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Intelligent Decision Support System for Real-Time Water Demand Management
Get PDFEnvironmental and demographic pressures have led to the current importance of Water Demand Management (WDM), where the concepts of efficiency and sustainability now play a key role. Water must be conveyed to where it is needed, in the right quantity, at the required pressure, and at the right time using the fewest resources. This paper shows how modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques can be applied on this issue from a holistic perspective. More specifically, the multi-agent methodology has been used in order to design an Intelligent Decision Support System (IDSS) for real-time WDM. It determines the optimal pumping quantity from the storage reservoirs to the points-of-consumption in an hourly basis. This application integrates advanced forecasting techniques, such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), and other components within the overall aim of minimizing WDM costs. In the tests we have performed, the system achieves a large reduction in these costs. Moreover, the multi-agent environment has demonstrated to propose an appropriate framework to tackle this issue
Systemic approach to supply chain management through the viable system model and the theory of constraints
Get PDFIn today’s environment, Supply Chain Management (SCM) takes a key role in business strategy. A major challenge is achieving high customer service level under a reasonable operating expense and investment. The traditional approach to SCM, based on local optimisation, is a proven cause of meaningful inefficiencies
– e.g. the Bullwhip Effect – that obstruct the throughput. The systemic (holistic) approach, based on global optimisation, has been shown to perform significantly better. Nevertheless, it is not widely expanded, since the implementation of an efficient solution requires a suitable scheme. Under these circumstances, this
paper proposes an integrative framework for supply chain collaboration aimed at increasing its efficiency. This is based on the combined application of the Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM) and the Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints (TOC). VSM defines the systemic structure of the supply chain and orchestrates the collaboration, while TOC implements the systemic behaviour – i.e. integrate processes – and define performance measures. To support this proposal, we detail its application to the widely used Beer Game scenario. In addition, we discuss its implementation in real supply chains, highlighting the key points that
must be considered
La intervención del primer franquismo sobre la fiesta popular: una aproximación a través del caso asturiano (1937-1945)
Get PDFThe intervention in the festive calendar is a linchpin of the strategy designed by the
Franco regime in order to improve its control over the Spanish population. Such intervention, amply studied through the great national celebrations, demands new contributions about the atom of the Spanish festive network: the local popular feast. This article pretends to contribute to the knowledge of the attitude of the Regime towards the local festive leisure of the Spanish people, through the image projected by the Asturian case and making use of the suggestive contributions offered by the Sociology and Anthropology of leisure and feast.La intervención del calendario festivo es una pieza clave de la estrategia diseñada por el régimen franquista para el perfeccionamiento de su control sobre la población española. Dicha intervención, ampliamente estudiada para las grandes celebraciones de alcance nacional, demanda nuevas aportaciones en lo que se refiere al átomo del tejido festivo español: la fiesta popular local. Este trabajo pretende contribuir al conocimiento de la actitud del Régimen hacia las expresiones del ocio festivo popular, a través de la imagen proyectada por el caso asturiano y aprovechando las sugerentes aportaciones de la Sociología y la Antropología del ocio y la fiesta
Unusual Regioselectivity in the Gold(I)-Catalyzed [3+2] Carbocycloaddition Reaction of Vinyldiazo Compounds and N-Allenamides
Get PDFThe reaction of N-allenamides with alkenyldiazo compounds in the presence of gold catalysts provided methylidenecyclopentene derivatives resulting from a formal intermolecular [3+2] carbocyclization, a rare process in the gold chemistry of allenes. The participation of the C=C of the allenamide represents a very unusual regioselectivity in gold-catalyzed cycloaddition reactions of this type of allenic scaffolds. A stepwise mechanism involving initial activation of the diazo component has been proposed
Complex chromene derivatives through a silver-catalysed cascade reaction of simple o-alkynylsalicylaldehydes and alkenes
Get PDFThe silver-catalysed reaction of simple ortho-alkynylsalicylaldehydes and
alkenes gives complex benzo[de]chromenyl ketones through an unusual
cascade process where the starting ortho-alkynylsalicylaldehyde
behaves as a bis-diene derivative that participates in two different
formal [4+2]-cycloaddition reactions.FICYT of Principado de Asturias (Severo
Ochoa predoctoral grants
The relationship between impulsivity and problem gambling in adolescence
Get PDFGambling has become one of the most frequently reported addictive behaviors
among young people. Understanding risk factors associated with the onset or
maintenance of gambling problems in adolescence has implications for its
prevention and treatment. The main aim of the present study was to examine
the potential relationships between impulsivity and problem gambling in
adolescence. Participants were 874 high school students (average age: 15 years
old) who were surveyed to provide data on gambling and impulsivity. Selfreported
gambling behavior was assessed using the South Oaks Gambling
Screen – Revised for Adolescents (SOGS-RA) and impulsivity was measured
using the Impulsive Sensation Seeking Questionnaire (ZKPQ), the Barrat
Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11-A), and a delay discounting task. The data were
analyzed using both a prospective-longitudinal and a cross-sectional design. In
the longitudinal analyses, results showed that the impulsivity subscale of the
ZKPQ increased the risk of problem gambling (p = 0.003). In the crosssectional
analyses, all the impulsivity measures were higher in at-risk/problem
gamblers than in non-problem gamblers (p = 0.04; 0.03; and 0.01, respectively).
