A spoken genre gets written: Online football commentaries in English, French, and Spanish

[EN] Many recent studies on computer-mediated communication (CMC) have addressed the question of orality and literacy. This article examines a relatively recent subgenre of CMC, that of written online sports commentary, that provides us with written CMC that is clearly based on firmly established oral genres, those of radio and television sports commentary. The examples analyzed are from two English, two French, and two Spanish online football (soccer) commentaries. The purpose of the study is to examine oral traits and genre mixing in online football commentaries in the three languages and carryover from the spoken genres of radio and television commentaries to this developing genre, following Ferguson. Special attention is paid to Web page design. The study reveals that form and content of online football commentaries are strongly affected by the style of the online newspaper.Pérez-Sabater, C.; Peña-Martinez, G.; Turney Taggart, E.; Montero Fleta, MB. (2008). 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PROPUESTA PARA LA INCORPORACIÓN DE LAS COMPETENCIAS EN EL DISEÑO DE UN PROGRAMA DE PRÁCTICAS TRANSVERSAL PARA LAS TITULACIONES DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y JURÍDICAS DE LA UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VAÈNCIA

[ES] La orientación académica actual hacia la enseñanza por competencias enfatiza una serie de carencias que se vienen observando en el desarrollo de las prácticas en empresa curriculares en la formación superior. La inclusión en los programas de estudio de materias que inciden en la aplicación profesional del conocimiento trasciende, en la mayoría de las ocasiones, el ámbito propio de la Universidad. La responsabilidad de la pre-adaptación a la etapa profesional se traslada así a la sociedad. La búsqueda del pragmatismo y la utilidad inmediata en las empresas y organizaciones receptoras de estudiantes contrasta a menudo con la necesidad de dotar de coherencia a los nuevos modelos que necesariamente han de surgir de las relaciones universidad-empresa resultantes de los enfoques académicos actuales. En este trabajo se plantea la hipótesis del diseño de un programa de prácticum multidisciplinar para el desarrollo de las competencias transversales a los grados en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ADE), Gestión y Administración Pública (GAP) y Turismo (GGT). El planteamiento que se expone se centra en la fase de conceptualización de este nuevo enfoque de experiencia formativa. Se pretende que el modelo final, previa frase de contraste y prueba, se caracterice por su aplicabilidad inmediata en el ámbito de los programas de prácticas en empresas que se están desarrollando actualmente en la Universitat Politècnica de València.Osorio Acosta, E.; Teruel Serrano, MD.; Peña Martinez, G.; Herrero Blasco, A. (2015). PROPUESTA PARA LA INCORPORACIÓN DE LAS COMPETENCIAS EN EL DISEÑO DE UN PROGRAMA DE PRÁCTICAS TRANSVERSAL PARA LAS TITULACIONES DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y JURÍDICAS DE LA UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VAÈNCIA. En Open Innovation & Coolhunting in education: INNODOCT'15 : International Conference on Innovation, Documentation and Teaching Technologies, held on-line in Valencia, Spain, on 12-15 May, 2013. Editorial de la Universitat Politècnica de València. 412-421. doi:10.4995/INNODOCT.2015.54941242

EL DESARROLLO DE LA CREATIVIDAD Y LA INNOVACIÓN: SU APLICACIÓN EN EL AULA EN EL ÚLTIMO AÑO DEL GRADO EN ADMINISTRACIÓN Y DIRECCIÓN DE EMPRESAS DE LA UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE VALENCIA

