

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    Triadó-Margarit, X; Veillette, M; Duchaine, C; Talbot, M; Amato, F; Minguillón, M C; Martins, V; de Miguel, E; Casamayor, E O; Moreno, T

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    Subway systems worldwide transport more than 100 million people daily; therefore, air quality on station platforms and inside trains is an important urban air pollution issue. We examined the microbiological composition and abundance in space and time of bioaerosols collected in the Barcelona subway system during a cold period. Quantitative PCR was used to quantify total bacteria, Aspergillus fumigatus, influenza A and B, and rhinoviruses. Multitag 454 pyrosequencing of the 16S rRNA gene was used to assess bacterial community composition and biodiversity. The results showed low bioaerosol concentrations regarding the targeted microorganisms, although the bacterial bioburden was rather high (10 4 bacteria/m 3 ). Airborne bacterial communities presented a high degree of overlap among the different subway environments sampled (inside trains, platforms, and lobbies) and were dominated by a few widespread taxa, with Methylobacterium being the most abundant genus. Human-related microbiota in sequence dataset and ascribed to potentially pathogenic bacteria were found in low proportion (maximum values below 2% of sequence readings) and evenly detected. Hence, no important biological exposure marker was detected in any of the sampled environments. Overall, we found that commuters are not the main source of bioaerosols in the Barcelona subway system. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

  18. Jean Nouveli supermodernism Barcelonas / Raili Seppänen

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    2005-01-01

    2005. a. suvel valmivast prantsuse arhitekti Jean Nouveli (sünd. 1945) projekteeritud tornmajast Torre Agbar Barcelonas Avinguda Diagonal 209-211. Abiks hispaania arhitekt Fermin Vazquez arhitektibüroost b720 Arquitectura S.L. Jean Nouveli tuntud projekte. Ill.: J. Nouveli portreefoto, tornmaja välisvaade

  19. HISTORIC CENTRE(S OF BARCELONA: PRACTICAL AND SYMBOLIC ELEMENTS IN TRADITIONAL URBAN SPACE

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    Verónica Martínez Robles

    2007-09-01

    The model of compact city that Barcelona aims, has required the renewal of its historical areas, and in order to improve their level of centrality, taking into account, that in addition of its historical centre “Ciutat Vella”, Barcelona contains diverse traditional neighborhoods each of them having their own historical centre. The difference centre‐periphery should also be perceived among these other historical centers. Integration should not be confused with standardization, neither differentiation with segregation.

  20. Autoridad e imagen de la epidemia. La fiebre amarillean la Barcelona del siglo XIX

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    José Antonio Ortiz García

    2017-12-01

    Full Text Available El propósito de este estudio es acercarse al contexto epidémico de Barcelona a lo largo del siglo XIX. De forma concreta, la investigación se centra en la fiebre amarilla sufrida en los años 1821 y 1870. El amplio abanico de referencias propone una mirada interdisciplinar sobre la medicina y las enfermedades en su marco histórico, artístico, social y religioso. ¿Qué reacción tuvieron los poderes municipales?, ¿Qué tipologías artísticas se desarrollaron durante y tras la infección deletérea en Barcelona? The aim of this study is an approach to the epidemic background in Barcelona during the XIX century. Specifically, the research is focus on the yellow fever that was suffered en 1821 and 1870. e large spectrum of references proposes an interdisciplinary point of view about medicine and illnesses in an historic, artistic, social and religious context. How was the official reaction of the municipal powers? What kind of artistic productions were made during and after de epidemic infection in Barcelona?

  1. La restauración de la iglesia de Sant Quirze de Pedret (Barcelona, España

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    González Moreno-Navarro, Antoni

    1996-10-01

    Full Text Available Sant Quirze de Pedret is a small church built on late first millennium of our era. It belongs to the Town Council of Berga (province of Barcelona. Its Romanesque and pre- Romanesque paintings, found in 1922 and 1937 and kept in Barcelona and Solsona, enjoy international recognition. However, the first restoration carried out by the province county council of Barcelona (1959-1964 evidenced the successive phases of construction, and the evolution of its masonry is often subject to polemics. Twenty five years later a new restoration was needed. To complete the reconstruction initiated in 1959 and after thorough historical studies, mural paintings (originals and reproductions are once again decorating its walls.

    Sant Quirze de Pedret es una pequeña iglesia de finales del primer milenio propiedad del ayuntamiento de Berga (provincia de Barcelona. Es conocida internacional mente por las pinturas románicas y prerrománicas halladas en 1922 y 1937, conservadas en Barcelona y Sobona. La evolución de su fábrica ha sido, a menudo, origen de polémica. La primera restauración realizada por la Diputación de Barcelona (1959-1964, sin embargo, evidenció las sucesivas fases de construcción. Transcurridos 25 años fue necesaria una nueva restauración, también a cargo de la Diputación. Se completaron los estudios históricos y la reconstrucción formal iniciada en 1959 y las pinturas murales (originales o reproducidas han vuelto a decorar los muros.

  2. Air quality in schools and children's exposure to particulate pollution in Barcelona

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    L'exposició als contaminants atmosfèrics s'ha relacionat amb efectes negatius a la salut i els infants constitueixen un subgrup de la població particularment vulnerable. Es determinà la qualitat de l'aire a l'interior i exterior de 39 escoles de Barcelona i Sant Cugat del Vallès. El mateixos contaminants mesurats a les escoles també es monitoritzaren a una estació de fons urbà a Barcelona (UB-PR). Les concentracions de carboni negre equivalent (EBC), NO2 i partícules ultrafines (UFP) mostrare...

  3. A dualidade na inserção política, social e familiar do idoso: estudo comparado dos casos de Brasil, Espanha e Estados Unidos

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    Maria Inez Machado Telles Walter

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    Full Text Available Resumo: O artigo apresenta um estudo comparado da situação social, política, econômica e de saúde da população idosa do Brasil, Espanha e Estados Unidos. Foi feita uma discussão sobre o processo de mudança na estrutura de idades a partir da literatura dos três países. As análises de dados confirmaram as melhorias nas condições de vida do idoso e as mudanças em sua inserção social e em posições morais e políticas. Indicaram também que não há semelhanças ou diferenças entre os países que possam ser atribuídas à sua condição econômica ou à tradição cultural. A dualidade expressa uma transição nesse segmento, tradicionalmente visto negativamente e, hoje, considerado também como apoio econômico e familiar. Espera-se que se consolide a tendência de privilegiar o papel social positivo do idoso pela naturalização do envelhecimento e o estabelecimento de referências analíticas na própria velhice.Abstract: The paper presents a comparative study of social, political, economical, and health situation of aged population of Brazil, Spain, and United States. A discussion was made about changing process in age structure base don literature of the three countries. Data analysis confirmed improvements in aged people life conditions, and changing on social insertion and political and moral attitudes. Data indicated also that there are no similarities or differences among the countries which can be attributed to economic conditions, nor to cultural traditions. The duality expresses a transition in this segment, traditionally viewed in a negative way and, nowadays, also considered as economic and familiar support. The perspectives are that the aged people positive social role will be emphasized by naturalization of aging and by establishing de analytic references on aging itself.

  4. New mediterranean elements in contemporary housing. The case of Barcelona

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    Vincenzo Paolo Bagnato

    2012-10-01

    Full Text Available In the face of increasing and differentiating the low-cost housing demand and the trend of establishing new paradigms in the contemporary housing design, the architectural investigation has replaced into its disciplinary statement the topic of housing as central question in research and design experimentation. The city of Barcelona has codified in the last years innovative modalities of public management in social housing, offering interesting points of reflection on the idea of housing and of Mediterranean quality in urban, architectural and constructive terms. The paper proposes a key to the reading on the recent experiences of social housing in Barcelona illustrating the different forms through which architecture interprets the relationship between housing and public space, between innovation and constructive tradition.

  5. Paralympics--Barcelona 1992.

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    Reynolds, J; Stirk, A; Thomas, A; Geary, F

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    The British Team at the 9th Paralympic Games in September 1992 in Barcelona comprised 151 men and 54 women athletes in a total of 15 sports. They were supported by a staff of 86 including a 12-strong medical team. The athletes were selected from the National Championships of the five disability organizations: British Wheelchair Sports Federation; British Blind Sport; Cerebral Palsy Sport; British Amputee Sports Association; and the British Les Autres Sports Association. This article outlines the organization and experience of the medical support team. The injury/illness profile was similar to those in able bodied sport. The team went on to achieve 40 gold, 47 silver and 41 bronze medals, maintaining third place on the medal table as achieved in Seoul in 1988. Images Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 PMID:8044485

  6. ELIAS MACHADO DISCUTE A FORMAÇÃO DO DOCENTE E DO ESTUDANTE DE JORNALISMO NA CONTEMPORANEIDADE

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    Marco Antônio Gehlen

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    Full Text Available Doutor em Jornalismo pela Universidade Autônoma de Barcelona (Espanha, professor da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina(UFSC e coordenador do Laboratório de Pesquisa Aplicada em Jornalismo Digital, o jornalista Elias Machado é uma referência nacional quando o assunto é o ensino de Jornalismo. Consultor Ad Hoc (CAPES, (CNPq, (SBPJOR, (COMPÓS, (INTERCOM e (FNPJ, Machado tem vasta experiência nas áreas de Teorias do Jornalismo, Metodologias de Pesquisa, Jornalismo Digital e Impresso.  Nesta entrevista, ele discute a deficiências da educação na área em faculdades públicas e privadas e alerta: "Temos que garantir que o aluno fique menos tempo em sala de aula. Nós temos que racionalizar e integrar as disciplinas para que sobre mais tempo para pesquisa e extensão". Ele aproveita a conversa para debater, ainda, as implicações que as novas diretrizes do curso, discutidas e implementas em todas as universidades do país, podem acarretar à carreira, bem como os dilemas sobre prática e teoria, produção laboratorial e formação de professores, entre outras dicotomias que afligem quem trabalha com comunicação social, seja no mercado, na pesquisa ou na sala de aula. Além disso, Machado critica nesse espaço de reflexão, as pesquisas que fazem uma mera análise de dados e incentiva os estudos aplicados. " porque a crítica pela crítica não resolve o problema da demanda social". Assumidamente um pesquisador polêmico e provocador, justifica: "se eu estudei e me preparei foi para enfrentar os problemas. Não tem sentido eu chegar num lugar e dizer mais do mesmo, as pessoas não precisam ouvir mais do mesmo".

  7. Cosas de mujeres: familias monoparentales dominicanas en Barcelona y Nueva York Women’s issues: Dominican single-parent families in Barcelona and New York

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    Rosalina Alcalde

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    Full Text Available Numerosos estudios a escala internacional y española avalan en la actualidad el riesgo de pobreza que presentan los hogares monoparentales encabezados por mujeres en las sociedades contemporáneas desarrolladas. Este artículo recoge  algunos de los principales resultados de sendas investigaciones llevadas a cabo en las ciudades de Barcelona y Nueva York sobre la incidencia de estas formas de hogar entre las mujeres inmigrantes, focalizando el análisis en las mujeres dominicanas.Several international and Spanish studies have shown that one-parent families are at considerable risk of poverty in contemporary and developed societies, particularly when the mother is the head, which is usually the case. This paper  provides the main results of some research carried out in Barcelona and New York about one-parent families and immigrant women, with particular emphasis on Dominican women.

  8. La Cultura mediterránea en los Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona'92

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    Moragas Spà, Miquel de,

    1993-01-01

    En este artículo publicado en la revista INCOM, se describe y analiza la presencia de elementos mediterráneos en las ceremonias de los Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona'92. Dans cet article publié dans la revue INCOM, il est décrit et analyse la présence d'éléments méditerranéens dans les cérémonies des Jeux Olympiques de Barcelona'92.

  9. Modificações microclimáticas sob proteção de polipropileno cultivado com espécies hortícolas em Córdoba, Espanha Microclimatic modifications under polypropylene protection for horticultural crops in Córdoba, Spain

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    Rosana Fernandes Otto

    2000-11-01

    Full Text Available A cobertura de plantas com o material "não tecido" de polipropileno constitui uma das técnicas mais recentes utilizada para proteção de cultivos hortícolas. Dentro deste tema, foram conduzidos quatro experimentos na área experimental do "Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario", em Córdoba, Espanha. Avaliou-se a amplitude das modificações das temperaturas do ar e do solo, da radiação fotossinteticamente ativa e o conseqüente efeito sobre a produção de couve-chinesa, beterraba, espinafre e alface cultivados sob proteção do "não tecido" de polipropileno (PP e em ambiente natural (AN, durante a primavera, outono e inverno de 1995/1996. Utilizou-se delineamento experimental de blocos ao acaso com quatro repetições. As temperaturas do ar e do solo sob PP foram maiores que em AN na fase inicial de crescimento das espécies estudadas, com diferenças de até 5,5 e 2,2ºC para temperaturas do ar e do solo, respectivamente. Entretanto, com o crescimento das culturas, os valores de temperatura do tratamento PP tenderam a se igualar ao tratamento AN, tanto para temperatura do ar como do solo. Para couve chinesa e espinafre, a temperatura do ar sob PP foi até 3,1ºC menor que a observada em condições naturais depois da metade e final do ciclo, respectivamente. Para couve-chinesa, beterraba e espinafre cultivados sob PP, as modificações do microclima favoreceram a maior precocidade e produção quando comparadas às plantas cultivadas em AN. Entretanto, para a cultura da alface o aumento das temperaturas do ar e solo sob PP em relação a AN não resultou em aumento da produção final. Neste caso, os baixos níveis de radiação incidente sob o "não tecido" e o prolongado período de precipitação ocorrido durante os meses de inverno interferiram negativamente sobre o crescimento da espécie, sendo recomendado a retirada da proteção de plantas nesta condição climática.Plants cover with a nonwoven polypropylene protection

  10. Empresas familiares de inmigrantes en Barcelona y Montevideo

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    Paola Martínez Pérez

    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es observar las diferentes dimensiones que adquiere la familia en las empresas familiares de inmigrantes. En este caso, la propuesta metodológica es analizar, de forma comparativa, la realidad empresarial consolidada del colectivo gallego en Montevideo con las empresas familiares de inmigrantes de reciente creación en el área metropolitana en Barcelona.

  11. Bailando la diferencia: identidades culturales y música salsa en Barcelona

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    Isabel Llano Camacho

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available En el baile de la salsa hay muchos estilos. En Barcelona, el estilo cubano fue el primero en difundirse a inicios de 1990. Sin embargo, el estilo Los Ángeles comenzó a proliferar desde comienzos de 2000, a la vez que empezó a replicarse el modelo de los congresos de salsa a nivel mundial. La internacionalización del baile de la salsa coincidió con el boom de la inmigración latinoamericana en España, por lo que la emergencia de las primeras escuelas y compañías de baile de salsa dirigidas al público local, a principios del nuevo siglo, ocurrió paralelamente a la apertura de nuevas discotecas de salsa, merengue y bachata dirigidas a los residentes latinoamericanos. Dada la programación de salsa, realizada por las discotecas y salas de baile, sería posible dar por hecho que los latinoamericanos residentes en Barcelona y los autóctonos convergen en estos espacios, sin embargo, la realidad es otra. Considerando el concepto kinetopia, en este artículo aportamos un análisis sobre la oposición de “baile de escuela” y “baile callejero”, que explicaría la segmentación de los espacios de baile de la salsa en Barcelona, más allá de las diferencias culturales

  12. A IURD e suas estratégias litúrgicas na Europa: reflexões a partir de Roma, Madri e Barcelona

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    Marcos de Araújo Silva

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    Full Text Available Com base em pesquisas de campo, este trabalho analisa as estratégias litúrgicas da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (IURD nas cidades de Roma, Madri e Barcelona. O foco da análise se encontra nas formas como a instituição, em suas diversas atividades (que se definem como "curativas" e que prometem sanar qualquer tipo de problema - seja de ordem social, física ou espiritual, viabiliza a inteligibilidade de conceitos e práticas para grupos de fiéis que são compostos, majoritariamente, por imigrantes das mais diversas nacionalidades, e também por membros das sociedades locais. Os dados etnográficos sugerem que os sentidos terapêuticos e de eficácia simbólica que costumam ser atribuídos por tais grupos de fiéis às atividades da IURD devem-se, em especial, à capacidade desta instituição em dialogar com públicos heterogêneos (tanto em termos socioculturais, quanto de origens nacionais e de experiências religiosas prévias, porém que em diversos casos apresentam importantes semelhanças: concepções de sagrado que são vinculadas a elementos que provêm de crenças e ritos relacionados com esoterismo, xamanismo e "bricolagens religiosas individuais". As estratégias analisadas evidenciam não apenas a interculturalidade de uma igreja neopentecostal brasileira atuante na Europa, mas também a ocorrência de dinâmicas da esfera religiosa nesse continente, antes só exportador de instituições e doutrinas religiosas e hoje, também um território fértil para o trabalho missionário.

  13. Replacing car trips by increasing bike and public transport in the greater Barcelona metropolitan area: a health impact assessment study.

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    Rojas-Rueda, D; de Nazelle, A; Teixidó, O; Nieuwenhuijsen, M J

    2012-11-15

    Estimate the health risks and benefits of mode shifts from car to cycling and public transport in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, Spain. We conducted a health impact assessment (HIA), creating 8 different scenarios on the replacement of short and long car trips, by public transport or/and bike. The primary outcome measure was all-cause mortality and change in life expectancy related to two different assessments: A) the exposure of travellers to physical activity, air pollution to particulate matter car trips, starting and ending in Barcelona City, to cycling (n=141,690) would be for the travellers who shift modes 1.15 additional deaths from air pollution, 0.17 additional deaths from road traffic fatality and 67.46 deaths avoided from physical activity resulting in a total of 66.12 deaths avoided. Fewer deaths would be avoided annually if half of the replaced trips were shifted to public transport (43.76 deaths). The annual health impact in the Barcelona City general population (n=1,630,494) of the 40% reduction in car trips would be 10.03 deaths avoided due to the reduction of 0.64% in exposure to PM2.5. The deaths (including travellers and general population) avoided in Barcelona City therefore would be 76.15 annually. Further health benefits would be obtained with a shift of 40% of the car trips from the Greater Barcelona Metropolitan which either start or end in Barcelona City to public transport (40.15 deaths avoided) or public transport and cycling (98.50 deaths avoided).The carbon dioxide reduction for shifting from car to other modes of transport (bike and public transport) in Barcelona metropolitan area was estimated to be 203,251t/CO₂ emissions per year. Interventions to reduce car use and increase cycling and the use of public transport in metropolitan areas, like Barcelona, can produce health benefits for travellers and for the general population of the city. Also these interventions help to reduce green house gas emissions. Copyright © 2012

  14. Performing Home in Barcelona: A Practice-Based Photo Essay

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    During the winter of 2016, I carried out an artistic project in Barcelona entitled 'Performing Home' that aimed to explore the affective and social challenges that artists in political asylum or refuge cope with. The project began with a simple question: "where in public spaces do artists in asylum feel 'at home'?" It explored how public…

  15. Climate change, income and happiness: An empirical study for Barcelona

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    Sekulova, F.; van den Bergh, J.C.J.M.

    2013-01-01

    The present article builds upon the results of an empirical study exploring key factors which determine life satisfaction in Barcelona. Based on a sample of 840 individuals we first look at the way changes in income, notably income reductions, associated with the current economic situation in Spain,

  16. Commuters’ valuation of travel time variability in Barcelona

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    2007-01-01

    The value given by commuters to the variability of travel times is empirically analysed using stated preference data from Barcelona (Spain). Respondents are asked to choose between alternatives that differ in terms of cost, average travel time, variability of travel times and departure time. Different specifications of a scheduling choice model are used to measure the influence of various socioeconomic characteristics. Our results show that travel time variability.

  17. Análisis de la prestación de servicios a inmigrantes en la red Bibliotecas de Barcelona

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    Cervantes-Martínez, Luisa

    2015-09-01

    Full Text Available The aim of this paper is to analyze the quality of library service provision to immigrants in the Bibliotecas de Barcelona network using as a reference IFLA’s Multicultural Communities: Guidelines for Library Services. By adopting these guidelines, public libraries can become environments capable of facilitating social cohesion, knowledge and cultural exchange, as well as interaction between users from different cultures. To carry out this study, several information sources were reviewed and two library managers from the Barcelona Library Consortium were interviewed. The results show a high level of compliance with the Guidelines by the Bibliotecas de Barcelona network. The possible implications of these results are discussed in relation to the role of public libraries as spaces of interaction and cultural exchange.El objetivo de este artículo es analizar la calidad de la prestación de servicios bibliotecarios a inmigrantes en la red Bibliotecas de Barcelona utilizando como referencia el documento Comunidades Multiculturales: Directrices para el Servicio Bibliotecario, elaborado por la International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA. La adopción de estas Directrices convierte a las bibliotecas públicas en entornos que pueden facilitar la cohesión social, el conocimiento e intercambio cultural y la interacción entre usuarios de distintas culturas. Para llevar a cabo este estudio se han revisado distintas fuentes de información y se ha entrevistado a dos responsables del Consorcio de Bibliotecas de Barcelona. Los resultados obtenidos evidencian la existencia de un alto nivel de cumplimiento de las Directrices en la red Bibliotecas de Barcelona. Se discuten las posibles implicaciones de estos resultados en relación con el papel de las bibliotecas públicas como espacios de interacción e intercambio cultural.

  18. Public Space in Barcelona (1992-2017) - Evolution and Case Studies

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    Sanfeliu Arboix, Ignacio; Martín, Estefanía

    2017-10-01

    The construction of the public space has become in the last decades something so important and fundamental in the architecture of the cities, that requires a specific discipline and a concrete study that evaluates the characteristics and actions on it. Not already from an urbanistic perspective but from its own design and constructive perspective, with its character as a place for everyone and for everything, must gather a series of elements that are unique to this space. Barcelona is one of the densest cities in the world that, since the end of the s. XX until our days, tries to solve the public space with a design of quality and optimum. The shortage of public space, which also hosts more than eight million tourists each year, makes it necessary to propose a type of meticulous intervention in order to accommodate all types of users and activities. From the first Universal Exhibition of 1888 through 1929 to the 1992 Olympics as the most important stimulus for this renewal of urban space, Barcelona has been rethinking and evolving in the modus operandi in terms of its urban space. From our professional experience as architects both in the municipal, private and university spheres, we believe that it is our responsibility to confer the public space, that is to say, the design of the urban infrastructure with the attributes necessary to consolidate it in a space Suitable for all without exception and as a place of expression of citizenship. Through the projects of public space developed in our office we will analyze this change of procedure in the construction of squares, parks and other spaces in the city of Barcelona.

  19. Tourism Planning and Tourismphobia: An Analysis of the Strategic Tourism Plan of Barcelona 2010-2015

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    Marco Martins

    2018-05-01

    Full Text Available The exponential growth of tourism has brought new challenges to destinations; how to plan themselves to avoid overtourism and this new form of intolerance, the so-called tourismphobia. In order to address the negative impacts of tourism and enhance the positive ones Barcelona has developed and implemented a strategic tourism plan. This paper seeks to understand how Barcelona addressed the tourismphobia problematic through planning: how it was done and which results were achieved in the end. This research reveals a clear gap between the planner’s intention and the plan’s implementation.

  20. Study of the radioactive contents in Barcelona's water supply during 1986

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    Ortega, X.; Valles, I.

    1988-01-01

    Throughout 1986 several determinations were carried out of the contents in α and β radioactivity transmitters of different samples of the Barcelona water supply. It could be verified that beta radioactivity was ten times higher in the waters collected in the basin of Llobregat river than water from Ter river. Both rivers are the main sources of Barcelona supply. The reason for this unbalanced result is the high potassic content of the first river, coming from the mining exploitation of the basin. On the other hand, the contamination that could be measured in May, due to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, showed that the supply system from Llobregat river was more sensitive to the incorporation of contaminants carried down by the rain, whereas in the case of Ter river, owing to the presence of impounding regulation, a higher retention time of these waters was obtained. (author)

  1. Assessment of environmental impact of commercial wine yeast in vineyard ecosystems

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    Valero, Eva; Schuller, Dorit Elisabeth; Cambon, Brigitte; Casal, Margarida; Dequin, Sylvie

    2005-01-01

    Poster e resumo apresentados no congresso "Intrafood 2005 - Innovations in traditional foods", em Valencia, Espanha, em 2005. Modern winemaking practices and diversification of wine products involve an increasing quest for specialised wine yeasts. During the last two decades considerable efforts have been made to improve wine yeast strains through the use of new biotechnologies. In the present study we used commercial wine yeast currently used in wineries as a model to assess the potential...

  2. Reinterpretando la ciudad: la cultura skater y las calles de Barcelona

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    Xavi Camino

    2008-03-01

    Full Text Available En este artículo analizamos el desarrollo de la práctica del skateboarding por las calles de Barcelona como un ejemplo de apropiación informal del espacio urbano que deja ver claramente las contradicciones que se generan en la producción del espacio de la ciudad. Para ello, partiremos de los datos extraídos de un trabajo de campo realizado entre los años 2003 y 2007, mediante métodos tradicionales de la antropología como son la observación participante y las entrevistas en profundidad. Después de explicar la situación actual y la perspectiva teórica que hemos adoptado, nos adentramos en el estudio cultural de esta experiencia urbana, desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad. Seguidamente describimos cómo se desarrolla el fenómeno cultural en Barcelona, atendiendo la dialéctica generada entre el ayuntamiento, los skaters y otros usuarios de la ciudad. A continuación, siguiendo cronológicamente los procesos, damos cuenta de cómo la proliferación de un diseño del espacio urbano que internacionaliza la imagen de la ciudad de Barcelona, a finales de los 90, favorece también su reconocimiento internacional como un lugar idóneo para la práctica del skateboarding. Finalmente, valoraremos el papel que juegan los skateparks –las instalaciones adecuadas– ante el desarrollo del skateboarding por las calles.

  3. Return period curves for extreme 5-min rainfall amounts at the Barcelona urban network

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    Lana, X.; Casas-Castillo, M. C.; Serra, C.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Redaño, A.; Burgueño, A.; Martínez, M. D.

    2018-03-01

    Heavy rainfall episodes are relatively common in the conurbation of Barcelona and neighbouring cities (NE Spain), usually due to storms generated by convective phenomena in summer and eastern and south-eastern advections in autumn. Prevention of local flood episodes and right design of urban drainage have to take into account the rainfall intensity spread instead of a simple evaluation of daily rainfall amounts. The database comes from 5-min rain amounts recorded by tipping buckets in the Barcelona urban network along the years 1994-2009. From these data, extreme 5-min rain amounts are selected applying the peaks-over-threshold method for thresholds derived from both 95% percentile and the mean excess plot. The return period curves are derived from their statistical distribution for every gauge, describing with detail expected extreme 5-min rain amounts across the urban network. These curves are compared with those derived from annual extreme time series. In this way, areas in Barcelona submitted to different levels of flood risk from the point of view of rainfall intensity are detected. Additionally, global time trends on extreme 5-min rain amounts are quantified for the whole network and found as not statistically significant.

  4. HAS IMPLEMENTING AN ECOLABEL INCREASED SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN BARCELONA?

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    Rocío Arenado Rodríguez

    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo principal de este estudio es detectar si la implementación de una eco etiqueta en destinos turísticos con un modelo SDM, incrementa su sostenibilidad. Para dicha investigación, se han puesto en práctica tres medidas en Barcelona: (1 entrevistas con agentes locales clave (DMOs, para comprobar su aceptación e implicación en el proyecto de certificación; (2 la puesta en práctica de dos acciones relevantes para el estudio: (a contrastar los criterios de la eco etiqueta objeto de estudio con los criterios del GSTC (2016, (b comprobar si la eco etiqueta se adecua al estudio de Font (2001 sobre las mismas. Por último, como tercera medida (3, se plantea una discusión para conocer si los medios de comunicación y la población local perciben la ciudad como turísticamente sostenible. Los resultados establecen que tanto Barcelona Tourism Board como los agentes claves muestran preocupación, interés y compromiso frente a la sostenibilidad turística. Y respecto a la ecoetiqueta, puede comprobarse que es fiable, pues se adapta a las exigencias tanto del modelo de Font (2001 como a los criterios del GSTC. Sin embargo, la población local muestra una clara insatisfacción y malestar con el volumen de turistas que visita a la ciudad. Esta parece no entender de etiquetas, pero sí de impactos negativos del turismo en sus vidas. La principal limitación del estudio es que solo ha sido analizado el caso de Barcelona. Mientras que su contribución más interesante es la puesta en práctica de conceptos ampliamente aceptados, pero que por lo general se estudian más de forma teórica que sobre los destinos turísticos.

  5. Frankova éra ve Španělsku ze zorného úhlu El Clásica: FC Barcelona proti Realu Madrid

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    Vakulenko, Darya

    2013-01-01

    Master's thesis "Franco years in Spain through El Clásico: FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid" explores the football rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona teams during the franquismo. The theme of Real Madrid, understood as a team supported and promoted by the Spanish regime is prevailing throughout the paper. Another part describes deep cultural symbolism of FC Barcelona in Catalonian region. The last part unites those two subjects by explaining how their rivalry or El Clásico games, were more...

  6. Edificio en La Plaza Lesseps de Fernando Lesseps – Barcelona

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    Danés, Albert

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    Full Text Available This interesting example of urban architecture is situated in Barcelona, facing two streets of different widths, for which reasons the number of floors on the two sides is also different. The basements are reserved for parking space. Further the building comprises commercial ground floors with very attractive shopping arcades; a mezzanine commercial floor as well and the top floors, that are intended for housings. Pleasant exterior with solid colours. The work has been achieved thanks to the valuable contribution of Lluciá Navarro i Rodón.Esta interesante muestra de la arquitectura urbana está emplazada en Barcelona, con fachadas a dos calles de anchura diferente, por lo que el número de plantas es también distinto. Sótanos destinados a estacionamiento de vehículos. Plantas bajas comerciales, con galerías de paso muy atractivas. Entresuelo, también comercial, y plantas altas de viviendas variadas. Tratamiento exterior atrayente, a base de colores sólidos y sistema esgrafiado, contando con la valiosa colaboración de Lluciá Navarro i Rodón.

  7. 2015 Barcelona Asteroid Day

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    Gritsevich, Maria; Palme, Herbert

    2017-01-01

    This volume is a compilation of the research presented at the International Asteroid Day workshop which was celebrated at Barcelona on June 30th, 2015. The proceedings discuss the beginning of a new era in the study and exploration of the solar system’s minor bodies. International Asteroid Day commemorates the Tunguska event of June 30th, 1908. The workshop’s goal was to promote the importance of dealing proactively with impact hazards from space. Multidisciplinary experts contributed to this discussion by describing the nature of comets and asteroids along with their offspring, meteoroids. New missions to return material samples of asteroids back to Earth such as Osiris-REx and Hayabusa 2, as well as projects like AIM and DART which will test impact deflection techniques for Potentially Hazardous Asteroids encounters were also covered. The proceedings include both an outreach level to popularize impact hazards and a scientific character which covers the latest knowledge on these topics, as well as offeri...

  8. Indicadores ibero-americanos de atividade científica em bioprospecçãoIndicators of scientific activity in bioprospecting in the ibero-american geopolitical region

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    Ricardo Arcanjo de Lima

    2008-08-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo visa fornecer uma visão global da atividade científica ibero-americana (América Latina + Espanha e Portugal em bioprospecção, através de indicadores bibliométricos unidimensionais a partir de documentos científicos indexados na base de dados multidisciplinar Science Citation Index (SCI. Por se tratar de uma área de pesquisa interdisciplinar, a bioprospecção é um objeto de estudo particularmente interessante para análise bibliométrica e pode ilustrar procedimentos metodológicos inovadores. Os resultados obtidos indicam que a despeito da existência de 7 países megadiversos nesta região geopolítica, a atividade científica em bioprospecção se encontra bastante concentrada no Brasil e na Espanha, refletindo, de certo modo, a fragilidade acadêmica dos outros países da região. Isso indica a necessidade de discutir e formular políticas claras, eficientes e sustentáveis dirigidas à bioprospecção, incluindo a administração da biodiversidade. Abstract This article provides a picture of scientific activity in bioprospecting in the Ibero-American geo-political region (Latin America + Spain + Portugal, on the basis of information collected in the Science Citation Index database. Bioprospecting is a particularly interesting field for bibliometric analysis because it is interdisciplinary and requires the development of innovative methodological procedures. The findings reveal that despite the presence of 7 mega-diverse countries in the region, Brazil and Spain concentrate most of the scientific production. This probably indicates the academic weakness in bioprospecting of the other Latin American countries. The results point out to the need of the countries in the region to discuss and design policy instruments to foster local capabilities in research of bioprospecting activities, including the management of their biodiversity resources.

  9. Los cambios del comercio étnico en los suburbios de Barcelona (2004-2011

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    Jordi Nofre

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    Full Text Available CHANGES IN THE ETHNIC RETAIL TRADE IN THE SUBURBS OF BARCELONA (2004-2011. A DEBATE ABOUT PROCESSES OF ETHNOGENTRIFICATION. This paper aims to explore an early process of ethnogentrification, previously reported by the local media, in a working-class suburban district of Barcelona. Following a brief description of the research carried out in 2004 (published in 2006 on the urban and social changes in this study area, this paper presents a comparative analysis between the continuities and changes on ‘retailscape’ in the period of 2004 to 2011, by updating its ethnic-retail cartography. Comparative results will allow to opening up a debate about some lexical abuses on the use of the term ‘ethno-gentrification’ in the specific context of Mediterranean cities.

  10. Patrimonios incómodos para la imagen que Barcelona ofrece al mundo

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    Reventós Gil de Biedma, Ana

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    Full Text Available Barcelona is today a city of reference within the world’s tourist map. Created as a process of both an economic evolution towards the third sector as well as a powerful brand image, from the Olympics up to nowadays. Within this scene, Culture and Arts have been pushed at the center of the strategy, building a “cultural spectacle” aimed to differentiate the city’s offer in the market. Furthermore, some specific icons oriented to give it a Catalan, Cosmopolitan and Modern identity are promoted, adding also new symbolic values such as diversity, tolerance or Mediterranean character. Meaning that some range of cultural heritages should be reinforced while others are put aside or even hidden. Barcelona appears then as the result of a perfectly drawn political strategic planning, under the appearance of social consensus and citizens’ involvement

  11. Recerca i ensenyament agronòmic a la Catalunya del vuit-cents : la granja experimental de Barcelona

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    2008-01-01

    Barcelona’s Experimental Farm was the agronomic center of reference of Barcelona’s regions between 1853 and 1911. In addition to its educational function, it was an experimental center where many of the new features that agronomic science was developing in Europe were tested, emphasizing among others the studies on the performance of fodders, cereals, tobacco, beet and other vegetables, as well as the diffusion of new technologies. It was one of the first state institutions ...

  12. Os jovens e a renovação do jornalismo

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    Pinto, Ricardo Jorge, org.; Sousa, Jorge Pedro, org.

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    As Jornadas Internacionais de Jornalismo são um património da comunidade lusófona de pesquisadores em Jornalismo, em especial, dos pesquisadores galegos, brasileiros e portugueses, mas também dos pesquisadores dos países irmãos hispânicos, em especial da Espanha. Centenas de pesquisas e reflexões sobre jornalismo foram apresentadas durante as quatro edições das Jornadas, por convite ou autoproposta, por pesquisadores desses e de outros países, abarcando temas como a teoria do jornalismo; a...

  13. Personality and premorbid personality in the early stage of Parkinson’s disease

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    Rodrigues, Charles Ysaacc da Silva

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    Trabalhos científicos anteriores consideram a existência de diferenças significativas na personalidade e personalidade pré-mórbida dos doentes de Parkinson. O objectivo deste trabalho foi verificar a existência destas diferenças entre doentes de Parkinson em fase inicial e idosos em fase de envelhecimento normal. A amostra foi composta por 292 utentes de centros de dia da Região Autónoma da Extremadura, Espanha. Os participantes foram divididos em dois grupos, o grupo experimental constituído...

  14. La Vall, vestíbul a Barcelona

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    Calvet Gómez, Clàudia

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    Qualificació obtinguda: 10 M.H. En una ciutat canviant i en constant creixement, com ho és Barcelona, el metro hi juga un paper fonamental. Amb la seva arribada, el model de centre i perifèria canvia i les zones pròximes a les estacions passen a ser molt properes a la resta de la ciutat. Es converteixen en nous centres per als habitants, i que tot i ser zones ·privilegiades i molt freqüentades no han estat projectades com a tal. Aprofitar l’energia generada per el metro es considera idoni ...

  15. Storm water detention tanks in Barcelona; Los depositos de retencion de aguas pluviales de Barcelona: un nuevo enfoque en la lucha contra las inundaciones y la proteccion medioambiental

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    Pere Malgrat i Bregolat, P.; Verdejo, J. M.; Vilalta i Cambra, A.

    2004-07-01

    Storm water detention tanks are being implemented at first as a solution to the urban flooding problem and afterwards a second function was added to reduce the pollution of the sewerage waters before its overflow to the receiving bodies because these spills can contribute with up to 50% of the total pollution spilled. These solutions are often cheaper and have less impact on the urban activities than the classical solutions such as trunk sewers. In Spain, Barcelona was the first city to build this tanks to avoid flooding and also to reduce the contamination to the receiving waters, with a total volume of 492.200 m''3, operated by Clavegueram de Barcelona (Clabsa). These works have meant a big improvement in the management of the wet weather flows in Barcelona. These tanks have increased the capacity of the sewerage system and decreased the combined sewer overflows to the receiving waters (Besos river and Mediterranean sea). Another advantage is the protection of WWTP against flow variations. The environmental improvement achieved with the tanks is so hug that can even reduce the contamination spilled to the receiving waters around 30% and avoid the destruction of some ecosystems. Also, the contaminated sediments trapped in the detention tank are sen to to the WWTP so the don't reach the receiving waters. Also. the urban space close to the relieving waters are becoming more appreciated for leisure so the recovery and protection of these waters is a must. (Author)

  16. A esquerda radical no período pós-2009: nada de (muito novo em Portugal? = The radical left in the post-2009 period: nothing (very new in portugal?

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    Pereira, José Santana

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    Full Text Available A crise económica que eclodiu nas democracias europeias periféricas a partir de 2009 teve, em vários países da Europa do Sul, consequências graves em termos de estabilidade governativa e dos sistemas partidários. Neste contexto, o caso português tem sido apontado como excecional, visto que o agravamento da situação económica e as suas consequências políticas não provocaram uma afirmação eleitoral sem precedentes de forças de esquerda radical (como na Espanha e na Grécia. Neste artigo, apresenta-se o panorama da esquerda radical em Portugal e procede-se à análise de algumas dimensões associadas a este fenómeno de maior estabilidade do sistema partidário português à esquerda, nomeadamente a ausência de um fenómeno SYRIZA ou Podemos, recorrendo a explicações de natureza económica, ligadas à cultura política e à natureza do sistema partidário consolidado nas últimas quadro décadas

  17. Espaços locais e consumo de nova tecnologia: uma aproximação quantitativa ao desenvolvimento da sociedade da informação

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    Marcial Murciano

    2010-11-01

    Full Text Available O artigo avalia as contribuições mais importantes dos principais modelos de análises internacionais que estudam o desenvolvimento da sociedade da informação, baseados nos consumos relacionados com as novas tecnologias. O autor propõe o modelo denominado Localcom, baseado em nove categorias e 24 indicadores empíricos, com os quais estuda o grau de desenvolvimento e o consumo tecnológico em nove comunidades autônomas na Espanha.

  18. Epidemiology of imported malaria among children and young adults in Barcelona (1990-2008

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    Full Text Available Abstract Background Increasing international travel and migration is producing changes in trends in infectious diseases, especially in children from many European cities. The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology and determine the trends of imported malaria in patients under 20 years old in the city of Barcelona, Spain, during an 18-year period. Methods The study included malaria cases that were laboratory confirmed and reported to the malaria register at the Public Health Agency of Barcelona from 1990 to 2008, residing in Barcelona and less than 20 years old. Patients were classified as natives (born in Spain or immigrants. Differences in the distribution of demographic, clinical characteristics, and incidence per 100,000 person-year evolution were analysed. Natives and immigrants were compared by logistic regression by calculating the odds ratio (OR with a 95% confidence interval (CI and Chi-square for a linear trend (p Results Of the total 174 cases, 143 (82.1% were immigrants, 100 (57.5% were female, 121 (69.5% Plasmodium falciparum, and 108 (62.1% were visiting friends and relatives (VFR as the reason for travel. Among the immigrants, 99 (67.8% were from Equatorial Guinea. Immigrant cases more frequently travelled to Africa than natives (p = 0.02. The factors associated with imported malaria among immigrant residents was travelling for VFR (OR: 6.2 CI 1.9-20.2 and age 15-19 (OR: 3.7 CI 1-13.3. The incidence increased from 1990 to 1999 (p Conclusions The majority of cases of malaria in population less than 20 years in Barcelona were immigrants, travelling to Africa for VFR and Plasmodium falciparum was most frequently detected. The trend analysis of the entire study period did not show a statistically significant decline. It is recommended to be aware of malaria, especially among children of immigrants who travel to their parent's home country for VFR. Better access to pre travel advice should be provided.

  19. COMPARACIÓN DEL COSTE DE LA INCAPACIDAD TEMPORAL POR CONTINGENCIA COMÚN EN 2006 ENTRE LAS PROVINCIAS DE BARCELONA Y MADRID

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    Mónica Ballesteros Polo

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available Fundamento: La incapacidad temporal por contingencia común es un importante problema de salud pública con grandes repercusiones socioeconómicas, que no se distribuye territorialmente de forma homogénea. El objetivo de este trabajo es comparar las diferencias en los costes de la incapacidad temporal por contingencia común entre las provincias de Barcelona y Madrid. Métodos: Estudio descriptivo basado en casos incidentes de incapacidad temporal por contingencia común de más de 15 días de duración seguidos hasta su finalización en una cohorte retrospectiva en el año 2006. La población de estudio fueron los trabajadores de las empresas afiliadas a una Mutua de Accidentes de Trabajo y Enfermedades Profesionales para la gestión de dicha incapacidad ubicados en las provincias de Barcelona y Madrid. Se comparó la incidencia, duración y base reguladora diaria entre Barcelona y Madrid, ajustando por sexo, edad y sector económico mediante modelos estadísticos que tuvieron en cuenta la repetición de episodios en un mismo individuo. Resultados: Se identificaron 24.527 episodios de incapacidad temporal por contingencia común, siendo el 62% de Barcelona. El coste medio por episodio fue un 33% más elevado en la provincia de Barcelona (2.589 t vs. 1.941 t. Los episodios ocurridos en la provincia de Barcelona, respecto a Madrid, presentaron una incidencia un 22% superior (1,22, IC95%:1,10- 1,36 y la base reguladora media por episodio fue 7,8 t superior (IC95%:7,20-8,40. Respecto a la duración de los procesos la razón de tiempos fue de 1,03 (IC95%: 1,01-1,05. Conclusiones: Se observó una mayor incidencia y base reguladora diaria en la provincia de Barcelona respecto a la de Madrid que podría explicar su mayor coste.

  20. Factores relacionados con el acoso escolar (bullying en los adolescentes de Barcelona Factors related to bullying in adolescents in Barcelona (Spain

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    Xavier Garcia Continente

    2010-04-01

    Full Text Available Objetivos: La violencia y el acoso escolar constituyen un problema social y de salud que ha generado una gran alarma en los últimos años. En este estudio se describe el acoso escolar y los factores relacionados en estudiantes de Barcelona. Métodos: Estudio transversal de una muestra representativa de 2.727 estudiantes de 66 centros escolares de secundaria de Barcelona. Se definió «acoso escolar» como haber sido objeto de burla, golpeado o marginado cuatro o más veces, o al menos una vez en cada uno de los ítems, en los últimos 12 meses. Se realizó un análisis de regresión logística bivariado y multivariado para estudiar la relación entre el acoso y diversos factores, incluyendo variables sociodemográficas, actitudes y comportamientos. Resultados: La prevalencia de acoso escolar fue del 18,2%, 10,9% y 4,3% en chicos, y del 14,4%, 8,5% y 4,5% en chicas de 2º y 4º de educación secundaria obligatoria y 2º de bachillerato o ciclos formativos de grado medio, respectivamente. Los factores que se asociaron con un incremento de la probabilidad de padecer acoso fueron el estado de ánimo negativo y la conducta violenta, mientras que tener mayor edad, el consumo de riesgo de alcohol, el consumo de cannabis e ir a bares y discotecas se asociaron negativamente. Conclusiones: Los resultados confirman la relevancia del problema del acoso escolar en nuestro medio, y señalan diversos factores asociados, como el estado de ánimo negativo y varios comportamientos de riesgo, que deberían ser analizados con detalle en estudios longitudinales para diseñar e implementar programas preventivos apropiados.Objectives: Violence and bullying in the school setting are a serious social and health problem that have created great alarm in the last few years. We aimed to describe bullying and factors related to this phenomenon in students in the city of Barcelona. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study of a representative sample of 2,727 students

  1. Latent variables definition for a new mobility model in Barcelona

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    Puignau, S.A.; Ciommo, F. di; Sauri, S.

    2016-07-01

    Based on the recent travel behaviour literature, time and space perceptions and the awareness of shared economy seem to gain importance in mobility patterns. The objective of this article is to evaluate how far the behaviour of new generations brings about different mobility patterns in Barcelona. For this purpose, we have designed a web-based survey that provides innovative revealed-preference data. (Author)

  2. Perspectives of Security Ensuring within the Framework of Barcelona Process

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    2009-06-01

    Full Text Available Barcelona process was aimed to become an important mechanism in the realization of ideas of peace, stability and security ensuring in the Mediterranean Sea region. Cooperation in the sphere of security ensuring means openness of the regional states, social and economic reforms, human rights protection. The article deals with the problem of security ensuring by nonmilitary means.

  3. Estudo sobre a implantação do orçamento baseado em desempenho na Autoridade Portuária de Valência

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    Rogério João Lunkes

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    Full Text Available O crescimento e o desenvolvimento da economia mundial têm dependido cada vez mais do transporte marítimo, e os portos são um elo importante nesse processo. O presente estudo tem como objetivo explorar a aplicação do orçamento baseado em desempenho no sistema de portos da Espanha. Para tanto, foi realizado um estudo sobre o modelo orçamentário do Sistema Portuário de Titularidade Estatal e um estudo de caso na Autoridade Portuária de Valência. Os resultados mostram que as mudanças no orçamento geraram maior integração entre as medidas de desempenho e as dotações orçamentárias, as quais são feitas com detalhamento do processo no nível operacional, o que inclui os projetos de investimento. Em nível de controle, o modelo permitiu melhorar a avaliação dos resultados por incluir outras medidas de desempenho, além de receitas e custos, que podem ser comparados com outros portos do país e do exterior.

  4. Determinações preliminares do teor de óleo essencial em camomila cultivada no Brasil Preliminary determination of essential oil content in camomile growing in Brasil

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    Full Text Available Amostras de capítulos florais, pedúnculos florais e caules de camomila cultivada no Brasil foram destiladas em aparelho destilador de Clevenger para avaliação dos respectivos teores de óleo essencial, sendo encontrados os seguintes valores médios por material destilado: capítulos florais: 0,421%; pedúnculos florais: 0,132% e caules:0,0251 %. Os valores percentuais de óleo essencial relativos a capítulos florais são comparáveis aos encontrados em camomila produzida em diversos países produtores tradicionais: Alemanha: 0,5%; França: 0,5%; Hungria: 0,4%; Áustria: 0,4%; Grécia: 0,4% e Espanha: 0,3%, e satisfazem as exigências mínimas da farmacopéia brasileira: 0,4%.Trading samples of Matricaria camomilla L. growing in Brazil were analised totally and in their parts (flower, peduncule and stalk to determine their essencial oil content. The distillation procedure followed the Clevenger method. The average essencial oil content of brazilian camomile flowers was 0.421%, which is similar to the oil content of camomile flowers from several other tradicional regions, and it is above the minimum level required by the Brazilian Pharmacopoeia (0.4%.

  5. Schooling Effects on Undergraduate Performance: Evidence from the University of Barcelona

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    Mora, Toni; Escardibul, Josep-Oriol

    2008-01-01

    This study analyzes the effects of several factors related to high school, such as the kind of school (public or private), the type of education (general or vocational), school location and peers on undergraduate performance from students of the University of Barcelona (Spain). Particular attention is given to the functional form and to the…

  6. Comparative Study About 4 and 5 Star Hotels in Antalya and Barcelona According to Tourist Ratings at Holidaycheck Web Site

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    Ozan GÜNGÖR

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    Full Text Available Because the intangibilty of tourism product, reviews and ratings at online review web sites where real consumers share their experiences, become the most important information sources. In this research, according to ratings at Holidaycheck web site which is used mainly by German speaking tourists, it is aimed to compare 4 and 5 star hotels in Barcelona and Antalya. Documents analysis was used to collect data, collected data were uploaded to SPSS 20.0 and non paramectric methods were used to test the hypotheses. The findings showed that tourists were more satisfied with staff service at hotels in Barcelona than hotels in Antalya. Plus, they were more satisfied with sports and entertaintment facilities at hotels in Antalya than hotels in Barcelona.

  7. Guillem Eimeric, a Jurist of a Patrician Family of Barcelona († 1301

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    Batlle i Gallart, Carme

    2007-12-01

    Full Text Available The aim of this article is to draw the biography of Guillem Eimeric, a Jurist born in Barcelona, who lived in the second half of 13th century. The study is based on the Guillem Eimeric’s will and on the inventory of his properties and goods. Among his goods, his rich Library deserves to be especially mentionned. The paper finishes with a study of the lineage from Eimeric de Perusia and with an analysis of the banking affairs of his relatives.

    L’objecte d’aquest article és traçar la biografia de Guillem Eimeric, jurista de Barcelona, que visqué a la segona meitat del segle XIII. El treball es basa sobretot en l’anàlisi del seu testament i en l’inventari dels seus béns, entre els quals destaca una rica biblioteca. L’article es completa amb l’estudi del llinatge procedent d’Eimeric de Perusia i dels negocis realitzats pels seus familiars banquers.

  8. Current status of Complementary Therapies in Spain in nursing degree Situación actual de las Terapias Complementarias en España en el Grado de Enfermería Estado atual do ensino de Terapias Complementares na formação superior de Enfermagem na Espanha

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    Ana Belén Fernández-Cervilla

    2013-06-01

    interrogantes tales cómo el valor de éstas en la formación, conceptualización que tienen los docentes, la repercusión en la calidad de los cuidados, la formación de los docentes encargados de impartir la asignatura, así como el número de créditos y el curso a impartir en la titulación del Grado. OBJETIVO: descrever a situação atual de terapias complementares no ensino de enfermagem nas escolas de enfermagem na Espanha. MÉTODO: estudo descritivo. População de estudo: todas as faculdades, escolas e anexados à Espanha. A coleta de dados foi feita através de ficha de observação, análise de unidades curriculares, variáveis (créditos, tipo de curso, localização, tipo de terapia, análise descritiva dos dados relativos e absolutos, usando-se planilha Excel. RESULTADOS: na maioria das faculdades e escolas de enfermagem examinadas, referentes ao assunto Terapias Complementares, esse tema desapareceu e naquelas em que aparece é uma disciplina opcional. CONCLUSÃO: o treinamento Terapias Complementares na Espanha é deficiente porque não é coletado como matéria essencial e/ou obrigatória. A ausência de Terapias Complementares no currículo levanta questões como o seu valor em ações de formação, o conceito que tem os professores sobre o assunto, a repercussão na qualidade do atendimento, formação de professores responsáveis pela disciplina Terapias Complementares, assim como número de créditos e matéria a serem seguidos para a graduação.

  9. Asylum: rights of peoples. Refugee slaves in the Hispanic Empire

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    Maria Verónica Secreto

    2015-06-01

    Full Text Available No século XVIII os reis da Espanha estabeleceram, através de uma abundante legislação, uma política de asilo para os escravos que fugissem de outros domínios para os seus. Este artículo busca rastrear as origens dessa política e estabelecer sua relação com o princípio de “solo livre”. Afirmamos que a legislação espanhola em matéria de escravidão influenciou todo o mundo Atlântico e para além dele. Esta influência se deveu a que Espanha tinha um conjunto importante de leis vivas sobre o tratamento dos escravos, resultado de um longo contato entre “povos” que vinha desde os tempos visigodos.

  10. Barcelona's water supply, 1867–1967 : the transition to a modern system

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    Barcelona's water supply since 14th century to 1867, the Eixample's water supply problem the development of modern water supply since 1867 to 1967 the new sanitation system impact on water consumption water's slow entry into the domestic sphere from post-war restrictions to widespread water consumption. Peer Reviewed

  11. Chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) Fruit Composition & Quality - Effects of Industrial Processing on Nutrients & Secondary Metabolites

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    Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências Agrárias e Florestais O castanheiro é cultivado um pouco por toda a Europa do Sul (principalmente Itália, Portugal, França e Espanha), Turquia, América do Norte, América do Sul (Chile e Bolívia), Ásia(China, Japão e Coreia), Austrália e Nova Zelândia, onde os seus frutos são consumidos em larga escala. Face ao seu conteúdo em amido, açúcares livres, fibra, proteínas, lípidos, vitaminas e sais minerais, bem como em outros compostos biologicamente activ...

  12. Occurrence of 95 pharmaceuticals and transformation products in urban groundwaters underlying the metropolis of Barcelona, Spain

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    López-Serna, Rebeca; Jurado, Anna; Vázquez-Suñé, Enric; Carrera, Jesus; Petrović, Mira; Barceló, Damià

    2013-01-01

    The present paper presents the occurrence of 72 pharmaceuticals and 23 transformation products (TPs) in groundwaters (GWs) underlying the city of Barcelona, Spain. Thirty-one samples were collected under different districts, and at different depths. Aquifers with different geologic features and source of recharge were included, i.e., natural bank filtration, infiltration from wastewater and water supply pipes, rainfall recharge, etc. Antibiotics were the most frequently found compounds detected at levels reaching 1000 ng L −1 . Natural bank filtration from the river that receives large amounts of effluents from waste water treatment plants (WWTPs), turned out being the most influencing source of contamination, thus GW showed high range of compounds and concentrations as high as or even higher than in the river itself. In general, TPs were found at lower concentrations than the corresponding parent compounds, with some exceptions, such as 4OH propranolol and enalaprilat. -- Highlights: ► Comprehensive study of 95 pharmaceuticals in Barcelona's groundwater. ► Concentration levels found were higher than expected for groundwater. ► Transformation products significantly contributed to the overall levels. -- Ninety-five pharmaceuticals and transformation products are monitored in the groundwater from Barcelona metropolitan area

  13. A evolução da ciência da informação a partir de conceitos-sinônimos empregados na obra ciência da informação ou informática?

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    Marco Donizete Paulino da Silva

    2012-01-01

    Este trabalho foi desenvolvido a partir de uma análise bibliográfica sobre artigos que compõem o livro Informática ou Ciência da Informação?, organizado por Hagar Espanha Gomes, em 1980. Estrutura-se como projeto de revisão histórica em que se narra as impressões estabelecidas durante leitura da obra, evidenciando os termos considerados relevantes e coletando-os para análise posterior do contexto em que estes foram empregados. Deduziu-se, dessa análise, a forma como a Ciência da Informação fo...

  14. The Role of Bullfighting and FC Barcelona in the Emancipation of Catalonia from Spain (El papel de la corrida de toros y FC Barcelona en la emancipación de Cataluña de España

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    Full Text Available Abstract: This paper looks at the role that bullfighting and FC Barcelona have played in the growing independence movement in Catalonia. This article will discuss nations, the importance of bullfighting and soccer to Iberian cultures, Catalan political parties and their role in the nationalist movement, the vote to prohibit bullfighting and FC Barcelona´s increasing political conscious. I conclude that bullfighting and soccer have been used by political parties and those associated with the nationalist movement to foster feelings of difference with Spain. These feelings have been passed from the top down to the Catalan people and risk alienating those who are not in agreement with the nationalist movement.Resumen: Este trabajo examina el papel que la corrida de toros y el equipo de fútbol FC Barcelona han hecho en el movimiento continuo hacia la independencia en Cataluña. Discute el concepto de la nación, la importancia de las corridas y el fútbol en culturas ibéricas, partidos políticos catalanes y su rol en el voto a favor de la prohibición de las corridas en Cataluña y la evolución de la conciencia política cada vez más evidente de FC Barcelona. Concluyo que los partidos políticos y otros asociados con el movimiento hacia la independencia se han aprovechado de las corridas y el fútbol para destacar diferencias culturales con España. Esta actitud de diferencia se ha trasladado de arriba-abajo al pueblo catalán y el movimiento nacionalista corre el riesgo de alienar a los que no comparten sus creencias.

  15. Atração e distração na publicidade externa dos candidatos à eleição em 2014

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    Sérgio Trein

    2015-12-01

    CÉSAR, Newton. Direção de arte em propaganda. São Paulo: Futura, 2004. COLLARO, Antonio Celso. Projeto Gráfico Teoria e Prática da Diagramação. São Paulo: Summus Editorial, 1987.  DONDIS, Donis A.. Sintaxe da linguagem visual. 2. ed. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2003.  HILLMAN, James. Cidade & alma. São Paulo: Studio Nobel, 1993. HURLBURT, Allen. Layout o design da página impressa. São Paulo: Nobel, 2002. MOLES, Abraham Antoine. O cartaz. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1974. MÜLLER, Josef Brockmann. History of visual communication. Teufen: Nigli, 1971. PÈNINOU, Georges. Semiótica de la publicidad. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1976.   Site consultado: Outdoor.com. Acessado em: 26 de março de 2015.   Disponível em:  Url: http://opendepot.org/2703/   Abrir em (para melhor visualização em dispositivos móveis - Formato Flipbooks: Issuu / Calameo

  16. The Barcelona Mobile Cluster: Actors, Contents and Trends

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    Carlos Alberto Scolari

    2009-07-01

    Full Text Available Communication mediated by mobile devices is one of the most dynamic sectors of the global economy and is transforming different aspects of our lives, including our ways of relating and our cultural production, distribution and consumption models. Media studies should not ignore these transformations. This paper presents the results of a study carried out during 2008 to determine the actors, contents produced and trends of the mobile communication companies in Barcelona. The study outlines an initial map of the situation, proposes a series of analysis categories and lays the foundations for more specific future studies on mCommunication.

  17. First epidemiological report of feline heartworm infection in the Barcelona metropolitan area (Spain).

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    Montoya-Alonso, José Alberto; Carretón, Elena; García-Guasch, Laín; Expósito, Jordi; Armario, Belén; Morchón, Rodrigo; Simón, Fernando

    2014-11-12

    The metropolitan area of Barcelona is the most densely populated metropolitan area on the Mediterranean coast. Several studies have reported the presence of canine heartworm disease in this region; however, there are no published epidemiological data regarding feline heartworm in this region and the prevalence in this species remains unknown. Serum samples from 758 cats living in the metropolitan area of Barcelona (Spain) were collected between 2012 and 2013. To establish the seroprevalence of heartworm infection in cats, serological techniques for anti-D.immitis and anti-Wolbachia antibody detection were used while a commercial ELISA test kit was used to detect circulating D.immitis antigens. Of these samples, 11.47% were positive to D.immitis and Wolbachia surface protein antibodies and 0.26% were positive to D.immitis antigens. The higher antibody seroprevalences were found in the areas that follow the courses of the rivers Llobregat and Anoia (Baix Llobregat 11.5%, Vallés Occidental 13.2%; Barcelonés 11.7%) where humidity and vegetation favour the development of the mosquito vectors. High antibody seroprevalences were also found in the urban areas (Barcelona city 13.1%; Sabadell 15.5%), which demonstrates that city cats are also at risk from D.immitis infection. Generally, in Spain cats do not receive prophylactic treatment and therefore the risk of infection is higher in this species than in dogs. Adequate prophylactic plans should be implemented in the feline population. This is the first epidemiologic study on feline heartworm infection to be carried out in continental Spain.

  18. Assessing Public Leadership Styles for Innovation: A Comparison of Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Barcelona

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    L.M. Ricard (Lykke Margot); E-H. Klijn (Erik-Hans); J.M. Lewis (Jenny M.); T. Ysa (Tamyko)

    2017-01-01

    textabstractThis article explores which leadership qualities public managers regard as important for public innovation. It is based on a survey of 365 senior public managers in Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Barcelona. Five perspectives on leadership were identified and tested using a number of items.

  19. El rendimiento en el fútbol. Una modelización de las variables determinantes para el F.C. Barcelona

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    Carlos Lago Peñas

    2007-12-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo del presente trabajo es explicar las variables que determinan el rendimiento que alcanza el F.C. Barcelona a lo largo de un partido de fútbol. Para ello se han analizado los 38 partidos disputados por el F.C. Barcelona en la Primera División de la Liga Española de Fútbol de la temporada 2004-2005. La variable que mide el rendimiento es la diferencia entre los lanzamientos a favor y los lanzamientos en contra en cada partido. Las variables explicativas que se manejan son: jugar en casa o fuera, posesión del balón, llegadas al área y equipo rival como determinantes del rendimiento. Los resultados de los análisis de regresión lineal permiten explicar el 68 % de la varianza del rendimiento. El segundo objetivo es valorar la homogeneidad del modelo anterior dependiendo del Episodio de Juego que caracteriza al partido en cada momento, esto es, si el F.C. Barcelona tiene la iniciativa o está a la expectativa en el juego. Los resultados indican que cuando el F.C. Barcelona tiene la iniciativa en el partido tiene un rendimiento mejor que cuando se encuentra a la expectativa y que las variables explicativas analizadas tienen diferente importancia bajo estos escenarios de competición.

