Crónica de la Crisis del Euro en España ¿Qué podemos aprender?

The present research summarizes the peak of the crisis in Spain, in Ireland and in the southern economies of the euro zone. For this purpose, it has been carried out a chronological review of the facts published in press and narrated on the radio programme “El equipo económico de La linterna” in Cadena Cope from May 2010 to July 2012. The crisis was financial in nature —as it was caused by the burst of the property bubble, which led to the collapse of a great number of saving banks—. There was also a crisis of sovereign debt which damaged the domestic economy, with a rise of unemployment. Reconstructing the chronology of that stage of the crisis, with the experts’ analysis, will allow to identify the main news milestones and will help focus on its causes and consequences in order to know the lessons learnt during that period.El presente trabajo reconstruye el período central de la crisis en España y en los países del sur de la zona del euro e Irlanda. Para ello, se realiza una revisión cronológica de los hechos publicados en la prensa y narrados en el programa radiofónico “El equipo económico de La linterna” en la Cadena Cope, entre mayo de 2010 y julio de 2012. La crisis fue financiera —causada por la burbuja inmobiliaria que arrastró principalmente a la quiebra a buena parte de las cajas de ahorro— y de deuda soberana, afectando a la economía doméstica con el incremento del paro. La reconstrucción de la cronología de dicha etapa de la crisis, junto al análisis de los expertos, permitirá identificar los hitos informativos, así como vislumbrar sus causas y efectos, para señalar las lecciones aprendidas durante este período

The power of sound images: radio storytelling during euro crisis

La radio es un medio que dispone exclusivamente del sonido y de la construcción de imágenes sonoras para elaborar sus mensajes. Lo hace desplegando una variedad de recursos lingüísticos, con un alto poder evocador. Mediante la construcción de metáforas conceptuales, que permiten concretar nociones abstractas, la radio consigue explicar y mostrar la realidad, a través de representaciones sonoras de la vida cotidiana de sus oyentes. Cuanto más complejo es el tema de la actualidad, la radio recurre con más frecuencia a las metáforas conceptuales —mediante la acumulación de recursos y la redundancia— para recrear las imágenes que lo expliquen. El objetivo de este trabajo es describir y caracterizar cómo la radio informó de la crisis del euro a través de la creación de imágenes sonoras. Desde una aproximación cuantitativa y cualitativa, se analiza la construcción de la metáfora conceptual ‘La crisis es una guerra’ en la tertulia El equipo económico de La linterna de la Cadena COPE de mayo de 2010 a julio de 2012, período central de la crisis del euro en España. En la construcción de dicha metáfora conceptual y las imágenes sonoras asociadas se estudian los atributos y conceptos adjudicados a la expresión “rescate”, cuya explicación fue importante para mostrar la evolución de la crisis, primero como una “operación de salvamento”, y luego como una “invasión”. El estudio concluye que la forma de contar de la radio, recurriendo a imágenes próximas al oyente, refuerza su poder informativo para explicar una realidad compleja.Radio is still a media whose messages depend exclusively on sound and sound images. And it achieves it by unfolding a variety of visual and conceptual language resources with a high evocative power. By building conceptual metaphors, which allow it to turn abstract notions into specific ones, radio gets to explain and show reality through sound images, making use of its audience’s everyday life. When news is too complex, radio resorts more frequently to conceptual metaphors –gathering resources and redundancies– for reproducing the images which explain them. The aim of this research is to describe and characterize how radio reported on the euro crisis by creating sound images. From a quantitative and qualitative approach, it analyses the construction of the conceptual metaphor THE CRISIS IS A WAR on the radio programme “El equipo económico de La linterna” in Cadena COPE from May 2010 to July 2012, the main phase of the euro crisis in Spain. In the construction of that conceptual metaphor and the related sound images, it is specifically analysed the symbols and notions allocated to the term “rescue”, whose explanations were key to show –at first as a “rescue operation” and then as an “invasion”– the crisis development. The study concludes that radio storytelling, using images close to the listener, reinforces its informative power to explain a complex reality

