Contributing to VRPN with a new server for haptic devices (ext. version)

This article is an extended version of the poster paper: Cuevas-Rodriguez, M., Gonzalez-Toledo D., Molina-Tanco, L., Reyes-Lecuona A., 2015, November. “Contributing to VRPN with a new server for haptic devices”. In Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology. ACM.http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2821592.2821639VRPN is a middleware to access Virtual Reality peripherals. VRPN standard distribution supports Geomagic® (formerly Phantom) haptic devices through the now superseded GHOST library. This paper presents VRPN OpenHaptics Server, a contribution to VRPN library that fully reimplements VRPN support of Geomagic Haptic Devices. The implementation is based on the OpenHaptics v3.0 HLAPI layer, which supports all Geomagic Haptic Devices. We present the architecture of the contributed server, a detailed description of the offered API and an analysis of its performance in a set of example scenarios.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Programa Interprise: formación intercultural para futuros profesores de Educación Primaria

Este trabajo es fruto de un programa Programa InterPriSe (Intercultural Primary School Education) financiado por la Comisión Europea y parte del Programa Erasmus+ que se llevó a cabo en Patras (Grecia) a finales del año 2014. Docentes y futuros docentes de más de diez países europeos de Educación Primaria que procedían de instituciones académicas y organizaciones no gubernamentales participaron en este proyecto. El objetivo general de este programa fue la creación de una práctica pedagógica intercultural común a los quince países participantes. A través de metodologías colaborativas de diálogo y reflexión se asentaron las bases de una metodología intercultural para futuros profesores que incluye: desarrollar destrezas para ayudar a los participantes a ser más eficaces en entornos interculturales; demostrar que los sistemas educativos deberían evitar la imposición de un modelo cultural unidimensional para favorecer la multiculturalidad; aprender métodos alternativos de enseñanza relacionados con la pedagogía moderna; tomar conciencia como futuros profesores de la importancia de su rol en el ámbito educativo multicultural y dotarles de herramientas para la gestión de su aula, así como ayudar a los profesores noveles a desarrollar autonomía y técnicas de superación. Todo ello ha de llevar a fomentar en el profesorado la capacidad de autoevaluación y autocrítica sobre sus propias prácticas de enseñanza

New empirical data regarding the intonation of Spanish from the Glissando news corpus

El objetivo de este estudio es presentar nuevos datos empíricos sobre la entonación del español, a partir de los materiales anotados del subcorpus de noticias de Glissando, y discutir los datos desde la perspectiva de la distinción entre las categorías fonológicas representadas por el modelo Sp_ToBI y las realizaciones fonéticas que se hallan en un corpus leído.The goal of this paper is to present novel empirical data regarding the intonation ofSpanish, which have been collected from the annotated materials in the Glissandonews subcorpus, and to discuss the data from the perspective of the distinctionbetween the phonological categories represented by the Sp_ToBI model and thephonetic realizations that have been found in a corpus of read speech

Exercise Outcomes in Childhood Obesity-Related Inflammation and Oxidative Status

Childhood obesity is identified as one of the major public health issues to increase the risk for cardiometabolic diseases and related complications in adulthood. The literature has supported inflammation and oxidative stress as the primary underlying mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of obesity-related diseases. Epidemiological evidence consistently shows the benefits of physical activity in the improvement of obesity-mediated inflammation and oxidative stress status. In this narrative mini-review, the available scientific evidence on the potential effects of exercise in alleviating these susceptibilities in childhood obesity will be assessed.S

Effects of exercise on exosome release and cargo in in vivo and ex vivo models: A systematic review

