Programas de Cálculo Científico y Procesamiento de Textos: LaTeX. Práctica 1

Ejercicios LaTeX Sesión 1

Programas de Cálculo Científico y Procesamiento de Textos: LaTeX. Práctica 2

Ejercicios LaTeX Sesión 2

Programas de Cálculo Científico y Procesamiento de Textos: LaTeX. Práctica 3

Ejercicios LaTeX Sesión 3

Word-formation and the translation of Marvel comic book charactonyms

This article analyzes the solutions given in Spanish translations to the morphological creativity shown in the names of Marvel comic book characters. The English versions almost invariably provide a full description of the hero (or villain) by means of a wide variety of word-formation mechanisms leading to highly expressive charactonyms. Indeed, examples shall be listed of names of comic book heroes created through compounding, derivation, including prefixation or suffixation (both classical and Anglo-Saxon but also from other origins), lexical blending, abbreviation, clipping, onomatopoeia, and borrowings from Spanish or from other languages. Early translations into Spanish seemed to be slightly less expressive than the original, even when the same word-formation mechanism was used, usually due to either problems of transparency mainly in some of the word parts or to translation constraints. In later periods, a number of factors, including the influence from other media featuring the same characters and the general trend towards globalization through English, have led translators to choose repetition as the most frequent strategy, which has almost eliminated the creative power of wordformation mechanisms in Spanish and their ability to convey the stylistic effects found in the English versions.

Random exams using Sweave

The adaptation of the Spanish University to the European Higher Education Area (EEES in Spanish) demands the integration of new tools and skills that would make the teaching- learning process easier. This adaptation involves a change in the evaluation methods, which goes from a system where the student was evaluated with a final exam, to a new system where we include a continuous evaluation in which the final exam may represent at most 50% in the vast majority of the Universities. Devising a new and fair continuous evaluation system is not an easy task to do. That would mean a student’s’ learning process follow-up by the teachers, and as a consequence an additional workload on existing staff resources. Traditionally, the continuous evaluation is associated with the daily work of the student and a collection of the different marks partly or entirely based on the work they do during the academic year. Now, small groups of students and an attendance control are important aspects to take into account in order to get an adequate assessment of the students. However, most of the university degrees have groups with more than 70 students, and the attendance control is a complicated task to perform, mostly because it consumes significant amounts of staff time. Another problem found is that the attendance control would encourage not-interested students to be present at class, which might cause some troubles to their classmates. After a two year experience in the development of a continuous assessment in Statistics subjects in Social Science degrees, we think that individual and periodical tasks are the best way to assess results. These tasks or examinations must be done in classroom during regular lessons, so we need an efficient system to put together different and personal questions in order to prevent students from cheating. In this paper we provide an efficient and effective way to elaborate random examination papers by using Sweave, a tool that generates data, graphics and statistical calculus from the software R and shows results in PDF documents created by Latex. In this way, we will be able to design an exam template which could be compiled in order to generate as many PDF documents as it is required, and at the same time, solutions are provided to easily correct them.

Uso de Sweave para crear exámenes aleatorios

La adaptación del sistema universitario español al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior exige la inclusión de nuevos métodos de evaluación continua. Tradicionalmente, la evaluación continua ha sido asociada con el trabajo diario del estudiante y una recopilación de notas parciales que a día de hoy resulta complicada debido al gran tamaño de los grupos en los que se organizan las clases. Tras estos primeros años, creemos que la evaluación mediante controles periódicos es la mejor manera de valorar los resultados del proceso de aprendizaje diario. Sin embargo, la realización adecuada exige el diseño de diferentes modelos de examen. En este trabajo, proponemos un sistema eficiente para confeccionar controles “aleatorios” a través de Sweave, un paquete asociado al software libre R que proporciona datos, gráficos y cálculos estadísticos y muestra los resultados en documentos PDF compilados en Latex. De esta forma, podremos generar tantos controles con diferentes datos como queramos siguiendo una estructura común, así como las correspondientes soluciones para poder corregirlos con facilidad.

Analysis of pollutants evolved from combustion and pyrolysis of flexible polyurethane foam in a laboratory furnace

Resumen del póster presentado en PIC2015 – the 14th International Congress on Combustion By-Products and Their Health Effects, Umeå, Sweden, 14-17 June 2015.