Contar la economía: Los recursos lingüísticos en la tertulia “El equipo económico” de La linterna de la Cadena COPE (mayo 2010-julio 2012)

El presente trabajo es un estudio de caso de la tertulia radiofónica “El equipo económico” de La linterna de la Cadena COPE. Se analiza el uso de los recursos lingüísticos por parte de los periodistas y académicos participantes para traducir a un lenguaje sencillo una información especializada y técnica como es la economía. El período elegido para realizar el estudio comprende los meses de mayo de 2010 a julio de 2012, etapa central de la denominada crisis de la zona euro. Tanto España como la Unión Europea adoptaron en ese período las principales medidas para atajar la crisis financiera y económica, y su principal efecto, el paro. Se realiza una descripción y análisis cuantitativo de los recursos empleados por los participantes en la tertulia, con el fin de demostrar que la interacción de participantes de perfiles profesionales complementarios y el uso variado de recursos contribuyen a explicar la economía. Los resultados obtenidos permiten afirmar que la tertulia, como género de diálogo, utiliza los recursos lingüísticos, y la consecuente creación de imágenes sonoras durante la conversación coloquial de los expertos, para cumplir con la labor informativa y pedagógica de la radio.The present research is a case study of the talk radio program “El equipo económico de La Linterna” in Cadena COPE. It analyzes how journalists and experts use linguistic resources to translate the economic jargon into a straightforward message. The research covers the period from May 2010 to July 2012, the main phase of the so-called eurozone crisis. During that period, Spain as well as the European Union took on drastic actions to face the economic and financial slowdown which led to high unemployment levels. The research includes a picture and a quantitative analysis of the resources used during the talk radio. The aim is to show how interaction among the different professional profiles and the wide use of the linguistic tools can help explain the economy. The research findings show that radio talk uses resources which create sounding images during the informal chat of the experts. This way, the pedagogic and information work of the radio is fulfilled

Fatty acids homeostasis during fasting predicts protection from chemotherapy toxicity.

Fasting exerts beneficial effects in mice and humans, including protection from chemotherapy toxicity. To explore the involved mechanisms, we collect blood from humans and mice before and after 36 or 24 hours of fasting, respectively, and measure lipid composition of erythrocyte membranes, circulating micro RNAs (miRNAs), and RNA expression at peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Fasting coordinately affects the proportion of polyunsaturated versus saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids at the erythrocyte membrane; and reduces the expression of insulin signaling-related genes in PBMCs. When fasted for 24 hours before and 24 hours after administration of oxaliplatin or doxorubicin, mice show a strong protection from toxicity in several tissues. Erythrocyte membrane lipids and PBMC gene expression define two separate groups of individuals that accurately predict a differential protection from chemotherapy toxicity, with important clinical implications. Our results reveal a mechanism of fasting associated with lipid homeostasis, and provide biomarkers of fasting to predict fasting-mediated protection from chemotherapy toxicity.General: We thank Prof. Jose Maria. Ordovas for his kind suggestions; nutritionists Helena Marcos-Pasero, Elena Aguilar-Aguilar and Isabel Espinosa-Salinas for their help with volunteers management; Rosa Serrano for her help with animal experiments; Susana Molina for her advice with PBMC isolation; Luisa Mariscal, Domingo Fernandez, Lola Martinez, Diego Megias, Patricia Gonzalez, Fernando Pelaez, Anabel Sanz, Carolina Pola, Celia de la Calle, Ana Ortega, Ana Sagrera, Jose Miguel Frade, Elena Lopez-Guadamillas, Maribel Munoz, Susana Llanos, Andres Fernandez, Aranzazu Sierra, Andres Lopez, Noemi Haro and Ildefonso Rodriguez for their excellent technical and scientific support. Work at the laboratory of P.J.F.M. is funded by the Ramon Areces Foundation, (CIVP18A3891), Asociacion Espanola contra el Cancer-AECC (SIRTBIO-LABAE18008FERN), a Ramon y Cajal Award from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICINN) (RYC-2017-22335), RETOS projects Program of MICINN (SAF2017-85766-R) and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT-MCTES, SFRH/BD/124022/2016). Work at the laboratory of ARM was funded by the MICINN (PID2019-110183RB-C21), Regional Government of Community of Madrid (P2018/BAA-4343-ALIBIRD2020-CM) and the Ramon Areces Foundation. Work at the laboratory of A.D.R. Funded by the Comunidad de Madrid-Talento Grant 2018-T1/BMD-11966 and the MICINN PID-2019-106893RA-100. Work at the laboratory of L.D. is funded by projects from the Health Research Fund (ISCIII FIS PI14/01374 and FISPI17/00508) and from a Manuel de Oya research fellowship from the Beer and Health Foundation. Work at the laboratory of A.E. is funded by a Ramon y Cajal Award from MICINN (RYC-2013-13546) and RETOS projects Program of the MICINN, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (SAF2015-67538-R). Work in the laboratory of M.S. was funded by the IRB and by grants from the Spanish Ministry of Economy co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (SAF2013-48256-R), the European Research Council (ERC-2014-AdG/669622), and the "laCaixa" Foundation.S

