How new technologies can promote an active and healthy city. Digital platform to identify areas of informal sport practise in the city of Malaga

La investigación realizada se ha llevado a cabo en el marco de la Cátedra Tecnologías Emergentes para la Ciudadanía, Red de Cátedras Estratégicas del Vicerrectorado de Proyectos Estratégicos, Universidad de Málaga, y el Polo Digital, Ayuntamiento de Málaga.In recent years the urban public space has become the largest casual sports infrastructure in cities and suburbs. WHO establishes a direct relationship between the Active Healthy City, social cohesion of communities and public space. This approach provides a framework for research and work on the design of the city and urban space as support for this sport practice. Moreover, new technologies provide an opportunity to promote the sport in the city. “Malaga Activa” digital platform project is an initiative that wants to promote the informal sport practice on the urban public space (outside the regulated sports facilities) and healthy living in the neighborhoods of the city of Malaga. This paper presents the results of the first phase of the project identifying the active sport areas -those in which physical and casual sport activities take place-. It also includes a methodology and a performance test of the created digital platform, as well as an assessment of the experience and possible improvements to be incorporated in the successive phases of the project.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

An estimate of the total catch in the Spanish Mediterranean Sea and Gulf of Cadiz regions (1950-2010)

The underestimation of fisheries removals is a global issue that spans countries from different continents and different socio-economic situations. Underestimation of catches is especially important in countries where fishing fleets are highly diversified, the enforcement of fishing management is low, data availability is poor, and there is high demand for fish products in local markets. This is the case for Mediterranean countries. Here, we estimated total removals of marine resources by Spain from 1950 to 2010 for the Spanish Mediterranean Sea and Gulf of Cadiz regions following a catch-reconstruction approach. We first collected information from scientific publications, grey literature and secondary sources of information (i.e., personal communications, interviews with managers and fishers) to complement officially reported catch data, which are publicly available from FAO databases and from national and regional statistics. A literature search and fishers interviews provided assessments of missing catch sectors that are time-point estimates. These were used as anchor points of reliable data upon which we then estimated total catch using interpolation to fill in the periods for which quantitative data were missing. Overall, the reconstructed catch was 70% larger than the nationally reported data for the same time period. Results illustrated that unreported removals and discards represent important portions of total removals in the study area. Unreported landings and discards accounted for, on average, 42% of total removals between 1950s and 2010, and were composed of black market sales, subsistence fishing, artisanal fishing, recreational fishing and illegal catch, in addition to discarding. By the late 2000s, recreational fishing was the most important sector for unreported landings (~36%), followed by black market sales (~32%), subsistence fishing (~17%), unreported artisanal fishing (~12%) and illegal catch (~2%). While FAO landings data showed an increase of landings from 1950 to the mid-1960s and a decline from the mid-1970s to 2010, a different trend emerged after accounting for all fisheries removals. Reconstructed total catches revealed an earlier maximum of total removals in the late 1950s, a plateau being reached during the 1960s and 1970s, and a decline from the early 1980s to 2010. Our estimates of total fisheries catches represent an improvement over official catch data, and suggest a different historical trend of marine resource use

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Novel Models of Streptococcus canis Colonization and Disease Reveal Modest Contributions of M-Like (SCM) Protein

Streptococcus canis is a common colonizing bacterium of the urogenital tract of cats and dogs that can also cause invasive disease in these animal populations and in humans. Although the virulence mechanisms of S. canis are not well-characterized, an M-like protein, SCM, has recently identified been as a potential virulence factor. SCM is a surface-associated protein that binds to host plasminogen and IgGs suggesting its possible importance in host-pathogen interactions. In this study, we developed in vitro and ex vivo blood component models and murine models of S. canis vaginal colonization, systemic infection, and dermal infection to compare the virulence potential of the zoonotic S. canis vaginal isolate G361 and its isogenic SCM-deficient mutant (G361∆scm). We found that while S. canis establishes vaginal colonization and causes invasive disease in vivo, the contribution of the SCM protein to virulence phenotypes in these models is modest. We conclude that SCM is dispensable for invasive disease in murine models and for resistance to human blood components ex vivo, but may contribute to mucosal persistence, highlighting a potential contribution to the recently appreciated genetic diversity of SCM across strains and hosts

Healthy Cities, New Technologies and Sustainability: A Collaborative Mapping of Informal Sport Activity in the Public Space of Cities as an Innovative Tool for Understanding City Sport Phenomena.

Urban public space has become one of the main infrastructures for informal sports in cities. However, despite the high impact of that practice, local records only show the sports activity at the urban spaces specifically designed and regulated for that purpose. More information about where this practice arises and what attributes of urban space promote it would allow the adoption of specific measures in urban and sports policies. This paper proposes a methodology mainly based on the mapping of this informal sport activity and urban places where it appears by local communities and sportspeople. These collaborative maps are supported by the use of geographical information system (GIS) technologies and surveys on local communities. The research establishes a double objective of identifying urban spaces where citizens perform outdoor sports and deepen the knowledge of the physical attributes of public spaces that promote sports and local demands related to public space requirements. This methodology has been tested in the city of Malaga, the European City of Sport 2020, as a reference of a city with a growing outdoors’ sport activity. The main contribution is focused on the use of new tools that offer subjective information: opinions and habits of citizens in relation to sport urban practice. This information—which is difficult to obtain through other resources—should be considered for the design of urban and sports policies according to citizens’ demands.Network of Strategic Chairs. Malaga City Council-University of Malaga agreement to carry out training programs for the Digital Content Hub (2017/000015). Publication of article has been funded by Research group HUM-969: Urbanismo, Turismo, Paisaje e Innovación Arquitectónica—UTOPIA from University of Malaga Partial funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málag

