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An article, published in the English original this April, at the time of the global peak of the coronavirus pandemic, takes stock of the challenges that COVID-19 has brought to society and in particular to sociologists. Draws attention to the process of de-globalisation, which has temporarily affected social sciences, and supports a more global sociology. According to the author, this does not mean limiting it to macro-analysis and methodological globalism. Stresses, on the contrary, the importance of empirical and analytical knowledge from different regions. It then commented on four major themes that social sciences have so far reflected the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, highlighting also important policy aspects. Expresses concern, inter alia, that the pandemic could reinforce authoritarian tendencies using biopolitics based on new technologies and artificial intelligence. ; Článek, publikovaný v anglickém originále letos v dubnu, tedy v době globálně vrcholící koronavirové pandemie, se zamýšlí nad výzvami, které onemocnění covid-19 přineslo pro společnost a zejména pro sociology. Poukazuje na proces deglobalizace, který dočasně zasáhl i sociální vědy, a pléduje pro globálnější sociologii. Podle autora to neznamená omezování se na makroanalýzy a metodologický globalismus. Naopak zdůrazňuje význam empirických a analytických poznatků z různých regionů. Následně komentuje čtyři významné tematické okruhy, jimiž sociální vědy zatím reflektovaly dopady koronavirové pandemie, a zdůrazňuje při tom i významné politické aspekty. Vyslovuje mj. obavu, že by pandemie mohla posílit autoritářské tendence využívající biopolitiku založenou na nových technologiích a umělé inteligenci.

International audience This paper addresses the global engagement of certain African intellectuals who strove for the independence of Lusophone Africa. It does so using geopolitical lenses based on new and multilingual archives. Extending current scholarship on subaltern geopolitics, cultures of decolonisation, and critical development studies, I show the performance of the subaltern diplomacies deployed by political leaders such as Amílcar Cabral, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Agostinho Neto, Eduardo Mondlane, and Marcelino dos Santos in capturing international sympathy for their cause from other scholars, activists, and politicians at different levels (from grassroots movements to state leaders and international organisations) across the divides between Cold War blocs and the fields of the 'First', 'Second', and 'Third World'. I argue that these endeavours disrupted mainstream narratives of development and Euro-centred ideas of assimilation, partly due to their emphasis on education and the production of subaltern histories and geographies that were instrumental to the national construction of new decolonised countries from so-called 'Portuguese Africa'. In the 1960s and early 1970s, these intellectuals used the weapons of culture, public communication, and transnational networking as devices that were as important as the accomplishments of their fellow guerrilla fighters in the battlefield. Additionally, these stories confirm the importance of the archive for tracing cosmopolite, multilingual, and diasporic networks and their spatiality, as well as for doing critical geopolitics from perspectives other than Anglo-or Western-centred ones, thus decolonising geography.

725 747 43 5 ; S ; [EN] A transit service quality study based on cluster analysis was performed to extract detailed customer profiles sharing similar appraisals concerning the service. This approach made it possible to detect specific requirements and needs regarding the quality of service and to personalize the marketing strategy. Data from various customer satisfaction surveys conducted by the Transport Consortium of Granada (Spain) were analyzed to distinguish these groups; a decision tree methodology was used to identify the most important service quality attributes influencing passengers overall evaluations. Cluster analysis identified four groups of passengers. Comparisons using decision trees among the overall sample of all users and the different groups of passengers identified by cluster analysis led to the discovery of differences in the key attributes encompassed by perceived quality. The authors also acknowledge the Granada Consorcio de Transportes for making the data set available for this study. Griselda Lopez wishes to express her acknowledgement to the regional ministry of Economy, Innovation and Science of the regional government of Andalusia (Spain) for their scholarship to train teachers and researchers in Deficit Areas. Rocio de Ona wishes to express her acknowledgement to the regional ministry of Economy, Innovation and Science of the regional government of Andalusia (Spain) for the Excellence Research Project denominated "Q-METROBUS-Quality of service indicator for METROpolitan public BUS transport services'', co-funded with Feder. De Oña, J.; De Oña, R.; López-Maldonado, G. (2015). Transit service quality analysis using cluster analysis and decision trees: a step forward to personalized marketing in public transportation. Transportation. 43(5):725-747. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-015-9615-0 Abou Zeid, M., Ben-Akiva, M.: A model of travel happiness and mode switching, in choice modelling: the state-of-the-art and the state-of-practice. In: Hess S., Daly A. (eds.) Proceedings from the ...

