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    La traduction et localisation des jeux vidéo : problèmes et difficultés, censure et privilèges de l’anglais par rapport aux autres langues

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    Actuellement l’industrie des jeux vidéo est une des plus lucratives du monde grâce au grand développement qu’elle a eue au cours des années. Un des éléments qui a aidé ce développement est la traduction et localisation des jeux vidéo. La localisation d’un jeu vidéo présente des problèmes différents à ceux qu’on trouve dans d’autres produits. Ces localisations ont évolué et amélioré depuis les années 80 jusqu’à l’actualité. Ce travail montre cette évolution et explique les différents problèmes de traduction au cours des années, les divers éléments à traduire d’un jeu ainsi que la censure qu’on peut trouver dans l’industrie.On peut remarquer que l’anglais a une position privilégiée dans l’industrie et à cause de cela plusieurs œuvres ne sont pas traduites directement de leur version originale mais de la traduction anglaise. Ce travail explique les raisons pour lesquelles l’anglais est la langue dominante de l’industrie. Finalement, le travail fait une comparaison entre les versions française, espagnole et anglaise du jeu français Soldats Inconnus avec l’objectif de déterminer si la version espagnole se ressemble plus à la version française ou à l’anglaise.<br /

    Competiciones de programación. Estímulo y salida laboral para los alumnos

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    Las competiciones de programación son un estímulo importante para los alumnos de informática. Durante los últimos años ha crecido el número de estas competiciones en su mayoría promovidas por grandes empresas con el propósito de reclutar alumnos brillantes. La International Collegiate Programming Contest es la más antigua de ellas, promovida por la ACM y patrocinada por IBM. A la final mundial van los mejores equipos de cada una de las más de 90 competiciones regionales que tienen lugar por todo el mundo. La regional en la que pueden participar las universidades españolas es la Southwestern Europe Regional Contest (España, Italia, Portugal, Suiza, Francia y Austria). Esta regional fue organizada por la Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria Informàtica de la Universitat Politècnica de València en su edición de 2012 y lo será también en 2013. En este trabajo se presenta la experiencia de planificación de una regional, tanto a nivel organizativo como de planteamiento de los problemas para la competición. Asimismo, se destaca la importancia de este tipo de competiciones en cuanto al desarrollo de habilidades y destrezas en los alumnos, pues su dedicación a solucionar distintos tipos de problemas, combinando conocimientos de matemáticas con técnicas algorítmicas, les da una formación adicional que saben apreciar las grandes empresas. Algunos alumnos de la ETSInf que han participado en estas competiciones están en proceso o ya han sido contratados por empresas del sector como es Google.SUMMARY -- Programming contests are a good stimulus for computer engineering students. These contests have experienced an expansion during last years thanks to the interest of big companies for hiring brilliant students. The International Collegiate Programming Contest is the oldest one, promoted by ACM and sponsored by IBM. The ACM-ICPC World Final takes place every year, only the best teams can participate, which are selected from the ones who compete in the more than 90 regional contests celebrated around the world. Spanish universities can participate in the Southwestern Europe Regional Contest (Spain, Italy, Portugal, France and Austria). The 2012 edition of this regional contest took place in Valencia, organised by the School of Computer Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de València. The 2013 edition will be organised in Valencia as well. In this paper it is presented the experience of planning a regional contest, both from the point of view of organisation as from posing the problems. Additionally, it is pointed out the value of this sort of programming contests as they foster the development of some abilities and skills in students, because the time they spend solving problems where the knowledge of mathematical concepts and of algorithmic techniques is very important. This fact gives students a special training very appreciated by big software companies. Some former students from ETSInf who participated in international programming contests were hired or are in process of being hired by Google

    USER-CHI: Potenciar la electromovilidad mejorando la experiencia del conductor de Vehículo Eléctrico

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    [ES] USER-CHI es un proyecto de innovación cuyo objetivo es promover la electromovilidad en Europa, generando soluciones que mejoren la experiencia de los conductores durante el proceso de recarga. Este artículo presenta los principales resultados obtenidos en los trabajos de investigación cualitativa realizados en el marco del proyecto, con participación de usuarios de seis países diferentes de la UE.Este proyecto ha recibido financiación del programa de investigación e innovación Horizonte 2020 de la Unión Europea en virtud del acuerdo de subvención nº [875187].Giménez Pla, JF.; López Vicente, MA.; Soriano Garcia, C.; Marzo Rosello, R.; Solaz Sanahuja, JS.; Signes Pérez, E.; Marqués Moreno, A.... (2021). USER-CHI: Potenciar la electromovilidad mejorando la experiencia del conductor de Vehículo Eléctrico. Revista de Biomecánica (Online). (68):1-6. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/187291166

    Monitorización de la frecuencia cardíaca en las labores de extinción de incendios forestales, para la prevención de riesgos laborales

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    P. 6-26Ante la previsión de aumento de incendios forestales en la zona meditarránea,TRAGSA y la Fraternidad Muprespa analizan los aspectos derivados de la frecuencia cardiaca en las labores de extinción de incendios forestales. El trabajo físico del personal especialista en extinción de incendios forestales durante la extinción de incendios se realiza a una intensidad de esfuerzo que es lo suficientemente alta como para conllevar un elevado coste energético, y que se corresponde a una carga de trabajo que requiere y exige una buena condición física para afrontarla con las suficientes garantías y con el menor riesgo para la salud.N

