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According to the Principal-Agent Theory, the institutional mechanisms of control are considered key elements to counteract corruption, since they provide relevant information to the principal about the actions of the agent and contribute to increased transparency. Based on this theoretical framework, this paper points to the analysis of an empirical issue: how political corruption via party financing is controlled in the Spanish political system. More specifically, this paper tackles the question of why the successive attempts to counteract corruption through party finance reform have failed. With that aim in mind, special attention is given to both the approval process of the Party Finance Act 1987 and the subsequent unsuccessful attempts of reform during the 90's. In each specific context, the impact of the various scandals that occurred, as well as the different interests of the actors involved in the process of decision making (the main political parties) are studied. Finally, this paper states that the current lack of consensus that prevents reform in Spain is explained by the loopholes in the existing law, which represents a structure- induced equilibrium in terms of Shepsle. In other words: the status quo remains because 'not to reform the law' is a point of equilibrium induced by the Party Funding Act itself, which blocks the consensus between the different parties.

Due to its role as a lingua franca, English has become a major source of language influence worldwide. This article addresses the impact of English on German. Contact-induced influences can be observed at all levels of the linguistic system in German, extending from preferences for particular morphemes to the structure of texts and genres. This study focuses on the largely under-studied area of phraseology. Phraseological Anglicisms, i.e. word-groups and sentence-like units such as catchphrases, proverbs, formulae and slogans of English origin, are gaining ground, particularly in fields like media, journalism, advertising and entertainment. The phenomenon is analyzed here via the example of the German satirical TV program heute-show. It is shown that the modification of phraseological units is an oft-used technique of political satire. Phraseological Anglicisms represent about one third of all occurrences in the examined data set, and thus play an important role. They most commonly take the form of political slogans, titles of films and brand names. The discussion focuses on particular types of modification and whether the German audience understands and appreciates them.

In the past thirty years, the exponential rise in the number of Internet users around the word and the intensive use of the digital networks have brought to light crucial political issues. Internet is now the object of regulations. Namely, it is a policy domain. Yet, its own architecture represents a new regulative structure, one deeply affecting politics and everyday life. This article considers some of the main transformations of the Internet induced by privatization and militarization processes, as well as their consequences on societies and human beings. ; En los últimos treinta años ha crecido de manera exponencial el número de usuarios de Internet alrededor del mundo y el uso intensivo de conexiones digitales ha traído a la luz cuestiones políticas cruciales. Internet es ahora objeto de regulaciones. Es decir, es un ámbito de la política. Aún su propia arquitectura representa una nueva estructura reguladora, que afecta profundamente la política y la vida cotidiana. Este artículo considera algunas de las principales transformaciones de Internet inducida por procesos de privatización y militarización, como también sus consecuencias en las sociedades y en los seres humanos.

El turismo sexual ha sido objeto de creciente atención en los estudios sobre turismo. La mayoría de los autores se ocupan de su expansión en el Sudeste asiático, con Tailandia como mascarón de proa. Para un grupo de investigadores el turismo sexual en ese área refleja, ante todo, una estrategia de desarrollo económico capitalista favorecida por los gobiernos locales y agencias económicas internacionales. Otros autores enfatizan que constituye otra nueva forma de dominación simbólica de Occidente sobre Oriente. Este trabajo analiza críticamente esas posiciones y concluye que el estudio de la prostitución en esos países debe ser objeto de un examen más general, enraizado en sus tradiciones familiares y culturales. ; Sex tourism has recently become one important topic in tourism research. Many authors discuss its expansion in Southeast Asia, significantly in Thailand. A sizeable number of researchers think that it reflects another facet of the international division of labor induced by capitalist development. This strategy has been consistently pursued by local governments and international agencies. Others see in sex tourism a new form of symbolic subjection of the Orient. This paper discusses those two points of view and concludes that prostitution in the area needs broader vistas including local family structures and cultural traditions.