In 2012���2013, a team led by Ray Siemens at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL), in collaboration with Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE), developed three annotated bibliographies under the rubric of ���social knowledge creation.��� The items for the bibliographies were gathered and annotated by members of the Electric Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) to form this tripartite document as a resource for students and researchers involved in the INKE team and well beyond, including at digital humanities seminars in Bern (June 2013) and Leipzig (July 2013). Gathered here, the result of this initiative might best be approached as an expeditious environmental scan, a necessarily partial snapshot of scholarship coalescing around an emerging area of critical interest. The project did not seek to establish a canon, but instead to provide a transient representation of interrelational research areas through a process of collaborative aggregation. The annotated bibliography is purposefully focused on the active, present, and future ���social knowledge creation��� instead of the passive and past ���social construction of knowledge,��� in which its roots lie. The difference in emphasis signals a newfound concern with (re)shaping processes that produce knowledge, and doing so in ways that productively reposition sociological and historical approaches. Taken together, the three parts of the bibliography connect contemporary thinking about new knowledge production with a range of Web 2.0 digital tools and game-design models for redesigning knowledge processes to better facilitate collaboration.

The legacy of early digital editions and their related scholarship reveals the textual foundation of digital literary studies, a foundation that emphasized form and materiality, in effect a representational rather than interpretative view of text. Early digital editions were formed out of a "whole text" approach, a cohesive print-to-digital model that features interrelated textual materials, often in print book form, rather than an expansive and fragmented representation of text, as is increasingly the case with data-based practices. This article examines the ways in which the digital edition privileges the structure of the book, which is viewed as a self-contained entity with a naturalized means for displaying knowledge and replicated in most aspects of creating digital editions, from display to data treatment.