[ES] Cada vez más la sociedad, la empresa, demanda un nuevo tipo de empleado: una persona innovadora. Personas que sean capaces de generar ideas , que provengan de más de un campo del conocimiento o que sean expertos en varios campos, que disfruten con el trabajo innovador, colaborativas, con capacidad para resolver problemas y que encuentren nuevas formas enfoques y maneras de ver las cosas. El tiempo en que nos ha tocado vivir está marcado por los cambios estructurales: La globalización, el aumento de competencia, los cambios organizacionales y las nuevas tecnologías; la economía del conocimiento, el sistema de I+D y la formación. Por todo ello se considera la innovación como un elemento de la competitividad territorial. Desde el aula, el profesor tiene un trabajo que realizar, también es un trabajo creativo e innovador y no es otro que fomentar el entrenamiento y desarrollo de esas capacidades y habilidades a través de grupos de trabajo que se enriquezcan y complementen. La gestión de la creatividad y de la innovación, estudia el papel que juega el profesor, en su faceta de entrenador, para desarrollar la creatividad en el aula ofreciendo consejos de lo que puede ser una innovación exitosa. Por lo tanto esta justificada esta comunicación que va a explicar que hacemos en el aula para motivar e incentivar la innovación y la creatividad con la finalidad de que el alumno se encuentre mejor preparado para afrontar su integración en el mercado laboral.Herrero Blasco, A.; Grau Gadea, GF.; Osorio Acosta, E.; Peña Martinez, G. (2015). EL DESARROLLO DE LA CREATIVIDAD Y LA INNOVACIÓN: SU APLICACIÓN EN EL AULA EN EL ÚLTIMO AÑO DEL GRADO EN ADMINISTRACIÓN Y DIRECCIÓN DE EMPRESAS DE LA UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE VALENCIA. En Open Innovation & Coolhunting in education: INNODOCT'15 : International Conference on Innovation, Documentation and Teaching Technologies, held on-line in Valencia, Spain, on 12-15 May, 2013. Editorial de la Universitat Politècnica de València. 485-490. doi:10.4995/INNODOCT.2015.1030S48549

Fronteras borrosas entre géneros en la comunicación electrónica: un estudio multilingüe

[ES] El presente estudio trata un género electrónico de reciente creación: el comentario deportivo en línea. Este género forma parte de la prensa tradicional, donde cuenta con una larga historia y convenciones bien definidas. En anteriores estudios hemos comprobado que en la comunicación electrónica en inglés hay más rasgos asociados con el discurso oral que en las lenguas románicas. Sin embargo, esta afirmación necesita ser matizada cuando se trata de un género periodístico. El uso de la puntuación y las mayúsculas, el estudio del léxico, la longitud de la frase y el comentario, las oraciones fragmentarias y la relación tipo/ocurrencia contribuirá a definir su vinculación con la modalidad oral o escrita.[EN] The present study deals with a new electronic genre: online sports commentaries. This genre forms part of the traditional press that has a long history and very well defined conventions. In previous studies, we have established that electronic communication in English presents more traits associated with oral discourse than Romance languages. However, this statement needs some clarification in the case of journalistic genres. The use of punctuation and capital letters, the study of lexis, sentence length and the extension of the commentary, fragmentary sentences and type/token relation will contribute to define its oral or written modality.Montero Fleta, MB.; Turney Taggart, E.; Pérez Sabater, C.; Peña Martinez, G. (2010). Fronteras borrosas entre géneros en la comunicación electrónica: un estudio multilingüe. Revista Española de Lingüística. 40(2):47-74. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/29894477440

Famílies botàniques de plantes medicinals

Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona. Ensenyament: Grau de Farmàcia, Assignatura: Botànica Farmacèutica, Curs: 2013-2014, Coordinadors: Joan Simon, Cèsar Blanché i Maria Bosch.Els materials que aquí es presenten són els recull de 175 treballs d’una família botànica d’interès medicinal realitzats de manera individual. Els treballs han estat realitzat per la totalitat dels estudiants dels grups M-2 i M-3 de l’assignatura Botànica Farmacèutica durant els mesos d’abril i maig del curs 2013-14. Tots els treballs s’han dut a terme a través de la plataforma de GoogleDocs i han estat tutoritzats pel professor de l’assignatura i revisats i finalment co-avaluats entre els propis estudiants. L’objectiu principal de l’activitat ha estat fomentar l’aprenentatge autònom i col·laboratiu en Botànica farmacèutica