This article comes from the intense international pressure that follows a near-catastrophy, such as the human influenza A H1N1 epidemic, and the limited resources for confronting such events. The analysis covers prevailing 20th century trends in the international public health arena and the change-induced challenges brought on by globalization, the transition set in motion by what has been deemed the "new" international public health and an ever-increasing focus on global health, in the context of an international scenario of shifting risks and opportunities and a growing number of multinational players. Global public health is defined as a public right, based on a new appreciation of the public, a new paradigm centered on human rights, and altruistic philosophy, politics, and ethics that undergird the changes in international public health on at least three fronts: redefining its theoretical foundation, improving world health, and renewing the international public health system, all of which is the byproduct of a new form of governance. A new world health system, directed by new global public institutions, would aim to make public health a global public right and face a variety of staggering challenges, such as working on public policy management on a global scale, renewing and democratizing the current global governing structure, and conquering the limits and weaknesses witnessed by international health.

The utilization of induced courents in the subsoil has currently constítuted an outstanding point in the development of complex systems, capable to quantitatively assess the electrical charge conduction level by a determinated ground volume. This study analizes the response, as a physical sign, by certain devices based in the physics principie of induction (magnetic dipoles) with regard to archaeological structures and certain elements that once were part of the surroundings of one of the most important political - religious sites of the mesoamerican civilization. As a specific case, the response of a paleochannel obtained in the western zone of the Conjunto Principal de Copán - Ruinas, Honduras, is presented. ; La utilización de corrientes inducidas en el subsuelo ha constituido, hoy día, un punto muy importante en el desarrollo de instrumentos complejos, capaces de cuantificar el nivel de conducción de carga eléctrica a través de un determinado volumen de terreno. En este trabajo se analiza la respuesta, como señal física, de ciertos dispositivos electromagnéticos basados en el principio fisico de inducción (dipolos magnéticos), ante la presencia de estructuras arqueológicas y ciertos elementos que formaron parte de los alrededores de uno de los centros político— religiosos más importantes de toda la civilización mesoamericana. Se presenta, como caso específico, la respuesta de un paleocanal obtenida en la zona oeste del Conjunto Principal de Copán - Ruinas, Honduras.

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El malestar de las mujeres en España en los años 60, evocando a Betty Friedan, es la emoción melancólica que diagnostica la ausencia de sentido que sufrieron debido a la promesa incumplida del amor romántico. La tesis es que la tristeza femenina en pleno desarrollismo tardofranquista se indujo dentro de una estructura temporal de carácter vitalista, definida por la aceleración del tiempo en la realización del deseo individual hacia el objeto amado. El cuerpo de las mujeres transitó de una pulsión deseante, por la experiencia de subjetivación que produce el amor romántico, hacia un extrañamiento del objeto amoroso. Desde la episteme emocional en la que sitúo el análisis sobre la subjetividad, el malestar como sufrimiento emocional tuvo un contenido cognitivo que dio lugar a nuevas prácticas corporales de extrañamiento hacia los hombres, que hizo inteligible, años más tarde, la narrativa feminista sobre "lo personal es político". ; The malaise of women in Spain in the 1960s, echoing Betty Friedan, is the melancholy emotion that diagnoses the lack of meaning they suffered due to the unfulfilled promise of romantic love. The thesis is that feminine sadness in the late francoist developmentalism was induced within a temporal structure of a vitalist character, defined by the acceleration of time in the realisation of individual desire for the loved object. Women's bodies went from a desiring drive, through the experience of subjectivation produced by romantic love, to a strangeness of the love object. Based on the emotional episteme in which I situate the analysis of subjectivity, malaise as emotional suffering had a cognitive content that gave rise to new body practices of estrangement towards men, that years later made intelligible the feminist narrative of "personal is political".

