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This paper explores the new ways of relation and interaction which are taking place into the lnformation Society, particularly on the use of the latest information and communication [...]

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The impact that a new technology item such as the mobile phone has on today's society, in particular, on the life of adolescents aged 12 - 16, is analyzed and discussed. In [...]

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In this paper, first, three implicits insights are identified regarding relationships between education and television. Next is the description of one kind of development [...]

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This paper shows the role of media in the teenagers socialization of teenagers' styles and modes. In the first part, the author defines the concept «style»; in the second, [...]

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Children need autonomy to face the images transmited by the new information and communication technologies. The analysis of the social mechanisms carried out to protect children [...]

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We approached the theory of the social representations, from the epistemologic perspective of the rhetorical change of the philosophy, like a model for the creation of musical [...]

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Television contents influence as much in our behavior and our thought as other social and educationai agents, but the influence might be in a less conscious way than the othen. [...]

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Trendy free magazines have become a mass phenomenon among university students. Using their own language, they propose a postmodern culture transmited through a special aesthetic [...]

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Readers of bestsellers, books which sell over 100.000 copies in a short time, feel ashamed to acknowledge such wguilty pleasuresn in view of the general opinion against their [...]

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The world of fashion is often associated with being trendy and being able to spend a good amount of money in purchasing clothes, shoes and accessories that are «in». The [...]

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In the discourse of fashion the presentation and the evaluation of acts and objets are often mixed. Depaning from this assumption the present work investigates the lexical [...]

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The term «dinki» stands for «double income no kids» and refers to young couples with high earned income who do not want to have offspring in order to maintain their economical [...]

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«Metrosexuals» or «übersexuals» are lately all the rage in mass media and among young people. This model is not new: it is the result of a process of transformation initiated [...]

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Fashion and mass media are social core elements with an educational function that may even replace the educational frarnes provided by the family. The social effects of media [...]

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Mass media, through their programs, news and the informal education they spread, show social representation on reality, being the ones referring to violence of great importance [...]

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In this paper we gather part of the research about the use of press as curricular material in basic adults´education. The work has contributed to different aspects concerning [...]

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Nowadays media images rule our lives. However, in early ages it is considered necessary the help of a guide to discriminate information. We want to make people reflect about [...]

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The contribution of the technical advances to citizens´welfare has been so flashing that it has become a door opened to the increasing artificial necessities of communication [...]

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This investigation allowed us to learn about the reality of educational centers and preschool teachers who work in the metropolitan area of Caracas, specifically in reference [...]

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In this article we reflect upon the educational possibilities of interactive multimedia stories. After analysing the origins and the evolution of stories, we studied the innovations [...]

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The Internet allows us to build a side-world where we invent and re-invent ourselves, relate to the world and face reality through a screen. The new generations are being [...]

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The image of innocence and the defence of moral values that Disney company sells make any attempt of a critical analysis of products such as Disney cartoon movies quite difficult. [...]

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The Internet as a socio-telematic media should generate and increase educational processes. Teaching and reading practice in the Internet is very necessary in order to learn [...]

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Taking the field of specialized press as a starting point, this study aims at determining and understanding the mechanisms of representation employed by the press for women, [...]

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The emergence of the media as a complementary school parallel to schools, invites the educational community to rethink about the most effective way to integrate media into [...]

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This paper is a descriptive research about the women image in Venezuelan TV spots, through the analysis of roles, gender stereotypes and physical features. They show the predominance [...]

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The author reflects about the relevance of media education for nowadays citizens. He thinks that Primary and Secondary school have to be the place for that relevant education, [...]

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Understanding that cultural products for children transmit social representations and reproduce specific outlines of attitudes and behaviours, this paper focuses on the gender [...]

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The telepsychodrama is a new cultural product. It comes from research that links Moreno´s ideas to the current TV and VCR technological resources. The paper results from [...]

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This colour research is set out as a formal element whose presence influences the acceptance or rejection of written communication. The awareness of these preferences allow [...]

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This paper shows the impact experienced by the creation of a community radio station. We reduce some aspects related to the production of bilingual programmes. The major part [...]