Rad počiva na ideji evropskog kulturnog identiteta, pojma koji se, poslednjih decenija posebno, etablirao kao važno uporište evropske političke zajednice, zajedničkih evropskih vrednosti ali i značajnih drugosti koje uprkos heterogenosti i asimetričnosti prisutnih kultura, zajedno tvore jedinstveni evropski kulturno-istorijski prostor Evrope. Različiti integrativni procesi koji se danas sve intenzivnije odvijaju, doprinose brzoj promeni konstelacija društava i re-konfiguraciji geopolitičkog, socio-ekonomskog i kulturnog ambijenta Evrope, tražeći novo sagledavanje tvorbe evropskog kulturnog identiteta koji nastaje kao rezultat tih različitih kretanja. Medij filma stoga, predstavlja idealnu perspektivu sagledavanja tvorbe evropskog transnacionanog kulturnog identiteta. Pitanje (ne)postojanja evropskog identiteta sagledano je kroz korpus teorija studija filma i medija i drugih, a na primerima dvadeset sedam (27) filmova laureata godišnje nagrade za najbolji evropski film (EFAs), Evropske filmske akademije (EFA), u periodu 1989–2014. godine, čiji su autori, između ostalih, Pedro Almodovar (Pedro Almodovar), Mihael haneke (Michael Haneke), Paolo Sorentino (Paolo Sorrentino), Lars fon Trir (Lars von Trier, i drugi. U ovoj disertaciji, evropski kulturni identitet sagledan je kroz filmske i kinematografske upise, preko kategorija identitetske drugosti, akcentovanih i asimilovanih identiteta, kao i preko elemenata (ko)produkcione drugosti. U istraživanju smo pošli od pretpostavke da filmovi nagrađeni za najbolji evropski fil nagradom EFAs nose elemente narativa interne drugosti, duboko podeljene Evrope, koji učestvuju u konstrukciji evropskog kulturno supra-identiteta u/na filmu kao i da se evropksi kulturni identitet u filmskim ostvarenjima laureata EFAs, gradi kroz dijalog Evrope, odnosno Evropske unije sa nacionalnim kinematografijama. Sa tog polazišta pristupilo se i istraživanju fenomena evropskog kulturnog identiteta drugosti. Cilj istraživanja bio je da se u kontekstu društveno-istorijskih i političkih procesa identifikuju i objasne elementi građenja identiteta kao i da se istakne uloga drugosti u formiranju evropskog kulturnog identiteta. Istraživačka pitanja u vezi sa odnosima međuzavisnosti koje formiraju pojmovi Evropa, identitet, drugost, evropski film i evropska nagrada u građenju prepoznatljivog fenomena evropskog kulturnog identiteta i fenomena evropskog filma. Problemska osnova na temelju koje je strukturisana analiza i sistematizovani naslovi nagrađenih filmskih ostvarenja u studiji slučaja, izvedena je iz teorijskih postavki koje se odnose na sledeće fenomene i pojmove: fazu ogledala Žaka Lakana (Jacques Lacan), heterotopije Mišela Fukoa (Michael Foucault), deteritorijalizacije / nomadizma Žila Deleza i Feliksa Gatarija ( Jules Deleuze / Félix Guattari), granice Jurija Lotmana (Yuri Lottman) i liminalnosti Arnolda van Genepa (Arnold van Gennep), kao postuliranje postmodernističkih tendencija u kojima se reflektuje pitanje (evropskog) kulturnog identiteta, primenjeno na polje filmske odnosno ekranske umetnosti. Svedoci smo da se u složenim procesima integracije i previranja nacionalnih i transnacionalnih tokova u Evropi, u periodu nakon pada Berlinskog zida (1989–2014), evropski kulturni identitet u/na filmu iznova konstruisao kroz narative drugosti, rezultirajući višestrukim akcentovanim i asimilovanim identitetima, što se pokazuje na primerima filmskih ostvarenja nagrađenih za najbolji evropski film EFAs. Činjenica je da značajne evrospke institucije u svojim dokumentima evropski identitet navode kao realitet, uprkos činjenici da sama konstrukcija evropskog identiteta ukazuje na (nezavršen) permanentan proces. Temeljne pretpostavke ovog istraživana su stoga: 1. nije reč o (id)entitetu kao o datosti; 2. identitet se gradi u društvenoj interakciji; 3. drugosti su sastavni deo (kulturnog) identiteta; 4. razlikama se obogaćuju i druge kulture; 5. evropski kulturni identitet je proces tj. gradilište u permanentnom nastajanju. Ishod analitičko-istraživačkog procesa je potvrđivanje da evropski kulturni identitet jeste skup različitosti tj. drugosti koje tvore jedan entitet, evropski kulturni identitet, koji međutim nije moguće fiksirati i precizno definisati, te on nadalje ostaje fenomen otvoren za različite interpretacije. ; The work is based on the idea of European cultural identity, a concept that, in recent decades, in particular, has established itself as an important mainstay of the European political community, common European values but also significant otherness which, despite the heterogeneity and asymmetry of present cultures, together form a unique cultural and historical space of Europe. The various integrative processes that are increasingly intensifying nowadays contribute to the rapid change of constellations of societies and re-configuration of the geopolitical, socioeconomic and cultural environment of Europe, seeking a new perception and definition of both national and European cultural identity that ensues from these various developments. The medium of film, therefore, represents an ideal perspective of perceiving the creation of a European transnational cultural identity. The issue of (non)existence of European identity is considered through a corpus of theories of Film and Media Studies and others, and on the examples of twenty-seven (27) films, laureates of the annual award for the best European film (EFAs) of the European Film Academy (EFA) in the period 1989−2014, whose authors are, among others, Pedro Almodovar, Michael Haneke, Paolo Sorrentino, Lars von Trier and others. In this dissertation, European cultural identity is viewed through film and cinematic inscriptions, through the categories of identity otherness, accented and assimilated identities, as well as through the elements of (co)production otherness. In the research we started from the assumption that the films awarded for the best European film by the EFAs award carry elements of narratives of internal otherness, of a deeply divided Europe, which participate in the construction of European cultural supra-identity in/on film and that European cultural identity in the film achievements of EFAs laureates is built through the dialogue of Europe, i.e. the European Union with national cinemas. That was the starting point for the research of the phenomenon of the European cultural identity of otherness. The aim of the research was to identify and explain the elements of identity construction in the context of socio-historical and political processes, as well as to emphasize the role of otherness in the formation of European cultural identity. Research questions are related to the interdependence relations formed by the concepts of Europe, identity, otherness, European film and the European award in building a recognizable phenomenon of European cultural identity and the phenomenon of European film. The problem basis on which the analysis and systematized titles of the awarded film achievements in the case study are structured is derived from theoretical assumptions related to the following phenomena and concepts: Jacques Lacan's mirror phase, Michael Foucault's heterotopias, deterritorialization and the nomadism of Jules Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the boundaries of Yuri Lottman and the liminality of Arnold van Gennep, as a postulation of postmodernist tendencies that reflect the question of (European) cultural identity, applied to the field of film or screen arts. We are witnesses that in the complex processes of integration and turmoil of national and transnational trends in Europe, in the period after the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989–2014), European cultural identity in/on film was reconstructed through narratives of otherness, resulting in multiple accented and assimilated identities, as shown by examples of film achievements awarded with EFAs for the best European film. The fact is that important European institutions recognize European identity as a reality in their documents, despite the fact that the very construction of European identity indicates a(n) (unfinished) permanent process. The basic assumptions of this research are therefore: 1. it is not about (id)entity as a given; 2. identity is built in social interaction; 3. otherness is an integral part of (cultural) identity; 4. differences also enrich other cultures; 5. European cultural identity is a process, i.e. a permanent construction site. The outcome of the analytical-research process is the confirmation that the European cultural identity is a set of differences/othernesses that form one entity, the European cultural identity, which, however, cannot be fixed and precisely defined, and it still remains a phenomenon open to different interpretations.

