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This study analyses the languages used by companies in their telematic means (website, social media, etc.) in a specific geographical area, the Valencian Community (Spain), where two official languages (Catalan and Spanish) coexist and where there is a large influx of foreign tourists (mainly British). More specifically, the aim of the study is to understand the weight each language has in companies’ telematic communication. The theoretical approach used for the analysis is the centre-periphery model, which is used to analyse national identity and language. Different techniques (use of secondary sources, mystery shopping, content analysis and direct observation) have been used in the quantitative empirical study to obtain a statistically disaggregated data matrix. The results strongly emphasize the peripheral and marginal position of Catalan in this region, and, on an international scale, the resistance of Spanish, which clearly maintains its hegemonic position over English in the telematic communications of these companies.

Based on the studies on the socio-political aspect of transnationality, this research analyzes two exogenously designed political organizations (promoted and coordinated from a supralocal or supra-national scope and space), inspired by the existence of foreign residents in several Spanish municipalities, in this case Romanian nationality. The data come from documental research, statistical analysis of candidacies and electoral results, and from in-depth interviews with representatives of these parties. The paper concludes that the presence of a large group of foreign residents is not, per se, indicators of electoral potential; unless the motivating elements of mobilization are mediated. The electoral argument of sharing the same nationality of origin does not seem enough, even if the political program tries to be transversal, avoiding ideological positions and appealing to generic elements such as common culture and its defense, and the possibility of helping to regenerate politics and democracy in the country of origin. There are important contradictions such as the supralocal and national approach in local logic elections, or the previous distrust of potential voters in Romanian parties based on experience in their country of origin.

The crisis affecting European Union, and especially Mediterranean countries, is both an economic and a political crisis. In a broad sense, we can look at the crisis as the result of an internal crisis of the neoliberal model, exacerbating the perceived subordination of politics to the economy, and therefore the deficit of legitimacy and involvement that characterizes both European and national institutions. The decline in support for traditional political organizations and reduction of conventional political participation is accompanied by a process of reinvention of politics, which takes form in grass-root, non conventional participation. New political actors challenge economic and political institution and claim for a renewal of democracy and for a new relation between economy and politics. The article, after comparing steps and dimension of crisis, explores the characteristics of anti- austerity movements in Spain and in Italy, analyzing differences and similarities. Finally, we locate the movilization occurred in these two countries within the context of the global cycles of protest.

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Industrial radiography is a pivotal non-destructive testing (NDT) method that ensures quality and safety in a wide range of industrial sectors. Nevertheless, the conventional human-based approaches to carrying out industrial radiography are prone to challenges that negatively impact the accuracy and efficiency of defect detection. To solve this challenge, numerous computer-based alternatives have been developed, including Automated Defect Recognition (ADR) using deep learning algorithms. At the core of training, these ADR algorithms demand large volumes of qualitative data that should be representative of real-world cases to be expected during deployment. However, the availability of digital X-ray radiography data, especially for open research, is limited by non-disclosure contractual terms in the industry. In this study, we present a pipeline that is capable of modelling synthetic images based on real digital X-ray radiography images. This is achieved through a systematic analysis of the intensity distribution, considering grey value (GV) statistical uniqueness related to exposure conditions used during image acquisition, type of imaged component, material thickness variations, X-ray beam divergence, anode heel effect, scatter radiation, edge delineation, etc. The generated synthetic images were exclusively utilized to train a deep learning model, yielding an impressive model performance with mean intersection over union (IoU) of 0.93, and mean dice coefficient of 0.96 when tested on real unseen digital X-ray radiography images. The presented methodology is scalable and adaptable, making it suitable for diverse industrial applications.