    Comprehensive description of clinical characteristics of a large systemic Lupus Erythematosus Cohort from the Spanish Rheumatology Society Lupus Registry (RELESSER) with emphasis on complete versus incomplete lupus differences

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    Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized by multiple organ involvement and pronounced racial and ethnic heterogeneity. The aims of the present work were (1) to describe the cumulative clinical characteristics of those patients included in the Spanish Rheumatology Society SLE Registry (RELESSER), focusing on the differences between patients who fulfilled the 1997 ACR-SLE criteria versus those with less than 4 criteria (hereafter designated as incomplete SLE (iSLE)) and (2) to compare SLE patient characteristics with those documented in other multicentric SLE registries. RELESSER is a multicenter hospital-based registry, with a collection of data from a large, representative sample of adult patients with SLE (1997 ACR criteria) seen at Spanish rheumatology departments. The registry includes demographic data, comprehensive descriptions of clinical manifestations, as well as information about disease activity and severity, cumulative damage, comorbidities, treatments and mortality, using variables with highly standardized definitions. A total of 4.024 SLE patients (91% with ≥4 ACR criteria) were included. Ninety percent were women with a mean age at diagnosis of 35.4 years and a median duration of disease of 11.0 years. As expected, most SLE manifestations were more frequent in SLE patients than in iSLE ones and every one of the ACR criteria was also associated with SLE condition; this was particularly true of malar rash, oral ulcers and renal disorder. The analysis-adjusted by gender, age at diagnosis, and disease duration-revealed that higher disease activity, damage and SLE severity index are associated with SLE [OR: 1.14; 95% CI: 1.08-1.20 (P < 0.001); 1.29; 95% CI: 1.15-1.44 (P < 0.001); and 2.10; 95% CI: 1.83-2.42 (P < 0.001), respectively]. These results support the hypothesis that iSLE behaves as a relative stable and mild disease. SLE patients from the RELESSER register do not appear to differ substantially from other Caucasian populations and although activity [median SELENA-SLEDA: 2 (IQ: 0-4)], damage [median SLICC/ACR/DI: 1 (IQ: 0-2)], and severity [median KATZ index: 2 (IQ: 1-3)] scores were low, 1 of every 4 deaths was due to SLE activity. RELESSER represents the largest European SLE registry established to date, providing comprehensive, reliable and updated information on SLE in the southern European population

    Examining the immune signatures of SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy and the impact on neurodevelopment: Protocol of the SIGNATURE longitudinal study.

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    The COVID-19 pandemic represents a valuable opportunity to carry out cohort studies that allow us to advance our knowledge on pathophysiological mechanisms of neuropsychiatric diseases. One of these opportunities is the study of the relationships between inflammation, brain development and an increased risk of suffering neuropsychiatric disorders. Based on the hypothesis that neuroinflammation during early stages of life is associated with neurodevelopmental disorders and confers a greater risk of developing neuropsychiatric disorders, we propose a cohort study of SARS-CoV-2-infected pregnant women and their newborns. The main objective of SIGNATURE project is to explore how the presence of prenatal SARS-CoV-2 infection and other non-infectious stressors generates an abnormal inflammatory activity in the newborn. The cohort of women during the COVID-19 pandemic will be psychological and biological monitored during their pregnancy, delivery, childbirth and postpartum. The biological information of the umbilical cord (foetus blood) and peripheral blood from the mother will be obtained after childbirth. These samples and the clinical characterisation of the cohort of mothers and newborns, are tremendously valuable at this time. This is a protocol report and no analyses have been conducted yet, being currently at, our study is in the recruitment process step. At the time of this publication, we have identified 1,060 SARS-CoV-2 infected mothers and all have already given birth. From the total of identified mothers, we have recruited 537 SARS-COV-2 infected women and all of them have completed the mental health assessment during pregnancy. We have collected biological samples from 119 mothers and babies. Additionally, we have recruited 390 non-infected pregnant women

    Characterization of tomato Cycling Dof Factors reveals conserved and new functions in the control of flowering time and abiotic stress responses

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    [EN] DNA binding with One Finger (DOF) transcription factors are involved in multiple aspects of plant growth and development but their precise roles in abiotic stress tolerance are largely unknown. Here we report a group of five tomato DOF genes, homologous to Arabidopsis Cycling DOF Factors (CDFs), that function as transcriptional regulators involved in responses to drought and salt stress and flowering-time control in a gene-specific manner. SlCDF15 are nuclear proteins that display specific binding with different affinities to canonical DNA target sequences and present diverse transcriptional activation capacities in vivo. SlCDF15 genes exhibited distinct diurnal expression patterns and were differentially induced in response to osmotic, salt, heat, and low-temperature stresses. Arabidopsis plants overexpressing SlCDF1 or SlCDF3 showed increased drought and salt tolerance. In addition, the expression of various stress-responsive genes, such as COR15, RD29A, and RD10, were differentially activated in the overexpressing lines. Interestingly, overexpression in Arabidopsis of SlCDF3 but not SlCDF1 promotes late flowering through modulation of the expression of flowering control genes such as CO and FT. Overall, our data connect SlCDFs to undescribed functions related to abiotic stress tolerance and flowering time through the regulation of specific target genes and an increase in particular metabolites.This work was supported by grants from Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA; project numbers: 2009-0004-C01, 2012-0008-C01), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (project number: BIO2010-14871), and the MERIT Project (FP7 ITN2010-264474). ARC was supported by a pre-doctoral fellowship from the INIA. 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