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Volver a leer inocentemente: Una crítica a la hermenéutica historicista desde el pensamiento de Leo Strauss
(Cuadernos salmantinos de filosofía. 2025. Vol. 52, 2025-03-24)El presente artículo recupera las lecciones hermenéuticas del filósofo Leo Strauss (1899-1973) y, participando en el debate sobre cómo deben ser comprendidas, las contrapone al modo de leer propuesto ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of public subsidies for energy-efficient retrofit: a comparative study of two next-generation programs with standard market interventions in Catalonia
(Energy and Buildings, 2026. Vol. 352, Febrer 2026, 2026-02-01)Assessing the impact of past and current renovation efforts is essential for refining decarbonisation mechanisms and ensuring the effective use of public resources. In this context, this paper examines ... -
Comedia y existencia: A propósito de cine y teatro en Edgar Neville, Enrique Jardiel Poncela y Miguel Mihura
(Creneida. Anuario de literaturas hispánicas. 2026. Nº 13, 2026-01-06)A partir de una relectura de la categoría de Comedia sobre la base de la Poética de Aristóteles y El banquete de Platón, este artículo propone una revisión de la percepción cómica de la existencia humana. ... -
La cultura de la rebelión. La Ciudad en el espacio de Moratalaz. Taller de Arquitectura (1969-1970)
(Bitácora Arquitectura, 2020, (44), 2020-10-07)En abril de 1968 se celebra en Barcelona la exposición colectiva MENTE 1, en la que el Taller de Arquitectura, liderado por Ricardo Bofill, expuso su propuesta de Ciudad en el espacio. La presentación, ... -
Efficient 3D acoustic simulation of the vocal tract by combining the multimodal ,method and finite elements
(IEEE Access, 2022, Vol. 10, pp. 69922-69938, 2022-07-07)Acoustic simulation of sound propagation inside the vocal tract is a key element of speech research, especially for articulatory synthesis, which allows one to relate the physics of speech production ... -
Evaluating airborne sound insulation in dwellings constructed with hollow ceramic blocks under Brazilian housing policies
(Buildings, 2024, Vol. 14, Nº 3, 2024-03-16)In Brazil, there is a shortage of approximately 5.80 million residences, a challenge that intensified during the pandemic. Since 2013, there has been a mandate to implement specific performance criteria ... -
Influence of vocal tract geometry simplifications on the numerical simulation of vowel sounds
(Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2016), Vol. 140, Nº3, pp 1707-1718, 2016-09-15)For many years, the vocal tract shape has been approximated by one-dimensional (1D) area functions to study the production of voice. More recently, 3D approaches allow one to deal with the complex 3D ... -
Influence of lips on the production of vowels based on finite element simulations and experiments
(Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2016), Vol. 139, Nº5, pp 2858-2859, 2016-05-19)Three-dimensional (3-D) numerical approaches for voice production are currently being investigated and developed. Radiation losses produced when sound waves emanate from the mouth aperture are one of ... -
Effects of higher order propagation modes in vocal tract like geometries
(Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2015), Vol. 137, Nº2, pp 832-843, 2015-02-01)In this paper, a multimodal theory accounting for higher order acoustical propagation modes is presented as an extension to the classical plane wave theory. This theoretical development is validated ... -
Two-dimensional vocal tracts with three-dimensional behavior in the numerical generation of vowels
(Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2014), Vol. 135, Nº1, pp 369-379, 2014-01-01)Two-dimensional (2D) numerical simulations of vocal tract acoustics may provide a good balance between the high quality of three-dimensional (3D) finite element approaches and the low computational cost ... -
Effects of head geometry simplifications on acoustic radiation of vowel sounds based on time-domain finite-element simulations
(Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2013), Vol. 134, Nº4, pp 2946-2954, 2013-10-01)One of the key effects to model in voice production is that of acoustic radiation of sound waves emanating from the mouth. The use of three-dimensional numerical simulations allows to naturally account ... -
Finite element computation of elliptical vocal tract impedances using the two-microphone transfer function method
(Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2013), Vol. 133, Nº6, pp 4197-4209, 2013-06-05)A two-microphone transfer function (TMTF) method is adapted to a numerical framework to compute the radiation and input impedances of three-dimensional vocal tracts of elliptical cross-section. In its ... -
Reconstruction of vocal tract geometries from biomechanical simulations
(International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 2019; 35:e3159, 2018-09-22)Medical imaging techniques are usually utilized to acquire the vocal tract geometry in 3D, which may then be used, eg, for acoustic/fluid simulation. As an alternative, such a geometry may also be ... -
Reverberation time and random-incidence sound absorption measured in the audible and ultrasonic ranges with an omnidirectional parametric loudspeaker
(Applied Acoustics, Vol. 229, 110414, 2025-02-05)An omnidirectional parametric loudspeaker (OPL) is a sound source that relies on the parametric acoustic array (PAA) phenomenon to generate an omnidirectional sound field. It consists of hundreds of ... -
Generation of ultrasonic and audible sound waves for the automatic classification of packaging waste in reverse vending machines
(Waster Management, Vol. 2004,114934, 2025-08-01)Reverse vending machines (RVMs) are essential for promoting waste sorting at the source by offering incentives for recycling.However, current RVMs, which primarily rely on expensive sensors such as ... -
A critical review of social housing commodification in England
(International Journal of Ubran Sicences, May 2025, 2025-05-19)Social housing in the UK and England has slowly been replaced by affordable housing as part of a general trend towards its hyper-commodification in England. However, social housing and affordable housing ... -
Wasted expertise: Why doesn’t retrofit include residents?
(Energy Research & Social Science, Vol. 119, 2025-01-03)Retrofitting social housing is key to reaching urgent climate goals. Integrating residents as a stakeholder in retrofit processes can transform social housing into sustainable homes. Residents are experts ... -
Comentario a ““Pensamientos que vienen con pies de paloma”: Una conversación inacabada entre George Steiner y Walter Benjamin”
(Trans/Form/Açao. Revista de Filosofia da UNESP. 2025. Vol. 48, Núm. 2, e025024, 2025-01-30) -
Mejora de la retención académica a través de la autorregulación del aprendizaje y la tutoría: Estudio longitudinal en primer curso de Arquitectura
(Education in the Knowledge Society (EKS)., 2025)Este estudio longitudinal tiene como objetivo evaluar la evolución de la autorregulación del aprendizaje (ARA) y su relación con el riesgo de abandono temprano en estudiantes de primer curso del grado ... -
Zoótropo: vigencia de una máquina para pensar a través del movimiento
(Arte, individuo y sociedad. 2024, Vol. 36, Nº1, 2024-01-31)Tradicionalmente la máquina estroboscópica, conocida como “zoótropo”, ha sido estudiada como una herramienta primigenia para la creación óptica del movimiento en la imagen animada. Sin embargo, este ...