A Model-Driven Framework for Domain Specific Process Design and Governance

Current BPM approaches and standards have not sufficiently reduced the Business-IT gap. Indeed, today's solutions are mostly domainindependent and platform-dependent, which limits the ability of business matter experts to express business intent and enact process change. In contrast, the tool presented in this paper supports an approach that focuses on BPM and SOA environments in a domain-dependent and platform-independent way. We propose to add a domain specific-layer on top of current solutions so that business stakeholders can design and understand their processes in a more intuitive way. This significantly improves the agility and governance of processes. The demo shows the appropriateness and the feasibility of the approach.Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TIN2015-63502-C3-2-

DNA barcoding reveals substitution of Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) with Patagonian and Antarctic Toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides and D. mawsoni) in online market in China: How mislabeling opens door to IUU fishing

China's rapid economic development has determined profound changes in seafood consumption patterns, and nowadays besides the traditional luxury seafood, high-quality marine fish are consumed. Among these is Anoplopoma fimbria (Sablefish), a highly priced species on the Chinese market. A recent molecular survey on products sold online in China found that all the analyzed products sold as Yin Xue, used to indicate A. fimbria, were instead Dissostichus spp., a genus of fish extremely vulnerable to overfishing (Xiong et al., 2016). Considering this and the lack of a standardized naming system for seafood species in China, an initial search was conducted to identify all the possible Chinese names indicating A. fimbria. The aim of the present study was to assess the challenges of the online market with regards to frauds for fish species substitution. DNA barcoding was employed to verify the identity of 42 products sold on e-commerce platforms as Sablefish. Moreover, the information reported on the webpage and on the label was analyzed according to the Chinese regulation in force. All the PCR products gave readable sequences. By using the IDs analysis on BOLD and the BLAST analysis on GenBank all the samples were unambiguously identified at the species level. Of the 42 products sold as Sablefish, only 6 (14.3%) were molecularly identified as this species, while 32 (76.2%) were identified as Dissostichus eleginoides (Patagonian Toothfish) and 4 (9.5%) as D. mawsoni (Antarctic Toothfish), highlighting an alarming overall misrepresentation rate of 85.7% and implications for the management of these species' fisheries. The combined analysis of all the information of the webpages and the labels allowed us to hypothesize unintentional and intentional mislabeling. Our findings suggest the possible existence of a trade pattern enabling IUU fishing operators to launder illegal catches of Toothfish through mislabeling

Indicator system to measure the qualities of urban space affecting urban safety and coexistence

Preprint de los autores enviado a: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. DOI:10.1088/issn.1757-899xUrban space design directly influences its own safety. Sometimes this security is given by urban furniture, lighting or urban facilities, among other aspects. This paper presents a methodology based on the development of a system of indicators that provides the opportunity to assess what qualities of urban space influence street safety. It is important to know what aspects of public space make the citizen consider it a safe place and at the same time, to contrast these data with scientific documents. The first results are shown after applying this methodology to the case study of the city of Malaga, and specifically, to a sample of streets selected based on objective criteria crime rate. For research and obtaining indicators, digital surveys have been carried out on a group of 300 people, using Google Forms and social networks. Likewise, to obtain samples of the streets with the highest and lowest crime rates, registration data has been geolocated by the tolls of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The main contribution of this document is focused on defining indicators to characterize and quantify the safety in the streets of the urban public space. These are contrasted with objective data and records of insecurity and crime, and can be applicable to any street in any city. Finally, through these indicators, it is intended to know what are the parameters that influence urban safety for future designs of public spaces, or their renovation, achieving in the future, the existence of streets with a higher level of safety.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Modélisation de la variabilité des indicateurs dans le cadre des administrations de services publics

National audienceAdministrations of public services such as water distributors call upon software publishers to implement their business processes and key performance indicators (KPI) required by decision makers and regulation entities. However, in the same business, a process can have several variants and, in this context, the KPI definition and calculation are complexified, having to recalculate an existing KPI, creating a new one or even the impossibility of providing it. This paper proposes elements allowing to define and calculate KPI by considering different reference process' variants.Les administrations de services publics comme les distributeurs d'eau font appel à des éditeurs logiciels pour implémenter leurs processus métier et calculer des indicateurs exigés par décideurs et les autorités de régulation. Cependant, dans un même métier, un processus peut avoir plusieurs variantes et dans ce cadre, le calcul et la définition des indicateurs de performance deviennent complexes pouvant prendre la forme du recalcul d'un indicateur existant, de la création d'un nouvel indicateur, voire même de l'impossibilité de le calculer. Cet article propose des éléments permettant de faciliter la définition et le calcul d'indicateurs clés de performance, prenant en compte différentes variantes d'un processus