Currently there is no specific legislation that addresses the issue of induced impacts on the ground vibrations due to industrial work, nor a general consensus regarding the permissible levels of vibration standards that address problems (pile driving, step trains, etc.). Therefore, and taking into account the impulsive nature of the excitation source (ie impacts of high-level, short-term), employment is justified as an indicator of vibration measurements, the peak value of the signal in the time domain acceleration or speed, and the dominant frequency, since the danger with respect to a structure as well as the inconvenience to the occupants, both factors influence. In this paper the dynamic, constructive or structural damage caused on a house by industrial work of a steel company housing are analyzed. ; Actualmente no existe una normativa específica que trate la problemática de las vibraciones inducidas por impactos contra el suelo debido a labores industriales, ni un consenso general en lo relativo a los niveles admisibles de vibración en normas que tratan problemas relacionados (hinca de pilotes, paso de trenes, etc.). Por ello y teniendo en cuenta la naturaleza impulsiva de la fuente de excitación (es decir, impactos de alto nivel, de corta duración), se justifica el empleo como indicador de las vibraciones medidas, del valor pico de la señal en el dominio del tiempo en aceleración o en velocidad, y la frecuencia dominante, dado que en la peligrosidad con respecto a una estructura, así como las molestias a sus ocupantes, influyen ambos factores. En el presente trabajo se analizan los perjuicios dinámicos, constructivos o estructurales, causados sobre una vivienda unifamiliar por las labores industriales de una empresa siderúrgica.

En este trabajo se pretende analizar la estructura de la economía georgiana para el año 2007. Para ello se utiliza la Matriz de Contabilidad Social de este país para el año objeto de estudio. Se analizarán los sectores clave de la economía, se realizará una descomposición de multiplicadores contables en sus tres efectos (directo, indirecto e inducido), y por último se realizarán dos simulaciones; por un lado se analizará cómo reaccionan los distintos sectores productivos en la región debido a la transferencia de fondos recibidos por parte de las USAID, y por otro lado, se analizará la distribución de los ingresos y los gastos de los consumidores georgianos. Los resultados obtenidos muestran los sectores de actividad más importantes del país, entre los que se encuentran, Agricultura, Manufacturas y Comercio así como los que menos repercusión e importancia tienen como pueden ser Minería, Educación e Instituciones Gubernamentales. ; This paper analyzes the economic structure of the Georgian economy by 2007. Using the Social Accounting Matrix of this country for that particular year, authors analyze the key sectors of the economy. There can be found an accounting decomposition of multipliers in their three effects (direct, indirect and induced), and finally, the analysis of the reaction of different productive sectors in the region to the transfer of funds received by the USAID and the distribution of income and expenditure of Georgians consumers is run. The results show the most important sectors of the country, among them are to be included: Agriculture, Manufacturing and Trade, as well as the sectors of minor impact and importance which are in the case Mining, Education and Government Institutions.

Objetivo: analizar la experiencia de las mujeres que han tenido un aborto y las consecuencias dolorosas que dicha práctica produce en la vida y en el cuerpo de las mujeres, así como averiguar si existe un apoyo social para la mujer que ha abortado, y un marco para afrontar sus consecuencias. Metodología: se realiza una Investigación cualitativa fenomenológica basada en las fuentes orales a través de entrevistas semiestructuradas, con el fin de estudiar los relatos de 20 mujeres sometidas a un aborto inducido. Resultados: los aspectos que derivan del silencio social son la percepción social de que el aborto carece de importancia y el tabú del aborto relacionado con el biopoder que se ejerce sobre el cuerpo de las mujeres. Conclusión: se habla del aborto y se discuten aspectos sociales y legales morales o políticos, pero se ignora aquello que trasciende más allá del propio acto reduciéndolo a esquemas ideológicos. ; Purpose: to analyze the experience of women who have had an abortion and the damaging consequences of abortion in their lives and their bodies. The purpose is also to find out whether there exists any social structure or support for women who have had an abortion. Methodology: The study followed a qualitative methodology, using Phenomenological Analysis, in order to study twenty women's narratives about their own induced abortion. Results: The aspects derived from social silence are the following: social perception about the insignificance of abortion, the taboo of abortion related to the bio-power imposed on women's body. Conclusion: Abortion is discussed in terms of legal, social, moral or political aspects; however what transcends the abortions itself is ignored, as abortion is socially reduced to ideological schemes.