In this article I observe the mechanisms adopted to conceal the dependency relationship in the processing fishing industry from the 1990s onwards. The study emerges from a body of judgments of the local labour courts and the SCJBA, which demonstrate the practices of third and informality adopted by companies in the sector. Over the period, there is a growing difficulty in proving the employment nature of the link, which results in an increase in approvals — agreed — to the detriment of judgments. In this way, labour fraud is perpetuated, while approval implies that the worker renounces the claim. However, judicial treatment does not constitute a homogenous whole, and it is possible to find faults that transcend the particular conflict, thereby helping to penalise such practices. FIL: Cutuli, Romina. National University of Mar del Plata. Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences; Argentina. ; In this article I look at the mechanisms adopted to hide the dependence on the fisheries processing industry since the 1990's. thestudy emerges from a corpus of judgments of local labor courts and SCJBA, through which outsourcing practices and informality adopted by companies in the sector are evident. Through out the period, increasing difficulty appears to demonstrate the laboral vincle, resulting in an increase in approvals -accords- detriment of sentences. Thus, occupational frau discontinue, while the approval waive the claimby the worker. However, the judicial treatment not a homogeneous whole, and it is possible to find bugs that transcend the particular conflict, thus contributing to the criminalization of these practices. ; In this article I observe the mechanisms adopted to conceal the dependency relationship in the processing fishing industry from the 1990s onwards. The study emerges from a body of judgments of the local labour courts and the SCJBA, which demonstrate the practices of third and informality adopted by companies in the sector. Over the period, there is a growing difficulty in proving the employment ...

