The Perception and Restructuring of Emotion by Bi-Multilinguals in Spanish and English

[ES] The communication of emotions through verbal and non-verbal channels is a natural human process and a vital part of sociopragmatic competence in language. Learning to perceive and express them may pose an enormous challenge to bi-multilingual individuals due to, among other reasons, major cross-linguistic and cross-cultural differences in the understanding of emotion and its conceptualisation. The present research focuses on and explores the perception of emotion by bi- multilinguals with Spanish and English in their linguistic repertoire. It examines the complex variation that exists in this perceptual ability across bi-multilingual populations as a result of individual differences in their sociobiographical, linguistic, and acculturation-based profiles. In addition, this study addresses the semantic-conceptual representation of emotion lexical concepts in first (L1s) and additional languages (LXs) and the extent to which they restructure in the bi-multilinguals’ mind. For this purpose, a total sample of 384 bi-multilinguals around the world participated in an online bilingual questionnaire, designed to collect quantitative and qualitative information on the variables under study. Emotion, elicited through two different channels— verbal (emotion words) and visual (emotional video clips)—was specifically measured by a two-dimensional semantic map: valence and arousal. The results from the statistical analyses, which were supported by participants’ stories on emotional experiences in their various languages, show that the correct semantic-affective development of emotion words in LXs is linked mainly to linguistic factors like language proficiency level, frequency of use, context of acquisition, migrant condition, and therefore, having lived in the LX country. Nevertheless, the perception of purely visual and emotional stimuli proves to be independent of bi-multilinguals’ linguistic trajectories and much more cross-linguistically and cross-culturally similar. Keywords: Emotion, perception, lexicon, bi-multilinguals, Spanish, English, restructuring

Minors: repeat offenders and non-repeat offenders in the juvenile justice system in Andalusia

En los últimos años han visto la luz varios informes sobre la reincidencia juvenil en el ámbito de distintas comunidades autónomas. Dentro del marco de un proyecto más amplio sobre seguridad ciudadana, se diseñó una investigación con la pretensión de abordar las variables legales y/o sociales que distinguen a los reincidentes de los no reincidentes en Andalucía. Con este trabajo, partiendo del marco legal constituido por la Ley Orgánica 5/2000, de 12 de enero, y sus sucesivas reformas, presentamos la reiteración delictiva de los menores obtenida a partir de una muestra de expedientes judiciales del sistema de justicia penal juvenil, así como una descripción panorámica de las variables personales, sociales y legales que nos permiten diferenciar con un análisis bivariable y de forma estadísticamente significativa, al grupo de menores reincidentes del de los no reincidentes en los tres juzgados andaluces analizados.During the last few years many reports about juvenile repeat offenders have come to light in different Autonomous Communities. Within the framework of a larger project that deals with public security, this research project was designed in order to research the legal and/or social variables that distinguish repeat offenders from non repeat offenders in Andalusia. In this work, which takes into account the legal framework provided by the Organic Law 5/2000 from 12 January and its subsequent amendments, we present the repetition of criminal behavior of minors based on a sample of court files from the juvenile criminal justice system. Moreover, a panoramic description of the personal, social and legal variables are presented that enable us to distinguish, using bivariate analysis and in a statistically significant manner, the repeat offender group of minors from the non repeat offenders in the three Andalusian courts used in this study.Programa Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica de la Secretaría de Estado de Universidades e Investigación del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (SEJ2006-07242/JURI)

Efecto del despalillado parcial sobre vinos tintos de la variedad Marselan. Estudio de la composición química, aromática y polifenólica

