3,619 research outputs found
Transcripts for dissertation, "Iron fellows : commitment and activism in a poor people's movement"
No full textThis set contains transcripts from Marcos Perez's dissertation project. Data is available by request to interested scholars and students. Visitors may not download the files without express permission from the author. Visitors may not make copies of the transcripts, nor distribute any part of them separately. To request access, please contact [email protected]
San Marcos, former Mother House of the Military/Religious Order of Santiago. Built in the 12th century (Romanesque), rebuilt in the Plateresque Style 1513-1539 by Juan de Badajoz, detail of Santiago Matamoros over the central portal, Leon, Spain
No full textSan Marcos, former Mother House of the Military/Religious Order of Santiago. Built in the 12th century (Romanesque), rebuilt in the Plateresque Style 1513-1539 by Juan de Badajoz, detail of Santiago Matamoros over the central portal, Leon, Spain.https://digital.kenyon.edu/peregphotos/1131/thumbnail.jp
Indoor air pollution estimates at a city-wide scale in Barcelona
No full textMàster de Meteorologia, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona. Curs: 2023-2024. Tutors: Raül Marcos Matamoros, Jan Mateu Armengol, Cristina Carnerero QuinteroUrban air quality presents a significant global environmental challenge. In this context, understanding indoor and outdoor air quality levels is key to assessing population exposure better. Despite extensive research on modeling and monitoring air quality, studies that simultaneously model both remain limited. This study addresses this gap by combining Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) outdoor levels from the CALIOPE-Urban air quality model with indoor-outdoor parametric relations. Bias-corrected NO2 concentration levels at the street scale are used. These NO2 levels are based on a kriging data-fusion method, merging monitoring station data and the CALIOPE-Urban dispersion model. Two parametric relations depending on building use are assessed for deriving indoor air quality levels: infiltration rates and indoor-outdoor ratios. Bias-corrected outdoor levels
and the parametric relations are combined to obtain unprecedented city-wide maps containing indoor NO2 concentrations accounting for uncertainty quantification. Despite large confidence intervals in our results, the validation against observational data shows satisfactory model performance.
Results reveal significant variations in indoor NO2 concentrations across different districts, with the highest levels observed in areas with heavy traffic such as the l’Eixample district. Specifically, in this area, 70% of homes have a probability of 50% or higher of exceeding the legal threshold of 40 μg/m³, posing considerable health risks for their inhabitants. This comprehensive approach refines the understanding of indoor and outdoor air quality dynamics in Barcelona, revealing NO2 pollution hotspots and enabling reliable and comprehensive air pollution exposure studies
Courageous women in media: Marcos and censorship in the Philippines
No full textWhen Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972, press freedom became the first casualty in the country that once boasted of being the 'freest in Asia'. Printing presses, newspaper offices, television and radio stations were raided and padlocked. Marcos was especially fearful of the press and ordered the arrest of journalists whom he charged with conspiring with the 'Left'. Pressured into lifting martial law after nearly 10 years, Marcos continued to censor the media, often demanding publishers to sack journalists whose writing he disapproved of. Ironically, he used the same 'subversive writings' as proof to Western observers that freedom of the press was alive and well under his dictatorship. This article looks at the writings of three female journalists from the Bulletin Today. The author examines the work of Arlene Babst, Ninez Cacho-Olivares, and Melinda de Jesus and how they traversed the dictator's fickle, sometimes volatile, reception of their writing. Interviewed is Ninez Cacho-Olivare, who used humour and fairy tales in her popular column to criticise Marcos, his wife, Imelda, and even the military that would occasionally 'invite' her for questioning. She explains an unwritten code of conduct between Marcos and female journalists that served to shield them from total political repression
Advanced seasonal predictions for vine management based on bioclimatic indicators tailored to the wine sector