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Interactive Digital TV (IDTV) is a reality in the midst of the Information Society, is expected to allow the development of new interactive systems that may be useful in daily [...]

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Nowadays young people live in two very different worlds: one which is related to school and one which is related to the streets and the day-to-day life. Then, we can speak [...]

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Civic education emerges as a new subject in the Spanish school after the last reform of the currículo. What kind of citizens and what kind of education are we talking about [...]

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The digital literacy is one of the principal challenges which education faces today. A real digital literacy does not consist of teaching only how to use a computer and different [...]

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This paper presents a study about the young, the use they do of mass media and the relationship they keep with health. Among other contributions, it is to be highlighted that [...]

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This paper deals with the use of communication as a strategy in public health programmes aimed at adolescents. It is based on widely developed programmes in Andalucia, which [...]

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One of the challenges of the present century is to achieve adolescents and young adults’ complete development taking as a basis healthy behaviours and a culture of selfcare. [...]

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A constructive theoretical view of everyday topics (in this paper context, we mean health) allows us to spot on communication models and cultural features of important daily [...]

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This paper reviews the current state of the impact of entertainment-education contributions for AIDS prevention. Traditional information campaigns are being replaced by interventions [...]

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The working hypothesis of this article is that many of the root causes of AIDS are intrinsically tied to the processes of globalisation. To develop efficient responses to [...]

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This paper analyzes communication for health in Africa through some fields experiences. These education compaigns show that the communication approaches are little participative. [...]

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This paper examines the most significant contributions in health communication on adolescents and young people developed inside the positivist and interpretativist com-municative [...]

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Reviews Caplletra 40 (Spring, 2006) Llúcia Martín, ressenya de Roger Friedlein & Sebastian Neumeister (ed.), Vestigia Fabularum. La mitologia antiga a les literatures catalana [...]

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Reviews Caplletra 41 (Autumn, 2006) Sandra Montserrat i Buendia, ressenya de Luis García Fernández (dir.), Diccionario de perífrasis verbales, Madrid, Gredos, 2006.Josep [...]

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In this article the current situation of translation between Catalan and Spanish is drawn into two areas of speciality strongly intertwined: the literary and the audiovisual [...]

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The question of identity in Valencian Catalan writing is necessarily linked bothnto the language model («model de llengua») followed by authors in original works and in translation, [...]

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This work approaches the study of the relationship between the figure of the translator and that of the writer in the framework of translating activities related to the Catalan [...]

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This article studies the long term relationship between medical speech, on one hand, and translation practice on the other. The transfer from specialized knowledge between [...]

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This essay offers a sampling of a multilingual contrastive analysis of poems by Ausiàs March and the ones in «Tirant lo Blanch» (original versions and their respective [...]

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The article sets out to relate the intentional element of discursive activity with some translating strategies, starting on the basis that the translated text, which is subjected [...]

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This introduction tries to contextualize Mona Baker’s article in this same issue by revising her personal evolution in the field of Translation Studies, as well as by introducing [...]

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Between 1927 and 1937, Dalí was author of a remarkable work of poetry simultaneous to his paintings. This article attempts at analysing the theoretical corpus in which his [...]

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In this study we analyze the English translations of Ausiàs March already carried out (Terry, Conejero-Ribes-Keown, Wittlin and Archer), and we pay attention to the criteria [...]

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This paper analyses the vocabulary of body parts in Cha’palaachi, an Amerindian language of the Republic of Ecuador. A number of basic roots refers to (a) forms or (b) parts [...]

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The article starts from a conception of language according to which the semiotic units that speakers use do not emanate from individual mental processes but from the socialization [...]

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In the present article the author studies the importance of irony in Llorenç Villalonga’s work using as a touchstone the novel «Flo la Vigne». In the first place he analyzes [...]

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This article has as its goal to analyze the dramatic text «Elsa Schneider» (1987), by Sergi Belbel, starting from the concept of irony of contrast between text and context [...]

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The main goal of this article is to bring up the topic of irony in the essay as a literary genre, based on the considerations made by Eugeni d’Ors, Josep Pla and Joan Fuster. [...]

