Reseña de Devís, Pedro Pablo. 2017. Comparativas de desigualdad con la preposición "de" en español. Comparación y pseudocomparación. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang

Obra ressenyada: Pedro Pablo DEVIS, Comparativas de desigualdad con la preposición "de" en español. Comparación y pseudocomparación. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017

Verbal Periphrases in the medical discourse of current Spanish

Esta tesis tiene por objeto examinar la incidencia de la situación comunicativa en el comportamiento de la categoría perífrasis verbal, de modo que demostremos que las propiedades del lenguaje médico motivan, por un lado, el empleo de unas formaciones perifrásticas específicas y, por otro, la aparición de rasgos diferenciales con respecto a la comunicación ordinaria en cuestiones de frecuencia de uso, categorización semántica, combinatoria o restricciones formales y de significado. Contamos con numerosas e importantes contribuciones acerca de las perífrasis verbales del español actual, pero son inexistentes los trabajos publicados sobre cómo influyen las características definitorias de las lenguas de especialidad en el funcionamiento de las construcciones analizadas. Teniendo esto en cuenta, nuestra investigación viene motivada por dos cuestiones fundamentales: por un lado, la escasez de investigaciones que profundizan en las relaciones y los límites entre lengua general y discurso especializado y, por otro, el convencimiento de que la naturaleza de las categorías gramaticales se ve alterada en contextos con fines específicos. Para ello, en primer lugar, proporcionamos una visión panorámica sobre las propuestas definitorias del concepto perífrasis verbal, defendemos nuestra propia caracterización y fijamos las pruebas sintácticas y los dominios semánticos que vertebran nuestro análisis del corpus. A continuación, señalamos las propiedades del discurso médico y delimitamos hasta qué punto estas características modifican la categoría analizada. A partir de aquí, iniciamos el estudio de los textos seleccionados y realizamos un análisis comparativo LG-LM (lengua general y lenguaje médico, respectivamente) por dominios semánticos, a saber: modalidad verbal, aspecto gramatical, marcador del discurso, voz pasiva e información pasivo-aspectual. La investigación de las formaciones perifrásticas atiende a cinco cuestiones esenciales: inventario y delimitación, continuum categorial, frecuencia de uso, valores semánticos y funcionamiento según la especialidad médica. Este análisis del corpus concluye con un capítulo dedicado al estudio de las perífrasis encadenadas, como puede empezar a hablar o tienen que volver a leer. Las cadenas de auxiliaridad configuran una línea de investigación incipiente y sugerimos avances significativos en aspectos como el orden y la posición de los constituyentes, las restricciones formales o las limitaciones semánticas. En cuanto a los textos objeto de análisis, nuestro corpus está compuesto por los contenidos de cuarenta revistas médicas escritas en español que se han publicado entre 2018 y 2020. Cabe señalar que son textos escritos por y para investigadores, con el más elevado grado de especialización, puesto que hemos prescindido de manuales didácticos y repertorios divulgativos. De esta investigación se concluye que las formaciones perifrásticas no se comportan del mismo modo según la situación comunicativa: el análisis comparativo LG-LM favorece la detección de características idénticas y rasgos diferenciales entre un discurso y otro y demuestra, en definitiva, que la categoría adquiere un conjunto de propiedades sintáctico-semánticas específicas en la comunicación especializada. Así pues, la investigación nos permite llegar a conclusiones innovadoras que, por un lado, esclarecen aún más la especificidad de la categoría y, por otro, arrojan luz sobre su funcionamiento en una lengua de especialidad tan relevante y necesaria como es el discurso médico.This dissertation aims to examine how the communicative situation affects the behavior of verbal periphrases, the category under study, and prove that the properties of medical language determine, on the one hand, the use of specific periphrastic constructions and, on the other, the appearance of features that distinguish it from ordinary communication in terms of frequency of use, semantic categorization, combinational properties or formal and semantic restrictions. There are numerous important contributions on verbal periphrases in contemporary Spanish, but there are no published works on how the defining features of specialized languages influence the behavior of periphrastic verbal constructions. Therefore, my research is prompted by two key issues: on the one hand, the scarcity of research delving into the relationship and boundaries between general language and specialized discourse; on the other, my conviction that the nature of grammatical categories gets altered in specialized contexts. To this end, I will first provide an overview of the different definitions for the concept of verbal periphrasis, defend my own definition and establish the syntactic tests and semantic domains that structure my analysis of the corpus. Next, I will point out the properties of medical discourse and determine to what extent these features affect verbal periphrases. I will then proceed to study the selected texts and conduct a GL-ML (general language and medical language, respectively) comparative analysis by semantic domains, namely: verbal modality, grammatical aspect, discourse markers, passive voice, and passive-aspectual information. The research on periphrastic constructions addresses five key issues: inventory and delimitation, categorical continuum, frequency of use, semantic values, and their behavior depending on medical specialty. The corpus analysis ends with a chapter devoted to the study of chain periphrases, such as puede empezar a hablar (‘one can start to talk’) or tienen que volver a leer (‘they have to go back to reading’). Concatenation of auxiliaries is an incipient line of research, and I suggest significant advances in aspects such as the order and position of constituents, formal restrictions, or semantic constraints. The corpus in this study is made up of content from forty medical journals written in Spanish and published between 2018 and 2020. It should be noted that they are highly specialized texts written by and for researchers. Neither teaching manuals nor non-specialized informational texts have been used. The findings of this research indicate that periphrastic constructions behave differently depending on the communicative situation: the GL-ML comparative análisis helps detect identical and distinguishing features of these two types of discourse and it evidences that the category takes on a set of specific syntactic-semantic properties in specialized communication. Therefore, I derive novel conclusions that, on the one hand, further clarify the specificity of the category and, on the other, shed light on its behavior in a specialized language as indispensable as medical discourse