No full textThe potential increase in the adoption value of seasonal forecasts is spotlighted in this paper by introducing observation-forecast blending for wine-sector indicators over the Iberian Peninsula. The predictions of six bioclimatic indicators (temperature and precipitation based) considered highly important from the perspective of wine-sector users were prepared for each month of the growing season and combined with previous observations as the indicator period progresses. The performance of this approach was then assessed with Pearson’s correlation coefficient and Fair Ranked Probability Skill Score (FRPSS). The results show a marked increase in the skill metrics during the growing season from the early combinations for all the indicators. This progressive improvement of the forecasting skill offers the users an opportunity to ponder anticipation and confidence in their decisions and, thus, facilitate the future uptake of seasonal forecasting in their decision planningThanks to all the partners of the project MED-GOLD (Turning climate-related information into added value for traditional MEDiterranean Grape, Olive and Durum Wheat food systems, agreement no. 776467), the project VITIGEOSS (Vineyard innovative tools based on the integration of Earth Observation services and in-field sensors, agreement no. 869565) and the project ASPECT (HE-101081460) funded by the European Union. The results contain modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains. Thanks to SOGRAPE as the end-user for providing feedback in the co-development process. One of the coauthors, Raül Marcos-Matamoros, is a Serra Húnter Fellow. Finally, we thank the reviewers, whose comments helped improve the paper substantially.Peer Reviewed"Article signat per 11 autors/es: Chihchung Chou, Raül Marcos-Matamoros, Lluís Palma Garcia, Núria Pérez-Zanón, Marta Teixeira, Sara Silva, Natacha Fontes, Antonio Graça, Alessandro Dell'Aquila, Sandro Calmanti, Nube González-Reviriego"Postprint (published version
Producing Ferdinand E. Marcos, the Scholarly Author
No full textThisarticle discusses the compelling evidence—found in various primaryand secondary sources and analyzed through methods drawn from bookhistory and plagiarism detection—that not one of the books authored byPres. Ferdinand E. Marcos was actually written by him. Thearticle alsoshows how many of “Marcos’s” books had either plagiarized content(e.g., republishing contents from previous works) or were “padded” withlengthy appendices. It also explains the seemingly far-reaching distributionnetwork of these books. Lastly, thearticle looks into how these books,although they have not been republished for decades, continue to servetheir intended functions.KEYWORDS: FERDINAND E. MARCOS • BOOK HISTORY • GHOSTWRITING • PLAGIARISM• ADRIAN CRISTOBA
[People] Documents pertaining to Veronica Ramirez\u27s family
No full textFile 1: Marriage certificate of Veronica Ramirez from Mexico; Matamoros, Mexico., 1985. 8 x 11
File 2 (2 parts): Birth certificate of Marcos E. Manuel Ramirez Alvarez; 1991; Matamoros, Mexico., 1991. 9 x 11https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/bhh2014/1031/thumbnail.jp
CFD based aerodynamic redesign of a Marcos LM600
No full textThe final years of the 1960s mark the introduction of aerodynamics to the field of motorsport and they have grown to be inextricably connected ever since. The competing cars in nearly every motorsport category are fitted with aerodynamic devices while Formula One teams actually have departments that are primarily concerned with the aerodynamic design of their vehicles. The GT-class is another motorsport category that hosts cars that are predominantly shaped with the aim to optimize aerodynamic efficiency. The Marcos LM600 is one of the cars that competes in the GT-class and forms the sculpture of this thesis. The subject of this thesis is to enhance the aerodynamic characteristics of the Marcos LM600 through utilization of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). This implies that on going through this report a number of modifications to the Marcos LM600 will be presented with the aim of obtaining an aerodynamically improved racing car. In a sense the Marcos LM600 thus resembles a sculpture that assumes its final shape after a succession of modifications. The aerodynamic characteristics that are of primary significance to a racing car are the downforce and drag. The obvious target is to maximize the downforce and downforce-to-drag ratio. Apart from this force ratio, the downforce distribution between the wheel axes is another important racing car characteristic. The actual handling stability of the car is determined by the force balance between the front and rear wheels. Too much ”grip” on the front wheels causes oversteer, while too much rear wheel grip causes understeer. Thus when designing racing cars, the aerodynamicist should take into account the front wheel and rear wheel downforce and to obtain either a vehicle with neutral steer or slightly oversteer1. However, vehicle handling is beyond the scope of this thesis, which is why the Marcos LM600 will only be optimized in terms of downforce and drag, leaving out their effect on the vehicle stability.Aerospace Engineerin
