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Life in a nutshell: evolution of a migratory metaphor in Spanish cartoons

2014

This article studies the image of the boat immigrants use to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates Europe and Africa, through the analysis of 125 cartoons published in Spanish press between 2006 and 2012. Our study shows that in this span of seven years – which coincides with a period of growth for Spanish economy and the subsequent crisis – there was an interesting and meaningful conceptual evolution regarding the image of the immigrant boat. This situation resulted in argumentatively effective visual analogies, metaphors and metonymies which evolved all along this period, making this boat a cultural symbol of our time. The article also intends to highlight the importance of cart…

Aesthetics of Geometry and the Problem of Representation in Monument Sculpture

2017

Since the 1920s and 1930s, constructivist and concretist visual art movements have stressed geometric forms, proportions and orders as a base for artistic expressions and aesthetic experiences. After the World War II geometric form was adopted to the public sculpture. Abstract, geometrically constructed sculpture was also used in commemorative functions in modern monument art. The combination of the commemoration of a significant historical event or a national hero, and the aesthetic ideas based on constructivist or concretist art movements caused a lot of debates and confrontations in many Western countries. In particular, the interpretation of abstract monuments problematized: abstract mo…

Lymnaea cousinni (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) as transmitter of fascioliasis

2007

Dear Editor,In the article entitled “First report of Lymnaea cou-sini Jousseaume, 1887 naturally infected with Fasciolahepatica (Linnaeus, 1758) (Trematoda: Digenea) inMachachi, Ecuador” recently published by AngelVillavicencio A and Mauricio Carvalho de Vasconcellosin Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (vol. 100, is-sue 7, pages 735-737, November 2005), it is stated thattheir finding in Ecuador represents the first report ofspecimens of this lymnaeid species naturally infectedby the liver fluke. However, it is well known from longago that this species acts as intermediate host of fascio-liasis in Andean countries. In the first half of the lastcentury, Brumpt et al. (1939-1940) already demo…

L’anaphore associative : contigüité métonymique

2008

Cet article porte sur les rapports de contigüité exigés lors de la résolution des anaphores associatives. Il s’agit en général de relations métonymiques, car les différents rapports, à caractère notamment socioculturel, entre référent et marque anaphorique convergent dans un même cadre conceptuel, se faisant écho d’éléments ou caractéristiques du même domaine cognitif. L’anaphore associative reprenant ainsi un attribut concret du référent, nous envisageons donc une classification de ces marques anaphoriques d’après des rapports métonymiques, tels que partie à tout, objet à matière et caractéristique ou propriété à objet. This paper is about contiguous reports required in associative anaphor…

Frammenti di Nevio comico nell’ “Anonymus ad Cuimnanum”

2010

A secret sharing scheme for anonymous DNS queries

2013

Since its adoption in the early 90's, several privacy concerns have emerged about the Domain Name System (DNS). By collecting the DNS queries performed by each user, it is possible to characterize habits, interests and other sensitive data of the users. Usually, users resolve their {\em url} requests by querying the DSN server belonging to their Internet Service Provider (ISP) and therefore they assume they can trust it. However, different DNS servers can be used, by revealing sensitive data to a partially untrusted entity that can collect and sell this data for several purposes (target advertising, user profiling, etc.). In this paper we address the possibility to integrate tools in the cu…

Neology and lemmatization: clippings and acronyms in spanish dictionaries

2020

espanolEsta investigacion presenta tres objetivos: describir el tratamiento lexicografico de los acortamientos y siglas en diccionarios actuales del espanol; caracterizar las nuevas unidades lexicas formadas por reduccion en cotextos de uso reales (periodisticos y digitales); y disenar una propuesta de criterios para integrar de un modo coherente estas unidades en los diccionarios. Para alcanzar estos objetivos, en primer lugar se describen los acortamientos y siglas detectados en la nomenclatura del DLE (2017) y en el vaciado de dos repertorios de neologismos (Neologismos del espanol actual y Corpus Obneo) y del Corpus del espanol. En segundo lugar, a partir de estos datos, se configura un…

La mutevole identità di N. Kalas

2018

It is the final balance of life and work of Nikolaos Kalas in consideration of his pseudonyms

Sequence features and evolutionary mechanisms in the chicken avidin gene family

2001

The chicken avidin gene family comprises the avidin gene (avd) and several homologous avidin-related genes (avrs). The sequences of the avr genes are nearly identical to each other but exhibit nonrandomly distributed, frequently nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions compared to avd. In this study, we determined the genetic distances and the phylogeny of the avd and avr genes and found differences between different exons and introns. Our results suggest the involvement of biased gene conversion in the evolution of the genes. Furthermore, one of the genes was identified as a putative fusion gene. The occurrence of both gene conversion and recombination supports the models suggesting a common…

Identification of susceptibility genes in non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate using whole-exome sequencing

2015

Background Non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NSCL/P) is among the most common congenital malformations. The etiology of NSCL/P remains poorly characterized owing to its complex genetic heterogeneity. The objective of this study was to identify genetic variants that increase susceptibility to NSCL/P. Material and Methods Whole-exome sequencing (WES) was performed in 8 fetuses with NSCL/P in China. Bioinformatics analysis was performed using commercially available software. Variants detected by WES were validated by Sanger sequencing. Results By filtering out synonymous variants in exons, we identified average 8575 nonsynonymous single nucleotide variants (SNVs). We subseq…