  20. Una aproximación a la segregación digital metropolitana y urbana: las comarcas de la provincia de Barcelona y los distritos de la ciudad de Barcelona en el año 2000

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    Chaparro Mendivelso Jeffer

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available La segregación digital se refiere a la diferenciación en cuanto al acceso y al uso de las tecnologías digitales de la información y la comunicación (TDIC . Esa diferenciación puede establecerse tanto en términos sociodemográficos como territoriales. El artículo que se presenta es un intento de perfilar la segregación digital en las escalas regional y local, específicamente en las comarcas de la provincia de Barcelona y en los distritos de la ciudad de Barcelona en el año 2000. El uso de información a nivel de hogares permitió constatar territorialmente la existencia de algunas variables sociodemográficas que influyen en la conexión a Internet.

  1. Implantación de guías de buenas prácticas en España. Programa de centros comprometidos con la excelencia en cuidados / Best Practice Guidelines Implementation in Spain. Best Practice Spotlight Organizations / Implementação de manuais sobre boas práticas na Espanha. Programa dos Centros comprometidos com a excelência no atendimento

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    Laura Albornos-Muñoz, BS.

    2015-03-01

    Comprometidos com a Excelência no atendimento®, teve início em 2010 depois de um acordo de colaboração entre a Unidade de Investigação em Atendimento de Saúde (Investén-ISCIII, na Espanha, o Centro Colaborador espanhol do Instituto Joanna Briggs de Atenção à Saúde baseada em evidências e a Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO, seguindo os mesmos princípios do programa de Best Practice Spotlight Organizations (BPSO® iniciado por RNAO no Canadá em 1999. Objetivo: Descrever a implementação de manuais de boas práticas no âmbito do programa RNAO de Centros Comprometidos com a Excelência no Atendimento® (Best Practice Spotlight Organizations® na Espanha. O programa tem como objetivo estimular, facilitar e apoiar a implementação, avaliação e manutenção de boas práticas nos cuidados no período de 2012-2014. Metodologia e Resultados: Foram selecionadas oito instituições de saúde e uma universidade que implementam as diretrizes de boas práticas RNAO de acordo com suas necessidades. Após os primeiros 24 meses de implantação, foram treinados profissionais de saúde, formados grupos estáveis de trabalho, desenvolvidos ou atualizados protocolos de atendimento e registros correspondentes, também foram avaliados sistematicamente os resultados do processo e de saúde dos pacientes. Também se difundiram amplamente as principais realizações do programa. Conclusões: Os candidatos aos Centros Comprometidos com a Excelência no Atendimento® têm feito um esforço e os resultados são positivos, com uma cultura crescente dos cuidados baseados em evidências, a promoção da investigação e do início do trabalho colaborativo em rede. [Albornos-Muñoz L, González-María E, Moreno-Casbas T. Implementação de manuais sobre boas práticas na Espanha. Programa dos Centros comprometidos com a excelência no atendimento. MedUNAB 2015; 17 (3: xx-xx].

  2. Distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and tributyltin (TBT) in Barcelona harbour sediments and their impact on benthic communities

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    Martinez-Llado, Xavier [Environmental Technology Area, CTM-UPC, Avda. Bases de Manresa 1, 08240 Manresa (Spain); Gibert, Oriol [Environmental Technology Area, CTM-UPC, Avda. Bases de Manresa 1, 08240 Manresa (Spain); Marti, Vicens [Environmental Technology Area, CTM-UPC, Avda. Bases de Manresa 1, 08240 Manresa (Spain)]. E-mail: vicens.marti@upc.edu; Diez, Sergi [Environmental Chemistry Department, IIQAB-CSIC, c/Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona (Spain); Environmental Geology Department, ICTJA-CSIC, Lluis Sole i Sabaris, s/n, 08028 Barcelona (Spain); Romo, Javier [Environmental Service of Barcelona Harbour Authority, Carretera de la Circumval.lacio, s/n, Tram VI, Sector 6, Barcelona (Spain); Bayona, Josep Maria [Environmental Chemistry Department, IIQAB-CSIC, c/Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona (Spain); Pablo, Joan de [Environmental Technology Area, CTM-UPC, Avda. Bases de Manresa 1, 08240 Manresa (Spain)

    2007-09-15

    Sediments have long been recognised as a sink for many contaminants like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and tributyltin (TBT), which by virtue of their nature can strongly adsorb onto sediments affecting the benthic community inhabiting them. Using geographical information systems, this study reports and combines the results of several already existing studies along Barcelona harbour in order to assess the potential ecological impacts of these contaminants on the benthos of the harbour ecosystem. Chemical analysis indicated low to moderate contents of PAHs and high contents of TBT in sediments in Barcelona harbour. Comparison against existing sediment quality guidelines (SQGs) indicated that acutely toxic effects would not be expected for PAHs but for TBT, which represents a serious environmental threat for the benthic community. Benthos surveys revealed a deterioration of the benthic community throughout the harbour, especially in the inner port. - A possible correlation exists between TBT concentration in sediments and ecological effects on benthos in Barcelona harbour.

  3. Distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and tributyltin (TBT) in Barcelona harbour sediments and their impact on benthic communities

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    Martinez-Llado, Xavier; Gibert, Oriol; Marti, Vicens; Diez, Sergi; Romo, Javier; Bayona, Josep Maria; Pablo, Joan de

    2007-01-01

    Sediments have long been recognised as a sink for many contaminants like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and tributyltin (TBT), which by virtue of their nature can strongly adsorb onto sediments affecting the benthic community inhabiting them. Using geographical information systems, this study reports and combines the results of several already existing studies along Barcelona harbour in order to assess the potential ecological impacts of these contaminants on the benthos of the harbour ecosystem. Chemical analysis indicated low to moderate contents of PAHs and high contents of TBT in sediments in Barcelona harbour. Comparison against existing sediment quality guidelines (SQGs) indicated that acutely toxic effects would not be expected for PAHs but for TBT, which represents a serious environmental threat for the benthic community. Benthos surveys revealed a deterioration of the benthic community throughout the harbour, especially in the inner port. - A possible correlation exists between TBT concentration in sediments and ecological effects on benthos in Barcelona harbour

  4. «There’s no more Progressive Party in Barcelona». Social experience and workers protest into the 1869 republican up-rising

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    Albert García Balañà

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available This study aims to explain the 1869 Republican up-rising in Barcelona by adding an evidence unknown to the historiography of republicanism: its confluence with a massive cotton workers strike that paralyzed the first industry of the city from august to October in the aftermath of the armed fighting. So, the 1869 Republican up-rising in Barcelona can be seen as a relevant case study in order to understand some major issues on 1868-1874 Spain: the nature of the rank-and-file/leadership relationship into the republican movement; the social (and not only political sources of popular or plebeian unrest; and the so many faces of the «cuestión obrera» in industrial and liberal societies, as Barcelona had been since the 1830s.

  5. Capitalidad autonómica y proceso de terciarización: el caso de Barcelona

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    Alberich González, Joan

    2014-06-01

    Full Text Available Barcelona has been since many years ago the functional centre of a vast territory, beyond the strict scope of Catalonia. From this fact, the aim of the study is to determine whether the regional capital of Barcelona and the general process of tertiarisation, two phenomena almost contemporary, have reinforced its centrality and if they have done with greater intensity than in other cities from the Catalan urban system. In agreement with this, we have divided this work into two sections. The first one analyzes the evolution of jobs of Barcelona and the Catalan cities of over 50,000 inhabitants from the late 1980s and the first decade of the 21st century and their distribution by activity branches. The second part, as an example of this tertiarisation process, we analyze the functional change and valorisation of a Barcelona’s old obsolete industrial area for its renewal into an advanced tertiary sector use, known as district 22@.Barcelona es desde hace muchos años el centro funcional de un extenso territorio, que va más allá del ámbito estricto de Cataluña. A partir de esta realidad, el objetivo del trabajo es conocer si la capitalidad autonómica de Barcelona y el proceso general de terciarización, dos fenómenos casi contemporáneos, han reforzado su centralidad y si lo han hecho con mayor intensidad que en otras ciudades del sistema urbano catalán. De acuerdo con este planteamiento, hemos dividido este trabajo en dos apartados. El primero analiza la evolución de los puestos de trabajo y su distribución por ramas de actividad de Barcelona y las ciudades catalanas de más de 50.000 habitantes entre finales de la década de 1980 y la primera década del siglo XXI . La segunda parte, como un ejemplo de este proceso de terciarización, analiza el cambio funcional y la puesta en valor de un antiguo espacio industrial barcelonés en desuso, para su reconversión en uso del terciario avanzado, el llamado distrito 22@. [fr] Barcelone a

  6. Impacto de la Ley 28/2005 de medidas sanitarias frente al tabaquismo en la prevalencia de la exposición al humo ambiental del tabaco en Barcelona Impact of the 28/2005 Spanish smoking law on second-hand smoke exposure in Barcelona

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    2011-12-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: Evaluar el impacto de la Ley 28/2005 de medidas sanitarias frente al tabaquismo en la prevalencia de la exposición al humo ambiental del tabaco (HAT en Barcelona. Métodos: Estudio de evaluación antes-después mediante comparación de dos encuestas transversales. Las fuentes de datos fueron las Encuestas de Salud de Barcelona de 2000 y 2006. Se analizó la prevalencia de exposición al HAT en población adulta no fumadora según el ámbito de exposición (hogar, trabajo y tiempo libre y las variables sociodemográficas. Resultados: La exposición al HAT en no fumadores en el hogar y el trabajo disminuyó significativamente (p Objective: To assess the impact of the 28/2005 Spanish smoking law on exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS in Barcelona. Methods: We performed a pre-post evaluation study. Two cross-sectional surveys were compared. Data were obtained from the Barcelona Health Surveys of 2000 and 2006. The prevalence of SHS exposure among non-smoking adults was analyzed by setting (home, workplace and leisure time and sociodemographic variables. Results: SHS exposure in non-smokers significantly decreased between 2000 and 2006 (p <0.01. Odds ratios adjusted by sex, age and social class were 0.7 (95% CI: 0.6-0.8 for home and 0.2 (95% CI: 0.2-0.3 for workplace exposure in 2006 compared with 2000. In both settings, the decrease in exposure was greater in the higher social classes. After the implementation of the law, almost 50% of the population remained exposed to SHS during leisure time, younger people being the most exposed (83.5%. Conclusion: After the implementation of the law, the prevalence of SHS exposure in non-smokers in Barcelona decreased significantly in workplaces and in the home. Nevertheless, nearly half of the population remained exposed to SHS during leisure time.

  7. Evolución de la mortalidad infantil en la ciudad de Barcelona (1983-1998 Trends in infant mortality in Barcelona [Spain], 1983-1998

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    Full Text Available Objetivo: Analizar las tendencias de la mortalidad infantil, teniendo en cuenta sus componentes y las principales causas de defunción entre los años 1983 y 1998 en la ciudad de Barcelona. Métodos: Se han calculado las tasas globales y por sexos de la mortalidad infantil, posneonatal, neonatal, neonatal tardía y neonatal precoz de los residentes de la ciudad de Barcelona entre los años 1983 y 1998, con los datos procedentes de los registros de mortalidad y natalidad. Los datos se han agrupado en períodos de 4 años y se han ajustado los modelos de regresión de Poisson con la finalidad de calcular los riesgos relativos de mortalidad que comparen estos períodos. También se ha calculado la variación porcentual entre las tasas de los períodos definidos. Resultados: En total, durante estos 16 años hubo 1.564 muertes. De éstas, 896 corresponden a niños (57,3% y las 668 restantes a niñas (42,7%. Las tasas de mortalidad infantil oscilan entre 10,5 por 1.000 nacidos vivos en el año 1986 y 3,4 10 años después, en el año 1996. Entre los años 1983 y 1988 se observa un estancamiento de la mortalidad infantil, y a partir del año 1989 se nota una disminución en las tasas de mortalidad infantil. La tasa de mortalidad neonatal, y sobre todo la neonatal precoz, experimentan un descenso más pronunciado que la mortalidad posneonatal. Las causas de defunción más frecuentes son las debidas a defectos congénitos (47,4% seguidas por las causas perinatales (32,1%. Conclusiones: Tras analizar la tendencia de la mortalidad infantil y haber observado la de años anteriores, se concluye que las tasas de mortalidad infantil han disminuido durante el período estudiado, aunque no con la misma intensidad que en décadas anteriores.Objective: To analyze trends in infant mortality, taking into account its main components and the principal causes of death between 1983 and 1998 in the city of Barcelona (Spain. Methods: We calculated overall mortality rates

  8. João Henrique Böhm, o fundador do exército brasileiro

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    Carlos H. Oberacker Jr.

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    Full Text Available (Primeiras linhas do texto "Durante a Guerra dos Sete Anos, quando em 17 de agôsto de 1761 as potências sob os Bourbons — França, Espanha e Parma — firmaram o chamado Pacto de Família para quebrantar o poderio inglês, exigiram por uma espécie de ultimatum a Portugal, aliado da Inglaterra, que fizesse parte dêsse Pacto, e acabaram por declarar guerra à nação insular, com a qual a França já em 1756 disputava a hegemonia mundial. (..."

  9. TENDÊNCIAS NA FORMAÇÃO DOS JORNALISTAS NOS ÂMBITOS HISPÂNICOS E LUSÓFONOS DO SÉCULO XXI: História de algumas semelhanças e diferenças entre os planos de estudo de Brasil, Espanha e Portugal

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    Xosé Lopes Garcia

    2011-02-01

    Full Text Available A experiência colhida durante as últimas décadas pelos estudos
    de Comunicação nas universidades anglo-saxônicas, hispânicas
    e lusófonas teve três consequências claras: uma progressiva
    incorporação destes estudos na maioria dos centros de ensino
    superior dos principais países do mundo, com diferentes programas e por vias muito distintas; um incremento das investigações sobre o setor e um crescente interesse em adaptar a formação aos novos perfis, que foram surgindo nos diferentes suportes. O papel central da comunicação, na sociedade do séc. XXI, abriu caminho a um conjunto de títulos nos quais o jornalismo continua a ocupar uma posição de destaque. Foi dessa forma que chegamos a um panorama
    com uma boa oferta acadêmica e com muitos mais jornalistas com título universitário. No terceiro milênio, a cada dia que passa, aumenta o número de informadores que possuem formação universitária. Os dados indicam que houve um aumento no nível de formação dos jornalistas, que necessitam de cada vez mais conhecimentos atuais para trabalhar na complexa sociedade atual, e que há um panorama favorável à  formação contínua, um desafio para todos os comunicadores da era digital. Os esforços realizados nesses últimos dez anos no Brasil, na Espanha e em Portugal neste campo mostram algumas diferenças, várias coincidências e um objetivo compartilhado: iniciativas para melhorar os planos formativos com projetos de maior qualidade.

  10. Spatial variability of trace elements and sources for improved exposure assessment in Barcelona

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    Cruz Minguillon, Maria; Cirach, Marta; Hoek, Gerard; Brunekreef, Bert; Tsai, Ming; de Hoogh, Kees; Jedynska, Aleksandra; Kooter, Ingeborg M.; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark; Querol, Xavier

    Trace and major elements concentrations in PM10 and PM2.5 were measured at 20 sites spread in the Barcelona metropolitan area (1 rural background, 6 urban background, 13 road traffic sites) and at 1 reference site. Three 2-week samples per site and size fraction were collected during 2009 using low

  11. Spatial variability of trace elements and sources for improved exposure assessment in Barcelona

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    Minguillón, M.C.; Cirach, M.; Hoek, G.; Brunekreef, B.; Tsai, M.; Hoogh, K. de; Jedynska, A.; Kooter, I.M.; Nieuwenhuijsen, M.; Querol, X.

    2014-01-01

    Trace and major elements concentrations in PM10 and PM2.5 were measured at 20 sites spread in the Barcelona metropolitan area (1 rural background, 6 urban background, 13 road traffic sites) and at 1 reference site. Three 2-week samples per site and size fraction were collected during 2009 using low

  12. Concentrations and determinants of NO{sub 2} in homes of Ashford, UK and Barcelona and Menorca, Spain

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    Algar, O.G.; Puig, C.; Vall, O. [Hospital del Mar, Pediatrics, and Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain); Pichini, S. [Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Drug Research and Control Dept., Rome (Italy); Basagana, X. [Institut Municipal Investigacio Medica, Barcelona (Spain); Torrent, M. [INSALUD, Area de Salud de Menorca, Menorca Island (Spain); Harris, J.; Cullinan, P. [Imperial College, Dept. of Occupational and Environmental Med., London (United Kingdom); Sunyer, J. [Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)

    2004-08-01

    The study examined indoor nitrogen dioxide (NO{sub 2}) concentrations in Ashford, Kent (UK), Menorca Island and Barcelona city (Spain) and the contribution of their most important indoor determinants (e.g. gas combustion appliances and cigarette smoking). The homes examined (n = 1421) were those from infants recruited for the Asthma Multicentre Infants Cohort Study, which aimed to assess, using a standard protocol, the effects of pre- and post-natal environmental exposures in the inception of atopy and asthma. Indoor NO{sub 2} was measured using passive filter badges placed on a living room wall of the hoes for between 7 and 15 days. Homes in the three centers had significantly diffent concentrations of indoor NO{sub 2}, with those in Barcelona showing the highest levels (median NO{sub 2} levels: 5.79, 6.06 and 23.87 p.p.b. in Ashford, Menorca and Barcelona, respectively). Multiple regression analysis showed that the principal indoor determinants of NO{sub 2} concentrations in the three cohorts were the heating/cooking fuel used in the house (gas fire increased average NO{sub 2} concentrations by 1.27-fold and gas cooker by 2.13 times), parental cigarette smoking and season of measurement. Those variable significantly related to indoor NO{sub 2} concentration in Ashford, Barcelona and Menorca, respectively. In all the cohorts combined, 52% of the variation could be explained in this way. Although outdoor NO{sub 2} was not measured concurrently, its additional contribution was estimated. In conclusion, despite differences in indoore NO{sub 2} mean concentrations probably reflecting different outdoor NO{sub 2} level, home factors affecting indoor NO{sub 2} values and their specific contributions were constant across the their cohorts. (au)

  13. O Liber regum e a representação aristocrática da Espanha na obra do Conde D. Pedro de Barcelos

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    Mª do Rosário FERREIRA

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    Full Text Available A fortuna do Liber regum em Portugal alcança o seu ponto mais alto na obra historiográfica do Conde de Barcelos, que procede a uma integração extensa e por vezes literal de passagens dessa sua fonte. Porém, tal apropriação não irá dar lugar neste autor às posições anti-goticistas e anti-leonesas que os princípios subjacentes à natureza político-legitimatória do velho livro genealógico navarro permitiam esperar. Surpreendentemente, o Liber regum irá tornar-se a base da memória construída de uma Ibéria de matriz goda, vista como uma totalidade espácio-temporal fechada onde esta singular personalidade autoral põe em cena dinastias régias e genealogias aristocráticas forjando um passado comum de conquista da terra que, mais do que legitimar a partilha do domínio sobre a Espanha, a impõe como imperativo ético. Embora com ênfases distintas conforme se situe num contexto genealógico ou cronístico, a afirmação deste princípio de partilha totalizadora é um traço fundamental da obra do Conde.La fortune notable du Liber regum au royaume du Portugal trouve son aboutissement dans les écrits historiographiques du Comte de Barcelos, qui procède à l’appropriation extensive et même littérale de plusieurs sections de texte. Toutefois, son usage du Liber regum ne se conforme pas aux perspectives anti-gothicistes et anti-léonaises que les principes de légitimation politique prônés par le vieil écrit généalogique navarrais laissaient attendre. De façon surprenante, cette personnalité singulière nous offre, à la place, la mémoire d’une Ibérie bâtie sur la matrice gothique, et conçue en tant que totalité fermée d’espace et de temps, où dynasties royales et lignages aristocratiques se forgent un passé commun de conquête territoriale. Ce passé fait plus que légitimer le partage du domaine de la terre d’Espagne ; il l’impose en tant qu’impératif éthique. Malgré les emphases diverses entra

  14. O descobrimento do Brasil através dos textos: edições críticas e comentadas

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    Full Text Available Duarte Pacheco Pereira pertenceu a uma família cujas origens, segundo certos autores, seriam muito longínqüas . Os Pachecos descenderiam, com efeito, de um Lasius Suavius Paciecus que teria guerreado em Espanha (1 . Outros genealogistas, menos temerários, remontam a um D. Fernando Geremias, oriundo da Galiza, e rico-homem de Afonso VI de Leão.

  15. Hypogravity Research and Educational Parabolic Flight Activities Conducted in Barcelona: a new Hub of Innovation in Europe

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    Perez-Poch, Antoni; González, Daniel Ventura; López, David

    2016-12-01

    We report on different research and educational activities related to parabolic flights conducted in Barcelona since 2008. We use a CAP10B single-engine aerobatic aircraft flying out of Sabadell Airport and operating in visual flight conditions providing up to 8 seconds of hypogravity for each parabola. Aside from biomedical experiments being conducted, different student teams have flown in parabolic flights in the framework of the international contest `Barcelona Zero-G Challenge', and have published their results in relevant symposiums and scientific journals. The platform can certainly be a good testbed for a proof-of-concept before accessing other microgravity platforms, and has proved to be excellent for motivational student campaigns.

  16. Antonio de Capmany and the city of Barcelona: the value of experience in the path of progress

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    Full Text Available In his time, Antonio de Capmany (1742-1813 was the most prominent intellectual in the service of the interests of Barcelona, in a willingness to articulate the energy of that city with the efforts of enlightened despotism to relaunch Spain as a continental and colonial power. Extensive knowledge and assimilation of European culture of the Enlightenment allowed him to associate the historical experience of the Catalan capital with modern values. It was not a simple varnish, since the defense of Barcelona as the focus of progress was constructed from documented empirical data and sensory impressions, according to the principles preached by the great British philosophers against speculative rationalism and its incessant occurrences.

  17. Repositioning of Barcelona's Image in the Light of a Redefinition of the Urban Tourism Planning Model

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    Full Text Available El modelo de desarrollo urbanístico-turístico de Barcelona en los últimos quince años ha obtenido un éxito extraordinario en cuanto a número de visitantes, pernoctaciones, llegadas de pasajeros de cruceros, incremento de camas hoteleras y visitas a monumentos de pago. De este modo, la ciudad se ha convertido en una de las ciudades más visitadas de Europa y de mayor crecimiento del número de turistas. Pero, este crecimiento cuantitativo ha generado masificación turística, concentración en determinados barrios, enfrentamiento por el uso del espacio urbano entre turistas y residentes, además de generar algunas deficiencias infraestructurales como la conectividad y la intermodalidad. Estos problemas amenazan la posición competitiva de Barcelona. Este artículo revisa la competitividad entre las ciudades, comparando Barcelona con otras diez ciudades europeas. A partir de un análisis cualitativo a los players internos y externos y de un Estudio Delphi con players externos, se exploran las correcciones que hay que introducir en el modelo y los vectores del repo- sicionamiento. Esta nueva posición refuerza la competitividad en base a tres objetivos: la sostenibilidad del modelo, la gestión integral de la metrópolis turística y su gobernanza, y la orientación al cliente.

  18. Bon Pastor (Barcelona un territori en construcció

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    Xavier Salas Ramos

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    Full Text Available L'article desenvolupa alguns dels aspectes de la tesi doctoral de l'autor (Sales, 2015. Es planteja una anàlisi de l'evolució del territori en el qual es troba el barri del Bon Pastor (Barcelona, posant l'accent en l'entorn construït. Per a això, la narrativa històrica es complementa amb documentació gràfica, part d'ella a partir dels diversos tallers de participació que l'autor ha desenvolupat i continua desenvolupant-se en aquest barri, en cooperació amb l'Associació de Veïns i l'Ajuntament de Barcelona (Districte de Sant Andreu amb l'objectiu de desenvolupar intervencions en l'espai públic de la zona en relació amb la preservació de la memòria cívica de Bon Pastor i en el context d'avançar en els processos de governaza urbana basada en la participació creativa dels veïns  Alhora s'organitzaven els primers processos participatius, vam començar a documentar la història de Bon Pastor. També a fer rutes pel barri per veure les seves característiques urbanes actuals i recopilar informació sobre els plans urbanístics vigents. Els següents paràgrafs són una síntesi del relat literari de la història de Bon Pastor i les seves principals característiques urbanes. Com va succeir amb Baró de Viver, és un relat que s'haurà d'anar completant a mesura que es desenvolupin els diferents processos participatius amb els relats de les vivències de la població, així com la diferent documentació que ens puguin aportar

  19. El Raval de Barcelona, un laboratori d'estudis urbans

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    Martínez i Rigol, Sergi; Carreras i Verdaguer, Carles; Frago i Clols, Lluís

    2015-01-01

    El Raval de Barcelona s'ha convertit en un dels barris més estudiats de la ciutat. En aquest article els autors aprofiten les seves experiències i treballs sobre el barri per reflexionar sobre les eines i els conceptes de la Geografia urbana en l'anàlisi i comprensió de les ciutats contemporànies. De forma quasi cronològica es presenten aquestes reflexions que culminen en un balanç desapassionat de les aportacions que s'han fet des de l'Acadèmia per al coneixement del barri i s...

  20. Barcelona contemporánea: el ocaso de un modelo

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    Antonio Pizza

    2012-12-01

    Full Text Available Barcelona is a city, which through the democratization of public space in the second half of the seventies, developed with a noticeable intention of balancing the public and private. The municipalities’ efforts were focused towards the planification and regeneration of dilapidated spaces and the construction of new structures for public benefit. However, since 2007 new phenomena have come to light that emphasise urban problems in which public interests become less important than private investment initiatives. New market priorities, together with tourism and myriad immigration have caused an “expropriation” of the city from its inhabitants.

  1. Assaulting the Raval. Control of population and production of increased values at the Barcelonan neighborhood Asaltar el Raval. Control de población y producción de plusvalías en el barrio barcelonés

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    Miquel Fernández

    2012-05-01

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    Barcelona has suffered important urban transformations generally propelled with the excuse of the organization of a macro event. They have justified these incisions perpetrated in the public space recently with the speech of the need to put Barcelona into the market of the Global Cities. At these cities the production of benefits at the sector deputises services in prejudice of the industrialist itself and the enormous entrance of real-estate, financial and tourist capital is favoured.

    In order to lead these transformations he has counted on the economic leg up and politician of public administrations. This paper problematized the concept of <em>public Space em>and contrasts it to the one of <em>Multitude em>with the intention of exposing the existent correlations between these urban transformations promoted by the government organisations and the conceptualization been interested in of the notion of <em>public space.em>

    Barcelona ha sufrido importantes transformaciones urbanas generalmente propulsadas con la excusa de la organización de un macro acontecimiento. Estas incisiones perpetradas en el espacio público se han justificado recientemente con el discurso de la necesidad de introducir Barcelona en el mercado de las Ciudades Globales. En estas ciudades se delega la producción de beneficios en el sector servicios en detrimento del industrial y se favorece la entrada ingente de capital inmobiliario, financiero y turístico.

    Este texto problematiza el concepto de <em>Espacio públicoem> y lo contrapone al de <em>Multitud> con la intención de poner en evidencia las correlaciones existentes entre estas transformaciones urbanas promovidas por las instituciones de gobierno y la conceptualización interesada de la noción de <em>espacio públicoem>.

  2. Dust modelling and forecasting in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center: Activities and developments

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    Perez, C; Baldasano, J M; Jimenez-Guerrero, P; Jorba, O; Haustein, K; Basart, S [Earth Sciences Department. Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Barcelona (Spain); Cuevas, E [Izanaa Atmospheric Research Center. Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia, Tenerife (Spain); Nickovic, S [Atmospheric Research and Environment Branch, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva (Switzerland)], E-mail: carlos.perez@bsc.es

    2009-03-01

    The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is the National Supercomputer Facility in Spain, hosting MareNostrum, one of the most powerful Supercomputers in Europe. The Earth Sciences Department of BSC operates daily regional dust and air quality forecasts and conducts intensive modelling research for short-term operational prediction. This contribution summarizes the latest developments and current activities in the field of sand and dust storm modelling and forecasting.

  3. Dust modelling and forecasting in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center: Activities and developments

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    Perez, C; Baldasano, J M; Jimenez-Guerrero, P; Jorba, O; Haustein, K; Basart, S; Cuevas, E; Nickovic, S

    2009-01-01

    The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is the National Supercomputer Facility in Spain, hosting MareNostrum, one of the most powerful Supercomputers in Europe. The Earth Sciences Department of BSC operates daily regional dust and air quality forecasts and conducts intensive modelling research for short-term operational prediction. This contribution summarizes the latest developments and current activities in the field of sand and dust storm modelling and forecasting.

  4. Projeto colaborativo em ambientes digitais de atividades de aprendizagem e avaliação para aquisição de competências em informação e documentação

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    Maria Del Carmen Agustín-Lacruz

    Full Text Available A busca de projeção internacional e a necessidade de formar redes formais ou informais de cooperação acadêmica são algumas das características mais comuns da formação atual, oferecidas por várias universidades. Cientes dessa dificuldade, assim como da conveniência da criação de sinergias docentes e do enriquecimento das redes de colaboração acadêmica entre as universidades, é apresentada no contexto de ensino de Informação e Documentação, uma experiência de colaboração interuniversitária para o projeto conjunto de atividades de aprendizagem e avaliação por competências, desenvolvido por docentes das Universidades Públicas de Zaragoza e Salamanca (Espanha e da Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (São Paulo, Brasil. A experiência é desenvolvida por meio de modelos de registros que facilitem a estruturação de atividades de aprendizagem que visam à aquisição de competências comuns. Cada atividade proposta e desenvolvida é registrada em uma planilha que reúne a informação, organizada em diversos campos como: descrição, competências, objetivos, resultados de aprendizagem previstos, ferramentas, recursos e materiais necessários, critérios de avaliação, entre outros aspectos, de maneira que o aluno possa ver o que deve fazer, como fazer e qual a utilidade. Essa forma de conceber as atividades de aprendizagem baseadas em competências é possível, em ambientes acadêmicos geograficamente tão distantes, pelo uso das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação, que permitem tanto a colaboração à distância entre os professores quanto o acesso aos materiais oferecidos nas plataformas de cada uma das universidades.

  5. urBANALització. La producció residencial de baixa densitat a la província de Barcelona 1985-2001

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    Muñoz Ramírez, Francesc

    2004-01-01

    La tesi doctoral planteja una anàlisi i una avaluació territorial del creixement de l'habitatge unifamiliar a la província de Barcelona durant un període de 17 anys, tot diferenciant els llindars d'especialització del paisatge residencial a partir de la localització d'habitatges aïllats i adossats a diferents municipis. La tesi demostra que, tot i que el fenomen de l'habitatge unifamiliar no és nou a la regió de Barcelona, des de finals dels anys vuitanta adquireix una dimensió nova en funció...

  6. MANCHESTER UNITED, INTERNAZIONALE MILANO AND FC BARCELONA – WHAT´S DIFFERENT?

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    Hugo Sarmento; M. Teresa Anguera; Jorge Campaniço; Rui Resende; José Leitão

    2014-01-01

    Introduction: Although football is considered a universal language, there are particularities that characterize the way it is practiced in several countries. Overall, the style of English football is known as “Kick and Rush”, the Italian as “Catenaccio”, and the Spanish as “Fúria Española”. This study aims to understand which aspects in the characterization of playing styles of the different teams (Manchester United, Internazionale Milano and Barcelona) are the most important for coaches. Met...

  7. Multi-level Governance as an Alternative: The Municipality of Barcelona and the Ciutat Refugi Plan

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    Ezgi Irgil

    2016-12-01

    Full Text Available This paper analyses the response of the Municipality of Barcelona to the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe as an alternative solution that challenges the national government’s restrictive approach. This response introduces the Ciutat Refugi Plan with a city-to-city network at the municipal level that involves other European cities in creating safe routes for refugees at the local government level. In line with multi-level governance theory, I argue that central governments’ inaction has pressured local governments to take action during the Syrian refugee influx. Relying on the influence of local government networks, the Municipality of Barcelona uses discourse as a tool of action in opening discursive spaces for humanitarian political responses to the refugee crisis. Using critical discourse analysis, I test this argument by examining in-depth interviews, speeches of people in power that have appeared in news articles, and statements on official websites.

  8. NEWS FROM THE ANNUAL CONGRESS OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY (BARCELONA 2014: REALIZED AND UNREALIZED EXPECTATIONS

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    S. Y. Martsevich

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    Full Text Available News from Congress of the European Society of Cardiology (Barcelona, 2014 is highlighted. Results of recent controlled clinical trials, new clinical recommendations and registers data that were presented at the Congress are discussed.

  9. NEWS FROM THE ANNUAL CONGRESS OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY (BARCELONA 2014: REALIZED AND UNREALIZED EXPECTATIONS

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    Full Text Available News from Congress of the European Society of Cardiology (Barcelona, 2014 is highlighted. Results of recent controlled clinical trials, new clinical recommendations and registers data that were presented at the Congress are discussed.

  10. Risk perception of sexually transmitted infections and HIV in Nigerian commercial sex workers in Barcelona: a qualitative study.

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    Coma Auli, Núria; Mejía-Lancheros, Cília; Berenguera, Anna; Pujol-Ribera, Enriqueta

    2015-06-15

    This study aimed to determine in detail the risk perception of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV, and the contextual circumstances, in Nigerian commercial sex workers (CSWs) in Barcelona. A qualitative study with a phenomenological approach. Raval area in Barcelona. 8 CSWs working in Barcelona. A phenomenological study was carried out with Nigerian CSWs in Barcelona. Sampling was theoretical, taking into account: different age ranges; women with and without a partner; women with and without children; and women participating or not in STI/HIV-prevention workshops. Information was obtained by means of eight semistructured individual interviews. An interpretative content analysis was conducted by four analysts. Illegal immigrant status, educational level, financial situation and work, and cultural context had mixed effects on CSW knowledge of, exposure to, and prevention and treatment of STI and HIV. CSWs were aware of the higher risk of STI associated with their occupation. They identified condoms as the best preventive method and used them during intercourse with clients. They also implemented other preventive behaviours such as personal hygiene after intercourse. Control of sexual services provided, health education and healthcare services had a positive effect on decreasing exposure and better management of STI/HIV. Nigerian CSWs are a vulnerable group because of their poor socioeconomic status. The perception of risk in this group and their preventive behaviours are based on personal determinants, beliefs and experiences from their home country and influences from the host country. Interventions aimed at CSWs must address knowledge gaps, risk behaviours and structural elements. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions.

  11. Pau, conflicte i seguretat a l'Àfrica. Nous reptes i noves perspectives. Barcelona, 3 a 5 de novembre de 2010

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    2011-01-01

    Relatoria de las jornadas internacionales “Paz, Conflicto y seguridad en África. Nuevos retos y Nuevas perspectivas” realizadas en Barcelona en noviembre de 2010 y coorganizadas por el Instituto Catalán Internacional para la Paz (ICIP), la Casa África y el Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). Las jornadas tenían por objeto analizar las situaciones vinculadas a la paz, los conflictos y la seguridad en África, pero tratando de huir de las visiones pesimistas y adoptando una pers...

  12. Paráfrase e memória: estratégias persuasivas do discurso publicitário contemporâneo

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    Carmen Llorente Barroso

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    Full Text Available O presente artigo investiga as estratégias criativas da publicidade centradas em conceitos da retórica clássica (precisamente, paráfrase e memória, bem como em teorias mais recentes da linguagem (hipertexto. Escrito por pesquisadores da Espanha e do Brasil, que reúnem interesses comuns no estudo desse objeto, o texto traz, em suas análises, anúncios de ambos os países, demonstrando como os publicitários acionam, num primeiro momento, o tesouro cultural de sua comunidade durante o processo criativo, para, em seguida, ampliá-lo com o conteúdo das peças que elaboram a partir de referências já conhecidas do público.

  13. Los procesos de exclusión social de las personas sin hogar en la ciudad de Barcelona

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    María Virginia Matulic-Domandzic

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    Full Text Available En este artículo se abordan los procesos de exclusión social de las personas sin hogar en la ciudad de Barcelona a través de tres apartados. En primer lugar se realiza una aproximación a los procesos de exclusión social presentes en las sociedades europeas, seguidamente se centra la mirada en la dimensión conceptual de las personas sin hogar y en sus principales causas, para finalizar con unas conclusiones en donde se sintetizan los temas planteados, así como los retos de futuro que se presentan en este fenémeno. El contenido del artículo forma parte del trabajo de investigación que se está realizando sobre los procesos de inclusión de las personas sin hogar en Barcelona. Dicha investigación está vinculada al Doctorado "Educación y sociedad" de la Universidad de Barcelona, a través del Departamento de Trabajo Social y Servicios Sociales. El incremento del fenómeno del sinhogarismo responde a procesos macrosociales que han caracterizado a las sociedades posfordistas de las últimas décadas donde la fragilidad de las redes de apoyo y de los sistemas de proteción social tienen una importancia crucial.

  14. Viejos problemas y nuevos vecinos. Consecuencias de una gran reforma urbana en el barrio del Raval, Barcelona

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    Miquel Fernández González

    2016-05-01

    Full Text Available El barrio del Raval de Barcelona, conocido anteriormente como Distrito V y asociado a la mitificada sordidez del Barrio Chino (uno de los más populares barrios rojos de Europa, se encuentra actualmente en una fase terminal de su reforma urbanística. Esta se inició en 1988 a rebufo de la elección de Barcelona como sede de los Juegos Olímpicos de 1992. Arrancando el presente siglo, se implementó la última intervención urbanística sobre el barrio, concretamente sobre la zona de estudio, la conocida como Illa Robador. La calle d'en Robador ha sido hasta época muy reciente -y probablemente aún lo siga siendo- el nuevo epicentro y quizás el último bastión del Barrio Chino. El mito y la reforma urbanística se convocan en la etnografía que aquí se presenta. Se ha querido levantar acta de los encuentros y encontronazos entre «viejos vecinos», que han sobrevivido a toda clase de mistificaciones y estigmatizaciones, y «nuevos vecinos» atraídos por la posibilidad de vivir en un lugar céntrico, en el nuevo distrito cultural de Barcelona. Se concluye interpretando estos conflictos a la luz de lo que algunos autores llaman un nuevo colonialismo urbano.

  15. NEWS: GIREP in Barcelona

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    Dobson, Ken

    2000-11-01

    The 18th biannual conference of GIREP was held in Barcelona from 27 August to 1 September 2000. GIREP stands for Groupe International de Recherche sur l'Enseignement de la Physique. Some 400 delegates from 53 countries attended the conference, whose main concern was Physics Teacher Education beyond 2000. All contributions had to made in English. A conference like this needs to be singularly interesting to keep delegates away from the sunsoaked attractions and delights of one of the most exciting cities in the world - even if some of the excitement comes from wondering whether or not you are going to get your pocket picked. A typical conference day begins with two or three plenary lectures in the morning, with the afternoon given over to a set of nine parallel sessions. These sessions consisted of tightly timetabled 20 minute talks or other types of presentation. This meant that even the most dedicated delegate could get to little more than 10% of the over 200 sessions that were on offer in the afternoons. The event was organized by Catalonian locals working at the conference site, the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and was superbly smooth. The list of organizations supporting the conference is too long to record, but ranged from the European Commission to Barcelona Science Museum. The UK can boast (if that is the right word) just 11 paid-up members of GIREP, which at about £10 per annum is hardly an expensive club - next year it goes up to 20 Euros - and the fee is worth it for the excellently produced book or CD-ROM of the conference proceedings. These contain a great deal of wisdom, plus the fair amount of infuriating rubbish that tends to be generated by educational research. I write here with all the prejudices of an aged ex-teacher, of course. The first morning lecture was given by Jon Ogborn, who used his recent work as organizer of the IoP post-16 Initiative to give some details of the Advancing Physics AS and A2 and make some general points about

  16. Muusikamaailm : Sibeliuse preemia laureaat on Ligeti. Uusooperid Turus, Milanos, Barcelonas. Aasta dirigent on Daniel Barenboim / Priit Kuusk

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    Kuusk, Priit, 1938-

    2000-01-01

    Wihuri fondi Sibeliuse preemia sai G. Ligeti. Uusooperitest Turu toomkirikus, Milano La Scala ja Barcelona Gran Teatre del Liceu laval. D. Barenboim pälvis heliplaadipreemia Echo Klassik koos aasta dirigendi 2000 tiitliga

  17. Wiki en la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Alcance y perspectivas

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    Sergi Robles

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Desde mayo del año 2004, un grupo de profesores de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ha llevado a cabo distintas experiencias docentes en educación superior enfocadas a los nuevos planes piloto definidos en el marco del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES basadas en la utilización del wiki, con el fin de mejorar el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de los estudiantes. Se han desarrollado distintos materiales docentes para el aprendizaje autónomo y semi-presencial, diseñados para potenciar el trabajo colaborativo y a distancia. El análisis de los resultados obtenidos con la aplicación del wiki a la docencia ha permitido identificar las ventajas y las carencias del sistema de trabajo inicial y ampliar sus posibilidades con herramientas que aseguran una mejor adaptación de esta plataforma al EEES. La labor desarrollada por el grupo y el interés despertado en la comunidad universitaria son el punto de partida de la integración del wiki en el Campus Virtual (la plataforma institucional de soporte virtual del aprendizaje de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona que se está llevando a cabo actualmente.

  18. [Knowledge of electronic cigarettes and their perceived harmfulness among the adult population in Barcelona (Spain)].

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    Martínez-Sánchez, José M; Fu, Marcela; Ballbè, Montse; Martín-Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Saltó, Esteve; Fernández, Esteve

    2015-01-01

    To describe knowledge of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and their perceived harmfulness in the population of Barcelona in 2013-2014. We used participants from a longitudinal study of a representative sample of the adult population in the city of Barcelona (n=736). The field work was conducted between May 2013 and February 2014. Awareness of e-cigarette was 79.2%. The average level of knowledge was 4.4 points out of 10; there were statistically significant differences according to age, educational level, tobacco consumption, and nicotine dependence. Most participants had learned about e-cigarettes through traditional media (57.8%). Nearly half (47.2%) of the participants believed that e-cigarettes are less harmful than conventional cigarettes. Advertising of e-cigarettes in the media should be regulated because there is still scarce scientific evidence about the usefulness and harmful effects of these devices. Copyright © 2014 SESPAS. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.

  19. Como marcas de luxo se comportam nos meios digitais

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    O presente relatório foi elaborado no âmbito do estágio curricular, através do programa Erasmus+, do curso de mestrado em Novos Media e Práticas Web, da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. O estágio decorreu na Canales, uma agência de Serviços, Marketing e Comunição, em Valência, Espanha. Este trabalho tem o objetivo de aprofundar e compreender a presença online das marcas de luxo, tema abordado no estágio. Assim, será analisado como estas marcas devem comp...

  20. Turismo Rural, Empreendedorismo e Gênero: um estudo de caso na comunidade autônoma da Galiza

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    Dieguez-Castrillon, Mª Isabel; Gueimonde-Canto, Ana; Sinde-Cantorna, Ana; Blanco-Cerradelo, Lidia

    2012-01-01

    Neste trabalho indagamos sobre possíveis diferenças no comportamento empreendedor em turismo rural; estabelecemos características e dimensões motivadoras em função do gênero. Num exemplo representativo de estabelecimentos de turismo rural da Comunidade Autônoma da Galiza (Espanha), encontramos relação entre gênero e importância da compatibilização de atividades agrárias e tumrísticas, e entre gênero e perfil das motivações para empreender atividades de turismo rural. As mulheres estão mais mo...

  1. Trastornos menores de salud en una muestra de estudiantes de la Universidad de Barcelona Minor health disorders in a sample of students of the University of Barcelona

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    MT Icart Isern

    2006-09-01

    Full Text Available Introducción: conocer la prevalencia de algunos trastornos menores de salud (TMS en una muestra de estudiantes de la Universidad de Barcelona (2004-05. Material y métodos: El estudio se realizó en las facultades de Ciencias Económicas, Farmacia, Medicina, Psicología y Químicas y Escuela de Enfermería de la Universidad de Barcelona. Se empleó un diseño observacional, descriptivo y transversal mediante un cuestionario mixto administrada a 600 estudiantes durante el mes de diciembre de 2004. Las variables estudiadas corresponden a los siguientes TMS: insomnio, estreñimiento, cefalea, dolor osteomuscular, tics nerviosos, onicofagia y tricotilomania. Resultados: El sexo femenino representa el 64% de la muestra; la media de edad de los encuestados es de 22,7 (DE: 3,27; IC 95%: 22,43-22,96. Las mujeres acumulan el 67,79% de los 1.245 TMS identificados. Por sexo, se observan diferencias estadísticamente significativas en las prevalencias de cefalea, dolor osteomuscular y tricotilomania que afectan en mayor medida al sexo femenino. La onicofagia (264; 21,20%; IC 95%: 18-24,4 es el más extendido de los TMS, seguido de la cefalea (233; 18,72%; IC 95%: 15,6-21,84. los estudiantes de Psicología presentan el mayor número, seguidos de los de Ciencias Económicas; los que presentan un menor número son los de Farmacia y Químicas. Conclusiones: El sexo femenino presenta la mayor prevalencia de TMS. La onicofagia y la cefalea son los principales TMS identificados en la muestra. Los estudiantes de Psicología acumulan el mayor número de TMS, siendo los que presentan más cefalea, dolor osteomuscular y tricotilomania.Background: To determine the prevalence of certain minor health disorders (MHD in a sample of students from the University of Barcelona (2004-05. Methods: The study was carried out in the faculties of Economic Sciences, Pharmacy, Medicine, Psychology and Chemistry, and in the School of Nursing, all of the University of Barcelona. An

  2. Tendências na formação dos jornalistas nos âmbitos hispânicos e lusófonos do século XXI: história de algumas semelhanças e diferenças entre os planos de estudo de Brasil, Espanha e Portugal

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    Full Text Available A experiência colhida durante as últimas décadas pelos estudos de Comunicação nas universidades anglo-saxônicas, hispânicas e lusófonas teve três consequências claras: uma progressiva incorporação destes estudos na maioria dos centros de ensino superior dos principais países do mundo, com diferentes programas e por vias muito distintas; um incremento das investigações sobre o setor e um crescente interesse em adaptar a formação aos novos perfis, que foram surgindo nos diferentes suportes. O papel central da comunicação, na sociedade do séc. XXI, abriu caminho a um conjunto de títulos nos quais o jornalismo continua a ocupar uma posição de destaque. Foi dessa forma que chegamos a um panorama com uma boa oferta acadêmica e com muitos mais jornalistas com título universitário. No terceiro milênio, a cada dia que passa, aumenta o número de informadores que possuem formação universitária. Os dados indicam que houve um aumento no nível de formação dos jornalistas, que necessitam de cada vez mais conhecimentos atuais para trabalhar na complexa sociedade atual, e que há um panorama favorável à  formação contínua, um desafio para todos os comunicadores da era digital. Os esforços realizados nesses últimos dez anos no Brasil, na Espanha e em Portugal neste campo mostram algumas diferenças, várias coincidências e um objetivo compartilhado: iniciativas para melhorar os planos formativos com projetos de maior qualidade.

  3. La satisfacció dels clients dels centres esportius municipals de Barcelona

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    Elasri Ejjaberi, Amal; Triadó Ivern, Xavier M.; Aparicio Chueca, Pilar

    2015-01-01

    L’objectiu d’aquest treball és identificar i analitzar les variables que més influeixen en la satisfacció del client als centres esportius de Barcelona. Les dades van ser recollides en una enquesta entre els clients actuals de centres esportius municipals. Una anàlisi factorial aplicada a aquesta informació revela cinc dimensions que subjeuen als múltiples components de l’oferta de serveis en aquestes instal·lacions: la seva qualitat, els recursos humans, la comunicació, l’entorn social i la ...

  4. Teaching and Learning in the Virtual Campus: The Case of the University of Barcelona

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    Gil, Juana M. Sancho; Sanchez, Joan-Anton

    2012-01-01

    This article is based on a research project aimed at analysing the teaching and learning models explicit and implicit in the different uses of e-learning platforms. From qualitative analysis of the interview with the coordinator of the Virtual Campus of the University of Barcelona (VC-UB) and the focus group with the 8 lecturers, emerged both the…

  5. Sprawl in Barcelona Region and the PTMB 2010

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    Antonio Acierno

    2012-04-01

    Full Text Available The Barcelona metropolitan region is composed of 164 municipalities distributed over an area of ​​about 3234 sq km with a population of 5 million inhabitants. In the last decades, the growth of metropolitan region has been characterized by some critical problems: high land occupation, dispersed occupation of the territory, low building density, considerable fragmentation and high specialization (residential developments, commercial centers, industrial areas, etc, growing social segregation. The sprawl, together with changes in economic and social structure, caused a loss of landscape and environment values in the territory, a reduction of natural areas, involving an increase in consumption of resources. The sprawling development was already evident in the early 1970s, and a study of dynamic of the sprawl was conducted to show the main features of this process. The morphology of discontinuity, fragmentation and heterogeneity are common features of the metropolitan regions in Southern Europe. The changes from the traditional compact city to a dispersed one caused important effects in the functioning of the territories and in the lifestyles of their users. The main problems addressed by the plan have been identified in the sprawl, the territorial fragmentation and the growing social segregation. The adoption of the Barcelona Metropolitan Plan is a notable innovation in the scenario of spatial planning and urban policies in Catalonia. In fact, the PTMB, that comes to close more than 40 years of controversy and failed attempts, presents some aspects of particular interest and represents a planning tool providing a methodology for administrative and political management for the future. The plan has been proposed by regional government in concert with municipalities through an interesting participatory process that has secured a broad consensus. The plan structure founded on three main systems: Open Spaces, Settlements and Infrastructures; all of

  6. René Metras, un hombre de nuestro tiempo. Galeria René Metras y la vanguardia estética en Barcelona

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    Mª del Carmen Briones Brú

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    Full Text Available El propósito de este trabajo es reconocer y poner de relieve la figura, no siempre reconocida en los medios artísticos actuales de un hombre, René Metras. Vinculado desde los años cuarenta a movimientos artísticos catalanes de posguerra, participó con los intelectuales y jóvenes artistas catalanes, con su esfuerzo, ímpetu y dedicación personal, siendo una figura muy significativa en los primeros momentos de las vanguardias del arte español de los años 50 y 60. En octubre de 1962 abre las puertas de la galería que lleva su nombre, en la calle Consejo de Ciento, 331 de Barcelona alentado por la idea de mostrar al público barcelonés un arte distinto e innovador al que se mostraba en la mayoría de las galerías de arte. Pionero en mostrar lo que pasaba fuera de nuestro país, desde su inauguración apostó por las vanguardias europeas y, en sus salas, pudo verse por primera vez a los grandes artistas del siglo XX; promovió, fiel a su ideario, a jóvenes y relevantes artistas catalanes y del resto de la Península, defendiendo con pureza y rigor el arte abstracto e informalista. René Metras no sólo abrió sus puertas a Barcelona, también abrió Barcelona al mundo artístico internacional, siendo su galería un referente mundial de la vanguardia estética de Barcelona.

  7. Methodology for the Detection of Residential Vulnerable Areas - the Case of Barcelona

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    Cornado, Cossima; Garcia-Almirall, Pilar; Vima, Sara; Vila Busqued, Gemma; Uzqueda, Angel

    2017-10-01

    In a context of a shifting environmental, economic and social paradigm, European cities face a situation that is at the same time challenge and opportunity: the need for urban rehabilitation of the vulnerable degraded socio residential fabric. Public administrations in big cities and metropolitan areas are confronted with both the undercurrent need of actualization of the built stock and the rise of urban residential vulnerability. The city of Barcelona, as many others, is the result of multiple phenomena with high urban and social consequences. The socio spatial integration of immigrant population, the touristic rise and gentrification processes are current situations simultaneously taking place in the city. In parallel, a framework of economic crisis in which public investments in urban and social matters decrease, provides a temporal juncture that results into an increase of social polarization and socio economic inequality that becomes evident and expressed in the territory. This research focuses in the case of Barcelona, and presents a methodology based on a system of indicators elaborated through the exploitation of statistical data complemented with very specific data supplied by the Barcelona City Council. The accurate knowledge of socio demographic, socioeconomic and residential and urban characteristics is crucial in order to define the very complex urban dynamics that describe in the city neighbourhoods and areas. Residential vulnerability is defined as an assembly of objective conditions that relate to residential space and indicate situations of social discrimination and structural disadvantage of the population, related to a specific time and context. Thus, it is relevant to analyse the concentration of certain indicators of vulnerability in specific places or neighbourhoods, to contrast its effect on the socio-residential situation and its temporal evolution in order to identify tendencies. The present study contributes to the identification of data

  8. Geodetic Infrastructure in the Ibiza and Barcelona Harbours for Sea Level Monitoring

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    Martinez-Benjamin, J. J.; Gili, J.; Lopez, R.; Tapia, A.; Perez, B.; Pros, F.

    2013-12-01

    The presentation is directed to the description of the actual situation and relevant information of the geodetic infrastructure of Ibiza and Barcelona sites for sea level determination and contribution to regional sea level rise. Time series are being analysed for mean sea level variations www.puertos.es. .In the framework of a Spanish Space Project, the instrumentation of sea level measurements has been improved by providing the Barcelona site with a radar tide gauge Datamar 2000C from Geonica s.l. near an acoustic tide gauge. Puertos del Estado installed in 2007 a MIROS radar tide gauge and the Barcelona Harbour Authority a GPS referente station in the roof of the new Control Tower situated in the Energy Pier. The radar sensor is over the water surface, on a L-shaped structure which elevates it a few meters above the quay shelf. 1-min data are transmitted to the ENAGAS Control Center by cable and then sent each 1 min to Puertos del Estado by e-mail. There is a GPS station Leica Geosystems GRX1200 GG Pro and antenna 1202. Precision levelling has been made several times in the last two years because the tower is founded in reclaimed land. The measured settlement rate is about 1cm/year that may be could mask the values registered by the tide gauge. A description of the actual infrastructure at Ibiza harbour at Marina de Botafoch, is presented and its applications to sea level monitoring and altimeter calibration in support of the main CGPS at Ibiza harbour. It is described the geometrical precision levelling made in June 2013 between the radar tide gauge and the GPS station. In particular, the CGPS located at Ibiza harbour is essential for its application to the marine campaign Baleares 2013, near Ibiza island. The main objective is to determine the altimeter bias for Jason-2, about 9:09 UTC September 15, 2013, and Saral/AltiKa, about 05:30 UTC September 16, UTC. These activities has been received funding of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion under Spanish

  9. Knowledge, attitude and perceptions of breast cancer screening among native and immigrant women in Barcelona, Spain.

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    Pons-Vigués, Mariona; Puigpinós-Riera, Rosa; Serral, Gemma; Pasarín, M Isabel; Rodríguez, Dolors; Pérez, Glòria; Benet, Josep; Casamitjana, Montserrat; Borrell, Carme

    2012-06-01

    Inequalities between immigrant and native populations in terms of access and use of health services have been described. The objective is to compare knowledge, attitudes, vulnerabilities, benefits and barriers related to breast cancer (BC) and screening mammography among women from different countries resident in Barcelona. A cross-sectional survey carried out in Barcelona in 2009. The study population consisted of female residents in Barcelona between 45 and 69 years of age; participants were Spanish nationals or immigrants from low-income countries. 960 participants were asked 72 questions, mainly with Likert responses. The dependent variables were five quantitative scales: (1) knowledge of BC and early detection, (2) attitude towards health and BC, (3) vulnerability to BC, (4) barriers to mammography, (5) benefits of mammography. The independent variables were country of origin, social class, setting, cohabitation, age, mammography use, length of residence and fluency of the language. Analyses compared scale scores stratified by the independent variables. Multivariable linear regression models were fitted to determine the relationship between the scales and the independent variables. We observed inequalities according to country of origin on all scales after adjustment for independent variables. Chinese women presented the greatest differences with respect to native women, followed by Maghrebi and Filipino women. Inequalities exist on the vulnerability and barriers scales according to social class and urban/rural setting, and on the attitude scale according to social class. Country of origin, social class and urban/rural setting are key contributors to inequality in these scales. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  10. Defectos en soldaduras de estructura metálica. Aplicación a una obra en Barcelona

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    Pérez Vergara, Francisco

    2009-01-01

    Estudio de los defectos y aceptación de los mismos, en las uniones soldadas de una estructura metálica importante de una obra singular en Barcelona. Análisis de los ensayos destructivos y no destructivos de Aceptación de las soldaduras.

  11. Study of compost maturity produced in the composting plant in Granollers (Barcelona, Spain); Estudio de la madurez del compost producido en la planta de compostaje de Granollers (Barcelona)

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    Diez Fontanet, E.; Alba Munoz, G.; Aguilera Riba, F.; Sanchez Ferrer, A.

    2000-07-01

    The following article presents the determination of important parameters, which have been traditionally used in the evaluation of the compost maturity. Compost from a tunnel plant placed in Granollers (Barcelona) has been chosen during the maturation stage. The results showed that self-heating test and organic material content are the most significant maturity indexes, whereas Solvita differed from the rest of analysis. Other important parameters, such as ion exchange capacity, water content, conductivity and pH were also determined. (Author)

  12. Evolution of industrial wastewater pollution in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area; Evolucion de la contaminacion industrial en las aguas residuales del area metropolitana de Barcelona

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    Mantecon Pascual, R.

    2005-07-01

    The Environmental Agency of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area has full powers regarding sewerage. Industrial wastewater emptied into the public sewer system has been monitored and analysed since 1988. the data showing the evolution of the pollution in industrial wastewater are presented, broken down by activities and parameters. These data are based on the analysis of 14,528 samples taken during 19,555 inspections of 5,655 factories. It was found that there has been a gradual improvement in the quality of the effluents. Failure to meet the requirements concerning one or more of the physico-chemical parameters fell from 71% to 39% of the samples analysed. (Author)

  13. A geological model for the management of subsurface data in the urban environment of Barcelona and surrounding area

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    Vázquez-Suñé, Enric; Ángel Marazuela, Miguel; Velasco, Violeta; Diviu, Marc; Pérez-Estaún, Andrés; Álvarez-Marrón, Joaquina

    2016-09-01

    The overdevelopment of cities since the industrial revolution has shown the need to incorporate a sound geological knowledge in the management of required subsurface infrastructures and in the assessment of increasingly needed groundwater resources. Additionally, the scarcity of outcrops and the technical difficulty to conduct underground exploration in urban areas highlights the importance of implementing efficient management plans that deal with the legacy of heterogeneous subsurface information. To deal with these difficulties, a methodology has been proposed to integrate all the available spatio-temporal data into a comprehensive spatial database and a set of tools that facilitates the analysis and processing of the existing and newly added data for the city of Barcelona (NE Spain). Here we present the resulting actual subsurface 3-D geological model that incorporates and articulates all the information stored in the database. The methodology applied to Barcelona benefited from a good collaboration between administrative bodies and researchers that enabled the realization of a comprehensive geological database despite logistic difficulties. Currently, the public administration and also private sectors both benefit from the geological understanding acquired in the city of Barcelona, for example, when preparing the hydrogeological models used in groundwater assessment plans. The methodology further facilitates the continuous incorporation of new data in the implementation and sustainable management of urban groundwater, and also contributes to significantly reducing the costs of new infrastructures.

  14. Una posible geografía de las identidades de Barcelona: El caso del barrio de la Vila de Gràcia

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    Mendizàbal, Enric

    2010-01-01

    En este texto se hará una reflexión sobre las identidades socio territoriales de Barcelona. En la introducción se discutirá brevemente el concepto de identidad desde la geografía. En la segunda se tratará de las distintas identidades de Barcelona a partir de una geografía de los barrios. En la tercera se tratará el caso del barrio de la Vila de Gràcia, un ejemplo de las identidades peculiares dentro de una metrópoli. Neste texto faz-se uma reflexão sobre as identidades socioterritoriais de...

  15. Los frescos góticos lineales de la iglesia de Sant Valentí de les Cabanyes (Barcelona

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    Full Text Available La pequeña iglesia de Sant Valenti se halla en el término municipal de Les Cabanyes, muy cerca de Vilafranca del Penedes (Barcelona. El mal estado en que se encontraba el edificio requería una inmediata restauración, de la que se hizo cargo el Servicio de Patrimonio Arquitectónico de la Diputación de Barcelona. Siguiendo la norma de dicho Servicio, antes de la intervención arquitectónica se llevó a cabo una exhaustiva investigación histórica (dirigida por el doctor Alberto López Mullor que comprendió una excavación arqueológica, un estudio documental y un análisis artístico. A nosotros nos correspondió el estudio de las pinturas murales que cubrían buena parte del templo.

  16. Superconductivity and their applications

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    Roque, António; Sousa, Duarte M.; Fernão Pires, Vítor; Margato, Elmano

    2017-01-01

    Trabalho apresentado em International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ’17), 4 a 6 de Abril de 2017, Málaga, Espanha The research in the field of superconductivity has led to the synthesis of superconducting materials with features that allow you to expand the applicability of this kind of materials. Among the superconducting materials characteristics, the critical temperature of the superconductor is framing the range and type of industrial applications that can b...

  17. Epidemiology of infections by HIV, Syphilis, Gonorrhea and Lymphogranuloma Venereum in Barcelona City: a population-based incidence study.

