The diminutive suffix "-et/-ette": The role of the internet in its study

Se suele decir que la lengua inglesa es pobre en recursos diminutivos y sus aparentemente pocas expresiones diminutivas se consideran improductivas. Sin embargo, estas suposiciones no suelen ir acompañadas de datos reales. De hecho, el estudio de Schneider parece ser el único trabajo sistemático sobre el diminutivo en inglés, aunque no hace uso de corpus electrónicos modernos. Este artículo analiza el comportamiento del sufijo diminutivo “-et/ -ette” en inglés, partiendo de distintas fuentes: gramáticas, diccionarios, monografías, el British National Corpus e Internet. Las búsquedas en la red han sido responsables de los descubrimientos más interesantes; algunos de ellos contradicen estudios previos sobre este sufijo.The English language is usually said to be poor in diminutive resources and its apparently few diminutive expressions are considered unproductive. However, these are assumptions not normally supported with real data. Indeed, Schneider’s seems to be the only systematic work on the diminutive in English, although it does not make use of modern electronic corpora. This paper analyses the behaviour of the English diminutive suffix “-et/-ette” by using different sources: grammars, dictionaries, monographs, the British National Corpus and the Internet. Searches on the net have been responsible for the most interesting discoveries, some of which contradict previous studies about this suffix

An approximation to the identification of contexts, experiences, and profiles of victims of drug-facilitated sexual assaults

This study advances on overcoming a bias limiting the forensic cases studies of drug-facilitated sexual assaults: a narrow study focus, restricted to assaults affecting young women in leisure contexts related to nightlife, party culture, and dating. A new working framework is applied to analyse data from cases received in the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences (Madrid, Spain) over the six years between 2012 and 2017. The work throws light on non-previously described contexts, experiences, and profiles of victims, including domestic cohabitation, labour, education, healthcare, women trafficking, and the daily life of people with intellectual disabilities.Ministerio de Sanidad (Delegación del Gobierno para el Plan Nacional sobre Drogas) e Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Policiales (UAH, IUICP

Clinical and molecular study of the extracellular matrix protein 1 gene in a spanish family with lipoid proteinosis

[Background] Lipoid proteinosis (LP) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by a hoarse voice, variable scarring, and infiltration of the skin and mucosa. This disease is associated with mutations of the gene encoding extracellular matrix protein 1 (ECM1). [Case Report]This was a clinical and molecular study of a new case of LP with a severe phenotype. A 35-year-old female born to nonconsanguineous parents developed dermatological and extracutaneous symptoms in her 9th month of life. The neurological abnormalities of the disease began to appear at the age of 19 years. Computed tomography revealed cranial calcifications. [Conclusions]The diagnosis of LP was confirmed by histopathological findings and direct sequencing of ECM1. A new homozygous nonsense mutation was identified in exon 7 of ECM1, c.1076G>A (p.Trp359*). This mutation was not detected in 106 chromosomes of healthy individuals with a similar demographic origin. Microsatellite markers around ECM1 were used to construct the haplotype in both the parents and the patient. Reports on genotype-phenotype correlations in LP point to a milder phenotype in carriers of missense mutations in the Ecm1a isoform, whereas mutations in the Ecm1b isoform are thought to be associated with more severe phenotypes. The present findings in a Spanish patient carrying a truncating mutation in exon 7 revealed complete dermatological and neurological manifestations. © 2014 Korean Neurological Association.The authors thank the patient and her family for their participation, and the financial support of grants from MICINN (no. SAF2007-60508) and Consejería de Ciencia Junta de Andalucía (no. CVI02790).Peer Reviewe

Peer actions for a service learning project to prevent drug-facilitated sexual assaults