Searching for Faraday rotation in cosmic microwave background polarization

We use the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 9th-year foreground reduced data at 33, 41 and 61 GHz to derive a Faraday rotation at map and at angular power spectrum levels taking into account their observational errors. A processing mask provided by WMAP is used to avoid contamination from the disc of our Galaxy and local spurs. We have found a Faraday rotation component at both, map and power spectrum levels. The lack of correlation of the Faraday rotation with Galactic Faraday rotation, synchrotron and dust polarization from our Galaxy or with cosmic microwave background anisotropies or lensing suggests that it could be originated at reionization (ℓ ≲ 12). Even if the detected Faraday rotation signal is weak, the present study could contribute to establish magnetic fields strengths of B ~ 10 G at reionization.This work was partially supported by projects CSD2010-00064 and AYA2011-24728 of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and by Junta de Andalucía Grant FQM-108.Peer Reviewe

Analysis and performance of lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors for W-band

Lumped-element superconducting resonators are a promising technology for their use in millimeter-wave observations and quantum computing applications that require large arrays of extremely sensitive detectors. Among them, lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) have shown good performance in the submillimeter band in several earth-based telescopes. In this work, LEKIDs for their use as millimeter-wave receivers of astronomical applications are presented. LEKID arrays using a thin bilayer of superconducting titanium/aluminum (Ti/Al), deposited on the silicon substrate, have been designed and fabricated. The design of a dual-polarization LEKID with the goal of detection at the W -band for two orthogonal polarizations is described and a fabricated array has demonstrated absorption at ambient temperature. Also, an approximate design methodology of the coupling parameter for LEKIDs' readout, essential for dynamic range optimization of the detector under millimeter-wave radiation, is proposed. In addition, the resonance characteristics and coupling factor of the fabricated superconducting resonators using high-quality internal factor Qi under cryogenic temperatures have been analyzed. The design guidelines in this work are applicable to other LEKID arrays, and the presented superconducting Ti/Al thin-film LEKIDs can be used in future receiver arrays in the millimeter bands.This work was supported by Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under Grants ESP2017-83921-C2-2-R, ESP2017-86582-C4-1-R, ESP2017-86582-C4-3-R, ESP2017-92706-EXP, AYA2017-92153-EXP, “Severo Ochoa” Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D (MINECO, Grant SEV-2016-0686). By Comunidad de Madrid under Grant P2018/NMT-4291. D.G. and A.G also acknowledge Grant DEFROST N62909-19-1-2053 from ONRGlobal. A.G. acknowledges IJCI-2017-33991

Bi-layer kinetic inductance detectors for W-band

An array of superconducting kinetic inductance detectors (KID) has been fabricated and it has demonstrated absorption at W-Band. The use of a bi-layer structure based on aluminum (AI) and titanium (Ti) shows a lower superconducting critical temperature (T c ), which allows the detection at W-band. A design methodology is presented taking into account the KID geometry in order to maximize the absorption and a dual-polarization KID has been designed using the proposed methodology. Two prototypes of KID on Silicon substrate have been fabricated showing a good agreement between measurement and simulation results. The measurements at room temperature from 65 to 110 GHz show the matching at the frequency band, while dark cryogenic characterization demonstrated the low frequency design.The authors acknowledge financial supports: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities Grants ESP2017-83921-C2-2-R, ESP2017-86582-C4-1-R, ESP2017-86582-C4-3-R, MAT2017-85617-R, ESP2017-92706-EXP, AYA2017-92153-EXP and from Comunidad de Madrid through Grant P2018/NMT-4291 TEC2-SPACE-CM. A.G. acknowledges IJCI-2017-33991; IMDEA Nanociencia acknowledges support from the “Severo Ochoa” Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D (MINECO, Grant SEV-2016-0686). D.G. and A.G also acknowledge Grant DEFROST N62909-19-1-2053 from ONR-Global

QUIJOTE scientific results -- XIII. Intensity and polarization study of supernova remnants in the QUIJOTE-MFI wide survey: CTB 80, Cygnus Loop, HB 21, CTA 1, Tycho and HB 9