En 1811 el ejército francés se retiró Portugal dejando aislada la fortaleza de Almeida. Al intentar aprovisionarla con un convoy de víveres se produjo la batalla de Fuentes de Oñoro, en la que tanto ingleses como franceses sufrieron abundantes bajas. Este artículo da a conocer un conjunto singular de materiales metálicos, de origen francés, documentados a unos 10 km del escenario de la lucha. Las fuentes bibliográficas han permitido asociar estos restos con una de las divisiones del IX Cuerpo de Ejército francés, el cual tuvo una intensa participación en dicho episodio bélico. ABSTRACT: The third invasion of Portugal by Marshal Massena’s army was stopped at the Torres-Vedras line, raised by Wellington to protect Lisbon and the mouth of the Tagus. In March 1811, Massena began the retreat of his forces towards Spanish territory, closely pursued by the allies. On April 4 the Napoleonic army crossed the Spanish border leaving behind the fortress of Almeida whose garrison of 1300 men was isolated with numerous cannons and ammunition but without food. Wellington blocked Almeida to surrender it by starvation. On May 3, when trying to supply it with a big convoy, the battle of Fuentes de Oñoro took place, in which both English and French suffered numerous casualties. The convoy did not reach its destination and Almeida had to be abandoned. In order to document the war activity that occurred in Gallegos de Argañán, in 2017 we initiated a research project based on intensive metal detector prospecting of large areas of that municipality. In this article we report an interesting set of metal finds documented in the summer of 2022, just 10 km from Fuentes de Oñoro. In addition to abundant unfired projectiles of French caliber, several singular objects such as buckles or uniform buttons have been found. All this has allowed associating these findings with an area where one of the French divisions of the IX Army Corps bivouacked. The bibliographic sources indicate that these troops had an intense participation in the battle of Fuentes de Oñoro. Once again, the battlefield archaeology, contributes new lights for the knowledge of decisive historical events.

This article will examine some theses that Badiou developed in the first period of his philosophy, when he was close to the theoretical horizon of Althusserianism. The article traces a route back from the Manifesto for Philosophy to some yet unpublished notes, dating from the late Sixties, on an aborted collective project on materialist philosophy. While, according to the later Badiou – who is also the most well-known – contemporary philosophical discourse should recover the Platonic gesture after Heidegger, it will be shown that the early Badiou, by debating the nature of the Platonic gesture with Macherey, seems to conceptualise philosophical discourse and its function under the inseparable link of dialectical materialism and historical materialism. The article ends with some open questions for a possible theory of discourse that would build on Badiou’s theoretical insights.

The article reports on archaeological excavations at the acropolis of the ancient city of Selinunt (Selinunte/Selinus), Italy, which revealed lekythoi, figurines, and various other artifacts from the archaic and classical periods and suggest the presence of a temple dating to the 7th century BCE.

Este artículo está dedicado al estudio de un conjunto de proyectiles esféricos localizados en el municipio salmantino de Gallegos de Argañán, muy cerca de la frontera portuguesa. Muchos de ellos presentan severas deformaciones que alteran completamente su forma original y hacen necesario recurrir a medios indirectos para conocer su diámetro. Las características físicas que presentan estos objetos, su distribución espacial sobre el terreno junto con otros objetos metálicos asociados y las noticias que aportan las fuentes históricas, indican que estos proyectiles podrían estar vinculados con un episodio de adiestramiento militar, realizado por tropas que usaban armamento inglés entre 1810 y 1813. ABSTRACT: Due to its location on one of the main routes of communication with the Portuguese border, the province of Salamanca was, during the Peninsular War, witness to the transit and accommodation of thousands of soldiers as well as the scene of countless episodes of war. Some of them have been widely studied due to the enormous carnage they caused, such as the two sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo or the battles of Fuentes de Oñoro and Arapiles. Other events were almost ignored because, compared to the previous ones, they were only brief combats with far fewer victims. In order to try to document some of these minor episodes we started in 2017 an archaeological research project, based on intensive metal detector prospecting of large areas of the municipality of Gallegos de Argañán. The numerous findings that we have documented during the three phases already executed are providing new data on this intense historical period. However, not all the finds come from combats. The location of camps and guard posts, the movement of the units along the roads and their close relationship with the local people led to the loss of numerous small material remains. This article is devoted to the study of a set of musket balls. Many of them present severe deformations that have completely altered their original shape. In order to identify them correctly, it is necessary to resort to indirect means. We consider that due to their physical characteristics, their spatial distribution on the ground forming three clearly defined groupings, their association with other metallic materials and also the information provided by historical sources, it seems very likely that these projectiles were linked to an episode of military training. An act of instruction firing, carried out by troops using English weaponry and which took place between 1810 and 1813.