The service-learning methodology combines active learning processes and community service. This service-learning experience was performed using an interdisciplinary and cross plan. The teachers made a horizontal coordination in the courses, and a vertical coordination in subjects of the Degrees involved. This allowed working together in the students’ curricular training process. It also permitted covering various specific skills, as corresponds to the different subjects, whilst optimizing the students’ workload. The service addressed the problem of drug-facilitated sexual assaults (DFSA) in the youth leisure nightlife. DFSA is the temporary disability of a person caused by a decrease in her/his volitional and cognitive abilities due to the voluntary or involuntary consumption of a psychoactive substance. An active learning about the problem was encouraged in the classroom, focused on recognizing myths, attitudes, and risk situations. The service-learning actions to the community was based on an anonymous survey conducted among the students, which dealt with the problem. The Service Learning was stimulated through the design, planning and development of activities aimed at gaining social awareness of the existing problem while favouring peer learning processes. The students undertook awareness actions at different levels, spreading their message by means of social networks, high school workshops, and information stands on the street.Teaching Innovation projects UAH / EV951 and UAH / EV1024 of the University of Alcalá; Research project MSCBS-PNSD-2018I032 of the Ministry of Health Consumption and Social Welfare, National Drug Plan; IUICP2019 /06 Research project of the University Institute of Police Science Research. P. Prego-Meleiro and F. Zapata thank the UAH for their scholarships.Quintanilla, G.; Ortega-Ojeda, F.; García-Ruiz, C.; Prego-Meleiro, P.; Figueroa Navarro, C.; Bravo-Serrano, B.; García-Pernía, MR.... (2020). Peer actions for a service learning project to prevent drug-facilitated sexual assaults. En 6th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'20). Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. (30-05-2020):1425-1433. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAd20.2020.11313OCS1425143330-05-202

Scattering of 9Li on 208Pb at energies around the coulomb barrier

5th International Conference FUSION11In order to study the dynamics of 11Li and 9Li beams in a strong electric field at energies around the Coulomb barrier, we measured at the ISACII-TRIUMF Facility the angular distribution of elastic and inelastic scattering of 11Li+208Pb at 24.2 and 29.7 MeV and 9Li+208Pb at 24, 29.5 and 33 MeV laboratory energies. We present here the first determination of the angular distribution of the cross section of 9Li+208Pb. The results are compared with theoretical calculations using the double-folding São Paulo Potential (SPP) for the real part and a for the imaginary part a Woods-Saxon potential. A good overall agreement is obtainedConsejo Interinstitucional de Ciencia y Tecnología FPA2009-07387Consejo Interinstitucional de Ciencia y Tecnología FPA2009-08848Consejo Interinstitucional de Ciencia y Tecnología FPA2010-22131-C02-01Consejo Interinstitucional de Ciencia y Tecnología FPA2009-0765

MOFs basados en CuII-PDC-bpe (PDC= 2,5-piridindicarboxilato, bpe= 1,2-di(4piridil)eteno): Cristaloquímica de redes 2D tipo Herringbone

Comunicación a congreso (póster): XXIV Simposio del Grupo Especializado de Cristalografía y Crecimiento Cristalino, GE3C. 23-26 de junio de 2014, BilbaoLos sólidos de coordinación (SCF), también conocidos como Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs), han desarrollado un gran avance en la última década debido a la posibilidad de obtener una gran variedad de estructuras cristalinas con interesantes aplicaciones en el almacenamiento y separación de gases, catálisis, liberación controlada de fármacos y sensores, entre otras. El diseño y síntesis de este tipo de compuestos viene determinado por las propiedades de los ligandos utilizados, y entre la gran variedad existente, se ha optado por el uso del ligando policarboxílico PDC, ya que posee cinco átomos dadores y es no centrosimétrico. Por otra parte, se ha empleado un segundo ligando dipiridínico con objeto de extender la estructura cristalina. En este trabajo se presentan dos nuevos compuestos formados por CuII-PDC-bpe, Cu2[(PDC)2(bpe)(H2O)2]·3H2O·DMF(1) y Cu[(PDC)(bpe)0.5(H2O)]·2H2O(2). La estructura cristalina de ambos compuestos consiste en capas 2D tipo herringbone conectadas entre sí a través de enlaces de hidrógeno con las moléculas de cristalización, dando lugar a un entramado supramolecular 3D. El término herringbone se emplea en la literatura para describir una gran variedad de redes 2D formadas tanto por nodos tetraconectados (4-c) como por nodos triconectados (3-c) (1 y 2). Debido a ello, se he llevado a cabo un estudio cristaloquímico atendiendo a la estequiometria y ciertos parámetros estructurales de diversos compuestos en bibliografía con el objetivo de elucidar las características estructurales que definen a este tipo de redes herringbone 3-c.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MAT2010-15375), Gobierno Vasco (Grupo Consolidado, IT-630-13) y beca de formación (BES-2011-045781

