Teaching interpreting in times of Covid: perspectives, experience and satisfaction

[EN] Technological tools have complemented face-to-face instructions at university from the beginning of the 21st century. However, COVID-19 pandemic forced many faculty members to switch rapidly, and without any specific training, to an emergency remote teaching. The aim of this paper is to analyse the impressions of Spanish faculty members teaching interpreting in an online mode. A total of 65 faculty members answered a semi-structured online survey, covering the 80.8% of all the Spanish universities where interpreting subjects are taught. The results revealed some pitfalls derived mainly from the lack of physical issues (booth, body language evaluation), absence of human contact, lack of suitable technology, more teaching hours, cognitive load, lack of concentration, and students monitoring. However, the benefits detected were more self-practice, more attendance to sessions, and the preparation of students for a remote interpreting, taking into account that this will be the future of professional language interpreting practice.[ES] [Las herramientas tecnológicas han complementado la enseñanza presencial en la universidad desde principios del siglo XXI. Sin embargo, la pandemia COVID-19 obligó a muchos profesores a cambiar rápidamente, y sin formación específica, a una enseñanza a distancia de emergencia. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar las impresiones de los profesores españoles que imparten clases de interpretación en línea. Un total de 65 profesores respondieron a una encuesta semiestructurada en línea, que cubría el 80,8% de todas las universidades españolas en las que se imparten asignaturas de interpretación. Los resultados revelaron algunos escollos derivados principalmente de la falta de cuestiones físicas (cabina, evaluación del lenguaje corporal), la ausencia de contacto humano, la falta de tecnología adecuada, el mayor número de horas lectivas, la carga cognitiva, la falta de concentración y el seguimiento de los estudiantes. Sin embargo, los beneficios detectados fueron más autopráctica, más asistencia a las sesiones y la preparación de los alumnos para una interpretación a distancia, teniendo en cuenta que éste será el futuro de la práctica profesional de la interpretación de idiomas.This study was partially carried out in the framework of the projects e-Phone4Life (AEI) (ref. No. PID2019-105678RB-C21), NEUROTRAD (ref. No. B1-2020_07), INMOCOR (ref. No. P20-00109). Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Tecnologías Lingüísticas Multilingües (IUITILM).Castillo-Rodríguez, C.; Toledo-Báez, C.; Seghiri, M. (2023). Teaching interpreting in times of Covid: perspectives, experience and satisfaction. Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas. 18:19-33. https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2023.1874719331

Evaluacion de alternativas para mejorar la gestion en el flujo de buses del terminal de Curico

182 p.Actualmente, existe la preocupación, por parte de los administradores de Plaza Terminal Curicó, de que una buena parte de las salidas de buses desde el recinto no están siendo consideradas en los registros estadísticos y por consiguiente, pagadas por los conductores de las máquinas, ya sea porque el portero de turno recibió el dinero a cambio del ticket de salida correspondiente o simplemente por efectos de "reserva de andén—, es decir, Plaza Terminal reserva el andén a una máquina determinada que ha solicitado sus servicios, previo estudio de su horario de salida, y ésta maquina no respeta dicha reserva, ya que realizó la salida por fuera del terminal o porque permanece en el andén más tiempo que el correspondiente al ticket cancelado. En el transcurso de este estudio, quedará de manifiesto que dichas pérdidas se deben casi en su totalidad a este segundo ítem (reserva de andén). Para poder determinar cuales eran las características más importantes en el funcionamiento de gestión de un terminal de buces se realizaron visitas a los principales terminales de buses de las Regiones Metropolitana, del Maule., entre otras, en búsqueda de antecedentes para la generación, confección y evaluación económica de alternativas técnicamente factibles para mejorar la eficiencia del actual sistema de gestión administrativo en el flujo de entrada y salida de buses utilizado por el terminal de Curicó y a través de ello lograr que los ingresos percibidos producto de dicho flujo sean realmente los efectivos. Además. se realizó un completo diagnóstico de la problemática donde se identificaron cada uno de los factores que inciden en el mal funcionamiento de Plaza Terminal Curicó. Con ello, se confeccionaron cuatro alternativas técnicamente factibles: Personas, Reloj Control y Automatizada, incluyendo la situación actual: Hacer Nada, que permitieran mejorar el actual sistema de gestión de flujo de buses del Terminal de Curicó y con ello aumentar sus ingresos mensuales por efectos de salidas. De las cuatro alternativas diseñadas y posteriormente evaluadas económicamente en un horizonte de 10 años, se pudo concretar que, en base a una captación del 100% de las salidas no registradas desde el Terminal (reserva de andén), la mejor alternativa resulta ser la de Personas. Sin embargo, en un caso más real, con un 50% de captación de dichas salidas, la mejor alternativa resulta ser la Automatizada seguida por una leve diferencia por la del Reloj Control

