Carme Serrallonga, el plaer de traduir

Carme Serrallonga (Barcelona, 1909-1997) començà a traduir als anys seixanta, en moments de represa de consciència ideològica i literària. Bona coneixedora de diversos idiomes, especialment l’alemany, l’anglès, el francès i l’italià, girà al català unes vint obres del teatre universal dels grans autors. Serrallonga explicava que havia començat a aprendre alemany per poder conèixer a fons l’obra de Brecht, del qual el 1966 traduí La bona persona de Sezuan, a proposta de Ricard Salvat, i cinc obres més. De l’alemany també portà al català autors com Georg Büchner, Heinrich Böll, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Peter Handke, György Lukács, Goethe, Mozart o Alfred Döblin. A més de l’alta literatura alemanya, Serrallonga féu petites incursions en la literatura anglesa i nord-americana, la italiana i, fins i tot, la sud-africana. El 1983 l’editorial La Galera li encarregà la traducció d’En Jim Botó i en Lluc el maquinista de Michael Ende. En sis anys traduí més de trenta títols de literatura infantil. Ja jubilada, a vuitanta-quatre anys, es posà a estudiar rus pel plaer de poder llegir Anna Akhmàtova i Txèkhov en la seva llengua originària. Abans de morir, treballava en la traducció d’un llibre de poemes de l’autora russa.

Lapsille suunnatun mainonnan erityispiirteitä ja niiden ilmeneminen tv-mainoksissa

Tämän tutkielman tavoitteena oli perehtyä niihin eri tekijöihin, jotka muokkaavat lapsille suunnattujen mainosten ulkoasua ja sisältöä. Lapsella tässä tutkimuksessa tarkoitetaan alle 12-vuotiasta lasta, tutkimuksen pääpaino oli kuitenkin alle kouluikäisissä, 3-6 -vuotiaissa lapsissa. Tutkimuksen tutkimusmetodologia on kvalitatiivinen haastattelututkimus. Tutkimusta varten haastateltiin 16 alle kouluikäistä lasta, yhdeksää tyttöä ja seitsemää poikaa. Lapsille suunnattujen mainosten sisältöön ja ulkoasuun vaikuttavat muiden muassa. seuraavat tekijät: 1. ulkoinen säätely (lait, asetukset, kuluttaja-asiamiehen ohjeet, EU-direktiivit), 2. sisäinen säätely (mainostajien alan oma eettinen ohjeistus), 3. lapsen ikä ja kehitysaste sekä 4. lapsen mielipiteet. Suunniteltaessa lapsille suunnattua mainontaa, ulkoisen ja sisäisen säätelyn antamien ohjenuorien lisäksi on mainosviestin ymmärtämisen kannalta tärkeää huomioida lapsen kognitiivinen kehitysaste ja sen vaikutus lapsen kykyyn ymmärtää mainoksia. Lapsen mielipiteeseen siitä, millainen on hyvä mainos ja millaisista mainoksista hän ei pidä vaikuttaa iän lisäksi hyvin vahvasti lapsen sukupuoli.

Effect of aerobic exercise on skeletal muscle mitochondrial content and function in older adults