These findings further support the relationship between impulsivity and
gambling in adolescence. Moreover, our findings suggest a bidirectional
relationship between impulsivity and problem gambling in adolescence. These
results have consequences for the development of prevention and treatment
programs for adolescents with gambling problems
Perfil comparativo: agresores generalistas vs delincuentes violentos comunes
No full textPresentación power point originalFICYT, MINECO, Universidad de Ovied
Una vida... prolongada
Get PDFIn recent years, we have seen a scientific and technical breakthrough in health care so dramatic that it had never been seen before in human history, but together with these important, fundamental and necessary progresses (and every adjective that we would like to use), we should not forget that we care for human beings. High technology allows us to elongate people’s lives and sometimes, we do everything that is possible, forgetting that what we have to do is “just” what is necessary. This fact is what patient-centred care is about: the patient is the center of attention taking into account their preferences, morals and decisions, etc., in order to have the most dignified life as possible, from the beginning, during and till the end of their days.
This is why issues such as the patient’s autonomy, the adequacy of the therapeutic effort, the previous instructions, etc., are increasingly taking more importance in our daily work, joining together both the scientific and technical aspects and the human factor, in order to provide a health care designed by and for the people.En los últimos años hemos asistido a un avance científico-técnico en la asistencia sanitaria tan vertiginoso como no se había visto antes en toda la historia del ser humano, pero unido a estos avances importantes, fundamentales, necesarios... y todos los adjetivos que queramos ponerles no debemos olvidar que prestamos cuidados a personas. La alta tecnología que manejamos nos permite prolongar la vida de las personas y a veces hacemos todo lo posible, olvidando que debemos hacer “solamente” lo necesario, porque la atención centrada en el paciente es exactamente eso, tener al paciente en nuestro centro de atención, tener en cuenta sus preferencias, valores, decisiones, etc. para que tenga una vida lo más digna posible, tanto al inicio, durante, como al final de sus días.
Por ello, cuestiones como la autonomía del paciente, la adecuación del esfuerzo terapéutico, las instrucciones previas, etc, etc, van tomando cada día más relevancia en nuestro trabajo diario, uniendo la parte científico-técnica con la parte humana, para así dar una asistencia sanitaria por y para las persona
Normas de la comisión de calificación y valoración de documentos administrativos del Principado de Asturias conforme al Decreto 21/96 de organización y funcionamiento del Sistema de Archivos Administrativos, y su desarrollo
Get PDFAsturias, paraíso de castañas
Get PDFEn Asturias la faceta multiuso del castaño: consumo en fresco de sus frutos (en alimentación humana como animal); elaboración de productos agroalimentarios derivados de ellos (Marron Glacé, harinas, bebidas…); usos clásicos de la madera, desde muebles, barricas para el almacenamiento de bebidas, vigas estructurales…, hasta usos innovadores de ésta, como en revestimientos exteriores, otros usos estructurales en la construcción, marcos de madera laminada, joyas…, ha hecho que en las últimas décadas la gente sea más consciente de su importancia como un agente generador rural y fuente de nuevos recursos económicos. Específicamente para el fruto, que cuenta con métodos nuevos de almacenaje y tratamiento, se espera poder conseguir mejoras significativas en los productos ya existentes y crear nuevos de alta calidad gastronómica, nutricional y funcional para un mercado en demanda creciente