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Memoria de tesis doctoral presentada por Carmen Herrero Navarro para obtener el título de Doctora en Oceanografía por la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), realizada bajo la dirección del Dr. Antonio García-Olivares Rodríguez del Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC).-- 220 pages ; [EN] Let me start with a fundamental question: why should we study climate? Climate affects our daily life in many ways: on the food we eat, on the houses we live in, on our work, on how we travel. Even affects our culture, our spare time or our health. But all of those are only locally important. What we need to see here is the big picture: climate affects the way all living species have adapted to the biosphere, it is key for our survival, but we are drastically influencing it and we cannot predict the consequences of our actions. It is, then, fundamental to broaden our knowledge on the climate system of Earth, the only home we have ever known, to study the past climatic variability on various time scales to obtain clues that will help society face future climate change. As Carl Sagan foreseen on Cosmos, one of his most known books (Sagan [1980]) [.] ; [ES] Permítanme comenzar con una pregunta fundamental: ¿por qué debemos estudiar el clima? El clima afecta a la vida cotidiana de muchas maneras: en la comida que comemos, en las casas en que vivimos, en nuestro trabajo, en la forma en que viajamos. Incluso afecta a nuestra cultura, nuestro tiempo libre o nuestra salud. Pero esto es tan solo localmente importante. Lo que tenemos que ver aquí es el conjunto: el clima afecta la manera en que todas las especies vivas se han adaptado a la biosfera, es clave para nuestra supervivencia, pero estamos influenciándolo de manera drástica y no podemos predecir las consecuencias de nuestras acciones. Es, por tanto, fundamental ampliar nuestro conocimiento sobre el sistema climático de la Tierra, el único hogar que hemos conocido, para estudiar la variabilidad climática pasada en diferentes escalas de tiempo con el objetivo de obtener pistas que ayudarán a la sociedad a afrontar el futuro cambio climático. Como Carl Sagan predijo en Cosmos, uno de sus libros más conocidos (Sagan [1980]) [.] ; This thesis, entitled RELAXATION MODELS APPLIED TO PALEOCLIMATE DYNAMICS: SOUTHERN OCEAN MECHANISMS CONTROLLING GLACIAL - INTERGLACIAL CYCLES, has been funded by the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) under the program JAE-Predoc of the >Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios>, co-financed by the European Social Fund (FSE). This work has been performed at the Physical and Technological Oceanography Department of the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) at Barcelona, under the guidance of Dr. Antonio García-Olivares, scientist at CSIC. It has been developed in the framework of projects MOC2 (Ocean Climate Memory: mechanisms and paths of surface water formation in the equatorial Atlantic, reference CTM2008-06438, carried out between January 2009 and December 2011), and TIC-MOC (Tipping Corners of the Meridional Overturning Circulation, reference CTM2011-28867, carried out between January 2012 and December 2015). Both projects have been funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Secretary of State of Research, Development and Innovation of the Spanish Government (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación del Gobierno de España). ; Peer Reviewed

The researcher looked into the factors that affected the performance of Rizal Technological University CPA board examinees on the 2012 licensure examinations to determine the intervention necessary to improve the university's review programs. Descriptive research design was used wherein twenty-four Bachelor of Science in Accountancy graduates who took the May and October 2012 board examinations were surveyed using a validated researcher-made questionnaire. Documentary analysis was used for evaluating qualitative data. Results revealed that: student factors (interest in the accounting program, time spent for studying lessons and availing of library/internet resources in research activities) and home/family factors (family financial support, parental involvement in studies, motivation and encouragement) highly influence performance; school factors (adequacy of relevant library books and materials, adequacy of technology hardware and software, good accounting program and good accounting faculty) were perceived to have average influence; and scholarships, grade weighted averages and attendance to review courses handled by prestigious review schools were found to be positive factors in passing the board examinations. Based on the findings, the researcher recommended that the regular assessment through qualifying examinations be conducted and that the pre-board/mock examinations in the review classes be strengthened.

La Sala de Alcaldes de Casa y Corte era la institución que gobernaba e impartía justicia en los lugares elegidos por el rey y sus consejos para residir. Mientras la corte fue itinerante, la Sala reforzaba la actuación de los ayuntamientos de las ciudades donde esporádicamente habitaba el rey. Sin embargo, al instalarse la corte en Madrid de forma definitiva, no se produjo una cooperación entre el ayuntamiento de la Villa -que intuía una pérdida de protagonismo en la vida local madrileña- y la Sala de Alcaldes, sino que por el contrario sus enfrentamiento s por problemas de competencias fueron habituales. El consejo de Castilla fue la institución que debía dirimirlos. Al estar la Sala fuertemente vinculada al consejo -los mismos letrados en distintas etapas de su "cursus" administrativo ocupaban las plazas de oidores de audiencias, de alcaldes de Casa y Corte y de consejeros- el alto organismo sinodial optó casi siempre por la institución de la corte privando al ayuntamiento de atribuciones que en el resto del reino fueron siempre municipales. ; The Hall of Mayors of the Royal Household and the Court was the institution which governed and dispensed justice in the places chosen by the king and his councils to reside. While the court moved around continually, the Hall of Mayors reinforced the official acts of city governments in which the king resided sporadically. However, when the court became installed permanently in Madrid, there was no cooperation between the city government, which intuited a loss of protagonism in the everyday life of Madrid, and the Hall of Mayors. On the contrary, there were constant conflicts because of problems of attributions between them. The Council of Castille was the institution that had to resolve those battles. Since the Hall had strong ties to the Council -the same "letrados" during different phases of their administrative careers occupied the posts of judges of "audiencias", mayors of the Royal Household and Court, and advisers- the Council of Castille almost always chose the Court institution, depriving the city government of powers that in other parts of the kingdom were municipal attributions.