Knud Rasmussen (1930–1985) was a famous Danish historian, Professor at Institute of Slavic Studies at University of Copenhagen, specialist in medieval Russia, author of a dozen of scientific monographs published in large editions including in Russian. In 1973, he defended his thesis titled "The Livonian crisis of 1554–1561". According to the list of works published by J. Lind, 13 publications are devoted to the epoch of Ivan the Terrible. This article, published for the first time, is presented in the form of a report at the conference in Hungary. The scientist consistently outlined the main tasks and problems related to the study of Russian history abroad, in particular, in Denmark. He told what plan was built for the team of Danish historians who decided in the early 1970s to prepare a textbook on Russian history in the form of a problem historiographic course for Danish students, and how this plan was implemented. The study of works on Russian history and their systematization helped the team of Danish historians, which included K. Rasmussen, develop a special historiographic method and its principles, which led to developing understanding of the problematic historical field as a whole and placing individual research in it. As a result, a multivolume manual was written; by the time of K. Rasmussen's speech, 3 volumes were published, covering the period of Russian history from the 17th to the 20th century inclusive. K. Rasmussen worked on preparing a volume on the Russian history of the 16th century. In the second part of his speech (article), the author shared his thoughts on the chosen approach to the assessment of historiography and spoke about the content of this volume, where he outlined the controversial problem of enslaving peasants, discussions on the reasons for backwardness of Russian cities as the basis of Moscow defeats in Livonia, possible ways of Russian revival, on the state and its institutions and on the development of historical events in the field of domestic policy. This volume was published after the death of the author in the same year: Rasmussen Knud. Ruslands historie i det 16. Arhundrede: En forsknings-og kildeoversigt. Kobenhavn, 1985. 161 s. Bibliography about K. Rasmussen: Lind J. Creative Way Knud Rasmussen (on the 10th anniversary of his death) // Archeographic Yearbook for 1995. – Moscow : Nauka, 1995. – P. 160–165; Lind J. H. Knud Rasmussen in memoriam // Jacob Ulfeld. Travel to Russia. – M. : Languages of Slavic culture, 2002. – Р. 17–25; Vozgrin V. E. Knud Rasmussen and Zans Bagger – Danish historians of Russia // Proceedings of the Department of the History of New and Newest Times of St. Petersburg State University. – 2016. – № 16 (2). – Р. 205–219.

The abstract is prepared by Candidate of Sciences (History), Associate Professor N.V. Rybalko.

Since the 21st century, the development of digital technologies, the accessibility and democratisation of new technologies through their free redistribution at open source have made it possible to bring creativity, science and technology together. The relationship between arts and science, particularly in the field of plastic performance, is putting into practice a new form of interdisciplinarity that music brought into play at an early stage in the 1950s. The aim of this article is threefold: (1) consider the complexity of the musical object, a basis for musical investigation, (2) enhance the "Intersciences" model developed by the Axois Bernard Vecchione musicologue at the end of the 20th century and (3) use the epistemological routes opened up by the latter, proposing a metamusicological reflection here. ; International audience ; Since the 21st century, the development of digital technologies, the accessibility and democratisation of new technologies through their free redistribution at open source have made it possible to bring creativity, science and technology together. The relationship between arts and science, particularly in the field of plastic performance, is putting into practice a new form of interdisciplinarity that music brought into play at an early stage in the 1950s. The aim of this article is threefold: (1) consider the complexity of the musical object, a basis for musical investigation, (2) enhance the "Intersciences" model developed by the Axois Bernard Vecchione musicologue at the end of the 20th century and (3) use the epistemological routes opened up by the latter, proposing a metamusicological reflection here. ; Depuis le XXIe siècle, le développement des techniques numériques, l'accessibilité et la démocratisation des nouvelles technologies via leur libre redistribution en open source ont permis un rapprochement inédit entre création, sciences et technologies. Les relations entre arts et sciences, notamment dans le domaine des performances plastiques mettent en pratique une nouvelle ...