We are facing the worst refuge crisis since World War II. This is a constant process, that will increase in the future and it is framed into the several migratory movements that we are living since decades not only because of war, but also due to climatic, political and economic reasons. This article tries to analyze the psychosocial risks that migrant people face in extreme situations focusing the analysis in Ulysses syndrome: The syndrome of migrant people with chronic and multiple stress. The results show the need of incorporating this analysis into the social and labor integration programs because the way we receive and protect migrant people will represent the difference between their integration and their maladjustment into the new society.

Social work professionals play an important role in prevention and care interventions in education, functions that are often unknown to the whole society. For a long time, their capabilities and potentials in its educational function have been constrained and undervalued at the risk of losing their professional identity by imposing them what is their work. Their first interventions were developed in Special Education centers. Their presence has been gradually increased in the educational environment in coordination with other professionals. The great social transformations, decades ago, together with the emerging technologies have generated new conflicts that require new responses from the sectors involved. It is a complex social moment that caused a period of opportunities for social recognition of the profession. The specific training of social workers, acquired and internalized knowledge, intervention methodology and characteristics of the work performed, make them the ideal professionals to interact between the education system and agents involved: students, families, school and social classes.

En este trabajo vamos a realizar una revisión de las evidencias disponibles sobre las primeras ocupaciones de las zonas de media y alta montaña del Pirinceo Central por parte de grupos agro-pastorales. En particular, nos vamos a fijar sobre dos practicas economicas relevantes: la caza y el cutlivo de cereales. Nuestro objectivo es entender el rol que estas dos actividades tuvieron dentro del sistema económico de los primeros pobladores neolíticos y como se integraron dentro del sistema. Nuestros resultados sugieren que la caza fue solo marginalmente practicada, mientras que para la agricultura únicamente tenemos evidencias del consumo de cereales, pero por ahora no de su cultivo en zonas de alta y media montaña. Este escenario, nos acerca a comunidades agro-pastorales móviles, que se desplazarón sobre un territorio relivamente amplio para desarollar sus practicas economicas y explotar diferentes recursos.

En este artículo presentamos los resultados de los trabajos de investigación arqueológica y paleoambiental llevados a cabo entre 2000 y 2014 en el Parque Nacional de Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici (PNAESM) y en su área periférica. Dichos trabajos comprenden la prospección sistemática de la mayor parte del territorio, entre 1500 y 3000 m de altitud, que ha permitido documentar 350 sitios arqueológicos, proporcionando 78 dataciones radiocarbónicas que comprenden una secuencia de ocupación de la zona de 10700 años. Asimismo, se ha completado la excavación de tres yacimientos arqueológicos: Cova del Sardo de Boí, Abric de lEstany de la Coveta I y el Dolmen de la Font dels Coms. El análisis arqueológico y paleoambiental de los sitios, de diversos perfiles y de 5 registros lacustres permiten modelizar la historia de las actividades económicas humanas en la alta montaña y el proceso de construcción de los primeros paisajes pastorales.

Communication is critical in achieving the integration of immigrants. We start from the assumption that higher level of communicative contact between immigrants and Spanish people communication, higher level of integration, and that this level of integration will be greater in the children than in the parents. To research this fact we created a survey that investigated the extent to which children of three immigrant groups (Chinese, Moroccans and Romanians) were integrated more to the culture of origin of their parents or Spanish. We used a sample of 900 participants, 150 parents and 150 children of every nationality. The results show how greater integration occurs in the Romanian group and lowest in Chinese, and how parents are less integrated than their children. Results are discussed.

