Reflexiones sobre los alcances de los modelos computacionales para la generación de narrativas

La generación automática de narrativas es un campo apasionante y complejo. Existen sistemas que desarrollan reportes sobre el clima, escriben cuentos y poseía, entre otras funciones. En este artículo analizo una de sus principales características, el uso de estructuras narrativas predefinidas, la cual empleo para clasificar los programas existentes en dos grandes grupos, compararlos, y discutir los alcances que cada uno de ellos tiene. Concluyo exponiendo las razones por las cuales los estudiosos de las humanidades digitales deben participar intensamente en este campo de estudio.The automatic generation of narratives is a fascinating and complex field. There are systems that give reports on climate, write short stories and poetry, among other functions. This article analyzes one of their principal features: the use of preset narrative structures, which I use to classify existing programs in two large groups in order to compare them and discuss their limits. By means of conclusion, I will discuss the reasons why scholars in the humanities should participate actively in this field of study

Use of baited remote underwater video (BRUV) and motion analysis for studying the impacts of underwater noise upon free ranging fish and implications for marine energy management

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Free-ranging individual fish were observed using a baited remote underwater video (BRUV) system during sound playback experiments. This paper reports on test trials exploring BRUV design parameters, image analysis and practical experimental designs. Three marine species were exposed to playback noise, provided as examples of behavioural responses to impulsive sound at 163–171 dB re 1 μPa (peak-to-peak SPL) and continuous sound of 142.7 dB re 1 μPa (RMS, SPL), exhibiting directional changes and accelerations. The methods described here indicate the efficacy of BRUV to examine behaviour of free-ranging species to noise playback, rather than using confinement. Given the increasing concern about the effects of water-borne noise, for example its inclusion within the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive, and the lack of empirical evidence in setting thresholds, this paper discusses the use of BRUV, and short term behavioural changes, in supporting population level marine noise management

Multifunctional enzymatically generated hydrogels for chronic wound application

The healing of chronic wounds requires intensive medical intervention at huge healthcare costs. Dressing materials should consider the multifactorial nature of these wounds comprising deleterious proteolytic and oxidative enzymes and high bacterial load. In this work, multifunctional hydrogels for chronic wound application were produced by enzymatic cross- linking of thiolated chitosan and gallic acid. The hydrogels combine several beneficial to wound healing properties, controlling the matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and myeloperoxidase (MPO) activities, oxidative stress, and bacterial contamination. In vitro studies revealed above 90% antioxidant activity, and MPO and collagenase inhibition by up to 98 and 23%, respectively. Ex vivo studies with venous leg ulcer exudates confirmed the inhibitory capacity of the dressings against MPO and MMPs. Additionally, the hydrogels reduced the population of the most frequently encountered in nonhealing wounds bacterial strains. The stable at physiological conditions and resistant to lysozyme degradation hydrogels showed high biocompatibility with human skin fibroblastsPeer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Volar con Pedro Casariego Córdoba

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Los caminos que conducen hacia una nueva teoría de la estrategia. Aportación al homenaje a Manuel Martín Serrano

In 2001, Manuel Martín Serrano collaborated in my book Estrategias de Comunicación where he proposed "a less geometric and more hermeneutic new strategic theory, less rational and more relational". A theory that is based on the intention of working with real human beings, not with artificial constructs such as the homo economicus, the rational actor or the player. In the present work, the author specifies the New Strategic Theory in seven big changes with regards to the conventional formulations of Strategy. It is necessary to close this theory, but we can already glimpse its expected result: a General Theory of Strategy.En 2001 Manuel Martín Serrano colaboró con una tribuna en mi libro Estrategias de Comunicación, en el que se proponía “una nueva teoría estratégica menos geométrica y más hermenéutica, menos racional y más relacional”. Una teoría que parte de la pretensión de tra-bajar con seres humanos de verdad y no con constructos artificiosos tales como el homo oeconomicus, el actor racional o el jugador. En el presente trabajo el autor concreta la Nueva Teoría Estratégica en siete grandes cambios con respecto a las formulaciones convencionales al uso en materia de Estrategia. Falta cerrar esta teoría pero su resultado esperado ya se vislumbra: una Teoría General de la Estrategia

Canary Islands and the foreseeable expansion of its continental shelf: the difficult balance between Spain, Morocco and Western Sahara

En este artículo se analizan los factores jurídicos, políticos y económicos que condicionan la ampliación de la plataforma continental de las Islas Canarias en su zona meridional. Marruecos ha anunciado su intención de realizar una ampliación semejante que incluiría las aguas del Sahara Occidental, territorio no autónomo pendiente de descolonizar sobre el cual Marruecos no detenta la soberanía. Ambas ampliaciones crearían un área de superposición de difícil delimitación que compromete la explotación de los recursos naturales que allí se encuentranThe article analyzes the legal, political and economic factors that condition the expansion of the continental shelf of the Canary Islands in its southern zone. Morocco has announced its intention to carry out a similar expansion that would include the waters of Western Sahara, a non-autonomous territory pending decolonization over which Morocco does not hold sovereignty. Both expansions would create an overlapping area of difficult delimitation that compromises the exploitation of the natural resources found ther