Evaluation of Particle Swarm Optimization Applied to Grid Scheduling

The problem of scheduling independent users’ jobs to resources in Grid Computing systems is of paramount importance. This problem is known to be NP-hard, and many techniques have been proposed to solve it, such as heuristics, genetic algorithms (GA), and, more recently, particle swarm optimization (PSO). This article aims to use PSO to solve grid scheduling problems, and compare it with other techniques. It is shown that many often-overlooked implementation details can have a huge impact on the performance of the method. In addition, experiments also show that the PSO has a tendency to stagnate around local minima in high-dimensional input problems. Therefore, this work also proposes a novel hybrid PSO-GA method that aims to increase swarm diversity when a stagnation condition is detected. The method is evaluated and compared with other PSO formulations; the results show that the new method can successfully improve the scheduling solution

INICIATIVAS SOCIOECONÓMICAS Y EL DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE DE CAPULÁLPAM DE MÉNDEZ, OAXACA

El estado de Oaxaca cuenta con 570 municipios con una rica composición multicultural donde conviven más de 16 grupos étnicos. De las ocho regiones que integran el estado, la región de la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca destaca por la riqueza en recursos naturales (forestales) y el manejo sustentable que los comuneros han llevado a cabo, su forma de organización social, económica y ambiental. El municipio cuenta con un sistema económico-productivo, donde predominan los pequeños productores y micro y pequeñas empresas, las cuales generan una buena parte de los empleos remunerados. Sin embargo, estas pequeñas iniciativas económicas presentan bajos niveles de productividad y rentabilidad por sus escasos niveles de inversión. Una de las estrategias que se pretende desarrollar con esta investigación es diseñar líneas de acción que promuevan el fortalecimiento de sus actividades productivas y el desarrollo sustentable en el municipio, buscando promover así las iniciativas locales y las capacidades de las comunidades. El abordar el análisis de las iniciativas socioeconómicas comunales y determinar su impacto en el desarrollo sustentable del municipio de Capulálpam de Méndez, permitirá generan recursos económicos que harán posible la mejora de las condiciones de la vida de la población y la conservación de los recursos naturales

Semantic Privacy Policies for Service Description and Discovery in Service-Oriented Architecture

Privacy preservation in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an open problem. This paper focuses on the areas of service description and discovery. The problems in these areas are that currently it is not possible to describe how a service provider deals with information received from a service consumer as well as discover a service that satisfies the privacy preferences of a consumer. There is currently no framework which offers a solution that supports a rich description of privacy policies and their integration in the process of service discovery. Thus, the main goal of this paper is to propose a privacy preservation framework for the areas of service description and discovery in SOA. The framework enhances service description and discovery with the specification and intersection of privacy policies using a base and domain-specific privacy ontologies. Moreover, the framework extends SOA to include roles responsible for implementing a privacy registry as well as mediating the interactions between service consumers and providers and the privacy preservation component