Studies on professional development and the construction of teaching identities in Higher Education point to the need to review the induction process for novice academics and to establish programmes that support their inclusion in the university. This article analyses such a programme, focusing on strategies used to construct an academic teaching identity. The results allowed participants to feel included, to construct rational guidelines for teaching, and to construct clear scenarios for understanding their tasks within the institution. However, the results also highlight the need to integrate the research side into the programme, thus helping them to construct a global academic identity that integrates the teaching self and the investigating self. 30.09.2016 | Idoia Fernández-Fernandez & Clemente Lobato Fraile (Bilbao)

The documents known as Ragman Roll collect the fealty oaths sworn and the homages rendered by Scottish nobility, clergy, landowners and burgesses to Edward I Plantagenet after the English invasion of Scotland in the spring and summer of 1296. These documents record personal names and surnames of ca. 1800 people, being a precious source for the study of Scottish anthroponymy in the second half of the 13th century. This paper focuses on the feminine anthroponyms occurring in the Ragman Roll, on their form and on their historical-etymological and cultural background.

At first there is done a theoretical review of the Psychology of the Organizations, analyzing it from the historical beginnings of the Psychology of the work, through different theories, up to coming to the concept of Organization. The statistics on accidents at work place Spain as one of the countries where there are more accidents in the area of the European Union. The article 40.2 of the Constitution assigns to the government, as one of the guiding principles of the social and economic policy, to ensure the health and safety at work. To the fulfilment of this mandate responds the Law of Prevention of Labour Risks 31/1995, November 8th. For this empirical study there try to be valued aspects related to the daily life of the subject and for what way this one sees harmed by the presence of the pathology in the social family and labour area, after such a serious event took place for the health, due to exposure of textile workers to the disease known as "Syndrome of Ardystil", which caused deaths and serious injuries. This work analyzes the above mentioned sequels among the former workers.

La serie di documenti nota come Ragman Roll raccoglie i giuramenti di fedeltà e l’omaggio feudale resi da aristocratici, ecclesiastici, proprietari terrieri e borghesi di Scozia a Edoardo I Plantageneto dopo la campagna di occupazione inglese della primavera-estate 1296. In questa veste, essa riporta nomi e cognomi di circa 1800 persone, rappresentando una fonte preziosa per lo studio dell’antroponimia in uso in Scozia nella seconda metà del XIII secolo. Il presente saggio esamina gli antroponimi femminili nelle forme ricorrenti nel documento, ricostruendone la vicenda storico-etimologica e culturale.

Cuando escribe su "Regula inonachorum", San Isidoro tiene conciencia de no estar haciendo algo fundamentalmente nuevo. Es cierto que la escribe pensando en unos monjes concretos, los que viven con toda probabilidad en el monasterio Honorianensed); responde por lo mismo a unas e.xigencias bien determinadas y a unas circunstancias socio religiosas precisas, lo que tiene su importancia a la hora de saber su propósito. Sin embargo, Isidoro en su Regla sigue básicamente en la linea de la ya larga trayectoria de la tradición monástica occidental, a la que hace referencia desde el comienzo de la Regla, demostrando además conocer bien dicha tradición). (...)

In order to obtain a more permanent regulation of I.O.P. the size of the usual 20 mm2 scleral flap is reduced by about one half. Instead of the quadrangular scleral flap a lamellar triangular flap of 5 mm side length is prepared. This corresponds with a surface area of ca.10 mm2. The reduction of the scleral flap and accordingly the scleral wound does not lead to any disadvantages as compared to the method of Fronimopoulos. The advantages, however, are a significant shortening of the filtration path with less scarring tendency and a simpler way of preparing the scleral flap. Also in the combination of cataract and glaucoma operations the triangular scleral flap was found to be useful.

The present paper reports on experience gathered with the first 140 implantations of the Kelman II anterior chamber lens following intracapsular cataract extraction (ICCE). The technique of ICCE combined with lens implantation is described; the possible complications and the advantages of this new lens type are pointed out. With smooth implantation there have so far been no serious complications due to the lens, such as keratopathy, lens dislocation, secondary glaucoma, chronic iritis or membrane inflammation. The IC technique excludes the possibility of secondary cataract.