Regular aerobic exercise training, which is touted as a way to ameliorate metabolic diseases, increases aerobic capacity. Aerobic capacity usually declines with advanced age. The decline in aerobic capacity is typically associated by a decrease in the quality of skeletal muscle. At the molecular level, this decreased quality comes in part from perturbations in skeletal muscle mitochondria. Of particular is a decrease in the total amount of mitochondria that occupy the skeletal muscle volume. What is not well established is if this decrease in mitochondrial content is due to inactive lifestyle or the process of aging. Herein, the work of the thesis shows a clear connection between mitochondrial content and aerobic capacity. This indicates that active individuals with higher VChmax levels also contain higher volumes of mitochondria inside their muscle as opposed to sedentary counterparts who have lower levels of mitochondrial content. Upon taking these previously sedentary individuals and entering them into an aerobic exercise intervention, they are able to recover their mitochondrial content as well as function to similar levels of lifelong athletes of the same age. Furthermore, the results of this thesis show that mitochondrial content and function also correlate with exercise efficiency. If one is more efficient, he/she is able to expend less energy for a similar power output. Furthermore, individuals who increase in efficiency also increase in the ability to oxidize and utilize fat during pro-longed exercise. This increased reliance on fat after the intervention is associated with an increased amount of mitochondria, particularly in the intermyofibrillar region of skeletal muscle. Therefore, elderly adults who were once sedentary were able to recover mitochondrial content and function and are able to reap other health benefits from regular aerobic exercise training. Aging per se does not seem to be the culprit that will lead to metabolic diseases but rather it seems to be a lack of physical activity. -- Un entraînement sportif d'endurance, connu pour réduire le risque de développer des maladies métaboliques, augmente notre capacité aérobie. La capacité aérobie diminue généralement avec l'âge. Ce déclin est typiquement associé d'une diminution de la qualité du muscle squelettique. Au niveau moléculaire, cette diminution est due à des perturbations dans les mitochondries du muscle squelettique,, ce qui conduit à une diminution de la quantité totale des mitochondries présentes dans le muscle squelettique. Il n'a pas encore été établi si cette diminution de la teneur mitochondriale est due à un mode de vie sédentaire ou au processus du vieillissement. Ce travail de thèse montre un lien clair entre le contenu mitochondrial et la capacité aérobie. Il indique que des personnes âgées actives, avec des niveaux de V02max plus élevés, possèdent également un volume plus élevé de mitochondries dans leurs muscles en comparaison à leurs homologues sédentaires. En prenant des individus sédentaires et leur faisant pratiquer une activité physique aérobie, il est possible d'accroître leur contenu de même que leur fonction mitochondriale à des niveaux similaires à ceux d'athlètes du même âge ayant pratiqué une activité physique tout au long de leur vie. De plus, les résultats de ce travail démontrent que le contenu et la fonction mitochondriale sont en corrélation avec l'efficiscience lors d'exercice physique. En agumentant l'effiscience, les personnes sont alors capables de dépenser moins d'énergie pour une puissance d'exercice similaire. Donc, un volume mitochondrial accru dans le muscle squelettique, associé à une fonction mitochondriale améliorée, est associté à une augmentation de l'effiscience. En outre, les personnes qui augmentent leur effiscience, augmentent aussi leur capacité à oxyder les graisses durant l'exercice prolongé. Une augmentation du recours au graisses après l'intervention est associée à une quantité accrue de mitochondries, en particulier dans la région inter-myofibrillaire du muscle squelettique. Par conséquent, les personnes âgées autrefois sédentaires sont en mesure de récupérer leur contenu et leur fonction mitochondriale ainsi que d'autres avantages pour la santé grâce à un entraînement aérobie régulier. Le vieillissement en soi ne semble donc pas être le coupable conduisant aux maladies métaboliques qui semblent plutôt être lié à un manque d'activité physique.

Schistosomiase aiguë au retour de voyage. Enseignements tirés d'une cohorte de 42 voyageurs exposés [Acute schistosomiasis: lessons learned from a cohort of 42 exposed travelers].

La schistosomiase aiguë est une pathologie régulièrement rencontrée chez les voyageurs. En raison de sa longue période d'incubation, de ses manifestations aspécifiques et de la résolution spontanée des symptômes, elle peut facilement ne pas être reconnue par un médecin peu familier des pathologies tropicales. En décembre 2011, une femme de retour de Madagascar, où elle avait été en contact avec de l'eau douce, a été hospitalisée pour un état fébrile d'origine indéterminé. Une schistosomiase aiguë a été diagnostiquée. Un dépistage chez tous les voyageurs de son groupe a révélé une séroconversion chez 78% des participants.Cet article cherche à rediscuter les mesures préventives et diagnostiques à la lumière des enseignements tirés de l'étude de cette cohorte de 42 voyageurs exposés à la schistosomiase. Acute schistosomiasis is a regularly encountered disease in travelers. Because of the temporal delay, its unspecific presentation and the spontaneous resolution, acute schistosomiasis can easily remain unrecognized by physicians who are not familiar with tropical pathologies. In December 2011, a female traveler was admitted to the hospital with undetermined fever after having returned from Madagascar where she bathed in fresh water. Acute schistosomiasis was diagnosed and infection was suspected among other travelers of her group. Seroconversion was confirmed among 78% of participants. This article intends to clarify the preventive and diagnostic strategies based on the lessons learned from this cluster of 42 travelers exposed to schistosomiasis.

Oral implant rehabilitation in a patient with Moebius syndrome

Introduction: Moebius syndrome is a rare congenital disorder characterized by unilateral or bilateral involvement of the sixth and seventh cranial nerves, resulting in a lack of facial expression and eye movements. These patients suffer a series of oral manifestations that may complicate their dental treatment, such as facial and tongue muscle weakness, uncontrolled salivation secondary to defi cient lip sealing, micrognathia, microstomia, bifi d uvula, gothic and fi ssured palate, fi ssured tongue, and glossoptosis. The underlying etiology remains unclear, though vascular problems during embryogenesis appear to be involved. Clinical case: We report the case of a woman with Moebius syndrome and total edentulism. Eight years ago she underwent complete oral rehabilitation with the placement of two implants in each dental arch. Discussion: Moebius syndrome has still an unknown etiology, although it is related to disorders during pregnancy. This kind of patient can be rehabilitated using oral implants.

