Seasonal Variation of Essential Oil Yield and Composition of Sage (Salvia officinalis L.) Grown in Castilla - La Mancha (Central Spain)

Links between phenology, yield and composition of the essential oil of common sage, Salvia officinalis L., grown in Guadalajara (Central Spain) were determined in the different phases of the biological cycle during one year. Data showed an average yield about 1.0%. The analysis of the oil components was carried out by GC-FID and GC/MS. The main oil constituent was alpha thujone (40.1 - 46.5%). Other identified compounds are beta pinene (2.6 - 4.5%), cineole (3.5 - 8.7%), beta thujone (4.1 - 5.6%), camphor (4.1 - 8.0%), borneol (1.3 - 3.7%), alpha humulene (3.8 - 7.3%), viridiflorol (3.4-12.6%) and manool (0.1-4.5%). The highest yield of oil was obtained in the period of full flowering and the highest concentration of alpha thujone in the period of initial flowering

Michel Ballard, Histoire de la traduction. Repères historiques et culturels

Producción científicaMichel Ballard, Histoire de la traduction. Repères historiques et culturels, Traducto, Bruxelles, de Boeck Supérieur, 2013, 234 pp

Analysis and operational challenges of dynamic ride sharing demand responsive transportation models

There is a wide body of evidence that suggests sustainable mobility is not only a technological question, but that automotive technology will be a part of the solution in becoming a necessary albeit insufficient condition. Sufficiency is emerging as a paradigm shift from car ownership to vehicle usage, which is a consequence of socio-economic changes. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) now make it possible for a user to access a mobility service to go anywhere at any time. Among the many emerging mobility services, Multiple Passenger Ridesharing and its variants look the most promising. However, challenges arise in implementing these systems while accounting specifically for time dependencies and time windows that reflect users’ needs, specifically in terms of real-time fleet dispatching and dynamic route calculation. On the other hand, we must consider the feasibility and impact analysis of the many factors influencing the behavior of the system – as, for example, service demand, the size of the service fleet, the capacity of the shared vehicles and whether the time window requirements are soft or tight. This paper analyzes - a Decision Support System that computes solutions with ad hoc heuristics applied to variants of Pick Up and Delivery Problems with Time Windows, as well as to Feasibility and Profitability criteria rooted in Dynamic Insertion Heuristics. To evaluate the applications, a Simulation Framework is proposed. It is based on a microscopic simulation model that emulates real-time traffic conditions and a real traffic information system. It also interacts with the Decision Support System by feeding it with the required data for making decisions in the simulation that emulate the behavior of the shared fleet. The proposed simulation framework has been implemented in a model of Barcelona’s Central Business District. The obtained results prove the potential feasibility of the mobility concept.Postprint (published version

Feminist popular education: Spanish classes for migrant women from the Magreb

La feminización de las migraciones y las cadenas globales de cuidados se interrelacionan desarrollando mecanismos vulneradores de derechos que afectan, principalmente, a mujeres migrantes y trabajadoras domésticas. Por ello, parte de esta población sufre desigualdades sociales asociadas a su etnicidad, identidad sexo-genérica y clase social. A través de la metodología cualitativa de tipo etnográfica, desarrollamos una investigación con mujeres migrantes magrebíes y trabajadoras domésticas que asisten a clases de castellano en los barrios de San Nicasio y La Fortuna en la ciudad de Leganés (Madrid). En el Estado español, las dificultades en el aprendizaje de una nueva lengua, la falta de contacto con las instituciones públicas y las fricciones con su comunidad de vecinos y vecinas promueven que mujeres con altas capacidades y potencialidades acaben viviendo experiencias de aislamiento, sin llegar a ejercer sus derechos en igualdad de condiciones al resto de la población y por otro lado, la comunidad no se enriquezca de los beneficios de procesos integradores efectivos y buena convivencia. Se analizan situaciones en las que mujeres desarrollan redes de sororidad y ayuda entre compatriotas para suplir las carencias un sistema social de atención a población migrante inefectivo, que no recoge las especificidades derivadas de las necesidades de estas mujeres y, por lo tanto, fracasa al garantizar su acceso a derechos básicosThe feminization of migration and global care chains are interrelated by developing mechanisms that violate rights that affect mainly migrant women and domestic workers. Therefore, part of this population suffers social inequalities associated with their ethnicity, sex-generic identity and social class. Through a qualitative methodology of ethnographic approach, we develop an investigation with migrant women from the Maghreb, who are also domestic workers and attend Spanish classes in the neighborhoods of San Nicasio and La Fortuna in the city of Leganés (Madrid). In the Spanish state, difficulties in learning a new language, lack of contact with public institutions and friction with its community of neighbors promote that women who have high capacities and potentialities end up experiencing isolation, without exercising their rights in equal conditions to the rest of the population and, on the other hand, the community is not enriched by the benefits of effective integrative processes and good coexistence. We analyze situations in which women develop networks of sorority and help among compatriots to fill the gaps of an ineffective attention social system to migrant population, which does not collect the specialties derived from the needs of these women and therefore fails to guarantee their access to basic right

NGO Communicative Logics. The Shift from Social Transformation to Institutional Strengthening

El texto analiza los enfoques y prácticas comunicativas de las ONG españolas en la actualidad. También el impacto de la crisis y de la expansión de las políticas neoliberales. Observamos el resurgimiento de modelos y estrategias asistencialistas en la acción social y en la práctica comunicativa. Un factor explicativo es el cambio en el modelo de financiación que ha dirigido los esfuerzos a la captación de recursos y provocado la unión de comunicación y fundraising. La lógica de la piedad y la exaltación emocional organizan los mensajes de la mayoría de entidades frente a experiencias minoritarias que buscan un cambio social crítico y transformador. Su evaluación desliga el impacto en visualizaciones o likes del cambio y la movilización social. Todo ello puede desembocar en una crisis de representatividad social y el desencuentro con otros actores reivindicativos como los movimientos sociales.The text analyzes the communicative approaches and practices of Spanish NGOs today. Also the impact of the crisis and the expansion of neoliberal policies. We see the resurgence of welfare models and strategies in social action and communicative practice. An explanatory factor is the change in the funding model that has led efforts to raise funds and provoked the union of communication and fundraising. The logic of piety and emotional exaltation organize the messages of most entities against minority experiences seeking a critical and transformative social change. Their evaluation disconnects the impact on views or likes from change and social mobilization. All this can lead to a crisis of social representativeness and disagreement with other stakeholders such as social movements