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Metal-support and preparation influence on the structural and electronic properties of gold catalysts
2006
Abstract Nanostructured gold catalysts supported on CeO2 and SiO2 were prepared by the deposition–precipitation (DP) and the solvated metal atom dispersion (SMAD) techniques. The structural and electronic properties of the catalysts were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Gold was found as small metal nanoparticles (cluster size ∼2 nm) in the SMAD-prepared samples and in ionic state in the DP catalysts. The catalytic activity of the samples was tested in the reaction of low temperature CO oxidation. Gold nanosized particles in a pure metallic state exhibited a worse catalytic performance, both on ceria and…
Dance to your own drum: Identification of musical genre and individual dancer from motion capture using machine learning
2020
Machine learning has been used to accurately classify musical genre using features derived from audio signals. Musical genre, as well as lower-level audio features of music, have also been shown to...
Eye tracking analysis of minor details in films for audio description
2012
This article focuses on the many instances when minute details found in feature films may have direct implications upon the development of both the visual and plot narratives. The main question we would like to ask examines whether very subtle details which may easily go unnoticed by the viewer should be audio described. To assess the visual consciousness of such minute details, a perception experiment was conducted using eye-tracking technology and questionnaires. Though the result is not conclusive, it shows a clear methodological approach in the field of the audio description of visual details, and does give some indication as to what should be taken into consideration in future studies …
Multi-sensory approaches to (audio) describing the visual arts
2012
Making art accessible to blind patrons requires the ability to convey explicit and implicit visual messages through non-visual forms. Audio description is often seen as the best way to offer visual texts to blind people; however, one may query whether words alone are sufficient to convey the subtleties of art and to transport the emotional charge such works offer. It is a fact that the dialogue between words and touch may allow these particular “readers” to “see” art in its tangible forms, but perhaps more is needed if one is to give them the opportunity to live the art experience to the full. This article discusses different multi-sensory approaches to making art available to visually impa…
Lyrics against images: music and audio description
2012
Music has been an integral part of films from as far back as the silent movie era, where a piano accompaniment was used to build the narrative and an orchestra was used to drown out the sound of the projector. Music in films can encompass a wide array of elements, from a song to a whistle, and can play many roles, as has been commented upon by many researchers. Due to the relevance of music in film narrative, it is an element which merits attention when it comes to making a film accessible, be it through Audio description, Audio subtitling, Sign Language or Subtitling for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing. This article focuses on Audio description (AD) and how music is handled in audio described…
The interaction of codes in dubbing: wordplay and visual restrictions
2012
The following paper delves into the complex transfer of humour focusing on a recurring problem that appears when dubbing comedies: wordplay partially transmitted by image. It analyses the factors that have a bearing on translation and illustrates the various translation techniques with scenes from the Marx Brothers' filmography. Finally, it details the conclusions obtained from the analysis of the dubbing of 74 puns with visual restriction and its comparison with 116 cases where there is no such restriction.
Transcreating the Myth: “Voiceless Voiced” Migrants in the Queens of Syria Project
2018
This study functions within the conceptual and practical framework in which transcreation is located as the natural result of the process of adaptation of migrant Syrian narratives to the ancient myth of the Trojan women. While scrutinising the parallelisms between the Syrian women’s stories and those told by Euripides’s myth about the Trojan women, the real experiences of migration have turned myth into an act of communication, “an experiential act” meant for the construction of human stories that reverse mainstream anti-refugee policies. The dissemination of mythological narratives through adaptations of migrant stories, where myth and translation seem to go hand in hand, has reinforced t…
Visual perception and audiovisual translation: directed vision
2012
This paper is based on the premise that “some of the basic skills needed to understand film and television are identical to those necessary for natural visual perception” (Grodal 1999: 76). Perception is an unconscious and natural way of interpreting our environment based on prior experience and learning. In contrast to the deeply rooted Western belief that image is universal and true, our argument is that visual perception is a cognitive process determined by prior experience, environment, context, cultural values and motivation. This paper analyzes the application of cognitive research on visual perception in audiovisual narrative strategies and its implications for the study of the audio…
Montaje audiovisual e integración de la audiodescripción en la producción documental Estudio de caso del documental Vidas Olímpicas
2017
Este artículo es fruto de un proyecto de investigación multidisciplinar que une los ámbitos de la traducción audiovisual y la comunicación audiovisual: el proyecto ITACA (Inclusión social, Traducción audiovisual y Comunicación audiovisual), que gira en torno al concepto de producción audiovisual accesible o accessible filmmaking (Romero Fresco 2013). Este proyecto propone tener en cuenta las necesidades de las personas con discapacidad sensorial durante los procesos de preproducción, producción y postproducción de las obras audiovisuales para mejorar su nivel de accesibilidad. El presente trabajo se centra en descubrir si existen elementos del montaje audiovisual de una obra que podrían edi…
La formación de traductores audiovisuales en España. Aspectos curriculares
2013
La investigación que aquí presentamos se enmarca dentro del área de la Traducción e Interpretación (TI) y más concretamente, en el ámbito de la didáctica de la Traducción Audiovisual (TAV). Estamos ante un estudio empírico-descriptivo sobre la didáctica de la TAV en España en la universidad. El principal objetivo del estudio ha sido aportar datos fiables y reales sobre la formación universitaria en TAV y sobre las exigencias del mercado profesional de este sector en España. Para ello, hemos contado con la colaboración de profesores, traductores y empleadores, y hemos identificado los perfiles de estos tres grupos de población, buscado las competencias necesarias para el traductor de textos …