[EN] Exercise-released exosomes have been identified as novel players to mediate cell-to-cell communication in promoting systemic beneficial effects. This review aimed to systematically investigate the effects of exercise on exosome release and cargo, as well as provide an overview of their physiological implications. Among the 436 articles obtained in the database search (WOS, Scopus, and PubMed), 19 articles were included based on eligibility criteria. Results indicate that exercise promotes the release of exosomes without modification of its vesicle size. The literature has primarily shown an exercise-driven increase in exosome markers (Alix, CD63, CD81, and Flot-1), along with other exosome-carried proteins, into circulation. However, exosome isolation, characterization, and phenotyping methodology, as well as timing of sample recovery following exercise can influence the analysis and interpretation of findings. Moreover, a large number of exosome-carried microRNAs (miRNAs), including miR-1, miR-133a, miR-133b, miR-206, and miR-486, in response to exercise are involved in the modulation of proliferation and differentiation of skeletal muscle tissue, although antigen-presenting cells, leukocytes, endothelial cells, and platelets are the main sources of exosome release into the circulation. Collectively, with the physiological implications as evidenced by the ex vivo trials, the release of exercise-promoted exosomes and their cargo could provide the potential therapeutic applications via the role of intercellular communication.SIBrisamar Estébanez was supported by the Ministry of Education of Spain (FPU15/05051). David Jiménez‐Pathe IN MOTU SALUS Research Network on Molecular and Cellular Basis of Physical Exercise for Health and Performance (14/UPB/20)vón was supported by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation ‐ MINECO (RYC‐2014‐16938). Supported by grants from the EXERNET Research Network on Physical Exercise and Health (09/UPB/20) an

Large-Scale Analysis of User Exposure to Online Advertising on Facebook

Online advertising is the major source of income for a large portion of the Internet Services. There exists a body of literature aiming at optimizing ads engagement, understanding the privacy and ethical implications of online advertising, and so on. However, to the best of our knowledge, no previous work analyzes, at large scale, the exposure of real users to online advertising. This paper performs a comprehensive analysis of the exposure of users to ads and advertisers using a dataset, including more than 7M ads from 140k unique advertisers delivered to more than 5k users, which was collected between October 2016 and May 2018. This paper focuses on Facebook, which is the second largest advertising platform next only to Google in terms of revenue and accounts for more than 2.2B monthly active users. Our analysis reveals that the Facebook users are exposed (in median) to 70 ads per week, which comes from 12 advertisers. Ads represent between 10% and 15% of all the information received in the users' newsfeed. A small increment of 1% in the portion of ads in the newsfeed could roughly represent a revenue increase of 8.17M USD per week for Facebook. Finally, we also reveal that the Facebook users are overprofiled since, in the best case, only 23% of the active interests, Facebook assigns to users for the advertising purpose, are actually related to the ads these users receive.The work of A. A. Galán and R. C. Rumin was supported by the European H2020 Project SMOOTH under Grant 786741. The work of J. G. Cabañas was supported in part by the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Spain, through the Project TEXEO, under Grant TEC2016-80339-R, and in part by the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, Spain, through FPU, under Grant FPU16/05852. The work of A. Cuevas was supported in part by the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Spain, and in part by the European Social Fund (EU), through the Ramón Y Cajal, under Grant RyC-2015-17732. The work of M. Calderón was supported by the European H2020 Project TYPES under Grant 653449.Publicad

Detection of ground movements in Montjuïc (Barcelona) using TerraSAR-X data

In this study, 28 StripMap TerraSAR-X images were processed using a Persistent Scatterer Interferometry technique in order to detect and analyze superficial deformation phenomena affecting the hill of Montjuic in Barcelona between December 2007 and November 2009. The results show significant displacement values in two main areas affected by different types of superficial displacements, specifically compaction in a former quarry refill and sliding processes. Displacement values of up to 12 mm/ year along the line of sight of the satellite were detected in the area near the Perez de Rozas baseball stadium whereas values of up to 7 mm/year were found in the vicinity of Costa i Llobera gardens. For each deformation area, high resolution deformation velocity data were analyzed and integrated with historical images and field data to interpret the detected phenomena

Discontinuous GBSAR deformation monitoring

This paper is focused on deformation monitoring using the Ground-Based SAR (GBSAR) technique and a particular data acquisition configuration, which is called discontinuous GBSAR (D-GBSAR). In the most commonly used GBSAR configuration, the radar is left installed in situ, acquiring data periodically, e.g. every few minutes. Deformations are estimated by processing sets of GBSAR images acquired during several weeks or months, without moving the system. By contrast, in the D-GBSAR the radar is installed and dismounted at each measurement campaign, revisiting a given site periodically. This configuration is useful to monitor slow deformation phenomena. This paper outlines the D-GBSAR data analysis procedure implemented by the authors. This is followed by a discussion of some specific aspects of D-GBSAR monitoring. Two successful examples of D-GBSAR monitoring are discussed: one concerns an urban area, while the second one involves a rural area where the monitoring requires the use of artificial corner reflectors