Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), in collaboration with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC in the Spanish acronym), has carried out research to evaluate whether political representatives in Spain respond equally to the demands of women and men. The results of the study, which show a gender inequality in the political response to citizens' demands, could have implications both for the design of future public policies and for the debate on gender equality.

Autonomous berthing is desirable to assist or replace human operators to reduce the burden on navigation officers and resolve labor shortages. This study presents a docking assistance method that integrates backward-time imitation learning (BTIL) and kernel density estimation (KDE).