V. Goldbeck. Fora Augusta. Das Augustusforums und seine Rezeption im Westen des Imperium Romanum. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner [Reseña]

Belgium Herbarium image of Meise Botanic Garden

the local ambassador m. vibivs marcellvs from astigi and his death in rome

Un ara romana recientemente descubierta en la impresionante necrópolis Vaticana situada junto a la via Triumphalis, en Roma, recuerda la memoria de M. Vibius M.f. Marcellus, legado de la colonia Augusta Firma, en la Bética. Éste es el punto de partida para reflexionar brevemente sobre la importancia de las embajadas locales para las comunidades cívicas, así como sobre el personaje enterrado en Roma, su posición social y las características que pudieron rodear su viaje como legado a la capital del imperio, donde encontró la muerte.A Roman altar recently discovered in the impressive Vatican necropolis, next to the via Triumphalis in Rome, is dedicated to the memory of M. Vibius M.f. Marcellus, ambassador from Augusta Firma, a Roman colony in the province Baetica. This is the starting point for a brief analysis of the local embassies and their importance for the civic communities, as well as for the consideration of the individual buried in Rome, his social status and the circumstances of his journey as a legatus to the imperial capital, where he finally died.I+D+i HAR2009-0882

Ordenación de eventos multidocumento usando inferencia de relaciones temporales y modelos semánticos distribucionales

This paper focuses on the contribution of temporal relations inference and distributional semantic models to the event ordering task. Our system automatically builds ordered timelines of events from different written texts in English by performing first temporal clustering and then semantic clustering. In order to determine temporal compatibility, an inference from the temporal relationships between events –automatically extracted from a Temporal Information Processing system– is applied. Regarding semantic compatibility between events, we analyze two different distributional semantic models: LDA Topic modeling and Word2Vec word embeddings. Both semantic models together with the temporal inference have been evaluated within the framework of SemEval 2015 Task 4 Track B. Experiments show that, using both models, the current State of the Art is improved, showing significant advance in the Cross-Document Event Ordering task.Este artículo se centra en estudiar la contribución que la inferencia de relaciones temporales y los modelos semánticos distribucionales hacen a la tarea de ordenación de eventos. Nuestro sistema construye automáticamente líneas de tiempo con eventos extraídos de diferentes documentos escritos en inglés. Para ello realiza primero una agrupación temporal y posteriormente una agrupación semántica. Para determinar la compatibilidad temporal se realiza una inferencia sobre las relaciones temporales entre los eventos extraídos de un sistema automático de procesamiento de información temporal. Para la compatibilidad semántica entre eventos hemos analizado dos modelos semánticos distribucionales distintos: LDA Topic Modeling y Word2Vec Word Embeddings. Ambos modelos semánticos junto con la inferencia temporal han sido evaluados bajo el marco de evaluación de SemEval 2015 Task 4 Track B. Los experimentos muestran que, usando ambos modelos se mejora el estado del arte actual, implicando un avance importante en la tarea de ordenación de eventos multidocumento.This paper has been partially supported by the Spanish government, project TIN2015-65100-R, project TIN2015-65136-C2-2-R and PROMETEOII/2014/001

Event ordering through temporal expression resolution

In this paper a multilingual method for event ordering based on temporal expression resolution is presented. This method has been implemented through the TERSEO system which consists of three main units: temporal expression recognizing, resolution of the coreference introduced by these expressions, and event ordering. By means of this system, chronological information related to events can be extracted from documental databases. This information is automatically added to the documental database in order to allow its use by question answering systems in those cases referring to temporality. The system has been evaluated obtaining results of 91 % precision and 71 % recall. For this, a blind evaluation process has been developed guaranteing a reliable annotation process that was measured through the kappa factor.This paper has been supported by the Spanish government, projects FIT-150500-2002-244 and FIT-150500-2002-416

A contribuição do sistema de apoio a decisão e da inteligência competitiva para a simulação gerencial