Crónica de la Crisis del Euro en España ¿Qué podemos aprender?

The present research summarizes the peak of the crisis in Spain, in Ireland and in the southern economies of the euro zone. For this purpose, it has been carried out a chronological review of the facts published in press and narrated on the radio programme “El equipo económico de La linterna” in Cadena Cope from May 2010 to July 2012. The crisis was financial in nature —as it was caused by the burst of the property bubble, which led to the collapse of a great number of saving banks—. There was also a crisis of sovereign debt which damaged the domestic economy, with a rise of unemployment. Reconstructing the chronology of that stage of the crisis, with the experts’ analysis, will allow to identify the main news milestones and will help focus on its causes and consequences in order to know the lessons learnt during that period.El presente trabajo reconstruye el período central de la crisis en España y en los países del sur de la zona del euro e Irlanda. Para ello, se realiza una revisión cronológica de los hechos publicados en la prensa y narrados en el programa radiofónico “El equipo económico de La linterna” en la Cadena Cope, entre mayo de 2010 y julio de 2012. La crisis fue financiera —causada por la burbuja inmobiliaria que arrastró principalmente a la quiebra a buena parte de las cajas de ahorro— y de deuda soberana, afectando a la economía doméstica con el incremento del paro. La reconstrucción de la cronología de dicha etapa de la crisis, junto al análisis de los expertos, permitirá identificar los hitos informativos, así como vislumbrar sus causas y efectos, para señalar las lecciones aprendidas durante este período

Advanced GNC for In-Orbit Autonomous Assembly of Flexible Vehicles – IOA-GNC

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Methods and outcomes of the COMRADE project - Design of robust coupled control for robotic spacecraft in servicing missions: trade-off between Hinf and nonlinear Lyapunov-based approaches

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Contar la economía: Los recursos lingüísticos en la tertulia “El equipo económico” de La linterna de la Cadena COPE (mayo 2010-julio 2012)