[ES] El despalillado total es una técnica que se utiliza de forma generalizada en la elaboración de vinos tintos, con el fin de evitar ciertos sabores no deseados, que estos pueden aportar. Sin embargo, en los últimos años, se han llevado a cabo elaboraciones en bodegas, dejando un porcentaje de raspones con resultados dispares. En el presente trabajo, se ha planteado un ensayo, donde se abarcan varias posibilidades para optimizar el porcentaje de despalillado parcial. Para ello, se han realizado cuatro vinificaciones con la variedad Marselan: con distinto porcentaje de raspones, (20%, 40% y 60%). Una vez finalizaron la fementación alcohólica y maloláctica, se llevaron a cabo análisis de los parámetros convencionales, compuestos polifenólicos, así como de su composición aromática. La presencia de raspones produce cambios significativos en los vinos. A tenor de los resultados obtenidos, se deduce que la presencia de raspones provoca un aumento del pH y una disminución de la acidez total y del contenido de etanol. También liberan proantocianidinas que se corresponden con un aumento en la cantidad de polifenoles totales y de taninos, aumentando el grado medio de polimerización de los taninos, en la vinificación con 60% de raspón. En cuanto a la materia colorante, se produce una bajada en la cantidad de antocianos, pero más uniones antociano-tanino, por lo que hay una pérdida de color, pero es más estable. En relación a los compuestos volátiles, se observa un aumento generalizado de aldehídos, ésteres, ácidos y alcoholes; y una disminución de lactonas.[EN] Total de-stemming is a technique generally used in the production of red wines with the goal of avoiding some of the unwanted flavors attributed to the stems. However, in the last few years, there have been some experiments done on the inclusion of stems in the fermentation with varying results. This work is focused on the effects of various degrees of de-stemming of the variety Marselan for the optimization of the chemical and sensorial profile of the resulting wine. Four ferments were completed using three different amounts of stems: 20%, 40%, and 60%. At the conclusion of the alcoholic and malolactic fermentations, an analysis was performed to evaluate the completed wines. The inclusion of stems provoked significant changes in the conventional parameters, polyphenolic, and aromatic compounds analyzed. Their presence increased pH and decreased total acidity and ethanol content in the wine. In addition, they released proanthocyanidins leading to an increase in total polyphenols and tannins, increasing the polymerization of tannins in the 60% stem vinification. Concerning wine color, the inclusion of stems lead to a decrease in total anthocyanins but higher levels of combination between anthocyanins and proanthocyanins, leading to the conclusion that the coloring compounds are more stable albeit in lower concentration. Finally, volatile compounds were also affected by the use of stems, with analysis showing an increase in aldehydes, esters, acids and alcohols alongside a decrease of lactones.Pérez García, E. (2020). Efecto del despalillado parcial sobre vinos tintos de la variedad Marselan. Estudio de la composición química, aromática y polifenólica. Universitat Politècnica de València. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/151248TFG

La impulsividad mecánica durante la conducción: definición y medición

La ponencia muestra las relaciones entre variables físicas de la conducción (aceleraciones, jerks, etc) capturadas con un smartphone y variables psicológicas como impulsividad, agresividad, etc

The atmospheric iron cycle in EC-earth

The ocean is known to act as an atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) sink. About a quarter of the CO2 emitted to the atmosphere since the industrial revolution, has been captured by the ocean [1]. The capacity of the ocean to capture CO2 highly depends on ocean productivity which relies upon bioavailable iron (Fe) for photosynthesis, respiration and nitrogen fixation [2]. Fe is in fact considered to be the limiting nutrient in some remote regions of the ocean known as high-nutrient low-chlorophyll (HNLC) [3]. Understanding and constraining the bio-available iron supply to the ocean is thus fundamental to be able to project future climate. Fe supply reaches the oceans mainly from rivers as suspended sediment. However, fluvial and glacial particulate Fe is restricted to near-coastal areas. Therefore, the dominant input of iron to open ocean surface is the deposition of atmospheric mineral dust emitted from arid and semiarid areas of the world. Another contributor to atmospheric Fe supply that is not always accounted for in models, is combustion, which main sources are anthropogenic combustion and biomass burning. Just a fraction of the deposited Fe over ocean can be used by marine biota as nutrient (bio-available). The assumption that soluble Fe can be considered as bio-available will be used here [4]. Freshly emitted Fe-dust is known to be mainly insoluble. Observations, modelling and laboratory studies suggest that the solubility of Fe-dust increases downwind of the sources due to different processes [5] [6]. On the other hand, although the total burden of emitted combustion Fe is known to be smaller than Fe-dust, combustion Fe at emission may be more soluble [7]