The PhD thesis "Desarrollo y aplicación de herramientas de valoración de riesgos tecnológicos en centrales nucleares españolas a partir de la técnica de Análisis Probabilista de Seguridad" results from the research projects carried out between the Nuclear Engineering Research group, which belongs to UPC's Divisió d'Enginyeria Nuclear, and one of the operator companies of Spanish nuclear power plants during the period of 2013-2017. Both the Secretaria de Recerca i Universitats of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Ministerio de Econom ía, Industria y Competitividad of the Spanish government are also participants because they have awarded grants for the development of the projects herein presented. The main objective of this PhD thesis is to delve into the field of the risk-informed applications used in nuclear power plants, putting forward, developing, and testing new tools that allow a more detailed awareness and evaluation of nuclear power plants risks so that nuclear power plants can be operation and maintenance safely. For that purpose, the first part of this thesis presents the state of the art of risk-informed applications and their role in the frame of nuclear safety. The second part of the thesis presents the development and results analysis of a pilot probabilistic safety assessment for an independent spent fuel storage installation, which is devoted to store nuclear spent fuel. This assessment, which is pioneer in the Spanish nuclear industry, analyzes the installation's response to abnormal events, and allows to quantify the risk related to the occurrence of an undesired consequence in this installation. Moreover, this part of the thesis presents a novel contribution to the field of human reliability analysis as applied to probabilistic safety assessment in the form of the development of a human reliability analysis methodology applicable to the storage installation handling operations. It is concluded that the contribution of the storage installation to the risk of radionuclide emission of the whole plant is virtually nonexistent. The third part of the thesis presents the development and application of methodologies and tools derived from fire probabilistic safety assessments whose purpose is to introduce the evaluation of the fire induced risk in the decision-making processes devoted to the configuration of systems, structures, and components in nuclear power plants. Historically, the assessment of the fire induced risk had been either carried out qualitatively or belittled mainly because of the late evolution of the fire induced risk quantitative assessment techniques. In consequence, the tools presented in this thesis are a novel contribution to the field of risk-informed decision making since they provide a quantitative evaluation of the fire induced risk by means of a fire probabilistic safety assessment. Two matrix-shaped novel tools are described and applied to the real case of a Spanish nuclear power plant. The use of these tools demonstrates that number of elements who are significant to the fire induced risk of the plant is small. The projects presented in this PhD thesis as well as others developed through the period 2013-2017 have presented in national and international conferences and have been published in international indexed journals. ; La tesi doctoral "Desarrollo y aplicación de herramientas de valoración de riesgos tecnológicos en centrales nucleares españolas a partir de la técnica de Análisis Probabilista de Seguridad" es producte dels projectes d'investigació portats a terme pel Nuclear Engineering Research Group, que pertany a la Divisió d'Enginyeria Nuclear de l'UPC, i una de les empreses operadores de centrals nuclears espanyoles durant el període 2013-2017. També són partícips d'aquesta tesi doctoral tant la Secretaria de Recerca i Universitats de la Generalitat de Catalunya com el Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad del Gobierno de España per prestar financiació per al desenvolupament dels treballs aquí exposats. El principal objectiu d'aquesta tesi doctoral és el de profunditzar al camp de les aplicacions informades pel risc utilitzades a centrals nuclears, proposant, desenvolupant, i provant noves eines que permetin conèixer i valorar amb més detall els riscos associats a les mateixes per a que les centrals nuclears puguin seguir sent operades i mantingudes de forma segura. Per donar compliment a aquest objectiu, la primera part de la tesi presenta l'estat de l'art de les aplicacions informades pel risc i la seva implicació en el marc de la seguretat nuclear. La segona part de la tesi presenta el desenvolupament i anàlisi de resultats d'un model pilot d'anàlisi probabilista de seguretat d'un magatzem temporal individualitzat, que es tracta d'una instal·lació d'emmagatzematge de combustible nuclear gastat. Aquest model, que es pioner en el marc de la industria nuclear espanyola, permet analitzar la resposta de la instal·lació davant de successos anormals, i permet quantificar el risc associat a la ocurrència d'una conseqüència no desitjada en aquesta instal·lació. A més, en una contribució novell al camp de l'anàlisi de fiabilitat humana per l'anàlisi probabilista de seguretat, aquesta part de la tesi doctoral presenta el desenvolupament d'una metodologia d'anàlisi de fiabilitat humana que és aplicable a les operacions a portar a terme al context concret d'un magatzem temporal individualitzat. En aquesta part de la tesi es conclou que la contribució del risc del magatzem temporal individualitzat al total del risc de la central nuclear és pràcticament nul·la. La tercera part de la tesi presenta el desenvolupament i aplicació de metodologies i eines, generades mitjançant un anàlisi probabilista de seguretat d'incendis, per incorporar el risc induït per incendis a les pràctiques habituals de presa de decisions al respecte de configuracions de sistemes, components, i estructures, a centrals nuclears. Històricament, la valoració del risc induït per incendis s'ha portat a terme mitjançant metodologies qualitatives o s'ha menyspreat a causa de, principalment, l'evolució tardana de les metodologies quantitatives d'anàlisi de riscos induïts per incendis. Per tant, les eines i metodologies presentades són una contribució novell al camp de la presa de decisions informada pel risc doncs proporcionen una valoració quantitativa del risc d'incendis mitjançant l'eina que suposa l'APS d'incendis. Es proposen i descriuen dues eines novells, en forma de matriu, que s'apliquen al cas real d'una central nuclear espanyola. L'aplicació d'aquestes eines ha conclòs que tot element amb impacte sobre el risc induït per incendis d'aquesta central està localitzat en un grup reduït d'equips, sistemes contra incendis, i zones d'incendi. Els treballs presentats en aquesta tesi doctoral, així com altres desenvolupats durant el període 2013-2017, han estat difosos a diversos congressos nacionals e internacionals, i han estat motiu d'articles de revista internacional i indexada. ; Postprint (published version)

