Distributed translation memories implementation using webservices

Las memorias de traducción son muy útiles para la traducción, pero son difíciles de compartir y de reutilizar por parte de la comunidad de traductores. Mediante las memorias distribuidas de traducción, los usuarios pueden construir conjuntamente y compartir memorias de traducción. En este artículo, presentamos los detalles de la implementación de esta arquitectura utilizando la tecnología de WebServices y un ejemplo de un sistema distribuido entre Portugal y España.Translation Memories are very useful for translators but are difficult to share and reuse in a community of translators. This article presents the concept of Distributed Translation Memories, where all users can contribute and sharing translations. Implementation details using WebServices are shown, as well as an example of a distributed system between Portugal and Spain.Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Fondo Europeo de Desenvolvemento Rexional, Xunta de Galicia, Universidade de Vigo - Linguistic-computational processing of the Linguistic Corpus - ref. BFF2002-01385, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - POSI/PLP/43931/2001, POS

Lafora disease offers a unique window into neuronal glycogen metabolism

Lafora disease (LD) is a fatal, autosomal recessive, glycogen-storage disorder that manifests as severe epilepsy. LD results from mutations in the gene encoding either the glycogen phosphatase laforin or the E3 ubiquitin ligase malin. Individuals with LD develop cytoplasmic, aberrant glycogen inclusions in nearly all tissues that more closely resemble plant starch than human glycogen. This Minireview discusses the unique window into glycogen metabolism that LD research offers. It also highlights recent discoveries, including that glycogen contains covalently bound phosphate and that neurons synthesize glycogen and express both glycogen synthase and glycogen phosphorylase

Enriching a Portuguese WordNet using synonyms from a monolingual dictionary

In this article we present an exploratory approach to enrich a WordNet-like lexical ontology with the synonyms present in a standard monolingual Portuguese dictionary. The dictionary was converted from PDF into XML and senses were automatically identified and annotated. This allowed us to extract them, independently of definitions, and to create sets of synonyms (synsets). These synsets were then aligned with WordNet synsets, both in the same language (Portuguese) and projecting the Portuguese terms into English, Spanish and Galician. This process allowed both the addition of new term variants to existing synsets, as to create new synsets for Portuguese.This work has been supported by COMPETE: POCI01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013; and thanks to the Project SKATeR (TIN2012-38584-C06-04) supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government

La receta de los científicos

La incorporación de España a las nuevas estructuras internacionales ha determinado una transformación de la sociedad que afronta, de este modo, un futuro que se inscribe en una nueva realidad social. Sin duda, un elemento fundamental de esa realidad es el papel que necesariamente van a desempeñar el conocimiento científico y el desarrollo tecnológico, en el que la aportación de la comunidad científica es un ingrediente imprescindible

An approach for modeling non-ageing linear viscoelastic composites with general periodicity

International audienceThe present work deals with the modeling of non-ageing linear viscoelastic composite materials and quasi-periodic microstructure. The stratified functions and the curvilinear coordinates play an important role in the design of different geometrical shapes. The main objective focuses on the application of two-scales Asymptotic Homogenization Method (AHM) to obtain the overall behavior of the viscoelastic composite materials. Although the whole process is based on the analysis of laminated configurations, a multi-step homogenization scheme to estimate the effective properties of a structure reinforced with long rectangular fibers and wavy effects is used. The associated local problems, the homogenized problem and the analytical expressions for the effective coefficients are obtained by using the correspondence principle and the Laplace-Carson transform. Also, the inter-connection between the effective relaxation modulus and the effective creep compliance is performed. Finally, the inversion to the original temporal space is calculated. Some comparisons between the proposed approach and Finite Elements Method (FEM) results are displayed