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    Martí-Pastor, Marc; García de Olalla, Patricia; Barberá, Maria-Jesús; Manzardo, Christian; Ocaña, Inma; Knobel, Hernando; Gurguí, Mercè; Humet, Victoria; Vall, Martí; Ribera, Esteban; Villar, Judit; Martín, Gemma; Sambeat, Maria A; Marco, Andres; Vives, Alvaro; Alsina, Mercè; Miró, Josep M; Caylà, Joan A

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    The aim of this study was to determine the evolution of HIV infection, gonorrhea, syphilis and lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), and their epidemiological characteristics in Barcelona city. Population-based incidence study of all newly occurring diagnoses of HIV infection, syphilis, gonorrhea and LGV detected in Barcelona between January 2007 and December 2011. A descriptive analysis was performed. The annual incidence rates per 100,000 inhabitants were calculated by sex, sexual conduct and educational level. To estimate global sex-specific rates we used the Barcelona city census; for the calculation of rates by sexual conduct and educational level we used estimates of the Barcelona Health Interview Survey. Trends were analysed using the chi-squared test for linear trend. HIV. 66.8 % of the HIV cases were men who had sex with men (MSM). The incidence rates in MSM over the study period were from 692.67/100,000 to 909.88/100,000 inh. Syphilis. 74.2 % of the syphilis cases were MSM. The incidence rates in MSM were from 224.9/100,000 to 891.97/100,000 inh. and the MSM with a university education ranged from 196.3/100,000 to 1020.8/100,000. Gonorrhea. 45.5 % of the gonorrhea cases were MSM. The incidence rates in MSM were from 164.24/100,000 to 404.79/100,000 inh. and the MSM with university education ranged from 176.7/100,000 to 530.1/100,000 inh.. Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV). 95.3 % of the LGV cases are MSM. The incidence rates in MSM were from 24.99/100,000 to 282.99/100,000 inh. and the MSM with university education ranged from 9.3/100,000 to 265/100,000 inh. An increase in cases of STI was observed. These STI mainly affected MSM with a university education. Continuing to monitor changes in the epidemiology of STI, and identifying the most affected groups should permit redesigning preventive programs, with the goal of finding the most efficient way to reach these population groups.

  18. Modernist architecture in Barcelona reveals a new trace fossil from the Miocene of Montjuïc (NE Spain)

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    Belaústegui, Z.; Belaústegui, A.

    2017-11-01

    A new ichnotaxon, Lapillitubus montjuichensis n. i gen. n. isp., is described from the middle Miocene (Serravallian) of Montjuïc mountain (Barcelona, northeastern Spain). This ichnotaxon consists of a horizontal to vertical, cylindrical burrow with an agglutinated lining exclusively composed of lithoclasts. Lapillitubus montjuichensis is interpreted as the result of the burrowing activity of a deposit- or suspension-feeding annelid worm. This new ichnotaxon extends the record of the informal group known as clast-armored or agglutinated trace fossils. In addition, since part of its type material is located in the blocks that make up the façades of several modernist buildings in the city of Barcelona, this new ichnotaxon highlights the importance of fossils in urban settings for those cases in which natural outcrops are reduced, restricted or even missing.

  19. Modernist architecture in Barcelona reveals a new trace fossil from the Miocene of Montjuïc (NE Spain)

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    Belaústegui, Z.; Belaústegui, A.

    2017-01-01

    A new ichnotaxon, Lapillitubus montjuichensis n. i gen. n. isp., is described from the middle Miocene (Serravallian) of Montjuïc mountain (Barcelona, northeastern Spain). This ichnotaxon consists of a horizontal to vertical, cylindrical burrow with an agglutinated lining exclusively composed of lithoclasts. Lapillitubus montjuichensis is interpreted as the result of the burrowing activity of a deposit- or suspension-feeding annelid worm. This new ichnotaxon extends the record of the informal group known as clast-armored or agglutinated trace fossils. In addition, since part of its type material is located in the blocks that make up the façades of several modernist buildings in the city of Barcelona, this new ichnotaxon highlights the importance of fossils in urban settings for those cases in which natural outcrops are reduced, restricted or even missing.

  20. Correspondence model of occupational accidents

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    Juan C. Conte

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    Full Text Available We present a new generalized model for the diagnosis and prediction of accidents among the Spanish workforce. Based on observational data of the accident rate in all Spanish companies over eleven years (7,519,732 accidents, we classified them in a new risk-injury contingency table (19×19. Through correspondence analysis, we obtained a structure composed of three axes whose combination identifies three separate risk and injury groups, which we used as a general Spanish pattern. The most likely or frequent relationships between the risk and injuries identified in the pattern facilitated the decision-making process in companies at an early stage of risk assessment. Each risk-injury group has its own characteristics, which are understandable within the phenomenological framework of the accident. The main advantages of this model are its potential application to any other country and the feasibility of contrasting different country results. One limiting factor, however, is the need to set a common classification framework for risks and injuries to enhance comparison, a framework that does not exist today. The model aims to manage work-related accidents automatically at any level.Apresentamos aqui um modelo generalizado para o diagnóstico e predição de acidentes na classe de trabalhadores da Espanha. Baseados em dados sobre a frequência de acidentes em todas as companhias da Espanha em 11 anos (7.519.732 acidentes, nós os classificamos em uma nova tabela de contingência risco-injúria (19×19. Através de uma análise por correspondência obtivemos uma estrutura composta por 3 eixos cuja combinação identifica 3 grupos separados de risco e injúria, que nós usamos como um perfil geral na Espanha. As mais prováveis ou frequentes relações entre risco e injúrias identificadas nesse perfil facilitaram o processo de decisão nas companhias em um estágio inicial de apreciação do risco. Cada grupo de risco-injúria tem suas próprias caracter

  1. Evolución de las desigualdades según la clase social en el control del embarazo en Barcelona (1994-97 frente a 2000-03 Trends in social inequalities in pregnancy care in Barcelona (Spain, 1994-97 versus 2000-03

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    Angelina Roig

    2007-10-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: Describir y comparar las desigualdades según la clase social en el control del embarazo en Barcelona durante 2 períodos. Métodos: Se comparan 2 cuatrienios: 1994-1997 y 2000-2003. La población de estudio son las gestantes de Barcelona y la muestra los controles del Registro de Defectos Congénitos de Barcelona (n = 905 en 1994-1997; n = 927 en 2000-2003. Las fuentes de información son las historias hospitalarias y una encuesta realizada a las madres. Las variables dependientes son: planificación del embarazo, ingesta de ácido fólico antes del embarazo, consumo de tabaco, número de visitas al obstetra, trimestre de primera visita, número de ecografías, ecografía del quinto mes, prueba invasiva y abandono del tabaco. Las variables independientes son la edad y la clase social. Se ajustaron modelos de regresión logística para cada variable dependiente según la clase social y se compararon los resultados entre cuatrienios. Resultados: Tanto las gestantes de clases de ocupación manual como las de no manual presentan mejorías en el segundo cuatrienio en 7 de los 10 indicadores (no son exactamente los mismos en ambas clases. Sin embargo, cuando comparamos las variaciones interclase entre los 2 cuatrienios se registran diferencias en 8 de los 10 indicadores, 7 a favor de las clases más favorecidas y uno a favor de las menos favorecidas. Conclusiones: Excepto para una de las situaciones analizadas (hacer más de 3 ecografías, las clases menos favorecidas presentan peores resultados que las más favorecidas al comparar la tendencia de los indicadores entre los 2 períodos. La distancia entre clases en el ámbito del control de la gestación se acentúa con el tiempo.Objective: To describe and compare social inequalities in pregnancy care among pregnant women living in Barcelona (Spain in 2 periods. Methods: Two 4-year periods were compared: 1994-1997 and 2000-2003. The study population consisted of pregnant women living in

  2. Control de la tenacidad de los hormigones reforzados con fibras usando el ensayo de doble punzonamiento (ensayo barcelona Quality control of fiber reinforced concretes by mean of double punshing test (barcelona test

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    Sergio Carmona Malatesta

    2009-08-01

    Full Text Available Tradicionalmente, se utiliza el ensayo de vigas prismáticas sometidas a flexión para caracterizar la resistencia y el comportamiento en el régimen post fisuración del hormigón reforzado con fibras (HRF. Sin embargo, estos ensayos presentan una alta dispersión en sus resultados cuestionando su empleo para el control sistemático del HRF en obras; tienen, además el inconveniente de tratarse de ensayos complejos que requieren de probetas pesadas y de personal de laboratorio altamente calificado. Alternativamente, se ha propuesto el uso de otros ensayos normalizados de tracción directa e indirecta para realizar la caracterización de propiedades de los HRF, pero éstos han resultado ser muy complejos de ejecutar, sin obtener grandes mejoras en relación a la alta dispersión de los resultados. Con la finalidad de solucionar esta serie de inconvenientes, se ha propuesto el uso de un ensayo de tracción indirecta basado en una configuración del ensayo de doble punzonamiento, al que se ha denominado "Ensayo Barcelona". Este ensayo requiere de probetas de pequeñas dimensiones, con una alta superficie específica de fractura, permitiendo obtener valores representativos de la resistencia y de la tenacidad del material, con un coeficiente de variación de los resultados inferior al 13%, valor que es considerablemente menor a los alcanzados con otras metodologías experimentales. En este artículo se presentan los resultados de diferentes campañas experimentales, que permiten validar el uso del ensayo Barcelona como una metodología experimental adecuada para la sistemática caracterización del HRF en obras.Traditionally, flexural testing of prismatic beams is used to characterize the strength and behavior in post - cracking regime of fiber - reinforced concretes (FRC. These tests exhibit a high dispersion in their results, and therefore invalidate the use of such tests for the systematic control of FRCs works. Also, they have the disadvantage

  3. Has the economic crisis widened the intraurban socioeconomic inequalities in mortality? The case of Barcelona, Spain.

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    Maynou, Laia; Saez, Marc; Lopez-Casasnovas, Guillem

    2016-02-01

    There is considerable evidence demonstrating socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, some of which focuses on intraurban inequalities. However, all the studies assume that the spatial variation of inequalities is stable over the time. We challenge this assumption and propose two hypotheses: (i) have spatial variations in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality at an intraurban level changed over time? and (ii) as a result of the economic crisis, has the gap between such disparities widened? In this paper, our objective is to assess the effect of the economic recession on the spatio-temporal variation of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). We used a spatio-temporal ecological design to analyse mortality inequalities at small area level in Barcelona. Mortality data and socioeconomic indicators correspond to the years 2005 and 2008-2011. We specified spatio-temporal ecological mixed regressions for both men and women using two indicators, neighbourhood and year. We allowed the coefficients of the socioeconomic variables to differ according to the levels and explicitly took into account spatio-temporal adjustment. For men and women both absolute and, above all, relative risks for mortality have increased since 2009. In relative terms, this means that the risk of dying has increased much more in the most economically deprived neighbourhoods than in the more affluent ones. Although the geographical pattern in relative risks for mortality in neighbourhoods in Barcelona remained very stable between 2005 and 2011, socioeconomic inequalities in mortality at an intraurban level have surged since 2009. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/

  4. Consolidación estructural del edificio patrimonial de C/Ripoll, 25 de Barcelona - Ca la Dona

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    Bestraten, S.

    2012-12-01

    Full Text Available The building, found in 25th Ripoll Street, in Barcelona, is listed by the Special Plan for protection of architectural heritage of the Barcelona district, Ciutat Vella. In 2005, the Ca la Dona association with support from all Catalan public administrations, starts a restoration process under a sustainability criteria. An innovative structural intervention is performed consisting in a functional replacement of the existing floorings with cross-laminated timber panel, which, doesn’t change the overall load state of the building, making compatible the structural continuity of the existing load-bearing walls. This project opens a way to the prefabrication of solutions used in architectural restoration, allowing to adapt to regulatory constraints, along with considering current issues, such as, sustainability.

    El edificio de la calle Ripoll nº25 de Barcelona está catalogado por el Plan especial de protección del patrimonio arquitectónico del distrito barcelonés de Ciutat Vella. En 2005 la asociación Ca la Dona con el apoyo de todas las administraciones públicas catalanas inicia un proceso de rehabilitación con criterios de sostenibilidad. Se realiza una intervención estructural innovadora consistente en una sustitución funcional de forjados existentes con panel de madera contralaminada, que en general no modifica el estado de cargas del edificio haciendo compatible la continuidad estructural de los muros de carga existentes. Este proyecto abre un camino a la prefabricación en la rehabilitación arquitectónica, que permite su adaptación a los requerimientos normativos actuales y a su vez integra consideraciones tan actuales como la sostenibilidad.

  5. Experiências espanholas e sua contribuição à rede de recursos psicossociais no Brasil Spanish experiences and their contribution to the network of psychosocial resources in Brazil

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    Magda Dimenstein

    2011-12-01

    Full Text Available Este trabalho visa apresentar algumas experiências e práticas no campo da atenção e reabilitação psicossocial voltadas ao portador de transtornos mentais desenvolvidos em três diferentes regiões da Espanha. Trata-se de um conjunto de ferramentas que vêm viabilizando mudanças consistentes na atenção em saúde mental, as quais se articulam em grandes eixos, pilares fundamentais do processo de reforma psiquiátrica tanto na Espanha quanto no Brasil: redefinição da gestão dos dispositivos institucionais; a perspectiva de continuidade de cuidados; atenção primária como porta de entrada e regulador do sistema; criação de unidades de retaguarda à crise e atenção às emergências e, principalmente, o investimento em programas de reabilitação e apoio comunitário contemplando alternativas de moradia e trabalho.This paper presents some experiences and practices in the field of psychosocial rehabilitation and attention directed to mental disorder developed in three different regions of Spain. This is a set of tools that make possible consistent changes in mental health care, which are linked into long lines, pillars of the psychiatric reform process both in Spain and in Brazil: redefining the management of institutional arrangements, the prospect continuity of care, primary care as the gateway and system regulator, the creation of units behind the crisis and attention to emergencies and, especially, investment in rehabilitation programs and community support contemplating alternative housing and work

  6. La oposición al régimen franquista en Barcelona. Algunas muestras entre 1948y 1951

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    Mercedes Vázquez de Prada

    2003-12-01

    Full Text Available This article reviews the sociopolitical and economical situation of Catalonia during the first years of Francoism, specially in Barcelona. It shows some examples of oposition against this regime, which led to the general strike of March, 1951. First of all, it studies the position of the textile industry businessmen and the economical and social situation at the late forties. It analyze the opposition to a «single party» politics in the first local elections of November, 1948, and the high abstention. It shows that the visit of Franco to Barcelona in an atmosphere of economical crisis failed to gain support for his regime. Finally, it explains how the general strike of March, 1951, marked a turning point in the crisis and it provoked a change in the policies of the government. The sources used in this research belong to the archives of the count of Fontanar.

  7. Compromisso Desportivo: Passado, presente e futuro em Espanha e Portugal

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    Catarina Sousa

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available El presente trabajo tiene como principales objetivos establecer los orígenes y abordar los principales resultados d ella investigación desarrollada en el campo del compromiso deportivo, fundamentalmente referido a la península Ibérica, y tratar de sugerir algunos de los principales desafíos futuros que aparecen en esta área de conocimiento. En este sentido, se explica la actual formulación del Modelo de Compromiso Deportivo, desarrollado por Tara Scanlan y su equipo de la UCLA, en el ámbito del Sport Commitment International Scale Development Project, con la intención de explicar porque los deportistas continúan en su práctica deportiva a lo largo del tiempo, presentando el instrumento elaborado por esos autores para poner a prueba el modelo sugerido, y posteriormente adoptado por la mayor parte de los investigadores ene este campo, e.g., el Sport Commitment Questionnaire (SCQ. Además, se explica el proceso de desarrollo de la versión revisada y mejorada de ese instrumento (el Sport Commitment Questionnaire-2; SCQ-2,basado en le método de-centering, que facilita la traducción y adaptación a diferentes idiomas buscando obtener un instrumento válido y fiable, y que se halla actualmente adaptándose a las realidades portuguesa y española. Finalmente, se indican los que se consideran más importantes desafíos para la investigación en esta área: 1 adaptar el SCQ-2 a otros idiomas; 2 investigador el compromiso deportivo en relación a la edad, el género y el nivel competitivo de los deportistas; 3 adaptar el SCQ-2 a diferentes contextos y agentes deportivos; 4 analizar la relación del compromiso deportivo con otras variables, y 5 desarrollar un instrumento de observación del compromiso deportivo.

  8. El impacto de las externalidades producidas por el turismo sobre los valores inmobiliarios y la segmentación del mercado residencial en Barcelona

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    Pérez Bastidas, Victoria Beatriz; Marmolejo Duarte, Carlos Ramiro

    2014-01-01

    Esta investigación estudia el impacto de las externalidades que son generadas por los flujos y atracciones turísticas sobre la formación de los valores inmobiliarios de los distritos de Ciutat Vella, Eixample, Sants Montjuic y Sant Martí, y la segmentación residencial en Barcelona. La hipótesis planteada es que los corredores y atracciones turísticas en Barcelona crean externalidades que inciden positivamente sobre el valor de los inmuebles turísticos y de forma contraria sobre los residentes...

  9. Estudio del comportamiento alimentario en escolares de 11 a 13 años de Barcelona Study on feeding behavior in school children aged 11-13 years from Barcelona

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    M. Castells Cuixart; C. Capdevila Prim; T. Girbau Solà; C. Rodríguez Caba

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    Objetivo: Conocer el entorno familiar, hábitos cotidianos y características sociales que pueden influir en la alimentación de los escolares de 11 a 13 años. Metodología: Estudio descriptivo transversal realizado en 65 escuelas de la provincia de Barcelona, durante el segundo trimestre del 2000, obteniendo una muestra de 2.354 escolares encuestados por 73 farmacéuticos. El cuestionario está compuesto por 39 preguntas referentes al entorno familiar, hábitos alimentarios y de estilo de vida como...

  10. La mirada de Eduald Serra. El artista a través de las colecciones de cerámica japonesa del museo etnológico de Barcelona

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    Gómez Pradas, Muriel

    2013-09-01

    Full Text Available The main objective of this paper is to analyze how the aesthetic preferences, sensitivity and particular “gaze” of the sculptor Eudald Serra (Barcelona 1911-2002 define and characterize the Japanese collection acquired by him for the Ethnological Museum of Barcelona, and influenced his own work as well. Precisely the knowledge and study of this collection, specifically the Japanese pottery, allowed us to understand both the man and the artist. His personal Travel Diary along with other unpublished materials have been essential in carrying out this work.El principal objetivo de este artículo es mostrar como las preferencias estéticas, la sensibilidad, y, muy especialmente, la particular “mirada” del escultor Eudald Serra (Barcelona 1911-2002 definen y caracterizan de una manera muy concreta la colección japonesa que este artista adquirió para el Museo Etnológico de Barcelona e influyó también en su propia obra. Ha sido precisamente el conocimiento y estudio de dicha colección, concretamente el grupo de obras de cerámica japonesa, la que nos ha permitido conocer tanto al hombre como al artista, habiendo sido absolutamente imprescindible para ellos el trabajo con material inédito como sus Diarios personales de viaje.

  11. Smart Tourism y Patrimonio Literario: Los casos de Edimburgo y Barcelona

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    Jordi Arcos Pumarola

    2016-07-01

    Full Text Available The aim of this paper is to evaluate the opportunities that arise from the creation of products based on mobile technology that help to interpret the literary heritage in tourist destinations. In first place and as state of the art, a research about mobile applications in Edinburgh, which is a consolidated touristic literary destination, is carried out. The conclusions of this research, together with the principal ideas of the Educating Cities movement, let the authors value, from a socioeducative and touristic perspective, the viability and the opportunities that come from the creation of these products in the context of Barcelona.

  12. La Unidad de Terapia de Conducta de la Universidad de Barcelona

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    Saldaña García, Carmina; Bados López, Arturo; García-Grau, Eugeni; Balaguer, Gemma; Fusté-Escolano, Adela

    2009-01-01

    El trabajo presenta la Unidad de Terapia de Conducta (UTC) de la Universidad de Barcelona. La UTC nació en 1985 con la voluntad de formar a los psicólogos recién licenciados en la práctica profesional desde el modelo cognitivoconductual y crear un Servicio Clínico en la Facultad de Psicología que permitiera una mejora de la calidad de las actividades docentes e investigadoras a través de la asistencia psicológica a personas de dentro y fuera de la UB que así lo solicitaran. En el trabajo se d...

  13. Ciudadanos del este de Europa consumidores de drogas en Barcelona Injecting drug users from Eastern Europe in Barcelona, Spain

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    M. González

    2003-06-01

    Full Text Available Desde mayo de 1999 hasta mayo de 2001, hemos contactado en el SAPS (Servicio de Atención Social y Sanitaria de Barcelona con usuarios de drogas de países del este de Europa. Acuden a centros terapéuticos gratuitos, aunque pagan por la organización del viaje unos 500 euros. Son jóvenes entre 18 y 30 años y mantienen el contacto con sus familiares. Conocen los riesgos de transmisión de enfermedades, pero suelen reutilizar las jeringas. Es alta la prevalencia de hepatitis C (92% y B (62% y menor la de infección por el VIH (19%. Si no abandonan las drogas, el retorno es un fracaso y tienen dificultades para proseguir los tratamientos con metadona o antirretrovirales. La respuesta asistencial ha de adecuarse a sus necesidades. Se debe procurar la mediación cultural y la información en los lugares de origen, supervisar los centros terapéuticos y diseñar alternativas a los abandonos. Hay que desarrollar la colaboración internacional, estimular programas de disminución de riesgos derivados del consumo y evitar que del tratamiento se haga un comercio.From May 1999 to May 2001, we made contact with injecting drug users from Eastern Europe in the healthcare and prevention service of the Red Cross (servicio de atención y prevención sociosanitaria [SAPS] in Barcelona (Spain. The users attended free therapeutic centers, but paid approximately 500 € for the trip. The users were aged between 18 and 30 years old and maintained family contact. The knew the risk of disease transmission, but often exchanged needles. The prevalence of hepatitis C (92% and B (62% was high but less than that of HIV (19%. If they did not stop taking drugs their return would be a failure and they would have difficulties in following methadone and antiretroviral treatments in their countries of origin. The healthcare provided in these centers should respond to user' needs: cultural mediation should be sought, as well as information from users' countries of origin

  14. Emprendimiento y supervivencia empresarial en época de crisis: El caso de Barcelona

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    Marian Buil Fabregá

    2016-02-01

    Full Text Available Objeto: El trabajo que se presenta en este artículo es la primera parte de un estudio sobre las estrategias llevadas a cabo por las empresas en épocas de crisis. Este primer artículo analiza las características financieras de las empresas creadas en Barcelona en los inicios de la crisis y que han sobrevivido durante la misma. Este estudio pretende contrastar las características financieras de las empresas analizadas con las medidas llevadas a cabo para mantener su rentabilidad en épocas de crisis y determinar si existen patrones de comportamiento distintos entre empresas creadas en sectores industriales y no industriales. Diseño/metodología: Análisis estadístico-descriptivo de las medias y variaciones de los principales indicadores financieros y de recursos humanos que se relacionan con  las medidas tomadas por las empresas  en época de crisis. La base de datos utilizada ha sido el SABI y el período de referencia 2008-2013. Aportaciones y resultados: Las empresas creadas en Barcelona en los inicios de la crisis y que han sobrevivido presentan algunos rasgos comunes: muestran un EBITDA positivo, los recursos propios constituyen una fuente relevante de financiación, tienden a reducir su nivel de endeudamiento o se disminuye inversión. Los ratios de la rentabilidad financiera son muy bajos ya que el patrimonio neto de la empresa es alto y la deuda es baja. Referente a los indicadores de recursos humanos, nos indican la importancia de las empresas de nueva creación en la generación de empleo y sus tasas de productividad son altas. Valor añadido: Determinar las características financieras de las empresas creadas en los inicios de la crisis y que sobreviven en Barcelona en época de crisis para determinar si siguen medidas para mantener su rentabilidad. La existencia de un conjunto de medidas estadísticamente significativas puede servir de guía a los emprendedores del futuro así como de las políticas públicas de apoyo a los

  15. On the spatial distribution and evolution of ultrafine particles in Barcelona

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    Full Text Available Sources and evolution of ultrafine particles were investigated both horizontally and vertically in the large urban agglomerate of Barcelona, Spain. Within the SAPUSS project (Solving Aerosol Problems by Using Synergistic Strategies, a large number of instruments was deployed simultaneously at different monitoring sites (road, two urban background, regional background, urban tower 150 m a.s.l., urban background tower site 80 m a.s.l. during a 4 week period in September–October 2010. Particle number concentrations (N>5 nm are highly correlated with black carbon (BC at all sites only under strong vehicular traffic influences. By contrast, under cleaner atmospheric conditions (low condensation sink, CS such correlation diverges towards much higher N/BC ratios at all sites, indicating additional sources of particles including secondary production of freshly nucleated particles. Size-resolved aerosol distributions (N10–500 as well as particle number concentrations (N>5 nm allow us to identify three types of nucleation and growth events: (1 a regional type event originating in the whole study region and impacting almost simultaneously the urban city of Barcelona and the surrounding urban background area; (2 a regional type event impacting only the regional background area but not the urban agglomerate; (3 an urban type event which originates only within the city centre but whose growth continues while transported away from the city to the regional background. Furthermore, during these clean air days, higher N are found at tower level than at ground level only in the city centre whereas such a difference is not so pronounced at the remote urban background tower. In other words, this study suggests that the column of air above the city ground level possesses the optimal combination between low CS and high vapour source, hence enhancing the concentrations of freshly nucleated

  16. Anàlisi de les deformacions del terreny i resposta dels edificis associats a l'excavació de la tuneladora EPB de la L9 del Metro de Barcelona

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    A L’agost de 2003, comença l’execució de la nova línia 9 del metro de Barcelona, de 43 km, de longitud. Una tuneladora EPB (Earth Pressure Balance) de 12 metres de diàmetre és l’encarregada de perforar el subsòl de Badalona i Barcelona (T4B - Gorg - Sagrera TAV). El tram detallat en aquesta tesina va del p.k. 3+000 al 2+200, analitzant el pas de la tuneladora pel C/St. Adrià, de Barcelona. Després de la descripció geològica de la zona i de les tècniques que s’apliquen com a ...

  17. Pabellón de exposiciones del lNI Barcelona

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    Full Text Available Designed to exhibit the activities of the Organization, the exhibition hall is situated within the area of the Official and International Exhibition in Barcelona. It occupies a site of 3,000 m2. It consists of two floors, with a totally built surface of 3,416 m2 and the criteria that have been followed are: to plan and construct a building with a clear function; flexible adaptability; elegant in its aesthetic look, and economic to construct and maintain. The hall has different zones for permanent exhibitions and temporary exhibitions; offices, movie hall. W.Cs., bar, closets, information computers, telephones and basement-storage- room, with direct entry for heavy vehicles. The characteristic feature of the hall is that is is constructed of poststressed unfaced concrete, composed of seven columns and girders, of 1.60 m in diameter, of a 7 m height and spaced at a distance of 40 m from each other.Destinado a exponer las actividades del Organismo, está emplazado en el recinto de la Feria Oficial e Internacional de Muestras de Barcelona. Ocupa un solar de 3.000 m2. Consta de dos plantas, con una superficie construida total de 3.416 m2, entre las dos, y los criterios seguidos han sido: proyectar y construir un edificio claro en su funcionamiento; flexible en su adaptabilidad; trascendente en su aspecto estético, y económico en su construcción y en su conservación. Dispone de ámbitos diferentes para exposiciones permanentes y monográficas; oficinas, sala de proyección, servicios, bar, aseos, información, ordenadores, teléfonos y sótano-almacén, con entrada directa para vehículos pesados. Es característica la estructura de hormigón postesado visto, compuesta por siete pórticos de sección circular, de 1,60 m de diámetro, en vigas y pilares, con luz de 40 m y unos 7 m de altura, situados a 6 m entre ejes.

  18. De la perrera municipal al centro de acogida de animales de compañía de Barcelona From the municipal dog pound to the pet shelter in Barcelona, Spain

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    V. Peracho

    2003-12-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar la evolución de la política y los servicios de salud pública relativos a los animales de compañía en la ciudad de Barcelona de 1983 a 2001. Partiendo de una actividad centrada en la custodia y la eutanasia de los animales sin dueño de Barcelona, y ofertando también servicios al resto de la provincia, se formula un Plan de Animales de Compañía para la ciudad y se reorienta la actividad, centrándola en los límites estrictos del municipio y el estímulo de la adopción. Se busca la participación de profesionales y entidades proteccionistas, se remodelan las instalaciones, se fomenta la tenencia responsable de animales, se crean colonias urbanas controladas de gatos y se estimulan las adopciones, redefiniendo la actividad con una mayor orientación al cliente. La evolución de la actividad desde 1998 refleja una notable disminución en el volumen de animales custodiados, así como en la proporción de los sacrificados. Esta disminución puede reflejar una mejora en el problema de los animales abandonados. Estos cambios se han traducido en una modificación positiva de las relaciones con los medios de comunicación y las entidades proteccionistas.This article aims to present changes in public health policy and services related to pet dogs and cats in the city of Barcelona from 1983 to 2001. Initially the center's activity was limited to the custody and euthanasia of stray animals, serving not only the city but also the rest of the province. With the formulation of a city Plan for Pet Animals, the activities were redirected, concentrating on services within the city limits and stimulating adoption. Participation of both professional and humane organizations was sought, premises were renovated, responsible ownership of animals was promoted, controlled urban colonies of cats were established, and adoptions become the cornerstone of policy, centering the activity of the shelter toward its clients

  19. Academic cheating and gender differences in Barcelona (Spain

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    Ramón Cladellas

    2013-07-01

    Full Text Available The aim of this paper is to present the issue of academic cheating, describe its causes, and examine the obstacles this behaviour creates for learning. The research was carried out with 306 students from Barcelona (Spain which were administered both with a psycho educational interview and a questionnaire. Results are similar to those from other countries and show that more than half of the students are in the habit of frequently cheating, and that boys cheat significantly more often than girls. To finish, the text suggests teaching strategies to control academic cheating in educational institutions, such as: Being aware of the problem and taking the decision to tackle it, including ethics tuition in the curricular content, teaching summarising and rephrasing techniques, frequently revising students’ writings, and last but not least, being very strict with deadlines and not accepting unwarranted excuses repeatedly made by students for not observing them.

  20. Cerdà and Barcelona: The need for a new city and service provision

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    Montserrat Pallares Barbera

    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available This paper examines Ildefons Cerdà’s 1860 Plan for the Urban Expansion of Barcelona; specifically, how and why it was conceived in a unique way, in which the provision of services to the population was an important part. Cerdà based his expansion proposal on an in depth socio statistical study of old Barcelona’s population conditions. The high mortality rates of the working class population and poor health and education conditions pushed Cerdà to design a new type of urban planning, which he defined as “urbanism”. In his proposal for the new city, he planned the location of services such as marketplaces, schools and hospitals. The first part of this paper introduces the urban and political preconditions of Barcelona and the statistics on which Cerdà based his contribution. The second part uses location theory and a geographic information system (GIS to analyse the pattern of location and the population served by markets and hospitals. In addition, topographic maps from 1926 and 1975 are used to study the development of the expansion up to when it was fully developed. The evolution of the city differed from Cerdà’s proposal, partly due to unexpected increases in population density, the built environment, and higher amounts of building occupation. Nevertheless, Cerdà’s layout of streets and avenues has prevailed.

  1. População estelar jovem em galáxias irregulares próximas

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    Guimarães, T. A.; Telles, E.

    2003-08-01

    A análise do conteúdo estelar de galáxias próximas através da fotometria das suas estrelas resolvidas nos fornece informações importantes sobre a história de formação estelar e os processos de formação estelar em galáxias, que estão diretamente ligados ao estudo de evolução de galáxias. Quando nenhuma estrela puder ser resolvida o método mais poderoso consiste na análise do conteúdo estelar integrado das galáxias através das suas cores integradas em conjunto com informação espectroscópica que combinados com modelos de síntese evolutiva podem restringir simultaneamente a função de massa inicial (IMF) e a taxa de formação estelar (SFR). Nesse contexto, galáxias do tipo tardio, em particular, irregulares, são relevantes por várias razões: elas são objetos relativamente simples, com alta atividade de formação estelar e são objetos relativamente jovens (geralmente apresentam baixas abundâncias de elementos pesados e grande quantidade de gás). Apresentamos uma análise fotométrica de uma amostra de 7 galáxias do tipo tardio do universo local (NGC 2366, NGC 4395, NGC 4656, NGC 4214, NGC 4236, HOII, IC2574) que foram observadas com uma boa resolução espacial nas bandas B, V e R no telescópio Isaac Newton de 2.5m de Roque de los Muchachos nas Ilhas Canárias, Espanha. A distribuição espacial da população estelar jovem dessas galáxias é discutida sobre os pontos de vista dos íindices de cor integrados e dos seus diagramas cor magnitude, que comparados com isócronas teóricas, nos fornecem informações sobre os eventos de formação estelar, como por exemplo, indicações sobre a idade dos mesmos. As principais conclusões do trabalho podem ser resumidas em: (i) As galáxias irregulares possuem formação estelar recente (FE) espalhada ocorrendo nos últimos 50 Manos; (ii) A formação estelar em galáxias irregulares não é auto-propagante em escalas globais ( > 100 pc) ; (iii) A FE pode ser auto-regulável em escalas

  2. Experiência inicial em málaga (Espanha) com prótese aórtica CoreValve para tratamento de estenose aórtica sintomática grave

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    Hernández-García,José M.; Muñoz García,Antonio J.; Alonso-Briales,Juan H.; Jiménez-Navarro,Manuel F.; Domínguez-Franco,Antonio J.; Rodríguez-Bailón,Isabel; Hernández,Paula; Olalla-Mercadé,Eduardo; Teresa-Galván,Eduardo de

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    INTRODUÇÃO: A prevalência de estenose aórtica grave vem crescendo em decorrência do aumento da expectativa de vida. Alguns pacientes não se beneficiam do tratamento cirúrgico por causa das comorbidades associadas. Apresentamos os resultados de nossa experiência no tratamento percutâneo da estenose aórtica. MÉTODO: Estudo prospectivo, realizado entre abril de 2008 e fevereiro de 2009, em que 31 pacientes consecutivos com estenose aórtica grave sintomática e que apresentavam alto risco cirúrgic...

  3. Synoptic analysis of heat waves in the Barcelona city (Catalonia, Spain) during 21st century

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    Amaro, Jéssica; Peña, Juan Carlos; Miró, Josep Ramon; Aran, Montserrat

    2017-04-01

    The impact of extremely warm episodes on health has been analysed by a large number of studies conducted in different countries and cities, showing that heat waves events (HWE) can cause an abrupt increase in mortality. A HWE was defined as a 7-day sequence following a key-day labelled by the 95th percentile of Barcelona daily mortality (see Peña et al., 2015). The aim of this study is to identify synoptic patterns associated to HWE in Barcelona over the 21st century and evaluate the impact and possible mitigations. To achieve it, a multivariate analysis (MVA) integrating different atmospheric levels (sea level pressure, temperature at 850 hPa and geopotential at 500 hPa) was undertaken. The observed data used for this study was the 20th Century Reanalysis. The Max Planck Institute Earth system model was used to study two scenarios (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5) during the 21st century. The model was calibrated given the variability in the climate scenario, using the Quantile-Quantile mapping transformation (Q-Q). The MVA applied to the observed period (1990-2015) distinguish three main synoptic patterns: two dynamic configurations produced by southern fluxes related to an Atlantic low, associated with HWE recorded in southern Europe, and a third pattern identified by a stagnation situation related to persistent anticyclone periods. These patterns were also detected in the control simulated period (1961-2005) after the Q-Q calibration, preserving, therefore, the climatic variability: the number of HWE during the warm period (1990-2005) is twice more than during the cold period (1976-1989) due to an intensification of the warm masses. In the RCP 4.5 scenario (2006-2100 period) a positive and significant trend is shown in synoptic patterns which provoke HWE in Barcelona, especially during August; in the RCP 8.5 scenario there is no significant trend, but the intensification of the warm masses is higher.

  4. Los Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona, 25 años después (2

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    Francesc Solanellas

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    Full Text Available En el artículo inicial de la serie se realizó una primera aproximación al legado y al impacto de los Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona realizados hace 25 años; en este segundo trabajo de revisión tratamos de profundizar en el impacto que estos tuvieron para la ciudad y el país. En el anterior, se llevó a cabo un análisis económico, social y deportivo de lo que se ha considerado el modelo Barcelona; ahora intentamos profundizar y sobre todo realizar análisis comparados con otros países para evaluar si ese impacto fue tan relevante como creíamos. Este análisis económico se basa en el estudio de variables tales como el número de turistas (incremento entre 1992 y 2015, el número de visitantes internacionales durante este periodo, el número de hoteles o el número de pasajeros recibidos. En el análisis deportivo se hace un exhaustivo análisis comparado de los resultados olímpicos obtenidos en diferentes sedes valorando la participación, el número y tipo de medallas, y la clasificación conseguida según el caso. Desde el punto de vista social, se profundiza en el deporte escolar valorando algunas de las variables de prácticas deportivas en las escuelas. De acuerdo con los resultados del anterior artículo, y después de un análisis en profundidad y comparado, se puede afirmar que el incremento del número de visitantes en los últimos 25 años en Barcelona es superior al de la mayoría de ciudades de referencia. A nivel deportivo también se aprecia que el número de medallas fue, proporcionalmente, mayor en España que en otros países organizadores

  5. The Bernades herbarium in the Botanic Institute of Barcelona (BC

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    Ibáñez, N.

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    Full Text Available The BC-Bernades herbarium is one of the oldest collections conserved in the Botanical Institute of Barcelona. It contains part of the field collections of Miquel Bernades i Mainader and Miquel Bernades i Clarís, doctors of medicine and botanists of Catalonian origin living in Madrid in the 18th century. The collection consists of 817 sheets, the complete list provided in the annexe. We also present information concerning the localities of certain specific recollections, the taxonomic groups and families, as well as a list of sheets of special interest. This list contains witness of cornfield weed now very rare or extinct in Iberian lands, such as Hymenocarpos circinatus (L. Savi or Securigera securidaca (L. Degen & Dörfl , and also some of the first witness known from Spain of introduced plants, such as Aster cordifolius L. or Bidens bipinnata L.

    [es] El herbario BC-Bernades es una de las colecciones más antiguas conservadas en el Instituto Botánico de Barcelona. Contiene parte de las recolecciones de Miquel Bernades y Mainader y Miquel Bernades y Clarís, médicos y botánicos catalanes del siglo XVIII establecidos en Madrid. Consta de 817 pliegos, la relación de los cuales presentamos en un anexo. También mostramos datos sobre las localidades de recolección, grupos taxonómicos y familias presentes, y una relación de pliegos de interés. Entre estos aparecen testimonios de plantas arvenses extinguidas o muy raras en tierras ibéricas como Hymenocarpos circinatus (L. Savi o Securigera securidaca (L. Degen & Dörfl , y también algunos de los primeros testimonios conocidos en España de plantas introducidas como Aster cordifolius L. o Bidens bipinnata L. [ct] L’herbari BC-Bernades és una de les col·leccions més antigues de les conservades a l’Institut Botànic de Barcelona. Conté part de les recol·leccions de Miquel Bernades i Mainader i Miquel Bernades

  6. Conversos i jueus: cohesió i solidaritat. Necessitat d’una recerca

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    Hernando, Josep

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    The disturbances of 1391 in Barcelona provoked conversions in mass of Jews. In this article there is exposed the need of an investigation based on very abundant documentation preserved in the files. This documentation shows the sudden step of a majority of Jewish population to a majority of converted. Besides this documentation demonstrates the maintenance of the familiar cohesion between jewish members and converted members. The <em>Registra ordinatiorum em>of the diocesan file of Barcelona allow to raise the question of if the access to the clergy of the converted ones is a test of the sincerity of his conversion.



    El dia 5 d’agost de 1391 es produïa l’assalt al call major de Barcelona. Immediatament començaren les conversions massives. En aquest article s’exposa la necessitat d’una recerca sobre la població conversa basada en la molt abundosa documentació existent en els arxius barcelonins. Aquesta documentació ens mostra el canvi radical al sí de la comunitat jueva de Barcelona: d’una majoria de jueus a una majoria de conversos. Malgrat tot, es va mantenir la cohesió familiar entre membres jueus i membres conversos. Per altra banda, els <em>Registra ordinatorum em>conservats a l’Arxiu Diocesà de Barcelona permeten fer-nos la pregunta de si l’accés al clergat per part de conversos és una prova de la sinceritat de llur conversió.

  7. A evolução da ciência da informação a partir de conceitos-sinônimos empregados na obra ciência da informação ou informática?

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    Marco Donizete Paulino da Silva

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available Este trabalho foi desenvolvido a partir de uma análise bibliográfica sobre artigos que compõem o livro Informática ou Ciência da Informação?, organizado por Hagar Espanha Gomes, em 1980. Estrutura-se como projeto de revisão histórica em que se narra as impressões estabelecidas durante leitura da obra, evidenciando os termos considerados relevantes e coletando-os para análise posterior do contexto em que estes foram empregados. Deduziu-se, dessa análise, a forma como a Ciência da Informação foi sendo reconhecida como disciplina independente da Biblioteconomia, assim como os níveis de elaboração de cada época a partir dos termos empregados para designá-la.

  8. Migración, transnacionalismo y multiculturalismo. La vinculación de los emigrados uruguayos en Barcelona con su país de origen. Migration, Transnationalism and Multiculturalism. The bond of Uruguayan young immigrants in Barcelona with their country of origin

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    Felipe Arocena

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    Full Text Available Las preguntas que guían este trabajo son fundamentalmente dos: ¿de qué manera los jóvenes uruguayos emigrados en Barcelona se han integrado en su nuevo país de destino? y ¿cómo se vinculan con su país de origen viviendo fuera de fronteras? Las conclusiones generales, influidas por las teorías del multiculturalismo y el transnacionalismo, también son dos. El análisis sugiere que un número significativo de los inmigrantes uruguayos en España tiende a desarrollar estrategias de integración en el país de acogida en paralelo con la recreación de su identidad uruguaya y su sentido de pertenencia al país de origen. Este proceso termina conformando una nueva ‘identidad guionada’ que permite que se construyan sólidos puentes de vinculación entre la nación uruguaya que vive afuera y adentro de fronteras.This paper will answer two questions: how young Uruguayan immigrants in Barcelona have integrated to their new country of destiny?, and how they relate to their country of origin living overseas? The general conclusions, influenced by the theories of transnationalism and multiculturalism, suggest that a significant number of Uruguayan immigrants in Barcelona develop integration strategies in their new country as they recreate in a parallel way their Uruguayan identity and their sense of belonging to the old homeland. In this process they conform a new hyphenated identity, which enables them to build solid bridges between the Uruguayan nation living inside and outside borders.

  9. Building a panel data set on fuel stations located in the Spanish regional areas of Madrid and Barcelona

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    Jacint Balaguer

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    Full Text Available The data described in this article were collected daily over the period June 10, 2010, to November 25, 2012, from the website of the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. The database includes information about fuel stations regarding to their prices (both gross and net of taxes, brand, location (latitude and longitude, and postal code in the Spanish provinces of Madrid and Barcelona. Moreover, obtaining the postal codes has allowed us to select those stations that are operating within the metropolitan areas of Madrid and Barcelona. By considering those fuel stations that uninterruptedly provided prices during the entire period, the data can be especially useful to explore the dynamics of prices in fuel markets. This is the case of Balaguer and Ripollés (2016, “Asymmetric fuel price responses under heterogeneity” [1], who, taking into account the presence of the potential heterogeneity of the behaviour of fuel stations, used this statistical information to perform an analysis on asymmetric fuel price responses.

  10. Plano de Contas e Convergência aos Padrões Internacionais: Estudo Comparativo Entre as Propostas dos Governos Brasileiro e Espanhol

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    Poliana Alves de Araújo Moura

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    Full Text Available Na Administração Pública, a relação de contas tem papel importante para o adequado registro dos atos e fatos, bem como para a geração de informações, sendo desejável uniformidade na linguagem do plano de contas. Considerando as ações do Brasil e da Espanha para a instituição de um plano de contas nacionalmente padronizado, este trabalho tem por objetivo comparar as propostas de plano de contas discutidas pelos dois países e verificar se elas estão alinhadas aos padrões internacionais da contabilidade aplicada ao setor público. Trata-se de ensaio baseado em pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, que identificou como estes países vêm conduzindo o processo de convergência no setor público com relação à estrutura de suas contas, tendo como referencial as Normas internacionais de Contabilidade Aplicadas ao Setor Público (IPSAS em inglês. A justificativa para o estudo está na comparação de propostas de plano de contas de dois países pertencentes a continentes e blocos econômicos distintos, mas que possuem aspectos culturais e até mesmo línguas (português e espanhol semelhantes. O estudo mostrou que a proposta do Governo brasileiro está mais alinhada aos padrões internacionais, e que, comparativamente, há diferenças significativas entre esta e a proposta do Governo espanhol. Como o IFAC vem considerando tanto o Brasil como a Espanha em processo de convergência, há de se discutir se a estratégia dos países em atender as suas tipicidades locais na construção dos seus planos de contas não prejudicará o processo de adoção das IPSAS.

  11. La base de dades i servei de sumaris a la Biblioteca de la Universitat de Barcelona

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    Es presenta el servei de sumaris de la Biblioteca de la Universitat de Barcelona. Els usuaris del servei poden consultar, a través de la web de la biblioteca, els sumaris de les revistes subscrites i rebre els que desitgin per correu electrònic. El servei permet racionalitzar la inversió en subscripcions i mantenir l'usuari puntualment informat.

  12. Traffic-Related Air Pollution, Noise at School, and Behavioral Problems in Barcelona Schoolchildren: A Cross-Sectional Study.

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    Forns, Joan; Dadvand, Payam; Foraster, Maria; Alvarez-Pedrerol, Mar; Rivas, Ioar; López-Vicente, Mònica; Suades-Gonzalez, Elisabet; Garcia-Esteban, Raquel; Esnaola, Mikel; Cirach, Marta; Grellier, James; Basagaña, Xavier; Querol, Xavier; Guxens, Mònica; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J; Sunyer, Jordi

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    The available evidence of the effects of air pollution and noise on behavioral development is limited, and it overlooks exposure at schools, where children spend a considerable amount of time. We aimed to investigate the associations of exposure to traffic-related air pollutants (TRAPs) and noise at school on behavioral development of schoolchildren. We evaluated children 7-11 years of age in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) during 2012-2013 within the BREATHE project. Indoor and outdoor concentrations of elemental carbon (EC), black carbon (BC), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) were measured at schools in two separate 1-week campaigns. In one campaign we also measured noise levels inside classrooms. Parents filled out the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) to assess child behavioral development, while teachers completed the attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder criteria of the DSM-IV (ADHD-DSM-IV) list to assess specific ADHD symptomatology. Negative binomial mixed-effects models were used to estimate associations between the exposures and behavioral development scores. Interquartile range (IQR) increases in indoor and outdoor EC, BC, and NO2 concentrations were positively associated with SDQ total difficulties scores (suggesting more frequent behavioral problems) in adjusted multivariate models, whereas noise was significantly associated with ADHD-DSM-IV scores. In our study population of 7- to 11-year-old children residing in Barcelona, exposure to TRAPs at school was associated with increased behavioral problems in schoolchildren. Noise exposure at school was associated with more ADHD symptoms. Forns J, Dadvand P, Foraster M, Alvarez-Pedrerol M, Rivas I, López-Vicente M, Suades-Gonzalez E, Garcia-Esteban R, Esnaola M, Cirach M, Grellier J, Basagaña X, Querol X, Guxens M, Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Sunyer J. 2016. Traffic-related air pollution, noise at school, and behavioral problems in Barcelona schoolchildren: a cross-sectional study. Environ Health Perspect

  13. Impacto del tabaquismo y del consumo excesivo de alcohol en la mortalidad de la población de la ciudad de Barcelona: 1983-1998 Impact of smoking and alcohol consumption on mortality in the population of Barcelona [Spain]: 1983-1998

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    M. Jané

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    Full Text Available Objetivos: Analizar la mortalidad atribuible al tabaquismo y al consumo excesivo de alcohol, así como su evolución, en la ciudad de Barcelona entre 1983 y 1998. Métodos: Se incluyen todas las defunciones de las personas residentes en Barcelona desde 1983 a 1998. Los datos poblacionales se han obtenido de los Padrones de Habitantes. La mortalidad atribuible al tabaquismo y al consumo de alcohol se obtiene calculando las Fracciones Atribuibles Poblacionales a partir de los riesgos relativos de estudios previos en la población de los EE.UU. Resultados: En 1998 se produjeron 2.205 muertes atribuibles al hábito tabáquico, lo que representó el 13,8% de la mortalidad en la población de 35 años o más, y una reducción del 9,6% respecto a 1983. Durante el período 1983-1998 aumentó, en varones y mujeres, la mortalidad por cáncer de pulmón atribuible al tabaquismo (155,84/100.000 y 9,39/100.000 habitantes en 1998, respectivamente y la enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC (95,82 y 11,29/100.000 habitantes en 1998. La mortalidad por consumo de alcohol en 1998 representó el 4,3% de la mortalidad total, reduciéndose en un 26% desde 1983. La cirrosis hepática siguió siendo la primera causa de muerte atribuible al consumo de alcohol en varones en 1998, aunque su importancia relativa disminuyó (17,1% de la mortalidad atribuible al consumo de alcohol en 1998, 24,3% en 1983. Conclusiones: La mortalidad atribuible al hábito tabáquico y al consumo excesivo de alcohol ha descendido en la ciudad de Barcelona durante el período de estudio. Asimismo, se ha incrementado la importancia relativa de la mortalidad atribuible al tabaquismo para el cáncer de pulmón y la EPOC en ambos sexos, mientras que se ha reducido la proporción de mortalidad atribuible al consumo excesivo de alcohol para las cirrosis hepáticas en el caso de los varones.Objectives: To analyze the mortality attributable to smoking and alcohol consumption in the city of

  14. María Acaso - Perspectivas: Situación Actual de la Educación en los Museos de Artes Visuales

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    Susana Gomes da Silva

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    Full Text Available Este livro é simultaneamente um reflexo de e um contributo para o processo de mudança vivido nas últimas décadas no campo da educação nos museus de artes visuais em Espanha, assumindo-se não como um repositório de respostas e soluções, mas como um espaço compilador de problemáticas, desafios e perspetivas, um território questionador e frutífero para a reflexão sobre os efeitos e os rumos de um campo e uma profissão em profunda redefinição e transformação, um lugar para pensar, desenhar e dese...

  15. [Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality over a twenty-two-year period in the city of Barcelona (Spain)].

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    Dalmau-Bueno, Albert; García-Altés, Anna; Marí-Dell'Olmo, Marc; Pérez, Katherine; Kunst, Anton E; Borrell, Carme

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    To analyze the trend in socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause mortality in Barcelona from 1983 to 2004. We performed an ecological study of trends over 4 cross-sections (1983-1988, 1989-1994, 1995-1999 and 2000-2004), with the basic health area (BHA) as the unit of analysis. The study population consisted of men and women aged 20 years or more living in Barcelona. The information sources were the mortality registry, the municipal census and the census of inhabitants and dwellings. The age- and sex-specific mortality rate (ASMR) for all causes was used as the dependent variable. As the independent variable, a composite index of socioeconomic deprivation of the BHA was calculated; BHAs were grouped in quartiles according to the values on the index. Poisson models were adjusted to estimate the relative risk of mortality from all causes in the 4 groups of BHA, stratified by age groups and sex. In all the study periods, inequalities in mortality were found, depending on the BHA of residence, both for men and for women: the ASMR of the most deprived BHAs were greater than those of less deprived BHA, and were greater among men than among women. Likewise, relative risks in the youngest age groups were higher than in the oldest age groups. However, from the second to fourth study periods, inequalities decreased in absolute and relative terms, especially among men. Inequalities in mortality persist in BHA in Barcelona but have decreased over the last 2 decades. Public policies should take this information into account when tackling inequalities among BHA. Copyright 2009 SESPAS. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.

  16. Barcelona Rocks, a mobile app to learn geology in your city

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    Geyer, Adelina; Cabrera, Lluis; Alias, Gemma; Aulinas, Meritxell; Becerra, Margarita; Casadellà, Jordi; Clotet, Roger; Delclós, Xavier; Fernández-Turiel, José-Luis; Tarragó, Marta; Travé, Anna

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    Barcelona Rocks is an application for personal mobile devices suitable for secondary and high school students as well as the general public without a solid background in Earth Sciences. The main objective of this app is to teach Geology using as learning resource our city façades and pavements. Additionally, Barcelona Rocks provides a short explanation about the significance of the appearance of the different rock types at the different historical periods of the city. Although it has been designed as a playful learning resource for secondary school students, the level of knowledge also allows bringing some basic concepts and principles of Earth Sciences to the general public, irrespective of age. This app is intended to provide the degree of interactivity and entertainment required by the different individual users and aims to: (i) Explain the techniques and experiments that allow the user to identify the different rocks, as well as their genesis. (ii) Introduce geology to the youngest users in a more attractive and entertaining way, providing also some information regarding the use of the different ornamental rocks during the different historical periods of the city: roman, medieval, etc. (iii) Provide historical and architectural information of the selected buildings in order to improve the city's historical architectural knowledge of the users. (iv) Show the non-expert public the importance of their country's geology. (v) Develop of outreach and dissemination resources taking advantage of the versatile and potent mobile application format using also the content as support material for science courses, seminars, or social learning events. (vi) Encourage new generations of Earth Scientists (vii) Promote science and scientific culture of the society, integrating culture and innovation as essential for the emergence of new scientific and technological vocations, promoting critical thinking, understanding of the scientific method and the social interest in science

  17. Risk perception of sexually transmitted infections and HIV in Nigerian commercial sex workers living in Barcelona: a study protocol

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    Coma Auli, Núria; Mejía-Lancheros, Cília; Berenguera, Anna; Mayans, Martí Vall; Lasagabaster, Maider Arando; Pujol-Ribera, Enriqueta

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    Introduction Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV are a serious global public health issue. These diseases are largely preventable, as they are directly and indirectly associated with potentially modifiable factors, including socioeconomic conditions. Sexual transmission is responsible for over 75% of new HIV infections worldwide. Moreover, commercial sex workers and their clients are two of the groups at the highest risk of acquiring and transmitting these infectious diseases, due to an extensive number of sexual encounters and the various factors related to commercial sex situations. This qualitative study aims to deepen the understanding of the risk perception of STIs and HIV and their associated factors in Nigerian commercial sex workers in the city of Barcelona. Methods and analysis This is a qualitative, descriptive, interpretive study based on a social constructivist and phenomenological perspective conducted on a saturated sample of Nigerian commercial sex workers in the city of Barcelona. Data will be collected through semistructured individual and triangular group interviews. Information will be examined using a sociological discourse analysis, allowing us to understand the social and individual factors related to the risk perception of STIs and HIV in commercial sex workers. Discussion Qualitative studies are an important element in identifying individual, social and contextual factors directly or indirectly related to the health/disease process. This qualitative study will provide essential knowledge to improve health promotion, prevention strategies and effective management of STIs both for commercial sex workers and their clients. Ethics This study has been approved by the clinical research ethics committee (CEIC) of IDIAP Jordi Gol in Barcelona, 2012. PMID:23901029

  18. Gobernanza Urbana y Participación Comunitaria. Los Casos de Barcelona, Bilbao y Pamplona (Urban Governance and Community Involvement. Cases of Barcelona, Bilbao and Pamplona

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    Imanol Telleria

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available This article is based on a detailed study of three cases (Barcelona, ​​Pamplona and Bilbao trying to address from a theoretical perspective a more current characterization of urban movements, joining in a framework of analysis the contributions of the American and European schools study of social movements. To do this, we present the results of empirical research conducted in the districts of the three cities and perform a comparison of the most important variables. This research shows that urban movements have become increasing their ability to access aided by the opening of opportunities on local governance (EOP and have driven participatory processes articulated from a communitarian methodology (repertoires, intended to promote democratic management of the city (speech from reticular logic (organization oriented at re-structuring of society, as a prelude to increasing its influence on urban policies. Este artículo se basa en un estudio en profundidad de tres casos (Barcelona, Pamplona y Bilbao tratando de abordar desde una perspectiva teórica una caracterización más actual de los movimientos urbanos, aunando en un marco de análisis los aportes de las escuelas americana y europea de estudio de los movimientos sociales. Para ello, presentamos los resultados de la investigación empírica realizada en los barrios de las tres ciudades y realizamos una comparativa de las variables más importantes. Este estudio demuestra que los movimientos urbanos se han transformado aumentando su capacidad de acceso ayudados por  la apertura de oportunidades provocada por la gobernanza local (EOP y han impulsado procesos participativos que, articulados desde la metodología comunitaria (repertorios, pretenden provocar un impulso de la gestión democrática de la ciudad (discurso a partir de lógicas reticulares (organización orientadas a la re-vertebración de la sociedad, como paso previo al aumento de su  influencia sobre las políticas urbanas

  19. The preface by João Cabral de Melo Neto to Em Va Fer Joan Brossa: Theory and practice of realism in two poets from the post-war.

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    Melcion Mateu

    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available In 1951, the book Em va fer Joan Brossa [Joan Brossa  Made me] was published in Barcelona, with a preface by João Cabral de Melo Neto. It is a useful text to better understand Brossa as well as Cabral; it is a significant text in order to grasp the individual response of these poets to the problem of returning to realism for the early post-war period. A translation of João Cabral de Melo Neto's preface, previously unpublished in Portuguese, is presented here.

  20. La satisfacción de los clientes de los centros deportivos municipales de Barcelona

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    Elasri Ejjaberi, Amal; Triadó i Ivern, Xavier Ma.; Aparicio Chueca, Ma. del Pilar (María del Pilar)

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    El objetivo de este trabajo es identificar y analizar las variables que más influyen en la satisfacción del cliente en los centros deportivos de Barcelona. Los datos fueron recogidos en una encuesta entre los clientes actuales de centros deportivos municipales. Un análisis factorial aplicado a esta información revela cinco dimensiones que subyacen a los múltiples componentes de la oferta de servicios en dichas instalaciones: su calidad, los recursos humanos, la comunicación, el entorno social...

  1. Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality over a twenty-two-year period in the city of Barcelona (Spain) [Veintidós años de evolución de las desigualdades socioeconómicas en la mortalidad en la ciudad de Barcelona

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    A. Dalmau-Bueno (Albert); A. García-Altés (Anna); M. Mardí-Dell'Olmo; K. Pérez (Katherine); A.E. Kunst (Anton); C. Borrell (Carme)

    2010-01-01

    textabstractObjective: To analyze the trend in socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause mortality in Barcelona from 1983 to 2004. Methods: We performed an ecological study of trends over 4 cross-sections (1983-1988, 1989-1994, 1995-1999 and 2000-2004), with the basic health area (BHA) as the unit of

  2. El Plan Especial de transformación urbana del barrio de La Mina, Barcelona, Premio Nacional de Urbanismo

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    Lo que ha ido ocurriendo en el barrio de La Mina en los últimos 30 años es un magnífico ejemplo de las luces y sombras que rodean la gran transformación urbana, económica y social que ha sacudido la ciudad de Barcelona y su entorno en estos decenios.

  3. El comercio de los inmigrantes en el centro histórico de Barcelona en 2004

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    In the last decade the increasing number of foreign immigrants in Catalonia has been especially apparent in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona, where immigrants’ shops have multiplied. The Ciutat Vella immigrant shops have several features such as small size, a long working day and the presence of employed relatives together with other employees of the same origin as that of the employer. The dominant typologies of the shops are: groceries, tele shops, money transfer (for remittances), ba...

  4. Entrevista a Jordi Borja, geógrafo y urbanista. Entrevista a Santiago Cirugeda, arquitecto. Entrevista a Pere Alcober, delegado de deportes del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona.

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    Full Text Available Jordi Borja, nacido en Barcelona, es geógrafo y urbanista. Entre sus publicaciones destaca Local y global, con Manuel Castells (1998, Barcelona, un modelo de transformación urbana (1995, El espacio público, ciudad y ciudadanía, con Zaida Muxi (2001 y La ciudad conquistada (Alianza, 2004. Dirige el Programa de Gestión de la Ciudad en la Universidad Abierta de Catalunya (UOC. Entre muchos otros temas, su interés por el concepto de ciudadanía y espacio público ha sido siempre una constante. La entrevista se realizó el 27 de mayo de 2007. Cuando Santiago Cirugeda aceptó realizar una entrevista para Apunts. Educación Física y Deportes, le propusimos que nos enviara un currículo de presentación a fin que pudiera ser conocido por las personas que la leyeran. He aquí unos fragmentos del mismo: “Estudié arquitectura en la ETSA de Sevilla, donde lo pasé muy bien. Finalmente acabé mi carrera en Barcelona. Desarrollo desde hace 10 años proyectos de subversión en distintos ámbitos de la realidad urbana que me ayuden a sobrellevar esta complicada vida social. Desde ocupaciones sistemáticas de espacios públicos con contenedores, hasta la construcción de prótesis en fachadas, patios, cubiertas e incluso en solares. Todo ello negociando entre la legalidad e ilegalidad, para recordar el enorme control al que estamos sometidos. Realizo proyectos de arquitectura, escribo artículos y participo en diferentes medios docentes y culturales (masters, seminarios, conferencias, workshops, exposiciones, etc... En 2007 presento el libro Situaciones Urbanas, que plantea estrategias legales y demandas, a través de proyectos arquitectónicos” Pere Alcober nos acoge en su despacho del Instituto Barcelona Esports (IBE del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. El día de la entrevista, 27 de septiembre de 2007, el sol entra por las ventanas y fuera se ven árboles, jardines y el cielo azul. Hay mucha tranquilidad. Hablamos durante casi dos horas y no hay

  5. Veintidós años de evolución de las desigualdades socioeconómicas en la mortalidad en la ciudad de Barcelona Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality over a twenty-two-year period in the city of Barcelona (Spain

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    Albert Dalmau-Bueno

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    Full Text Available Objetivo: Analizar la evolución de las desigualdades socioeconómicas en la mortalidad por todas las causas en Barcelona durante los años 1983-2004. Métodos: Estudio ecológico de tendencias con 4 cortes transversales (1983-1988, 1989-1994, 1995-1999 y 2000-2004, con el área básica de salud (ABS como unidad de análisis. La población de estudio fueron los varones y mujeres residentes en Barcelona, de 20 o más años de edad. Las fuentes de información fueron el registro de mortalidad, el padrón municipal y el censo de habitantes y viviendas. Como variable dependiente se utilizó la tasa de mortalidad específica (TME por todas las causas. Como variable independiente se calculó un índice compuesto de privación socioeconómica de las ABS; las ABS se agruparon en cuartiles según los valores del índice. Se ajustaron modelos de Poisson para estimar el riesgo relativo (RR de mortalidad por todas las causas en las 4 agrupaciones de ABS, estratificado por grupos de edad y sexo. Resultados: En todos los períodos de estudio se observan desigualdades en la mortalidad según el ABS de residencia, tanto en varones como en mujeres. Las TME de las ABS con mayor privación socioeconómica fueron mayores que las de aquellas con menor privación, y también fueron mayores en los varones que en las mujeres. Asimismo, los grupos de edad más jóvenes presentan mayor RR de mortalidad que los de edad avanzada. No obstante, las desigualdades disminuyeron tanto en términos absolutos como en términos relativos a partir del segundo período de estudio, especialmente en los varones. Conclusiones: Este estudio ha demostrado que, a pesar de haber desigualdades en mortalidad en las ABS de Barcelona, éstas han disminuido a lo largo de 2 décadas. Las políticas públicas deberían tener en cuenta esta información en el abordaje de las desigualdades entre ABS.Objective: To analyze the trend in socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause mortality in Barcelona

  6. Revisión histórica de la bibliografía gimnástico-deportiva impresa en Barcelona (s. XIX-1910

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    Xavier Torrebadella Flix

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    Full Text Available En este artículo se presenta un repertorio bibliográfico gimnástico-deportivo de 67 obras impresas en Barcelona entre 1820-1910. El trabajo contiene además un estudio bio-bibliográfico genérico y contextualizado de las obras. La localización de las fuentes documentales tienen como punto de partida los estudios recientes del autor. Con ello se pretende contribuir a la organización de la memoria social y a la divulgación del patrimonio documental histórico de la educación física y el deporte. El análisis crítico y contextual de este repertorio pone de relieve el protagonismo que ejerció Barcelona en la difusión del asociacionismo deportivo y de la emergente literatura que acompañó este proceso.