The PhD thesis "Desarrollo y aplicación de herramientas de valoración de riesgos tecnológicos en centrales nucleares españolas a partir de la técnica de Análisis Probabilista de Seguridad" results from the research projects carried out between the Nuclear Engineering Research group, which belongs to UPC's Divisió d'Enginyeria Nuclear, and one of the operator companies of Spanish nuclear power plants during the period of 2013-2017. Both the Secretaria de Recerca i Universitats of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Ministerio de Econom ía, Industria y Competitividad of the Spanish government are also participants because they have awarded grants for the development of the projects herein presented. The main objective of this PhD thesis is to delve into the field of the risk-informed applications used in nuclear power plants, putting forward, developing, and testing new tools that allow a more detailed awareness and evaluation of nuclear power plants risks so that nuclear power plants can be operation and maintenance safely. For that purpose, the first part of this thesis presents the state of the art of risk-informed applications and their role in the frame of nuclear safety. The second part of the thesis presents the development and results analysis of a pilot probabilistic safety assessment for an independent spent fuel storage installation, which is devoted to store nuclear spent fuel. This assessment, which is pioneer in the Spanish nuclear industry, analyzes the installation's response to abnormal events, and allows to quantify the risk related to the occurrence of an undesired consequence in this installation. Moreover, this part of the thesis presents a novel contribution to the field of human reliability analysis as applied to probabilistic safety assessment in the form of the development of a human reliability analysis methodology applicable to the storage installation handling operations. It is concluded that the contribution of the storage installation to the risk of radionuclide emission of the whole plant is virtually nonexistent. The third part of the thesis presents the development and application of methodologies and tools derived from fire probabilistic safety assessments whose purpose is to introduce the evaluation of the fire induced risk in the decision-making processes devoted to the configuration of systems, structures, and components in nuclear power plants. Historically, the assessment of the fire induced risk had been either carried out qualitatively or belittled mainly because of the late evolution of the fire induced risk quantitative assessment techniques. In consequence, the tools presented in this thesis are a novel contribution to the field of risk-informed decision making since they provide a quantitative evaluation of the fire induced risk by means of a fire probabilistic safety assessment. Two matrix-shaped novel tools are described and applied to the real case of a Spanish nuclear power plant. The use of these tools demonstrates that number of elements who are significant to the fire induced risk of the plant is small. The projects presented in this PhD thesis as well as others developed through the period 2013-2017 have presented in national and international conferences and have been published in international indexed journals. ; La tesi doctoral "Desarrollo y aplicación de herramientas de valoración de riesgos tecnológicos en centrales nucleares españolas a partir de la técnica de Análisis Probabilista de Seguridad" es producte dels projectes d'investigació portats a terme pel Nuclear Engineering Research Group, que pertany a la Divisió d'Enginyeria Nuclear de l'UPC, i una de les empreses operadores de centrals nuclears espanyoles durant el període 2013-2017. També són partícips d'aquesta tesi doctoral tant la Secretaria de Recerca i Universitats de la Generalitat de Catalunya com el Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad del Gobierno de España per prestar financiació per al desenvolupament dels treballs aquí exposats. El principal objectiu d'aquesta tesi doctoral és el de profunditzar al camp de les aplicacions informades pel risc utilitzades a centrals nuclears, proposant, desenvolupant, i provant noves eines que permetin conèixer i valorar amb més detall els riscos associats a les mateixes per a que les centrals nuclears puguin seguir sent operades i mantingudes de forma segura. Per donar compliment a aquest objectiu, la primera part de la tesi presenta l'estat de l'art de les aplicacions informades pel risc i la seva implicació en el marc de la seguretat nuclear. La segona part de la tesi presenta el desenvolupament i anàlisi de resultats d'un model pilot d'anàlisi probabilista de seguretat d'un magatzem temporal individualitzat, que es tracta d'una instal·lació d'emmagatzematge de combustible nuclear gastat. Aquest model, que es pioner en el marc de la industria nuclear espanyola, permet analitzar la resposta de la instal·lació davant de successos anormals, i permet quantificar el risc associat a la ocurrència d'una conseqüència no desitjada en aquesta instal·lació. A més, en una contribució novell al camp de l'anàlisi de fiabilitat humana per l'anàlisi probabilista de seguretat, aquesta part de la tesi doctoral presenta el desenvolupament d'una metodologia d'anàlisi de fiabilitat humana que és aplicable a les operacions a portar a terme al context concret d'un magatzem temporal individualitzat. En aquesta part de la tesi es conclou que la contribució del risc del magatzem temporal individualitzat al total del risc de la central nuclear és pràcticament nul·la. La tercera part de la tesi presenta el desenvolupament i aplicació de metodologies i eines, generades mitjançant un anàlisi probabilista de seguretat d'incendis, per incorporar el risc induït per incendis a les pràctiques habituals de presa de decisions al respecte de configuracions de sistemes, components, i estructures, a centrals nuclears. Històricament, la valoració del risc induït per incendis s'ha portat a terme mitjançant metodologies qualitatives o s'ha menyspreat a causa de, principalment, l'evolució tardana de les metodologies quantitatives d'anàlisi de riscos induïts per incendis. Per tant, les eines i metodologies presentades són una contribució novell al camp de la presa de decisions informada pel risc doncs proporcionen una valoració quantitativa del risc d'incendis mitjançant l'eina que suposa l'APS d'incendis. Es proposen i descriuen dues eines novells, en forma de matriu, que s'apliquen al cas real d'una central nuclear espanyola. L'aplicació d'aquestes eines ha conclòs que tot element amb impacte sobre el risc induït per incendis d'aquesta central està localitzat en un grup reduït d'equips, sistemes contra incendis, i zones d'incendi. Els treballs presentats en aquesta tesi doctoral, així com altres desenvolupats durant el període 2013-2017, han estat difosos a diversos congressos nacionals e internacionals, i han estat motiu d'articles de revista internacional i indexada. ; Postprint (published version)

