The spatial conceptualization of time in Spanish and Chinese

There is a general consensus about the existence of a cognitive transfer by which we conceive time in terms of space, witnessed by the recurrence of this metaphor in many languages. We can distinguish two theoretical trends in the treatment of this conceptual metaphor: those based on universalistic apriorisms and those based on more relativistic and empirical assumptions. While the first tend to extrapolate from English, reducing this metaphor to very few basic models with a natural motivation, the second privilege Amerindian languages, with empirical data which do not fit in such speculative universals. This contrastive work on the two typologically distant languages Spanish and Chinese confirms the cross-linguistic productivity of other space-to-time associations (reversed time, mirror time, vertical time, cyclic time). Though our results show more similarities than differences in the overall available inventory, some specific divergences between Chinese and Spanish are also noted.

Quantile-based Reliability Measures and Some Associated Stochastic Orderings

There are several statistical models which have explicit quantile functions, but do not have manageable cumulative distribution functions. For example, Govindarajulu, various forms of lambda, and power-Pareto distributions. Thus, to study the reliability measures for such kind of distributions, a quantile-based tool is essentially required. In this article, we consider quantile version of some well- known reliability measures in the reversed time scale. We study stochastic orders based on the reversed hazard quantile function and the mean inactivity quantile time function. Further, we discuss relative reversed hazard quantile function order, likelihood quantile ratio order, and elasticity quantile order. Connections between the newly proposed orders and the existing stochastic orders are established. AMS 2010 Subject Classification: 60E15, 62E10

Numerical Modeling of Interaction and Decay Processes of Topological Vortices in Reversed Time

The paper studies T-symmetry properties of the well-known nonlinear sigma model (NSM), a class of quantum field systems in which physical fields are regarded as the coordinates of a certain manifold. Considers a symmetry property of the (2+1)-dimensional anisotropic O(3) NSM (n-field) with respect to time reversal. From the geometric point of view, O(3) NSM describes the dynamics of a single three-component isovectornthat takes on values in the Bloch sphere. The isovectorncan be identified with a point on the surface of a two-dimensional sphere and, therefore, corresponds to the element of a rotation group O(3). The anisotropy is selected in thez-axis direction and thus, the zero-energy states (vacuum states) of the model under investigation are equivalent to the point (the end of the isovectorn) at the poles of the Bloch sphere.О(3) NSМ has an exact solution in the form of topological solitons (vortices, quasi-particles) possessing a topological charge (the Hopf index). It was shown in [8] that, for certain rate values of their motion, the interacting topological solitons decay into localized perturbations. In this case, the property of preserving the total sum of the topological charge is revealed.In the present work, numerical modeling of interaction and decay processes of topological solitons of O(3) NSM in reversed time are carried out. It is shown that when there is time reversal, a complete restoration process of the initial state of the field of topological solitons by combining individual localized perturbations is observed. Thus, the paper confirms the property of T-invariance of O(3) NSM. To construct numerical models, are used methods of the theory of finite difference schemes, based on a specially developed algorithm for applying the properties of the stereographic projection of the Bloch sphere onto the complex plane. The developed method allows accurate calculations of the energy density of interacting vortex fields at each point of the stratified space. The paper proposes a software complex that allows us to conduct numerical studies of interaction processes of localized solutions of non-linear field-theoretical models in class O(3) NSM in reversed time.

Las veras de Girona. Laboratorio de diseño y gestión para una Infraestructura Verde Urbana en Girona | Girona’s shores. Design and management laboratory for Green Urban Infrastructure in Girona

Girona - veras es un proyecto territorial de investigación aplicada. Si bien el objeto del proyecto es conocido: mallar una infraestructura verde urbana que valorice, permeabilice, y estructure los bordes urbanos, su método y operativa incorpora diversas experimentaciones disciplinares que se adaptan al contexto económico precario del sur de Europa para proponer un método abierto: • Por un lado una secuencia tempo-espacial invertida que parte de proyectos pilotos con resultados inmediatos y demostrativos que habilitan la factibilidad y adaptabilidad del proyecto. • Por otro, la experimentación con el ‘el diseño de la gestión diferenciada’ como detonante para la valorización de la vera y la emergencia de una nueva estética naturbana socialmente asumible. • Finalmente se propone un organigrama operativo por el cual la los servicios y ‘brigada’ municipal se convierten en conceptores, ejecutores, gestores y multiplicadores del mismo. Esta praxis proyectual y de investigación aplicada es un proceso vivo, abierto y de creciente escala y complejidad. La concepción y ejecución en cortos ciclos recurrentes, permite adaptar y diferir decisiones según los tiempos sociales, políticos o económicos. Y adaptarse significa persistir productivamente. Girona - shores is a territorial, applied research project. Although the objective of the project is known: to mesh a green urban infrastructure that gives value, increases permeability and structures urban borders, the method and operative feature different disciplinary experiments that are adapted to the precarious economic context of southern Europe to propose an open method: • On the one hand a reversed time / space sequence based on pilot projects with immediate, proven results that enable the feasibility and adaptability of the project. • On the other, experimenting with the "differentiated management design" as a trigger for giving value to the Shores and the emergence of a new socially assumable "naturban" aesthetics. • Finally, an operational organisation chart is proposed through which the services and municipal "brigade" become co-concepts, executors, managers and multipliers of it. This project praxis and applied research is a living, open process that grows in scale and complexity. The concept and execution in short recurring cycles permits adaptation and deferring decisions in accordance with social, political or economic moments. Here adaptation means productive persistence.

On a coalescence process and its branching genealogy

We define and analyze a coalescent process as a recursive box-filling process whose genealogy is given by an ancestral time-reversed, time-inhomogeneous Bienyamé‒Galton‒Watson process. Special interest is on the expected size of a typical box and its probability of being empty. Special cases leading to exact asymptotic computations are investigated when the coalescing mechanisms are either linear fractional or quadratic.