A Customized Pigmentation SNP Array Identifies a Novel SNP Associated with Melanoma Predisposition in the SLC45A2 Gene

As the incidence of Malignant Melanoma (MM) reflects an interaction between skin colour and UV exposure, variations in genes implicated in pigmentation and tanning response to UV may be associated with susceptibility to MM. In this study, 363 SNPs in 65 gene regions belonging to the pigmentation pathway have been successfully genotyped using a SNP array. Five hundred and ninety MM cases and 507 controls were analyzed in a discovery phase I. Ten candidate SNPs based on a p-value threshold of 0.01 were identified. Two of them, rs35414 (SLC45A2) and rs2069398 (SILV/CKD2), were statistically significant after conservative Bonferroni correction. The best six SNPs were further tested in an independent Spanish series (624 MM cases and 789 controls). A novel SNP located on the SLC45A2 gene (rs35414) was found to be significantly associated with melanoma in both phase I and phase II (P<0.0001). None of the other five SNPs were replicated in this second phase of the study. However, three SNPs in TYR, SILV/CDK2 and ADAMTS20 genes (rs17793678, rs2069398 and rs1510521 respectively) had an overall p-value<0.05 when considering the whole DNA collection (1214 MM cases and 1296 controls). Both the SLC45A2 and the SILV/CDK2 variants behave as protective alleles, while the TYR and ADAMTS20 variants seem to function as risk alleles. Cumulative effects were detected when these four variants were considered together. Furthermore, individuals carrying two or more mutations in MC1R, a well-known low penetrance melanoma-predisposing gene, had a decreased MM risk if concurrently bearing the SLC45A2 protective variant. To our knowledge, this is the largest study on Spanish sporadic MM cases to date

The global abundance of tree palms

Aim Palms are an iconic, diverse and often abundant component of tropical ecosystems that provide many ecosystem services. Being monocots, tree palms are evolutionarily, morphologically and physiologically distinct from other trees, and these differences have important consequences for ecosystem services (e.g., carbon sequestration and storage) and in terms of responses to climate change. We quantified global patterns of tree palm relative abundance to help improve understanding of tropical forests and reduce uncertainty about these ecosystems under climate change. Location Tropical and subtropical moist forests. Time period Current. Major taxa studied Palms (Arecaceae). Methods We assembled a pantropical dataset of 2,548 forest plots (covering 1,191 ha) and quantified tree palm (i.e., ≥10 cm diameter at breast height) abundance relative to co‐occurring non‐palm trees. We compared the relative abundance of tree palms across biogeographical realms and tested for associations with palaeoclimate stability, current climate, edaphic conditions and metrics of forest structure. Results On average, the relative abundance of tree palms was more than five times larger between Neotropical locations and other biogeographical realms. Tree palms were absent in most locations outside the Neotropics but present in >80% of Neotropical locations. The relative abundance of tree palms was more strongly associated with local conditions (e.g., higher mean annual precipitation, lower soil fertility, shallower water table and lower plot mean wood density) than metrics of long‐term climate stability. Life‐form diversity also influenced the patterns; palm assemblages outside the Neotropics comprise many non‐tree (e.g., climbing) palms. Finally, we show that tree palms can influence estimates of above‐ground biomass, but the magnitude and direction of the effect require additional work. Conclusions Tree palms are not only quintessentially tropical, but they are also overwhelmingly Neotropical. Future work to understand the contributions of tree palms to biomass estimates and carbon cycling will be particularly crucial in Neotropical forests

All-cause mortality in the cohorts of the Spanish AIDS Research Network (RIS) compared with the general population: 1997Ł2010