  7. Disseny d’actuacions per a la millora de la mobilitat i de la gestió del transport de superfície a la ciutat de Barcelona

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    Castellví Moyes, Montserrat

    2010-01-01

    L’objectiu d’aquest projecte és fer un anàlisi comparatiu del carril bus de Barcelona amb el de dues ciutats europees, Londres i Brussel·les. Per altra banda també s’aportaran propostes de millora per a un punt conflictiu concret de la xarxa de carril bus de Barcelona, la plaça Francesc Macià. Per la primera part del projecte s’ha hagut de contactar amb les entitats encarregades del transport de Londres (TfL) i de Brussel·les (Stib) per tal de recopilar les dades necessàries ...

  8. A Mediterranean case study of flood evolution: the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona

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    Llasat, Maria Carmen; Gilabert, Joan; Llasat-Botija, Montserrat; Cortès, Maria; Marcos, Raül; Martín-Vide, Juan Pedro; Turco, Marco; Falcón, Lluis

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    Flood risk changes in Mediterranean Region integrate multiple factors, some of them related with the hazard (i.e. rainfall intensity), the vulnerability and exposure (i.e. population or assets), feedback processes that affect both hazard and vulnerability (i.e. urbanization of flood prone areas), mitigation and adaptation measures (i.e. rainwater tanks or early warning systems), and the available information used to estimate flood events (i.e. newspapers or gauged data). Flood events in the West Mediterranean region are usually produced as a consequence of very intense and local precipitation, mainly recorded on late summer and autumn that can give place to flash-floods in little torrential rivers (usually non-permanent flows) or urban floods. The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB), Spain, constitutes a good paradigm of a Mediterranean coast region, with strong urbanization of flood prone areas and high population density in an area crossed by numerous streams. The AMB is constituted by 36 municipalities with a total population above 3.200.000 inhabitants in an extension of 636 km². The major part of the population is concentrated between the Besós River and the Llobregat River, the Littoral Range and the Mediterranean Sea. Although both rivers have experienced catastrophic flood events (i.e. 25 September 1962, 815 deaths; 19-23 September 1971, 19 deaths; October 1987, 8 deaths), the most frequent situation is related with floods in non-permanent streams. Their main impacts are consequence of drainage and runoff problems and can affect both urban and rural areas. This contribution explores the evolution of land uses, population and precipitation from the middle of the 20th century until now, and how these changes have affected (or not), the flood risk. To do it, daily and sub-daily rainfall series, discharge series for the Llobregat and Besós Rivers, population data and land use changes have been analyzed. Future precipitation projections provided by an

  9. Estudio del impacto atmosférico del cambio del parque vehicular en Barcelona

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    Medina Moya, Roser

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    Este TFG tiene como finalidad el cálculo de emisiones de contaminantes atmosféricos debidos al tráfico rodado en Barcelona para vehículos de más de 15 años de antigüedad que circulen por la ciudad y la posible retirada de estos vehículos a cambio de incentivos de transporte público gratuito durante 1 año. En éste se estiman las emisiones de óxido nitroso y partículas en suspensión producidas por el parque vehicular barcelonés (turismos, camiones, furgonetas, motocicletas y ciclomotores). P...

  10. Consciència de la higiène urbana en una Barcelona ofegada

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    el Haddad, Marie

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    El Casc Antic de Barcelona va patir de sobrepoblació, congestió i diversos brots epidèmics fets que van augmentar la vigilància i preocupació per la higiene urbana. Un dels primers intents va començar quan Carles III i Carles IV van emetre reials decrets relatius a l'exhumació dels cementiris. El primer va prohibir de l'enterrament al costat de esglésies i hospitals i va imposar la conversió dels existents en places públiques, i el segon va permetre la construcció de cementiris extramurs llun...

  11. DISCUTINDO PRÁTICAS DE EDUCAÇÃO NÃO ESCOLAR A PARTIR DE POLÍTICAS DE ATENÇÃO À JUVENTUDE

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    Dinora Tereza Zucchetti

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    Full Text Available Este artigo discute experiências de trabalho, educação e formação profissional vividas por jovens brasileiros e espanhóis pertencentes a famílias de baixo poder sócio-econômico. Em investigações realizadas nos últimos anos, as autora têm estudado esse grupo geracional em locais meios (não seria melhor usar termos mais específico, como locais, por exemplo tão diversos como Novo Hamburgo/Brasil e Palma de Mallorca/Espanha. Pretende-se demonstrar como esses jovens transitaram por diferentes experiências de formação/educação profissional, no mundo do trabalho e no âmbito da escola, convivendo com os dilemas de pertencer e não pertencer, experimentando a crescente precarização do trabalho e a inclusão excludente na escola. Também refletimos sobre as suas vivências quando na inserção de projetos sócio educativos e a importância dessas ações entre os jovens. Essas vivências nos permitem discutir sobre práticas de educação não escolar, explorando convergências e divergências existentes entre os pressupostos teórico-filosóficos e metodológicos da educação/pedagogia social no Brasil e na Espanha.

  12. Polycentricity, Performance and Planning: Concepts, Evidence and Policy in Barcelona, Catalonia

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    environmental objectives. It is necessary to conduct a further exploration of the three aforementioned major issues related to (1 the conceptualization of polycentricity, (2 the empirical analysis of the dis(advantages of polycentricity, and (3 how to interpret the relationship between polycentricity in research and polycentricity in policy. That is the key motivation for this thesis: to link the knowledge of polycentric constellations and their economic, social, and environmental effects to planning practice and policy in metropolitan areas. General aims and questions The overarching research goal of this dissertation is to contribute to the debate on polycentricity in the three interrelated issues mentioned above. First, it aims to renew the conceptualization of polycentricity by bringing together two distinct literatures, namely, the literature on intra-urban polycentricity and the literature on inter-urban polycentricity. Second, it aims to empirically substantiate the relationship between polycentricity and performance in metropolitan areas. Third, it aims to understand how the makers of spatial plans have addressed polycentric development and how the assumed benefits of polycentricity can be realized in planning practice. To accomplish these goals, this thesis addresses three general research questions: • How has the conceptualization of polycentric development in spatial plans evolved over time, and what can be learned from this evolution? • How has polycentricity been conceptualized in research, and how can it inform planning practice? • To what extent does polycentricity foster better performance in a metropolitan area, and how can its effects be realized in planning practice? Single case study: the Barcelona metropolitan region The case study of this thesis is the Barcelona metropolitan region. With approximately 5 million people, the Barcelona metropolitan region is the primary urban agglomeration of Catalonia, an autonomous region of 7.5 million inhabitants

  13. TURISMO SOSTENIBLE: LUGAREÑOS FRENTE A TURISTAS. EL CASO DE LA CIUDAD DE BARCELONA

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    Maria Abril Sellares

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    Full Text Available Este trabajo tiene como objetivo conocer cómo ha afectado el incremento de turistas y sus actividades en su estancia en una ciudad concreta y cómo afectan sus actitudes y acciones a los lugareños de dicha zona. Así mismo se pretende tratar la problemática de los apartamentos turísticos ilegales creados a raíz de una fuerte demanda y las primeras respuestas que ha dado la administración ante las constantes manifestaciones de rechazo de los vecinos de la zona a tratar. La tipología de turismo en la que se centra este estudio es el llamado turismo de masas y concretamente en el turismo de sol y playa y de borrachera, que ha alcanzado altas cotas en estos últimos diez años (Ajuntament de Barcelona 2014, donde los criterios de sostenibilidad parece que no son los principios rectores en la práctica de la actividad turística. Por tanto, hemos visto, por un lado, la necesidad de tratar los conceptos de turismo sostenible y la aplicación que se dan en un caso real: la ciudad de Barcelona y concretamente un barrio marinero como es la Barceloneta y, por otro lado, conocer qué efectos tanto sociales como económicos ha tenido en esta área geográfica concreta la práctica de este turismo.

  14. 6th International Accounting Congress of Barcelona (1929 organised by the Association of Accountants of Catalonia

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    Full Text Available Purpose: the work presented is a descriptive, contextual and detailed analysis of the activity, and the conclusions developed in the first international accounting conference held in Barcelona. The 6th International Conference on Accounting which took place in Barcelona coinciding with the International Exhibition of 1929, was organised by the Association Internationale de Comptabilité of Brussels. This association proposed holding regular meetings to discuss and study technical accounting and economic issues related to that time. Approach: the originality of the work lies in being an analytical description of the original documents prepared by the Association of Accountants of Catalonia about the conference. Findings/Originality: this study allows redoing assumptions made in previous works, because the documents before this work were contradictory regarding dates, facts and some of the content covered. Limitations: the biggest limitation of the work comes from the lack of written documentation existing on this conference. Value: the present study continues the research on topics of history of accounting in Catalonia. It is expected to complement this work by a deeper analysis of the contents and the topics covered in the papers presented at the conference, and by linking them with the theoretical accounting lines existing at that time.

  15. The population-based Barcelona-Asymptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerosis Study (ASIA: rationale and design

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    Full Text Available Abstract Background Large-artery intracranial atherosclerosis may be the most frequent cause of ischemic stroke worldwide. Traditional approaches have attempted to target the disease when it is already symptomatic. However, early detection of intracranial atherosclerosis may allow therapeutic intervention while the disease is still asymptomatic. The prevalence and natural history of asymptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis in Caucasians remain unclear. The aims of the Barcelona-ASymptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerosis (ASIA study are (1 to determine the prevalence of ASIA in a moderate-high vascular risk population, (2 to study its prognostic impact on the risk of suffering future major ischemic events, and (3 to identify predictors of the development, progression and clinical expression of this condition. Methods/Design Cross-over and cohort, population-based study. A randomly selected representative sample of 1,503 subjects with a mild-moderate-high vascular risk (as defined by a REGICOR score ≥ 5% and with neither a history of cerebrovascular nor ischemic heart disease will be studied. At baseline, all individuals will undergo extracranial and transcranial Color-Coded Duplex (TCCD ultrasound examinations to detect presence and severity of extra and intracranial atherosclerosis. Intracranial stenoses will be assessed by magnetic resonance angiography (MRA. Clinical and demographic variables will be recorded and blood samples will be drawn to investigate clinical, biological and genetic factors associated with the presence of ASIA. A long-term clinical and sonographic follow-up will be conducted thereafter to identify predictors of disease progression and of incident vascular events. Discussion The Barcelona-ASIA is a population-based study aiming to evaluate the prevalence and clinical importance of asymptomatic intracranial large-artery atherosclerosis in Caucasians. The ASIA project may provide a unique scientific resource to better

  16. The population-based Barcelona-Asymptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerosis Study (ASIA): rationale and design.

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    López-Cancio, Elena; Dorado, Laura; Millán, Mónica; Reverté, Silvia; Suñol, Anna; Massuet, Anna; Mataró, María; Galán, Amparo; Alzamora, Maite; Pera, Guillem; Torán, Pere; Dávalos, Antoni; Arenillas, Juan F

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    Large-artery intracranial atherosclerosis may be the most frequent cause of ischemic stroke worldwide. Traditional approaches have attempted to target the disease when it is already symptomatic. However, early detection of intracranial atherosclerosis may allow therapeutic intervention while the disease is still asymptomatic. The prevalence and natural history of asymptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis in Caucasians remain unclear. The aims of the Barcelona-ASymptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerosis (ASIA) study are (1) to determine the prevalence of ASIA in a moderate-high vascular risk population, (2) to study its prognostic impact on the risk of suffering future major ischemic events, and (3) to identify predictors of the development, progression and clinical expression of this condition. Cross-over and cohort, population-based study. A randomly selected representative sample of 1,503 subjects with a mild-moderate-high vascular risk (as defined by a REGICOR score ≥ 5%) and with neither a history of cerebrovascular nor ischemic heart disease will be studied. At baseline, all individuals will undergo extracranial and transcranial Color-Coded Duplex (TCCD) ultrasound examinations to detect presence and severity of extra and intracranial atherosclerosis. Intracranial stenoses will be assessed by magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). Clinical and demographic variables will be recorded and blood samples will be drawn to investigate clinical, biological and genetic factors associated with the presence of ASIA. A long-term clinical and sonographic follow-up will be conducted thereafter to identify predictors of disease progression and of incident vascular events. The Barcelona-ASIA is a population-based study aiming to evaluate the prevalence and clinical importance of asymptomatic intracranial large-artery atherosclerosis in Caucasians. The ASIA project may provide a unique scientific resource to better understand the dynamics of intracranial atherosclerosis from

  17. Pakistanis in Spain: a study based on the community living in the city of Barcelona

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    Full Text Available One of the characteristics of Spain becoming a country of immigration is the greater protagonism that some countries have acquired which had not traditionally been a major source of migration movements towards Spain. Such is the case of Pakistan, whose nationals living in Spain have considerably increased in recent years, mainly in the area of Barcelona. This study seeks to undertake a research line in order to get to know more deeply the reality of this community.

  18. La construcción de la ‘Cuestión Gitana Rumana’ en el Área Metropolitana de Barcelona: espacios públicos urbanos, conflictos vecinales y política local The genesis of a 'Romanian Roma Issue' in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona: urban public spaces, neighbourhood conflicts and local politics

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    Óscar López Catalán

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    Full Text Available Este artículo tiene la intención de presentar un panorama general de la situación de la población Rrom (gitana rumana en el Área Metropolitana de Barcelona y describir brevemente y analizar las maneras en las que su presencia está siendo gestionada. La metodología utilizada va desde el análisis mediático al trabajo de campo etnográfico. Primero, ofreceré algunas referencias y un contexto general de la presencia y el proceso migratorio de la población rrom inmigrada en España y Barcelona. A continuación, me centraré en la construcción local de la ‘cuestión gitana’, usando brevemente tres ejemplos diferentes e interrelacionados: regulación del espacio público y estrategias económicas marginales; políticas de asentamiento y la idea del nomadismo-movilidad; y finalmente la construcción política y culturalización de conflictos vecinales. Por último, se ofrecen algunas conclusiones y reflexiones sobre la posible evolución de dichos proceso a un nivel local y estatal.This paper intends to present a general overview of the situation of the Romanian Roma Population in Barcelona Metropolitan Area and briefly describe and analyze the ways in which their presence is being managed. First, I will offer some references as well as a general background of the presence and migratory process of the Romanian Roma population in Spain and Barcelona. Next, I will focus on the local construction of the “Roma Issue”, using three different and interrelated examples: public space regulation and marginal economic strategies; settlement policies and the idea of nomadism-mobility; and finally political construction and culturalization of concrete neighbourhood conflicts. Finally, I intend to offer some conclusions as well as some reflections about the possible evolution of these processes both at a local and state level.

  19. [Infobarris: an interactive tool to monitor and disseminate information on health and its determinants in the neighbourhoods of Barcelona (Spain)].

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    Llimona, Pere; Pérez, Glòria; Rodríguez-Sanz, Maica; Novoa, Ana M; Espelt, Albert; García de Olalla, Patricia; Borrell, Carme

    In order to know about the health of the population, it is necessary to perform a systematic and continuous analysis of their health status and social and economic health determinants. The objective of this paper is to describe the development and implementation of the Infobarris tool, which allows to visualize a wide battery of indicators and social determinants of health by neighbourhoods in the city of Barcelona (Spain). For the development of the Infobarris tool, we used an agile methodology that allows the development of a project in iterative and incremental stages, which are the following: selection of indicators, design of the prototype, development of the tool, data loading, and tool review and improvements. Infobarris displays 64 indicators of health and its determinants through graphics, maps and tables, in a friendly, interactive and attractive way, which facilitates health surveillance in the neighbourhoods of Barcelona. Copyright © 2017 SESPAS. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

  20. USEFULNESS OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INTERNAL AUDITS. LESSONS FROM AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

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    José Carlos Prado

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    Full Text Available O padrão ISO 9000 tem sido considerado parte importante da implementação das auditorias internas dos QMS (Sistemas de Gerenciamento da Qualidade, de modo a gerar uma avaliação de eficiência do sistema. Este trabalho apresenta os resultados de um serviço empírico, conduzido em empresas de Portugal e Espanha, sobre as metodologias usadas nas auditorias internas dos Sistema de Qualidade, provendo conclusões e recomendações que permitam aprimorar estes sistemas de auditoria e gestão

  1. O outro, o mesmo: A corrida de touros espanhola como objeto da etnologia francesa entreguerras

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    Luís Felipe Sobral

    Full Text Available Resumo Durante a missão etnográfica e linguística Dacar-Djibuti (1931-1933, o escritor e etnógrafo Michel Leiris demonstrou interesse, em uma carta endereçada à sua esposa em Paris, em realizar uma etnografia da corrida de touros espanhola. Tal ideia jamais se concretizou. Este artigo, orientado por um raciocínio conjectural, descreve os fatores que impediriam a realização desta ideia no âmbito da etnologia francesa, caso ela fosse colocada em prática. Mas não basta para tanto compreender somente quais eram os métodos etnográficos então vigentes e a posição de Leiris diante deles; é preciso examinar também o estatuto marginal e ambíguo da Espanha tanto na epistemologia etnológica como no regime identitário europeu, dois sistemas simbólicos que se encontram profundamente imbricados.

  2. Libro de Mano: "Novela Política e Sentimental", um pasquim manuscrito

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    Francisca L. Nogueira de Azevedo

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Neste artigo as autoras analisam um documento depositado na seção de manuscritos da Biblioteca Nacional no Rio de Janeiro, na pasta de "jornais manuscritos", intitulado "Novella pollítica e sentimental"; descrição de factos dos tempos da Revolução e Campanha Oriental e da Colônia de Sacramento 1810-1823. Não consta a autoria, tampouco a data de produção do documento. O texto tem 51 páginas manuscritas e é dividido em três partes, e pressupomos que seja material de propaganda política em favor da monarquia espanhola. Este artigo destaca, inicialmente, em que medida os panfletos manuscritos serviram às elites coloniais para a mobilização política das camadas populares iletradas. O ponto central é a análise da narrativa novelesca, no sentido de perceber os elementos discursivos utilizados como persuasão em defesa da Espanha.

  3. Variability of levels and composition of PM10 and PM2.5 in the Barcelona metro system

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    E. de Miguel

    2012-06-01

    Full Text Available From an environmental perspective, the underground metro system is one of the cleanest forms of public transportation in urban agglomerations. Current studies report contradicting results regarding air quality in the metro systems: whereas some reveal poor air quality, others report PM levels which are lower or of the same order of magnitude than those measured in traffic sites above ground level. The present work assesses summer and winter indoor air quality and passenger exposure in the Barcelona metro, focusing on PM levels and their metal contents. In addition, the impact on indoor air quality of platform screen door systems (automated systems consisting of closed rail track and platforms is evaluated, to determine whether these systems reduce passenger exposure to PM when compared with conventional systems (open tracks and platforms. In the Barcelona metro PM levels inside the trains in summer are amongst the lowest reported for worldwide metro systems (11–32 μg m−3 PM2.5. This is most likely due to the air conditioning system working in all carriages of the Barcelona metro during the whole year. Levels were considerably higher on the platforms, reaching mean levels of 46 and 125 μg m3 in the new (L9 and old (L3 lines, respectively. PM10 data are also reported in the present study, but comparison with other metro systems is difficult due to the scarcity of data compared with PM2.5. Results showed distinct PM daily cycles, with a drastic increase from 06:00 to 07:00 a.m., a diurnal maximum from 07:00 to 10:00 p.m., and marked decrease between 10:00 p.m. and 05:00 a.m. The elements with the highest enrichment were those associated with wheel or brake abrasion products (Ba, Fe, Cu, Mn, Cr, Sb, As, Mo, Co, Sr, among others. Laminar hematite (Fe2O3 was the dominant particle type, being mainly originated by mechanical abrasion of the rail track and wheels. Regarding passenger exposure to PM, the contribution of commuting by metro was

  4. Ciudad, muerte y transformación social. La Barcelona de ayer y hoy en tres películas del III milenio.

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    Annelisa Addolorato

    2010-11-01

    Full Text Available This work is a comparative analysis of three films on Barcelona. The movies look like a portrait of the Catalan society of XXI Century and show the relationship among the idea of death and the city in the third millennium, through a code between the filmic language of fiction and documentary. Death appear as part of life, and has several meanings. Different definitions were detected by 'death': as an event and social and social and anthropological change, natural transformation of neighborhood, city, but also as opportunity to preserve the memory; or is social evil, violence and personal tragedy. The three filmmakers witness the ebb and death of an era in a city, in a Barcelona neighborhood to make way for the future. Art represents a possibility of urban survival. The work investigate relations among transformation, death and society in the three movies. The preservation and maintenance of memory is realized through the eyes of the camera too. The three artists focus their attention in Barcelona, its suburbs and especially in the central neighborhood of Raval, or Barrio Chino", in recent decades  of remodeling this part of the city. Their aesthetics could be compared to the one aesthetics of others Spanish artists of XX Century. Development concerning the passage of time in urban areas are interwoven with personal stories that define individual to society today and through chronic feature. Death is also a mutation of a social model of manners, which leaves room for the development of a different society: multi-ethnic and open.

  5. Estimating GHG emissions of marine ports-the case of Barcelona

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    Villalba, Gara; Gemechu, Eskinder Demisse

    2011-01-01

    In recent years, GHG inventories of cities have expanded to include extra-boundary activities that form part of the city's urban metabolism and economy. This paper centers on estimating the emissions due to seaports, in such a way that they can be included as part of the city's inventory or be used by the port itself to monitor their policy and technology improvements for mitigating climate change. We propose the indicators GHG emissions per ton of cargo handled or per passenger and emissions per value of cargo handled as practical measures for policy making and emission prevention measures to be monitored over time. Adapting existing methodologies to the Port of Barcelona, we calculated a total of 331,390 tons of GHG emissions (CO 2 equivalents) for the year of 2008, half of which were attributed to vessel movement (sea-based emissions) and the other half to port, land related activities (land-based emissions). The highest polluters were auto carriers with 6 kg of GHG emissions per ton of cargo handled. Knowing the highest emitters, the port can take action to improve the ship's activities within the port limits, such as maneuvering and hotelling. With these results, the port and the city can also find ways to reduce the land-based emissions. - Research highlights: → Adapting existing methodologies to the Port of Barcelona (PoB), we calculated a total of 331,390 tons of GHG emissions for the year of 2008, half of which were attributed to vessel movement (sea-based emissions) and the other half to port, land related activities (land-based emissions) → Emissions per ton of cargo handled is proposed as an indicator to pin point high polluting vessels-a measure independent of the city the port belongs to. For 2008, the highest polluters were auto carriers with 6 kg of GHG emissions per ton of cargo handled. → An additional measure of emissions per value of cargo handled is proposed to complement the emissions per weight indicator. For 2008, the volume of cargo

  6. Integrated Health Care Barcelona Esquerra (Ais-Be: A Global View of Organisational Development, Re-Engineering of Processes and Improvement of the Information Systems. The Role of the Tertiary University Hospital in the Transformation

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    David Font

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    Full Text Available The Integrated Health Area “Barcelona Esquerra” ('Área Integral de Salud de Barcelona Esquerra' – AIS-BE, which covers a population of 524,000 residents in Barcelona city, is running a project to improve healthcare quality and efficiency based on co-ordination between the different suppliers in its area through the participation of their professionals. Endowed with an Organisational Model that seeks decision-taking that starts out from clinical knowledge and from Information Systems tools that facilitate this co-ordination (an interoperability platform and a website it presents important results in its structured programmes that have been implemented such as the Reorganisation of Emergency Care, Screening for Colorectal Cancer, the Onset of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Teledermatology and the Development of Cross-sectional Healthcare Policies for Care in Chronicity.

  7. Un artista cortesano en la Barcelona de Carlos III de Austria: apuntes prosopográficos sobre Andrea Vaccaro II

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    Quirós Rosado, Roberto

    2016-09-01

    Full Text Available At the beginning of the 18th century Barcelona was a principal entry point for the introduction of Italian courtly culture in Spain during the brief reign of Carlos III of Habsburg. This study analyzes the presence of the little-known Neapolitan painter Andrea Vaccaro II in Cataluña, and his connections with the Royal Chamber and the Spanish Habsburg ministry, as well as the concession of offices in Reame as payment for palace services.La diversidad de focos de introducción de la cultura de corte italiana en los inicios del siglo XVIII español obliga a indagar en la circulación de artistas napolitanos en la Barcelona de Carlos III de Austria. Bajo esta premisa, en el estudio se analiza la estancia catalana del desconocido pintor napolitano Andrea Vaccaro II, sus lazos con la Real Cámara y el ministerio español del monarca Habsburgo, así como la concesión de oficios en los tribunales de Nápoles como pago por servicios en palacio.

  8. European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Annual Congress Report From Barcelona 2017.

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    Satoh, Kimio; Takahashi, Jun; Matsumoto, Yasuharu; Tatebe, Shunsuke; Aoki, Tatsuo; Kikuchi, Yoku; Hao, Kiyotaka; Ohyama, Kazuma; Nogi, Masamichi; Suda, Akira; Kasahara, Shintaro; Sato, Koichi; Ichijo, Sadamitsu; Shimokawa, Hiroaki

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    From August 26th to 30th, the 2017 Annual Congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC 2017) was held in Barcelona, Spain. Despite the terrorism tradegy just before the ESC congress, the congress attracted many medical professionals from all over the world to discuss the recent topics in cardiovascular medicine in more than 500 sessions, including COMPASS (Cardiovascular OutcoMes for People using Anticoagulation StrategieS Trial), CANTOS (Canakinumab Anti-Inflammatory Thrombosis Outcomes Study), and ORION (which assessed the effect of a novel siRNA inhibitor to PCSK9 on reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol). Japanese cardiologists and the Japanese Circulation Society greatly contributed to the congress. This report briefly introduces some late-breaking registry results, late-breaking clinical trials, and ESC Guidelines from the ESC 2017 Congress.

  9. Apropiaciones sociodeportivas de espacios públicos urbanos. El caso de la comunidad cochabambina en Barcelona

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    Borrás Tissoni, Omar

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    [spa] Estudio cualitativo y cuantitativo de las apropiaciones de espacios públicos y semipúblicos de Barcelona y poblaciones limítrofes para la práctica del deporte por parte de colectivos de trabajadores extranjeros procedentes preferentemente de la región de Cochabamba, en Bolivia. Una parte del trabajo investigador se realizó en las poblaciones bolivianas de origen, con el fin de establecer qué pautas se reproducen y cuáles se modifican o se generan de nuevo en Catalunya. La investigac...

  10. El boom, Barral y Barcelona : gestación editorial de un movimiento transoceánico

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    En los años sesenta la pequeña editorial barcelonesa de Carlos Barral brindó al peruano Vargas Llosa la posibilidad de publicar su primera novela. Desde entonces, el editor Barral se convierte en el promotor principal del surgimiento y desarrollo del boom latinoamericano y, por consiguiente, en pieza clave para el fortalecimiento de las relaciones editoriales y literarias entre América Latina y España. In the 1960s Carlos Barral's small publishing house in Barcelona affords the Peruvian Va...

  11. Infancia, familias monoparentales e inmigración latinoamericana en Barcelona, España

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    Rosalina Alcalde-Campos

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available La relación entre pobreza, monoparentalidad e infancia es un hecho constatado en numerosos estudios. Menos exploradas han sido las condiciones de vida de los niños y niñas de familias monoparentales inmigradas. En este artículo presentamos los hallazgos de una investigación cualitativa llevada a cabo en Barcelona entre 2008 y 2009 con 18 familias monoparentales encabezadas por mujeres latinoamericanas migrantes. Describimos el elevado riesgo de pobreza y de exclusión social que sufren estas personas menores y los efectos educativos y sociales que se derivan de sus condiciones de vida en España.

  12. Infancia, familias monoparentales e inmigración latinoamericana en Barcelona, España

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    Iskra Pávez

    2013-03-01

    Full Text Available La relación entre pobreza, monoparentalidad e infancia es un hecho constatado en numerosos estudios. Menos exploradas han sido las condiciones de vida de los niños y niñas de familias monoparentales inmigradas. En este artículo presentamos los hallazgos de una investigación cualitativa llevada a cabo en Barcelona entre 2008 y 2009 con 18 familias monoparentales encabezadas por mujeres latinoamericanas migrantes. Describimos el elevado riesgo de pobreza y de exclusión social que sufren estas personas menores y los efectos educativos y sociales que se derivan de sus condiciones de vida en España.

  13. O movimento pela justiça global na espanha: ativistas, identidade e cartografia política da alterglobalização The movement for global justice in Spain: its activists, their political identity and the cartography of alter-globalisation

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    Benjamín Tejerina

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    Full Text Available A rápida expansão dos processos de globalização das últimas décadas facilitou tanto a emergência de formas de resistência em relação com as suas conseqüências como o nascimento de processos de mobilização social a favor de uma globalização alternativa. O trabalho que apresentamos sintetiza parte dos resulta dos de uma pesquisa sobre o movimento por uma justiça global na Espanha. Nele abordamos a sua base material, as características dos ativistas, a sua identidade política, as suas motivações e interesses e a identidade atribuída à ação do movimento, além de expor a cartografia política que as valorações dos ativistas antiglobalização vêm desenhando. O nosso objetivo é diferenciar analiticamente as coordenadas nas quais se inscreve essa nova forma de subjetividade, cujo espaço social se articula em redor de três eixos: o eixo espacial (dentro-fora, inclusão-exclusão, centro-periferia, o eixo relacional (acima-abaixo, imposição-oposição, repressão-liberação e o eixo das práticas executadas pelos distintos agentes participantes.The rapid expansion of the globalisation processes in recent decades has given rise to the emergence of forms of resistance to their consequences, as well as to processes of social mobilisation in favour of an alternative globalisation. The article that we are presenting includes part of the results of research into the movement for global justice in Spain. In it we deal with the material base of this movement, the characteristics of its activists, their political identity, their motivations and interests, the identity attributed to the action of the movement, as well as the political cartography sketched out by the evaluations of the alter-globalisation activists. Our aim is to analytically dissect the coordinates that frame this new form of subjectivity, whose social space is articulated around three axes: the spatial axis (inside-outside, inclusion-exclusion, centre

  14. Diego Velázquez e os retratos de Felipe IV: A pintura Barroca e a idéia de tempo na sociedade espanhola do século XVII

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    Susana Aparecida da Silva

    2012-08-01

    Full Text Available Esta pesquisa reflete a respeito da possibilidade de se analisar a idéia de tempo na Espanha Barroca do século XVII através de cinco retratos feitos pelo pintor espanhol Diego Velázquez (1599-1660. Estes retratos são feitos após o período em que o pintor é admitido na corte de Felipe IV da Espanha (1605-1665 como pintor oficial. As fontes visuais selecionadas para esta pesquisa no sentido de possibilitar a análise da idéia de tempo são retratos do rei feitos por Diego Velázquez e representam o rei jovem e posteriormente envelhecido. Acredita-se que a idéia de tempo para Velázquez tenha estreita relação com a sociedade barroca espanhola do século XVII na qual ele está inserido. Neste sentido, as representações do poder e do envelhecimento do monarca possíveis de serem vistas nas pinturas de Velázquez contribuem para se pensar a concepção de tempo do artista e da sociedade espanhola daquele período

  15. Patterns of physical activity and associated factors among teenagers from Barcelona (Spain) in 2012.

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    Ruiz-Trasserra, Alicia; Pérez, Anna; Continente, Xavier; O'Brien, Kerry; Bartroli, Montse; Teixidó-Compaño, Ester; Espelt, Albert

    To estimate the prevalence of moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA), as defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO), and associated factors among teenagers from Barcelona in 2012. Cross-sectional survey to assess risk factors in a representative sample of secondary school students (aged 13-16 years, International Standard Classification of Education [ISCED] 2, n=2,162; and 17-18 years, ISCED 3, n=1016) in Barcelona. We estimated MVPA prevalence overall, and for each independent variable and each gender. Poisson regression models with robust variance were fit to examine the factors associated with high-level MVPA, and obtained prevalence ratios (PR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). Only 13% of ISCED 2 and 10% of ISCED 3 students met the WHO physical activity recommendations. This percentage was lower among girls at both academic levels. MVPA was lower among ISCED 3 compared to ISCED 2 students, and among students with a lower socioeconomic status. Physical activity was associated with positive self-perception of the health status (e.g., positive self-perception of health status among ISCED 2 compared to ISCED 3 students: PR=1.31 [95%CI: 1.22-1.41] and 1.61 [95%CI: 1.44-1.81] for boys and girls, respectively]. The percentage of teenagers who met WHO MVPA recommendations was low. Strategies are needed to increase MVPA levels, particularly in older girls, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Copyright © 2016 SESPAS. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

  16. Evaluation of <em>HER2em> Gene Amplification in Breast Cancer Using Nuclei Microarray <em>in em>S>itu em>Hybridization

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    Xuefeng Zhang

    2012-05-01

    Full Text Available Fluorescence<em> em>>in situ em>hybridization (FISH assay is considered the “gold standard” in evaluating <em>HER2/neu (HER2em> gene status. However, FISH detection is costly and time consuming. Thus, we established nuclei microarray with extracted intact nuclei from paraffin embedded breast cancer tissues for FISH detection. The nuclei microarray FISH (NMFISH technology serves as a useful platform for analyzing <em>HER2em> gene/chromosome 17 centromere ratio. We examined <em>HER2em> gene status in 152 cases of invasive ductal carcinomas of the breast that were resected surgically with FISH and NMFISH. <em>HER2em> gene amplification status was classified according to the guidelines of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and College of American Pathologists (ASCO/CAP. Comparison of the cut-off values for <em>HER2em>/chromosome 17 centromere copy number ratio obtained by NMFISH and FISH showed that there was almost perfect agreement between the two methods (κ coefficient 0.920. The results of the two methods were almost consistent for the evaluation of <em>HER2em> gene counts. The present study proved that NMFISH is comparable with FISH for evaluating <em>HER2em> gene status. The use of nuclei microarray technology is highly efficient, time and reagent conserving and inexpensive.

  17. Neonatal Phosphate Nutrition Alters <em>in em>Vivo> and <em>in em>Vitro> Satellite Cell Activity in Pigs

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    Chad H. Stahl

    2012-05-01

    Full Text Available Satellite cell activity is necessary for postnatal skeletal muscle growth. Severe phosphate (PO4 deficiency can alter satellite cell activity, however the role of neonatal PO4 nutrition on satellite cell biology remains obscure. Twenty-one piglets (1 day of age, 1.8 ± 0.2 kg BW were pair-fed liquid diets that were either PO4 adequate (0.9% total P, supra-adequate (1.2% total P in PO4 requirement or deficient (0.7% total P in PO4 content for 12 days. Body weight was recorded daily and blood samples collected every 6 days. At day 12, pigs were orally dosed with BrdU and 12 h later, satellite cells were isolated. Satellite cells were also cultured <em>in vitroem> for 7 days to determine if PO4 nutrition alters their ability to proceed through their myogenic lineage. Dietary PO4 deficiency resulted in reduced (<em>P> < 0.05 sera PO4 and parathyroid hormone (PTH concentrations, while supra-adequate dietary PO4 improved (<em>P> < 0.05 feed conversion efficiency as compared to the PO4 adequate group. <em>In vivoem> satellite cell proliferation was reduced (<em>P> < 0.05 among the PO4 deficient pigs, and these cells had altered <em>in vitroem> expression of markers of myogenic progression. Further work to better understand early nutritional programming of satellite cells and the potential benefits of emphasizing early PO4 nutrition for future lean growth potential is warranted.

  18. Capitalists, managers, professionals and mortality: findings from the Barcelona social class and all cause mortality longitudinal study.

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    Muntaner, Carles; Borrell, Carme; Solà, Judit; Marì-Dell'olmo, Marc; Chung, Haejoo; Rodríguez-Sanz, Maica; Benach, Joan; Noh, Samuel

    2009-11-01

    To examine the effects of Neo-Marxian social class (i.e. measured as relations of control over productive assets) and potential mediators such as labour-market position, work organization, material deprivation and health behaviours upon mortality in Barcelona, Spain. Longitudinal data from the Barcelona 2000 Health Interview Survey (n = 7526) with follow-up interviews through the municipal census in 2008 (95.97% response rate) were used. Using data on relations of property, organizational power, and education, social classes were grouped according to Wright's scheme: capitalists, petit bourgeoisie, managers, supervisors, and skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers. Social class, measured as relations of control over productive assets, is an important predictor of mortality among working-class positions for men but not for women. Workers (hazard ratio 1.60, 95% confidence interval 1.10-2.35), managers and small employers had a higher risk of death than capitalists. The extensive use of conventional gradient measures of social stratification has neglected sociological measurements of social class conceptualized as relations of control over productive assets. This concept is capable of explaining how social inequalities are generated. To confirm the protective effect of the capitalist class position and the ''contradictory class location hypothesis'', additional efforts are needed to properly measure class among low-level supervisors, capitalists, managers, and small employers.

  19. Estudio del comportamiento alimentario en escolares de 11 a 13 años de Barcelona

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    Castells Cuixart, M.; Capdevila Prim, C.; Girbau Solà, T.; Rodríguez Caba, C.

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    Objetivo: Conocer el entorno familiar, hábitos cotidianos y características sociales que pueden influir en la alimentación de los escolares de 11 a 13 años. Metodología: Estudio descriptivo transversal realizado en 65 escuelas de la provincia de Barcelona, durante el segundo trimestre del 2000, obteniendo una muestra de 2.354 escolares encuestados por 73 farmacéuticos. El cuestionario está compuesto por 39 preguntas referentes al entorno familiar, hábitos alimentarios y de estilo de vida como...

  20. Activity size distributions for long-lived radon decay products in aerosols collected in Barcelona (Spain)

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    Camacho, A.; Valles, I.; Vargas, A.; Gonzalez-Perosanz, M.; Ortega, X.

    2009-01-01

    The activity median aerodynamic diameters (AMADs) of long-lived radon decay product ( 210 Pb, 210 Po) in aerosols collected in the Barcelona area (Northeast Spain) during the period from April 2006 to February 2008 are presented. The 210 Po mean AMAD was 420 nm, while the 210 Pb mean AMAD was 500 nm. The temporal evolution of 210 Pb and 210 Po AMADs shows maxima in autumn and winter and minima in spring and summer. 210 Pb AMAD are being used to estimate the mean-residence time of atmospheric aerosols.

  1. Chlorinated organic pesticides in marketed food: Barcelona, 2001-06

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    Fontcuberta, M.; Arques, J.F.; Villalbi, J.R.; Martinez, M.; Centrich, F.; Serrahima, E.; Pineda, L.; Duran, J.; Casas, C.

    2008-01-01

    This paper reports concentration levels of 22 chlorinated organic compounds (both primary compounds and metabolites) in food marketed in the city of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) in 2001-06. Samples included meat products, fish and seafood, eggs, milk and dairy, vegetal oils, cereal products and derivates, vegetables, fresh fruits, dry fruits, spices, formula and baby food, tea and wine. Levels of chlorinated organic compounds were determined by gas chromatography with selective detectors: electron capture (ECD), flame photometric (FPD) and confirmation with mass-spectrometry. Chlorinated organic pesticides were detected in 7 of the 1,484 samples analyzed in the 2001-06 period (0.5%): 1 dairy product, 1 fruit, 1 olive oil and 4 vegetables. Specific pesticides detected are lindane and endosulfan α, β or sulphate. A decrease in both the proportion of samples with detectable residues and in the variety of chlorinated pesticides found is visible when comparing these results with those of the previous 1989-2000 period. These results suggest the gradual disappearance of regulated chlorinated organic pesticides as a consequence of the growing worldwide implementation of current regulatory agreements

  2. A data símbolo de 1898: o impacto da independência de Cuba na Espanha e Hispanoamérica The 1898’s symbol date: the Cuban Independence impact in Spain and Spanish America

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    Maria Helena Rolim Capelato

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    Full Text Available O artigo tem como objetivo analisar o impacto da Independência de Cuba nos intelectuais espanhóis e hispanoamericanos e as razões da aproximação entre eles após o evento. 1898 tornou-se uma data-símbolo pelas mudanças significativas que produziu nas concepções de escritores hispânicos sobre o papel dos Estados Unidos na América Latina e sobre o destino da Espanha após a perda de sua última colônia.The article aims to analyze the Cuban Independence impact in Spanish and Spanish American intellectuals and the approximation reasons between them after the event. 1898 became a symbol date through the significatives changes that produced in Spanish American writers about the United State’s role in Latin America and about the Spain’s destiny after the loss of the last Spanish colony in America.

  3. Cambios en las formas del comercio y el consumo en Barcelona

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    Carles Carreras I Verdaguer

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    Full Text Available This article presents an analysis of the historical evolution of retail forms and infrastructures in the city of Barcelona and of the cosummer patterns of its citizens. First, some antecedents are defined at the very beginnig of xxth Century, looking after to the big transformation of the sixties, the real and late Spanish bourgeois revolution. The next period corresponds to the changes started in 1986, with the integration of Spanish economy into the European Market. An evaluation of the present situation remarks the relevance of the legal constraints and of the relative delay in the development of some modern commercial forms in the City. From the study of some relevants questions on the consumers behaviour a clear conclusion appears relative to the inercia of some local trends in front of the weight of globalization.

  4. Construction and preliminary validation of the Barcelona Immigration Stress Scale.

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    Tomás-Sábado, Joaquín; Qureshi, Adil; Antonin, Montserrat; Collazos, Francisco

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    In the study of mental health and migration, an increasing number of researchers have shifted the focus away from the concept of acculturation towards the stress present in the migratory experience. The bulk of research on acculturative stress has been carried out in the United States, and thus the definition and measurement of the construct has been predicated on that cultural and demographic context, which is of dubious applicability in Europe in general, and Spain in particular. Further, some scales have focused on international students, which down-played the importance of the migratory process, because it deals with a special subset of people who are not formally immigrating. The Barcelona Immigration Stress Scale was developed to measure acculturative stress appropriate to immigrants in Spain, using expert and focus group review and has 42 items. The scale shows acceptable internal validity, and, consistent with other scales, suggests that immigration stress is a complex construct.

  5. [Second-hand smoke exposure in hospitality venues in Barcelona: measurement of respirable particles].

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    Villarroel, Nazmy; López, María José; Sánchez-Martínez, Francesca; Fernández, Esteve; Nebot, Manel

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    To quantify the concentration of respirable particles equal to or smaller than 2.5μm (PM(2.5)) as a marker of second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure in a sample of hospitality venues in Barcelona 2 years after the Spanish smoking law came into effect. We performed a cross-sectional descriptive study from October to December 2007. The study population consisted of 40 hospitality venues in Barcelona selected by a random route sampling, with representation of the different types of smoking regulation included in the law (smoking allowed, smoking ban and venues with smoking areas). SHS levels were quantified by measuring PM(2.5) concentrations, which were measured using a laser photometer (Side Pack AM 510 Personal Aerosol Monitor). The measurements were carried out for 5 minutes outside the venue and for 30 minutes inside the venue. In addition, observational variables related to the characteristics of the venue and signs of tobacco consumption were recorded. The concentration of PM(2.5) in venues where smoking was still allowed was five times higher than that in venues where smoking was banned (182μg/m(3) and 34μg/m(3), respectively) and exceeded the concentration established by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as harmful (35μg/m(3)). However, in venues where smoking was banned, the concentration was lower than the EPA standard and there were no significant differences with the outdoor PM(2.5) concentration. Two years after the introduction of the Spanish smoking law, SHS exposure in venues where smoking was allowed was q still very high, representing a significant health risk for hospitality workers. Copyright © 2010 SESPAS. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.

  6. Valoración epidemiológica de la linfadenitis tuberculosa en un distrito de Barcelona: propuesta de algoritmo diagnóstico

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    Silvia Aguilar-Duran

    2014-01-01

    Full Text Available Fundamentos: Barcelona ha experimentado un cambio en su demografía que ha afectado la epidemiología local de la linfadenitis tuberculosa (LT. El objetivo del estudio es conocer los factores actualmente asociados a LT en un distrito de Barcelona con una incidencia media de TB superior a 50 casos por 10.000 habitantes/año así como plantear un algoritmo diagnóstico. Métodos: estudio de cohortes retrospectivo de todos los casos de LT diagnosticados entre 1990 y 2009 en el Hospital del Mar de Barcelona. De acuerdo a los cambios demográficos, se establecieron dos periodos de estudio (1990-1999 y 2000-2009 y se analizaron y compararon las características sociodemográficas, clínicas y diagnósticas de los sujetos con LT para la posterior realización del algoritmo. La información se obtuvo de las encuestas epidemiológicas realizadas a los pacientes diagnosticados de LT en el Hospital del Mar y notificadas a la Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona. Resultados: en el primer periodo, 152 pacientes presentaron LT (siendo 73,7% autóctonos y en el segundo 147 (siendo 70,7% inmigrantes. En el primer periodo, el porcentaje de hombres immigrantes fue del 70,5% y 57,1% menores de 35 años, aunque en el segundo periodo se observó en autóctonos e l 58,1% de mujeres y 69,8% mayores de 35 años. El porcentaje de pacientes autóctonos con VIH disminuyó de 66,9% a 44,2% en el segundo periodo y hubo aumento de pacientes en tratamiento inmunosupresor (9,3%. El análisis multivariante dio como resultado (OR 8,2;IC 95% 3,4-19,8 para el uso de drogas intravenosas y OR 4,8 (IC95% 2,7-8,3para la inmigración como factores de riesgo a LT. Conclusiones: los varones inmigrantes menores de 35 años procedentes de zonas endémicas de tuberculosis y los autóctonos mayores de 35 años con VIH (aunque con un menor porcentaje de coinfección que antes del año 2000 o en tratamiento inmunosupresor son los grupos con más riesgo de presentar LT en nuestro distrito.

  7. Substance use among medical students in Barcelona (Spain). A comparison with previous surveys.

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    Rodriguez, M E; Cami, J

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    During the academic year 1983-1984, a survey on drug consumption was conducted among medical students in Barcelona. There was a high proportion of smokers in both sexes. Alcohol consumption was four times higher among men than women; high proof beverages were becoming the most common drinks. Coffee was the caffeine drink consumed by almost the whole population studied. Although cannabis derivatives had been tried at least once by almost all the students, regular consumers were almost non-existent. Amphetamine consumption was restricted to examination periods. The use of opiates, cocaine, hallucinogens, and solvents was rare for the sample. Results from this study are compared with those from similar surveys conducted 5 and 10 years ago.

  8. SPED – Sistema Público de Escrituração Digital: Percepção dos contribuintes em relação os impactos de sua adoção

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    Maria Do Carmo Romeiro

    2011-08-01

    Full Text Available O Governo brasileiro inspirou-se em modelos de Governos Eletrônicos de países como Espanha, Chile e México, entre outros, para a criação do Sistema Público de Escrituração Digital (SPED, entrando na era digital. A pesquisa exploratória desenvolvida neste trabalho tem como objetivo verificar se houve nas empresas melhorias operacionais quando da adoção do SPED. Essas melhorias, tais como a redução de tempo na emissão de NF, diminuição de erros, maior agilidade e produtividade nos processos de recebimento e de transporte de mercadorias, além de diminuição nos gastos com papel e armazenagem de documentos e diminuição das obrigações acessórias são apontadas pelas autoridades governamentais como fatores positivos para as empresas. No tratamento dos dados, empregou-se a Estatística Bivariada – com medidas de associação entre duas variáveis nominais –, Coeficiente Phi e V de Cramer. Os resultados obtidos foram comparados a estudo semelhante efetuado no Chile e verificou-se que os contribuintes brasileiros têm perspectivas diversas dos chilenos. Os respondentes não obtiveram resultados satisfatórios em termos de redução no tempo de emissão de uma nota fiscal, agilidade e produtividade no recebimento de mercadorias ou redução na aquisição de papel. Muitos têm a perspectiva de que terão benefícios no futuro, principalmente em relação à diminuição dos riscos de fraudes e dos custos operacionais.

  9. Identificação de práticas de gestão da segurança e saúde no trabalho em obras de construção civil

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    Full Text Available O setor da construção civil apresenta índices de acidentes de trabalho mais elevados em relação à maioria dos demais setores industriais. Melhorias nas práticas atuais de gestão da segurança e saúde no trabalho (SST podem trazer benefícios como a preservação da vida humana e o aumento da competitividade das empresas no mercado com a redução dos custos decorrentes de acidentes, multas e embargos. Este artigo apresenta um levantamento e uma avaliação do grau de implementação das práticas de gestão em SST e a identificação das dificuldades na implementação destas práticas e no cumprimento das normas, na perspectiva dos responsáveis pela gestão da segurança em empresas construtoras. Os dados foram coletados através da realização de uma survey, com questionários aplicados nos canteiros de obra de 40 empresas do segmento de edificações residenciais de Porto Alegre (RS. Estes dados foram comparados com os resultados de uma survey similar realizada na Espanha com 20 empresas construtoras. Para analisar e classificar as práticas utilizaram-se técnicas estatísticas de análise de componentes principais e múltiplas respostas. Foram criadas cinco categorias de práticas de gestão da SST, sendo analisadas as práticas individuais mais utilizadas na amostra de empresas. Faz-se também uma comparação entre as categorias de práticas mais utilizadas e a percepção de importância por parte dos gerentes.

  10. [Tobacco use by adolescents in Barcelona (Spain) and trends in the last 20 years].

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    Ariza, Carles; García-Continente, Xavier; Villalbí, Joan Ramon; Sánchez-Martínez, Francesca; Pérez, Anna; Nebot, Manel

    2014-01-01

    Smoking is a preventable cause of early death and the habit starts in adolescence. The aim of this study was to describe tobacco consumption in secondary school students in 2008 and trends in the last 20 years in Barcelona. We analyzed the trend in tobacco consumption by comparing data from 8 surveys carried out between 1987 and 2008 in the 8th (2nd year of Compulsory Secondary Education), 10th (4th year of Compulsory Secondary Education) and 12th (2nd year of Compulsory Secondary Education) years of secondary school. The FRESC questionnaire was used. Data on regular and daily consumption and associated factors in 2008 were gathered and compared with those corresponding to the previous studies. Percentages of annual change were calculated with Joinpoint regression and data were stratified by sex and year of education. In 2008, 6.1% of boys and 4.5% of girls in the 8th year, 15.8% and 20.4% of those in the 10th year, respectively, and 26.1% and 33.1% of those in the 12th year, respectively, were regular smokers. A strong association was noted between regular smoking and cannabis consumption in three school years, as well as with having friends who were smokers and poor school performance. At 15-16 years old, the average annual decrease from 1996 to 2008 was 6.8% in girls and 6.1% in boys. Adolescent smoking has been decreasing in the last few years in Barcelona. There is a strong association between tobacco use and cannabis consumption. Copyright © 2013 SESPAS. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.

  11. Use of electronic cigarettes in public and private settings in Barcelona (Spain).

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    Matilla-Santander, Nuria; Fu, Marcela; Ballbè, Montse; Bunch, Kailey; Lidón-Moyano, Cristina; Martín-Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Fernández, Esteve; Martínez-Sánchez, Jose M

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    To describe the prevalence of e-cigarette users who use them in selected indoor public and workplaces, and private venues in Barcelona (Spain) in 2015. This is a cross-sectional study of a sample of e-cigarette users (≥ 18 years) from Barcelona (n = 600). We calculated the proportion of e-cigarette users who used the device in public and private settings (in the last 30 days). We fit multivariate logistic regression models adjusted for sex and age to calculate the odds ratios (OR) with their 95% confidence intervals (CI) of e-cigarette use by socio-demographic factors, dual use and nicotine-containing e-cigarettes. The highest proportion of e-cigarette users who used them in public places was found at restaurants or bars (69.4%) and nightclubs or pubs (55.4%). Also being current conventional tobacco smokers (dual users) was significantly associated with lower use of e-cigarettes in workplaces (OR = 0.61, 95%CI:0.41-0.91), restaurants (OR = 0.66, 95%CI:0.45-0.97) and nightclubs (OR = 0.56, 95%CI:0.37-0.86). Moreover, being a nicotine-containing e-cigarette user was associated with higher odds of using the device in workplaces (OR = 2.01, 95%CI:1.34-3.01), and lower odds of using it in nightclubs (OR = 0.56, 95%CI:0.39-0.82). 96.8% of the included e-cigarette users declared to use the device at home. Being a current tobacco smoker was associated with increased odds of using e-cigarettes at home (OR = 3.17, 95%CI:1.22-8.22). E-cigarette use in private settings and in public settings where their use is not regulated by law is high. Therefore, the public health administration in Spain should consider expanding the prohibition of e-cigarette use to indoor public places and should take into account the possibility of exposure to aerosol from e-cigarettes. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  12. The ecodesign and planning of sustainable neighbourhoods: the Vallbona case study (Barcelona

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    Farreny, R.

    2011-10-01

    Full Text Available Global sustainability is increasingly an issue of urban sustainability, being essential to encourage more benign trajectories of urbanisation. For this, there is need for a framework that could aid in the process of designing and redesigning (retrofitting cities. The aim of this paper is to present and describe the methodology of urban ecodesign, which is characterized by a systematic incorporation of environmental life cycle considerations into the design of urban systems. The paper presents a case study of neighbourhood ecodesign from the city of Barcelona (Vallbona neighbourhood. This practical experience shows that the inclusion of sustainability criteria at an early stage of the design and planning of urban systems is the best strategy for environmental protection.In addition; a methodological framework is described in order to provide planners with a structured way of designing urban settlements so as to move towards sustainable urban environments.

    La sostenibilidad global es cada vez más un tema de sostenibilidad urbana. Por este motivo, es necesario un marco de trabajo que pueda ayudar en el proceso de diseño y rediseño (rehabilitación de nuestras ciudades. El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar y describir la metodología de ecodiseño adaptada a los entornos urbanos, la cual se caracteriza por la incorporación sistemática de las consideraciones ambientales a lo largo de su ciclo de vida. El documento presenta un caso de estudio de ecodiseño del barrio de Vallbona (Barcelona. Esta experiencia demuestra que la inclusión de criterios de sostenibilidad en las etapas iniciales de diseño y planificación de los sistemas urbanos es la mejor estrategia para la prevención ambiental. Además, se presenta un marco metodológico con el fin de proporcionar a los planificadores una forma estructurada de diseño de los asentamientos urbanos que les permita avanzar hacia entornos urbanos más sostenibles.

  13. Ernest Hemingway e a Guerra Civil Espanhola

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    Tom Burns

    2009-06-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo discute o romance For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 [Por quem os sinos dobram], do escritor e jornalista americano Ernest Hemingway, uma ficção sobre a Guerra Civil Espanhola que o autor escreveu na Espanha enquanto servia como correspondente de guerra. O romance, favorável à causa legalista, parece assumir uma posição mais política que os romances e histórias anteriores de Hemingway, mas, na verdade, desenvolve mais uma variação do típico “herói de Hemingway”, celebrado em quase toda a obra do autor: o indivíduo solitário, corajoso, destinado ao fracasso, mas determinado a extrair algum significado da vida em um mundo absurdo.

  14. Muusikamaailm : Lihavõttefestivalid Euroopas. Uus kontserdimaja avati Barcelonas. Johann Adolf Hasse ئ 300. Märtsikuu teisi tähtpäevi / Priit Kuusk

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    Lihavõttefestivalidest Salzburgis, Viinis ja Luzernis. kontsertidest, esinejatest. Barcelonas avatud uuest kontserdimajast L"Auditori. Helilooja 300. sünniaastapäeva puhul on mitmel pool Euroopas välja toodud tema ooperite uuslavastusi. Muusikute tähtpäevi märtsis 1999

  15. Responsabilidad y marcas de calidad conferencia pronunciada en Barcelona, el 11 de diciembre de 1974 en el II Congreso Nacional de la Calidad

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    Vila, Miguel

    1975-04-01

    Full Text Available This is a reproduction of the lecture held by the author at the 11 National Congress of Quality in Barcelona, Spain, which gives account of concepts, projects, works and plans for the future, and information is given on completed works and the philosophy of a Working Group CIETSID, with the participation of Instituto Eduardo Torroja, CENIM, AECC, of the official organisations, professional colleges, UNESID and manufacturers.Se reproduce aquí la conferencia pronunciada por el autor en el II Congreso Nacional de la Calidad, en Barcelona (España, en la que se exponen conceptos, proyectos, realizaciones y planes para el futuro, representando las inquietudes del sector, y se transmiten las obras concretas y la filosofía de un grupo de trabajo CIETSID, con la participación del Instituto Eduardo Torreja, CENIM, A.E.C.C., de los organismos oficiales, colegios profesionales, UNESID y fabricantes.

  16. European Society of Cardiology Congress 2017 (August 26-30, 2017 - Barcelona, Spain).

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    Klischies, S

    2017-12-01

    The annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is the largest medical congress in Europe for this area of research and took place this year in Barcelona, Spain. The ESC Congress 2017 gathered more than 30,000 registered participants from over 140 countries together to share their knowledge in all cardiovascular fields, from basic science to management and prevention of cardiovascular diseases. The congress comprised 5 days of science and education with over 11,000 abstracts submitted, 500 expert sessions and over 200 exhibiting companies, making it the prime meeting platform for the profession. This year's ESC Congress Spotlight was "40 years of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)." PCI is a nonsurgical procedure used to treat narrowing of the coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary artery disease.

  17. DEPORTE Y DEMOCRATIZACIÓN EN UN PERIODO DE CAMBIO. EVOLUCIÓN DEL FENÓMENO DEPORTIVO EN BARCELONA DURANTE LA TRANSICIÓN DEMOCRÁTICA (1975-1982

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    Sixte Abadía i Naudí

    2007-01-01

    Full Text Available El análisis de la evolución del fenómeno deportivo en la ciudad de Barcelona durante la transición democrática (1975-1982 es el objeto de estudio de esta tesis doctoral. El mencionado periodo constituyó un marco de profundas transformaciones jurídicas, sociales y políticas que posibilitaron la definitiva modernización del país y la masiva incorporación del deporte entre los nuevos estilos de vida de los españoles. Desde una perspectiva historiográfica, pues, esta investigación se aproxima a la realidad del fenómeno deportivo durante la transición democrática, con la intención de determinar si en paralelo a la democratización del sistema político estatal se produjo un proceso de masificación deportiva en la ciudad de Barcelona. Este estudio presenta una estructura cronológica y temática, ahondando en las actuaciones en torno a las manifestaciones deportivas de las diferentes administraciones ¿estatal, autonómica, provincial y municipal- y del asociacionismo deportivo y vecinal, durante el periodo 1975-1982. En este sentido, se observa que, pese a la reestructuración gubernamental estatal característica de la primera mitad de la transición democrática (1975-1979, siguió siendo el asociacionismo deportivo el principal promotor de la transformación del fenómeno deportivo en la ciudad condal. A partir de las elecciones municipales del 3 de abril de 1979 y hasta las elecciones legislativas del octubre de 1982, el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona pasó a liderar la mencionada transformación a través de la implementación de una diversificada política deportiva que, a su vez, aceleró la evolución del asociacionismo deportivo hacia planteamientos más cercanos al deporte para todos. A su vez, cabe mencionar la intensificación del colaboracionismo existente entre las diferentes administraciones y el asociacionismo deportivo y vecinal como consecuencia de la definición de las políticas deportivas municipal, provincial y

  18. Sowing Resilience and Contestation in Times of Crises: The Case of Urban Gardening Movements in Barcelona

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    Marta Camps-Calvet

    2015-07-01

    Full Text Available Urban gardens have been observed to multiply in response to crises. However, the meaning and motivations behind the emergence of gardening movements varies greatly over space and time. In this paper we argue that bottom up urban gardening initiatives taking place in Southern European countries in form of land occupation and communalization represent forms of resistance that enhance social cohesion and collective action in times of need. Specifically, this research examines the role of urban gardens in (i building community resilience and (ii articulating forms of resistance and contestation to development pressure and commodified urban lifestyles. Our research is based on data collected among 27 urban gardening initiatives in Barcelona, Spain, including 13 self-governed community gardens and 14 public gardens. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews with gardeners and with staff from the Barcelona City Council. Our results show mechanisms through which urban gardens can contribute to build resilience by nurturing social and ecological diversity, generating and transmitting local ecological knowledge, and by creating opportunities for collective action and self-organization. We further examine collectively managed gardens as urban commons that emerge as a form of resistance to the privatization of public urban space, and that offer opportunities to experiment with new models of urban lifestyles. We show how gardening initiatives can be seen to represent an emerging form of urban green commons that provides a suitable ground to ‘sow’ resilience and contestation in times of crises and socio-ecological deterioration.