Fisioterapia em mulheres incontinentes atendidas em um serviço público de saúde

INTRODUCTION: Urinary incontinence affects more than 50 million people worldwide, it has a great impact on quality of life by affecting social, domestic, occupational and sex life, regardless of age. Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of physical therapy treatment in women attending the Urogynecology service of Hospital and Maternity Leonor Mendes de Barros. METHOD: We retrospectively assessed 65 records of patients with diagnosis of urinary incontinence treated between November 2005 and November 2006. In order to have their data analyzed, patients were divided into two groups; group MF, which underwent medical treatment and physiotherapy, and group M, which had only medical treatment. In order to compare both groups' quantitative data, the analysis was performed in Statistica® software using Mann Whitney's non-parametric test. The analysis of association between the quantitative variables was performed through the Chi-Square test at 5% (p > 0.05) significance level. RESULTS: We observed that 60.6% of patients who underwent physical therapy treatment and medical treatment had the urinary incontinence symptoms decreased or completely cured, while 80% of women belonging to the medical treatmen only-group underwent surgery. CONCLUSION: Thus, we conclude that physical therapy is essential in treatment protocols of urinary incontinence outpatient clinics and to prevent surgery.INTRODUÇÃO: A incontinência urinária afeta mais de 50 milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo, apresenta um grande impacto na qualidade de vida, afetando a vida social, doméstica, profissional e sexual, independente da idade. OBJETIVO: O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar a eficácia do tratamento fisioterapêutico em mulheres atendidas pelo serviço de Uroginecologia do Hospital e Maternidade Leonor Mendes de Barros. MÉTODO: Foram avaliadas retrospectivamente 65 prontuários de pacientes com diagnóstico de incontinência urinária atendidos entre novembro 2005 e novembro de 2006. A fim de ter seus dados analisados, as pacientes foram divididos em dois grupos: grupo MF, formado por pacientes submetidas a tratamento médico e fisioterapêutico e grupo M, que submeterem-se à tratamento médico. A análise foi realizada no programa Statistica®, por meio de teste não paramétrico de Mainn Withney, para a comparação dos dados quantitativos entre os dois grupos. Para a análise da associação entre as variáveis quantitativas foi utilizado o teste Qui-Quadrado, adotando-se nível de significância de 5% (p > 0,05). RESULTADOS: Observou-se que 60,6% das pacientes que realizaram o tratamento fisioterapêutico em associação ao tratamento médico obtiveram diminuição ou melhora total dos sintomas da incontinência urinária. Enquanto que 80% das mulheres do grupo que realizou tratamento médico foram submetidas à intervenção cirúrgica. CONCLUSÃO: Portanto, concluí-se que o tratamento fisioterapêutico é parte importante nos protocolos de tratamentos nos ambulatórios de Incontinência Urinária e medida preventiva para intervenção cirúrgica

Rat Adrenal Chromaffin Cells Are Neonatal CO2 Sensors

We studied the participation of adrenal medulla (AM) chromaffin cells in hypercapnic chemotransduction. Using amperometric recordings, we measured catecholamine (CAT) secretion from cells inAMslices of neonatal and adult rats perfused with solutions bubbled with different concentrations of CO2. The secretory activity augmented from 1.74_0.19 pC/min at 5% CO2 to 6.36_0.77 pC/min at 10% CO2. This response to CO2 was dose dependent and appeared without changes in extracellular pH, although it was paralleled by a drop in intracellular pH. Responsiveness to hypercapnia was higher in neonatal than in adult slices. The secretory response to hypercapnia required extracellular Ca2_ influx. Both the CO2-induced internal pH drop and increase in CAT secretion were markedly diminished by methazolamide (2_M), a membrane-permeant carbonic anhydrase (CA) inhibitor.Wedetected the presence of twoCAisoforms (CAI and CAII) in neonatalAMslices by in situ hybridization and real-time PCR. The expression of these enzymes decreased in adultAMtogether with the disappearance of responsiveness to CO2. In patch-clamped chromaffin cells, hypercapnia elicited a depolarizing receptor potential, which led to action potential firing, extracellular Ca2_ influx, and CAT secretion. This receptor potential (inhibited by methazolamide) was primarily attributable to activation of a resting cationic conductance. In addition, voltage-gated K_ current amplitude was also decreased by high CO2. The CO2-sensing properties of chromaffin cells may be of physiologic relevance, particularly for the adaptation of neonates to extrauterine life, before complete maturation of peripheral and central chemoreceptors

Trophic restoration of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathway in long-term carotid body-grafted parkinsonian rats

