Advantage for Emotional Words in Immediate aud Delayed Memory Tasks: Could it be Explained in Terms of Processing Capacity.

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On soft/hard handoff for packet data services in cellular CDMA mobiles systems

Benefits of macrodiversity operation for packet data services in third generation mobile systems are not obvious. Retransmission procedures to enhance link performance and higher downlink bandwidth requirements could question macrodiversity usage. This paper describes a simple methodology to compare soft and hard handoff performance in terms of transmission delay for packet data services. The handover procedures are based exclusively on power criteria and hysteresis margins.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Multiple slot allocation for voice/data transmission over PRMA++ applied to FRAMES multiple access mode 1

This paper presents some simulation results of PRMA++ for voice and data transmission over a physical air interface platform defined in the ACTS European project FRAMES. Variations on the statistics of speech sources (activity factor, petition rate) are studied and conclusions are obtained for optimal frame dimensioning. For data transmission, a multiple slot allocation scheme is presented and results are shown for different source rates and packet lengths.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Processing of emotional words in bilinguals: Testing the effects of word concreteness, task type and language status

The present study investigates whether the emotional content of words has the same effect in the different languages of bilinguals by testing the effects of word concreteness, the type of task used, and language status. Highly proficient bilinguals of Catalan and Spanish who learned Catalan and Spanish in early childhood in a bilingual immersion context, and who still live in such a context, performed an affective decision task (Experiment 1) and a lexical decision task (Experiment 2) in both Catalan and Spanish. A different set of Catalan–Spanish bilinguals, who were proficient in English and who learned English after early childhood in an instructional setting, performed a lexical decision task in both Spanish and English (Experiment 3). In both tasks administered throughout the experiments, the experimental stimuli were concrete and abstract words that varied in their emotional connotation (i.e. positive, negative and neutral words) and were presented in the two languages involved. In the affective decision task, participants decided if the words had emotional content or not, and in the lexical decision task they decided if the strings of letters were real words or not. The three experiments also included an unexpected free recall task. Results showed that the emotional content of words affected bilinguals’ performance in all three tasks. In particular, there was a disadvantage in processing for negative words in both the affective and lexical decision tasks, and an advantage for positive words in the lexical decision and free recall tasks. Importantly, language only interacted with the other variables in Experiment 3, suggesting that language status is a relevant factor in determining the extent to which emotional processing has the same characteristics in the two languages

Sefarad ¿la «patria» de los sefardíes?

During the 20th Century and the early years of the 21st, various studies have been published in different countries, concerning the question of a definitive homeland for the Sephardic Jews. Autobiographical reminiscenses and novels and oral testimonies have all been concerned with this topic. In the present study the author analyzes the information provided by these writings and the countries Sephardic Jews consider to be their Homeland.A lo largo del siglo XX y en lo que va del XXI se han publicado en diferentes países centenares de libros de memorias, novelas autobiográficas y testimonios de historia oral de judíos sefardíes. Tema recurrente en su discurso es la reflexión acerca de cuál sea su «patria». En este estudio analizamos qué nos dicen al respecto y cuál consideran ellos su «patria»

En «clavemanía»: ¿Dónde están las llaves de… Sefarad?

This paper aims to contribute to clarify the appearance of a growing number of «keys» from the houses that the Sephardic ancestors possessed in the Iberian Peninsula before the expulsion of 1492, rebuilding the data relying on newspapers and writings from various kinds.Este artículo pretende contribuir a esclarecer el auge de la aparición de tantas «llaves» de las casas que los antepasados de los sefardíes poseían en la Península Ibérica antes de la expulsión de 1492, reconstruyendo los datos extraídos de periódicos y escritos de diversa índole a través de los siglos

Turquismos en un manuscrito de medicina o farmacología terapéutica en hebreo y judeoespañol (s. XIX)

Lexicographical study of part of the Turkish terminology included in the manuscript Libro de remedios y medicamentos (in Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish), number 340 of the first series of the Fírcovitch Collection (National Library of Russia, former Saltykov-Schedrín Public Library of Leningrad). The text contains medico-pharmacological prescriptions as well as segulot (cures or enchantments) that, between the magic and the traditional, are an invaluable part of the Sephardic heritage.Estudio lexicográfico de parte de la terminología turca que se incluye en el manuscrito Libro de remedios y medicamentos (en hebreo y judeoespañol), número 340 de la primera serie de la colección Fírcovitch (Biblioteca Nacional de Rusia, antigua Biblioteca Pública Saltykov-Schedrín de Leningrado). El Libro contiene, tanto prescripciones médico-farmacológicas, como segulot (curas o encantamientos) que, entre la magia y la tradición, forman parte del acervo cultural sefardí