Cerebriforms cells in cerebrum: an unusual finding

Background. Mycosis Fungoides (MF) is the most common cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, and large cell trasformation (tMF) is an adverse prognostic event. Extra-cutaneous dissemination can occur in the course of the disease, but dissemination to the central nervous system (CNS) is uncommon. Moreover, CNS lymphomas are overall rare and most often of B-cell phenotype. We report a case of CNS large T-cell lymphoma presenting as multiple cerebral lesions in a patient with a history of MF. Methods. We report a case of a 33-year-old woman, known since the age of 16 for erythematous plaques thought to be atopic dermatitis, who developed, end 2012, multiple nodular skin lesions and peripheral adenopathies. Two skin lesions were biopsied simultaneously, and diagnosed as MF and tMF. A lymph node biopsy showed dermatopathic changes without lymphoma (Stage IIB). She received local treatment (UVB, PUVA and radiation therapy) and interferon therapy, and experienced almost complete remission. In 2015 neurological symptoms lead to evidence multiple cerebral lesions, suspicious for lymphoma, evaluated by stereotaxic biopsies. We compared histopathological and molecular features of these with previous skin specimens. After negative bone marrow staging biopsy, she was recently started on chemotherapy (MATRIX). Short follow-up shows rapidly worsening clinical conditions. Results. One of the initial skin biopsies showed atypical lymphoid cells with epidermotropism, Pautrier abcesses and CD4+ CD30- phenotype; the other revealed diffuse dermal infiltration by predominantly large cerebriform tumor cells with high proliferative fraction, and CD2−CD3 −CD4+/−CD7−CD30+ALK- EMA- non-cytotoxic immunophenotype. Altogether, these results led us to diagnose MF and tMF, respectively. The brain was infiltrated by large atypical lymphoid cells with cerebriform nuclei, somewhat anaplastic features and perivascular distribution. By immunohistochemistry, tumor cells were highly proliferative, with a CD2−CD3+CD5−CD7+CD30+ activated cytotoxic immunophenotype. A diagnosis of CD30+ cytotoxic peripheral T-cell lymphoma was retained. TRG and TRB clonality analyses revealed clonal rearrangements in skin and CNS biopsies, with identical patterns in both skin specimens but only minimally overlapping profiles when compared to the CNS sample. Der Pathologe 6 ? 2015 | 633 Conclusions. The reported case illustrates an uncommon finding of a CNS T-cell lymphoma in a patient with previous MF, questioning the clonal relationship between the two diseases and challenging the adequate classification of this CNS lymphoma as either a progression or a de novo lymphoma. Despite differences in immunophenotype and clonality patterns, this CNS lymphoma could possibly represent an aggressive divergent evolution of a primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Additional sequencing is ongoing to try to solve the question.

Reliable misrepresentation and teleosemantics

Mendelovici (forthcoming) has recently argued that (1) tracking theories of mental representation (including teleosemantics) are incompatible with the possibility of reliable misrepresentation and that (2) this is an important difficulty for them. Furthermore, she argues that this problem commits teleosemantics to an unjustified a priori rejection of color eliminativism. In this paper I argue that (1) teleosemantics can accommodate most cases of reliable misrepresentation, (2) those cases the theory fails to account for are not objectionable and (3) teleosemantics is not committed to any problematic view on the color realism-antirealism debate

An unusual Association Between Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Essential Tremor (ET) Characterized by opposite Lateral Predominance.

