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Field testing of a vaccine against eel diseases caused by Vibrio vulnificus
2001
The field results of a vaccination programme against Vibrio vulnificus serovar E (biotype 2) in a Spanish eel farm are reported. A total of 9.5 million glass eels were vaccinated from January 1998 to March 2000 by prolonged immersion followed by 2 subsequent reimmunisations after 12 to 14 and 24 to 28 d, respectively. The acquired protection and the immune response against serovar E were estimated over a period of 6 mo after vaccination. A similar vaccination schedule was conducted with elvers in a Danish eel farm. In this case, the acquired protection and the immune response against serovar E and the new eel-pathogenic serovars, recently described in Denmark, were evaluated over a short te…
Impact of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection on Human B Cell Compartment and Antibody Responses
2022
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most important health challenges worldwide. Control of the TB epidemic has not yet been achieved because of the lack of an effective vaccine and rapid and sensitive diagnostic approaches, as well as the emergence of drug-resistant forms of M. tuberculosis. Cellular immunity has a pivotal role against M. tuberculosis infection, but the role of humoral immunity is still controversial. We analyzed the frequency, absolute counts, and phenotypic and functional subsets of B lymphocytes in the peripheral blood of patients with active TB and subjects with latent infection compared to healthy donors. Moreover, we analyzed serum levels of total Ig and their IgA, I…
Punchline behind the hotspot : structures of humor, puzzle, and sexuality in adventure games (with Leisure Suit Larry in Several Wrong Places)
2021
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, during the embryonic era of computers, hackers, and all that digitalized punk jazz, who would have guessed that one of the period’s juvenile narrative arts—“interactive fiction” it was called at the time—would soon lead to a pop cultural revolution? A young scholar named Mary Ann Buckles did. Having spent years analyzing a piece of software that the present history knows as the most influential of all computerized text-based playthings, Adventure, in 1985, Buckles eventually completed her doctoral dissertation with a first-ever focus on something that had thus far been struggling to be taken seriously by cultural critics: storygames running on compute…
Bill colour and immunocompetence in the European blackbird
2003
The level of expression of secondary sexual characters has been suggested to signal male ability to resist parasitic infestations. To test this idea, several studies have examined the link between sexual signals and immunocompetence in birds. However, most of them have used only a single aspect of immune response to evaluate immunocompetence. We investigated the relation between bill colour and immunocompetence in captive male European blackbirds, Turdus merula, during the breeding season by assessing both cell-mediated and humoral components of the immune system. The blackbird is a sexually dimorphic species with bill colour varying from yellow to orange in males. Humoral immunity was asse…
Humora stilu atšķirības 18-25 gadus veciem vīriešiem un sievietēm
2016
Pētījuma mērķis ir noskaidrot, kādas ir dzimumatšķirības humora stilos. Pētījumā piedalījās 80 respondenti, no kuriem bija 40 sievietes un 40 vīrieši, vecumā no 18 līdz 25 gadiem. Respondenti, ar pamatskolas izglītību - 7,5%, respondenti ar vidējo vai vidējo profesionālo izglītību - 40,1%, savukārt respondenti ar augstākā izglītība -19,9%, bet nepabeigta izglītība - 32,5%. Pētījumā tika izmantota Humora stilu aptauja (Humor style Questionary, HSQ; Martin et,al.,2003)., kuru latviešu valodā adaptēja Ieva Stokenberga 2004. gadā. Pētījuma rezultāti liecina, ka statistiski nozīmīgas dzimumatšķirības pastāv agresīvā un sevis noliedzošā humora stilu skalās. Šajās skalās vīriešiem bija augstāki rā…
El componente pragmático en los diccionarios: Implicaciones para la Lexicografía
2015
Dictionaries are a list of words, simple or complex, that are treated as entries (lexical items). It is usual to assert several components: the lemma or headword, named after its most neutral form, followed by an indication of the main inflections of its category: genre and number if they are names, syntactic class if they are verbs. Sometimes, indications of it are made in other aspects: etymology, pronunciation, marks of placement, area of use, register, frequency of use, etc.Among all the group, it is pointed out an area that grows daily, painstakingly, in lexicographic works: the pragmatic component. Most of the words are referential (names, verbs, adverbs), but others correspond to lan…
Development and Initial Validation of the Humor Climate in Sport Scale
2021
In sport teams, humor is an essential element that influences communication processes, and plays an important role in group dynamics. Despite this, no current instrument is presented in the literature to measure humor climate in sport teams. Therefore, the current study presents the development and initial validation of the Humor Climate in Sport Scale (HCSS). The aim was to assess content, structural and concurrent validity of the developed instrument, and to examine differential item functioning (DIF) as a function of sex. Three different phases were completed in this study. The first phase involved focus groups (n= 5) that explored humor as communication in a team sport context. In phase…
Memes como instrumento de evaluación del aprendizaje. Un caso en la universidad
2022
[EN] Memes are a product of popular digital culture that, despite their virality, humor, creativity and everyday life, are semiotically dense, neither neutral nor innocuous. The complexity that a meme can entail allows us to think about its potential use as a tool for learning assessment. This paper presents the process for the construction of an instrument based on the creation of memes (memetics constructs) within the framework of the subject Teaching and Learning in the Digital Society of the degree in pedagogy at the University of Barcelona. For this purpose, the design phases of constructing the instrument for assessing memetic constructs are presented, along with the criteria and lear…
Humour as a symptom of research trends in translation studies
2017
This article is an overview of translation studies applied to the case of humour, divided into four parts, plus an extensive bibliography. The first part goes over humour translation as a relevant object of research and why it is worthy of more academic attention. Humour translation should not be dealt with or looked upon as a strange body within translation studies. Part two is an overview of key contributions to the field, from Spain and elsewhere, covering a considerable number of authors and theories. Part three focuses on promising areas of interest for researchers and illustrates how audiovisual translation is a good instance of dynamism within the field, connecting all this to the ri…
LA ATENUACIÓN COMO ESTRATEGIA PRAGMÁTICA EN EL MONÓLOGO HUMORÍSTICO SUBVERSIVO
2018
La presente investigación analiza la función de la atenuación en el monólogo humorístico representado por las cómicas españolas de la actualidad. Partimos de la hipótesis de que la atenuación es una de las estrategias discursivas empleadas por las cómicas que emplean un humor subversivo, ya que el uso de la atenuación en un contexto humorístico permite que el hablante pueda tratar, con mayor facilidad, temas o asuntos que en principio podrían resultar controvertidos o problemáticos. Con el objetivo de verificar tal conjetura, este estudio recoge un corpus de 15 monólogos humorísticos representados en salas y teatros españoles durante los años 2017 y 2018. La transcripción y segmentación de …