Peer Reviewed ; A significant portion of the agricultural food sector today is geared towards developing sustainable and organically based products, contributing to a widely acknowledged 'quality turn' in food markets (Goodman 2004). Organic viticulture is booming worldwide, having increased threefold between 2004 and 2015 (Willer and Lernoud 2016). Consumers are willing to pay a premium for wines deriving from organic vineyards in the belief that they are healthier, tastier, and of higher quality, although the differences between organic, biodynamic, or sulfite free wines remains confusing for many (Amato et al. 2017). In exploring this paradigm shift, current research addresses the question of how organic wines can provide increased value given the lack of clarity about the full list of ingredient and qualities (Krzywoszynska 2015; Delmas et al. 2016). This question is fundamental to understanding the process of assessing qualities and singularities in the commercialization of wine, a central debate in the interaction between nature and culture pervading most scholarship on wine (e.g., Bourdieu 1984; Charters 2006; Smith 2006). The breadth of supply and the democratization of consumption in an 'age of omnivorousness' encourages the need to empirically establish the specifics and logics of differentiation in the wine market (Maguire 2016). Empirical studies demonstrate that standardized wines in saturated, mature, global markets fail to satisfy a group of consumers who are looking for a differentiated product and willing to pay for it (Aylward 2008, 2011). Consumers are willing to pay for organic wines even though some of them are rejected by the various quality control systems established by geographical indications of origin and other certification bodies, or in spite of their variability in flavor due to low levels of sulfur dioxide, an antioxidant that favors their stability and conservation (Teil 2013). ; This work was supported by the Grupo de EstudiosTerritoriales (Universida de da Coruña), ...

167 178 75 ; S ; [EN] This paper reports on the development of a compact, low-cost, impulse bi-static UWB radar sensor for its use as non-destructive methods for electrical property measurement in industrial application. This UWB Radar sensor consists of an ultrashort-monocycle-pulse transmitter of 330 ps, an oscilloscope as a UWB sampling receiver with a high wide band of 6 GHz, and two UWB antennas ranging from 0.4 to 6 GHz. A new model of SRD has been introduced to decrease the rise time of the impulse. Performance of this UWB radar sensor was verified through two kinds of applications: range detection and electrical property measurements. All measurements have been carried out in an anechoic chamber with a distance variation between 80 and 300 cm. The full radar system provides good agreement between the experimental and theoretical results, which demonstrate its application in many fields, especially for electrical Property Measurements. The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by Pierre and Marie Curie University under the EMMAG Scholarship. This study was supported by DIMAS group, ITACA institute at City polytechnic of innovation from university polytechnic of Valencia. Ahajjam, Y.; Aghzout, O.; Catalá Civera, JM.; Penaranda-Foix, FL.; Driouach, A. (2018). An Advanced Electrical Properties Measurement Approach with a Designed Bi-Static Ultra-Wideband Impulse Radar Sensor. Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER. 75:167-178. https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERM18070305

How To Make Your Medieval Research More Visible With Open Scholarship Methods and Tools , Dr. Ulrike Wuttke (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP) / PARTHENOS), 60 min Workshop at Tampere University (Finland) on the occasion of the Carmen (The Worldwide Medieval Network) Annual Meeting 2018 Academic publishing, scholarly communication, and requirements for good academic practices are changing. Open Access to scientific publications and research data is supported by a growing number of institutions and becomes increasingly a requirement of research funders. The communication of scientific results happens more and more in social networks and blogs. While these changing patterns of scholarly communication can positively impact their research dissemination, enhance the number of citations, not at least to prove the relevance of medieval studies against the backdrop of dwindling research budgets, humanities researchers are comparatively reluctant to embrace open scholarly practices. This workshop is targeted to all medievalists who wish to increase the visibility of their research and find out more about the opportunities of Open Science and Open Scholarship methods and tools. There will be an overview of practical solutions already existing, as well as space to discuss doubts and needs (e.g. more open access for books, more subject specific open access journals or repositories), how to overcome them and to connect with like-minded researchers to form new iniatives. The summarized (anonymous) results of this workshop will be reported back to relevant infrastructures and made public for funders e.g. in a blogpost, project deliverable etc. Content: -modes of open scientific research practices and scholarly communication -showcase benefits -doubts, reservations, barriers -presentation of available services -discussion of needs, next steps The PARTHENOS project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654119.