The occurrence of disabling postural and action tremor, which is repotted in less than 15 % of cases of PD. may be due to a combination of ET and PD, We report the case of a patient suffering bilaterally from postural tremor of different etiology on either side. A 69 year-old, right-handed woman with a family history of ET, was referred for bilateral hand tremor which was disabling on the right side. At the age of 61 she noticed a right hand postural tremor. not responsive to $- blockers, followed. two years later, by the onset of postural and action tremor on the opposite side. In the following two years. the patient developed asymmetric right-sided parkinsonism, while the postural and action tremor on the left remained unchanged. At time of evaluation, the patient had asymmetric parkinsonism with a 5 Hz rest and postural tremor on the right side and a postural-action tremor of the left hand. Dopaminergic acute challenge tests were performed. The administration of levodopalcarbidopa (ZOO/SO mg) improved the tremor on the right but not on the left. A progressive and more significant improvement was observed after the administration of increasing doses of apomorphine ( 1.6-3-4.5-6 mg). At the dose of 6 mg, apomorphine nearly completely abolished tremor on the right. The tremor of the left hand remained unchanged. The distinction between the two types of tremor was confirmed by the chronic treatment (using levodopa and dopaminergic agonists). Which improved only the right-sided tremor. Primidone was later introduced and improved selectively the tremor on the left. Conclusions: This patient developed both PD and ET with an unusual opposite prevalence. Drug challenge permitted the differentiation the clinically similar tremor types, which have a different pathophysiology.

Ventricularisation of the left atrium: a rare cause of left ventricular dysfunction in a patient with mitral valve prolapse

Case: A 11 yo girl with Marfan syndrome was referred to cardiac MR (CMR) to measure the size of her thoracic aorta. She had a typical phenotype with arachnodactyly, abnormally long arms, and was tall and slim (156 cm, 28 kg, body mass index 11,5 kg/m2). She complained of no symptoms. Cardiac auscultation revealed a prominent mid-systolic click and an end-systolic murmur at the apex. A recent echocardiogram showed a moderately dilated left ventricle with normal function and a mitral valve prolapse with moderate mitral valve regurgitation. CMR showed a dilatation of the aortic root (38 mm, Z-score 8.9) and a severe prolapse of the mitral valve with regurgitation. The ventricular cavity was moderately dilated (116 ml/m2) and its contraction was hyperdynamic (stroke volume (SV): 97 ml; LVEF 72%, with the LV volumes measured by modified Simpson method from the apex to the mitral annulus). In this patient however, the mitral prolapse was characterized by a severe backward movement of the valve toward the left atrium (LA) in systole and the dyskinetic movement of the atrioventricular plane caused a ventricularisation of a part of the LA in systole (Figure). This resulted in a significant reduction of LVEF: more than ¼ of the apparent SV was displaced backwards into the ventricularized LA volume, reducing the effective LVEF to 51% (effective SV 69ml). Moreover, by flow measurement, the SV across the ascending aorta was 30 ml (cardiac index 2.0 l/min/m2) allowing the calculation of a regurgitant fraction across the mitral valve of 56%, which was diagnostic for a severe mitral valve insufficiency. Conclusion: This case illustrates the phenomenon of a ventricularisation of the LA where the severe prolapse gives the illusion of a higher attachement of the mitral leaflets within the atrial wall. Besides the severe mitral regurgitation, this paradoxical backwards movement of the valve causes an intraventricular unloading during systole reducing the apparent LVEF of 72% to an effective LVEF of only 51%. In addition, forward flow fraction is only 22% after accounting for the regurgitant volume, as well. This combined involvement of the mitral valve could explain the discrepancy between a low output state and an apparently hyperdynamic LV contraction. Due to its ability to precisely measure flows and volumes, CMR is particularly suited to detect this phenomenon and to quantify its impact on the LV pump function.

Acute Hepatitis E Virus infection with coincident reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus infection in an immunosuppressed patient with rheumatoid arthritis: a case report.

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the most recently discovered of the hepatotropic viruses, and is considered an emerging pathogen in developed countries with the possibility of fulminant hepatitis in immunocompromised patients. Especially in the latter elevated transaminases should be taken as a clue to consider HEV infection, as it can be treated by discontinuation of immunosuppression and/or ribavirin therapy. To our best knowledge, this is a unique case of autochthonous HEV infection with coincident reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection in an immunosuppressed patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). CASE PRESENTATION: A 68-year-old Swiss woman with RA developed hepatitis initially diagnosed as methotrexate-induced liver injury, but later diagnosed as autochthonous HEV infection accompanied by reactivation of her latent EBV infection. She showed confounding serological results pointing to three hepatotropic viruses (HEV, Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and EBV) that could be resolved by detection of HEV and EBV viraemia. The patient recovered by temporary discontinuation of immunosuppressive therapy. CONCLUSIONS: In immunosuppressed patients with RA and signs of liver injury, HEV infection should be considered, as infection can be treated by discontinuation of immunosuppression. Although anti-HEV-IgM antibody assays can be used as first line virological tools, nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) for detection of HEV RNA are recommended--as in our case--if confounding serological results from other hepatotropic viruses are obtained. After discontinuation of immunosuppressive therapy, our patient recovered from both HEV infection and reactivation of latent EBV infection without sequelae.