Abstract Background: Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has produced significant changes in mortality of HIVinfected persons. Our objective was to estimate mortality rates, standardized mortality ratios and excess mortality rates of cohorts of the AIDS Research Network (RIS) (CoRIS-MD and CoRIS) compared to the general population. Methods: We analysed data of CoRIS-MD and CoRIS cohorts from 1997 to 2010. We calculated: (i) all-cause mortality rates, (ii) standardized mortality ratio (SMR) and (iii) excess mortality rates for both cohort for 100 personyears (py) of follow-up, comparing all-cause mortality with that of the general population of similar age and gender. Results: Between 1997 and 2010, 8,214 HIV positive subjects were included, 2,453 (29.9%) in CoRIS-MD and 5,761 (70.1%) in CoRIS and 294 deaths were registered. All-cause mortality rate was 1.02 (95% CI 0.91-1.15) per 100 py, SMR was 6.8 (95% CI 5.9-7.9) and excess mortality rate was 0.8 (95% CI 0.7-0.9) per 100 py. Mortality was higher in patients with AIDS, hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection, and those from CoRIS-MD cohort (1997. Conclusion: Mortality among HIV-positive persons remains higher than that of the general population of similar age and sex, with significant differences depending on the history of AIDS or HCV coinfection

Identification of genetic variants associated with Huntington's disease progression: a genome-wide association study

Background Huntington's disease is caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene, HTT. Age at onset has been used as a quantitative phenotype in genetic analysis looking for Huntington's disease modifiers, but is hard to define and not always available. Therefore, we aimed to generate a novel measure of disease progression and to identify genetic markers associated with this progression measure. Methods We generated a progression score on the basis of principal component analysis of prospectively acquired longitudinal changes in motor, cognitive, and imaging measures in the 218 indivduals in the TRACK-HD cohort of Huntington's disease gene mutation carriers (data collected 2008–11). We generated a parallel progression score using data from 1773 previously genotyped participants from the European Huntington's Disease Network REGISTRY study of Huntington's disease mutation carriers (data collected 2003–13). We did a genome-wide association analyses in terms of progression for 216 TRACK-HD participants and 1773 REGISTRY participants, then a meta-analysis of these results was undertaken. Findings Longitudinal motor, cognitive, and imaging scores were correlated with each other in TRACK-HD participants, justifying use of a single, cross-domain measure of disease progression in both studies. The TRACK-HD and REGISTRY progression measures were correlated with each other (r=0·674), and with age at onset (TRACK-HD, r=0·315; REGISTRY, r=0·234). The meta-analysis of progression in TRACK-HD and REGISTRY gave a genome-wide significant signal (p=1·12 × 10−10) on chromosome 5 spanning three genes: MSH3, DHFR, and MTRNR2L2. The genes in this locus were associated with progression in TRACK-HD (MSH3 p=2·94 × 10−8 DHFR p=8·37 × 10−7 MTRNR2L2 p=2·15 × 10−9) and to a lesser extent in REGISTRY (MSH3 p=9·36 × 10−4 DHFR p=8·45 × 10−4 MTRNR2L2 p=1·20 × 10−3). The lead single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in TRACK-HD (rs557874766) was genome-wide significant in the meta-analysis (p=1·58 × 10−8), and encodes an aminoacid change (Pro67Ala) in MSH3. In TRACK-HD, each copy of the minor allele at this SNP was associated with a 0·4 units per year (95% CI 0·16–0·66) reduction in the rate of change of the Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale (UHDRS) Total Motor Score, and a reduction of 0·12 units per year (95% CI 0·06–0·18) in the rate of change of UHDRS Total Functional Capacity score. These associations remained significant after adjusting for age of onset. Interpretation The multidomain progression measure in TRACK-HD was associated with a functional variant that was genome-wide significant in our meta-analysis. The association in only 216 participants implies that the progression measure is a sensitive reflection of disease burden, that the effect size at this locus is large, or both. Knockout of Msh3 reduces somatic expansion in Huntington's disease mouse models, suggesting this mechanism as an area for future therapeutic investigation