Landscape metrics are used in a wide range of environmental studies such as land use change and land degradation studies, soil erosion and runoff predictions, management of hunting communities, and strategic planning for environmental management, to name but a few. Due to their utility for a variety of applications, there are many indices and software packages that have been designed to provide calculations and analysis of landscape structure patterns in categorical maps. With the purpose of making a profound comparison between the most used tools (Fragstats, V-Late, PA4…), we examined their advantages and disadvantages in order to create a list of common features that need to be incorporated into this type of software. We believe that an API without limitations on data input is necessary, capable of calculating vector or raster metrics and very extensible. This API should make it possible not only to build third party applications in easily, but would also make it possible to add new metrics and research into new paradigms related to traditional landscape metrics. We have started to develop a proposal based on open standards, which is FOSS. We have called this API Land-metrics DIY (Do It Yourself). It can calculate almost 40 landscape metrics from geometry provided by an ESRI Shapefile, but we are working to complete its contents as we explain in this article.
Vocation is one of the determining factors taken into account by students when choosing their university studies. However, when the students start their studies, in their first year, they will find a series of basic subjects that barely motivate or stimulate them. In the specific case of mathematics, the problem is aggravated when many of the students already begin the first year showing rejection towards this subject. The lack of motivation for mathematics also affects the subject of physics because “the role of mathematics is to be the language of physics”. The EXPLORIA project proposed by the CEU Cardenal Herrera University is a potential solution to this problem. The objective of this project is the implementation of STEAM learning (Science Technology Engineering Art Mathematics) in the Degree in Fundamentals of Architecture at CEU Cardenal Herrera University through the EXPLORIA project. This article focuses on the activities carried out in the subject of physics in the Degree in Fundamentals of Architecture, corresponding to the part of mechanical engineering in order to show that through the realization of different challenges, we can develop creative products, new buildings with their logos and storytelling, as well as connect with the rest of subjects. For its development, students must use everyday objects within their reach, such as forks, spoons, knives, shoes, etc., to build an object or structure that must remain in a “creative balance” and this will serve as an inspiration for new buildings. These new creations are evaluated by an architecture team who fills in a rubric to evaluate the creativity and originality of the products. The number of students included in this project was 24 and the participants’ age ranged between 18 and 20 (similarly distributed). At the end of the work, an anonymous ad hoc questionnaire was carried out to show the students’ assessment of the new teaching methodology and the challenges developed in the subject of physics.
Objetivo: Describir las características neuropsicológicas de pacientes con demencia frontotemporal varianteconductual (DFTvc) y compararlas con las de pacientes con enfermedad de Alzheimer (EA). Pacientes y métodos:Se evaluó una muestra de 60 controles sanos, 60 pacientes con EA y 32 pacientes con DFTvc, empleando una bateríaneuropsicológica clásica. Resultados: Los pacientes con DFTvc tienen peor rendimiento que pacientes con EA enalgunos parámetros de atención y funciones ejecutivas (FE) y menor compromiso de la memoria. La evaluaciónde atención muestra diferencia altamente significativa en el rendimiento del Trail Making Test (TMT)-A entre EAy DFTvc (t28=-2,18, p<0,001). De la misma manera, en la evaluación de FE, sólo el TMT-B (t31= -6,8, p<0,001) ylas respuestas perseverativas en el Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) (U = 30,5, p<0,001) alcanzaron diferenciaestadísticamente significativa entre los grupos EA y DFTvc. Conclusiones: Los pacientes con DFTvc en estadiosleve a moderado presentan una relativa menor afectación de memoria, lenguaje y habilidades viso-constructivas/viso-espaciales, pero con un marcado deterioro de atención y FE.
Los paisajes productivos aterrazados de bancales sufren, hoy en día, un paulatino abandono. Con la pérdida de producción, arrastran al olvido buena parte de la memoria del lugar y del patrimonio de sus habitantes. El presente artículo plantea un recorrido por la identidad de estos territorios, desde sus orígenes hasta el resurgir de su reivindicación social. A modo de conclusión, se presentan dos proyectos ejemplares de paisajismo: el Parc de la Pedra Tosca de rcr arquitectes y la Regeneración paisajística del vertedero del Garraf, del equipo Batlle i Roig arquitectes junto a Teresa Galí-Izard, ambos en Cataluña, España. Estas dos propu estas, reinterpretando los bancales, muestran nuevas formas de mirar a estos lugares, con actua-ciones que rehacen bancales, ajustándose perfectamente al paisaje existente, pero proponiendo una manera de proyectar su futuro hacia una nueva identidad del paisaje.
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