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Uma comparação das interações sensoriais entre Espanha e Portugal. Os resultados de um workshop de design sinestésico
ABSTRACT : Synaesthesia is the result of automatic processes of human
perception that combine sensations of different sensory modalities.
Throughout this paper, we are going to present the results of a
Synaesthetic Design Workshop, made with design students of IADE,
Universidade Europeia (Lisbon, Portugal) and University of Extremadura
(Mérida, Spain) with the purpose of identifying different types of crosssensory
interactions between participants living in the two countries, that
might be influenced by cultural and personal information. On this purpose
the choise of Spain as country to have a comparison was driven by the fact
that 13,95% of the Spanish population experiences some kind of
synaesthesia (Melero, Peña-Melián, & Ríos-Lago, 2015) while in the rest
of the world the percentage is around the 4,16% (Simner & Carmichael,
2015). Results suggest probable interactions between modalities with no
obvious differences between genders from both the universities.A sinestesia é o resultado de processos automáticos da
perceção humana que combinam sensações de diferentes modalidades
sensoriais. Ao longo deste artigo, apresentaremos os resultados de um
Workshop de Design Sinestésico, realizado com estudantes de design do
IADE, Universidade Europeia (Lisboa, Portugal) e da Universidade de
Extremadura (Mérida, Espanha), com o objetivo de identificar diferentes
tipos de interações sensoriais que podem ser influenciadas para aspetos
culturais e pessoais, entre participantes residentes nos dois países. Nesse
sentido, a escolha da Espanha como país para fazer uma comparação foi
motivada pelo fato que 13,95% da população espanhola experimenta
algum tipo de sinestesia (Melero, Peña-Melián e Ríos-Lago, 2015)
enquanto no resto do mundo, a percentagem é de cerca de 4,16%
(Simner & Carmichael, 2015). Os resultados sugerem interações prováveis
entre modalidades, sem diferenças óbvias entre os sexos dos
participantes das duas universidades.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
On the periodic solutions of a generalized smooth or non-smooth perturbed planar double pendulum
We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of periodic solutions with
small amplitude of the non--linear planar double pendulum perturbed by smooth
or non--smooth functions.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1109.637
Targeted mutagenesis of FaTM6 in the Octoploid Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) using the CRISPR/Cas9 System
The B-class of MADS-box transcription factors has been studied in many plant species, but remain functionally uncharacterized in the Rosaceae family. APETALA3 (AP3), a member of this class, controls the identity of petals and stamens in Arabidopsis thaliana. In this work, we identified two members of the AP3 lineage in the cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa): FaAP3 and FaTM6. Interestingly, FaTM6, and not FaAP3, shows an expression pattern equivalent to that of AP3 in Arabidopsis. Genome editing using Cluster Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 system is becoming a robust tool for targeted and stable mutagenesis of DNA. However, whether it can be efficiently used in an octoploid species such as F. × ananassa is not known. In our study, we report the application of the CRISPR/Cas9 in F. × ananassa to characterize the function of FaTM6 in flower development. An exhaustive analysis by high-throughput sequencing of the FaTM6 locus spanning the target sites showed a high efficiency genome editing already in the T0 generation. The phenotypic characterization of the mutant lines indicates that FaTM6 plays a key role in petal and especially in anther development in strawberry. Our results validate the CRISPR/Cas9 strategy for gene functional analysis in an octoploid species such as F. × ananassa, and offer new opportunities for engineering strawberry to improve traits of interest in breeding programs.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
Wireless sensors and IoT platform for intelligent HVAC control
Energy consumption of buildings (residential and non-residential) represents approximately 40% of total world electricity consumption, with half of this energy consumed by HVAC systems. Model-Based Predictive Control (MBPC) is perhaps the technique most often proposed for HVAC control, since it offers an enormous potential for energy savings. Despite the large number of papers on this topic during the last few years, there are only a few reported applications of the use of MBPC for existing buildings, under normal occupancy conditions and, to the best of our knowledge, no commercial solution yet. A marketable solution has been recently presented by the authors, coined the IMBPC HVAC system. This paper describes the design, prototyping and validation of two components of this integrated system, the Self-Powered Wireless Sensors and the IOT platform developed. Results for the use of IMBPC in a real building under normal occupation demonstrate savings in the electricity bill while maintaining thermal comfort during the whole occupation schedule.QREN SIDT [38798]; Portuguese Foundation for Science & Technology, through IDMEC, under LAETA [ID/EMS/50022/2013
Regularization of energy-momentum tensor correlators and parity-odd terms
We discuss the problem of regularizing correlators in conformal field
theories. The only way to do it in coordinate space is to interpret them as
distributions. Unfortunately except for the simplest cases we do not have
tabulated mathematical results. The way out we pursue here is to go to momentum
space and use Feynman diagram techniques and their regularization methods. We
focus on the energy-momentum tensor correlators and, to gain insight, we
compute and regularize 2-point functions in 2d with various techniques both in
coordinate space and in momentum space, obtaining the same results. Then we do
the same for 2-point functions in 4d. Finally we turn to 3-point function in
4d, and concentrate on the parity-odd part. We derive in particular the
regularized trace and divergence of the energy-momentum tensor in a chiral
fermion model. We discuss the problems related to the parity-odd trace anomaly.Comment: 40 pages, 1 figure. v2: minor changes and typos correcte
Automated analysis of feature models: Quo vadis?
Feature models have been used since the 90's to describe software product lines as a way of reusing common parts in a family of software systems. In 2010, a systematic literature review was published summarizing the advances and settling the basis of the area of Automated Analysis of Feature Models (AAFM). From then on, different studies have applied the AAFM in different domains. In this paper, we provide an overview of the evolution of this field since 2010 by performing a systematic mapping study considering 423 primary sources. We found six different variability facets where the AAFM is being applied that define the tendencies: product configuration and derivation; testing and evolution; reverse engineering; multi-model variability-analysis; variability modelling and variability-intensive systems. We also confirmed that there is a lack of industrial evidence in most of the cases. Finally, we present where and when the papers have been published and who are the authors and institutions that are contributing to the field. We observed that the maturity is proven by the increment in the number of journals published along the years as well as the diversity of conferences and workshops where papers are published. We also suggest some synergies with other areas such as cloud or mobile computing among others that can motivate further research in the future.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad TIN2015-70560-RJunta de Andalucía TIC-186
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