Traducció del testament de Charles Robert Darwin

L’objectiu principal d’aquest treball és assumir el que podria ser un encàrrec real d’un text jurídic. Així que, en aquest treball es tradueix un testament. Els testaments són documents a través dels quals una persona disposa els seus béns per tal que després de la seva mort una altra se’n faci càrrec. El testament escollit ha estat el de Charles Robert Darwin, que va morir el 19 d’abril de 1882 a Down, en el comptat de Kent, Anglaterra, on hi visqué 40 anys, des del 1842 fins la seva mort. Aquest testament té unes particularitats concretes, ja que fa uns 190 anys que es va firmar. El dret successori anglès, regit per la Llei de successions de protecció de la família i tuïció de 1975 és molt diferent del dret successori català. Així doncs, coneixerem les diferències entre el dret successori català i l’anglès. També, veurem tots passos que han estat necessaris per portar a terme aquest treball.

Aproximació a la biografia i el pensament educatiu de Maria Teresa Codina: Educant entre la utopia i la realitat

Maria Teresa Codina i Mir és una mestra i pedagoga que ha tingut especial rellevància en la pedagogia del segle XX a Catalunya. Durant la seva trajectòria personal i professional ha estat compromesa en l’educació dels sectors socials més desfavorits i en la renovació pedagògica de Catalunya. Aquesta tasca tan important que ha dut a terme de manera silenciosa, no pot ser ignorada. Amb aquest treball pretenem analitzar-la i donar-la a conèixer. És per aquest motiu que hem fet una aproximació biogràfica de la vida i idees pedagògiques de Maria Teresa Codina a partir de la veu de persones que l’han coneguda i que han estat significatives en la seva vida. A través de successives entrevistes i l’anàlisi de documents personals i inèdits de Codina, volem aprofundir en la seva trajectòria personal i professional i conèixer les seves idees educatives des d’una visió més propera, viva i humana.

Conflicting claims problem associated with cost sharing of a network

A minimum cost spanning tree (mcst) problem analyzes the way to efficiently connect individuals to a source when they are located at different places. Once the efficient tree is obtained, the question on how allocating the total cost among the involved agents defines, in a natural way, a confliicting claims situation. For instance, we may consider the endowment as the total cost of the network, whereas for each individual her claim is the maximum amount she will be allocated, that is, her connection cost to the source. Obviously, we have a confliicting claims problem, so we can apply claims rules in order to obtain an allocation of the total cost. Nevertheless, the allocation obtained by using claims rules might not satisfy some appealing properties (in particular, it does not belong to the core of the associated cooperative game). We will define other natural claims problems that appear if we analyze the maximum and minimum amount that an individual should pay in order to support the minimum cost tree. Keywords: Minimum cost spanning tree problem, Claims problem, Core JEL classification: C71, D63, D71.

Maria Àngels Anglada i la traducció: de les germanes de Safo a les de Mendelssohn

En els anys vuitanta i noranta, Maria Àngels Anglada s’endinsà en l’art de la traducció i traslladà alguns títols, majoritàriament clàssics, amb l’objectiu de recuperar noms poc atesos pels discursos literaris del nostre país. Se centrà en quatre textos: Les germanes de Safo (1983), Epigrames (1993), L’esplanada (1987), i, amb Maria Ohannesian, Terra porpra i altres poemes. Anglada també va fer feina de torsimany en els seus tres llibres de viatges Paisatge amb poetes (1988), Paradís amb poetes (1993) i Retalls de la vida a Grècia i Roma (1997).

Flush, de Virginia Woolf, en Català i la carrera literària de Roser Cardús

Flush (1933), de Virginia Woolf, protagonitzada pel gos de la poeta Elisabeth Barrett Browning, es va traduir al català cinc anys després, a Edicions de la Rosa dels Vents, quan encara es podia veure a la cartellera barcelonina la pel·lícula que narrava la història del matrimoni de poetes Browning, The Barrets of Wimpole Street, estrenada l�any 1934 i dirigida per Sidney Franklin. També havia arribat a Catalunya la traducció francesa de Charles Mauron, publicada l�any 1935. Això va fer que l�any 1938, malgrat el conflicte bèl·lic, hi hagués un context de recepció propici a aquesta traducció, encarregada per l�editor Josep Janés i Oliver. En aquest article donem a conèixer qui era la noia de divuit anys que va realitzar la traducció al català a partir de la traducció francesa, Roser Cardús i Malagarriga (1920-1974), i en descrivim la carrera com a escriptora i com a traductora.