Study of the near-barrier scattering of 8He on 208Pb

The structure and dynamics of 8He have been studied through the collision process with a 208Pb target at energies of 22 and 16 MeV, above and below the Coulomb barrier, respectively. The energy and angular distributions of the elastically scattered 8He and the 6,4He fragments were measured. In this paper, we discuss the method used to determine the effective position of the beam spot on the reaction target and the scattering and solid angles of each pixel of the detector array.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FPA2010-22131-C021-01, FPA2014-59954-C3-1-PMinistry of Science and Higher Education of Poland N202 033637European Science Foundation EUI2009-0416

Integral Field Spectroscopy of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies

We present results on integral-field optical spectroscopy of five luminous Blue Compact Dwarf galaxies. The data were obtained using the fiber system INTEGRAL attached at the William Herschel telescope. The galaxies Mrk 370, Mrk 35, Mrk 297, Mrk 314 and III Zw 102 were observed. The central 33"x29" regions of the galaxies were mapped with a spatial resolution of 2"/spaxel, except for Mrk 314, in which we observed the central 16"x12" region with a resolution of 0.9"/spaxel$. We use high-resolution optical images to isolate the star-forming knots in the objects; line ratios, electron densities and oxygen abundances in each of these regions are computed. We build continuum and emission-line intensity maps as well as maps of the most relevant line ratios: [OIII]5007\Hb, [NII]6584\Ha, and Ha\Hb, which allow us to obtain spatial information on the ionization structure and mechanisms. We also derive the gas velocity field from the Ha and [OIII]5007 emission lines. We find that all the five galaxies are in the high end of the metallicity range of Blue Compact Dwarf galaxies, with oxygen abundances varying from Z\sun~0.3 to Z\sun~1.5. The objects show HII-like ionization in the whole field of view, except the outer regions of IIIZw102 whose large [NII]6584/Ha values suggest the presence of shocks. The five galaxies display inhomogeneous extinction patterns, and three of them have high Ha/Hb ratios, indicative of a large dust content; all galaxies display complex, irregular velocity fields in their inner regions.Comment: 26 pages, 14 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in the Ap

Polímeros de Coordinación con Centros Metálicos en Entornos de Coordinación Variables: Posibles Aplicaciones.

Presentación de power point. Comunicación oral presentada en el 1er Simposium sobre Propiedades y Aplicaciones de MOFs y COFs, celebrado en Granada en abril de 2015El grupo de investigación IMaCris/MaKrisI de la UPV/EHU, atesora una amplia experiencia en el estudio de estructuras metal-orgánicas en diferentes tipos de materiales: • Clústeres y polímeros de coordinación, con conectores magnéticos, como el aziduro, el cianato y el tiocianato, en combinación con ligandos bipiridínicos como la 4,4´-bipiridina (bipy), el 1,2-bis-(4-piridil)etano (bpa) y el 1,2-bis-(4-piridil)eteno (bpe)1. • Materiales con estructura abierta (open framework) basados en metales de transición y oxoaniones del grupo 15 (fosfatos, fosfitos y arseniatos) y plantillas orgánicas como agentes directores de la estructura2. • Vanadatos híbridos de metales de transición con ligandos nitrogenados,3 materiales intermedios entre los compuestos porosos inorgánicos y los polímeros de coordinación. Esta dilatada experiencia ha derivado en la actual investigación basada en la obtención de polímeros de coordinación mediante diferentes estrategias de síntesis con el fin de obtener materiales con diferentes propiedades, desde catalizadores hasta sensores. En el campo de los catalizadores se han empleado tanto ligandos porfirínicos4 como otro tipo de metaloligandos, consiguiendo así centros metálicos insaturados con capacidad para catalizar, de manera eficiente, importantes reacciones en síntesis orgánica. Por otro lado, la combinación de ligandos carboxílicos y nitrogenados con metales de transición ha dado lugar a estructuras flexibles5 de dimensionalidad variable con propiedades de interés en adsorción/desorción reversible de algunas moléculas, lo que puede permitir su uso como sensores químicos, debido a los cambios de color que presentan6estos materiales en función de la molécula que alojen en el interior de su estructura.Ministerio de economía y competitividad, MAT2013-42092-R; Gobierno Vasco, IT630-13; Universidad del País Vasco, UPV/EHU, UFI 11/1