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The permanent museography project for the Cuatro Caminos metro station in Madrid features two historical synthesis murals whose main methodological instrument is architectural drawing. In addition, they offer narrative proposals that use resources of the avant-garde comic, together with simultaneous representations of space and time in which the chronological sense of the narrative is even manipulated. This paper analyses the two murals from the conceptual framework of the comic book in terms of the combination of the simultaneous vision of the graphic medium and the partial visions of its contents. Moreover, it ponders on the use of these resources when transmitting complex realities in heritage dissemination works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to systematize the opinions of seventeenth-century Spanish theologians and moralists on the torments suffered by souls in purgatory In order to do so, the most representative treatises published at the time, which are kept at the National Library of Madrid, have been analysed. Departing from the concepts of probity and piety, which God dictates for the provisional inhabitants of the «Third Place», the article first makes a sketch of how purgatorial penalties were treated from the earliest historical references to the council of Trent and Describes their evolution. The paper then focuses on the study of how the issue was addressed by Spanish authors. More particularly, it analysis the different types of punishments prescribed for souls in purgatory. Several categories have been found, of which some are internal to purgatory, while others are external. Among the latter, a distinction is made between penalties of damage and penalties of meaning. The paper ponders the question of why penalties of damage were considered more griefful than penalties of meaning. In so doing, it also recognizes the weight that was specifically attributed to fire, further nuancing the assessment of penalties. To finish, the article presents a catalogue of the different types of penalties described in the visions of different people and literary characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Those requiring emergency health care cannot wait. Ambulances must arrive at the scene as quickly as possible. Ambulances are usually assigned to bases distributed throughout the city to minimize arrival time to the event. However, the spatial distribution of events changes during the day according to people's rhythm and city use. This paper evaluates, through location-allocation modelling, the Spatio-temporal performance of SAMUR-PC, the Emergency Medical Service of Madrid (Spain), in two different scenarios, before the COVID-19 pandemic and during the first months of the new normality period. The results show that the system responded relatively well to the change in event patterns due to the pandemic. However, some interventions would have been necessary to guarantee the same service as before the epidemiological crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Franciscan and Royal Preacher Pedro Rodríguez Guillén published in 1736 in Madrid two volumes of sermons preached in the main temples of Lima, as well as in Panama and Madrid. This paper delves into a differentiating factor of his Sacred Oratory, its thematic specialization since it attends both to the nature and circumstances of the sermon, as well as to the social category and the intellectual level of his audience, which reveals the consultation of an encyclopedic and multidisciplinary Library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

María Edilia Valero, a Venezuelan writer, arrived in Madrid at the end of the 1920s with the purpose of creating a Hispanic-American cultural center that encompassed multiple scope of action. This research paper approaches the institution she created, its foundation and directions, its statutes and activities during the years it was active in Spain and its closure with the declaration of the Spanish civil war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the study of the initial stage of the process of women's incorporation into the teaching profession in the first faculties that formed part of the Central University of Madrid, from the time when legislation made it possible, in 1910, until the end of the civil war. The circumstances and factors that made their access to teaching possible were analysed, taking into account previous contributions through an in-depth bibliographical review, and a new list of women professors classified by faculties was compiled, which recovers and expands on the data obtained in other research, as a result of new enquiries in the historical archives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Schooling should make citizens scientifically literate in order to make informed decisions on socio-scientific issues, such as the use of pseudo-therapies to treat cancer. Therefore, it is necessary to know how learning is being assessed at all educational stages. However, there are hardly any studies that consider how the learning of Biology acquired during the Baccalaureate is evaluated in the university entrance exams (EvAU). Thus, in this paper, we analyse the cognitive demand required to answer the 188 questions on a biological process as relevant as cell division, which have been asked in the EvAU Biology exams of the Community of Madrid from 2002 to 2019; distinguishing among product, narrative and process questions. The results show a predominance of narrative and product questions, with lower cognitive demand, with a clear trend towards an increase in product questions until 2016. In addition, some statements are repeated and questions tend to focus on: mitosis, animal cells, chromosome dynamics or stages such as anaphase; ignoring other important structures and moments of the process such as the achromatic spindle or the prometaphase. Possible improvements are discussed, such as the inclusion of process questions that require decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]