In order to make improvements to teaching, it is vital to know what students think of the way they are taught. With that purpose in mind, exhaustively analyzing the forums associated with the subjects taught at the Universitat Oberta de Cataluya (UOC) would be extremely helpful, as the university's students often post comments on their learning experiences in them. Exploiting the content of such forums is not a simple undertaking. The volume of data involved is very large, and performing the task manually would require a great deal of effort from lecturers. As a first step to solve this problem, we propose a tool to automatically analyze the posts in forums of communities of UOC students and teachers, with a view to systematically mining the opinions they contain. This article defines the architecture of such tool and explains how lexical-semantic and language technology resources can be used to that end. For pilot testing purposes, the tool has been used to identify students' opinions on the UOC's Business Intelligence master's degree course during the last two years. The paper discusses the results of such test. The contribution of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates the feasibility of using natural language parsing techniques to help teachers to make decisions. Secondly, it introduces a simple tool that can be refined and adapted to a virtual environment for the purpose in question.
The “Mediterranean Wall” in the territory of the Marina Alta: bunkers and batteries of the Spanish War (1936-1939)In 1936-1939 the War of Spain took place, turning its territory into the testing ground of Europe in anticipation of the Second World War; here new weapons were tested: mass media, propaganda and aviation. The national side used Mallorca as “aircraft carrier” from which it launched airstrikes on the Mediterranean coast: a rearguard that required fortification. To defend the cities, the Republican government ordered, in 1937, to build a coastal defensive system (“Mediterranean Wall”). On the Valencian coast there were ten basic enclaves: from the lighthouse of Castellón to the end of Santa Pola. This network of defenses had two built lines. The first was constituted by elements located at zero level, by the sea and on the beaches, which maintained regular distances from each other; these were reinforced concrete bunkers that sought to camouflage themselves. A second was formed by coastal and antiaircraft, concrete and masonry batteries that merged with the land, located in the hills to have a wider horizon and be closer to its objectives. Bunkers and batteries that followed geometric patterns in constant evolution. This communication studies the defensive settlements built by the Republican army in the cities of Xàbia and Dénia (Marina Alta), which had a port, airfield and armament factories, which made them the target of enemy aviation. In these territories many of these architectures have disappeared under real estate pressure, but there are still several bunkers, batteries and ammunition deposits that are intended to be inventoried and documented (especially the 7th of the Montgó and the 8th of the Portixol batteries) to insert into of the tradition of historical military forts (typological genealogies) and their understanding as a networked defensive system that maintains parallels with the system of coastal towers of the system of coastal towers of the Modern Age.
In the sixteenth century the coast between Calpe and Cape San Antonio in Jávea became the most dangerous in the Valencian coast against attacks by Barbary due to its exposed geographical location and rugged morphology. In the Middle Ages a system of defensive coastal villas protecting the territory of the incursions is configured, in this area of La Marina. This fact affected the development of an elementary urban scheme where the church-bastions constituted practically the only public building and therefore multifunctional. In the Renaissance, these structures were outdated address new strategies of fortification which led to these villas have to adapt to the new situation; taking into account also the new context of population growth and urban sprawl.
El promontorio y el puerto, el avistamiento y la acción ofensiva. Propuestas tipológicas de torres marítimas para un mismo problema geográfico: los puertos de Jávea y Moraira en el litoral valenciano (1562-1596) Antoni Banyuls PérezUniversidad de Alicante, Alicante, España, antonibanyuls@gmail.com AbstractThe various geographical conditions of coastal relief demanded adopt, in turn, different solutions for fortification. One of these geographical problems, faced quite often, was the existence of a promontory and a port to his coat, like royal engineer Cristóbal Antonelli pointed in a drawing of 1596 on the Cape and the port of Moraira on the valencian coast.On the one hand it was necessary to supervise the coast and moreover, repel the enemy access to ports ships, all through maritime towers strategically located in coastal promontories. The analysis of this particular problem in coastal fortification in different areas allows the comparison of the different typologies of towers and proposed solutions to existing problems.
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