The debate on the ineffectiveness of the concept of class as a category of sociological analysis, mentioned in the writings of Ray E. Pahl in Divisiones del Trabajo and Jan Pakulski and Malcom Waters The Death of Class; in a negative way, Bourdieu's (2010) theory of distinction, alluding to that it is based on a relationship between class, formation of taste and consumption, overcome by social fragmentation and globalization. In this sense, we highlight Coulangeon and Lemel in Social Status and Cultural Consumption of the year 2010. This paper counters that, even in highly developed and democratic societies, individualized and omnivorous consumptions are observed, these are developed from symbolic differentiations, reference groups, occupations and income levels. Because it belongs to a social class, it will be a key factor for the purchase of fashion. However, with respect to the habitus, it is overestimated as a class unconscious, as well as a structuring structure, induced to think that consumption practices are poorly intelligible. Hence the relevance of considering it as a class consciousness. ; El debate sobre la ineficacia del concepto de clase como categoría de análisis sociológico, mencionado en los escritos de Ray E. Pahl en Divisiones del Trabajo y de Jan Pakulski y Malcom Waters The Death of Class; contribuyeron a acrecentar las críticas profundizando de forma negativa la teoría de la distinción de Bourdieu (2010), aludiendo a que se fundamenta en una relación entre clase, formación del gusto y consumo, superada por la fragmentación social y la globalización. En este sentido destacamos Coulangeon and Lemel en Social Status and Cultural Consumption del año 2010. Este escrito contrapone que, aunque en sociedades sumamente desarrolladas y democráticas, se observan consumos individualizados y omnivoristas, éstos se desarrollan a partir de diferenciaciones simbólicas, grupos de referencia, ocupaciones y niveles de renta. Por lo que la pertenencia a una clase social resultará un factor clave para la compra ...