We studied the mechanisms underlying long-term functional recovery of hemiparkinsonian rats grafted intrastriatally with carotid body (CB) cell aggregates. Amelioration of their motor syndrome is a result of the trophic actions of these grafts on the remaining ipsilateral substantia nigra neurons rather than of the release of dopamine from the CB grafts. The grafts maintain a stable morphological appearance and differentiated cell phenotype for the duration of the life of the host. Adult CB expresses high levels of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and the multicomponent GDNF receptor complex. These properties may contribute to the trophic actions of the CB transplants on nigrostriatal neurons and to their extraordinary longevity. We show that CB glomus cells, although highly dopaminergic, are protected from dopamine-mediated oxidative damage because of the absence of the high-affinity dopamine transporter. Thus, intrastriatal CB grafts are uniquely suited for long-term delivery of trophic factors capable of promoting restoration of the nigrostriatal pathway

From Inception to Execution: Query Management for Complex Event Processing as a Service

International audienceComplex Event Processing (CEP) is a set of tools and techniques that can be used to obtain insights from high- volume, high-velocity continuous streams of events. CEP-based systems have been adopted in many situations that require prompt establishment of system diagnostics and execution of reaction plans, such as in monitoring of complex systems. This article describes the Query Analyzer and Manager (QAM) mod- ule, a first effort toward the development of a CEP as a Service (CEPaaS) system. This module is responsible for analyzing user-defined CEP queries and for managing their execution in distributed cloud-based environments. Using a language-agnostic internal query representation, QAM has a modular design that enables its adoption by virtually any CEP system

Maturational development, physical activity, and sleep quality in adolescent girls: DADOS project

El sueño y la actividad física (AF) son hábitos fundamentales para la salud durante la adolescencia ya que favorecen un óptimo desarrollo físico, cognitivo y emocional. El objetivo del estudio fue analizar la influencia del desarrollo madurativo sobre la calidad del sueño en niñas adolescentes, así como los niveles de AF diaria según su nivel de desarrollo. Se evaluó el nivel de desarrollo madurativo de 129 chicas participantes del proyecto DADOS a través de la escala de Tanner. Se dividió al grupo en dos según su nivel de desarrollo madurativo (Tanner <4; Tanner ≥4). La calidad del sueño fue evaluada mediante la versión española del cuestionario Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) y se crearon los grupos óptima (PSQI ≤ 5) y mala (PSQI >5) calidad del sueño. Se evaluó la AF mediante acelerometría triaxial. El índice de masa corporal (IMC, kg/m2) se incluyó como covariable. No se encontraron diferencias en la puntuación total del PSQI en función del desarrollo madurativo (p >.05). Las adolescentes con mayor nivel de desarrollo mostraron menor AF diaria (p <.05). El porcentaje de chicas que presentaba óptima/mala calidad del sueño fue similar entre los grupos de desarrollo madurativo (p >.05). Las chicas con nivel de desarrollo madurativo superior (Tanner ≥4) no mostraron mayor riesgo de tener mala calidad del sueño (OR=1.08, 95%CI 0.51–2.34), teniendo en cuenta su IMC y AF diaria. En conclusión, el nivel de desarrollo madurativo de las adolescentes no parece estar relacionado con la calidad del sueño pero sí con la AF.Sleep and physical activity (PA) are fundamental behaviors for adolescents’ health since they are related to optimal physical, cognitive, and emotional development. The aim of our study was to analyze the influence of the maturational development on sleep quality in adolescent girls, as well as to evaluate the daily PA level based on the level of maturational development. The level of maturational development of 129 girls participating in the DADOS project was assessed through the Tanner scale. Two groups were created (Tanner <4 and Tanner ≥4). Sleep quality was assessed using the Spanish version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), based on which the following groups were created: optimal (PSQI ≤ 5) and poor (PSQI >5) sleep quality. PA was measured with triaxial accelerometers. Body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) was included in the study as a covariable. No significant differences were found in the total PSQI score between the maturational development groups (p >.05). Adolescents with higher maturational development performed less PA (p <.05). The percentage of girls who presented optimal/poor sleep quality was similar between the two maturational development groups (p >.05). Girls with higher maturational development (Tanner e»4) did not show increased risk of poor sleep quality (OR=1.08, 95%CI 0.51-2.34), considering their BMI and daily PA. In conclusion, the maturational development of adolescent girls does not seem to be related with sleep quality but it influences the PA levels