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Informe sobre les polítiques de traducció a nivell internacional, que dóna múlti ples dades sobre les traduccions a l'anglès i inclou l'anàlisi de la situació en sis països, com a contrapunt i com a recerca de models de bones pràctiques pel que fa a la traducció, un dels quals és l'àmbit de la llengua catalana.

Twice confiscated by Cuban authorities and rewritten from memory, this litany of despair--the story of life in totalitarian Cuba--is told through the voice of a wife (who remains nameless), then through that of her husband, Hector, a disenchanted revolutionary and poet. Hector, his wife and baby vacation for six days at a small seaside cabin. There, in feverish lyrical outbursts, they each lament the loss of the freedom they had barely begun to know in early Castro years, and with its passing the loss of everything else--enthusiasm, rebelliousness and hope. Nothing except terror remains, and as it grows, Hector and his wife's relationship becomes intolerable. Under the domestic idle chatter lie their complete solitudes, a vestige of wilted love, her disgust at the messier aspects of child care, his silent fury and homosexual desire.--From publisher description.

Total Suspended Solids (TSS) stormwater models in urban drainage systems are often required for scientific, legal, environmental and operational reasons. However, these TSS stormwater traditional model structures have been widely questioned, especially when reproducing data from online measurements at the outlet of large urban catchments. In this thesis, three potential limitations of traditional TSS stormwater models are analyzed in a 185 ha urban catchment (Chassieu, Lyon, France), by means 365 rainfall events monitored online: a) uncertainties in TSS data due to field conditions; b) uncertainties in hydrological models and rainfall measurements and c) uncertainties in the stormwater quality model structures. These aspects are investigated in six separate contributions, whose principal results can be summarized as follows: a) TSS data acquisition and validation: (i) four sampling strategies during rainfall events are simulated and evaluated by online TSS and flow rate measurements. Recommended sampling time intervals are of 5 min, with average sampling errors between 7 % and 20 % and uncertainties in sampling errors of about 5 %, depending on the sampling interval; (ii) the probability of underestimating the cross section mean TSS concentration is estimated by two methodologies. One method shows more realistic TSS underestimations (about 39 %) than the other (about 269 %). b) Hydrological models and rainfall measurements: (iii) a parameter estimation strategy is proposed for conceptual rainfall-runoff model by analyzing the variability of the optimal parameters obtained by single-event Bayesian calibrations, based on clusters and graphs representations. The new strategy shows more performant results in terms of accuracy and precision in validation; (iv) a methodology aimed to calculate "mean" areal rainfall estimation is proposed, based on the same hydrological model and flow rate data. Rainfall estimations by multiplying factors over constant-length time window and rainfall zero records filled with a reverse model show the most satisfactory results compared to further rainfall estimation models. c) Stormwater TSS pollutograph modelling: (v) the modelling performance of the traditional Rating Curve (RC) model is superior to different linear Transfer Function models (TFs), especially in terms of parsimony and precision of the simulations. No relation between the rainfall corrections or hydrological conditions defined in (iii) and (iv) with performances of RC and TFs could be established. Statistical tests strengthen that the occurrence of events not representable by the RC model in time is independent of antecedent dry weather conditions; (vi) a Bayesian reconstruction method of virtual state variables indicate that potential missing processes in the RC description are hardly interpretable as a unique state of virtual available mass over the catchment decreasing over time, as assumed by a great number of traditional models.

Catàleg de l'exposició col·lectiva del mateix nom del Laboratori d'Arts Santa Mò nica (de l'11 de desembre 2009 al 28 de febrer 2010), que aplega 10 projectes de referència internacional en el marc del creuament de la ciència, la tecnologia i l'art. La mostra neix amb la celebració del Congrés internacional "Cultures of Change|Changing Cultures" a Barcelona, amb aportacions de sociòlegs, filòsofs, matemàtics, biòlegs, físics, tecnòlegs i artistes sobre les dinàmiques culturals en el món contemporani.

En el proceso de transformaciones sociales que se producen en España durante el siglo XIX y que dan lugar a una sociedad nueva, radicalmente capitalista, a la educación se le reserva la función de cohesionar los logros revolucionarios primero, y de integrar ideológicamente toda la población en los supuestos-culturales y políticos de la propia burguesía, más tarde. Para llevar a término estos proyectos, esa burguesía se sirvió del Estado que estaba construyendo a fin de crear un aparato escolar distinto. Se sientan así las bases de una enseñanza que vio recortado su alcance social al socaire de los avatares políticos y la correlación de fuerzas resultante de la revolución antifeudal. El desarrollo del capitalismo trajo consigo la incorporación al trabajo de la población infantil, que de este modo quedaba sustraída a la escuela. Las características que definen las primeras fases de la industrialización contribuyeron asimismo a descualificar la fuerza de trabajo corriente, cuando la desintegración gremial puso fin a la transmisión de conocimientos productivos. Sin embargo, el Ochocientos está plagado de iniciativas educativas (escuelas nocturnas, dominicales, de adultos, Escuelas de Artesanos) que responden a las más variadas pretensiones. La presente obra, partiendo de la experiencia valenciana, analiza el contexto de la realidad española y pone de relieve la naturaleza moral o iluminista que define la mayor parte de las propuestas educativas destinadas a la clase trabajadora. Al final de la época estudiada la emancipación intelectual y la social se entrecruzan en los planteamientos del incipiente movimiento obrero.