TCC (Graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro Socioeconômico. Curso de Ciências ContábeisO tema desta pesquisa foi verificar qual a contribuição do Sistema de apoio à decisão (SAD) e do módulo de Inteligência Competitiva (IC) para a simulação gerencial. A simulação gerencial é um método que proporciona aos alunos a oportunidade de serem gestores em um ambiente artificial com algumas semelhanças com a realidade, Keys & Wolfe (1990). Os SAD´s aprimoram a eficácia das decisões tomadas pelos participantes, Bernard (2006). Esta pesquisa procurou saber como os alunos se organizavam para a tomada de decisão com e sem o uso do SAD, buscando saber qual a contribuição dessas ferramentas na formação gerencial de estudantes de Ciências Contábeis, uma vez que se sabe que o sistema não pode ser um substituto para as análises, Schellenberger (1983) Foram elaborados e aplicados dois questionários. No primeiro deles, aplicado antes da liberação do SADWEB e do IC, buscavase saber como os alunos tomavam sua decisão sem o SAD. O segundo questionário foi aplicado no último período, após o uso do SADWEB e do IC, ele tinha os mesmos objetivos do primeiro e ainda questionava sobre as contribuições e vantagens das ferramentas. O SADWEB foi bem aceito pelos participantes e contribuiu com a disciplina, contudo o IC, não alcançou o resultado esperado devido ao seu pouco tempo de utilização

Holothuria tubulosa as a bioindicator to analyse metal pollution on the coast of Alicante (Spain)

Metal pollution is a major concern worldwide. The concentration of several metals in marine sediments from Alicante, Spain (Western Mediterranean): Cabo de la Huerta, Albufereta, San Gabriel and Cabo de Santa Pola has been studied, being areas with contrasted metal stress due to anthropogenic pressures, and their bioaccumulation in different tissues of Holothuria tubulosa (body wall, guts and intestine). The metals with more different levels among samples were Fe, Al, V, Mn, Pb, Ga, As, Cr, Zn and B. The body wall was the tissue that showed a significantly different signature of metal levels compared to the other body parts and the sediment. The guts, followed by the intestines, were the tissues with greatest bioaccumulation. The standard guidelines for safety limits (US EPA) for As, Cr, Pb and Zn are in the range “non-polluted”. In all the areas, the quality guidelines for Effect Level, Probable Effect Level, Effect Range Low and Effect Range Medium for As, Cr, Pb and Zn are much lower than those established, indicating no biologically adverse effects resulting from exposure to these metals. Regarding the potential ecological risk, for all metals it is <40 with low risk in all zones. The metals studied present a negative Igeo (area not contaminated). Arsenic in Albufereta and strontium in all the areas studied are the only ones that present a level 2 (uncontaminated to moderately contaminated). The Enrichment Factor (EF), with Fe as the normalising element, had a level 1–3 (minor enrichment), with the exception of Pb, B, As and Sr. Despite the concentrations in sediments being lower compared with other parts of the world, the Biota-Sediment Assimilation Factor from the body wall was higher at As (9.2) and B (7.3). It is necessary to highlight the high levels of As in the body wall (17 to 23 mg/kg of dry material), this is surprising, and it seems to be a general trend throughout the world.The authors wish to thank the Generalitat Valenciana (Spain) for the financial help of the Project CIAICO/2021. This study was partially financed by the University of Alicante’s Chemical Engineering Department, Marine Sciences & Applied Biology Department and University Institute of Water and Environmental Sciences (IUACA)

From Unstructured Data to Narrative Abstractive Summaries

To provide with easy and optimal access to digital information, narrative summaries must have a coherent and natural structure. Depending on how a summary is produced, a distinction can be made between extractive and abstractive summaries. Using an abstractive summarization approach, the relevant information (e.g., who? what?, when?, where?,...) could be fused together, leading to the generation of one or more new sentences. However, in order to do this it is necessary to obtain and process the temporal information in a text. A very effective way is the generation of timelines starting from multiple documents so that the generation of summaries is supported by the generated timeline, without losing the relevant temporal information of the texts. In this proposal, a enriched timeline is generated automatically, and the process of generating abstractive summaries is presented using this timeline as a basis [Barros et al., 2019]. Finally, potential applications of the automatic timeline generation would be presented, as for example its application to Fake News detection.This research work has been partially funded by the projects PROMETEU/2018/089 and RTI2018-094653-B-C22