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Masculinity (Re)Defined: Masculinity, Internalized Homophobia, and the Gay Macho Clone in the Works of John Rechy
Skills and Profile of the New Role of the Translator as MT Post-editor
This paper explores the skills and profile of the new role of the translator as MT post-editor in view of the rising interest and use of MT in the translation industry. After a brief review of the relevant literature declaring post-editing (PE) as a profession on its own, the paper goes on to identify the different tasks involved in PE processes, following the work of Krings (Krings, 2001). Then, a series of competences are defined and grouped into three main categories: core competences, linguistic skills and instrumental competences. Finally, a description of the controlled translation scenario of MT PE is advanced taking into account the overall scenario of any translation project, including client description, text domain, text description, use of glossaries, MT engine, MT output quality and purpose of the translated text.Aquest article aborda les habilitats i les característiques del perfil del nou rol del traductor com a posteditor de traducció automàtica, tot i tenint en compte l'augment de l'interès en i l'ús de la traducció automàtica per part de la industria de la traducció. Després d'una breu revisió de la literatura més rellevant sobre postedició (PE) en tant que professió per ella mateixa, l'article identifica les diferents tasques implicades en els processos de PE, segons la proposta de Krings (2001). A continuació es defineix una sèrie de competències que s'agrupen en tres categories principals: competències nuclears, habilitats lingüístiques i competències instrumentals. Finalment el artículo proposa una descripció de l'escenari de traducció controlada propi de la PE de traducció automàtica, sense perdre de vista l'escenari general de qualsevol projecte de traducció, que inclou la descripció del client, el domini del text, la descripció del text, l'ús de glossaris, el motor de traducció automàtica, la qualitat de la traducció automàtica resultant i el propòsit del text traduït.Este artículo aborda las habilidades y las características del perfil del nuevo rol del traductor como poseditor de traducción automática, a la luz del aumento del interés en y del uso de la traducción automática por parte de la industria de la traducción. Después de una breve revisión de la literatura más relevante sobre posedición (PE) en tanto que profesión por sí misma, en el artículo se identifican las diferentes tareas implicadas en los procesos de PE, según la propuesta de Krings (2001). A continuación se define una serie de competencias que se agrupan en tres categorías principales: competencias nucleares, habilidades lingüísticas y competencias instrumentales. Finalmente el artículo propone una descripción del escenario de traducción controlada propio de la PE de traducción automática, sin perder de vista el marco general de cualquier proyecto de traducción, que incluye la descripción del cliente, el dominio del texto, la descripción del texto, el uso de glosarios, el motor de traducción automática, la calidad de la traducción automática resultante y el propósito del texto traducido
Auto-consistent metallicity and star formation history of the nearest blue compact dwarf galaxy NGC 6789
We present a detailed auto-consistent study of the nearest blue compact dwarf
galaxy NGC 6789 by means of optical and UV archive photometry data and optical
long-slit ISIS-WHT spectroscopy observations of the five brightest star-forming
knots. The analysis of the spectra in all knots allowed the derivation of ionic
chemical abundances of oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, argon and neon using measures
of both the high- and low-excitation electron temperatures, leading to the
conclusion that NGC 6789 is chemically homogeneous with low values of the
abundance of oxygen in the range 12+log(O/H) = 7.80-7.93, but presenting at the
same time higher values of the nitrogen-to-oxygen ratio than expected for its
metal regime.
We used archival HST/WFPC2 F555W and F814W observations of NGC 6789 to
perform a photometric study of the colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) of the
resolved stellar populations and derive its star formation history (SFH), which
is compatible with the presence of different young and old stellar populations
whose metallicities do not necessarily increase with age. We fit the observed
optical spectrum in all the five knots using the STARLIGHT code and a
combination of single stellar populations following the SFH obtained from the
CMD. We compare the resulting stellar masses and the relative fractions of the
ionising populations with a non-constrained SFH case. The properties of the
younger populations were obtained using CLOUDY photoionisation models, giving
similar ages in all the knots in the range 3-6 Myr and the estimation of the
dust absorption factor, which correlates with the observed GALEX FUV-NUV colour
indices. The total photometric extinction and dust-absorption corrected
H\alpha\ fluxes were finally used to derive the star formation rates.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, 10 tables; accepted by MNRA
Yielding of rockfill in relative humidity-controlled triaxial experiments
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11440-016-0437-9The paper reports the results of suction controlled triaxial tests performed on compacted samples of two well graded granular materials in the range of coarse sand-medium gravel particle sizes: a quartzitic slate and a hard limestone. The evolution of grain size distributions is discussed. Dilatancy rules were investigated. Dilatancy could be described in terms of stress ratio, plastic work input and average confining stress. The shape of the yield locus in a triaxial plane was established by different experimental techniques. Yielding loci in both types of lithology is well represented by approximate elliptic shapes whose major axis follows approximately the Ko line. Relative humidity was found to affect in a significant way the evolution of grain size distribution, the deviatoric stress-strain response and the dilatancy rules.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
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