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Introducing Comparative Literature is a comprehensive guide to the field offering clear, concise information alongside useful analysis and examples. It frames the introduction within recent theoretical debates and shifts in the discipline whilst also addressing the history of the field and its practical application. Looking at Comparative Literature within the context of globalization, cosmopolitanism and post or transnationalism, the book also offers engagement and comparison with other visual media such as cinema and e-literature. The first four chapters address the broad theoretical issues within the field such as ‘interliterary theory’, decoloniality, and world literature, while the next four are more applied, looking at themes, translation, literary history and comparison with other arts. This engaging guide also contains a glossary of terms and concepts as well as a detailed guide to further reading.

Lo que Borges le enseñó a Cervantes es la guía más completa, clara y concisa de literatura comparada. Un texto esencial para los amantes de la Literatura. Lo que Borges le enseñó a Cervantes engloba tanto los debates y cambios teóricos recientes en literatura comparada, como su aplicación práctica. El libro analiza también la disciplina en el contexto de la globalización, y en su análisis no deja de lado la comparación con otras artes y medios audiovisuales como el cine. Repleto de ejemplos de la literatura hispánica y universal, el libro reúne las claves de una disciplina que cualquier crítico literario o estudiante de literatura necesita conocer, pero abrirá también un mundo nuevo al lector más general, que descubrirá vínculos sorprendentes y una nueva perspectiva desde la que abordar sus lecturas de placer. Reseña: «Un texto apasionante y claro; una guía para transitar por el mundo de la literatura en medio de la globalización, para saber cómo se construye el canon literario, o para analizar las influencias del cine y otras artes.» Carmen Singüenza, La Voz de Galicia

The Workshop on Simulation and Optimization for Sustainable Engineering is held in Santander (September 28th-29th) on the occasion of the visit of Prof. Ignacio Grossmann to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of the Universidad de Cantabria in the framework of the Fulbright U.S. Specialist Program. This workshop is organized in collaboration with AQUIQÁN, the Association of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Cantabria, with the aims of serving both as a forum of discussion of the recent advances in the topic and a meeting point of the closest collaborators of Prof. Grossmann in Spain over the last years. Overall, 30 researchers will take part in this event coming from several universities (Alicante, Cantabria, Rovira i Virgili, Salamanca, Sevilla, and Valladolid) and the IMDEA Materials Institute. The program includes a plenary lecture imparted by Prof. Grossmann, one keynote presentation representative of each institution and around 15 oral presentations from young researchers.

Abstract: In this thesis I explore current problems of Galactic astronomy by following two distinct but complementary approaches: the kinematic and photometric properties of local stellar populations, and the theory of stellar evolution. Under the first approach, I construct the largest available catalog of genuine wide binaries (a> 100 AU) and, using the relative positions of both components on a reduced proper-motion diagram, I cleanly classify them as belonging to either the disk or the halo of the Galaxy. These samples, drawn from the Revised New Luyten Two-Tenths catalog, are complete to separations of 500 and 900 arcsec, corresponding to about 0.1 and 1 parsec, respectively. At wide separations, both distributions are well described by power laws that have, within the uncertainties, identical exponents. The fact that these distributions have similar slopes and normalizations, despite the radically different Galactic environments to which they belong today, argues for similarity of the star-formation conditions of the two populations. The fact that the halo binaries obey a single power law out to about 1 parsec permits strong constraints on halo dark-matter candidates. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we exclude a halo fully composed of MAssive Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs) more massive than 43 solar masses at 95 percent confidence. I outline the prospects for using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the assembly of a catalog of halo wide binaries which, by improving the statistics at large separations, will enable exploration of MACHO masses in the astrophysically important regime of heavy stellar remnants. Finally, taking advantage of the identification of faint companions of Hipparcos stars, I construct a catalog of 424 intrinsically dim (i.e., low-mass) field stars with accurate (better than 3-sigma) parallaxes. Under the approach of stellar evolution, I study the long-standing problem of abundance anomalies in red giants, concentrating in non-standard mixing processes induced by stellar rotation. Unlike most previous work, I focus on the simultaneous reproduction of the CNO abundances in both Population I and Population II giants using the same physics and models. This novel approach led to a powerful new insight on one of the most difficult problems of astrophysics: the interplay between convection and rotation in stellar envelopes.

The aim of this project is to design an inexpensive but at the same time highly customizable system to be used as a tool to experiment with the communication between devices through a power line and, in particular, through the 240VAC mains, using the authorized low frequency band (around 100kHz). The tool should allow the evaluation of the deployment of the PLC technology in different scenarios to determine its feasibility. Therefore, it must provide many customizable options for maximum versatility, like different modulations schemes, configurable transmission rates, adjustable voltage levels, etc. The transmission of data over the mains must address these main challenges: · At transmission, it requires the data to be modulated to don't interfere with other existing signals, as the smart metering used by the energy providers. The usage of the available band is regulated by global organizations and it's different depending on the region. · At reception, it requires the signal to be captured at high enough sampling rates to be able to properly demodulate it and recover the transmitted data. · In both sides, the electronics must be designed to manage the coupling between the modulated signal carrying the data and the AC supplied energy. This project consists on the development of a full software framework to manage an existing system consisting on the popular BeagleBone Black platform plus an attached cape which has been explicitly developed for this project (called PlcCape). The core of that board is an Analog Front End which integrates a high speed DAC that must be handled by a SPI bus. The DAC in conjunction with an integrated Power Amplifier stage will generate the modulated signal that will be transmitted over the power line. This project covers these main areas: · Software patches over the off-the-self SPI and ADC drivers that come with the Linux version in the BeagleBone, with the aim of attaining the real-time performance required. · Creation of static reusable libraries to encapsulate the low-level access to the underlying hardware. · Design of a plugin-based system to allow an easy customization and expansion of the framework through the addition of third-party modulation algorithms. · Development of a dedicated application to be used as a laboratory tool to test with different waves, frequencies, modulations, filters, gains, etc. · Testing of the whole system in different scenarios to confirm the viability of the solution proposed.