Sediment transport predictions are critically dependent on the prediction of near-bed wave-induced velocities. Moreover, if the determination of the suspended sediment transport is sought, it is necessary to define a velocity profile in the vertical coordinate. In this paper we present an extension of the highly non-linear Boussinesq equations to include the computation of the vertical structure of the horizontal velocity. This velocity profile is evaluated from the parabolic approximation included in the continuity equation. To verify this approach under regular waves, we include comparisons between theory and laboratory data obtained under a project known as SASME (Surf and Swash Zone Mechanics) funded by the European Union, in which the University of Plymouth was involved. In general, good agreement is found between theory and experimental data. ; La predicción del transporte de sedimentos cerca de la línea de costa depende directamente de la correcta estimación de las velocidades inducidas por el oleaje; más aún, si se desea determinar el transporte de material en suspensión, es necesario definir la distribución de velocidades en la vertical. En este trabajo se presenta el cálculo de la distribución vertical de velocidades horizontales con las ecuaciones completamente no lineales de tipo Boussinesq. El perfil de velocidades se evalúa por medio de la aproximación parabólica incluida en la ecuación de continuidad. Con objeto de verificar dicha aproximación, se incluye la comparación de los resultados obtenidos con datos experimentales de superficie libre y perfil de velocidades para el caso de oleaje regular. Las mediciones de laboratorio fueron obtenidas dentro de un proyecto europeo conocido como SASME (Surf and Swash Zone Mechanics), del que fue parte la Universidad de Plymouth. En general, se observa una buen a correspondencia entre los resultados obtenidos a través de la teoría y los de las modelaciones experimentales.