  19. Modeling of photochemical air pollution in the Barcelona area with highly disaggregated anthropogenic and biogenic emissions

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    The city of Barcelona and its surrounding area, located in the western Mediterranean basin, can reach high levels of O 3 in spring and summertime. To study the origin of this photochemical pollution, a numerical modeling approach was adopted and the episode that took place between 3 and 5 August 1990 was chosen. The main meteorological mesoscale flows were reproduced with the meteorological non-hydrostatic mesoscale model MEMO for 5 August 1990, when weak pressure synoptic conditions took place. The emissions inventory was calculated with the EIM-LEM model, giving highly disaggregated anthropogenic and biogenic emissions in the zone studied, an 80 x 80 km 2 area around the city of Barcelona. Major sources of VOC were road traffic (51%) and vegetation (34%), while NO x were mostly emitted by road traffic (88%). However, emissions from some industrial stacks can be locally important and higher than those from road traffic. Photochemical simulation with the MARS model revealed that the combination of mesoscale wind flows and the above-mentioned local emissions is crucial in the production and transport of O 3 in the area. On the other hand, the geostrophic wind also played an important role in advecting the air masses away from the places O 3 had been generated. The model simulations were also evaluated by comparing meteorological measurements from nine surface stations and concentration measurements from five surface stations, and the results proved to be fairly satisfactory. (author)

  20. Ceremonia y conflicto: Entradas reales en Barcelona en el contexto de la Guerra Civil Catalana (1460-1473

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    Raufast Chico, Miguel

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available This study examines the royal entry ceremonies celebrated in Barcelona between 1460 and 1473, in the light of their meaning and importance in relation to the unsettled period marked by the Catalan Civil War (1462-1472. Starting from the premise that these sort of events are likely to reflect the sociopolitical reality in which they occur, it sets out to determine just how far the receptions offered to the monarchy by the city during these years can contribute towards explaining the origin, development and conclusion of the warlike conflict which set the institutions of the Principate against John II.

    Este estudio recorre las ceremonias de entrada real que se celebraron en Barcelona, entre 1460 y 1473, a la luz de su significación y trascendencia en relación al conflictivo período marcado por la Guerra Civil Catalana (1462-1472. Partiendo de la premisa de que este tipo de eventos son susceptibles de reflejar la realidad sociopolítica en la que tienen lugar, se intenta aquí determinar en qué medida las recepciones ofrecidas por la ciudad a la monarquía durante estos años pueden contribuir a explicar la génesis, desarrollo y conclusión del conflicto bélico que enfrentó a las instituciones del Principado con Juan II.

  1. A avaliação da pesquisa universitária em Espanha

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    Ana Jorge Alonso

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    Full Text Available This article analyzes the current duopoly of the companies that manage the rankings of publications and how this dynamic affects the public university, in general, as well as the system of accreditation for faculty researcher in Spain. The critical reflection on the causes and consequences of this biased assessment model evidences collision between the political and academic imaginaries which promote hegemony of science over social sciences. In the same way, it reveals a geostrategic logic over representing scientific literature in English and a propensity for quantitative aspects in the global publishing trend.

  2. Actividad y territorio : la localización de la población extranjera en Barcelona

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    Bayona, Jordi

    2005-01-01

    Este texto analiza el papel selectivo del territorio en el asentamiento de la población de nacionalidad extranjera y, en especial, de la función de la ciudad de Barcelona como lugar de atracción, filtro y selección de esta población en el contexto de Cataluña. Con este objetivo, en primer lugar se describen las pautas de distribución espacial de la población extranjera en Cataluña, para posteriormente comparar las características sociodemográficas de la población de nacionalidad extranjera ce...

  3. La Participació dels catòlics en el moviment obrer de Barcelona (1946-1978)

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    2007-01-01

    El treball d'investigació La participació dels catòlics en el moviment obrer de Barcelona (1946-1978) en què es basa aquest article tenia com a finalitat fonamental fer palesa la importància del moviment obrer durant la dictadura franquista i els primers anys de la transició i valorar la contribució de la presència de militants catòlics en les organitzacions de classe que es van formar durant el període abans esmentat. Es tractava, doncs, d'analitzar com es va dur a terme aques...

  4. The impact of regulatory approaches targeting collaborative economy in the tourism accommodation sector::Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris

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    Dredge, Dianne; Gyimóthy, Szilvia; Birkbak, Andreas; Jensen, Torben Elgaard; Madsen, Anders Koed

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    This paper has been commissioned by the European Commission’s DG GROWTH to examine the impact of regulatory approaches targeting collaborative economy in the tourism accommodation sector in the cities of Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris. In relation to tourism, the growth of the collaborative economy peer-to-peer accommodation sector has significant impacts for traditional tourism industry structures and relationships. The growth of the collaborative economy peer-to-peer accommodation m...

  5. Reference Gene Selection in the Desert Plant <em>Eremosparton songoricuem>m>

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    2012-06-01

    Full Text Available <em>Eremosparton songoricum em>(Litv. Vass. (<em>E. songoricumem> is a rare and extremely drought-tolerant desert plant that holds promise as a model organism for the identification of genes associated with water deficit stress. Here, we cloned and evaluated the expression of eight candidate reference genes using quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reactions. The expression of these candidate reference genes was analyzed in a diverse set of 20 samples including various <em>E. songoricumem> plant tissues exposed to multiple environmental stresses. GeNorm analysis indicated that expression stability varied between the reference genes in the different experimental conditions, but the two most stable reference genes were sufficient for normalization in most conditions.<em> EsEFem> and <em>Esα-TUB> were sufficient for various stress conditions, <em>EsEF> and <em>EsACT> were suitable for samples of differing germination stages, and <em>EsGAPDH>and <em>Es>UBQ em>were most stable across multiple adult tissue samples. The <em>Es18Sem> gene was unsuitable as a reference gene in our analysis. In addition, the expression level of the drought-stress related transcription factor <em>EsDREB2em>> em>verified the utility of<em> E. songoricumem> reference genes and indicated that no single gene was adequate for normalization on its own. This is the first systematic report on the selection of reference genes in <em>E. songoricumem>, and these data will facilitate future work on gene expression in this species.

  6. O discurso espacial como instrumento da produção capitalista do espaço: experiências em São Paulo e Barcelona

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    Fabiana Valdoski

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    Full Text Available O discurso espacial tornou-se fundamental para a execução das políticas de espaço que buscam inseri-lo nos circuitos da acumulação através da metamorfose das morfologias de bairros populares e periféricos. Tais discursos incorporam novos elementos devido a sua necessidade permanente de reelaboração, pois os conflitos surgidos ao longo do avanço dessas políticas espaciais corroem argumentos de legitimidade, e estes são alçados à composição de álibis que reponham sua condição pretérita de coerência e coesão. Entre estes recentes álibis incorporados aos discursos espaciais, temos aqueles pautados em reivindicações como as de melhorias infraestruturais e do meio ambiente, transformando, contraditoriamente, a qualidade das matrizes discursivas dos movimentos sociais em instrumentos de uma prática espacial que promove a valorização de lugares em detrimento da apropriação. Isto resulta na produção de uma ideologia do espaço que escamoteia os mecanismos de segregação empreendidos pelas políticas de espaço.

  7. Perfil de la casuística hospitalaria de la población inmigrante en Barcelona Profile of the hospital case mix of the immigrant population in Barcelona, Spain

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    Full Text Available Objetivo: A pesar de que en los últimos 5 años la población inmigrante se ha triplicado en ciudades como Barcelona, hasta el momento no se ha evaluado de forma rigurosa el impacto de este colectivo en el sistema sanitario. El objetivo del presente estudio ha sido comparar el perfil de la hospitalización de la población inmigrante con la autóctona, desde el punto de vista de la casuística, gravedad, características demográficas y consumo de estancias. Material y métodos: Se han analizado las 15.057 altas del Hospital del Mar de Barcelona en el año 2000. Este hospital asiste el 60% de los ingresos hospitalarios del distrito de Ciutat Vella, distrito que presentaba en el año 2000 un porcentaje de inmigrantes residentes del 21%. Se han comparado las características sociodemográficas y de casuística de los pacientes en razón de ser o no inmigrantes. También se ha comparado el consumo de recursos hospitalarios teniendo en cuenta la edad, la casuística (grupos relacionados por el diagnóstico y la gravedad (severidad, complicaciones y comorbilidades de la patología atendida. Resultados: La población inmigrante ha presentado una casuística distinta de la autóctona por la marcada diferencia en la edad y por su mayor tasa de fecundidad. El 33% de los ingresos de inmigrantes han sido partos. El coste medio de las altas de inmigrantes de países de renta baja valorado en consumo de estancias hospitalarias, ha sido un 30% menor que el del resto de las altas. Una vez ajustadas la edad, la casuística y la severidad, el consumo de estancias hospitalarias en la población inmigrante ha sido significativamente menor. La diferencia se ha cifrado en un 5% cuando sólo se ha ajustado por patología y en un 10% cuando han sido considerados todos los factores. Conclusiones: Las diferencias en la casuística vienen marcadas por la edad y por las diferencias socioculturales. La pirámide de edad de la población hospitalaria inmigrante recompone

  8. Construcción de un índice de privación para los barrios de Madrid y Barcelona

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    Débora Álvarez-del Arco

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available Fundamentos: los indicadores socioeconómicos que toman el barrio como unidad de referencia en nuestro contexto son escasos. Los objetivos de es- te artículo son describir el proceso de construcción y la validez de un índice de privación a nivel de barrio y analizar su asociación con la mortalidad.. Métodos: el esquema conceptual inicial del IP contuvo elementos que caracterizaban teóricamente la privación y para las que se realizó una recogida de variables de segundo nivel. El IP se adaptó a la disponibilidad de variables y a los resultados de sus análisis exploratorios. Finalmente, se realizó un análisis factorial para la validación del IP que se compuso de 5 dimensiones para Madrid (economía, población y territorio, vivienda, parque móvil y demografía y 4 para Barcelona (las mismas salvo “demografía”. Los barrios fueron agrupados en cuartiles según la puntuación obtenida para el IP (Q4: mayor nivel de privación. Se calcularon tasas de mortalidad prematura estratificadas por sexo y ajustadas por edad y razones de mortalidad para cada cuartil. Resultados: El IP explicó el 55% de la variabilidad observada en los indicadores para Madrid y el 69% para Barcelona. La tasa de mortalidad prematura para el Q1 en Madrid fue 1,65por 10 3 en hombres y 0,92 por 10 3 y de 2,81 por 10 3 en hombres y 1,22 por 10 3 en mujeres residentes en Q4. En Barcelona la tasa de mortalidad fue de 2,33 por 10 3 en hombres y de 1,15 por 10 3 mujeres en el Q1 y de 3,49 por 10 3 en hombres y 1,52 por 10 3 en mujeres del Q4. Conclusión: Las tasas de mortalidad mostraron mayor mortalidad prematura en los barrios con un índice de privación mayor.

  9. El tabaco en los establecimientos de restauración y hostelería: estudio observacional en Barcelona, 2008 Smoking in the hospitality sector: an observational study in Barcelona (Spain, 2008

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    Joan R. Villalbí

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Objetivos: Describir la situación real del consumo de tabaco en los locales de restauración y hostelería tras la ley de medidas sanitarias frente al tabaquismo, que establece exenciones en este sector a la prohibición general de fumar en el trabajo desde 2006. Métodos Estudio observacional descriptivo en Barcelona en 2008, con muestreo por conglomerados de 1130 establecimientos. Se presentan los resultados estratificados por tipo de establecimiento. Resultados: En el 85,7% de los comercios con degustación (panaderías, pastelerías… y el 85% de los locales de comida rápida se prohíbe fumar. El 40% de los restaurantes son libres de humo u ofrecen zonas separadas. En los bares-cafeterías y cafeterías-restaurantes (locales más abundantes no se suele prohibir fumar. Hay mayor oferta de locales sin humo en los distritos céntricos y centros comerciales. Conclusiones: En un 75,4% de los locales se permite fumar libremente. Estos resultados muestran las limitaciones de la ley.Objectives: To describe the actual presence of smoking in restaurant and hospitality premises after the smoking prevention act banning smoking in workplaces came into force in 2006, with wide exemptions in this sector. Methods: We performed an observational, descriptive study in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain in 2008 based on cluster sampling, with 1130 premises. The results were stratified by premise type. Results: Up to 85.7% of food shops allowing consumption within their premises (bakeries, pastry shops… ban smoking, as well as 85% of fast food establishments. Among restaurants, 40% are smoke-free or have separate smoking areas. Bar-cafés and café-restaurants (the most abundant premises usually allow smoking. There are more smoke-free options in central districts and in shopping malls. Conclusions: Up to 75.4% of all premises allow smoking freely. These results show the limitations of the law.

  10. Trastornos menores de salud en una muestra de estudiantes de la Universidad de Barcelona

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    MT Icart Isern

    Full Text Available Introducción: conocer la prevalencia de algunos trastornos menores de salud (TMS en una muestra de estudiantes de la Universidad de Barcelona (2004-05. Material y métodos: El estudio se realizó en las facultades de Ciencias Económicas, Farmacia, Medicina, Psicología y Químicas y Escuela de Enfermería de la Universidad de Barcelona. Se empleó un diseño observacional, descriptivo y transversal mediante un cuestionario mixto administrada a 600 estudiantes durante el mes de diciembre de 2004. Las variables estudiadas corresponden a los siguientes TMS: insomnio, estreñimiento, cefalea, dolor osteomuscular, tics nerviosos, onicofagia y tricotilomania. Resultados: El sexo femenino representa el 64% de la muestra; la media de edad de los encuestados es de 22,7 (DE: 3,27; IC 95%: 22,43-22,96. Las mujeres acumulan el 67,79% de los 1.245 TMS identificados. Por sexo, se observan diferencias estadísticamente significativas en las prevalencias de cefalea, dolor osteomuscular y tricotilomania que afectan en mayor medida al sexo femenino. La onicofagia (264; 21,20%; IC 95%: 18-24,4 es el más extendido de los TMS, seguido de la cefalea (233; 18,72%; IC 95%: 15,6-21,84. los estudiantes de Psicología presentan el mayor número, seguidos de los de Ciencias Económicas; los que presentan un menor número son los de Farmacia y Químicas. Conclusiones: El sexo femenino presenta la mayor prevalencia de TMS. La onicofagia y la cefalea son los principales TMS identificados en la muestra. Los estudiantes de Psicología acumulan el mayor número de TMS, siendo los que presentan más cefalea, dolor osteomuscular y tricotilomania.

  11. Programa de Atención Psicológica para los alumnos de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Barcelona Psychological Care Program for the students of the Medical School of the University of Barcelona

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    Rosa Sender Romeo

    2007-12-01

    Full Text Available El Programa d´Atenció Psicològica de la Facultad de Medicina de Barcelona se desarrolló entre los años 1999 y 2003. Se razonan los motivos de su creación así como los aspectos específicos de pertenencia a una facultad de medicina. Se da cuenta de los trabajos de tipo asistencial realizados en el transcurso de ese periodo, así como de los trabajos de investigación correspondientes a la misma etapa o derivados de las líneas generales que se prolongaron con posterioridad al cierre del programa y que tienen su origen en la línea de trabajo del propio programa. Se analiza la conveniencia y el interés que puede atribuirse a este tipo de colaboraciones que pretenden valorar la etapa universitaria de los sujetos como la antesala de la vida laboral.Between 1999 and 2003 the program of the Barcelona UB Medical School Psychological Service was offered to the students. In this paper the reasons of its birth and specific linkage to the medical school are explained. An account is offered about the psychiatric and psychological are activity developed during this period, as well as the research projects which began during this time and were followed after the interruption of the care program. Finally the interest and convenience of these kind of programs are discussed, emphasizing the utility of considering the time spended at the university as the prelude of working life.

  12. Valuation of travel time savings for intercity travel: The Madrid-Barcelona corridor

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    Roman, Concepcion; Carlos Martin, Juan; Espino, Raquel

    2014-01-01

    We derive values of travel time savings (VOT) for the Madrid-Barcelona corridor, linking the two largest cities in Spain, based on the estimation of discrete choice models among the main public transport services in the corridor: air transport, high speed rail (HSR) and bus. The new HSR alternative...... (which started to operate in February 2008) competes directly with one of the densest airline domestic markets in the world, and its introduction produced substantial improvements in level of service, achieving reductions in travel time of more than 50% over the conventional train. A specifically...... to provide useful information to quantify users' benefits during the lifespan of a given project. We found, as expected, that HSR and air transport users exhibit substantially higher values for saving travel time than bus travellers. Also as expected, savings of waiting time are more valued than savings...

  13. Social-ecological perspective in the analysis of protected natural areas of the metropolitan area of Barcelona (Spain)

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    Iago Otero, Armengol; Boada Junca, Marti

    2008-01-01

    Socio ecological approach tries to integrate natural sciences and social sciences to study reality from an interdisciplinary perspective. Under this point of view, the article analyses the environmental history in the municipality of Matadepera and studies the socio ecological heritage in Olzinelles valley. Through the two case studies we link socio ecological approach with the improvement of management and conservation of two natural protected areas in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region: Sant Llorenc del Munt i l'Obac Natural Park and Montnegre i el Corredor Park

  14. An observational study of the 7 September 2005 Barcelona tornado outbreak

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    J. Bech

    2007-01-01

    Full Text Available This paper presents an observational study of the tornado outbreak that took place on the 7 September 2005 in the Llobregat delta river, affecting a densely populated and urbanised area and the Barcelona International airport (NE Spain. The site survey confirmed at least five short-lived tornadoes. Four of them were weak (F0, F1 and the other one was significant (F2 on the Fujita scale. They started mostly as waterspouts and moved later inland causing extensive damage estimated in 9 million Euros, three injured people but fortunately no fatalities. Large scale forcing was provided by upper level diffluence and low level warm air advection. Satellite and weather radar images revealed the development of the cells that spawned the waterspouts along a mesoscale convergence line in a highly sheared and relatively low buoyant environment. Further analysis indicated characteristics that could be attributed indistinctively to non-supercell or to mini-supercell thunderstorms.

  15. Redes sociales y deporte en los espacios públicos de Barcelona

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    Xavi Camino

    2008-03-01

    Full Text Available En el presente artículo se muestran algunos de los resultados de la investigación llevada a cabo entre el 2005 y el 2007, desde el Laboratorio de Investigación Social y Educativa del INEFC de Barcelona. Como el mismo título indica, el estudio se ha centrado en el análisis de cómo determinados espacios públicos urbanos (30 son utilizados deportivamente por distintas redes sociales (62, muchas de las cuales se crean y/o desarrollan a partir de un deporte y un espacio público concretos. Por eso, los resultados que presentamos a continuación pretenden explicar qué características presentan las redes sociales y los deportes analizados, qué relaciones se dan entre éstas cuando utilizan un mismo espacio y qué importancia tienen estas redes sociales para los individuos que forman parte de las mismas.

  16. A specimen of <em>Sorex> cfr. <em>samniticus> in Barn Owl's pellets from Murge plateau (Apulia, Italy / Su di un <em>Sorex> cfr. <em>samniticus> (Insectivora, Soricidae rinvenuto in borre di <em>Tyto albaem> delle Murge (Puglia, Italia

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    Giovanni Ferrara

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    Full Text Available Abstract In a lot of Barn Owl's pellets from the Murge plateau a specimen of <em>Sorex> sp. was detected. Thank to some morphological and morphometrical features, the cranial bones can be tentatively attributed to <em>Sorex samniticusem> Altobello, 1926. The genus <em>Sorex> was not yet included in the Apulia's fauna southwards of the Gargano district; the origin and significance of the above record is briefly discussed, the actual presence of a natural population of <em>Sorex> in the Murge being not yet proved. Riassunto Viene segnalato il rinvenimento di un esemplare di <em>Sorex> cfr. <em>samniticus> da borre di <em>Tyto albaem> delle Murge. Poiché il genere non era stato ancora segnalato nella Puglia a sud del Gargano, viene discusso il significato faunistico del reperto.

  17. Efecto de extractos vegetales de <em>Polygonum hydropiperoidesem>, <em>Solanum nigrumem> y <em>Calliandra pittieriem> sobre el gusano cogollero (<em>Spodoptera frugiperdaem>

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    Lizarazo H. Karol

    2008-12-01

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    El gusano cogollero <em>Spodoptera frugiperdaem> es una de las plagas que más afectan los cultivos en la región de Sumapaz (Cundinamarca, Colombia. En la actualidad se controla principalmente aplicando productos de síntesis química, sin embargo la aplicación de extractos vegetales surge como una alternativa de menor impacto sobre el ambiente. Este control se emplea debido a que las plantas contienen metabolitos secundarios que pueden inhibir el desarrollo de los insectos. Por tal motivo, la presente investigación evaluó el efecto insecticida y antialimentario de extractos vegetales de barbasco <em>Polygonum hydropiperoidesem> (Polygonaceae, carbonero <em>Calliandra pittieriem> (Mimosaceae y hierba mora <em>Solanum nigrumem> (Solanaceae sobre larvas de <em>S. frugiperdaem> biotipo maíz. Se estableció una cría masiva del insecto en el laboratorio utilizando una dieta natural con hojas de maíz. Posteriormente se obtuvieron extractos vegetales utilizando solventes de alta polaridad (agua y etanol y media polaridad (diclorometano los cuales se aplicaron sobre las larvas de segundo instar. Los resultados más destacados se presentaron con extractos de <em>P. hydropiperoidesem>, obtenidos con diclorometano en sus diferentes dosis, con los cuales se alcanzó una mortalidad de 100% 12 días después de la aplicación y un efecto antialimentario representado por un consumo de follaje de maíz inferior al 4%, efectos similares a los del testigo comercial (Clorpiriphos.

  18. EL PROYECTO DE LA OLIMPIADA POPULAR DE BARCELONA (1936, ENTRE COMUNISMO INTERNACIONAL Y REPUBLICANISMO REGIONAL

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    André Gounot

    2005-01-01

    Full Text Available Los archivos del KOMINTERN en el Centro Ruso de Conservación y Estudio de los Documentos sobre la Historia Contemporánea (CRCRHC de Moscú, recientemente abiertos para el estudio científico, nos ofrecen fuentes documentales fundamentales para entender el desarrollo de la Internacional Deportiva Roja (IDR como una de las organizaciones auxiliares del citado KOMINTERN. Las referidas fuentes documentales han aportado nuevas informaciones y datos sobre la creación en España en 1931, con el establecimiento de la 2ª República, de la Federación Cultural y Deportiva Obrera (FCDO, organización que en 1934 se adhiere a la Internacional Deportiva Roja (IDR, siendo el embrión del nacimiento del Comité Catalán pro Deporte Popular que presentaría el proyecto de la Olimpiada Popular de Barcelona de 1936 como alternativa a la Olimpiada de Berlín de 1936 de Hitler. Por otra parte la Internacional Deportiva Roja (IDR creó a finales de 1935 el Comité Internacional para la defensa de la Idea Olímpica, cuyo objetivo era coordinar los movimientos de oposición a los Juegos de Berlín. También la propia Federación Cultural y Deportiva Obrera (FDCO fundó en 1936 el Comité Español de Defensa del Espíritu Olímpico con este mismo fin. La Olimpiada Popular de Barcelona de 1936 permitió entre otras cosas expresar la nueva alianza entre Comunismo y Olimpismo, construida con discursos contradictorios apoyándose en el universalismo, la paz y la igualdad de razas.

  19. Rapid Development of Microsatellite Markers with 454 Pyrosequencing in a Vulnerable Fish<em>,> the Mottled Skate<em>, Raja em>pulchra>

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    Jung-Ha Kang

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    Full Text Available The mottled skate, <em>Raja pulchraem>, is an economically valuable fish. However, due to a severe population decline, it is listed as a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. To analyze its genetic structure and diversity, microsatellite markers were developed using 454 pyrosequencing. A total of 17,033 reads containing dinucleotide microsatellite repeat units (mean, 487 base pairs were identified from 453,549 reads. Among 32 loci containing more than nine repeat units, 20 primer sets (62% produced strong PCR products, of which 14 were polymorphic. In an analysis of 60 individuals from two <em>R. pulchra em>populations, the number of alleles per locus ranged from 1–10, and the mean allelic richness was 4.7. No linkage disequilibrium was found between any pair of loci, indicating that the markers were independent. The Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium test showed significant deviation in two of the 28 single-loci after sequential Bonferroni’s correction. Using 11 primer sets, cross-species amplification was demonstrated in nine related species from four families within two classes. Among the 11 loci amplified from three other <em>Rajidae> family species; three loci were polymorphic. A monomorphic locus was amplified in all three <em>Rajidae> family species and the <em>Dasyatidae> family. Two <em>Rajidae> polymorphic loci amplified monomorphic target DNAs in four species belonging to the Carcharhiniformes class, and another was polymorphic in two Carcharhiniformes species.

  20. Edificios con forjados postesados mediante tendones no adherentes. Edificio Mapfre-Vía Augusta, en Barcelona-España

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    Llombart Jaques, José Antonio

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    Full Text Available The technique of unbonded tendons applied to post-tensioned flat-slabs of buildings of certain importance has not been very frequent in Spain to date; in fact, it was used on very few occasions. This article gives the basic characteristics of the post-tensioned floors comparing them with the conventional solutions of reinforced concrete floors. The second part of the article brings a description of the main aspects of the design and construction of the Mapfre-Vía Augusta building in Barcelona. This recently raised building has the floor construction with slabs post-tensioned by unbonded tendons.

    La técnica del postesado no adherente, aplicada a losas de forjado de edificios de cierta entidad, ha sido hasta el momento poco común en España, habiéndose utilizado solamente en contadas ocasiones. Se indican, en primer lugar, las características fundamentales de los forjados postesados y se establecen comparaciones con soluciones convencionales de forjados de hormigón armado. En la segunda parte del artículo se describen los principales aspectos de proyecto y construcción de la estructura del Edificio Mapfre-Vía Augusta, en Barcelona, de reciente construcción, cuyos forjados están constituidos por losas postesadas mediante tendones no adherentes.

  1. Quantification of thermal bioclimate for the management of urban design in Mediterranean climate of Barcelona, Spain

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    Rodríguez Algeciras, José Abel; Matzarakis, Andreas

    2016-08-01

    In order to contribute to the sustainability of the outdoor environment, knowledge about the urban thermal bioclimate should be transferred into climatic guidelines for planning. The general framework of this study responds to the need of analyzing thermal bioclimate in Mediterranean climate regions and its influence as an urban design factor. The paper analyzes the background of the urban climate and thermal bioclimate conditions in Barcelona (Spain), through the effect of shade conditions and wind speed variations. Simulations of shade and wind speed variations were performed to evaluate changes in thermal bioclimate due to modifications in urban morphology. Air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and solar radiation for the period from January, 2001 to January, 2015 were used to calculate physiologically equivalent temperature (PET) using the RayMan model. The results demonstrate that shade is the most important strategy to improve urban microclimatic conditions. In Barcelona, human thermal comfort conditions can be improved by shade and wind speed increase in terms of PET above 23 °C and by a wind speed decrease for thresholds of PET below 18 °C. Heat stress situations can be mitigated by shade and wind speed increase in conditions above 35 and 45 °C, respectively. The results of the study are an important contribution for urban planners, due to their possibilities and potential for the description of microclimatic conditions in Mediterranean climate regions. The knowledge is useful for improved human thermal comfort conditions, from the suitable configuration of urban form and architecture.

  2. EDITORIAL: Proceedings of the 7th International LISA Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, 16-20 June 2008 Proceedings of the 7th International LISA Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, 16-20 June 2008

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    Lobo, Alberto; Sopuerta, Carlos F.

    2009-05-01

    In June 2006 the LISA International Science Team (LIST) accepted the bid presented by the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) to host the 7th International LISA Symposium. This was during its 11th meeting at the University of Maryland, just before the 6th edition of the symposium started at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The 7th International LISA Symposium took place in the city of Barcelona, Spain, 16-20 June, 2008, in the premises of CosmoCaixa, a modern science museum located in the hills near Tibidabo. Almost 240 delegates registered for the event, a record breaking figure compared to previous editions of the symposium. Many of the most renowned world experts in LISA, gravitational wave science, and astronomy, as well as engineers, attended LISA #7 and produced state of the art presentations, while everybody benefited from the opportunity to have live discussions during the week in a friendly environment. The programme included 31 invited plenary lectures in the mornings, and eight parallel sessions in the afternoons. These were classified into seven major areas of research: LISA Technology, LISA PathFinder, LISA PathFinder Data Analysis, LISA Data Analysis, Gravitational Wave Sources, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with LISA and Other Gravitational Wave Detectors. Abstracts for 138 communications were received, from which a selection was made by the session convenors which would fit time constraints. Up to 63 posters completed the scientific programme. More details on the programme, including some of the talks, can be found at the symposium website:http://www.ice.cat/research/LISA_Symposium. There was, however, a remarkable add-on: Professor Clifford Will delivered a startling presentation to the general public, who completely filled the Auditori—the main conference room, 320 seats—and were invited to ask questions to the speaker who boldly guided them through the daunting world of Black Holes, Waves of Gravity, and other Warped Ideas

  3. Infobarris: una herramienta interactiva para monitorizar y divulgar información sobre la salud y sus determinantes en los barrios de Barcelona

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    Pere Llimona

    2017-09-01

    Full Text Available Para conocer la salud de la población es necesario realizar un análisis conjunto y continuado de su estado de salud y de sus determinantes. El objetivo de esta nota de campo es describir el desarrollo y el funcionamiento de la herramienta Infobarris, que permite visualizar una amplia batería de indicadores y determinantes de la salud de la población de la ciudad de Barcelona según el barrio de residencia. Para el desarrollo de Infobarris se ha usado una metodología ágil que permite el desarrollo de un proyecto de forma iterativa e incremental en etapas: selección de indicadores, diseño del prototipo, desarrollo de la herramienta de visualización, carga de datos, revisión y mejora de la herramienta. Infobarris permite la visualización interactiva de 64 indicadores de salud y de sus determinantes, mediante gráficos, mapas y tablas, lo que facilita la vigilancia de la salud y de sus determinantes en los barrios de la ciudad de Barcelona.

  4. Toxic assessment of urban atmospheric particle-bound PAHs: Relevance of composition and particle size in Barcelona (Spain)

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    Mesquita, Sofia Raquel; Drooge, Barend L. van; Reche, Cristina; Guimarães, Laura; Grimalt, Joan O.; Barata, Carlos; Piña, Benjamin

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    Zebrafish embryotoxicity and dioxin-like activity levels were tested for particulate air samples from an urban background site in Barcelona (Spain). Samples were collected during 14 months, and maximal values for both biological activities corresponded to samples collected during late autumn months, correlating with elevated PAH levels. Vehicle and combustion emissions appeared as the potentially most toxic sources, whereas total PM mass and mineral content appeared to be poor predictors of the biological activity of the samples. Samples simultaneously collected at different particle size cut-offs (10, 2.5, and 1 μm) did not differ significantly in dioxin-like PAH levels and biological activity, indicating that the sub-micron particle fraction (PM 1 ) concentrated essentially all observed toxicity. Our results support the need for a tighter control on sub-micron particle emissions and show that total PM mass and, particularly, PM 10 , may not fully characterize the toxic potential of air samples. Highlights: • Dioxin-like activity was found in all air particle samples collected in Barcelona. • 50% of the samples showed different levels of fish embryotoxicity. • Toxic effects associated to PAHs and linked to vehicle and combustion emissions. • The toxicity was not correlated to PM mass or mineral content. • The sub-micron particle fraction PM 1 concentrated essentially all observed toxicity. -- In vivo toxic effects associated to sub-micron urban air particles from combustion and vehicle emissions

  5. De la perrera municipal al centro de acogida de animales de compañía de Barcelona

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    Peracho V.

    2003-01-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar la evolución de la política y los servicios de salud pública relativos a los animales de compañía en la ciudad de Barcelona de 1983 a 2001. Partiendo de una actividad centrada en la custodia y la eutanasia de los animales sin dueño de Barcelona, y ofertando también servicios al resto de la provincia, se formula un Plan de Animales de Compañía para la ciudad y se reorienta la actividad, centrándola en los límites estrictos del municipio y el estímulo de la adopción. Se busca la participación de profesionales y entidades proteccionistas, se remodelan las instalaciones, se fomenta la tenencia responsable de animales, se crean colonias urbanas controladas de gatos y se estimulan las adopciones, redefiniendo la actividad con una mayor orientación al cliente. La evolución de la actividad desde 1998 refleja una notable disminución en el volumen de animales custodiados, así como en la proporción de los sacrificados. Esta disminución puede reflejar una mejora en el problema de los animales abandonados. Estos cambios se han traducido en una modificación positiva de las relaciones con los medios de comunicación y las entidades proteccionistas.

  6. Trabajo Social en España: contextos históricos, singularidades y desafíos actuales Serviço Social na Espanha: contextos históricos, singularidades e desafios atuais Social work in Spain: historic contexts, singularities and current challenges

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    Rosana Matos-Silveira

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    Full Text Available Este artículo analiza la naturaleza y construcción histórica del denominado Estado de Bienestar en España así como las particularidades del proceso de construcción y consolidación del Trabajo Social como profesión y disciplina. Muestra el importante papel de la profesión en la implementación, organización y consolidación de la red pública de servicios sociales con el predominio del modelo burocrático-administrativo profesional. Concluye indicando los principales desafíos actuales en un contexto de fuerte crisis del modelo económico capitalista y la radicalización de la cuestión social.Este artigo analisa a natureza e a construção histórica do denominado Estado de bem-estar social na Espanha, assim como o processo de construcão e de consolidação do Serviço Social como profissão e disciplina. Mostra o importante papel da profissão na implementação, organização e consolidação da rede pública de serviços sociais com o predomínio do modelo burocrático-administrativo profissional. Conclui indicando os principais desafios atuais em um contexto de crise do modelo econômico capitalista e de radicalização da questão social.This article analyzes the historic nature and construction of the so-called welfare state in Spain, as well as the particularities of the process of construction and consolidation of Social Work as a profession and discipline. It presents the important role of the profession in the implementation, organization and consolidation of the public social services network with the predominance of the professional bureaucratic-administrative model. It concludes by indicating the main current challenges to Social Work in a context of a strong crisis in the capitalist economic model and the radicalization of the social question.

  7. Negative mood states and related factors in a sample of adolescent secondary-school students in Barcelona (Spain Estados de ánimo negativos y los factores relacionados en una muestra de adolescentes de enseñanza secundaria de Barcelona

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    Emily Q. Ahonen

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    Full Text Available Introduction: Poor mental health is a common problem in adolescence. Little information is available, however, about the factors influencing negative mood states in otherwise healthy adolescents. We aimed to describe the mood states and related factors in a sample of adolescents in the city of Barcelona (Spain. Methods: We administered a health survey to a sample of 2,727 students from public, subsidized, and private schools in Barcelona, aged approximately 14, 16, and 18 years old. To analyze the associations among moods and related factors, we used bivariate logistic regression, and fitted multivariate logistic regressions using the statistically significant variables from the bivariate analysis. To examine the possible group effects of the school on individual students, we employed multilevel analysis. Results: The frequencies of negative mood states increased with age, with girls consistently reporting more frequent negative mood states than boys. The factors associated with negative mood states were problematic alcohol use, perceived mistreatment or abuse, antisocial behavior, intention to use or current use of illegal drugs (not including cannabis, lower perceived academic performance, and feeling isolated. Conclusions: Mood states are influenced by lifestyle and social factors, about which there is little local information. To plan and implement appropriate public health interventions, more complete information about the possible areas of influence is required. To complement the information obtained from studies such as the present study, longitudinal and qualitative studies would be desirable.Introducción: El deterioro de la salud mental es un problema frecuente en la adolescencia. Sin embargo, se sabe poco de los factores influyentes en los estados de ánimo negativos en adolescentes saludables. Pretendemos describir los estados de ánimo negativos y los factores relacionados en una muestra de adolescentes de la ciudad de Barcelona. M

  8. A New Natural Lactone from <em>Dimocarpus> <em>longan> Lour. Seeds

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    Zhongjun Li

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    Full Text Available A new natural product named longanlactone was isolated from <em>Dimocarpus> <em>longan> Lour. seeds. Its structure was determined as 3-(2-acetyl-1<em>H>-pyrrol-1-yl-5-(prop-2-yn-1-yldihydrofuran-2(3H-one by spectroscopic methods and HRESIMS.

  9. Purification, Characterization and Antioxidant Activities <em>in Vitroem>> em>and <em>in Vivoem> of the Polysaccharides from <em>Boletus edulisem> Bull

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    Yijun Fan

    2012-07-01

    Full Text Available A water-soluble polysaccharide (BEBP was extracted from <em>Boletus edulis em>Bull using hot water extraction followed by ethanol precipitation. The polysaccharide BEBP was further purified by chromatography on a DEAE-cellulose column, giving three major polysaccharide fractions termed BEBP-1, BEBP-2 and BEBP-3. In the next experiment, the average molecular weight (Mw, IR and monosaccharide compositional analysis of the three polysaccharide fractions were determined. The evaluation of antioxidant activities both <em>in vitroem> and <em>in vivo em>suggested that BEBP-3 had good potential antioxidant activity, and should be explored as a novel potential antioxidant.

  10. Estima de la abundancia de Palomas (Columba livia var. de la ciudad de Barcelona y valoración de la efectividad del control por eliminación de individuos

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    Senar, J. C.

    2009-05-01

    Full Text Available Estimate of the abundance of pigeons (Columba livia var. in the city of Barcelona and evaluation of effectiveness of elimination measures Culling is one of the most commonly used methods to control urban pigeon populations. The Barcelona Public Health Agency (ASPB eliminated a total of 227,479 pigeons using this technique between 1991 and 2006. We compared the estimate of abundance of pigeons in Barcelona city in 1991 (183.667 ± 14.914 with that in 2006 ( 256.663 ± 26.210 (CI 95%. While pigeon density did not increase in the city centre during this period, density in a ring around the city increased significantly, leading to a general increase in the urban population of these birds. The number of complaints regarding pigeons received per district did not correlate with abundance. ASPB culling per district correlated with abundance and not with numbers of complaints received, indicating interventions generally followed a technical protocol. Pigeon density per district correlated significantly with the human population density but not with the total number of inhabitants. Findings indicate the effectiveness of culling is low in this setting and suggest greater emphasis should be placed on control measures centered on limiting factors, particularly reduction of food availability and nest removal.

  11. Soil property variability in a humid natural Mediterranean environment: La Rioja, Spain Varibilidad de las propiedades del suelo en ambiente mediterráneo húmedo: La Rioja, España Variabilidade espacial das propriedades do solo em ambiente úmido Mediterrâneo: La Rioja, Espanha

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    Raimundo Jiménez-Ballesta

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    A estimativa da variabilidade espacial das propriedades do solo é importante para avaliar impactos ambientais ou na modelação de processos ambientais. Este artigo aborda a quantificação e avaliação de algumas propriedades do solo (pH, teor em carbonato de cálcio, matéria orgânica e teor em argila em ambiente mediterrânico húmido: La Rioja (Espanha. Para este efeito, foram selecionadas amostras de solo teoricamente afetadas apenas por processos edafogeneticos e desenvolvidas a partir de diferentes materiais de origem. Mais de metade das amostras não têm carbonatos e as que têm apresentam um conteúdo variável, podendo chegar até 65%. Em função do pH podem estabelecer-se duas áreas: uma ácida e uma básica. O teor de argila à superfície é idêntico ao teor em profundidade. Finalmente, o teor em matéria orgânica apresenta um valor médio de 3,9% à superfície, variando numa gama entre 0,3 e 17,5%. As maiores variações são atribuídas ao tipo de solo, composicão do material de origem e vegetacão. Este estudo revela que este método é útil para determinar a distribuição espacial de algumas propriedades dos solos naturais e, deste modo, caracterizar o estado dessas propriedades para a escala estudada. Os mapas produzidos podem ser utilizados em futuras amostragens de solo e na tomada de decisões sobre a gestão das mesmas. El ferrocarril como elemento estructurador de la morfología urbana: el caso de Barcelona 1848-1900

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    La llegada del ferrocarril a la ciudad de Barcelona en 1848 propició una serie de profundos cambios en la estructura urbana de la ciudad y determinó, en parte, el posterior desarrollo del ensanche barcelonés diseñado por Ildefonso Cerdá. Desde 1860, la aparición de nuevas compañías ferroviarias y sus posteriores fusiones comerciales desembocaron en la creación y modificación de espacios y trazados ferroviarios, que no siempre se adecuaron al proyecto de Cerdá y que incidieron en el desarrollo...

  12. El ferrocarril como elemento estructurador de la morfología urbana: el caso de Barcelona 1848-1900

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    La llegada del ferrocarril a la ciudad de Barcelona en 1848 propició una serie de profundos cambios en la estructura urbana de la ciudad y determinó, en parte, el posterior desarrollo del ensanche barcelonés diseñado por Ildefonso Cerdá. Desde 1860, la aparición de nuevas compañías ferroviarias y sus posteriores fusiones comerciales desembocaron en la creación y modificación de espacios y trazados ferroviarios, que no siempre se adecuaron al proyecto de Cerdá y que incidieron en el desarrollo...

  13. <em>Angiostrongylus vasorumem> in red foxes (<em>Vulpes vulpesem> and badgers (<em>Meles melesem> from Central and Northern Italy

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    Full Text Available Abstract During 2004-2005 and 2007-2008, 189 foxes (<em>Vulpes vulpesem> and 6 badgers (<em>Meles melesem> were collected in different areas of Central Northern Italy (Piedmont, Liguria and Tuscany and examined for <em>Angiostrongylus vasorumem> infection. The prevalence of the infection was significantly different in the areas considered, with the highest values in the district of Imperia (80%, Liguria and in Montezemolo (70%, southern Piedmont; the prevalence in Tuscany was 7%. One badger collected in the area of Imperia turned out to be infected, representing the first report of the parasite in this species in Italy. Further studies are needed to evaluate the role played by fox populations as reservoirs of infection and the probability of its spreading to domestic dogs.
    Riassunto <em>Angiostrongylus vasorumem> nella volpe (<em>Vulpes vulpesem> e nel tasso (<em>Meles melesem> in Italia centro-settentrionale. Nel 2004-2005 e 2007-2008, 189 volpi (<em>Vulpes vulpesem> e 6 tassi (<em>Meles melesem> provenienti da differenti aree dell'Italia settentrionale e centrale (Piemonte, Liguria Toscana, sono stati esaminati per la ricerca di <em>Angiostrongylus vasorumem>. La prevalenza del nematode è risultata significativamente diversa nelle varie zone, con valori elevati nelle zone di Imperia (80% e di Montezemolo (70%, provincia di Cuneo; la prevalenza in Toscana è risultata del 7%. Un tasso proveniente dall'area di Imperia è risultato positivo per A. vasorum; questa è la prima segnalazione del parassita in tale specie in Italia. Ulteriori studi sono necessari per valutare il potenziale della volpe come serbatoio e la possibilità di diffusione della parassitosi ai cani domestici.

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  14. Anatomía de la dispersión urbana en Barcelona

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    Iván Muñiz

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    Full Text Available No existe una definición comúnmente aceptada de dispersión urbana (urban sprawl, de modo que la investigación aplicada ha trabajado con diferentes indicadores que pretenden a su vez capturar los distintos significados con que se ha dotado al término. En este trabajo se mide cómo ha evolucionado la dispersión de la población y del empleo de la Región Metropolitana de Barcelona (RMB entre 1986 y 2001. Las dimensiones exploradas se dividen en dos grupos: i forma urbana (desconcentración, baja densidad y discontinuidad y ii estructura urbana. A diferencia de algunos trabajos donde el policentrismo y el crecimiento lineal se presentan como dos formas de dispersión, en nuestro caso contraponemos la idea de expansión urbana estructurada (lineal o policéntrica con la de expansión urbana desestructurada (amorfa, caótica o aleatoria, equiparando esta última con la cuarta dimensión de la dispersión. Los resultados obtenidos indican que la población y el empleo de la RMB se han descentralizado de forma desconcentrada y la densidad residencial se ha reducido. Sin embargo, la RMB no ha crecido de forma discontinua ni desestructurada, sino todo lo contrario.There is no commonly accepted definition of urban sprawl, and therefore applied research has worked with different indicators aiming to grasp the diverse meanings assigned to the term. This study measures how the dispersion of population and employment in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR developed between 1986 and 2001. The dimensions that were investigated are divided into two groups. The first one involves dimensions of urban form (decentralization, low density and discontinuity, and the second, of urban structure. As opposed to some studies, where polycentrism and linear growth are presented as two forms of sprawl, in our case we contrast the idea of structured urban expansion (linear or poly-centric with de structured urban expansion (amorphous, chaotic or random, identifying

  15. Assessment of Genetic Fidelity in <em>Rauvolfia em>s>erpentina em>Plantlets Grown from Synthetic (Encapsulated Seeds Following <em>in Vitroem> Storage at 4 °C

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    Mohammad Anis

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    Full Text Available An efficient method was developed for plant regeneration and establishment from alginate encapsulated synthetic seeds of <em>Rauvolfia serpentinaem>. Synthetic seeds were produced using <em>in vitroem> proliferated microshoots upon complexation of 3% sodium alginate prepared in Llyod and McCown woody plant medium (WPM and 100 mM calcium chloride. Re-growth ability of encapsulated nodal segments was evaluated after storage at 4 °C for 0, 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 weeks and compared with non-encapsulated buds. Effects of different media <em>viz>; Murashige and Skoog medium; Lloyd and McCown woody Plant medium, Gamborg’s B5 medium and Schenk and Hildebrandt medium was also investigated for conversion into plantlets. The maximum frequency of conversion into plantlets from encapsulated nodal segments stored at 4 °C for 4 weeks was achieved on woody plant medium supplement with 5.0 μM BA and 1.0 μM NAA. Rooting in plantlets was achieved in half-strength Murashige and Skoog liquid medium containing 0.5 μM indole-3-acetic acid (IAA on filter paper bridges. Plantlets obtained from stored synseeds were hardened, established successfully <em>ex vitroem> and were morphologically similar to each other as well as their mother plant. The genetic fidelity of <em>Rauvolfia em>clones raised from synthetic seeds following four weeks of storage at 4 °C were assessed by using random amplified polymorphic<em> em>DNA (RAPD and inter-simple sequence repeat<em> em>(ISSR markers. All the RAPD and ISSR profiles from generated plantlets were monomorphic and comparable<em> em>to the mother plant, which confirms the genetic<em> em>stability among the clones. This synseed protocol could be useful for establishing a particular system for conservation, short-term storage and production of genetically identical and stable plants before it is released for commercial purposes.

  16. Sulla presenza di <em>Sorex antinoriiem>, <em>Neomys anomalusem> (Insectivora, Soricidae e <em>Talpa caecaem> (Insectivora, Talpidae in Umbria

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    Full Text Available Lo scopo del contributo è di fornire un aggiornamento sulla presenza del Toporagno del Vallese <em>Sorex antinoriiem>, del Toporagno acquatico di Miller <em>Neomys anomalusem> e della Talpa cieca <em>Talpa caecaem> in Umbria, dove le specie risultano accertate ormai da qualche anno. A tal fine sono stati rivisitati i reperti collezionati e la bibliografia conosciuta. Toporagno del Vallese: elevato di recente a livello di specie da Brünner et al. (2002, altrimenti considerato sottospecie del Toporagno comune (<em>S. araneus antinoriiem>. È conservato uno di tre crani incompleti (mancano mandibole ed incisivi superiori al momento prudenzialmente riferiti a <em>Sorex> cfr. <em>antinorii>, provenienti dall?Appennino umbro-marchigiano settentrionale (dintorni di Scalocchio - PG, 590 m. s.l.m. e determinati sulla base della pigmentazione rossa degli ipoconi del M1 e M2; Toporagno acquatico di Miller: tre crani (Breda in Paci e Romano op. cit. e un esemplare intero (Paci, ined. sono stati trovati a pochi chilometri di distanza gli uni dall?altro tra i comuni di Assisi e Valfabbrica, in ambienti mediocollinari limitrofi al Parco Regionale del M.te Subasio (Perugia. In provincia di Terni la specie viene segnalata da Isotti (op. cit. per i dintorni di Orvieto. Talpa cieca: sono noti una femmina e un maschio raccolti nel comune di Pietralunga (PG, rispettivamente in una conifereta a <em>Pinus nigraem> (m. 630 s.l.m. e nelle vicinanze di un bosco misto collinare a prevalenza di <em>Quercus cerrisem> (m. 640 s.l.m.. Recentemente un terzo individuo è stato rinvenuto nel comune di Sigillo (PG, all?interno del Parco Regionale di M.te Cucco, sul margine di una faggeta a 1100 m s.l.m. In entrambi i casi l?areale della specie è risultato parapatrico con quello di <em>Talpa europaeaem>.

  17. [Smoking in the hospitality sector: an observational study in Barcelona (Spain), 2008].

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    Villalbí, Joan R; Baranda, Lucía; López, M José; Nebot, Manel

    2010-01-01

    To describe the actual presence of smoking in restaurant and hospitality premises after the smoking prevention act banning smoking in workplaces came into force in 2006, with wide exemptions in this sector. We performed an observational, descriptive study in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) in 2008 based on cluster sampling, with 1130 premises. The results were stratified by premise type. Up to 85.7% of food shops allowing consumption within their premises (bakeries, pastry shops...) ban smoking, as well as 85% of fast food establishments. Among restaurants, 40% are smoke-free or have separate smoking areas. Bar-cafés and café-restaurants (the most abundant premises) usually allow smoking. There are more smoke-free options in central districts and in shopping malls. Up to 75.4% of all premises allow smoking freely. These results show the limitations of the law. Copyright 2009 SESPAS. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.

  18. Regularizaciones y trayectorias de inmigrantes no comunitarios en la provincia de Barcelona

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    Andreu Domingo

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es triple: 1 comparar el impacto de la Normalización de 2005, con el proceso de Arraigo instaurado en 2006; 2 analizar las trayectorias de los solicitantes de ambos programas después de su regularización; y 3 examinar la repesca de los solicitantes que no pudieron regularizar su estatus a través de la Normalización o posteriormente con el Arraigo. Se han adoptado dos enfoques, uno transversal, para analizar el volumen y la intensidad de entrada, y otro longitudinal para monitorizar las trayectorias de los solicitantes de ambos procesos. Para ello se han utilizado datos de la Subdelegación del Gobierno en Barcelona desde 2005 hasta 2010. Si bien los resultados arrojan cierto optimismo respecto a ambos procesos, también se demuestra la difi cultad de regularización en tiempos de crisis.

  19. School success of Moroccan youth in Barcelona. Theoretical insights for practical questions

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    Herrera, Diego

    2003-11-01

    Full Text Available This article addresses the relationship between ethnic identity and school performance of Moroccan youth living in Barcelona (Spain, particularly in cases of academic success. The bulk of the article makes reference to examples from ethnographical research to pinpoint the strategies used by some of these youths and their families to transcend the cultural, linguistic, and social barriers they face both in school and in their wider community. In so doing, we shift our gaze from John Ogbu’s immigrant/involuntary typology to the patterns of variability along ethnic, class and gender lines that exist within this minority group. Results from recent ethnographic research points out that high academic performance does not necessarily entails neither rejection of ethnicity nor simple conformity. Rather, some of these Moroccan youth adopt an instrumental view of education that promotes the development of new and proactive cultural identities inside and outside the school arena.

  1. Four Novel Cellulose Synthase (CESA Genes from <em>Birch> (<em>Betula platyphylla em>Suk. Involved in Primary and Secondary Cell Wall Biosynthesis

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    Xuemei Liu

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available Cellulose synthase (CESA, which is an essential catalyst for the generation of plant cell wall biomass, is mainly encoded by the <em>CesA> gene family that contains ten or more members. In this study; four full-length cDNAs encoding CESA were isolated from<em> Betula platyphyllaem> Suk., which is an important timber species, using RT-PCR combined with the RACE method and were named as <em>BplCesA3em>, <em>−4em>,> −7 em>and> −8em>. These deduced CESAs contained the same typical domains and regions as their <em>Arabidopsis> homologs. The cDNA lengths differed among these four genes, as did the locations of the various protein domains inferred from the deduced amino acid sequences, which shared amino acid sequence identities ranging from only 63.8% to 70.5%. Real-time RT-PCR showed that all four <em>BplCesAs> were expressed at different levels in diverse tissues. Results indicated that BplCESA8 might be involved in secondary cell wall biosynthesis and floral development. BplCESA3 appeared in a unique expression pattern and was possibly involved in primary cell wall biosynthesis and seed development; it might also be related to the homogalacturonan synthesis. BplCESA7 and BplCESA4 may be related to the formation of a cellulose synthase complex and participate mainly in secondary cell wall biosynthesis. The extremely low expression abundance of the four BplCESAs in mature pollen suggested very little involvement of them in mature pollen formation in <em>Betula>. The distinct expression pattern of the four <em>BplCesAs> suggested they might participate in developments of various tissues and that they are possibly controlled by distinct mechanisms in <em>Betula.>

  2. Les Polítiques Inmigratòries de la Unió Europea i el Procès de Barcelona.

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    Olivé Elias, Maria

    2007-01-01

    It would be necessary to question which aspects of the Barcelona Process are identified as the weakest and therefore need to be proposed a solution for improvement. Below, some appreciations are made with respect to all the EuroMediterranean Process, that must be taken into account when analyzed from a political or juridical point of view, and which are sometimes misregarded. Moreover, this research includes some general, political and juridical proposals, which have been elaborated in order ...

  3. Microsatellite Loci in the Gypsophyte <em>Lepidium subulatum em>(Brassicaceae, and Transferability to Other <em>Lepidieae>

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    José Gabriel Segarra-Moragues

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available Polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed for the Ibero-North African, strict gypsophyte <em>Lepidium subulatumem> to unravel the effects of habitat fragmentation in levels of genetic diversity, genetic structure and gene flow among its populations. Using 454 pyrosequencing 12 microsatellite loci including di- and tri-nucleotide repeats were characterized in <em>L. subulatumem>. They amplified a total of 80 alleles (2–12 alleles per locus in a sample of 35 individuals of <em>L. subulatumem>, showing relatively high levels of genetic diversity, <em>H>O = 0.645, <em>H>E = 0.627. Cross-species transferability of all 12 loci was successful for the Iberian endemics <em>Lepidium cardaminesem>, <em>Lepidium stylatumem>, and the widespread, <em>Lepidium graminifoliumem> and one species each of two related genera, <em>Cardaria drabaem> and <em>Coronopus didymusem>. These microsatellite primers will be useful to investigate genetic diversity, population structure and to address conservation genetics in species of <em>Lepidium>.

  4. Los futuros pedagogos ante el hecho religioso. Estudio exploratorio en la Universidad de Barcelona

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    Montserrat Freixa Niella

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    Full Text Available Se presenta un estudio exploratorio sobre la diversidad religiosa-­‐cultural y el diálogo interreligioso surgido de la investigación financiada por la Generalitat de Cataluña “Gestionar la diversitat religiosa i cultural des de l’educació. Els Futurs agents socioeducatius” (2014 RELIG 00019. Se analizan los planes docentes de los grados de la facultad de Educación de la Universidad de Barcelona y se valida un instrumento de medición de las actitudes de los futuros agentes socioeducativos aplicándolo a una muestra de estudiantes de último curso de Pedagogía. Los resultados indican actitudes moderadamente altas y la importancia de estar formado para promover el diálogo interreligioso.

  5. An evaluation of monk parakeet damage to crops in the metropolitan area of Barcelona

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    Senar, J.C.; Domenech, J.; Arroyo, L.; Torre, I.; Gordo, O.

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    We evaluated damage to commercial crops caused by the monk parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus, in the Baix Llobregat agricultural area (1,024 ha) bordering the city of Barcelona, Spain. Average crop loss was 0.4% for tomatoes, 28% for corn, 9% for red plums, 36% for round plums, 37% for pears, 17% for persimmons, and 7% for quinces. Our data show that the potential damage to crops by monk parakeets in this invaded area is now a reality. As a wait–and–see approach is likely to be a more costly strategy in the long–term, policy makers should assess issues such as the extent of damage, feasibility/cost benefit analysis, and public opinion so as to avoid greater damage and loss in the future. (Author)

  6. TAN CERCA, TAN LEJOS: ALDO ROSSI Y EL GRUPO 2C. ARQUITECTURA, IDEOLOGÍA Y DISIDENCIAS EN LA BARCELONA DE LOS 70 / So close, so far: Aldo Rossi and the 2C group. Architecture, ideology and dissents in the Barcelona of the 70s

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    Carolina Beatriz García Estévez

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    Full Text Available RESUMEN La recepción catalana de los manifiestos de Robert Venturi y Aldo Rossi de 1966 marca el escenario de una ruptura: mientras Norteamérica debate sobre la forma arquitectónica como estructura lingüística, Italia hunde sus raíces en la tradición del Movimiento Moderno como origen de una nueva dimensión temporal e ideológica de la arquitectura. Los primeros contactos de Rossi con España verifican esa búsqueda y permiten al italiano construir itinerarios comunes con algunos arquitectos barceloneses. De estos intercambios nacerá el grupo 2C participando de mecanismos propios de la vanguardia: editará la revista, 2C. Construcción de la ciudad (1972-1985, acudirá a la XV Triennale di Milano de 1973 con el Plan Torres Clavé (1971 y a la muestra Aldo Rossi + 21 arquitectos españoles (1975 a la vez que organizará las tres ediciones de los Seminarios Internacionales de Arquitectura Contemporánea (S.I.AC. que tuvieron lugar en Santiago, Sevilla y Barcelona entre 1976 y 1980. Frente al despliegue de los primeros, los contactos americanos de Federico Correa, Oriol Bohigas, Lluís Domènech y el estudio PER o bien la labor docente de Rafael Moneo desde Barcelona a partir de 1971, permiten trazar itinerarios de réplica con la fundación de la revista Arquitecturas Bis (1974-1985, la organización de los encuentros entre publicaciones internacionales como Lotus y Oppositions en Cadaqués (1975 y New York (1977, a la vez que establecer intercambios con miembros de los Five Architects. Réplicas que en 1976 conducen las iniciales afirmaciones ideológicas entre Rossi y el grupo 2C hacia distanciamientos irreconciliables. Verificar el recorrido del viaje que el italiano encabeza desde la resistencia italiana hacia la claudicación americana es parte del acometido de este artículo. SUMMARY The Catalan reception of the 1966 manifestos by Robert Venturi and Aldo Rossi marks the scenario of a breakup: while North America debates about the

  7. Francisco de Campos (c.1515-1580) e a Bella Maniera : entre a Flandres, Espanha e Portugal

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    Tese de doutoramento em História (História da Arte), apresentada à Universidade de Lisboa através da Faculdade de Letras, 2008 A periodização que nos balizou situa-se entre um certo élan de modernidade cultural e artística que caracterizou o reinado de D. João III (a arte de Gregório Lopes, por exemplo) e os anos de regência de D. Catarina em que o italianismo se acentua, até aos alvores do domínio filipino, durante o qual a produção pictórica evoluiria para uma pittura senza t...

  8. Controle Financeiro Governamental: uma pesquisa sobre os arranjos jurídicoinstitucionais e a relação políticoadministrativa em 18 países de diferentes continentes

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    Gileno Fernandes Marcelino

    2009-09-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo tem por objetivo identificar qual o sistema organizacional adotado por instituições responsáveis pelo controle financeiro-orçamentário governamental (controladoria ou tribunal de contas em dezoito países, sendo nove do Continente Americano, cinco do Continente Europeu, três do Continente Asiático e um da Oceania. Além disso, busca-se verificar o tratamento dado pelo ordenamento jurídico desses países e a relação do sistema organizacional existente com o sistema de governo adotado e a história política dos países. A fundamentação teórica abrange conceitos das ciências da Administração, da Economia e do Direito. Quanto ao objetivo, a metodologia adotada é a descritiva e quanto aos procedimentos, a pesquisa é documental. Os países europeus de origem latina França, Itália, Espanha e Portugal adotam como sistema de controle os tribunais de contas. O Continente Americano, predominantemente, adota controladorias, exceto Brasil e Uruguai, onde o controle é realizado por tribunais. China, Índia e Israel também adotam controladorias, assim como na Oceania com a Nova Zelândia. Em Cuba, o controle de contas públicas está a cargo de um Ministério de Auditoria. Nos países parlamentaristas, os arranjos institucionais prevalecentes são Controladorias ou Auditorias-Gerais e nos países presidencialistas predomina os Tribunais de Contas. Palavras-chave: Sistema Organizacional; Controle Governamental; Controladorias; e Tribunais de Contas.

  9. Veintidós años de evolución de las desigualdades socioeconómicas en la mortalidad en la ciudad de Barcelona

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    Dalmau-Bueno, Albert; García-Altés, Anna; Marí-Dell'olmo, Marc; Pérez, Katherine; Kunst, Anton E.; Borrell, Carme

    2010-01-01

    To analyze the trend in socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause mortality in Barcelona from 1983 to 2004. We performed an ecological study of trends over 4 cross-sections (1983-1988, 1989-1994, 1995-1999 and 2000-2004), with the basic health area (BHA) as the unit of analysis. The study population

  10. Inteligência Humana: Investigações e Aplicações

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    Candeias, Adelinda Maria; Almeida, Leandro Silva

    2007-01-01

    Este livro reúne contributos teóricos, empíricos e práticos em torno de uma das variáveis mais relevantes e mais polémicas no seio da psicologia – a Inteligência –, estando a sua edição na sequência da realização, na Universidade de Évora (6-8 de Outubro, 2005) do I Simpósio Internacional “Inteligência Humana: Investigação e Aplicações”. Nesta primeira edição, o Congresso reportou-se a autores de Portugal, Espanha e Brasil, devendo este espectro alargar-se nas suas futura...