Monitoring climate related risk and opportunities for the wine sector: The MED-GOLD pilot service
No full textMED-GOLD was a 54-months research and innovation project, whose main aim was to co-develop climate services for three staples of the Mediterranean food system, namely grapes, olives and durum wheat. This paper describes the methodology adopted for the co-development of the pilot climate service for the wine sector, focusing on the Douro Wine Region in northern Portugal. In the first step, the MED-GOLD industrial partner SOGRAPE identified key decisions and users’ needs for the wine sector in the Douro region by involving managers from their own vineyards in that region. From this information, the relevant bioclimatic indicators (and associated essential climate variables) were selected. Afterwards, two compound risk indices, the Sanitary and Heat Risk indices, were introduced as a combination of some of the aforementioned bioclimatic indicators. This methodological work was validated against the empirical climate characterization for the region of interest, of several ‘bad’ and ‘good’ years chosen by users according to their recollections of grape and wine production outcomes, namely quality and yields. In this paper, the overall strategy for selection of these years is presented. The components of the service based on historical climate, seasonal predictions and longer-term climate projections are described along with the visual interface developed: the MED-GOLD Dashboard, an interactive tool that displays detailed historical climate data, seasonal predictions and climate projections. The Dashboard consists of an ICT platform with a map-based user-focused front end to aid easy access to and manipulation of the data. The Dashboard was iteratively co-designed with the users to ensure their needs were met.The authors acknowledge project MED-GOLD (Turning climate-related information into added value for traditional MEDiterranean Grape, Olive and Durum Wheat food systems, agreement no. 776467) funded by the European Union. Raul Marcos-Matamoros is a Serra Húnter fellow.Peer Reviewed"Article signat per 17 autors/es: Alessandro Dell'Aquila , António Graça, Marta Teixeira, Natacha Fontes, Nube Gonzalez-Reviriego, Raul Marcos-Matamoros, Chihchung Chou, Marta Terrado, Christos Giannakopoulos, Konstantinos V. Varotsos, Federico Caboni, Riccardo Locci, Martina Nanu, Sara Porru, Giulia Argiola, Marta Bruno Soares, Michael Sanderson"Postprint (published version
Creación de productos turísticos exclusivos para adultos mayores a nivel costero.
No full textEste trabajo refleja la pertinente implicación científico-técnica en tareas de investigación a partir del planteamiento del problema, formulación de objetivos, diseño metodológico cuantitativo-descriptivo, para asumir la presentación de un proyecto alterativo factible de gestión de productos turísticos que beneficie a los
adultos mayores. Expone insumos teóricos trascendentes extraídos de fuentes bibliográficas e investigación de campo, que resaltan elementos conceptuales para la comprensión interrelacionada e interdependiente del perfil personológico y preferencias recreativas de las personas de la tercera edad desde el enfoque
histórico cultural, con el producto turístico, modelo sistémico de capas y sus principales componentes: ambiente, infraestructuras general y especifica, recursos naturales, ecológicos y culturales de la zona costera. El procesamiento de resultados numéricos y estadísticos desde la perspectiva de investigación de
mercado, el análisis, la deducción de conclusiones y recomendaciones, sustenta el diseño estructural y organizacional de la propuesta denominada Operadora Turística Geria Cost Tours, no como una mas que se suma a las existentes, sino como una empresa líder e innovadora que satisfaga con exclusividad las
expectativas y necesidades de turistas de la tercera edad nacionales e internacionales, a través de la implementación de un servicio turístico cimentado en valores humanos y prosocialidad, que genere motivación, ofrezca seguridad, confianza, distracción y oportunidades direccionadas al Sumak Kawsay; ademas, que responda a los parámetros de inversión, rentabilidad, demanda del mercado turístico nacional, encuadre a las leyes vigentes y compromiso de contribución profesional al desarrollo económico-social de nuestro país. Geria Cost Tours, es una alterativa de negocio exitoso impulsado por Malena Méndez Murillo y
Fabián Alberto Ponce Matamoros, egresados de la Carrera de Turismo de la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, dos sonadoras y visionarios que creen en las bondades naturales, humanas y económicas de la costa ecuatoriana para dinamizar una empresa con mecanismos idóneos, creatividad, calidez y calidad permanentes
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