Deshojado precoz en Viura y Malvasía riojana

En este trabajo se ha estudiado la aplicación de deshojado precoz en las variedades blancas Viura y Malvasía riojana como herramienta para el control del rendimiento y la mejora de la sanidad de la uva, con el objetivo de incrementar la calidad de sus vinos. Estas variedades presentan una producción elevada y racimos de gran tamaño, muy compactos, por lo que son bastante sensibles a Botrytis cinerea. Los resultados obtenidos indican que esta práctica puede plantearse como un método eficaz para el control del rendimiento y la mejora del estado sanitario de la uva; asimismo, favorece una correcta evolución del proceso de maduración, mejorando la composición de la uva debido al incremento del contenido de sólidos solubles y de compuestos fenólicos. La disminución de la acidez total y el aumento de pH que se producen en la uva, debido a la modificación del microclima de los racimos y al control del rendimiento, podría considerarse un inconveniente a tener en cuenta, sobre todo en el caso de variedades blancas que se caracterizan por un déficit de acidez total.Peer Reviewe

La evolución de la delincuencia en Andalucía

La evolución de la delincuencia en Andalucí

Percepción y reconocimiento facial: bases teóricas de las ruedas de reconocimiento

Frecuentemente testigos de un suceso deben describir al sospechoso. En muchas ocasiones destacan aspectos sobresalientes como una cicatriz o un rasgo facial muy destacado. ¿Cómo se produce la percepción facial? La psicología de la percepción explica este proceso que analizamos a continuación. Se discute si la percepción es analítica u holística, el fenómeno de la ilusión de Thatcher y el peso de los esquemas representacionales.Witnesses of an event often must describe the suspect. Frequently they include highlights like a scar or a prominent facial feature. How facial perception occurs? Perception psychology explains this process. We analyze the importance of analytical perception, holistic perception, Thatcher Illusion and representational schemes to explain i

Maximizing the Profit for Industrial Customers of Providing Operation Services in Electric Power Systems via a Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

[EN] Integration of renewable energy sources require an increase in the flexibility of power systems. Demand response is a valuable flexible resource that is not currently being fully exploited. Small and medium industrial consumers can deliver a wide range of underused flexibility resources associated with the electricity consumption in their production processes. Flexible resources should compete in liberalized operation markets to ensure the reliability of the system at a minimum cost. This paper presents a new tool to assist industrial demand response to participate in operation markets and optimize its value. The tool uses a combined physical-mathematical modelling of the industrial demand response and a Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm specifically tuned for the proposed problem to maximize the profit. The main advantages of the proposed tool are demonstrated in the paper through its application to the participation of a meat factory in the Spanish tertiary reserve market during a whole year using a quarter-hourly time resolution. The enhanced performance of the proposed tool with respect to previous methodologies is shown with these four flexible processes examples, where the maximum available profit obtained in the simultaneous consideration of all different flexible processes is computed. The flexible processes are technical and economically characterized in a way that makes the tool valid for most of the processes in the industry.This work was supported in part by the Primeros Proyectos de Investigacion under Grant PAID-06-18, in part by the Vicerrectorado de Investigacion, Innovacion y Transferencia de la Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) Valencia-Spain, Generalitat Valenciana through the Research Project under Grant AICO/2019/001, in part by the Spanish Administration under Grant FPU2016/00962, in part by the AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades, Spanish Government) through the Research Projects under Grant ENE-2016-78509-C3-1-P and Grant RED2018-102618-T, and in part by the EU FEDER Funds.Rodríguez-García, J.; Ribó-Pérez, DG.; Álvarez, C.; Peñalvo-López, E. (2020). Maximizing the Profit for Industrial Customers of Providing Operation Services in Electric Power Systems via a Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm. IEEE Access. 8:24721-24733. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2970478S2472124733