  11. Constituents from <em>Vigna em>vexillata> and Their Anti-Inflammatory Activity

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    Guo-Feng Chen

    2012-08-01

    Full Text Available The seeds of <em>Vigna em>genus are important food resources and there have already been many reports regarding their bioactivities. In our preliminary bioassay, the chloroform layer of methanol extracts of<em> V. vexillata em>demonstrated significant anti-inflammatory bioactivity. Therefore, the present research is aimed to purify and identify the anti-inflammatory principles of <em>V. vexillataem>. One new sterol (1 and two new isoflavones (2,3 were reported from the natural sources for the first time and their chemical structures were determined by the spectroscopic and mass spectrometric analyses. In addition, 37 known compounds were identified by comparison of their physical and spectroscopic data with those reported in the literature. Among the isolates, daidzein (23, abscisic acid (25, and quercetin (40 displayed the most significant inhibition of superoxide anion generation and elastase release.

  12. Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Luminescent Property of Cd (II Complex with <em>N-Benzenesulphonyl-L>-leucine

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    Xishi Tai

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available A new trinuclear Cd (II complex [Cd3(L6(2,2-bipyridine3] [L =<em> Nem>-phenylsulfonyl-L>-leucinato] has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR and X-ray single crystal diffraction analysis. The results show that the complex belongs to the orthorhombic, space group<em> Pem>212121 with<em> aem> = 16.877(3 Å, <em>b> em>= 22.875(5 Å, <em>c em>= 29.495(6 Å, <em>α> em>= <emem>= <emem>= 90°, <em>V> em>= 11387(4 Å3, <em>Z> em>= 4, <em>Dc>= 1.416 μg·m−3, <emem>= 0.737 mm−1, <em>F> em>(000 = 4992, and final <em>R>1 = 0.0390, <em>ωR>2 = 0.0989. The complex comprises two seven-coordinated Cd (II atoms, with a N2O5 distorted pengonal bipyramidal coordination environment and a six-coordinated Cd (II atom, with a N2O4 distorted octahedral coordination environment. The molecules form one dimensional chain structure by the interaction of bridged carboxylato groups, hydrogen bonds and p-p interaction of 2,2-bipyridine. The luminescent properties of the Cd (II complex and <em>N-Benzenesulphonyl-L>-leucine in solid and in CH3OH solution also have been investigated.

  13. Implementing the flipped classroom methodology to the subject "Applied computing" of the chemical engineering degree at the University of Barcelona

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    Montserrat Iborra

    2017-06-01

    Full Text Available This work is focus on implementation, development, documentation, analysis and assessment of flipped classroom methodology, by means of just in time teaching strategy, in a pilot group (1 of 6 of the subject “Applied Computing” of Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Degree of the University of Barcelona. The results show that this technique promotes self-learning, autonomy, time management as well as an increase in the effectiveness of classroom hours.

  14. Highlights of the EANM Congress Barcelona 2009: increasing our impact in diagnostic imaging

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    Roca, Isabel

    2010-01-01

    The EANM Congress 2009 took place in Barcelona from 10 to 14 October under the chairmanship of Dr. Martin-Comin. As always, the meeting was successful with high-level scientific content and a great number of participants. In spite of the economic crisis, industry made an important contribution presenting new revolutionary equipment and tracers, and in particular the pharmaceutical industry has increased its involvement in our speciality. This article is a brief summary of the major scientific contributions presented at the annual congress 2009, highlighting the fields of nuclear medicine at a higher level of development, including those with an increased clinical impact (especially oncology, but also cardiology, neurology and other clinical sciences), new detectors and multimodality imaging, and those fields showing important progress, including radiochemistry and pharmacy (with the development of new tracers and increased collaboration of industry). (orig.)

  15. Suburban landscape assessment applied to urban planning. Case study in Barcelona Metropolitan Region

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    David Serrano Giné

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    Full Text Available Urban fringes set complex landscapes, in transition from rural to natural and urban, with fuzzy boundaries in mutual interdependence. The European Landscape Convention gives notorious importance to everyday landscapes, including those of suburban character. Few landscape evaluation researches are done in suburban areas, which is surprising considering its importance and abundance. This paper shows a methodology, yield on geographical information systems (GIS, for landscape assessment of suburban areas, useful in urban planning. Its main interest lies in a double assessment, which considers both landscape quality and landscape fragility, applied systematically. The procedure is applied in Muntanyes d’Ordal in the metropolitan area of Barcelona (Spain, an area with pronounced regional strengths and contrasted landscape values. Results are of important applicability and indicate a predominance of mean values, both for landscape quality and landscape fragility.

  16. <em>N>-Substituted 5-Chloro-6-phenylpyridazin-3(2<em>H>-ones: Synthesis, Insecticidal Activity Against <em>Plutella xylostella em>(L. and SAR Study

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    Song Yang

    2012-08-01

    Full Text Available A series of <em>N>-substituted 5-chloro-6-phenylpyridazin-3(2<em>H>-one derivatives were synthesized based on our previous work; all compounds were characterized by spectral data and tested for <em>in vitroem> insecticidal activity against <em>Plutella xylostellaem>. The results showed that the synthesized pyridazin-3(2<em>H>-one compounds possessed good insecticidal activities, especially the compounds 4b, 4d, and 4h which showed > 90% activity at 100 mg/L. The structure-activity relationships (SAR for these compounds were also discussed.

  17. [Barcelona Test for Intellectual Disability: a new instrument for the neuropsychological assessment of adults with intellectual disability].

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    Esteba-Castillo, S; Pena-Casanova, J; Garcia-Alba, J; Castellanos, M A; Torrents-Rodas, D; Rodriguez, E; Deus-Yela, J; Caixas, A; Novell-Alsina, R

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    Neuropsychological assessment in individuals with intellectual disability is of utmost importance in order to determine the cognitive deficits underlying brain dysfunction and limiting intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. However, no neuropsychological batteries in Spanish language have been created and validated for this population. To adapt the 'programa integrado de exploracion neuropsicologica-test Barcelona' and to validate the new version, the Barcelona Test for Intellectual Disability (TB-DI). To create normative data for its clinical use. The original test was modified based on data from a pilot sample of 65 individuals with intellectual disability. In order to study the psychometric properties of the TB-DI, it was administered to a sample of 170 individuals with intellectual disability and to a group of 60 individuals without it. The relevant variables for stratification of normative data were determined by means of regression models. The TB-DI was finally composed by 67 subtests grouped in eight cognitive domains and it showed good psychometric properties. Normative data were created for five groups taking into account intellectual disability level, age and acquired curricular competence. These data were organized in percentiles in a way that allows the creation of cognitive profiles in the clinical and experimental fields. The TB-DI constitutes a tool of high applicability in the population with intellectual disability. It shows adequate validity and reliability, and it has good psychometric properties. The cognitive profiles obtained by the TB-DI will provide valuable information for the treatment of adult adults with mild and moderate intellectual disability.

  18. Estimating the health and economic benefits associated with reducing air pollution in the Barcelona metropolitan area (Spain).

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    Pérez, Laura; Sunyer, Jordi; Künzli, Nino

    2009-01-01

    To estimate the health and economic benefits that would result from two scenarios of improved air quality in 57 municipalities of the metropolitan area of Barcelona. We used attributable fractions and life tables to quantify the benefits for selected health outcomes, based on published concentration-response functions and economic unit values. The mean weighted concentration of PM(10) for the study population was estimated through concentration surface maps developed by the local government. The annual mean health benefits of reducing the mean PM(10) exposure estimated for the population in the study area (50microg/m(3)) to the annual mean value recommended by the World Health Organization (20microg/m(3)) were estimated to be 3,500 fewer deaths (representing an average increase in life expectancy of 14 months), 1,800 fewer hospitalizations for cardio-respiratory diseases, 5,100 fewer cases of chronic bronchitis among adults, 31,100 fewer cases of acute bronchitis among children, and 54,000 fewer asthma attacks among children and adults. The mean total monetary benefits were estimated to be 6,400 million euros per year. Reducing PM(10) to comply with the current European Union regulatory annual mean level (40microg/m(3)) would yield approximately one third of these benefits. This study shows that reducing air pollution in the metropolitan area of Barcelona would result in substantial health and economic benefits. The benefits are probably underestimated due to the assumptions made in this study. Assessment of the health impact of local air pollution is a useful tool in public health.

  19. La comunicación digital del FC Barcelona y del Real Madrid CF y su percepción por los periodistas deportivos / Digital communication of FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF and its perception by sports journalists

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    Fernando Olabe Sánchez

    2012-12-01

    Full Text Available ResumenEl FC Barcelona y el Real Madrid CF han cambiado su modelo de gestión comunicativa, especialmente en su relación con los medios de comunicación. Favorecidos por la implantación de las TIC, los departamentos de Comunicación de estas entidades se constituyen en gatekeeper al controlar y emitir, a través de sus propios medios de comunicación, como las televisiones y radios propias y los soportes online, las informaciones que ellos mismos generan. De este modo, controlan los mensajes y los emiten directamente a sus públicos objetivos sin la intermediación de los medios convencionales, condicionando las rutinas productivas de los periodistas deportivos.El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar la percepción que estos profesionales tienen sobre las diferentes herramientas y soportes online que los departamentos de Comunicación de estos clubes emplean en su actividad diaria con los medios.AbstractThe FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF have changed their communicative management model, especially in its relationship with the media. Favored by the introduction of ICT, Communication departments of these entities constitute gatekeeper to control and issue, through their own media, such as television and radio stations and media own online, the information that they generate. Thus, controlling broadcast messages and their target audiences directly without the intermediation of the mainstream media, conditioning routines productive sports journalists.The aim of this paper is to show the perception that these professionals have about the different tools and online media Communication departments to use these clubs in their daily activities with the media.

  20. Financiamento de parques tecnológicos: um estudo comparativo de casos brasileiros, portugueses e espanhóis

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    Aline Figlioli

    2012-06-01

    Full Text Available O mercado globalizado e de competição intensiva, no qual países e empresas estão inseridos, demanda uma busca constante por inovação. Entre os habitats de estímulo à inovação com diversas iniciativas pelo mundo, e também no Brasil, estão os chamados parques tecnológicos. Um dos grandes desafios para a implantação e a operacionalização desses empreendimentos é a obtenção de recursos. Surge, então, a questão: quais os mecanismos de financiamento de que a organização gestora de um parque tecnológico dispõe para realizar as fases de planejamento, implantação e operacionalização dos elementos constitutivos e serviços oferecidos por esse tipo de empreendimento? O objetivo neste trabalho é levantar e comparar os mecanismos de financiamento utilizados nas etapas citadas dos empreendimentos: Tecnopuc, Polo de Informática de São Leopoldo e Sapiens Parque, instalados no Brasil; Biocant Park e Taguspark, instalados em Portugal; Parque Tecnológico de Cartuja 93, Parque Tecnológico de Andalucia, Parque Científico de Barcelona, Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia e Parque Tecnológico de Álava, instalados na Espanha. O que se pode observar em todos os casos estudados é que, mesmo apresentando organizações gestoras, atores e estruturas diferenciadas, o financiamento das fases de implantação não se deu somente por meio de recursos públicos ou privados, mas também por meio de parcerias. Além disso, verificou-se que as diferenças encontradas nos modelos de financiamento podem ser atribuídas, principalmente, a cinco fatores: participantes da organização gestora; modelo jurídico da organização gestora; elementos constitutivos de propriedade da organização gestora; atração de infraestruturas tecnológicas e empresas âncoras; disponibilidade de fundos públicos de fomento ao desenvolvimento tecnológico e econômico.

  1. Gestión centralizada de la iluminación en Terminal 1 del aeropuerto Barcelona-El Prat

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    Borraz Rocafull, Óscar

    2017-01-01

    Este trabajo consiste en el estudio de una gestión centralizada de iluminación en la Terminal T1 del Aeropuerto de Barcelona-El Prat. Se dan a conocer los sistemas y subsistemas del control de iluminación, con base KNX-EIB (sistema estándar de interconexión de dispositivos) y su central de gestión. También se explican los fallos encontrados al finalizar la obra de construcción de la T1 (terminada en 2009) o los sucedidos durante su operatividad. Así como mejoras para su func...

  2. Crecimiento urbano, red secundaria y tranvía eléctrico en el área de Barcelona

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    Navas Ferrer, Teresa

    2012-01-01

    La electrificación de los tranvías en Barcelona supuso la consolidación de una red urbana que enlazaba el centro de la ciudad con los municipios anexionados a partir de 1897. A escala provincial, el sistema ferroviario principal pero sobre todo la apertura de carreteras locales complementarias de la red viaria estatal habían estimulado la oferta de líneas regulares de transporte de todo tipo de carruajes. Pero la introducción de la tracción eléctrica en los tranvías abrió la posibilidad de es...

  3. Análise socioeconômica da produção de batata nos municípios de Sanlúcar de Barrameda / Espanha e São Lourenço do Sul / Brasil A socio-economic analysis of potato production in the municipalities of Sanlúcar de Barrameda / Spain and São Lourenço do Sul / Brazil

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    Lírio José Reichert

    2012-06-01

    Full Text Available Os municípios de Sanlúcar de Barrameda/Cádiz, região de Andaluzia/Espanha e de São Lourenço do Sul/Rio Grande do Sul/Brasil, têm em comum a economia baseada na agricultura familiar produtora de alimentos, dentre eles a batata (Solanum tuberosum L.. Em ambos, esse cultivo representa fator de desenvolvimento socioeconômico e cultural, se considerado que é praticado por pequenos agricultores imigrantes colonizadores e seus descendentes. O estudo, motivado por um intercâmbio acadêmico, objetivou analisar os respectivos sistemas de produção, desenvolvidos pelos agricultores, avaliando-se as dificuldades, os desafios, os custos de produção e as alternativas para superá-los. Para realizá-lo, utilizaram-se entrevistas estruturadas com dirigentes, técnicos e agricultores das duas localidades. Em São Lourenço do Sul, 20 bataticultores ecológicos foram entrevistados, fato que se repetiu em Sanlúcar com 10 famílias produtoras de batata não ecológicas. Verificou-se que o hábito de cultivo, o trabalho familiar e a organização em cooperativas são iniciativas comuns às localidades estudadas, embora a adoção de sistemas diferentes de produção. Constatou-se também que ambas têm dificuldades de ordem tecnológica, econômica e ambiental e que apoiadas por processos de articulação social, estão buscando alternativas para superá-las, proporcionando condições para a continuidade do cultivo dessa espécie alimentar.The municipalities of Sanlúcar de Barrameda/Cádiz in Andaluzia/Spain and São Lourenço do Sul/Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil, have in common a food producer family farm based-economy, among them potato (Solanum tuberosum L.. This crop is a socioeconomic and cultural development factor in both municipalities, considering that it is practiced by small farmers and their descendants that settled those areas. The study was motivated by an academic exchange, and had the objective of analyzing the respective production

  4. INFLUÊNCIA ESTOICA NA CONCEPÇÃO DE <em>STATUS> E <em>DICTUM> COMO <em> QUASI RES EM> (ὡσανεì τινά EM ABERLARDO STOIC INFLUENCE IN ABELARD'S CONCEPTION OF <em>STATUS> AND <em>DICTUM> AS <em>QUASI RESem> (ὡσανεì τινά.

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    Guy Hamelin

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    Full Text Available Na sua obra, Pedro Abelardo (1079-1142 destaca duas noções metafísicas que fundamentam sua teoria lógica: o <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">statusem> e o <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dictum propositionisem>, ao causar, respectivamente, a imposição (<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">impositioem> dos termos universais e o valor de verdade das proposições. Trata-se de expressões que se referem a naturezas ontológicas peculiares, na medida em que não são consideradas coisas (<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">resem>, mesmo que constituem causas. Todavia, também não são nada. Abelardo as chama de ‘quase coisas’ (<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">quasi resem>. No presente artigo, explicamos, primeiro, essas duas noções essenciais da lógica abelardiana, antes de tentar, em seguida, encontrar a fonte dessa metafísica particular. Em oposição a comentadores importantes da lógica de Abelardo, que estimam que haja uma forte influência platônica sobre essa concepção específica, defendemos antes, com apoio de textos significativos e de acordo com o nominalismo abelardiano, que a maior ascendência sobre a metafísica do nosso autor é a do estoicismo, sobretudo, antigo.In his work, Peter Abelard (1079-1142 highlights two metaphysical notions, which sustain his logical theory: the <em>status> and the <em>dictum propositionisem>, causing respectively both the imposition (<em>impositio> of universal terms and the thuth-value of propositions. Both expressions refer to peculiar ontological natures, in so far as they are not considered things (<em>res>, even if they constitute causes. Nevertheless, neither are they ‘nothing’. Abelard calls them ‘quasi-things’ (<em>quasi resem>. In the present article, we expound first these two essential notions of Abelardian logic before then trying to find the source of this particular metaphysics. Contrary to some important

  5. Exposición al humo ambiental de tabaco en locales de hostelería de Barcelona: medición de partículas respirables Second-hand smoke exposure in hospitality venues in Barcelona: measurement of respirable particles

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    Nazmy Villarroel

    2011-06-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: Medir la concentración de partículas respirables de tamaño igual o menor que 2,5µm (PM2,5 como marcador del humo ambiental de tabaco (HAT en locales de hostelería de Barcelona 2 años después de la entrada en vigor de la Ley 28/2005. Métodos: Se trata de un estudio descriptivo transversal. La población de estudio fueron 40 locales de la ciudad de Barcelona seleccionados por muestreo de ruta aleatoria con representación de los distintos tipos de regulación existentes tras la aplicación de la Ley (permitido fumar, prohibido fumar y locales con zonas para fumadores y no fumadores. El trabajo de campo se realizó entre octubre y diciembre de 2007. El HAT se cuantificó determinando las PM2,5 con un monitor con fotómetro láser (Side Pack AM 510 Personal Aerosol Monitor. Se realizaron mediciones iniciales de 5 minutos en el exterior del local y de 30 minutos en el interior. Además, se recogieron variables de tipo observacional relacionadas con las características del local y los signos de consumo tabaco. Resultados: La concentración de PM2,5 en los locales donde se permite fumar es cinco veces más alta que en los que se ha prohibido (182 µg/m³ y 34 µg/m³, respectivamente, y supera la concentración establecida como perjudicial por la Environmental Protection Agency: de Estados Unidos (35 µg/m³. En aquellos locales en que se ha prohibido fumar, la concentración de PM2,5 no supera este estándar ni muestra diferencias significativas con la concentración en el exterior del local. Conclusiones: Dos años después de la entrada en vigor de la Ley de medidas sanitarias frente al tabaquismo, la exposición al HAT en los locales de hostelería donde se permitía fumar seguía siendo muy alta. Esto suponía un importante riesgo para la salud de los trabajadores de este sector.Objectives: To quantify the concentration of respirable particles equal to or smaller than 2.5 µm (PM2.5 as a marker of second-hand smoke (SHS exposure

  6. Caracterització arqueomètrica de les ceràmiques espatulades de la Plaça del Rei de Barcelona

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    Buxeda i Garrigós, Jaume; Cau Ontiveros, Miguel Ángel

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    Un total de vint ceràmiques altmedievals, en la major part espatulades, procedents de diversos contextos de les excavacions de Barcelona, han estat caracteritzades arqueomètricament per Fluorescència de Raigs X(FRX), Difracció de Raigs X (DRX) i Microscòpia Òptica de polarització per làmina prima (MO). Els resultats han permès establir una diversitat de produccions d"orígens possiblement locals i/o regionals.

  7. Viaducto sobre el rio Llobregat de la Autopista Barcelona-Tarragona, España

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    Fernández Casado, C.

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    Full Text Available Situated in the vicinity of Barcelona, over the LIobregat River, this viaduct bears two roadways 16 meters wide and 440 meters long. It is a continuous viaduct formed of 11 sections of 40-meter spans and S double T section beams placed 3.35 meters apart. The bridge supports are also of double T formation, with a 2.5 meters wide vertical octagonal stem and changing in depth from 2 to 0.7 meters at the edge. The lower footing is supported on 9 piles each 1 meter in diameter. The 80 t beams were prefabricated in the factory and later put in place using a movable formwork. The continuity between beams was made possible by reinforcement placed in the upper slab of the deck and the lower part of the beams. A detailed study has been made on the redistribution of bending moments by creep and shrinking.Situado en las proximidades de Barcelona, y sobre el río Llobregat, está formado por dos calzadas de 16 m de ancho y 440 m de longitud. Es un viaducto continuo que consta de 11 vanos de 40 m de luz, cada uno de los cuales se compone de cinco vigas sección doble T con separación entre ellas de 3,35 metros. Las pilas sobre las que reposa tienen también forma doble T con fuste vertical octogonal de 2,5 m de ancho, cabezal superior en transición poligonal, hasta el borde, variable de 2 a 0,7 m y zapata inferior que se apoya sobre 9 pilotes de 1 m de diámetro. Tanto las vigas como el cabezal de las pilas están pretensados con cables de 150 toneladas. Las vigas de 80 t de peso fueron prefabricadas en taller y colocadas en obra por medio de una cimbra de lanzamiento. La continuidad entre vigas se realizó por medio de armadura pasiva, colocada en la losa superior del tablero y en la parte inferior de las vigas. Se ha llevado a cabo un estudio detallado de la redistribución de momentos flectores por fluencia y retracción.

  8. MANCHESTER UNITED, INTERNAZIONALE MILANO AND FC BARCELONA – WHAT´S DIFFERENT?

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    Hugo Sarmento

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    Full Text Available Introduction: Although football is considered a universal language, there are particularities that characterize the way it is practiced in several countries. Overall, the style of English football is known as “Kick and Rush”, the Italian as “Catenaccio”, and the Spanish as “Fúria Española”. This study aims to understand which aspects in the characterization of playing styles of the different teams (Manchester United, Internazionale Milano and Barcelona are the most important for coaches. Methods: We chose 8 expert high-performance Portuguese first league football coaches (Coach 1 to 8 with a professional experience (as first coach ranging from 2 to 30 years (14.9 ± 8.6 years. Semi-structured interviews were carried out and the data analyzed trough content analysis using the software QSR NVivo 9. Results and discussion: The data were grouped in four mainly categories: i game culture/identity (n=18; ii strategical-Tatical factors (n=17; iii player characteristics (n=14; iv coach philosophy (n=14. When analyzing the specific characteristics of the three teams, the coaches mainly referred to aspects related to a playing/identity culture of each team that is influenced by their history, their tradition and a set of values underlying the different clubs. Our coaches described each team’s differences based on strategic and tactical aspects. Overall, all coaches recognized the quality and merit with which Barcelona plays, basing their views on a ball possession that is very difficult to equal by any other team in the world. In contrast, Manchester United plays in a way where strong ball possession is primary, but also their ability to play quickly and offensively, through a more "direct" playing style. Finally, Inter Milan’s style is defined essentially by their defensive tactical rigor and the capacity to develop effective offensive sequences of quick attacks and counterattacks. The players that form these teams are only one element

  9. Hepatitis C virus sequences from different patients confirm the existence and transmissibility of subtype 2q, a rare subtype circulating in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, Spain.

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    Martró, Elisa; Valero, Ana; Jordana-Lluch, Elena; Saludes, Verónica; Planas, Ramón; González-Candelas, Fernando; Ausina, Vicente; Bracho, Maria Alma

    2011-05-01

    The hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been classified into six genotypes and more than 70 subtypes with distinct geographical and epidemiological distributions. While 18 genotype 2 subtypes have been proposed, only 5 have had their complete sequence determined. The aim of this study was to characterize HCV isolates from three patients from the Barcelona metropolitan area of Spain for whom commercial genotyping methods provided discordant results. Full-length genome sequencing was carried out for 2 of the 3 patients; for the third patient only partial NS5B sequences could be obtained. The generated sequences were subjected to phylogenetic, recombination, and identity analyses. Sequences covering most of the HCV genome (9398 and 9566  nt in length) were obtained and showed a 90.3% identity to each other at the nucleotide level, while both sequences differed by 17.5-22.6% from the other fully sequenced genotype 2 subtypes. No evidence of recombination was found. The NS5B phylogenetic tree showed that sequences from the three patients cluster together with the only representative sequence of the provisionally designed 2q subtype, which also corresponds to a patient from Barcelona. Phylogenetic analysis of the full coding sequence showed that subtype 2q was more closely related to subtype 2k. The results obtained in this study suggest that subtype 2q now meets the requirements for confirmed designation status according to consensus criteria for HCV classification and nomenclature, and its epidemiological value is ensured as it has spread among several patients in the Barcelona metropolitan area. Copyright © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

  10. Natural Products from Antarctic Colonial Ascidians of the Genera <em>Aplidium> and <em>Synoicum>: Variability and Defensive Role

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    Conxita Avila

    2012-08-01

    Full Text Available Ascidians have developed multiple defensive strategies mostly related to physical, nutritional or chemical properties of the tunic. One of such is chemical defense based on secondary metabolites. We analyzed a series of colonial Antarctic ascidians from deep-water collections belonging to the genera <em>Aplidium> and <em>Synoicum> to evaluate the incidence of organic deterrents and their variability. The ether fractions from 15 samples including specimens of the species <em>A.> <em>falklandicum>, <em>A.> <em>fuegiense>, <em>A.> <em>meridianum>, <em>A.> <em>millari> and <em>S.> <em>adareanum> were subjected to feeding assays towards two relevant sympatric predators: the starfish <em>Odontaster> <em>validus>, and the amphipod <em>Cheirimedon> <em>femoratus>. All samples revealed repellency. Nonetheless, some colonies concentrated defensive chemicals in internal body-regions rather than in the tunic. Four ascidian-derived meroterpenoids, rossinones B and the three derivatives 2,3-epoxy-rossinone B, 3-epi-rossinone B, 5,6-epoxy-rossinone B, and the indole alkaloids meridianins A–G, along with other minoritary meridianin compounds were isolated from several samples. Some purified metabolites were tested in feeding assays exhibiting potent unpalatabilities, thus revealing their role in predation avoidance. Ascidian extracts and purified compound-fractions were further assessed in antibacterial tests against a marine Antarctic bacterium. Only the meridianins showed inhibition activity, demonstrating a multifunctional defensive role. According to their occurrence in nature and within our colonial specimens, the possible origin of both types of metabolites is discussed.

  11. Health-related quality of life inequalities by sexual orientation: Results from the Barcelona Health Interview Survey.

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    Marti-Pastor, Marc; Perez, Gloria; German, Danielle; Pont, Angels; Garin, Olatz; Alonso, Jordi; Gotsens, Mercè; Ferrer, Montse

    2018-01-01

    Studies on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) inequalities according to sexual orientation are scarce. The aim of this study was to assess HRQoL inequalities between lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people and heterosexuals in the 2011 Barcelona population, to describe the extent to which sociodemographic characteristics, health-related behaviors, and chronic conditions could explain such inequalities, and to understand if they are sexual orientation inequities. In the 2011 Barcelona Health Interview Survey 3277 adults answered the EQ-5D, which measures five dimensions of HRQoL summarized into a single utility index (1 = perfect health, 0 = death). To assess HRQoL differences by sexual orientation we constructed Tobit models for the EQ-5D index, and Poisson regression models for the EQ-5D dimensions. In both cases, nested models were constructed to assess the mediator role of selected variables. After adjusting by socio-demographic variables, the LGB group presented a significantly lower EQ-5D index than heterosexuals, and higher prevalence ratios of problems in physical EQ-5D dimensions among both genders: adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR) = 1.70 for mobility (p = 0.046) and 2.11 for usual activities (p = 0.019). Differences in mental dimensions were only observed among men: aPR = 3.15 for pain/discomfort (p = 0.003) and 2.49 for anxiety/depression (p = 0.030). All these differences by sexual orientation disappeared after adding chronic conditions and health-related behaviors in the models. The LGB population presented worse HRQoL than heterosexuals in the EQ-5D index and most dimensions. Chronic conditions, health-related behaviors and gender play a major role in explaining HRQoL differences by sexual orientation. These findings support the need of including sexual orientation into the global agenda of health inequities.

  12. Health-related quality of life inequalities by sexual orientation: Results from the Barcelona Health Interview Survey.

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    Marc Marti-Pastor

    Full Text Available Studies on health-related quality of life (HRQoL inequalities according to sexual orientation are scarce. The aim of this study was to assess HRQoL inequalities between lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB people and heterosexuals in the 2011 Barcelona population, to describe the extent to which sociodemographic characteristics, health-related behaviors, and chronic conditions could explain such inequalities, and to understand if they are sexual orientation inequities.In the 2011 Barcelona Health Interview Survey 3277 adults answered the EQ-5D, which measures five dimensions of HRQoL summarized into a single utility index (1 = perfect health, 0 = death. To assess HRQoL differences by sexual orientation we constructed Tobit models for the EQ-5D index, and Poisson regression models for the EQ-5D dimensions. In both cases, nested models were constructed to assess the mediator role of selected variables.After adjusting by socio-demographic variables, the LGB group presented a significantly lower EQ-5D index than heterosexuals, and higher prevalence ratios of problems in physical EQ-5D dimensions among both genders: adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR = 1.70 for mobility (p = 0.046 and 2.11 for usual activities (p = 0.019. Differences in mental dimensions were only observed among men: aPR = 3.15 for pain/discomfort (p = 0.003 and 2.49 for anxiety/depression (p = 0.030. All these differences by sexual orientation disappeared after adding chronic conditions and health-related behaviors in the models.The LGB population presented worse HRQoL than heterosexuals in the EQ-5D index and most dimensions. Chronic conditions, health-related behaviors and gender play a major role in explaining HRQoL differences by sexual orientation. These findings support the need of including sexual orientation into the global agenda of health inequities.

  13. Visibilidade de Notícias no Twitter e no Facebook: Análise Comparativa das Notícias mais Repercutidas na Europa e nas Américas

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    Gabriela da Silva Zago

    2013-06-01

    Full Text Available O artigo identifica e compara as notícias mais repercutidas no Twitter e no Facebook em jornais do Brasil, Alemanha, Espanha, Estados Unidos e Reino Unido. O recorte inclui 8 dos jornais de maior circulação nos 5 países, perfazendo um conjunto de 40 jornais. O volume de “retuites” e “curtidas” foi utilizado para avaliar a visibilidade da notícia. Links postados no Twitter e mensagens postadas pelos jornais no Facebook foram coletados durante duas semanas em outubro de 2012. Nós analisamos o conteúdo das 25 mensagens mais replicadas em cada jornal e rede social e encontramos características culturais e diferenças editoriais significativas entre países em função dos conteúdos que circularam nas redes sociais durante o período. Os resultados também oferecem uma confirmação empírica da percepção generalizada de que o Facebook é utilizado majoritariamente para conteúdos ligados ao entretenimento e curiosidades, e o Twitter para a cobertura de eventos políticos, econômicos e sociais.

  14. PREFACE: Proceedings of the 7th International LISA Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, 16-20 June 2008

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    Lobo, Alberto; Sopuerta, Carlos F.

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    In June 2006 the LISA International Science Team (LIST) accepted the bid presented by the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) to host the 7th International LISA Symposium. This was during its 11th meeting at the University of Maryland, just before the 6th edition of the Symposium started in NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The 7th International LISA Symposium took place at the city of Barcelona, Spain, from 16-20 June 2008, in the premises of CosmoCaixa, a modern Science Museum located in the hills near Tibidabo. Almost 240 delegates registered for the event, a record breaking figure compared to previous editions of the Symposium. Many of the most renowned world experts in LISA, Gravitational Wave Science, and Astronomy, as well as Engineers, attended LISA 7 and produced state-of-the-art presentations, while everybody benefited from the opportunity to have live discussions during the week in a friendly environment. The programme included 31 invited plenary lectures in the mornings, and 8 parallel sessions in the afternoons. These were classified into 7 major areas of research: LISA Technology, LISA PathFinder, LISA PathFinder Data Analysis, LISA Data Analysis, Gravitational Wave sources, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with LISA and Other Gravitational Wave Detectors. 138 abstracts for communications were received, of which a selection was made by the session convenors which would fit time constraints. Up to 63 posters completed the scientific programme. More details on the programme, including some of the talks, can be found at the Symposium website: http://www.ice.cat/research/LISA_Symposium. There was however a remarkable add-on: Professor Clifford Will delivered a startling presentation to the general public, who completely filled the Auditori—the main Conference Room, 320 seats—and were invited to ask questions to the speaker who had boldly guided them through the daunting world of Black Holes, Waves of Gravity, and other Warped Ideas of

  15. Fumigant Antifungal Activity of Myrtaceae Essential Oils and Constituents from <em>Leptospermum petersoniiem> against Three <em>Aspergillus> Species

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    Full Text Available Commercial plant essential oils obtained from 11 Myrtaceae plant species were tested for their fumigant antifungal activity against <em>Aspergillus ochraceusem>, <em>A. flavusem>, and <em>A. nigerem>. Essential oils extracted from<em> em>Leptospermum> <em>petersonii> at air concentrations of 56 × 10−3 mg/mL and 28 × 10−3 mg/mL completely inhibited the growth of the three <em>Aspergillus> species. However, at an air concentration of 14 × 10−3 mg/mL, inhibition rates of <em>L. petersoniiem> essential oils were reduced to 20.2% and 18.8% in the case of <em>A. flavusem> and <em>A. nigerem>, respectively. The other Myrtaceae essential oils (56 × 10−3 mg/mL only weakly inhibited the fungi or had no detectable affect. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis identified 16 compounds in <em>L. petersoniiem>> em>essential> em>oil.> em>The antifungal activity of the identified compounds was tested individually by using standard or synthesized compounds. Of these, neral and geranial inhibited growth by 100%, at an air concentration of 56 × 10−3 mg/mL, whereas the activity of citronellol was somewhat lover (80%. The other compounds exhibited only moderate or weak antifungal activity. The antifungal activities of blends of constituents identified in <em>L. petersoniiem> oil indicated that neral and geranial were the major contributors to the fumigant and antifungal activities.

  16. L’esperança de vida dels infants de l’hospital de la Santa Creu de Barcelona

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    Full Text Available On the premise of high infant mortality in the early medieval period, this paper attempts an approach to life expectancy of children taken in at the Santa Creu hospital in Barcelona, during the first half of the 15th century. One of the functions of the hospital was to host foundlings and ensure their survival and integration into society. To fulfil these functions a set of documents were drafted, although only parts of then survive, providing interesting information on the topic of this paper. We present data on mortality in the various stages of childhood, the incidence of outbreaks of epidemics, the information we have been able to obtain on diseases the remedies, causes of death and infant burials.[ct] Partint de la premissa de la gran mortalitat infantil baixmedieval, aquest treball intenta una aproximació a l’esperança de vida dels infants acollits a l’hospital de la Santa Creu de Barcelona durant la primera meitat del segle XV. Una de les funcions de l’hospital era recollir els expòsits, procurar la seva supervivència i la seva integració a la societat. El compliment d’aquestes funcions va implicar la redacció d’una sèrie de documents que, si bé només s’han conservat en part, ens ofereixen informació molt interessant pel tema d’aquest treball. Presentem dades sobre la mortalitat en les diverses etapes de la infància, la incidència dels brots epidèmics, les notícies que hem pogut obtenir sobre les malalties, els remeis, les causes de la mort i els enterraments infantils.

  17. Estructura metálica del edificio social de la Mutua General de Seguros Barcelona – España

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    Full Text Available This describes the solution adopted for the Mutua General de Seguros structure on the Diagonal in Barcelona. The building consists of six general basements and two elevated wings, one of thirteen stories and another of four, joined together on the third and second floors. The problems which had to be overcome were various in nature: from anchoring the concrete blocks in the underground floors to achieving maximum clear space —there are no intermediate supports on the office floors— this was achieved satisfactorily, on the higher floors by means of large span porticos, made up of two well-defined parts (the ground floor portico and the upper floor assembly], from both a structural and esthetic point of view.Se describe la solución adoptada para estructura de la Mutua General de Seguros, en la Diagonal de Barcelona. El edificio se compone de seis sótanos generales y dos bloques elevados, uno de trece plantas y otro de cuatro, debidamente enlazados por la segunda y tercera. Los problemas planteados fueron de muy diversa índole: desde la sujeción de las pantallas de hormigón de las plantas enterradas, hasta la consecución de la máxima diafanidad —en todas las plantas de oficinas no existen soportes intermedios— en las plantas altas a base de pórticos de gran luz, compuestos de dos partes bien definidas (el pórtico de planta baja y el conjunto de las superiores y acertadamente resueltos, desde el doble punto de vista estructural y estético.

  18. Los espacios públicos urbanos y el deporte como generadores de redes sociales. El caso de la ciudad de Barcelona

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    2006-01-01

    El artículo presenta los resultados de un estudio realizado en la ciudad de Barcelona sobre los espacios públicos urbanos y el deporte como generadores de redes sociales. Se observaron cinco espacios de la ciudad, a la vez que se realizaron entrevistas en profundidad a personas usuarias y a responsables de su mantenimiento. Los resultados principales son: a) es imprescindible que los espacios y los deportes que se realizan tengan determinadas características para que sean generadores de redes...

  19. Clinical Relevance of <em>CDH1em> and <em>CDH13em> DNA-Methylation in Serum of Cervical Cancer Patients

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    2012-07-01

    Full Text Available This study was designed to investigate the DNA-methylation status of <em>E>-cadherin (<em>CDH1em> and <em>H>-cadherin (<em>CDH13em> in serum samples of cervical cancer patients and control patients with no malignant diseases and to evaluate the clinical utility of these markers. DNA-methylation status of <em>CDH1em> and <em>CDH13em> was analyzed by means of MethyLight-technology in serum samples from 49 cervical cancer patients and 40 patients with diseases other than cancer. To compare this methylation analysis with another technique, we analyzed the samples with a denaturing high performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC PCR-method. The specificity and sensitivity of <em>CDH1em> DNA-methylation measured by MethyLight was 75% and 55%, and for <em>CDH13em> DNA-methylation 95% and 10%. We identified a specificity of 92.5% and a sensitivity of only 27% for the <em>CDH1em> DHPLC-PCR analysis. Multivariate analysis showed that serum <em>CDH1em> methylation-positive patients had a 7.8-fold risk for death (95% CI: 2.2–27.7; <em>p> = 0.001 and a 92.8-fold risk for relapse (95% CI: 3.9–2207.1; <em>p> = 0.005. We concluded that the serological detection of <em>CDH1em> and <em>CDH13em> DNA-hypermethylation is not an ideal diagnostic tool due to low diagnostic specificity and sensitivity. However, it was validated that <em>CDH1em> methylation analysis in serum samples may be of potential use as a prognostic marker for cervical cancer patients.

  20. Extraction of Dihydroquercetin<em> em>from <em>Larix gmeliniem>i> em>with Ultrasound-Assisted and Microwave-Assisted Alternant Digestion

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    Yuangang Zu

    2012-07-01

    Full Text Available An ultrasound and microwave assisted alternant extraction method (UMAE was applied for extracting dihydroquercetin (DHQ from <em>Larix gmeliniem>i> wood. This investigation was conducted using 60% ethanol as solvent, 1:12 solid to liquid ratio, and 3 h soaking time. The optimum treatment time was ultrasound 40 min, microwave 20 min, respectively, and the extraction was performed once. Under the optimized conditions, satisfactory extraction yield of the target analyte was obtained. Relative to ultrasound-assisted or microwave-assisted method, the proposed approach provides higher extraction yield. The effect of DHQ of different concentrations and synthetic antioxidants on oxidative stability in soy bean oil stored for 20 days at different temperatures (25 °C and 60 °C was compared. DHQ was more effective in restraining soy bean oil oxidation, and a dose-response relationship was observed. The antioxidant activity of DHQ was a little stronger than that of BHA and BHT. Soy bean oil supplemented with 0.08 mg/g DHQ exhibited favorable antioxidant effects and is preferable for effectively avoiding oxidation. The <em>L. gmeliniiem> wood samples before and after extraction were characterized by scanning electron microscopy. The results showed that the UMAE method is a simple and efficient technique for sample preparation.

  1. Ciudadanos del este de Europa consumidores de drogas en Barcelona

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    González M.

    2003-01-01

    Full Text Available Desde mayo de 1999 hasta mayo de 2001, hemos contactado en el SAPS (Servicio de Atención Social y Sanitaria de Barcelona con usuarios de drogas de países del este de Europa. Acuden a centros terapéuticos gratuitos, aunque pagan por la organización del viaje unos 500 euros. Son jóvenes entre 18 y 30 años y mantienen el contacto con sus familiares. Conocen los riesgos de transmisión de enfermedades, pero suelen reutilizar las jeringas. Es alta la prevalencia de hepatitis C (92% y B (62% y menor la de infección por el VIH (19%. Si no abandonan las drogas, el retorno es un fracaso y tienen dificultades para proseguir los tratamientos con metadona o antirretrovirales. La respuesta asistencial ha de adecuarse a sus necesidades. Se debe procurar la mediación cultural y la información en los lugares de origen, supervisar los centros terapéuticos y diseñar alternativas a los abandonos. Hay que desarrollar la colaboración internacional, estimular programas de disminución de riesgos derivados del consumo y evitar que del tratamiento se haga un comercio.

  2. Los unos, los otros y las cosas normales de la vida : una etnografía de locutorios en Barcelona

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    Gerardo Alvarado, José

    2006-01-01

    El presente trabajo "está ubicado dentro un proyecto en marcha [...] donde pretendemos evaluar las repercusiones psicosociales y culturales que conllevan las innovaciones tecnocientíficas asociadas al desarrollo de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TICs)" (Martínez y Peñaranda, 2004), conocido como el grupo de investigación sobre locutorios en el Departamento de Psicología Social de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. La importancia que tienen los locutorios en la vida co...

  3. Gráficos de evolución del precio de vivienda y tasaciones 2004 - 2010. Area Metropolitana de Barcelona

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    Arends Morales, Lenimar Nairt

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    Explotando la base de datos del Colectivo de Arquitectos Tasadores, se pudo realizar un análisis del mercado de vivienda en Barcelona del 2004 al 2010. A su vez, utilizando las Zonas de Concentración de Inmigrantes (ZCI) 2001 y 2007 elaboradas en el proyecto de investigación “Inmigración y espacio socio-residencial en la Región Metropolitana de Barcelona”, proyecto financiado por el Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte de España (MEC), se pudo realizar una comparación del comportamiento...

  4. UrBANALització la producció residencial de baixa intensitat a la província de Barcelona, 1985-2001 /

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    Muñoz, Francesc M.

    2006-01-01

    Consultable des del TDX Títol obtingut de la portada digitalitzada La tesi doctoral planteja una anàlisi i una avaluació territorial del creixement de l'habitatge unifamiliar a la província de Barcelona durant un període de 17 anys, tot diferenciant els llindars d'especialització del paisatge residencial a partir de la localització d'habitatges aïllats i adossats a diferents municipis. La tesi demostra que, tot i que el fenomen de l'habitatge unifamiliar no és nou a la regió de Barcelon...

  5. How <em>Varroa> Parasitism Affects the Immunological and Nutritional Status of the Honey Bee, <em>Apis melliferaem>

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    Katherine A. Aronstein

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    Full Text Available We investigated the effect of the parasitic mite <em>Varroa destructorem> on the immunological and nutritional condition of honey bees, <em>Apis melliferaem>, from the perspective of the individual bee and the colony. Pupae, newly-emerged adults and foraging adults were sampled from honey bee colonies at one site in S. Texas, USA. <em>Varroa>‑infested bees displayed elevated titer of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV, suggestive of depressed capacity to limit viral replication. Expression of genes coding three anti-microbial peptides (<em>defensin1, abaecin, hymenoptaecinem> was either not significantly different between <em>Varroa>-infested and uninfested bees or was significantly elevated in <em>Varroa>-infested bees, varying with sampling date and bee developmental age. The effect of <em>Varroa> on nutritional indices of the bees was complex, with protein, triglyceride, glycogen and sugar levels strongly influenced by life-stage of the bee and individual colony. Protein content was depressed and free amino acid content elevated in <em>Varroa>-infested pupae, suggesting that protein synthesis, and consequently growth, may be limited in these insects. No simple relationship between the values of nutritional and immune-related indices was observed, and colony-scale effects were indicated by the reduced weight of pupae in colonies with high <em>Varroa> abundance, irrespective of whether the individual pupa bore <em>Varroa>.

  6. Modelo de Detección de Datos Atípicos de Tráfico. Autopista C-58, Barcelona

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    Ahumada Valenzuela, Pamela

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    Desde al año 2009, en la autopista C-31 y C32, pertenecientes a los accesos sur de la ciudad de Barcelona, comienzan a operar con una nueva modalidad en la gestión de tráfico, con “Velocidad Variable”. Dicho límite de velocidad se establece por medio de un algoritmo, el que es alimentado por diferentes variables, entre ellas, la información aportada los medios electrónicos instalados en dichas autopistas, los detectores. A partir de esta incorporación en la gestión de tráfico de carreteras...

  7. Buscando la autorrealización: análisis sociológico y audiovisual de los napolitanos en Barcelona

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    Rossano, Marco

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    El trabajo doctoral que presentamos tiene como objetivo observar y analizar la vida de algunos napolitanos que viven en Barcelona dentro del fenómeno más amplio de circulación de personas en Europa. De hecho, la investigación parte de la hipótesis que los movimientos migratorios y, por tanto, la movilización que de ellos se desprende, se constituye en estrategia para alcanzar una realización de vida personal y profesional que no parece posible construir en el país de origen. Desde un punto de...

  8. Cruzando fronteiras: prostituição e imigração Crossing borders: prostitution and immigration

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    Claudia Mayorga

    2011-12-01

    Full Text Available Neste trabalho, apresentamos uma reflexão acerca das tensões identitárias vivenciadas por mulheres brasileiras que migraram para a Espanha para exercer a prostituição a partir de uma crítica às perspectivas eurocêntricas e coloniais. Tais perspectivas, desde o surgimento dos estados nacionais, têm propiciado a invenção do outro, naturalizando relações desiguais de raça, etnia, gênero, nacionalidade. Apresentamos aqui como brasileiras, imigrantes e prostitutas, vivenciam as heterodesignações como outras, enfocando possíveis interpelações às hierarquias sociais a partir de sua condição de imigrantes na Europa e prostitutas. Para tanto, faremos uma análise da crise que os estados-nacionais europeus têm vivido e que tem como consequência o acirramento de práticas xenófobas e racistas. Apresentaremos também a análise de entrevistas em profundidade realizadas com prostitutas imigrantes brasileiras em Madri, Espanha.This work presents a reflection about the identity tensions experienced by Brazilian women who migrated to Spain to practice prostitution from a critical perspective on Eurocentric and colonial logics. Such prospects, since the emergence of national states, have brought the invention of other, naturalizing unequal relations of race, ethnicity, gender, nationality. We will see how Brazilian immigrants and prostitutes live heterodesignations as the other focusing on possible questions to social hierarchies from their status as immigrants and prostitutes in Europe. For this, we will review the crisis that the European national states have experienced and which as a consequence has been worsening xenophobic and racist practices. We also present the analysis of interviews conducted with Brazilian immigrant prostitutes in Madrid, Spain.

  9. Trophic systems and chorology: data from shrews, moles and voles of Italy preyed by the barn owl / Sistemi trofici e corologia: dati su <em>Soricidae>, <em>Talpidae> ed <em>Arvicolidae> d'Italia predati da <em>Tyto albaem> (Scopoli 1769

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    Longino Contoli

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    Full Text Available Abstract In small Mammals biogeography, available data are up to now by far too scanty for elucidate the distribution of a lot of taxa, especially with regard to the absence from a given area. In this respect, standardized quantitative sampling techniques, like Owl pellets analysis can enable not only to enhance faunistic knowledges, but also to estimate the actual absence probability of a given taxon "m", lacking from the diet of an individual raptor. For the last purpose, the relevant frequencies of "m" in the other ecologically similar sites of the same raptor species diets are averaged ($f_m$ : the relevant standard error (multiplicated by a coefficient, according to the desired degree of accuracy, in relation of the integral of probabilities subtracted ($overline{F}_m - a E$: then, the probability that a single specimen is not pertaining to "m" is obtained ($P_0 = 1 - F_m + a E$; lastly, the desiderate accuracy probability ($P_d$ is chosen. Now, "$N_d$" (the number of individuals of all prey species in a single site needed for obtain, with the desired probability, a specimen at least of "m" is obtained through $$N = frac{ln P_d}{ln P_0}$$ Obviously, every site-diet with more than "N" preyed individuals and without any "i" specimen is considered to be lacking of such taxon. A "usefulness index" for the above purposes is outlined and checked about three raptors. Some exanples about usefulness of the Owl pellet analysis method in biogeography are given, concerning <em>Tyto albaem> diets in peninsular Italy about: - <em>Sorex minutusem>, lacking in some quite insulated areas; - <em>Sorex araneusem> (sensu stricto, after GRAF et al., 1979, present also in lowland areas in Emilia-Romagna; - <em>Crocidura suaveolensem> and - <em>Suncus etruscusem>, present also in the southermost part of Calabria (Reggio province; - <em>Talpa caecaem>, present also in the Antiapennines of Latium (Cimini mounts; - <em>Talpa romanaem

  10. Estratigrafía y dataciones C14 del yacimiento de la «Cova del Frare» de St. Llorenç del Munt (Matadepera, Barcelona)

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    Martín, Araceli; Guilaine, Jean; Thommeret, Yolande

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    La «Cova del Frare» se encuentra en la montaña de St. Llorenç del Munt a 960 m. de altitud. Pertenece al término municipal de Matadepera (Barcelona) y a la comarca del Valles Occidental. Su longitud, respecto al meridiano de Greenwich, es de 2º 01' 06" y su latitud, de 41° 38' 15".

  11. El comercio de los inmigrantes en el centro histórico de Barcelona en 2004

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    Serra del Pozo, Pau

    2006-12-01

    Full Text Available In the last decade the increasing number of foreign immigrants in Catalonia has been especially apparent in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona, where immigrants’ shops have multiplied. The Ciutat Vella immigrant shops have several features such as small size, a long working day and the presence of employed relatives together with other employees of the same origin as that of the employer. The dominant typologies of the shops are: groceries, tele shops, money transfer (for remittances, basars (general stores, butcher’s shops, retail and wholesale textile shops, bars and restaurants. The dominant foreign entrepreneurs are Pakistanis, Indians, Chinese, Morrocans, Dominicans, Bangladeshis, Filipinos and Algerians. The work shows the geographical specialization by shop typology and geographical origin of the entrepreneurs, the concentration of the shops by zones and by streets and the spatial correlation between retail, residence and religious centres.

    En la última década el creciente número de inmigrantes extranjeros en Cataluña se ha hecho especialmente patente en el distrito de Ciutat Vella de Barcelona, donde han proliferado los comercios de este colectivo. Los comercios de los inmigrantes en este distrito se caracterizan por tener unas reducidas dimensiones, una jornada larga y por la presencia de familiares empleados y de otros empleados del mismo origen geográfico que el del titular del negocio. Las tipologías predominantes de los comercios son: colmados, locutorios, envíos de remesas, bazares, carnicerías, minoristas y mayoristas de ropa, bares y restaurantes. Los titulares extranjeros mayoritarios son pakistaníes, indios, chinos, marroquíes, dominicanos, bangladeshis, filipinos y argelinos. El trabajo muestra la especialización geográfica por tipo de comercio y origen geográfico de los empresarios, la concentración de comercios por zonas y por calles y la correlación espacial entre comercio, residencia y centros

  12. Diversity Management Among Small Shops in Barcelona: A Case of Community Intercultural Mediation

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    Mercé Zegrí

    2009-08-01

    Full Text Available The setting up of small shops by foreign people involves a number of difficulties and challenges with respect to how it fits in certain districts. These issues have been tackled from the view of intercultural mediation. This kind of intervention focuses on relationships and communication among shopkeepers by highlighting their common interests. Intervention also includes making associative networks acknowledge and adapt to new realities. This paper describes a process of intervention focused on community intercultural mediation carried out in small shops in a district of Barcelona. First, most significant results of the diagnosis stage are shown concerning the speech and relationships of main agents along with “conflict” analysis. Then a detailed mediation intervention is described that was carried out with a group of shopkeepers called “shop promoting group”. Finally, bearing in mind their high participative and transformational potential, some general appraisals are made with respect to the impact of this type of processes and their continuity and sustainability.

  13. Analysis of the material nature of public space. The case of the new “Camp de l’Arpa” Square (Barcelona)

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    In 2015, after several years of constant neighborhood demands, it was inaugurated in the place that was once a vacant lot, the place that takes the name of the neighborhood, the Camp de l’Arpa square.This new public space in the city of Barcelona, despite being an urgent requirement of the neighbours, is currently being underutilized. On a first visit of observation, it was observed that among the many causes of this situation, a significant percentage derived from the materiality of public s...

  14. La colección ibero-balear de Meloidae Gyllenhal, 1810 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona

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    2016-12-01

    Full Text Available The Ibero-Balearic collection of Meloidae Gyllenhal, 1810 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea of the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona A commented catalogue of the Ibero-Balearic collection of Meloidae Gyllenhal, 1810 housed in the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona is presented. The studied material consists of 2,129 specimens belonging to 49 of 64 species from the Iberian peninsula and the Balearic Islands. The temporal coverage of the collection extends from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the present time. Revision, documentation, and computerization of the material have been made, resulting in 963 collection records (June 2014. For each lot, the catalogue includes the register number, geographical data, collection date, collector or origin of the collection, and number of specimens. Information about taxonomy and distribution of the species is also given. Chorological novelties are provided, extending the distribution areas for most species. The importance of the collection for the knowledge of the Ibero-Balearic fauna of Meloidae is discussed, particularly concerning the area of Catalonia (northeastern Iberian peninsula as it accounts for 60% of the records. Some rare or particularly interesting species in the collection are highlighted, as are those requiring protection measures in Spain and Catalonia. The catalogue also shows a brief gallery of photographs that includes four type specimens.

  15. Correlatos psicosociales de la adhesión al tratamiento antirretroviral en el Centro Penitenciario de hombres de Barcelona Psychosocial correlates of the adherence to antirretroviral treatment of men in penitentiary center of Barcelona

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    F. Herraiz

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    Full Text Available Objetivo: Evaluar la adhesión terapéutica al TARGA de los pacientes reclusos con VIH y su relación con diferentes tipos de variables. Material y Método: Estudio longitudinal, realizado en el Centro Penitenciario de Hombres de Barcelona. Se utilizaron las bases de datos del centro, una entrevista semiestructurada, que valoraba variables sociodemográficas, penales/penitenciarias, clínicas y características del tratamiento, así como cuestionarios sobre creencias y estados emocionales. También se evaluó la adhesión al inicio del estudio, a los tres y a los seis meses. Resultados: Los internos presentaron un bajo apoyo social; un acuerdo medio respecto de los cuidados recibidos por el personal médico y sanitario; consideraron la complejidad del tratamiento como alta y concedieron una moderada relevancia a los efectos secundarios; presentaron un elevado acuerdo respecto a los beneficios que les podían reportar seguir el tratamiento, una percepción moderada sobre la severidad de la enfermedad y manifestaron una elevada autoeficacia en el seguimiento del tratamiento. Respecto a las variables emocionales mostraron una baja tensión, depresión, cólera y fatiga. La adhesión a los antirretrovirales desde el inicio al final del estudio no ha variado a lo largo del estudio. Las variables socio-cognitivas que correlacionaron con la adhesión en los diferentes momentos del estudio son la autoeficacia, los beneficios percibidos, la complejidad del tratamiento y los efectos secundarios. Los estados emocionales que correlacionaban con la adhesión eran la depresión y la fatiga. Discusión: La relación entre autoeficacia y adhesión es un resultado repetido en los estudios sobre la predicción de la adhesión al TARGA. Las relaciones de la fatiga y de la tristeza/depresión con la adhesión son del tipo esperado.Objective: to assess therapeutic adherence to HAART amongst HIV positive inmates and its likely relationship with sets of different

  16. Punto de corte óptimo de la concentración de cotinina en saliva para discriminar entre fumadores y no fumadores en la población adulta de Barcelona Optimal cut-point of salivary cotinine concentration to discriminate smoking status in the adult population in Barcelona

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    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: Evaluar el punto de corte óptimo de la concentración de cotinina en saliva para discriminar el consumo de tabaco en la población adulta de Barcelona. Métodos: Estudio transversal de una muestra representativa (n=1117 de la población adulta (>16 años de la ciudad de Barcelona (2004-2005. El estudio recogió información sobre tabaquismo (activo y pasivo mediante cuestionario y una muestra de saliva para la determinación de cotinina. Se realizó un análisis de sensibilidad y especificidad estratificado por sexo, edad, tipo de consumo (diario y ocasional y exposición al humo ambiental del tabaco en el hogar. Se calcularon las curvas ROC y el área bajo la curva. Resultados: La prevalencia de fumadores (diarios y ocasionales fue del 27,8% (intervalo de confianza del 95%: 25,2-30,4%. El punto de corte óptimo que separa a los no fumadores de los fumadores es 9,2ng/ml (sensibilidad del 88,7% y especificidad del 89,0%. El área bajo la curva ROC fue 0,952. El punto de corte fue 12,2ng/ml para los hombres y 7,6 para las mujeres, y aumentaba en los grupos de edad con mayor prevalencia de tabaquismo. Los fumadores diarios tenían un punto de corte superior al de los fumadores ocasionales. Conclusiones: El punto de corte óptimo que discrimina fumadores de no fumadores en la población adulta es 9,2ng/ml, con sensibilidad y especificidad cercanas al 90%. El punto de corte es más alto en los hombres y en los grupos de menor edad, y aumenta cuanto mayor es la prevalencia de consumo diario.Objective: To assess the optimal cut-point for salivary cotinine concentration to identify smoking status in the adult population of Barcelona. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study of a representative sample (n=1,117 of the adult population (>16 years in Barcelona (2004-2005. This study gathered information on active and passive smoking by means of a questionnaire and a saliva sample for cotinine determination. We analyzed sensitivity and

  17. An analysis of geosmine and other naturally occurring compounds liable to generate odour problems in the Barcelona water supply; Analisis de geosmina y otros compuestos de origen natural susceptibles de generar problemas de olor en el agua de abastecimiento a barcelona

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    Romero, J.; Ventura, F.

    1999-08-01

    The analytical methodology and the concentration levels of geosmin and other natural compounds in raw water from Llobregat river and tap water from Barcelona is shown. Geosmin, a compound routinely analyzed in our laboratory is the compound causing odor episodes in our samples at levels higher than 10 ng/1. The effectiveness of the treatment in the Sant Joan Despi water works plant has allowed the removal of geosmin at levels below the limit of detection of the method (<5 ng/1). Neither 2-methyl-isoborneol (MIB) nor 2-alkyl-3-methoxypirazines have been detected among other compounds with low odor threshold concentrations (OTC). (Author) 39 refs.

  18. Proximate Composition, Nutritional Attributes and Mineral Composition of <em>Peperomia> <em>pellucida> L. (Ketumpangan Air Grown in Malaysia

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    Maznah Ismail

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available This study presents the proximate and mineral composition of <em>Peperomia> <em>pellucida> L., an underexploited weed plant in Malaysia. Proximate analysis was performed using standard AOAC methods and mineral contents were determined using atomic absorption spectrometry. The results indicated <em>Peperomia> <em>pellucida> to be rich in crude protein, carbohydrate and total ash contents. The high amount of total ash (31.22% suggests a high-value mineral composition comprising potassium, calcium and iron as the main elements. The present study inferred that <em>Peperomia> <em>pellucida> would serve as a good source of protein and energy as well as micronutrients in the form of a leafy vegetable for human consumption.

  19. La difusión de la teoría evolucionista de Lamarck en la revista La Abeja (1862-1870) de Barcelona

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    1997-01-01

    Between 1862 and 1864 Lamarck's works were diffused in Spain through a magazine called La Abeja which was edited by Antoni Bergnes de las Casas, and published in Barcelona. This may reveal a more important influence of Lamarck's theory on the introduction of evolutionary theories in Spain. La Abeja includes the translation of the Histoire naturelle des végétaux where Lamarck incorporated an early explanation of his theory of evolution; and a series of anonymous articles about the reproduction...

  20. French validation of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire

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    Joe Saliba

    2016-03-01

    Full Text Available Background. The Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ questionnaire investigates the main facets of music experience that could explain the variance observed in how people experience reward associated with music. Currently, only English and Spanish versions of this questionnaire are available. The objective of this study is to validate a French version of the BMRQ. Methods. The original BMRQ was translated and adapted into an international French version. The questionnaire was then administered through an online survey aimed at adults aged over 18 years who were fluent in French. Statistical analyses were performed and compared to the original English and Spanish version for validation purposes. Results. A total of 1,027 participants completed the questionnaire. Most responses were obtained from France (89.4%. Analyses revealed that congruence values between the rotated loading matrix and the ideal loading matrix ranged between 0.88 and 0.96. Factor reliabilities of subscales (i.e., Musical Seeking, Emotion Evocation, Mood Regulation, Social Reward and Sensory-Motor also ranged between 0.88 and 0.96. In addition, reliability of the overall factor score (i.e., Music reward was 0.91. Finally, the internal consistency of the overall scale was 0.85. The factorial structure obtained in the French translation was similar to that of the original Spanish and English samples. Conclusion. The French version of the BMRQ appears valid and reliable. Potential applications of the BMRQ include its use as a valuable tool in music reward and emotion research, whether in healthy individuals or in patients suffering from a wide variety of cognitive, neurologic and auditory disorders.