El presente trabajo es un estudio de caso de la tertulia radiofónica “El equipo económico” de La linterna de la Cadena COPE. Se analiza el uso de los recursos lingüísticos por parte de los periodistas y académicos participantes para traducir a un lenguaje sencillo una información especializada y técnica como es la economía. El período elegido para realizar el estudio comprende los meses de mayo de 2010 a julio de 2012, etapa central de la denominada crisis de la zona euro. Tanto España como la Unión Europea adoptaron en ese período las principales medidas para atajar la crisis financiera y económica, y su principal efecto, el paro. Se realiza una descripción y análisis cuantitativo de los recursos empleados por los participantes en la tertulia, con el fin de demostrar que la interacción de participantes de perfiles profesionales complementarios y el uso variado de recursos contribuyen a explicar la economía. Los resultados obtenidos permiten afirmar que la tertulia, como género de diálogo, utiliza los recursos lingüísticos, y la consecuente creación de imágenes sonoras durante la conversación coloquial de los expertos, para cumplir con la labor informativa y pedagógica de la radio.The present research is a case study of the talk radio program “El equipo económico de La Linterna” in Cadena COPE. It analyzes how journalists and experts use linguistic resources to translate the economic jargon into a straightforward message. The research covers the period from May 2010 to July 2012, the main phase of the so-called eurozone crisis. During that period, Spain as well as the European Union took on drastic actions to face the economic and financial slowdown which led to high unemployment levels. The research includes a picture and a quantitative analysis of the resources used during the talk radio. The aim is to show how interaction among the different professional profiles and the wide use of the linguistic tools can help explain the economy. The research findings show that radio talk uses resources which create sounding images during the informal chat of the experts. This way, the pedagogic and information work of the radio is fulfilled

Folliculin-interacting protein FNIP2 impacts on overweight and obesity through a polymorphism in a conserved 3' untranslated region.

BACKGROUND Overweight and obesity are defined by an anomalous or excessive fat accumulation that may compromise health. To find single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) influencing metabolic phenotypes associated with the obesity state, we analyze multiple anthropometric and clinical parameters in a cohort of 790 healthy volunteers and study potential associations with 48 manually curated SNPs, in metabolic genes functionally associated with the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway. RESULTS We identify and validate rs2291007 within a conserved region in the 3'UTR of folliculin-interacting protein FNIP2 that correlates with multiple leanness parameters. The T-to-C variant represents the major allele in Europeans and disrupts an ancestral target sequence of the miRNA miR-181b-5p, thus resulting in increased FNIP2 mRNA levels in cancer cell lines and in peripheral blood from carriers of the C allele. Because the miRNA binding site is conserved across vertebrates, we engineered the T-to-C substitution in the endogenous Fnip2 allele in mice. Primary cells derived from Fnip2 C/C mice show increased mRNA stability, and more importantly, Fnip2 C/C mice replicate the decreased adiposity and increased leanness observed in human volunteers. Finally, expression levels of FNIP2 in both human samples and mice negatively associate with leanness parameters, and moreover, are the most important contributor in a multifactorial model of body mass index prediction. CONCLUSIONS We propose that rs2291007 influences human leanness through an evolutionarily conserved modulation of FNIP2 mRNA levels.This research was funded by grants to ARM from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, Spain (PID2019-110183RB-C21), Ramon Areces Foundation (CIVP19A5937) and Regional Government of Community of Madrid (P2018/BAA-4343-ALIBIRD2020-CM and NutriSION-CM Y2020/BIO-6350), REACT EU Program (FACINGLCOVID-CM project, Comunidad de Madrid and The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) European Union), and EU Structural Funds; and grants to AE from RETOS Projects Program of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI/10.13039/501100011033) co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (SAF201567538-R and PID2019-104012RB-I00), the EU-H2020 Program (ERC-2014-STG-638891), a FERO Grant for Research in Oncology, a "la Caixa" Foundation under the project code Grant HR21-00046. N.D.S. and A.B.P.G. are recipients of Ayudas de contratos predoctorales para la formacion de doctores from MICIU/AEI (BES-2016-077410, BES-2017-081381). A.E. is an EMBO Young Investigator.S

Assessment of a Supervisory Fault-Hiding Scheme in a Classical Guidance, Navigation and Control Setup: the e.Deorbit mission

International audienceThe design of a model-based Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) strategy based on Virtual Actuators (VA) in a built-in Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) setup is addressed for the e.Deorbit space mission. This mission, initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA), aims at removing a large defunct satellite from Earth orbit: ENVISAT. The goal of this paper is to promote academic solutions to add fault tolerance capacities against thruster faults without any change or new tuning of the already in-place GNC solution. The validation of the proposed FTC solution is assessed by a simulation campaign based on a high-fidelity nonlinear industrial simulator