284 289 49 7 ; S ; [EN] Multi-objective optimisation techniques have shown to be a useful tool for controller tuning applications. Such techniques are useful when: 1) it is difficult to find a controller with a desirable trade-off between conflictive objectives; or 2) it is valuable to extract an additional knowledge from the process by analysing track-off among possible controllers. In this work, we propose a. multi-objective optimisation design procedure for unstable process, using PID controllers. The provided examples show the usability of the procedure for this kind of process, sometimes difficult to control; comparison with existing tuning rule methods provide promising results for this tuning procedure. (C) 2016, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work was partially supoted by projects FEDER-CICYT DPI2014-55276-C5-1 (Spain) and the fellowships FPI/2013-3242 (UPV, Spain), BJT-304804/2014-2 (CNpQ, Brazil). Second author wishes to thank to Universidad del Papaloapan by the approved project entitled Sintonizacin de controladores lineales optimo-robustos mediante algoritmos evolutivos y tecnicas de decision multi-criterio. Third author thanks the Santander Scholarship program (Investigacion-JPI). Reynoso-Meza, G.; Carrillo Ahumada, J.; Boada-Acosta, YF.; Picó, J. (2016). PID controller tuning for unstable processes using a multi-objective optimisation design procedure. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 49(7):284-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.07.287

6453 6460 6 9 ; S ; Polyamidic nanofibrous membranes containing gated silica mesoporous particles, acting as carriers, are described as novel hybrid composite materials for encapsulation and on-command delivery of garlic extracts. The carrier system consists of MCM-41 solids functionalized in the outer surface, with linear polyamines (solid P1) and with hydrolyzed starch (solid P2), both acting as molecular gates. Those particles were adsorbed on electospun nylon-6 nanofibrous membranes yielding to composite materials M1 and M2. FE-SEM analysis confirmed the presence of particles incorporated on the nylon nanofibers. The release of the entrapped molecules (garlic extract) from the P1, P2, M1, and M2 materials was evaluated using cyclic voltammetry measurements. Electrochemical studies showed that at acidic pH P1 and M1 were unable to release their entrapped cargo (closed gate), whereas at neutral pH both materials release their loading (open gate). Dealing with P2 and M2 materials, in the absence of pancreatin a negligible release is observed (closed gate), whereas in the presence of enzyme the load is freely to diffuse to the solution. These newly developed composite nanomaterials, provide a homogeneous easy-to-handle system with controlled delivery and bioactive-protective features, having potential applications on pharmacology, medical and engineering fields. The authors wish to express their gratitude to the Generalitat Valenciana (Grisolia scholarship 2011/012, project PROM-ETEO/2009/016), Spanish Government (MINECO Projects AGL2012-39597-C02-01, AGL2012-39597-C02-02 and MAT2012-38429-C04-01) and the CIBER-BBN for their support. IILA thanks DISTAM and Universita degli di Milano for a specialization scholarship. We would also like to thank the Institut de Ciencia dels Materials (ICMUV) and to the Microscopy Service of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia for technical support. We thank Roquette for the Glucidex samples. Acosta Romero, C.; Pérez Esteve, E.; Fuenmayor, CA.; Benedetti, S.; Cosio, MS.; Soto ...