  1. Evaluation of Antioxidant Activities of Aqueous Extracts and Fractionation of Different Parts of <em>Elsholtzia em>ciliata>

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    Yuangang Zu

    2012-05-01

    Full Text Available The aim of this study was to investigate the antioxidant and free-radical scavenging activity of extract and fractions from various parts of <em>Elsholtzia ciliataem>. The inflorescences, leaves, stems and roots of <em>E. ciliataem> were extracted separately and two phenolic component enrichment methods: ethyl acetate-water liquid-liquid extraction and macroporous resin adsorption-desorption, were adopted in this study. The antioxidant activities of water extracts and fractions of <em>E. ciliataem> were examined using different assay model systems <em>in vitroem>. The fraction root E (purified by HPD300 macroporous resin exhibited the highest total phenolics content (497.2 ± 24.9 mg GAE/g, accompanied with the highest antioxidant activity against various antioxidant systems <em>in vitroem> compared to other fractions. On the basis of the results obtained, <em>E. ciliataem> extracts can be used potentially as a ready accessible and valuable bioactive source of natural antioxidants.

  2. Epidemiological characteristics and predictors of late presentation of HIV infection in Barcelona (Spain during the period 2001-2009

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    Guelar Ana

    2011-07-01

    Full Text Available Abstract Background Early diagnosis of HIV infection can prevent morbidity and mortality as well as reduce HIV transmission. The aim of the present study was to assess prevalence, describe trends and identify factors associated with late presentation of HIV infection in Barcelona (Spain during the period 2001-09. Methods Demographic and epidemiological characteristics of cases reported to the Barcelona HIV surveillance system were analysed. Late presentation was defined for individuals with a CD4 count below 350 cells/ml upon HIV diagnosis or diagnosis of AIDS within 3 months of HIV diagnosis. Multivariate logistic regression were used to identify predictors of late presentation. Results Of the 2,938 newly diagnosed HIV-infected individuals, 2,507 (85,3% had either a CD4 cell count or an AIDS diagnosis available. A total of 1,139 (55.6% of the 2,507 studied cases over these nine years were late presenters varying from 48% among men who have sex with men to 70% among heterosexual men. The proportion of late presentation was 62.7% in 2001-2003, 51.9% in 2004-2005, 52.6% in 2006-2007 and 52.1% in 2008-2009. A decrease over time only was observed between 2001-2003 and 2004-2005 (p = 0.001 but remained constant thereafter (p = 0.9. Independent risk factors for late presentation were older age at diagnosis (p Conclusion Late presentation of HIV is still too frequent in all transmission groups in spite of a strong commitment with HIV prevention in our city. It is necessary to develop interventions that increase HIV testing and facilitate earlier entry into HIV care.

  3. Determination of the minor disinfection by-products formed in the water plant of Sant Joan Despi (Barcelona, Spain); Determinacion de los subproductos de desinfeccion minoritarios formados en la planta de Sant Joan Despi (Barcelona)

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    Cancho, B.; Galceran, M.T. [Universitat de Barcelona (Spain); Ventura, F. [AGBAR. Societat General d` Aigues de Barcelona, S.A. (Spain)

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    Chlorine is widely used in drinking water disinfection due to be a powerful and not expense disinfection. Although the benefits of disinfection, the formation of stable disinfection by-products of the health concern, is the result of the interaction of aqueous chlorine with natural organic matter presents in water. Disinfection by-products generated in major concentration are trihalomethane and haloacetic acids. Disinfection by-products generated in minor concentration are haloacetonitriles, haloketones,chloral hydrate and chloropicrin and some new groups such as cyanogen halides and trihaloacetaldydes. In this work two analytical methods.: headspace/gas chromatography/electron capture detector and liquid-liquid microextraction/gas chromatography/electron capture detector are studied and compared to determine the minor by-products and to establish finally, a systematic control of them in the different stages of the Water Treatment Plant of San Joan Despi (Barcelona, Spain). (Author) 12 refs.

  4. Estratigrafía y dataciones C14 del yacimiento de la «Cova del Frare» de St. Llorenç del Munt (Matadepera, Barcelona

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    Araceli MARTÍN

    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available La «Cova del Frare» se encuentra en la montaña de St. Llorenç del Munt a 960 m. de altitud. Pertenece al término municipal de Matadepera (Barcelona y a la comarca del Valles Occidental. Su longitud, respecto al meridiano de Greenwich, es de 2º 01' 06" y su latitud, de 41° 38' 15".

  5. O impacto da crise econômica espanhola na mão de obra imigrante

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    Nilton Cezar Pereira Pinto

    2015-04-01

    Full Text Available Resumo Este artigo tem o objetivo de analisar a situação da mão de obra imigrante na Espanha nos últimos dez anos, vinculando-a com as transformações econômicas e sociais pelas quais o país tem passado desde meados da década de 1990, com ênfase no panorama gerado pela crise econômica que eclodiu a partir do final de 2008 e o seu impacto na situação dos imigrantes, coletivo que mais tem sofrido com o novo quadro econômico e social estabelecido com a crise. Diante da situação que a Espanha atravessa, com notável aumento do desemprego e de deterioração dos indicadores sociais, nota-se o retorno considerável de imigrantes para os seus países de origem depois de esgotarem todas as vias alternativas de permanência na Espanha. O fundamento para o desenvolvimento deste trabalho foram os dados proporcionados pelo Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE da Espanha, utilizando a EPA (Encuesta de Población Activa, além dos dados do Eurostat e das fontes bibliográficas citadas.

  6. A mortality study of the last outbreak of yellow fever in Barcelona City (Spain in 1870 Estudio de la mortalidad del último brote de fiebre amarilla en la ciudad de Barcelona (España en 1870

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    Jaume Canela Soler

    2009-08-01

    Full Text Available Background: The last outbreak of yellow fever in the city of Barcelona, Spain, was caused by a ship arriving from Cuba. The objective of this study was to describe and analyze the epidemic of 1870 by using the available mortality data. Methods: The information on 1,235 deaths identified in the parochial registries was analyzed, using statistical and epidemiological procedures for epidemic outbreaks. Results: Mortality due to yellow fever was 549.7 per 100,000 inhabitants. The temporal distribution of the deaths showed two peaks at the end of September and October with the last fatalities occurring in December 1870. The distribution of the fatalities in the city's neighborhoods was unequal. In La Barceloneta, in particular, more fatalities were found in the streets adjacent to the port than in the most remote streets (r=0.83; pObjetivo: El último brote de fiebre amarilla en la ciudad de Barcelona, España, se originó a partir de un barco que venía de Cuba. El objetivo de este estudio es describir y analizar esa epidemia ocurrida en 1870, utilizando los datos disponibles de mortalidad. Métodos: La información de las 1235 defunciones identificadas en los registros parroquiales se ha analizado utilizando los procedimientos estadísticos y epidemiológicos para brotes epidémicos. Resultados: La tasa de mortalidad por fiebre amarilla fue de 549.7 por 100,000 habitantes. La distribución temporal de las muertes tenía dos modas en el final de septiembre y octubre, y los últimos muertos ocurrieron en diciembre de 1870. La distribución de las defunciones según los barrios de la ciudad fue desigual. En La Barceloneta, en particular, hubo mas muertos en las calles adyacentes al puerto que en las más lejanas (r=0,83; p<0,0001. Conclusiones: Este estudio muestra una distribución bimodal de la mortalidad por fiebre amarilla durante el brote, con un impacto alto en hombres adultos, y en el barrio de La Barceloneta.

  7. Estudio del tráfico de las carreteras de la Diputació de Barcelona en la comarca del Garraf

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    2017-01-01

    En este trabajo se seleccionarán varias carreteras ubicadas en la comarca del Garraf de titularidad de la Diputación de Barcelona y cuyo tráfico sea significativo. Se escogerán carreteras convencionales de dos carriles que carezcan de las características de trazado óptimas para la circulación. El objetivo de este trabajo es el de estudiar el tráfico actual y futuro en estas carreteras para saber si existen o existirán problemas de tráfico, así como proponer posibles medidas para solventar dic...

  8. Las fiestas populares en la modernidad: celebración y sufrimiento en la fiesta mayor de Gracia de Barcelona

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    2006-01-01

    El presente artículo es resultado de una investigación más amplia realizada en un barrio de la ciudad de Barcelona sobre la Fiesta Mayor de Gracia. En este artículo me centro en la relación de la fiesta, la celebración, el sufrimiento y la modernidad. De esta forma trato de argumentar que el proceso de modernización de la sociedad y por lo tanto de la fiesta popular ha producido un sujeto que tiene la libertad de celebrar sus fiestas populares pero a la vez este sujeto sufre...

  9. Observatorio Barça 2010. La Campaña a la Presodencia del FC Barcelona en prensa deportiva y las redes sociales

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    2011-01-01

    Abstract: The objective of this article is analyzing the coverage of the FC Barcelona (Barça) presidential elections (June, 2010) in the mainstream Catalan sport press (Sport, Mundo Deportivo, El 9 Esportiu and Gol). Sandro Rosell was the winner of these elections. The research compares the press coverage with the information published in the social media (Twitter and Facebook) used by different candidates in order to understand how these social media could influence to reinforce ...

  10. Allometric and Isometric variations in the Italian <em>Apodemus sylvaticusem> and <em>Apodemus flavicollisem> with respect to the conditions of allopatry and sympatry / Variazioni allometriche e isometriche in <em>Apodemus sylvaticusem> e <em>Apodemus flavicollisem> italiani, rispetto alle condizioni di allopatria e simpatria

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    Giovanni Amori

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    Full Text Available Abstract In Italy there are two species of <em>Apodemus> (<em>Sylvaemus>: <em>Apodemus sylvaticusem> on the mainland and the main island, and <em>Apodemus flavicollisem> only on the mainland. The trend of some morphometric characters of the skull (incisive foramen length - FI; interorbital breadth = IO; length of palatal bridge = PP; upper alveolar length = $M^1M^3$ was analized and some theoretical models verified for <em>A. sylvaticusem>. If one considers the sympatric population of <em>A. sylvaticusem> and <em>A. flavicollisem> simultaneously the characters PP, IO and $M^1M^3$ appear significantly isometric being directly correlated ($P leq O.O1$, while FI character results allometric with respect to the previous ones, as expected. If one considers the sympatric populations of each of the species separately, the scenario is different. For <em>A. sylvaticusem> only PP and $M^1M^3$ are isometric ($P leq 0.05$. For <em>A. flavicollisem> only $M^1M^3$ and FI appear to be correlated, although not as significantly as for <em>A. sylvaticusem> ($P le 0.05$; one tail. The insular populations of <em>A. sylvaticusem> do not show significant correlations, except for FI and $M^1M^3$ ($P le 0.05$. On the contrary, considering all populations, sympatric and allopatric, of <em>A. sylvaticusem> at the same time are significant correlations ($P le 0.05$ in all combinations of characters, except for those involving the IO. We suggest that the isometric relations in sympatric assemblages are confined within a morphological range available to the genus <em>Apodemus>. In such a space, the two species are split in two different and innerly homogeneous distributions. We found no evidence to confirm the niche variation hypothesis. On the contrary, the variability expressed as SO or CV's appears higher in the sympatric populations than in the allopatric ones, for three of the four characters, confirming previous results

  11. A Novel Apoptosis Correlated Molecule: Expression and Characterization of Protein Latcripin-1 from <em>Lentinula em>edodes> C91–3

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    Min Huang

    2012-05-01

    Full Text Available An apoptosis correlated molecule—protein Latcripin-1 of <em>Lentinula> edodesem> C91-3—was expressed and characterized in <em>Pichia pastorisem> GS115. The total RNA was obtained from <em>Lentinula edodesem> C91–3. According to the transcriptome, the full-length gene of Latcripin-1 was isolated with 3'-Full Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends (RACE and 5'-Full RACE methods. The full-length gene was inserted into the secretory expression vector pPIC9K. The protein Latcripin-1 was expressed in <em>Pichia pastorisem> GS115 and analyzed by Sodium Dodecylsulfonate Polyacrylate Gel Electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE and Western blot. The Western blot showed that the protein was expressed successfully. The biological function of protein Latcripin-1 on A549 cells was studied with flow cytometry and the 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl-2,5-Diphenyl-tetrazolium Bromide (MTT method. The toxic effect of protein Latcripin-1 was detected with the MTT method by co-culturing the characterized protein with chick embryo fibroblasts. The MTT assay results showed that there was a great difference between protein Latcripin-1 groups and the control group (<em>p em>< 0.05. There was no toxic effect of the characterized protein on chick embryo fibroblasts. The flow cytometry showed that there was a significant difference between the protein groups of interest and the control group according to apoptosis function (<em>p em>< 0.05. At the same time, cell ultrastructure observed by transmission electron microscopy supported the results of flow cytometry. The work demonstrates that protein Latcripin-1 can induce apoptosis of human lung cancer cells A549 and brings new insights into and advantages to finding anti-tumor proteins.

  12. Ressenya a Simbor i Roig, Vicent, Ironies de la Modernitat. La ironia del Modernisme al Noucentisme, Barcelona, Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2016, 280 pp., ISBN: 978-84-9883-811-4

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    Moisés Llopis i Alarcon

    2016-06-01

    Full Text Available Review to Simbor i Roig, Vicent, Ironies de la Modernitat. La ironia del Modernisme al Noucentisme, Barcelona, Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2016, 280 pp., ISBN: 978-84-9883-811-4

  13. Renovación y reorganización profesional en tiempo de crisis, farmacéuticos y veterinarios durante la gripe de 1918-1919 en España Renovação e reorganização profissional em tempo de crise, farmacêuticos e veterinários durante a gripe de 1918-1919 na Espanha Professional renovation and reorganization in time of crisis, pharmacists and veterinarians during the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 in Spain

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    María Isabel Porras Gallo

    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available En este trabajo se estudia el rol que representaron los farmacéuticos y veterinarios españoles durante la epidemia de gripe de 1918-19 y se evalúa en qué medida dicha crisis sanitaria se constituyó en un elemento dinamizador del proceso de renovación y reorganización profesional de dichos sanitarios en EspañaEl estudio muestra cómo a tal fin una parte de los farmacéuticos y, en menor medida, de los veterinarios tomaron como referente el proceder de los médicos de mostrarse como expertos mediante el recurso al laboratorio para gestionar la situación de crisis y aprovecharla para exponer sus viejas demandas profesionalesFrente a esta actitud hubo otra, en la que el papel central lo ocuparon las reivindicaciones de mejoras profesionales sin renunciar a mantener sus funciones tradicionalesDesde esta posición los farmacéuticos responsabilizaron a la epidemia y a las medidas adoptadas de su situación de deterioro y reclamaron de los poderes públicos ayudas para mejorar su posición, mientras que los veterinarios mantuvieron una enérgica labor reivindicativa.Neste trabalho se estuda o papel que os farmacêuticos e veterinários espanhóis representaram durante a epidemia de gripe de 1918-1919, e se avalia em que medida esta crise sanitária se constituiu em um elemento dinamizador do processo de renovação e reorganização profissional dos sanitaristas na EspanhaO estudo mostra como uma parte dos farmacêuticos e, em menor escala, dos veterinários utilizaram um procedimento comum entre médicos: fizeram uso do laboratório para administrar a situação de crise, aproveitando a mesma crise para expor antigas demandas profissionaisAlém desses, outros reivindicaram melhorias profissionais, sem renunciar a manutenção de suas funções tradicionaisTomada essa posição, os farmacêuticos colocaram a culpa de sua situação de deterioro na epidemia e nas medidas adotadas, e pediram aos poderes públicos ajuda para melhorar sua situa

  14. La Venus de Gavà (Barcelona. Una aportación fundamental para el estudio de la religión neolítica del suroeste europeo

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    Bosch Argilagós, Josep

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    Full Text Available The “Venus” of Gavà has been recently found in one of shafts of the archaeological excavation at the Prehistoric Mines of Gavà (Barcelona, exploited in the neolothic period. It is an anthropomorfic feminine ceramic figure whose body and garments are drawn in relief and incised with paint. It is the only human figure from Neolithic period in the Iberian Peninsula whose morphology and decorations can intail a religious value related to the goddess of fertility worship.

    Las excavaciones arqueológicas en las Minas Prehistóricas de Gava (Barcelona, explotadas durante el neolítico, han puesto al descubierto recientemente en el interior de uno de sus pozos la Venus de Gava. Es una figura antropomorfa femenina de cerámica, sobre la que se han dibujado las partes del cuerpo y su ornamentación mediante decoración en relieve y esgrafiada con pintura blanca incrustada. Es la única figura humana del Neolítico de la Península Ibérica con una morfología y motivos decorativos que permiten suponerle un valor religioso relacionado con el culto a la diosa de la fertilidad.

  15. Ordinacions, privilegis i oficis. La regulació de l’art de l’especieria (s. XIV-XV

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    Vela i Aulesa, Carles

    2006-12-01

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    An examination of the apothecary or pharmacy regulations of Barcelona from the 14th to the 16th centuries shows not only that artisans and craftsmen took advantage of the <em>ius statuendiem>'s concessions to the city government to serve their own interests, but also turned to the king to consolidate their professional position through privileges when they saw this as advantageous.



    L’estudi de l’evolució de la regulació de l’art de l’especieria o apotecaria a Barcelona permet copsar com les arts i els oficis no solament s’aprofitaren en benefici propi de la cessió del <em>ius statuendi em>al govern municipal, sinó que, quan ho van considerar convenient, van acudir al rei per tal que consolidés per via de privilegi la seva posició de força en el seu camp professional.

  16. Expediente - 2014 (2

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    Revista de Ensino de Bioquímica

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    Full Text Available Equipe de Trabalho 2014 1. Equipe editorial Editor-Chefe Bayardo Bapstista Torres, Instituto de Química - USP, Brasil Eduardo Galembeck, Departamento de Bioquímica Instituto de Biologia UNICAMP, Brasil   Co-editores Gabriel Gerber Hornink, Depto. Bioquímica, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade - Federal de Alfenas - Unifal-MG, Brasil Vera Maria Treis Trindade, Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil   Corpo Editorial Adriana Cassina, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Uruguai Angel Herráez, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología molecular, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Espanha André Amaral Gonçalves Bianco, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp, Brasil Denise Vaz de Macedo, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, Brasil Eneida de Paula, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, Brasil Guilherme Andrade Marson, Instituto de Química - USP, Brasil Jose Antonio Martinez Oyanedel, Universidad de Concepción, Chile Josep Maria Fernández Novell, Dept. Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular Universitat de Barcelona, Espanha Leila Maria Beltramini, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo - USP, Brasil Manuel João da Costa, Escola de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Maria Lucia Bianconi, Instituto de Bioquímica Médica Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brasil María Noel Alvarez, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Uruguai Miguel Ángel Medina Torres, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Faculty of Sciences University of Málaga, Espanha Nelma Regina Segnini Bossolan, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo - USP, Brasil Paulo De Avila

  17. Habitualidade e variação entre pretérito imperfeito e perífrases imperfectivas em contos escritos em espanhol

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    Márluce Coan

    2012-11-01

    Full Text Available Resumo: Neste artigo, tratamos da variação linguística entre o pretérito imperfeito e perífrases imperfectivas na codificação do aspecto habitual em espanhol. Deram suporte a nossa pesquisa, dentre outros, pressupostos do Funcionalismo Linguístico (HOPPER & THOMPSON, 1980; GIVÓN, 1990 e da Teoria da Variação e Mudança (LABOV, 1972. Nossos dados provêm de vinte e quatro contos escritos por autores de língua espanhola, selecionados a partir do parâmetro comarca cultural: Caribe; México e América Central; Andes; Rio da Prata; Chile; e Espanha. Obtivemos um total de 126 dados, sendo que 29 desses são de formas do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo, 23% do total, e 97 de perífrases imperfectivas de passado, o que corresponde a 77% do total. Constatamos que, na função habitual, as perífrases ocorrem, mais frequentemente, motivadas por sujeito agentivo, estilo dos autores Gabriel García Márquez e Virgilio Piñera, verbos dinâmicos e durativos e presença de modificador aspectual.Palavras-chave: Habitualidade; perífrases imperfectivas; pretérito imperfeito.Abstract: In this article, we deal with the linguistic variation between the imperfect past tense and imperfective periphrases in the encoding of habitual aspect in Spanish. As theoretical backgrounds, among others, we used Linguistic Functionalism (HOPPER & THOMPSON, 1980; GIVÓN, 1990 and Variation and Change Theory (LABOV, 1972. Our data comes from twenty four short stories written by Spanish language writers, selected based on the cultural region parameter: Caribe; Mexico and Central America; Andes, Rio da Prata; Chile; and Spain. It was obtained a total of 126 data: 29 of them are imperfect past tense of indicative forms, that is, 23% of the total, and 97 are imperfective periphrasis of past, that is, 77% of the total. In the habitual function it was found that periphrasis occur more frequently, motivated by agentive subject, the style of the writers Gabriel García M

  18. Momentos em freios e em embraiagens

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    Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica Nesta dissertação reúnem-se os modelos de cálculo utilizados na determinação dos momentos em freios e em embraiagens. Neste trabalho consideram-se os casos de freios e embraiagens de atrito seco e atrito viscoso. Nos freios de atrito viscoso são considerados casos em que as características dos fluidos não são induzidas, e outros em que são induzidas modificações a essas mesmas características. São a...

  19. Life cycle assessment of two biowaste management systems for Barcelona, Spain

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    Gueereca, Leonor Patricia; Gasso, Santiago; Baldasano, Jose Maria; Jimenez-Guerrero, Pedro

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    A life cycle assessment (LCA) is performed in this study in order to evaluate the environmental implications of the management of the fermentable fraction of waste in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (BMA), comparing the present management system with the system proposed for the future. The energy and water consumption were quantified, as well as the used area and the emissions to the atmosphere and water. The software TRACI was used in order to assess the potential impact on the categories of acidification, eutrophication, toxicity and harm to the human health (under the criteria of cancer, non-cancer and pollutants), global warming, depletion of the ozone layer, formation of photochemical smog, water use, land use and fossil fuel use. The results show that the management system proposed for the future reduces 7 out of the 12 potential impacts analyzed, due mainly to the change in the technology of landfill (baling-wrapping landfill). However, this system requires of further research to assess the impacts on a long term. The worst option for biowaste management is the traditional landfill, based on the multibarrier concept. The results of this work suggest that the future biowaste management system is better in environmental terms than the present system. (author)

  20. Parasitic zoonoses: survey in foxes (<em>Vulpes vulpesem> in the northern Apennines / Zoonosi parassitarie: indagini in volpi (<em>Vulpes vulpesem> dell'Appennino settentrionale

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    Vittorio Guberti

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    Full Text Available Abstract A parasitological survey on 153 foxes was carried out in the northern Apennines, during the period 1984-1987. The following parasites were identified: <em>Toxocara canisem> (46.4%, <em>Taenia> sp. (17%, <em>Uncinaria stenocephalaem> (11.8%, <em>Mesocestoides lineatusem> (11.1%, <em>Ancylostoma caninumem> (3.9%, <em>Taenia hydatigenaem> (3.3%, <em>Trichuris vulpisem> (3.3%, <em>Dipylidium caninumem> (2.6%, <em>Taenia crassicepsem> (2%. All foxes were negative for <em>Trichinella> sp. A statistical analysis was performed to evaluate differences in the parasitic fauna according to the sex and age classes of the hosts. The role that the fox could have as a reservoir of helminthic zoonoses is discussed. The results are compared with those of similar studies carried out in Italy. Riassunto Nel periodo 1984-1987 è stata condotta un'indagine parassitologica su 153 volpi abbattute nell'Appennino romagnolo. Sono stati reperiti i seguenti parassiti: <em>Toxocara canisem> (46,4%, <em>Taenia> sp. (17%, <em>Uncinaria stenocephalaem> (11,8%, <em>Mesocestoides lineatusem> (11,1%, <em>Ancylostoma caninumem> (3,9%, <em>Taenia hydatigenaem> (3,3%, <em>Trichuris vulpisem> (3,3%, <em>Dipylidium caninumem> (2,6%, <em>Taenia crassicepsem> (2%. Tutte le volpi esaminate sono risultate negative per <em>Trichinella> sp. È stata effettuata l'analisi statistica dei dati per evidenziare eventuali differenze della fauna parassitaria in relazione al sesso e all'età delle volpi. Sulla base dei dati ottenuti viene discussa l'importanza che la Volpe può assumere come serbatoio di zoonosi elmintiche. I risultati acquisiti sono inoltre comparati con quelli ottenuti in analoghe ricerche condotte in Italia.

  1. Descripción osteológica del rorcual común (Balaenoptera physalus, Linnaeus, 1758 del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Barcelona

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    Carrillo, M.

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    Full Text Available Description of the skeleton of the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus, Linnaeus, 1758 at the Natural History Museum of Barcelona We describe the osteology of the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus, L., registration code MZB 83-308 at the Natural History Museum of Barcelona. The specimen was stranded and died on a beach in Llançà (Girona, Spain in 1862. The skeleton weighed 1,161.59 kg and measured 14. 6 m, although the live animal would have been longer because the invertebral tissue was not included in the length originally stated. The newly reconstructed skeleton includes the invertebral discs and is 17.5 m long. The skull weighs 484 kg and the condilobasal length is 431 cm ( 24. 84% of the total length, corresponding to the mean length of specimens in the Mediterranean. The vertebral column has 58 vertebra structured following the formula: C7 T14 L14 Cd23. It is 10.29 m long and weighs 470.95 kg. All the cervical vertebra are free and show dorsoventral compression, differing from the thoracic, lumbar and first caudal vertebra that are relatively uniform, and rounded. From Cd14 se onwards, the vertebra vary in shape and the relationship between width and height is greater than 1, indicating lateral compression. The lack of suture lines in the epiphysis of the ulna and radius indicates the specimen is an adult that has reached ossification maturation.

  2. II Jornada de Cultura Jurídica

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    Manuel Vial Dumas

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    El passat 18 de març de 2016 es va celebrar a la seu institucional de la UOC (avinguda del Tibidabo, núm. 39-43 de Barcelona la II Jornada de Cultura Jurídica, organitzada pels Estudis de Dret i Ciència Política de la UOC i la Càtedra de Cultura Jurídica de la Universitat de Girona (UdG.<em>>

  3. <em>In Vivoem> Histamine Optical Nanosensors

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    Heather A. Clark

    2012-08-01

    Full Text Available In this communication we discuss the development of ionophore based nanosensors for the detection and monitoring of histamine levels <em>in vivoem>. This approach is based on the use of an amine-reactive, broad spectrum ionophore which is capable of recognizing and binding to histamine. We pair this ionophore with our already established nanosensor platform, and demonstrate <em>in vitroem> and <em>in vivoem> monitoring of histamine levels. This approach enables capturing rapid kinetics of histamine after injection, which are more difficult to measure with standard approaches such as blood sampling, especially on small research models. The coupling together of <em>in vivoem> nanosensors with ionophores such as nonactin provide a way to generate nanosensors for novel targets without the difficult process of designing and synthesizing novel ionophores.

  4. Field evidence of social influence in the expression of political preferences: the case of secessionists flags in Barcelona.

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    Parravano, Antonio; Noguera, José A; Hermida, Paula; Tena-Sánchez, Jordi

    2015-01-01

    Models of social influence have explored the dynamics of social contagion, imitation, and diffusion of different types of traits, opinions, and conducts. However, few behavioral data indicating social influence dynamics have been obtained from direct observation in "natural" social contexts. The present research provides that kind of evidence in the case of the public expression of political preferences in the city of Barcelona, where thousands of citizens supporting the secession of Catalonia from Spain have placed a Catalan flag in their balconies and windows. Here we present two different studies. 1) During July 2013 we registered the number of flags in 26% of the electoral districts in the city of Barcelona. We find that there is a large dispersion in the density of flags in districts with similar density of pro-independence voters. However, by comparing the moving average to the global mean we find that the density of flags tends to be fostered in electoral districts where there is a clear majority of pro-independence vote, while it is inhibited in the opposite cases. We also show that the distribution of flags in the observed districts deviates significantly from that of an equivalent random distribution. 2) During 17 days around Catalonia's 2013 national holiday we observed the position at balcony resolution of the flags displayed in the facades of a sub-sample of 82 blocks. We compare the 'clustering index' of flags on the facades observed each day to thousands of equivalent random distributions. Again we provide evidence that successive hangings of flags are not independent events but that a local influence mechanism is favoring their clustering. We also find that except for the national holiday day the density of flags tends to be fostered in facades located in electoral districts where there is a clear majority of pro-independence vote.

  5. Variabilità morfologica ed ecologica in <em>Neomys fodiensem> e <em>Neomys anomalusem> nell'Appennino settentrionale

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    Dino Scaravelli

    2003-10-01

    Full Text Available I due <em>Neomys> italiani sono ancora da chiarire dal punto di vista della loro caratterizzazione morfologica e ecologica. Il lavoro prende in considerazione un campione di entrambe le specie proveniente da habitat forestali dell?Appennino settentrionale per i quali sono stati identificati i principali parametri ambientali. Vengono quindi descritte la variabilità dei tratti morfologici delle due specie in aree localizzate nel Parco Nazionale Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna nell?Appennino tosco-romagnolo. Risultano di sicuro effetto discriminatorio la maschera facciale, il rapporto piede posteriore/coda e i caratteri cranici. Sulla base dei criteri identificativi si sono realizzate rilevazioni di misure corporee per le due specie e una comparazione degli habitat utilizzati. <em>N. fodiensem> appare unica specie nelle faggete-abetine e dominante nei castagneti, mentre nell?Ontaneta e nelle zone aperte e termofile si registra la sola presenza di <em>N. anomalusem>. Mancano entrambi nei prati cespugliati, nella pecceta e nella cerreta. I gradienti presenti sono quindi illustrati. Non appare una differenza altitudinale nel campione esaminato, posto in stazioni tra i 400 e i 1300 m, ma per entrambe vi sono maggiori riscontri nella fascia tra 700 e 850 m. Nell?analisi multivariata rispetto alle altre specie e alle variabili ambientali si riscontra sempre una discreta correlazione con la presenza di acqua di una certa ampiezza, che comunque è significativa solo per <em>N. fodiensem>, mentre risulta di interesse la positiva correlazione di <em>N. anomalusem> con <em>Apodemus sylvaticusem>.

  6. Evaluation of an intervention to improve the management of allergens in school food services in the city of Barcelona.

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    Fontcuberta-Famadas, M; Serral, G; López, M J; Balfagón, P; García-Cid, E; Caballé-Gavaldà, L

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    An intervention to promote the development of an allergen control plan (ACP) and preventive measures for the management of allergens in school food services was implemented in all schools of Barcelona city over a three-year period (2013-2015) by the public health services. The present study aimed to assess changes regarding the management of food allergens in school food services in Barcelona after an intervention conducted by the public health services of the city. School meal operators of a random sample of 117 schools were assessed before and after the intervention using a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire collected general information on the students and their demand for special menus, and included 17 closed questions regarding the implementation of specific preventive measures for the management of allergens. Based on these 17 questions, a food safety score was calculated for each school. The improvement in these scores was evaluated. The results showed positive increments in the percentage of implementation of 12 of the 17 preventive measures assessed. The percentage of school food services with an implemented ACP increased by 49%. Schools with external and internal food supplies increased their scores by 16.5% and 19.6%, respectively. The greatest improvements were observed in smaller food services and in schools located in districts with low gross household incomes. The intervention was effective in improving school food services' management of allergens and in reducing the differences found among food services in the pre-intervention survey. We must also focus efforts on reducing socio-economic inequalities linked to the management of allergens. Copyright © 2018 SEICAP. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

  7. La difusión de la teoría evolucionista de Lamarck en la revista La Abeja (1862-1870) de Barcelona

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    Camós Cabeceran, Agustí

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    Between 1862 and 1864 Lamarck's works were diffused in Spain through a magazine called La Abeja which was edited by Antoni Bergnes de las Casas, and published in Barcelona. This may reveal a more important influence of Lamarck's theory on the introduction of evolutionary theories in Spain. La Abeja includes the translation of the Histoire naturelle des végétaux where Lamarck incorporated an early explanation of his theory of evolution; ...

  8. Echolocation calls and morphology in the Mehelyi’s (<em>Rhinolophus mehelyiem> and mediterranean (<em>R. euryaleem> horseshoe bats: implications for resource partitioning

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    Full Text Available Abstract <em>Rhinolophus euryaleem> and <em>R. mehelyiem> are morphologically very similar species and their distributions overlap extensively in the Mediterranean basin. We modelled their foraging behaviour using echolocation calls and wing morphology and, assuming niche segregation occurs between the two species, we explored how it is shaped by these factors. Resting frequency of echolocation calls was recorded and weight, forearm length, wing loading, aspect ratio and wing tip shape index were measured. <em>R. mehelyiem> showed a significantly higher resting frequency than <em>R. euryaleem>, but differences are deemed insufficient for dietary niche segregation. Weight and forearm length were significantly larger in <em>R. mehelyiem>. The higher values of aspect ratio and wing loading and a lower value of wing tip shape index in <em>R. melehyiem> restrict its flight manoeuvrability and agility. Therefore, the flight ability of <em>R. mehelyiem> may decrease as habitat complexity increases. Thus, the principal mechanism for resource partitioning seems to be based on differing habitat use arising from differences in wing morphology. Riassunto Ecolocalizzazione e morfologia nei rinolofi di Mehely (<em>Rhinolophus mehelyiem> e euriale (<em>R. euryaleem>: implicazioni nella segregazione delle risorse trofiche. <em>Rhinolophus euryaleem> e <em>R. mehelyiem> sono specie morfologicamente molto simili, la cui distribuzione risulta largamente coincidente in area mediterranea. Il comportamento di foraggiamento delle due specie è stato analizzato in funzione delle caratteristiche dei segnali di ecolocalizzazione e della morfologia alare, ed è stata valutata l’incidenza di questi fattori nell’ipotesi di una segregazione delle nicchie. È stata rilevata la frequenza a riposo dei segnali ultrasonori, così come il peso, la lunghezza dell’avambraccio, il carico alare, e due

  9. Desenvolvimento e validação de indicadores de boas práticas de segurança do paciente: Projeto ISEP-Brasil

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    Zenewton André da Silva Gama

    Full Text Available Resumo: Um monitoramento eficaz da segurança do paciente precisa focar a implantação de práticas baseadas em evidências que evitem danos desnecessários ligados à assistência à saúde. O objetivo do Projeto ISEP-Brasil foi desenvolver e validar indicadores de boas práticas de segurança do paciente para o contexto brasileiro. Tomou por base a tradução e adaptação dos indicadores validados no Projeto ISEP-Espanha, além do documento Safe Practices for Better Healthcare do National Quality Forum dos Estados Unidos, que possui 34 recomendações de boas práticas. Realizou-se validação por um painel de 25 especialistas e análise da confiabilidade e viabilidade em um estudo-piloto realizado em três hospitais com diferentes tipos de gestão (estadual, federal e privada. Aprovaram-se 75 indicadores de boas práticas (39 de estrutura; 36 de processo para 31 das 34 recomendações. Os indicadores foram considerados válidos, confiáveis e úteis para o monitoramento da segurança do paciente em hospitais brasileiros.

  10. Phytochemical Composition, Antioxidant and Xanthine Oxidase Inhibitory Activities of <em>Amaranthus cruentusem> L. and <em>Amaranthus hybridusem> L. Extracts

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    Full Text Available This paper describes a preliminary assessment of the nutraceutical value of <em>Amaranthus cruentus (A. cruentusem> and <em>Amaranthus hybridus (A. hybridusem>, two food plant species found in Burkina Faso. Hydroacetonic (HAE, methanolic (ME, and aqueous extracts (AE from the aerial parts were screened for <em>in vitroem> antioxidant and xanthine oxidase inhibitory activities. Phytochemical analyses revealed the presence of polyphenols, tannins, flavonoids, steroids, terpenoids, saponins and betalains. Hydroacetonic extracts have shown the most diversity for secondary metabolites. The TLC analyses of flavonoids from HAE extracts showed the presence of rutin and other unidentified compounds. The phenolic compound contents of the HAE, ME and AE extracts were determined using the Folin–Ciocalteu method and ranged from 7.55 to 10.18 mg Gallic acid equivalent GAE/100 mg. Tannins, flavonoids, and flavonols ranged from 2.83 to 10.17 mg tannic acid equivalent (TAE/100 mg, 0.37 to 7.06 mg quercetin equivalent (QE /100 mg, and 0.09 to 1.31 mg QE/100 mg, respectively. The betacyanin contents were 40.42 and 6.35 mg Amaranthin Equivalent/100 g aerial parts (dry weight in <em>A. cruentusem> and <em>A. hybridusem>, respectively. Free-radical scavenging activity expressed as IC50 (DPPH method and iron reducing power (FRAP method ranged from 56 to 423 µg/mL and from 2.26 to 2.56 mmol AAE/g, respectively. Xanthine oxidase inhibitory activities of extracts of <em>A. cruentus em>and <em>A. hybridusem> were 3.18% and 38.22%, respectively.<em> em>The> A. hybridusem> extract showed the best antioxidant and xanthine oxidase inhibition activities. The results indicated that the phytochemical contents of the two species justify their traditional uses as nutraceutical food plants.

  11. Seawater intrusion barrier and artificial recharge in the deltaic Llobregat aquifer (Barcelona, Spain); La barrera hidraulica contra la intrusion marina y la recarga artificial en el acuifero del Llobregat (Barcelona, Espana)

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    Ortuno Gobern, F.; Ninerola Pla, J. M.; Armenter Ferrando, J. L.; Molinero Huguet, J.

    2009-07-01

    The main aquifer of the Llobregat Delta (Barcelona, Spain) is affected by seawater intrusion processes since 1970. The Catalan Water Agency is currently promoting several actions of enhanced aquifer recharge, including the construction of a positive hydraulic barrier in order to stop the advance of the seawater intrusion. Such a positive hydraulic barrier works by injecting reclaimed water in 14 wells. This is the first time that a project of this type is performed in Spain, and it is also pioneer in Europe. The positive hydraulic barrier produces the rise of the groundwater head near the coast and avoids seawater penetration inland. The injected reclaimed water comes from the WWTP of the Baix Llobregat after passing through several treatments (ultrafiltration, osmosis and disinfection). The pilot phase of the project has been working during the last 2 years, showing highly positive results. Substantial improvement of the groundwater quality has been observed in wells surrounding the injection points and no clogging has been appeared. The second phase of the project is currently under construction. (Author) 13 refs.

  12. Deu anys de l'Alternativa, Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona: l'estètica de la resistència

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    2004-01-01

    La desena edició de l'Alternativa, Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, ha consolidat el festival cinematogràfic com el més important dels celebrats a la ciutat. A més, constitueix una fita ineludible en el marc català. L'article assenyala la posició singular que ocupa com a oferta cultural, ressegueix la seva història i posa de relleu les línies més destacades, entre les quals destaca l'opció per un cinema al marge dels discursos oficials i la seva vocació d'investigació en ...

  13. Adaptación de la ciudad de Barcelona para la implementación de vehículos autónomos

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    Tiana Gómez, Carlos

    2017-01-01

    En el presente trabajo se estudia el impacto que tendría en diversos ámbitos – económico, social, medioambiental – la implantación del vehículo autónomo en la ciudad de Barcelona. Se inicia hablando del nivel de desarrollo actual del vehículo autónomo, qué tecnologías son necesarias para su correcto funcionamiento, a qué nivel se sitúan los diversos fabricantes y cuáles son los aspectos a mejorar en el futuro inmediato. Posteriormente, se procede a un análisis de los problemas derivados...

  14. Agroecología escolar en comunidades urbanas mediterráneas. El caso de Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona)

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    Llerena del Castillo, Germán

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    Se presenta la agroecología escolar como práctica educativa, que tiene su referente social en la agroecología, a través del trabajo realizado durante seis años en el municipio de Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona). Se trata de una experiencia escolar en red que involucra centros escolares, administración, universidad y el sector de educadores/as agroambientales del municipio. Se presenta la práctica educativa a partir del huerto escolar ecológico y sus raíces agroecológicas. Finalmente, se en...

  15. Dermatoses em renais cronicos em terapia dialitica

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    Full Text Available Objetivo: As desordens cutâneas e das mucosas são comuns em pacientes em hemodiálise a longo prazo. A diálise prolonga a expectativa de vida, dando tempo para a manifestação destas anormalidades. Os objetivos deste estudo foram avaliar a prevalência de problemas dermatológicos em pacientes com doença renal crônica (DRC em hemodiálise. Métodos: Cento e quarenta e cinco pacientes com doença renal crônica em hemodiálise foram estudados. Todos os pacientes foram completamente analisados para as alterações cutâneas, de cabelos, mucosas e unhas por um único examinador e foram coletados dados de exames laboratoriais. Os dados foram armazenados em um banco de dados do Microsolft Excel e analisados por estatística descritiva. As variáveis contínuas foram comparadas pelo teste t de Student e as variáveis categóricas utilizando o teste do qui-quadrado ou o teste Exato de Fischer, conforme adequado. Resultados: O estudo incluiu 145 pacientes, com idade média de 53,6 ± 14,7 anos, predominantemente do sexo masculino (64,1% e caucasianos (90,0%. O tempo médio de diálise foi de 43,3 ± 42,3 meses. As principais doenças subjacentes foram: hipertensão arterial em 33,8%, diabetes mellitus em 29,6% e glomerulonefrite crônica em 13,1%. As principais manifestações dermatológicas observadas foram: xerose em 109 (75,2%, equimose em 87 (60,0%, prurido em 78 (53,8% e lentigo em 33 (22,8% pacientes. Conclusão: O nosso estudo mostrou a presença de mais do que uma dermatose por paciente. As alterações cutâneas são frequentes em pacientes em diálise. Mais estudos são necessários para melhor caracterização e manejo destas dermatoses.

  16. Cytotoxicity and Glycan-Binding Properties of an 18 kDa Lectin Isolated from the Marine Sponge <em>Halichondria em>okadai>

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    Full Text Available A divalent cation-independent lectin—HOL-18, with cytotoxic activity against leukemia cells, was purified from a demosponge, <em>Halichondria okadaiem>. HOL-18 is a 72 kDa tetrameric lectin that consists of four non-covalently bonded 18 kDa subunits. Hemagglutination activity of the lectin was strongly inhibited by chitotriose (GlcNAcβ1-4GlcNAcβ1-4GlcNAc, fetuin and mucins from porcine stomach and bovine submaxillary gland. Lectin activity was stable at pH 4–12 and temperatures lower than 60 °C. Frontal affinity chromatography with 16 types of pyridylaminated oligosaccharides indicated that the lectin had an affinity for <em>N>-linked complex-type and sphingolipid-type oligosaccharides with <em>N>-acetylated hexosamines and neuramic acid at the non-reducing termini. The lectin killed Jurkat leukemia T cells and K562 erythroleukemia cells in a dose- and carbohydrate-dependent manner.

  17. Assessment of female prevalence of overactive bladder (OAB) in Barcelona using a self-administered screening questionnaire: the Cuestionario de Autoevaluación del Control de la Vejiga (CACV).

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    Lugo Salcedo, Félix; Sánchez Borrego, Rafael

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    Overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome is common urological condition, usually underdiagnosed and difficult to identify. The screening of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) through patient self-administered questionnaires can be useful not only for timely identification of these patients but to implement early interventions for symptoms and their implication in a patients' quality of life (QOL). Our objective was to assess the prevalence of OAB symptoms in patients attending general gynecology units in Barcelona, Spain, through a self-administered screening questionnaire. A cross-sectional, multicenter, observational, epidemiological study was carried out at general gynecology units of ten primary health centers in Barcelona, Spain. The study was conducted during a patient's single visit through self-administered forms. Patients recorded sociodemographic data, medical history and comorbidities, and scored the presence and bother related to specific urological symptoms using the Cuestionario de Autoevaluación del Control de la Vejiga (CACV), the validated Spanish version of the Bladder Control Self-Assessment Questionnaire (B-SAQ). A score ≥6 on the symptoms scale of the CACV was taken as an indicator of suspected OAB. One thousand and four women aged between 18 and 82 participated in the study. The overall prevalence of OAB was 11.8 %. A patient being >50 years was significantly associated with suspected OAB in comparison with the younger group [odds ratio (OR) 3.1 (2.1-4.7); p bladder showed significant association with factors other than age, menopause, and previous urogynecological history, such as high body mass index (BMI) and parity. The estimated prevalence of suspected OAB in patients attending general gynecological services in Barcelona is 11.8 %. Overweight or obese patients and those with three or more children were found to be at elevated risk for developing OAB.

  18. Over-Expression of CYP2E1 mRNA and Protein: Implications of Xenobiotic Induced Damage in Patients with <em>De Novoem> Acute Myeloid Leukemia with inv(16(p13.1q22; <em>CBFβ>-MYH11em>

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    Full Text Available Environmental exposure to benzene occurs through cigarette smoke, unleaded gasoline and certain types of plastic. Benzene is converted to hematotoxic metabolites by the hepatic phase-I enzyme CYP2E1, and these metabolites are detoxified by the phase-II enzyme NQO1. The genes encoding these enzymes are highly polymorphic and studies of these polymorphisms have shown different pathogenic and prognostic features in various hematological malignancies. The potential role of different cytochrome p450 metabolizing enzymes in the pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML in an area of active interest. In this study, we demonstrate aberrant CYP2E1 mRNA over-expression by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction in 11 cases of <em>de novoem> AML with inv(16; CBFβ-MYH11. CYP2E1 mRNA levels correlated with <em>CBFβ>-MYH11 em>transcript levels and with bone marrow blast counts in all cases. CYP2E1 over-expression correlated positively with NQO1 mRNA levels (R2 = 0.934, n = 7. By immunohistochemistry, CYP2E1 protein was more frequently expressed in AML with inv(16 compared with other types of AML (<em>p> < 0.001. We obtained serial bone marrow samples from two patients with AML with inv(16 before and after treatment. CYP2E1 mRNA expression levels decreased in parallel with <em>CBFβ>-MYH11 em>transcript levels and blast counts following chemotherapy. In contrast, CYP1A2 transcript levels did not change in either patient. This is the first study to demonstrate concurrent over-expression of CYP2E1 and NQO1 mRNA in AML with inv(16. These findings also suggest that a balance between CYP2E1 and NQO1 may be important in the pathogenesis of AML with inv(16.

  19. Paremiología y refranes de la Casa de Caritat de Barcelona, desde el punto de vista de la Pragmática

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    This paper gathers a collection of proverbs set as an ornamental motif at the old “Casa de Cartitat” (the Charity House, in Barcelona) and analyzes its contents from a pragmatic point of view. The house was one of the main charitable city organization in the 19th century. The collection consists of nineteen proverbs, written in Catalan and set by means of glazed tiles on the walls of the women's courtyard of the Charity House. To set an example, one of this proverbs says: “Sempre ...

  20. Ergonomics and musculoskeletal pain among postgraduate students and faculty members of the School of Dentistry of the University of Barcelona (Spain). A cross-sectional study

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    Harutunian, Karmen; Gargallo Albiol, Jordi; Barbosa de Figueiredo, Rui Pedro; Gay Escoda, Cosme

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    Objectives: To evaluate the intensity and location of musculoskeletal pain suffered by students and professors from different postgraduate programs of the School of Dentistry of the University of Barcelona (Spain), to identify the variables related to the occurrence of musculoskeletal symptoms and signs, and to establish possible preventive measures for such disorders. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was made among students and faculty members from different postgraduate course...

  1. Etudes sur le Portugal au Temps de l'Humanisme

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    Full Text Available BATAILLON (Marcel. — Etudes sur le Portugal au Temps de l'Humanisme.  Acta Universitatis Conimbrigencis, 1952, 309 pp. (Primeiro Parágrafo do Artigo O Prof. Marcel Bataillon, erudito dos mais inteligentes da França atual, autor de uma obra que é hoje impr:scindível para quem pretenda estudar o humanismo renascentista na Espanha ou em Portugal, diríamos melhor, talvez: para quem pretenda estudar o Humanismo e a Renascença, — acaba de publicar, na coleção Acta Universitatis Conimbrigencis, êste volume no qual reune alguns trabalhos da mais alta importância para o conhecimento de muitos aspectos da vida espiritual portuguêsa do século XVI.

  2. Marketing promocional de los servicios digitales y de los recursos de información de las bibliotecas y unidades del CRAI de la Universidad de Barcelona

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    2007-01-01

    The main focus of the Marketing Group of the The Resource Center for Learning and Research (CRAI) of the University of Barcelona (UB) is to promote the services and resources of our libraries and units and to improve the use of the Digital Library. In this conference poster, the group explains how they work and show some samples of products used in different marketing campaigns.

  3. Impacto del tabaquismo y del consumo excesivo de alcohol en la mortalidad de la población de la ciudad de Barcelona: 1983-1998

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    Jané M.

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    Full Text Available Objetivos: Analizar la mortalidad atribuible al tabaquismo y al consumo excesivo de alcohol, así como su evolución, en la ciudad de Barcelona entre 1983 y 1998. Métodos: Se incluyen todas las defunciones de las personas residentes en Barcelona desde 1983 a 1998. Los datos poblacionales se han obtenido de los Padrones de Habitantes. La mortalidad atribuible al tabaquismo y al consumo de alcohol se obtiene calculando las Fracciones Atribuibles Poblacionales a partir de los riesgos relativos de estudios previos en la población de los EE.UU. Resultados: En 1998 se produjeron 2.205 muertes atribuibles al hábito tabáquico, lo que representó el 13,8% de la mortalidad en la población de 35 años o más, y una reducción del 9,6% respecto a 1983. Durante el período 1983-1998 aumentó, en varones y mujeres, la mortalidad por cáncer de pulmón atribuible al tabaquismo (155,84/100.000 y 9,39/100.000 habitantes en 1998, respectivamente y la enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC (95,82 y 11,29/100.000 habitantes en 1998. La mortalidad por consumo de alcohol en 1998 representó el 4,3% de la mortalidad total, reduciéndose en un 26% desde 1983. La cirrosis hepática siguió siendo la primera causa de muerte atribuible al consumo de alcohol en varones en 1998, aunque su importancia relativa disminuyó (17,1% de la mortalidad atribuible al consumo de alcohol en 1998, 24,3% en 1983. Conclusiones: La mortalidad atribuible al hábito tabáquico y al consumo excesivo de alcohol ha descendido en la ciudad de Barcelona durante el período de estudio. Asimismo, se ha incrementado la importancia relativa de la mortalidad atribuible al tabaquismo para el cáncer de pulmón y la EPOC en ambos sexos, mientras que se ha reducido la proporción de mortalidad atribuible al consumo excesivo de alcohol para las cirrosis hepáticas en el caso de los varones.

  4. FACTORES ASOCIADOS AL SOBREPESO Y LA OBESIDAD EN ESCOLARES DE 8 A 9 AÑOS DE BARCELONA

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    Full Text Available Fundamentos: El sobrepeso y la obesidad infantil han aumentado progresivamente en las últimas décadas, especialmente en países del sur de Europa. El objetivo del estudio fue identificar la prevalencia de sobrepeso, obesidad y sus determinantes en escolares de 8-9 años de Barcelona. Métodos: Estudio transversal descriptivo de una muestra representativa de 3.262 escolares en 2011. Se calculó el Índice de Masa Corporal (IMC siguiendo los criterios establecidos por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (z-scores. Se estudiaron variables sobre conducta alimentaria, actividad física y uso de nuevas tecnologías mediante 2 cuestionarios. Se ajustaron modelos de regresión logística, obteniendo odds ratio ajustadas e intervalos de confianza (95%. Resultados: La prevalencia de sobrepeso fue del 24,0% y de obesidad del 12,7%. La obesidad fue significativamente mayor en niños que en niñas (14,8% vs. 10,8%. No se observaron diferencias estadísticamente significativas según IMC en el cumplimiento de las recomendaciones de práctica de actividad física ni uso de nuevas tecnologías. Los factores asociados a la obesidad en niños fueron asistir a escuela situada en barrios de nivel socioeconómico desfavorable [ORa=1,88 (1,35-2,63], pertenecer a familia inmigrante [ORa=1,57 (1,12- 2,20], no comer en el colegio [ORa=1,76 (1,20-2,59] y hacer alguna comida solo [ORa=1,95 (1,27-3,00]. En niñas fueron pertenecer a familia monoparental [ORa=1,58 (1,06-2,34] y familia inmigrante [ORa=1,53 (1,07-2,18]. Conclusiones: La prevalencia de obesidad infantil en Barcelona es alta. Es más frecuente en niños, siendo los determinantes sociales los factores asociados de mayor relevancia.

  5. Development of spatial density maps based on geoprocessing web services: application to tuberculosis incidence in Barcelona, Spain

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    Background Health professionals and authorities strive to cope with heterogeneous data, services, and statistical models to support decision making on public health. Sophisticated analysis and distributed processing capabilities over geocoded epidemiological data are seen as driving factors to speed up control and decision making in these health risk situations. In this context, recent Web technologies and standards-based web services deployed on geospatial information infrastructures have rapidly become an efficient way to access, share, process, and visualize geocoded health-related information. Methods Data used on this study is based on Tuberculosis (TB) cases registered in Barcelona city during 2009. Residential addresses are geocoded and loaded into a spatial database that acts as a backend database. The web-based application architecture and geoprocessing web services are designed according to the Representational State Transfer (REST) principles. These web processing services produce spatial density maps against the backend database. Results The results are focused on the use of the proposed web-based application to the analysis of TB cases in Barcelona. The application produces spatial density maps to ease the monitoring and decision making process by health professionals. We also include a discussion of how spatial density maps may be useful for health practitioners in such contexts. Conclusions In this paper, we developed web-based client application and a set of geoprocessing web services to support specific health-spatial requirements. Spatial density maps of TB incidence were generated to help health professionals in analysis and decision-making tasks. The combined use of geographic information tools, map viewers, and geoprocessing services leads to interesting possibilities in handling health data in a spatial manner. In particular, the use of spatial density maps has been effective to identify the most affected areas and its spatial impact. This

  6. Development of spatial density maps based on geoprocessing web services: application to tuberculosis incidence in Barcelona, Spain.

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    Dominkovics, Pau; Granell, Carlos; Pérez-Navarro, Antoni; Casals, Martí; Orcau, Angels; Caylà, Joan A

    2011-11-29

    Health professionals and authorities strive to cope with heterogeneous data, services, and statistical models to support decision making on public health. Sophisticated analysis and distributed processing capabilities over geocoded epidemiological data are seen as driving factors to speed up control and decision making in these health risk situations. In this context, recent Web technologies and standards-based web services deployed on geospatial information infrastructures have rapidly become an efficient way to access, share, process, and visualize geocoded health-related information. Data used on this study is based on Tuberculosis (TB) cases registered in Barcelona city during 2009. Residential addresses are geocoded and loaded into a spatial database that acts as a backend database. The web-based application architecture and geoprocessing web services are designed according to the Representational State Transfer (REST) principles. These web processing services produce spatial density maps against the backend database. The results are focused on the use of the proposed web-based application to the analysis of TB cases in Barcelona. The application produces spatial density maps to ease the monitoring and decision making process by health professionals. We also include a discussion of how spatial density maps may be useful for health practitioners in such contexts. In this paper, we developed web-based client application and a set of geoprocessing web services to support specific health-spatial requirements. Spatial density maps of TB incidence were generated to help health professionals in analysis and decision-making tasks. The combined use of geographic information tools, map viewers, and geoprocessing services leads to interesting possibilities in handling health data in a spatial manner. In particular, the use of spatial density maps has been effective to identify the most affected areas and its spatial impact. This study is an attempt to demonstrate how web

  7. Deporte y democratización en un periodo de cambio. Evolución del fenómeno deportivo en Barcelona durante la transición democrática (1975-1982

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    2008-09-01

    Full Text Available El análisis de la evolución del fenómeno deportivo en la ciudad de Barcelona durante la transición democrática (1975-1982 es el objeto de estudio de esta tesis doctoral. El mencionado periodo constituyó un marco de profundas transformaciones jurídicas, sociales y políticas que posibilitaron la definitiva modernización del país y la masiva incorporación del deporte entre los nuevos estilos de vida de los españoles. Desde una perspectiva historiográfica pues, esta investigación se aproxima a la realidad del fenómeno deportivo durante la transición democrática, con la intención de determinar si en paralelo a la democratización del sistema político estatal se produjo un proceso de masificación deportiva en la ciudad de Barcelona. Este estudio presenta una estructura cronológica y temática, ahondando en las actuaciones entorno a las manifestaciones deportivas de las diferentes administraciones –estatal, autonómica, provincial y municipal- y del asociacionismo deportivo y vecinal, durante el periodo 1975-1982. En este sentido, se observa que pese a la reestructuración gubernamental estatal característica de la primera mitad de la transición democrática (1975-1979, siguió siendo el asociacionismo deportivo el principal promotor de la transformación del fenómeno deportivo en la ciudad condal. A partir de las elecciones municipales del 3 de abril de 1979 y hasta las elecciones legislativas del octubre de 1982, el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona pasó a liderar la mencionada transformación a través de la implementación de una diversificada política deportiva que, a su vez, aceleró la evolución del asociacionismo deportivo hacia planteamientos más cercanos al deporte para todos. A su vez, cabe mencionar la intensificación del colaboracionismo existente entre las diferentes administraciones y el asociacionismo deportivo y vecinal como consecuencia de la definición de las políticas deportivas municipal, provincial y auton

  8. DPSIR analysis of land and soil degradation in response to changes in land use Análisis DPSIR de la degradación de suelos y territorio como respuesta a cambios en el uso del territorio Análise DPSIR da degradação do solo e da terra em resposta às mudanças no uso da terra

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    Jaume Porta

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    y la colmatación de embalses como un problema global (España y México; efecto protector contra la degradación cuando el suelo se considera un área sagrada (Togo. Estos análisis permiten aprender del pasado y podría ayudar a desarrollar estrategias para prevenir la degradación de la tierra y el suelo. Este enfoque proporciona una información útil para un análisis sistemático y para llegar a comprender las causas de la degradación de tierras y suelos como respuesta a los cambios en el uso de las tierras.
     

    Neste trabalho, estuda-se cadeia de eventos, desde as forças motrizes até o estado de equilibrio, os impactos e as respostas do sistema, de diversas atividades humanas, pasadas e presentes, relacionadas com o uso e a degradação do solo. O DPSIR utiliza-se para analisar e abordar os problemas da degradação da terra dentro de uma visão compreensiva das interações entre as sociedades humanas e o ambiente. Com esta abordagem, analiza-se o uso da terra e a degradação do solo em várias partes do mundo (México, Espanha e Togo em relação a diferentes tipos de usos da terra: o começo da irrigação nos anos 1860 em zona semiárida com solos calcáreos do nordeste da Espanha; a influência do tipo de uso da terra (land utilization types – LUT na degradação do solo no Mexico; a erosão do solo, assoreamento como problema global (Espanha e Mexico; e a proteção contra a degradação do solo quando este é considerado área sagrada em Togo. Estas análises permitem aprender do pasado e podem ajudar a desenvolver estratégias para previr a degradação do solo e da terra. Esta abordagem provê de olhares úteis para análises sistemáticas que visam entender as causas da degradação do solo como resposta a mudanças no uso da terra.
     

  9. Linné a les aules : el sistema sexual de les plantes a l'escola d'agricultura i botànica de Barcelona

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    Bernat i López, Pasqual

    2008-01-01

    In this article educational activity of the School of Agriculture and Botany of Barcelona during 1815 to 1821 is explained. This work focus on The teaching of the system of classification of plants created by Carl Linné and the role played by Joan Francesc Bahí, first teacher of the School, in the introduction and consolidation of this system in the botanical teaching at that time. In this sense, in this work we study and analyze the didactic tools that Bahí used to teach the linnean theories...

  10. 2000 days of SMOS at the Barcelona Expert Centre: a tribute to the work of Jordi Font

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    Full Text Available Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS is the first satellite mission capable of measuring sea surface salinity and soil moisture from space. Its novel instrument (the L-band radiometer MIRAS has required the development of new algorithms to process SMOS data, a challenging task due to many processing issues and the difficulties inherent in a new technology. In the wake of SMOS, a new community of users has grown, requesting new products and applications, and extending the interest in this novel brand of satellite services. This paper reviews the role played by the Barcelona Expert Centre under the direction of Jordi Font, SMOS co-principal investigator. The main scientific activities and achievements and the future directions are discussed, highlighting the importance of the oceanographic applications of the mission.

  11. Update on fertility preservation from the Barcelona International Society for Fertility Preservation-ESHRE-ASRM 2015 expert meeting

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    Martinez, Francisca; Yding Andersen, Claus

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    STUDY QUESTION: What progress has been made in fertility preservation (FP) over the last decade? SUMMARY ANSWER: FP techniques have been widely adopted over the last decade and therefore the establishment of international registries on their short- and long-term outcomes is strongly recommended...... on the need to provide counselling about currently available FP options to all individuals wishing to preserve their fertility. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION: An international meeting with representatives from expert scientific societies involved in FP was held in Barcelona, Spain, in June 2015. PARTICIPANTS...... treatment, and need an adequate FP approach. Women wishing to postpone maternity and transgender individuals before starting hormone therapy or undergoing surgery to remove/alter their reproductive organs should also be counselled accordingly. Embryo and oocyte cryopreservation are first-line FP methods...

  12. Impact of glucose-lowering agents on the risk of cancer in type 2 diabetic patients. The Barcelona case-control study.