We use the new QUIJOTE-MFI wide survey (11, 13, 17 and 19 GHz) to produce spectral energy distributions (SEDs), on an angular scale of 1 deg, of the supernova remnants (SNRs) CTB 80, Cygnus Loop, HB 21, CTA 1, Tycho and HB 9. We provide new measurements of the polarized synchrotron radiation in the microwave range. For each SNR, the intensity and polarization SEDs are obtained and modelled by combining QUIJOTE-MFI maps with ancillary data. In intensity, we confirm the curved power law spectra of CTB 80 and HB 21 with a break frequency $\nu_{\rm b}$ at 2.0$^{+1.2}_{-0.5}$ GHz and 5.0$^{+1.2}_{-1.0}$ GHz respectively; and spectral indices respectively below and above the spectral break of $-0.34\pm0.04$ and $-0.86\pm0.5$ for CTB 80, and $-0.24\pm0.07$ and $-0.60\pm0.05$ for HB 21. In addition, we provide upper limits on the Anomalous Microwave Emission (AME), suggesting that the AME contribution is negligible towards these remnants. From a simultaneous intensity and polarization fit, we recover synchrotron spectral indices as flat as $-0.24$, and the whole sample has a mean and scatter of $-0.44\pm0.12$. The polarization fractions have a mean and scatter of $6.1\pm1.9$\%. When combining our results with the measurements from other QUIJOTE studies of SNRs, we find that radio spectral indices are flatter for mature SNRs, and particularly flatter for CTB 80 ($-0.24^{+0.07}_{-0.06}$) and HB 21 ($-0.34^{+0.04}_{-0.03}$). In addition, the evolution of the spectral indices against the SNRs age is modelled with a power-law function, providing an exponent $-0.07\pm0.03$ and amplitude $-0.49\pm0.02$ (normalised at 10 kyr), which are conservative with respect to previous studies of our Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.Comment: 33 pages, 15 figure, 15 tables. Submitted to MNRAS. QUIJOTE data maps available at https://research.iac.es/proyecto/quijot

Transformaciones y retos de la educación en las artes y los diseños (tomo 2)

394 páginas.Libro con diversas muestras de la labor, el pulso, las formas y caminos resolutivos que asumieron los docentes frente a contextos de complejidad en el marco de la educación superior en las artes y los diseños, que buscó la profesionalización de los estudiantes frente a la emergencia de la pandemia Covid-19 yendo más allá y proponiendo mecanismos de creatividad, flexibilidad académica, colaboración y motivación educativa. Aparecen en las investigaciones no solo respuestas y experiencias, sino nuevos planteamientos para una perspectiva futura, necesarios en las transformaciones para las próximas décadas que deberán vivirse en los planes y programas de estudio, los sistemas de evaluación, la formación docente, el perfil y las competencias digitales de los estudiantes, entre otros aspectos. Y a propósito de estas reflexiones, también se plantea un escenario sobre ¿a dónde queremos o debemos llegar en la educación en artes y diseño? Cabe señalar que los aportes de estos textos provienen del ámbito de la educación superior pública en México, que se rige bajo los principios generales de libertad de cátedra para los docentes, y este factor resulta fundamental para poder observar justamente la toma de decisiones, adecuaciones, movilidad y flexibilidad para las adecuaciones curriculares y también en los procesos de enseñanza- aprendizaje que se exponen, resultando un componente central para pensar en contextos de emergencia y complejidad y en los escenarios futuros de la educación en las artes, diseños y en todos los ámbitos del conocimiento.Coordinadoras: Alma Elisa Delgado Coellar, Juana Cecilia Angeles Cañedo & Daniela Velázquez Ruí

CIBERER : Spanish national network for research on rare diseases: A highly productive collaborative initiative

Altres ajuts: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII); Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.CIBER (Center for Biomedical Network Research; Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red) is a public national consortium created in 2006 under the umbrella of the Spanish National Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII). This innovative research structure comprises 11 different specific areas dedicated to the main public health priorities in the National Health System. CIBERER, the thematic area of CIBER focused on rare diseases (RDs) currently consists of 75 research groups belonging to universities, research centers, and hospitals of the entire country. CIBERER's mission is to be a center prioritizing and favoring collaboration and cooperation between biomedical and clinical research groups, with special emphasis on the aspects of genetic, molecular, biochemical, and cellular research of RDs. This research is the basis for providing new tools for the diagnosis and therapy of low-prevalence diseases, in line with the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) objectives, thus favoring translational research between the scientific environment of the laboratory and the clinical setting of health centers. In this article, we intend to review CIBERER's 15-year journey and summarize the main results obtained in terms of internationalization, scientific production, contributions toward the discovery of new therapies and novel genes associated to diseases, cooperation with patients' associations and many other topics related to RD research

Expression of Interest: The Canfranc Axion Detection Experiment (CADEx)

Trabajo presentado al 29th Meeting of the LSC Scientific Committee, celebrado online del 30 de noviembre al 1 de diciembre de 2021.Peer reviewe