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    Full Text Available BACKGROUND: The aim of the present study is to evaluate the impact of glucose-lowering agents in the risk of cancer in a large type 2 diabetic population. METHODS: A nested case-control study was conducted within a defined cohort (275,164 type 2 diabetic patients attending 16 Primary Health Care Centers of Barcelona. Cases (n = 1,040 comprised those subjects with any cancer diagnosed between 2008 and 2010, registered at the Cancer Registry of Hospital Vall d'Hebron (Barcelona. Three control subjects for each case (n = 3,120 were matched by age, sex, diabetes duration, and geographical area. The treatments analyzed (within 3 years prior to cancer diagnosis were: insulin glargine, insulin detemir, human insulin, fast-acting insulin and analogues, metformin, sulfonylureas, repaglinide, thiazolidinediones, dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors, and alpha glucosidase inhibitors. Conditional logistic regressions were used to calculate the risk of cancer associated with the use of each drug adjusted by age, BMI, dose and duration of treatment, alcohol use, smoking habit, and diabetes duration. RESULTS: No differences were observed between case and control subjects for the proportion, dose or duration of exposure to each treatment. None of the types of insulin and oral agents analyzed showed a significant increase in the risk of cancer. Moreover, no cancer risk was observed when glargine was used alone or in combination with metformin. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that diabetes treatment does not influence the risk of cancer associated with type 2 diabetes. Therefore, an eventual increase of cancer should not be a reason for biasing the selection of any glucose-lowering treatment in type 2 diabetic population.

  13. [Group B streptococcal early-onset neonatal sepsis in the area of Barcelona (2004-2010). Analysis of missed opportunities for prevention].

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    Giménez, Montserrat; Sanfeliu, Isabel; Sierra, Montserrat; Dopico, Eva; Juncosa, Teresa; Andreu, Antonia; Lite, Josep; Guardià, Cèlia; Sánchez, Ferran; Bosch, Jordi

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    To study the evolution of the incidence of early-onset neonatal sepsis (EOS) by Streptococcus agalactiae in the area of Barcelona and to analyze failure of compliance with the prevention protocol. A retrospective review was carried out on EOS cases in 8 Health-Care Centers in the Barcelona area between 2004 and 2010. Forty-nine newborns from 48 mothers were diagnosed with EOS. The incidence was 0.29‰ living newborns (0.18-0.47‰), with no significant differences in the fluctuations along the 7 years. The mortality rate was 8.16%. In 68.5% cases the maternal colonization studies were negative, and in 21% these studies were not performed. No risk factors were detected in 58.3% of pregnant women, and 22.9% of births were premature. In 58% of cases intra-partum antibiotic prophylaxis was not administered because it was not indicated, and in 42% due to failure to follow the protocol (3 strains were resistant to erythromycin). Resistance to clindamycin was 33.3%. The Streptococcus agalactiae serotypes more frequently isolated were iii, v, and ia. No significant changes were detected in the incidence of Streptococcus agalactiae EOS in the 7 years of the study. The increased sensitivity of screening methods with the use of molecular techniques, the performance of susceptibility testing of strains isolated from pregnant women, and the improvement of communication between Health-Care Centers, can contribute to a better implementation of the protocol, as well as to reduce the incidence of EOS. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier España, S.L.U. y Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. All rights reserved.

  14. TERRITORIALIDAD Y REIVINDICACIÓN SOCIAL: REFLEXIONES EN TORNO AL BARRIO DE LA PROSPERITAT/BARCELONA DESDE LA PERSPECTIVA DEL ADULTO MAYOR

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    Erika Tatiana Ayala García

    2015-06-01

    Full Text Available Este articulo reflexiona en torno al significado e impacto que tienen los espacios publicos en la vida cotidiana de los adultos mayores de 65 afios, residentes del barrio de La Prosperitat en Barcelona. Se desarrolla a partir de una metodología cualitati- va, que identifica las diferentes percepciones y opiniones en relaci6n a los espacios físicos y vivenciales. Los participantes lo describen como un barrio con una gran cohesión social y un alto sentido de lugar, que se transmite de generación en gene- ración, alimentado por reivindicaciones vecinales que buscan mejorar la calidad de vida de los habitantes. Como conclusión, se resalta la necesidad de generar investi- gaciones interdisciplinares que estudien la relación del ser humano con su entorno habitado, y generen así propuestas arquitectónicas, urbanas y sociales más acordes con la realidad. AbstractThis paper focuses on the impact and the significance, people older tan 65 years old have in relation with public spaces, in La Prosperitat neighborhood (Barcelona. A qualitative methodology to identify the different perceptions and opinions related to the physical and existing spaces. La Prosperitat neighborhood residents describe it as a big social cohesiveness and a high sense of belonging community, which is transmitted from generation to generation, concerned about how to improve the qua- lity of life of its inhabitants. As a conclusion, it is highlighted the need to generate interdisciplinary researches that aims to study the relation of the human being with his inhabited environment, and generate architectural, urban and social proposals more according to the reality.

  15. Where Sustainable School Meets the ‘Tthird Teacher’: Primary School Case Study From Barcelona, Spain

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    Marta Brkovic

    2015-07-01

    Full Text Available Participatory evaluation of aspiring sustainable schools and their pedagogical potential has recently come into focus. A few authors have made a significant start in examining schools as both environmentally and socially sustainable environments, which might simultaneously represent the ‘third teacher’. However, discussion around this idea is new in Spain. This paper describes a participatory post-occupancy study conducted with teachers and pupils in Fort Pienc School, Barcelona, Spain. Findings reveal the pedagogical potential of the school’s spaces and fabric, characterised as ‘sustainable’, and highlight the aspects that the research participants feel are performing and underperforming. The paper concludes that if we want sustainable schools to be a strategy for renovating the educational process and for leading us towards a better tomorrow globally and locally,  new models for exploring the pedagogical potential of sustainable schools should be developed and the efforts of all relevant parties synchronised; from architects to governments, from pupils to teachers.

  16. Sabates per a na Catherina : Esclaves monàstiques al Monestir de Sant Antoni i Santa Clara de Barcelona (1350-1495)

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    Turull Pibernat, Emi

    2015-01-01

    En el marc de la ciutat de Barcelona, els drets de la dona a la baixa edat mitjana minvaven i havien fet una involució afavorida per una creixent misogínia. Així mateix, la ciutat havia esdevingut un indret rellevant com a mercat d'esclaus i la propietat d'esclaus i esclaves s'estenia de manera natural per tots els estaments de la societat, sense que l'Església la deslegitimés. Veurem què significava ser esclava i comprovarem la seva presència a les institucions monàstiques femenines de Barce...

  17. Thermal Studies of Zn(II, Cd(II and Hg(II Complexes of Some <em>N-Alkyl-N>-Phenyl-Dithiocarbamates

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    Peter A. Ajibade

    2012-07-01

    Full Text Available The thermal decomposition of Zn(II, Cd(II and Hg(II complexes of <em>N-ethyl-N>-phenyl and <em>N-butyl-N>-phenyl dithiocarbamates have been studied using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC. The products of the decomposition, at two different temperatures, were further characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX. The results show that while the zinc and cadmium complexes undergo decomposition to form metal sulphides, and further undergo oxidation forming metal oxides as final products, the mercury complexes gave unstable volatiles as the final product.

  18. PERSPECTIVA SOCIO ECOLÓGICA EN EL ANÁLISIS DE ESPACIOS NATURALES PROTEGIDOS DE LA REGIÓN METROPOLITANA DE BARCELONA

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    Otero Armengol Iago

    2008-07-01

    Full Text Available La perspectiva socioecológica intenta integrar las ciencias naturales con las ciencias sociales para abordar la realidad de forma interdisciplinaria. Bajo este punto de vista, el artículo analiza la historia ambiental del municipio de Matadepera y estudia el patrimonio socioecológico del valle de Olzinelles. A través de los dos casos de estudio, se vincula la perspectiva socioecológica con la mejora de la gestión y la conservación de dos espacios naturales protegidos de la Región Metropolitana de Barcelona: el Parque Natural de Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac y el Parque del Montnegre i el Corredor.

  19. Procesos migratorios y transiciones vitales de un grupo de jóvenes universitarios extranjeros en Barcelona, España

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    Cristóbal Mendoza

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    Full Text Available La literatura sobre “migrantes en el medio” es un tema emergente en el campo de las migraciones internacionales. Estos migrantes, en general, cuentan con niveles de educación, formal medios o altos, y ocupan posiciones intermedias en el mercado laboral debido a su edad o escasa experiencia laboral. El artículo se basa en 21 entrevistas semiestructuradas aplicadas a estudiantes extranjeros de doctorado en universidades de Barcelona, analiza sus motivos para emigrar, así como sus trayectorias laborales y vitales. La investigación explora el proceso complejo de emancipación del hogar familiar con relación a las prácticas y experiencias espaciales cotidianas.

  20. The disarticulated forms of neoliberal urbanism in the XXI century: the case of Barcelona Forum 2004

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    Angelino Mazza

    2012-12-01

    Full Text Available The contradictions within the policies of requalification of the City of Barcelona have become more evident in relation to some of the most recent urban transformations, as in the case of the project for the renewal of the Diagonal-Mar area; urban space where the Forum of Cultures 2004 has been held. The Forum turned into a failure, according to the paradigm of the criticisms, on the cultural and, above all, political (or marketing level; in its urban dimension, it has been the expression of the city that mires to the global insertion: it is a urban planning which is prevalently oriented to the external demand. The regeneration of the Diagonal-Mar has shown a scant consideration of social objectives, with the creation of spaces, where the concept of value of exchange predominates over the value of use. The actor (public and above all private investors, that participated to the redaction of the project of urban renewal of the area, produced a great propagandistic effort, presenting it as an open cultural initiative which can assume also the social criticisms.A lot of social and civil organization did not participate, and their proposals have not been accepted, and so, today, urban and social processes, rebound on the success or failure of the urban planning in an important area of the city. From that, what Borja (2005 defines the “urban malaise of Barcelona” starts, over the years of social and economic growth, the inhabitants of Barcelona fell a certain malaise, which is highlighted by the today’s crisis. The big urban projects do not generate any enthusiasm, citizens feel themselves progressively less owners of the own city, the architecture of the “great singular objects” does not represent the element of identity of the society. By scanning those urban imaginaries from a theoretical-conceptual viewpoint, which is formal and empiric, the question emerges, if the punctual urban planning operation of a sector could create evaluations

  1. Conservazione e gestione della Lepre italica (<em>Lepus corsicanusem>

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    Francesco Riga

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    Full Text Available Il recente riconoscimento dello <em>status> specifico della Lepre italica (<em>Lepus corsicanusem> e l?accertamento dell?areale distributivo rappresentano le azioni più importanti per la conservazione di un <em>taxon endemicoem> che si era creduto estinto. Nella penisola la specie presenta un areale discontinuo, il cui limite settentrionale è dato dal comune di Manciano (GR, sul versante tirrenico e da una linea che dalla provincia de L'Aquila arriva al Gargano. In Sicilia la distribuzione è relativamente continua anche in aree non protette. Dati genetici hanno permesso di confermare la presenza in Corsica. Al contrario, nell?Isola d'Elba, a seguito di estese ricerche, sono stati identificati solo esemplari di <em>L. europaeusem>. Nell?Italia peninsulare <em>L. corsicanusem> è spesso presente in simpatria con popolazioni di <em>L. europaeusem>, mentre in Sicilia la lepre europea non ha originato popolazioni stabili, nonostante l?immissione di molte migliaia di individui. La distribuzione ecologica di <em>L. corsicanusem> ed analisi ambientali specifiche, suggeriscono l?adattamento prevalente agli ambienti a clima mediterraneo, benché essa sia presente anche a quote elevate (> 1.500 m s.l.m.. Dati preliminari di abbondanza relativa hanno evidenziato una situazione diversificata tra la penisola e la Sicilia e tra aree a diverso regime di gestione; un confronto tra le aree protette ha evidenziato rispettivamente valori di 5,54 e 11,73 ind./km². La riduzione quali-quantitativa e la frammentazione dell?<em>habitat> delle lepri è un fenomeno potenzialmente pericoloso per la sopravvivenza delle popolazioni, determinando fenomeni di estinzione locale dovuti alle basse densità di popolazione, inducendo fenomeni di erosione della variabilità genetica e di riduzione della <em>fitness> degli individui. L?introduzione di <em>L. europaeusem> può costituire un importante fattore limitante sia per la possibile competizione

  2. Sustainability Commitment, New Competitors’ Presence, and Hotel Performance: The Hotel Industry in Barcelona

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    Juan Pedro Aznar

    2016-08-01

    Full Text Available The hospitality industry is facing major challenges, among them the new competition from novel forms of supply in the sharing economy. Airbnb, Homeaway, and Niumba, among other websites offering accommodations, are having an important impact in the sector, changing existing conditions and the market for the traditional hospitality industry. In this context, a strategy based in differentiation can help to prevent drops in revenues and profitability. The main objective of this paper is analyse if commitment towards sustainability has a positive impact on financial performance and can be considered a positive strategy in this new environment. The empirical data refer to a sample of hotels in Barcelona, one of the most important tourist cities in Europe. Our results suggest that there is no clear relationship between sustainability and better financial performance; however, sustainability commitment is associated with a minimum size, which can also have positive effects in terms of economies of scale and finally affect profitability. Hotels more committed to environmental issues are located in areas with a lower density of Airbnb apartments, and this geographical distribution can be more positive than a situation of massive tourist concentration in specific areas with negative externalities for neighbours.

  3. Methyl 2-Benzamido-2-(1<em>H>-benzimidazol-1-ylmethoxyacetate

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    Alami Anouar

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available The heterocyclic carboxylic α-aminoester methyl 2-benzamido-2-(1<em>H>-benzimidazol-1-ylmethoxyacetate is obtained by <em>O>-alkylation of methyl α-azido glycinate <em>N>-benzoylated with 1<em>H>-benzimidazol-1-ylmethanol.

  4. The effects of hot nights on mortality in Barcelona, Spain

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    Royé, D.

    2017-12-01

    Heat-related effects on mortality have been widely analyzed using maximum and minimum temperatures as exposure variables. Nevertheless, the main focus is usually on the former with the minimum temperature being limited in use as far as human health effects are concerned. Therefore, new thermal indices were used in this research to describe the duration of night hours with air temperatures higher than the 95% percentile of the minimum temperature (hot night hours) and intensity as the summation of these air temperatures in degrees (hot night degrees). An exposure-response relationship between mortality due to natural, respiratory, and cardiovascular causes and summer night temperatures was assessed using data from the Barcelona region between 2003 and 2013. The non-linear relationship between the exposure and response variables was modeled using a distributed lag non-linear model. The estimated associations for both exposure variables and mortality shows a relationship with high and medium values that persist significantly up to a lag of 1-2 days. In mortality due to natural causes, an increase of 1.1% per 10% (CI95% 0.6-1.5) for hot night hours and 5.8% per each 10° (CI95% 3.5-8.2%) for hot night degrees is observed. The effects of hot night hours reach their maximum with 100% and lead to an increase by 9.2% (CI95% 5.3-13.1%). The hourly description of night heat effects reduced to a single indicator in duration and intensity is a new approach and shows a different perspective and significant heat-related effects on human health.

  5. Influences of natural emission sources (wildfires and Saharan dust) on the urban organic aerosol in Barcelona (Western Mediterranean Basis) during a PM event.

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    van Drooge, Barend L; Lopez, Jordi F; Grimalt, Joan O

    2012-11-01

    The urban air quality in Barcelona in the Western Mediterranean Basin is characterized by overall high particulate matter (PM) concentrations, due to intensive local anthropogenic emissions and specific meteorological conditions. Moreover, on several days, especially in summer, natural PM sources, such as long-range transported Saharan dust from Northern Africa or wildfires on the Iberian Peninsula and around the Mediterranean Basin, may influence the levels and composition of the organic aerosol. In the second half of July 2009, daily collected PM(10) filter samples in an urban background site in Barcelona were analyzed on organic tracer compounds representing several emission sources. During this period, an important PM peak event was observed. Individual organic compound concentrations increased two to five times during this event. Although highest increase was observed for the organic tracer of biomass burning, the contribution to the organic aerosol was estimated to be around 6 %. Organic tracers that could be related to Saharan dust showed no correlation with the PM and OC levels, while this was the case for those related to fossil fuel combustion from traffic emissions. Moreover, a change in the meteorological conditions gave way to an overall increase of the urban background contamination. Long-range atmospheric transport of organic compounds from primary emissions sources (i.e., wildfires and Saharan dust) has a relatively moderate impact on the organic aerosol in an urban area where the local emissions are dominating.

  6. Estudios previos para la restauración de la azotea de la Casa Milá de Barcelona (Cataluña, España

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    Lacuesta Contreras, Raquel

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    Full Text Available The Casa Milá of Barcelona, work of the architect Antoni Gaudí, built between 1906 and 1911, was purchased in by the Caixa de Catalunya which then started a process of restoration of the building. One of the stages of this intervention will consist of restoring the roof with all the architectural sculptural elements it contains (the staircase boxes, chimneys, ventilation towers and perimetral paths. A number of previous studies have been done to this end. They deal with the historical constructive, documentary and artistic aspects of all these elements as well as with an action proposal to be taken into account in the restoration project.

    La Casa Milá de Barcelona, obra del arquitecto Antoni Gaudí construida entre 1906 y 1911, fue adquirida en 1986 por la Caixa de Catalunya que a partir de entonces inició un proceso de restauración del edificio. Una de las fases de la intervención consistirá en restaurar la azotea con todos los elementos arquitectónicos-escultóricos que contiene (cajas de escalera, chimeneas, torres de ventilación y pasos de ronda. A tal fin, se han realizado unos estudios previos que contemplan los aspectos histórico-constructivos, documental y artístico de todos estos elementos, y también una propuesta de actuación a tener en cuenta en el proyecto de restauración.

  7. A revolução portuguesa de 1974-1975 e o seu impacto na transição espanhola para a democracia vista através da imprensa clandestina espanhola

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    Raquel Varela

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available A revolução portuguesa de 1974-1975 teve impacto na vizinha Espanha a nível político e institucional, nomeadamente no movimento sindical, na Igreja Católica e nas Forças Armadas. Nesta comunicação pretendemos estudar esta influência através da análise de três jornais clandestinos: El Socialista, do Partido Socialista Operário Espanhol, Mundo Obrero, do Partido Comunista de Espanha, Combate, da Liga Comunista Revolucionária e La Batalla, do Partido Operário de Unificação Marxista. Dois destes partidos, o PSOE e o PCE, tiveram um papel essencial na negociação que levou aos Pactos de Moncloa, na discussão e aprovação da Constituição de 1978 e na consolidação da Espanha como uma democracia ocidental. Analisaremos como é que a esquerda espanhola ilegalizada compreendeu e reagiu aos acontecimentos que ocorriam em Portugal entre o golpe que destronou o regime de Salazar e Caetano a 25 de Abril de 1974 e o fim da crise revolucionária a 25 de Novembro de 1975.The Portuguese revolution of the years 1974-1975 had an impact in neighbouring Spain at the political and institutional levels, on the Trades Unions, the Catholic Church and the Armed Forces. In this paper we intend to study these influences through the analysis of four clandestine newspapers - El Socialista (PSOE-Socialist Party, Mundo Obrero (PCE-Spanish Communist Party, Combate (LCR-Revolutionary Communist League and La Batalla (POUM-Unified Marxist Workers Party. Two of these political parties, PSOE and PCE, will play an essential role in the talks leading to the Moncloa Pacts, the making and passing of a new Constitutional Act and the consolidation of Spain as a western style democracy. We’ll analyse how the illegalized Spanish left understood and reacted to the events taking place in Portugal between the coup that overthrew the Salazar and Caetano regime on 25 April 1974 and the end of the revolutionary crisis on 25 November 1975.

  8. Development of 101 Gene-based Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Markers in Sea Cucumber, <em>Apostichopus japonicusem>>

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    Wei Lu

    2012-06-01

    Full Text Available Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs are currently the marker of choice in a variety of genetic studies. Using the high resolution melting (HRM genotyping approach, 101 gene-based SNP markers were developed for <em>Apostichopus japonicusem>, a sea cucumber species with economic significance for the aquaculture industry in East Asian countries. HRM analysis revealed that all the loci showed polymorphisms when evaluated using 40 <em>A. japonicusem> individuals collected from a natural population. The minor allele frequency ranged from 0.035 to 0.489. The observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.050 to 0.833 and 0.073 to 0.907, respectively. Thirteen loci were found to depart significantly from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (HWE after Bonferroni corrections. Significant linkage disequilibrium (LD was detected in one pair of markers. These SNP markers are expected to be useful for future quantitative trait loci (QTL analysis, and to facilitate marker-assisted selection (MAS in <em>A. japonicusem>.

  9. Instrumentos de marketing aplicados a la compra de productos ecológicos: Un caso de estudio entre Barcelona, España y La Paz, México

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    "Marketing Mix Applied to Ecological Product Purchasing: a Case Study of Barcelona, Spain and La Paz, Mexico".TEXT:This doctoral thesis is based on theoretical and empirical evidence regarding marketing mix and its effects on ecological purchase decision-making. The methodology was based on the structural equations model (SEM) using endogenous and exogenous variables, which were determined to influence ecological purchase decision-making. In order to contrast the hypothesis, the study was car...

  10. Inventari del Fons SIDBRINT (Memòria Històrica de les Brigades Internacionals) CRAI Biblioteca del Pavelló de la República (Universitat de Barcelona)

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    Fons del Portal sobre les Brigades Internacionals SIDBRINT (Sistema d’Informació Digital sobre les Brigades Internacionals) s’inicià l’any 2010 com a projecte de recerca del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (HAR2010-20983) i actualment és un portal institucional de la Universitat de Barcelona. Es el primer i únic web que tracta de la recuperació de la memòria històrica de les Brigades Internacionals.

  11. [Secondhand smoke exposure at home and leisure time according to the day of the week (working and non-working day) in Barcelona].

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    Martínez-Sánchez, José M; Fu, Marcela; Schiaffino, Anna; Sureda, Xisca; Saltó, Esteve; Moncada, Albert; Ariza, Carles; Nebot, Manel; Pascual, José A; Fernández, Esteve

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    The objective of this study is to describe the differences in the exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) at home and at leisure time according to the day of the week (working and non-working day) which exposure occurs in Barcelona. We carried out a cross-sectional study of a representative sample of adult (>16 years) non-smokers in Barcelona before the Spanish smoking law came into effect (years 2004-2005). We studied the prevalence of exposure to SHS at home and leisure time by means of a questionnaire and a biomarker (salivary cotinine). The questionnaire included questions on exposure to SHS on working days and nonworking days. The prevalence of exposure to SHS at home was 27.4% (6.8% exposed only on working days, 5.7% exposed only on non-working days, and 14.9% exposed on both working and non-working days). The prevalence of exposure to SHS at leisure time was 61.3% (10.7% exposed only on working days, 13.6% exposed only on non-working days, and 37.0% exposed on both working and non-working days). The exposure to SHS only on non-working days at leisure time decreases with age (χ(2) of trend = 183.7; phome on working and non-working days showed higher levels of salivary cotinine concentration, regardless of sex, age group, and educational level. In conclusion, the exposure to SHS occurs mainly during leisure time. Questions on SHS exposure according to working and non-working days allow to characterizing the exposure to SHS, especially when the exposure occurs at leisure time.

  12. Activity-Guided Isolation of Antioxidant Compounds from <em>Rhizophora apiculataem>

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    Hongbin Xiao

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available <em>Rhizophora apiculataem> (<em>R. apiculataem> contains an abundance of biologically active compounds due its special salt-tolerant living surroundings. In this study, the total phenolic content and antioxidant activities of various extract and fractions of stem of <em>R. apiculataem> were investigated. Results indicated that butanol fraction possesses the highest total phenolic content (181.84 mg/g GAE/g dry extract with strongest antioxidant abilities. Following <em>in vitroem> antioxidant activity-guided phytochemical separation procedures, lyoniresinol-3α-<em>O>-β-arabinopyranoside (1, lyoniresinol-3α-<em>O>-β-rhamnoside (2, and afzelechin-3-<em>O>-L-rhamno-pyranoside (3 were separated from the butanol fraction. These compounds showed more noticeable antioxidant activity than a BHT standard in the DPPH, ABTS and hydroxyl radical scavenging assays. HPLC analysis results showed that among different plant parts, the highest content of 13 was located in the bark (0.068%, 0.066% and 0.011%, respectively. The results imply that the <em>R. apiculataem> might be a potential source of natural antioxidants and 13 are antioxidant ingredients in <em>R. apiculataem>.

  13. Synthesis and Spectroscopic Analysis of Novel 1<em>H-Benzo[d>]imidazoles Phenyl Sulfonylpiperazines

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    Amjad M. Qandil

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    Full Text Available A group of benzimidazole analogs of sildenafil, 3-benzimidazolyl-4-methoxy-phenylsulfonylpiperazines 2–4 and 3-benzimidazolyl-4-methoxy-<em>N,N>-dimethyl- benzenesulfonamide (5, were efficiently synthesized. Compounds 2–5 were characterized by NMR and MS and contrary to the reported mass spectra of sildenafil, the spectra of the piperazine-containing compounds 2–4 showed a novel fragmentation pattern leading to an <em>m/z> = 316. A mechanism for the formation of this fragment was proposed.

  14. Vertical and horizontal variability of PM10 source contributions in Barcelona during SAPUSS

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    Brines, Mariola; Dall'Osto, Manuel; Amato, Fulvio; Cruz Minguillón, María; Karanasiou, Angeliki; Alastuey, Andrés; Querol, Xavier

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    During the SAPUSS campaign (Solving Aerosol Problems by Using Synergistic Strategies) PM10 samples at 12-hour resolution were simultaneously collected at four monitoring sites located in the urban agglomerate of Barcelona (Spain). A total of 221 samples were collected from 20 September to 20 October 2010. The Road Site (RS) site and the Urban Background (UB) site were located at street level, whereas the Torre Mapfre (TM) and the Torre Collserola (TC) sites were located at 150 m a.s.l. by the sea side within the urban area and at 415 m a.s.l. 8 km inland, respectively. For the first time, we are able to report simultaneous PM10 aerosol measurements, allowing us to study aerosol gradients at both horizontal and vertical levels. The complete chemical composition of PM10 was determined on the 221 samples, and factor analysis (positive matrix factorisation, PMF) was applied. This resulted in eight factors which were attributed to eight main aerosol sources affecting PM10 concentrations in the studied urban environment: (1) vehicle exhaust and wear (2-9 µg m-3, 10-27 % of PM10 mass on average), (2) road dust (2-4 µg m-3, 8-12 %), (3) mineral dust (5 µg m-3, 13-26 %), (4) aged marine (3-5 µg m-3, 13-20 %), (5) heavy oil (0.4-0.6 µg m-3, 2 %), (6) industrial (1 µg m-3, 3-5 %), (7) sulfate (3-4 µg m-3, 11-17 %) and (8) nitrate (4-6 µg m-3, 17-21 %). Three aerosol sources were found to be enhanced at the ground levels (confined within the urban ground levels of the city) relative to the upper levels: (1) vehicle exhaust and wear (2.8 higher), (2) road dust (1.8 higher) and (3) local urban industries/crafts workshops (1.6 higher). Surprisingly, the other aerosol sources were relatively homogeneous at both horizontal and vertical levels. However, air mass origin and meteorological parameters also played a key role in influencing the variability of the factor concentrations. The mineral dust and aged marine factors were found to be a mixture of natural and

  15. Osservazioni in cattività sul ciclo stagionale del peso corporeo e sull'efficienza digestiva di <em>Pipistrellus kuhliiem> e <em>Hypsugo saviiem> (Chiroptera: Verspertilionidae

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    Gianna Dondini

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    Full Text Available Abstract Captivity observation on body weight cycle and digestive efficiency in <em>Pipistrellus kuhliiem> and <em>Hypsugo saviiem> (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae Many bat species of cold-temperate climate are subject to seasonal variation of temperature and food availability. Fat reserve during summer-autumn is therefore a physiological adaptation to spend the winter months by hibernating or to sustain migration. During a research on bats in urban areas, two juveniles of Kuhl's bat (<em>Pipistrellus kuhliiem>, 2 females and two juveniles of Savi's bat (<em>Hypsugo saviiem>, 1 male and 1 female were collected in 1997 in the urban area of Florence (central Italy. Bats were kept in a cage of 50x40x30 cm with a temperature between 17° and 22° C. Every day they were weighted with an electronic balance before eating mealworms (<em>Tenebrio molitorem>. Digestive efficiency, calculated on dry material, was about 90% for both species. In about six months <em>P. kuhliiem> and <em>H. saviiem> increased on the average of 450% and 280% in weight respectively. Deposition of fat reserve seemed to be faster in <em>P. kuhliiem> than in <em>H. saviiem>. Both species showed a circannual cycle in the variation of weight. Riassunto Molte specie di pipistrelli dei climi temperato-freddi sono soggette a marcate variazioni stagionali di temperatura e disponibilità di cibo. L'accumulo di grasso in tarda estate-autunno è quindi un adattamento fisiologico per trascorrere in ibernazione i mesi invernali o per intraprendere la migrazione. Nell'ambito di una ricerca pluriennale sui pipistrelli in ambienti urbani, 4 esemplari giovani, di cui 2 di Pipistrello albolimbato (<em>Pipistrellus kuhliiem>, 2 femmine e due di Pipistrello di Savi (<em>Hypsugo saviiem>, 1 maschio e 1 femmina, sono stati raccolti nella pianura di Firenze durante l'estate del 1997 e mantenuti in un contenitore di 50x40x30 cm ad

  16. Inventari faunístic dels mol·luscs continentals de la serra de Collserola (Barcelona, NE de la península ibèrica: resultat d'una revisió bibliogràfica

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    Bros, V.

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available Abstract Faunistic inventary of continental molluscs from the Collserola mountains (Barcelona, NE Iberian peninsula: results from a bibliographic review.- Following the bibliographic review of articles published between 1868 and 2004 a preliminary inventary of 99 species of the malacologic fauna on the Collserola mountains was compiled. The geographic area studied is one of the natural Iberian spaces with the most bibliographic references for land and fresh water molluscs. However, much remains to be resolved concerning some of the taxa. In particular, recent locations of several species have to be verified in the Collserola Park. These include several catalogued species of great interest, such as Xerocrassa betulonensis (Bofill, 1879, Zonitoides jaccetanicus (Bourguignat, 1870 and Montserratina martorelli (Bourguignat, 1870. This bibliographic review shows the significant contribution of the malacofauna to the biodiversity of the Collserola mountains and also demonstrates its value as a useful tool for their management. Key words: Inventary, Continental mollluscs, Gasteropodes, Bivalves, Biodiversity, Collserola Park, Barcelona. Resum Inventari faunístic dels mol·luscs continentals de la serra de Collserola (Barcelona, NE de la península ibèrica: resultat d'una revisió bibliogràfica.- Mitjançant una revisió bibliogràfica de publicacions editades des de 1868 fins a 2004, s'ha elaborat un inventari preliminar de la fauna malacològica de la serra de Collserola, amb 99 espècies. L'àrea geogràfica estu­diada és un dels espais naturals ibèrics amb més referències bibliogràfiques de mol·luscs terrestres i d'aigua dolça. Tanmateix, resten per resoldre moltes llacunes sobre alguns dels tàxons. En concret, manquen localitzacions recents de diverses espècies per verificar que actualment són presents dins l'àmbit del parc de Collserola. Entre les espècies catalogades destaquen alguns elements endèmics de gran interès com

  17. Adoção da Web 2.0 em bibliotecas de universidades públicas espanholas: perspectivas de interação do bibliotecário com as redes sociais - relato de pesquisa

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    Vieira, David Vernon; Baptista, Sofia Galvão; Cuevas Cerveró, Aurora

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    O surgimento da Web Social proporcionou um espaço virtual de participação dos usuários de bibliotecas. Assim, casos de adoção de redes sociais têm sido observados nas bibliotecas universitárias espanholas desde 2005, quando se publicaram os primeiros artigos científicos para acompanhar este movimento. Considerando o âmbito das bibliotecas de universidades públicas na Espanha, foi realizada uma pesquisa exploratória para conhecer a situação real do modelo de presença dessas bibliotecas nas red...

  18. Comparação das Práticas Ambientais nos Hotéis da Galiza e do Norte de Portugal

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    María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández

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    Full Text Available Na presente pesquisa pretendemos estudar a articulação da Teoria Institucional e as práticas ambientais nos hotéis de três, quatro e cinco estrelas, localizados na Galiza (Espanha e no Norte de Portugal. Para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa, pretendemos responder às seguintes perguntas: existe uma configuração institucionalizada em hotéis de três, quatro e cinco estrelas situados na Galiza e Norte de Portugal, que influencia o desenvolvimento de práticas ambientais? E quais dos mecanismos propostos pela Teoria Institucional exerce uma maior pressão sobre o desempenho ambiental na nossa unidade em estudo? Para esse efeito propomos quatro hipóteses e acreditamos que a Teoria Institucional é uma abordagem válida que tenta explicar o comportamento das organizações. Como principal resultado desta investigação sobressai que a nossa unidade de estudo está incorporada num ambiente institucional claramente marcado por pressões coercitivas e normativas.

  19. Project-Based Learning in the Masters degree in Nuclear Engineering at BarcelonaTECH. Experience gained in the area of Management of Nuclear Power Plants

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    Reventos, F.; Vives, E.; Brunet, A.; Sabate, R.; Calvino, F.; Batet, L.

    2014-01-01

    From its first edition, that took place in 2011-2012, the Masters degree in Nuclear Engineering from BarcelonaTECH has been using techniques of Project-Based Learning to fulfill the purpose of training nuclear engineers with a profile suitable for positions in the industry. The Master is sponsored by ENDESA and relies on the collaboration with institutions and companies. The Master is embedded in EMINE, the European Master in Innovation in Nuclear Energy, supported by KIC-InnoEnergy and the European Institute of Technology. (Author)

  20. Project-Based Learning in the Masters degree in Nuclear Engineering at BarcelonaTECH. Experience gained in the area of Management of Nuclear Power Plants

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    Reventos, F.; Vives, E.; Brunet, A.; Sabate, R.; Calvino, F.; Batet, L.

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    From its first edition, that took place in 2011-2012, the Masters degree in Nuclear Engineering from BarcelonaTECH has been using techniques of Project-Based Learning to fulfill the purpose of training nuclear engineers with a profile suitable for positions in the industry. The Master is sponsored by ENDESA and relies on the collaboration with institutions and companies. The Master is embedded in EMINE, the European Master in Innovation in Nuclear Energy, supported by KIC-InnoEnergy and the European Institute of Technology. (Author)

  1. Alberto Bonet and his study on the moral conscience of the child (1927: A propos of the first works on moral education at the University of Barcelona

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    Monserrat PAYÁ SÁNCHEZ

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    Full Text Available In this work the authors present a historical analysis of the Catalan philosophical tradition (Ramón Martí de Eixalá, Francisco J. Llorens Barba, Tomás Carreras Artau et al. characterised by a philosophy of the conscience and its undeniable educational consequences. If Krausism was triumphing in Madrid, in Catalonia the school of common sense was taking hold, distinguished by conscience both in the order of knowledge and in moral praxis. When Tomás Carreras Artau took over the chair of Ethics at the University of Barcelona in 1912, a Seminar began that featured the work by Albert Bonet (the future leader of Spain’s Catholic Action on the moral conscience of the child (1927 as one of its most outstanding contributions. Although to a certain extent the Ethics Seminar was later discarded in favour of the Pedagogy Seminar which Joaquín Xirau began in 1930, it is true that the teachings of Alejandro Sanvisens (Tomás Carreras Artau’s prize pupil permitted the configuration of a pedagogy of the conscience which is found in the roots of studies on moral education generated at the University of Barcelona by the GREM (Moral Education Research Group, founded in 1988.

  2. Bodies or organisms? Medical encounter as a control apparatus at a primary care centre in Barcelona

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    Alejandro Zaballos Samper

    2013-07-01

    Full Text Available Medical practice is driven by technology, discourses, and knowledge about health and illness. This has resulted in its gaining a dominating position in power relations achieved by means of diagnosis, medicalization, and habit and conduct creation and maintenance. Interaction at primary care centres is built on mainstream biomedical views of both the medical discourse and the social practices related to health, illness and the human body. Moreover, it is also rooted on the ideologies conveyed by those social concepts, which in turn, permeate interaction all through with power relations. The present paper takes ethnographic data and in-depth interviews as a departing point to analyse how diagnosis, medicalization, and biopolicies for health prevention and improvement carried out in primary care centres in Barcelona make up a control apparatus. Furthermore, this essay also explores how the apparatus is developed in the medical encounter and turns the body into an organism.

  3. Il vaso e i cocci. Note in margine a La llegenda del llibreter assassí de Barcelona

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    Francesco de Cristofaro

    2013-12-01

    Full Text Available Il contributo discute alcune questioni legate, in modo più o meno tangenziale, a La llegenda del llibreter assassí de Barcelona: dopo aver sottoposto il libro di Ramon Miquel i Planas alle domande, di metodo e di merito, presenti in un affine e più recente “giallo filologico” (il saggio di Alberto Varvaro sulla vicenda della baronessa di Carini, e dopo essersi interrogato circa il filone paraletterario delle cosiddette “Cause celebri” e circa una declinazione naturalista e straniante della letteratura processuale (il dittico di Galdós Realidad-Incógnita, il discorso si sposta su di un aspetto più prettamente storico-culturale e tematico quale l’intreccio fra bibliomania e cleptomania (soprattutto in Flaubert. L’articolo si conclude con una rapida ricognizione dei plagi letterari realizzati da Nodier, il presunto colpevole del falso da cui si diparte tutta la genealogia indagata da Miquel i Planas: un colpevole che, proprio mentre si macchia di molteplici crimini letterari, dedica loro un sofisticato trattato giurisprudenziale, in cui sistematizza e stigmatizza quegli stessi crimini This essay seeks to investigate tangentially some questions regarding La llegenda del llibreter assassí de Barcelona: after having analyzed the approaches, methods and strategies –that Alberto Varvaro has thoroughly examined in the essay on Baroness di Carini’s story–, and the literary quality achieved by Ramon Miquel i Planas in his work; and after having probed the paraliterary line of the so-called “famous trials” –mostly focusing on the naturalistic estrangement effect produced by literature works related to legal cases (e.g. the conventional diptych in Galdós’s Realidad-Incógnita–, the centre of attention shifts on the cultural, historical aspects of the bizarre relationship between kleptomania and bibliomania (especially in Flaubert. The article concludes with a swift overview of literary plagiarisms committed by Nodier, the

  4. Glycosylation of Vanillin and 8-Nordihydrocapsaicin by Cultured <em>Eucalyptus perrinianaem> Cells

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    Naoji Kubota

    2012-05-01

    Full Text Available Glycosylation of vanilloids such as vanillin and 8-nordihydrocapsaicin by cultured plant cells of <em>Eucalyptus perrinianaem> was studied. Vanillin was converted into vanillin 4-<em>O>-b-D-glucopyranoside, vanillyl alcohol, and 4-<em>O>-b-D-glucopyranosylvanillyl alcohol by <em>E. perriniana em>cells. Incubation of cultured <em>E. perrinianaem> cells with 8-nor- dihydrocapsaicin gave 8-nordihydrocapsaicin 4-<em>O>-b-D-glucopyranoside and 8-nordihydro- capsaicin 4-<em>O>-b-D-gentiobioside.

  5. Estudio de implantación de una empresa de servicios dedicada a la venta de leche fresca en la província de Barcelona

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    Extremo Esteban, Álvaro

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    El objeto de este estudio es analizar la oportunidad de negocio de una empresa de servicios que se dedique a la venta directa de leche fresca mediante máquinas expendedoras y estudiar las posibles implantaciones de la empresa de servicios para que suministre la zona de Barcelona.Se realiza una introducción al sector lácteo, incluyendo los tipos de leche que se distribuyen en el mercado, los tipos de tratamientos térmicos más habituales y la forma de almacenamiento en las granjas. Vamos a a...

  6. Bodies or organisms? Medical encounter as a control apparatus at a primary care centre in Barcelona ¿Cuerpos u organismos? El encuentro médico como dispositivo de control en un centro de atención primaria de Barcelona

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    Alejandro Zaballos Samper

    2013-07-01

    Full Text Available Medical practice is driven by technology, discourses, and knowledge about health and illness. This has resulted in its gaining a dominating position in power relations achieved by means of diagnosis, medicalization, and habit and conduct creation and maintenance. Interaction at primary care centres is built on mainstream biomedical views of both the medical discourse and the social practices related to health, illness and the human body. Moreover, it is also rooted on the ideologies conveyed by those social concepts, which in turn, permeate interaction all through with power relations. The present paper takes ethnographic data and in-depth interviews as a departing point to analyse how diagnosis, medicalization, and biopolicies for health prevention and improvement carried out in primary care centres in Barcelona make up a control apparatus. Furthermore, this essay also explores how the apparatus is developed in the medical encounter and turns the body into an organism.Las prácticas de asistencia médica están orientadas por tecnologías, discursos y conocimientos sobre salud/enfermedad produciendo efectos de dominación, mediante la elaboración de diagnósticos, farmacologización, creación y mantenimiento de pautas, hábitos y conductas de vida. La interacción en el dispositivo médico de Atención Primaria, construida con relación a la existencia de un discurso médico y unas prácticas sociales alrededor de la salud, la enfermedad y el cuerpo desde la visión biomédica dominante y el contenido ideológico que éstos contienen, está atravesada por relaciones de poder. A partir de datos etnográficos y entrevistas en profundidad, analizamos en este artículo los diagnósticos, la medicalización y las estrategias biopolíticas de prevención y mejora de la salud desarrolladas desde la consulta de un Centro de Atención Primaria de Barcelona como dinámicas de control producidas en el encuentro médico, que convierten el cuerpo en

  7. Preferencia alimenticia del ácaro depredador <em>Balaustium> sp. en condiciones controladas

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    Muñoz Karen

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    Se evaluó la preferencia de presas de <em>Balaustium> sp., enemigo natural de diferentes artrópodos plaga, y el cual es nativo de la Sabana de Bogotá. En unidades experimentales construidas con foliolos de plantas de rosa se colocaron independientemente individuos de <em>Balaustium> sp. y se registró el número de presas consumidas. De esta manera se determinó la preferencia de los tres estados móviles del ácaro depredador <em>Balaustium> sp. por diferentes edades de tres presas. Las especies y edades de las presas estudiadas fueron: huevos, ninfas y adultos de <em>Trialeurodes vaporariorumem>, huevos, ninfas y adultos de <em>Tetranychus urticaeem>, y larvas de primer y segundo instar y adultos de <em>Frankliniella occidentalisem>. Los estados menos desarrollados fueron preferidos, aunque se observó que los adultos del depredador tienen gran habilidad para consumir adultos de <em>T. vaporariorumem>. La presa preferida por las larvas de <em>Balaustium> sp. fue los huevos de <em>T. urticaeem> con una proporción de consumo de 0,54 de los huevos que se ofrecieron de esta presa; las deutoninfas del depredador eligieron huevos de <em>T. vaporariorumem> (0,537 o de <em>T. urticaeem> (0,497 y los adultos de <em>Balaustium> sp. prefrieron los huevos de <em>T. vaporariorumem> (0,588.

  8. Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction of Carnosic Acid and Rosmarinic Acid Using Ionic Liquid Solution from <em>Rosmarinus officinalisem>>

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    Chunjian Zhao

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available Ionic liquid based, ultrasound-assisted extraction was successfully applied to the extraction of phenolcarboxylic acids, carnosic acid and rosmarinic acid, from <em>Rosmarinus officinalisem>. Eight ionic liquids, with different cations and anions, were investigated in this work and [C8mim]Br was selected as the optimal solvent. Ultrasound extraction parameters, including soaking time, solid–liquid ratio, ultrasound power and time, and the number of extraction cycles, were discussed by single factor experiments and the main influence factors were optimized by response surface methodology. The proposed approach was demonstrated as having higher efficiency, shorter extraction time and as a new alternative for the extraction of carnosic acid and rosmarinic acid from <em>R. officinalisem>> em>compared with traditional reference extraction methods. Ionic liquids are considered to be green solvents, in the ultrasound-assisted extraction of key chemicals from medicinal plants, and show great potential.

  9. La satisfacción de los clientes de los centros deportivos municipales de Barcelona

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    Amal Elasri Ejjaberi

    2015-03-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es identificar y analizar las variables que más influyen en la satisfacción del cliente en los centros deportivos de Barcelona. Los datos fueron recogidos en una encuesta entre los clientes actuales de centros deportivos municipales. Un análisis factorial aplicado a esta información revela cinco dimensiones que subyacen a los múltiples componentes de la oferta de servicios en dichas instalaciones: su calidad, los recursos humanos, la comunicación, el entorno social y la relación calidad-precio. Las variables generadas fueron incorporadas a un modelo de regresión múltiple en el que la variable dependiente fue la satisfacción del cliente. De acuerdo con los resultados las mujeres y los usuarios mayores de 60 años valoran más positivamente el servicio recibido, mientras que a mayor nivel de estudios, más exigentes son los clientes. Finalmente, un gerente debe prestar atención en primer lugar a la calidad de las instalaciones seguido de la comunicación, los recursos humanos, la relación calidad precio y el entorno social, por este orden.

  10. Estudio de viabilidad para la ejecución de un aparcamiento subterráneo entre las calles Ciudad de Granada, Bolivia y Badajoz de Barcelona

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    Domínguez Quinoya, Inmaculada

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    Este trabajo, punto final a los estudios de Ciencias y Tecnología de Edificación, pretende aplicar todos los conocimientos adquiridos en estos cuatro años en un proyecto concreto y real. Se trata de confirmar o negar la viabilidad de la construcción de un aparcamiento subterráneo en un solar situado entre las calles Ciudad de Granada, Bolivia y Badajoz de Barcelona. 1.- VIABILIDAD EN EL TERRITORIO: Empezamos conociendo la zona donde se ubica el aparcamiento, estudiando si ex...

  11. 2 obras de F. J. Barba Corsini: Edificio de los Laboratorios Boehringer Sohn Ingelheim, S. A. B., en San Juan Despí, Barcelona; Cine Victoria, en Hospitalet de Llobregat

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    Full Text Available Building for the Boehringer Sohn Ingelheim, S. A. E. Laboratories, at San Juan Despí – Barcelona The semibasement houses the services, including dressing rooms, dining hall, central air conditioning, stores, and other technical services. The ground floor comprises the main entrance hall and also some of the laboratories, whilst the rest of the building is mostly devoted to the functional purpose of the firm, i. e., laboratory work. The manager's office and council chamber are located on the second floor. The external aspect of the building reflects its function and is an outstanding example of impressive simplicity. Victoria Cinema, at Hospitalet de Llobregat – Barcelona The design of the building takes specifically into account the poor features of the site, the greater cost efficiency of reinforced concrete and the saving in construction time associated with metallic construction. Hence a compound design was adopted. All the external walls are built with unfaced brick, and «Durisol» has been adopted for the ceilings. The choice of illumination and colouring give the walls a fine quality, and emphasize their plastic texture. A restful quality and an indication of its commercial purpose are the fundamental features reflected by the external aspect of the building.Edificio de los Laboratorios Boehringer Sohn Ingelheim, S. A. E., en San Juan Despí- Barcelona La planta semisótano del edificio está dedicada a servicios: vestuario, comedor, central de acondicionamiento de aire, almacenes de utillaje, y servicios técnicos en general. En la planta baja se ha dispuesto el vestíbulo principal de acceso; y tanto en el resto de esta planta como en las superiores, se desarrollan todas las funciones de laboratorios. En la planta segunda se han instalado los despachos de Dirección, Sala de Juntas, etc. La expresión arquitectónica exterior del edificio responde a su utilidad y resalta por su elegante sencillez. Cine Victoria, en Hospitalet de

  12. Spanish scientific output on Helicobacter pylori. A study through Medline.

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    Trapero-Marugán, M; Gisbert, J P; Pajares, J M

    2006-04-01

    to analyze scientific output from Spanish hospitals in relation to Helicobacter pylori infection. papers collected from the Medline database between January 1988 and December 2003 were selected. Our search strategy was: "Helicobacter pylori" [MeSH] AND ((Spain [AD] OR Espana [AD] OR Spanien [AD] OR Espagne [AD] OR Espanha [AD]) OR (Spanish [LA]) OR Spain). The following was analyzed: geographic area, Spanish or foreign publication, topic, and year of publication. Output and impact bibliometric markers were evaluated. in all, 691 papers were identified, of which 241 were excluded. Number of papers went from 2 in 1988 to 47 in 2002 and 13 in 2003. There were more reports in Spanish versus foreign journals (58 vs. 42%). In the first 5 years the areas with greater output were associated with diagnosis and microbiology (33 and 20%), whereas therapy was the predominating subject during the last 5 years (27%). Original papers were most common among publications (69%). Hospitals with highest output included La Princesa (24%) and Ramón y Cajal (17.6%) in Madrid, and Parc Taulí in Barcelona (6.4%). Mean impact factor progressively increased from 1.826 in 1988 to 2.142 in 2002 and 2.493 in 2003. the production and impact of documents published by Spanish scientists regarding H. pylori infection considerably increased during the past two decades.

  13. Turismo rural, empreendedorismo e gênero: um estudo de caso na comunidade autônoma da Galiza

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    Mª Isabel Dieguez-Castrillon

    2012-06-01

    Full Text Available Neste trabalho indagamos sobre possíveis diferenças no comportamento empreendedor em turismo rural; estabelecemos características e dimensões motivadoras em função do gênero. Num exemplo representativo de estabelecimentos de turismo rural da Comunidade Autônoma da Galiza (Espanha, encontramos relação entre gênero e importância da compatibilização de atividades agrárias e tumrísticas, e entre gênero e perfil das motivações para empreender atividades de turismo rural. As mulheres estão mais motivadas por elementos do âmbito econômico e, portanto, na tomada de decisões, têm mais relevância os critérios de racionalidade econômica unidos à estratégia de diversificação da atividade agrária em favor da sobrevivência financeira. Ao contrário do estabelecido na maior parte da literatura, os fatores de índole social, familiar ou institucional têm a mesma importância para homens e mulheres. Aliás, verificase a ausência de relação entre gênero e características pessoais (como idade e formação e necessidades financeiras do empreendedor.

  14. Antioxidant Profile of <em>Trifolium pratenseem> L.

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    Heidy Schwartsova

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available In order to examine the antioxidant properties of five different extracts of <em>Trifolium pratenseem> L. (Leguminosae leaves, various assays which measure free radical scavenging ability were carried out: 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl, hydroxyl, superoxide anion and nitric oxide radical scavenger capacity tests and lipid peroxidation assay. In all of the tests, only the H2O and (to some extent the EtOAc extracts showed a potent antioxidant effect compared with BHT and BHA, well-known synthetic antioxidants. In addition, <em>in vivo em>experiments were conducted with antioxidant systems (activities of GSHPx, GSHR, Px, CAT, XOD, GSH content and intensity of LPx in liver homogenate and blood of mice after their treatment with extracts of <em>T. pratenseem> leaves, or in combination with CCl4. Besides, in the extracts examined the total phenolic and flavonoid amounts were also determined, together with presence of the selected flavonoids: quercetin, luteolin, apigenin, naringenin and kaempferol, which were studied using a HPLC-DAD technique. HPLC-DAD analysis showed a noticeable content of natural products according to which the examined <em>Trifolium pratenseem> species could well be regarded as a promising new source of bioactive natural compounds, which can be used both as a food supplement and a remedy.

  15. Bioassay-Guided Antidiabetic Study of <em>Phaleria macrocarpaem> Fruit Extract

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    Mohd Z. Asmawi

    2012-04-01

    Full Text Available An earlier anti-hyperglycemic study with serial crude extracts of <em>Phaleria macrocarpaem> (PM fruit indicated methanol extract (ME as the most effective. In the present investigation, the methanol extract was further fractionated to obtain chloroform (CF, ethyl acetate (EAF, <em>n>-butanol (NBF and aqueous (AF fractions, which were tested for antidiabetic activity. The NBF reduced blood glucose (<em>p> < 0.05 15 min after administration, in an intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test (IPGTT similar to metformin. Moreover, it lowered blood glucose in diabetic rats by 66.67% (<em>p> em>< 0.05, similar to metformin (51.11%, glibenclamide (66.67% and insulin (71.43% after a 12-day treatment, hence considered to be the most active fraction. Further fractionation of NBF yielded sub-fractions I (SFI and II (SFII, and only SFI lowered blood glucose (<em>p em>< 0.05, in IPGTT similar to glibenclamide. The ME, NBF, and SFI correspondingly lowered plasma insulin (<em>p em>< 0.05 and dose-dependently inhibited glucose transport across isolated rat jejunum implying an extra-pancreatic mechanism. Phytochemical screening showed the presence of flavonoids, terpenes and tannins, in ME, NBF and SFI, and LC-MS analyses revealed 9.52%, 33.30% and 22.50% mangiferin respectively. PM fruit possesses anti-hyperglycemic effect, exerted probably through extra-pancreatic action. Magniferin, contained therein may be responsible for this reported activity.

  16. Differences between users of six public parks in Barcelona depending on the level of perceived safety in the neighborhood Diferencias entre los usuarios de seis parques públicos en Barcelona según el nivel de seguridad percibida en el barrio

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    Felix Pérez Tejera

    2012-03-01

    Full Text Available Research on the relation between fear of crime and public space has been often limited to psychosocial processes (place attachment, social cohesion, collective efficacy and the effect of environmental variables (brightness, graffitis, cleaness. Most of the behavioral aspects involved, however, have been neglected. In this work we carried out a systematic observational study of the types of users (gender, age, ethnicity, signs of poverty of six public parks in Barcelona. We examined whether there would be differences between users of three parks in the neighbourhood with the highest level of fear of crime and the users of three public parks in the neighbourhoods with the highest levels of perceived safety. The analysis showed significant differences in the spatial occupancy patterns between the two neighbourhoods. The differences highlighted processes of avoidance of public space by women, children and the elderly, and processes of spatial segregation depending on ethnicity and the presence of signs of poverty.El estudio de la relación entre inseguridad ciudadana y espacio público a menudo se ha limitado a los procesos de carácter psicosocial (apego al lugar, cohesion social, eficacia colectiva y la influencia de variables de carácter ambiental (iluminación, grafitis, suciedad descartando la vertiente más comportamental. En este trabajo se lleva a cabo un estudio observacional sistemático durante cuatro meses del tipos de usuarios (género, edad, grupo étnico, signos de pobreza que utilizan seis parques de Barcelona. Se explora si existen diferencias entre los usuarios de tres parques públicos del distrito con mayor nivel de inseguridad percibida y los de tres parques situados en distritos con mayores nivel de percepción de seguridad. Los análisis muestran diferencias significativas en los patrones de ocupación espacial que ponen de manifiesto procesos de evitación del espacio público por parte de mujeres, infantes y personas

  17. Vertical and horizontal variability of PM10 source contributions in Barcelona during SAPUSS

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    M. Brines

    2016-06-01

    Full Text Available During the SAPUSS campaign (Solving Aerosol Problems by Using Synergistic Strategies PM10 samples at 12-hour resolution were simultaneously collected at four monitoring sites located in the urban agglomerate of Barcelona (Spain. A total of 221 samples were collected from 20 September to 20 October 2010. The Road Site (RS site and the Urban Background (UB site were located at street level, whereas the Torre Mapfre (TM and the Torre Collserola (TC sites were located at 150 m a.s.l. by the sea side within the urban area and at 415 m a.s.l. 8 km inland, respectively. For the first time, we are able to report simultaneous PM10 aerosol measurements, allowing us to study aerosol gradients at both horizontal and vertical levels. The complete chemical composition of PM10 was determined on the 221 samples, and factor analysis (positive matrix factorisation, PMF was applied. This resulted in eight factors which were attributed to eight main aerosol sources affecting PM10 concentrations in the studied urban environment: (1 vehicle exhaust and wear (2–9 µg m−3, 10–27 % of PM10 mass on average, (2 road dust (2–4 µg m−3, 8–12 %, (3 mineral dust (5 µg m−3, 13–26 %, (4 aged marine (3–5 µg m−3, 13–20 %, (5 heavy oil (0.4–0.6 µg m−3, 2 %, (6 industrial (1 µg m−3, 3–5 %, (7 sulfate (3–4 µg m−3, 11–17 % and (8 nitrate (4–6 µg m−3, 17–21 %. Three aerosol sources were found to be enhanced at the ground levels (confined within the urban ground levels of the city relative to the upper levels: (1 vehicle exhaust and wear (2.8 higher, (2 road dust (1.8 higher and (3 local urban industries/crafts workshops (1.6 higher. Surprisingly, the other aerosol sources were relatively homogeneous at both horizontal and vertical levels. However, air mass origin and meteorological parameters also played a key role in influencing the variability of the factor

  18. ¿Participar para transformar? La experiencia de los presupuestos participativos en la provincia de Barcelona

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    Ismael Blanco Fillola

    2011-05-01

    Full Text Available ¿Qué cabe esperar de los procesos de participación ciudadana en las políticas públicas locales?, ¿Es razonable esperar transformaciones políticas significativas? En este artículo se identifican aquellas condiciones que, a nivel teórico, podemos prever que determinen la capacidad transformadora de la participación ciudadana. Esta discusión teórica da lugar a un marco de evaluación de las prácticas de participación que se aplica al análisis de las 11 experiencias vigentes de presupuestos participativos en la provincia de Barcelona. El análisis pone en evidencia los límites de este tipo de prácticas de participación, los cuales están relacionados con tres factores principales: su posición institucional periférica; el escaso margen de decisión que se concede a la ciudadanía; y la escasa movilización social. Sin embargo, los casos analizados obtienen buenos resultados en dos aspectos importantes: el impacto de las propuestas ciudadanas en la toma de decisiones públicas y la transformación de las actitudes políticas, técnicas y ciudadanas hacia la participación. El marco de evaluación propuesto nos ayuda a identificar ámbitos críticos de mejora de los procesos participativos y de fortalecimiento de su capacidad transformadora. What can we expect from citizen participation processes in local policymaking? Is it reasonable to expect significant political transformations? In this article, we identify the conditions that theoretically determine the transformation capacity of citizen participation. Such theoretical discussion gives place to a framework for the assessment of participative practices, which we use to analyse 11 cases of participatory budgeting in the province of Barcelona. The analysis puts in evidence the limits of this kind of participative practices, which are linked to three main factors: their peripheral institutional position; the scarce decision margin that is given to the citizens; and the lack of

  19. Política missionária e secular em escritos jesuíticos sobre a Baixa Califórnia no século XVIII

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    Beatriz Helena Domingues

    2003-07-01

    Full Text Available O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a conjugação de preocupações espirituais e temporais nos escritos jesuíticos mexicanos referentes às missões da Baixa Califórnia em meados do século XVIII, período em que a Companhia de Jesus vinha se enfrentando com as reformas bourbônicas. Toma como exemplos os escritos de dois jesuítas: um missionário (Miguel Venegas e um educador (F. X. Clavijero. Venegas foi missionário na Baixa Califórnia e autor de Notícia de la California y de su conquista temporal y espiritual hasta el tiempo presente (1739. Clavijero foi principalmente um educador, mas envolvido com o desempenho das missões, conforme pode ser visto na sua Historia de la Antigua o Baja California (1790. Ambos são aqui considerados como representantes da geração de jesuítas mexicanos que, poucas décadas antes da expulsão da Cia de Jesus da Nova Espanha, que combinaram trabalho espiritual com o temporal, dos quais resultou uma bem sucedida experiência missionária e uma rica produção intelectual.The aim of this article is to analyse the coexistence of spiritual and temporal preoccupations in the Mexican Jesuit writings on the Low California missions by the middle of the eighteenth century, when the Society of Jesus were facing the Bourbon Reforms. It takes as examples the writings of two Jesuits: a missionary (Miguel Venegas and an educator (F.X. Clavijero. Venegas was a missionary in Low California and author of Notícia de la California y de su conquista temporal y espiritual hasta el tiempo presente (1739. Clavijero was mainly an educator, but involved with the performance of the missions as can be seen in his Historia de la Antigua or Baja California (1790. Both are here considered as representatives of a generation of Mexican Jesuits who, few decades before the expelling of the Society of Jesus from New Spain, combined their spiritual with their temporal works, whose result was a successful missionary enterprise and a rich

  20. Alimentazione di <em>Marmota marmotaem> in praterie altimontane delle dolomiti bellunesi

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    Alessandro Rudatis

    2006-03-01

    Full Text Available Abstract The diet of <em>Marmota marmotaem> in the mountain prairie of south-eastern Italian Alps. Diet composition of two family groups of alpine marmots was investigated in two areas of the Agordino’s Dolomites (Italian Alps in June-September 2001, by means of microscopic analysis of faeces and of direct observation of feeding activity. During the whole period of activity, a high consume of Angiosperms was confirmed, especially plants in flower; among them the “graminoids” seemed to play an important role only during the initial part of the active period. Generally vegetative parts predominated over flowers. The ingestion of animal preys was not confirmed by the analysis of droppings. Comparing diet composition of the two groups, Graminaceae (<em>Poa>, <em>Phleum>, Compositae (<em>Achillea>, Cyperaceae/Juncaceae, Leguminosae (<em>Anthyllis>, Rosaceae, and Labiatae (<em>Prunella>, <em>Stachys> formed the bulk of marmot diet in the study areas. Diet showed low diversity considering the abundance of plant species in the surrounding environment. Food resources were probably used in relation to their easy digestibility, with a high content in proteins, sugar and water. The knowledge of vegetation features in relation to marmot trophic habits can represent a useful tool for the management of this species. Riassunto Il regime alimentare di due gruppi di Marmotta alpina è stato studiato in giugno-settembre 2001 in due aree delle Dolomiti agordine (SE Italia, attraverso l’analisi microscopica delle feci e l’osservazione diretta dell’attività alimentare. Durante tutto il periodo di attività si è notato un forte consumo di Angiosperme, specialmente piante a fiore, mentre le ”graminoidi” sembra giochino un ruolo importante all’inizio della stagione. In generale le parti vegetali predominano sui fiori. L’ingestione di prede animali non è stata