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The reception of Jesús Moncada’s work at the beginning of his literary career was determined by the debate between «rural novel» and «urban novel», up to the point [...]

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The incidence of irony in the genre of lyric poetry has caused some special effects, mainly after modernity turned this disposition of thought into an irreplaceable element [...]

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The author of this article analyzes the field of images of irony, starting from some Douglas C. Muecke’s works and some other personal analyses developed in «Poétique [...]

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The existence of a two cases declension system in medieval Occitan, which lacked in Catalan, was one of the most remarkable differences between both languages. This distinction [...]

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The main goal of this article is to provide evidence in favor of the phonological character of some intonational contrasts in Catalan. First, the article shows that tonal [...]

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The manuscript F-129 of the Col·legi de la Sapiència de Palma contains three works of Ramon Llull. It is made up of two separate manuscripts belonging to the first generation [...]

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This article draws on narrative theory and the notion of framing, the latter as developed in the literature on social movements, to explore various ways in which translators [...]

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We present a general formulation for modeling bed erosion in free surface flows using the particle finite element method (PFEM). The key feature of the PFEM is the use of [...]

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The method presented in Aubry et al. (Comput Struc 83:1459–1475, 2005) for the solution of an incompressible viscous fluid flow with heat transfer using a fully Lagrangian [...]

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We present a general formulation for incompressible fluid flow analysis using the finite element method. The necessary stabilization for dealing with convective effects and [...]

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The characteristic‐based split (CBS) stabilization procedure developed originally in fluid mechanics has been adapted successfully to solid mechanics problems. The CBS algorithm [...]

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Professor E. M. Alf Samuelsson from Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden, died on the 3rd of June 2005 at the age of 75 after a lengthy illness. Professor Samuelsson [...]

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A volume of fluid (VOF) technique has been developed and coupled with an incompressible Euler/Navier–Stokes solver operating on adaptive, unstructured grids to simulate [...]

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In the last decade a family of methods called meshless methods has been developed both for structural and fluid mechanics problems. After these ideas, a possible classification [...]

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The paper describes some recent developments in finite element and particle methods for analysis of a wide range of bulk forming processes. The developments include new stabilized [...]

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In this paper a finite element for the non-linear analysis of two dimensional beams and axisymmetric shells is presented. The element uses classical thin shell assumptions [...]

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A finite element method (FEM) for steady-state convective-diffusive problems presenting sharp gradients of the solution both in the interior of the domain and in boundary [...]

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A stabilized finite element method (FEM) for the steady state advection-diffusion-absorption equation is presented. The stabilized formulation is based on the modified governing [...]

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In the present work a new approach to solve fluid-structure interaction problems is described. Both, the equations of motion for fluids and for solids have been approximated [...]

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A methodology for error estimation and mesh adaptation for finite element (FE) analysis of incompressible viscous flow is presented. The error estimation method is based on [...]

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En este trabajo se estudia la respuesta dinámica de mástiles arriostrados comúnmente utilizados en telecomunicaciones, mediciones meteorológicas y aún, más recientemente, [...]

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El sistema de muros portantes de mampostería estructural ha sido extensamente utilizado en Colombia en los últimos años en la construcción de edificios [...]

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As pesquisas sobre reforço de estruturas de concreto à torção com compósitos de fibra de carbono (CFC) são escassas, e não se encontram no mesmo nível de conhecimento [...]

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Mediante el análisis no lineal de 692 casos de estructuras de hormigón armado constituidas por vigas y columnas, de uno a seis pisos y sometidas a nueve registros sísmicos [...]

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Este artículo resume algunos de los daños estructurales observados en una visita realizada siete semanas después del paso del huracán Katrina por el sur de Mississippi. [...]

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Este trabajo presenta las observaciones de daños en tanques de acero de refinerías de petróleo y granjas de tanques, que fueron observados durante las misiones de reconocimiento [...]

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Este trabajo describe daños estructurales observados en tanques de almacenamiento de combustible localizados en el estado de Louisiana, que fueron visitados por investigadores [...]

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El huracán Katrina causó gran destrucción en la ciudad costera de Biloxi del Estado de Mississippi. La destrucción afectó viviendas, la infraestructura, y edificaciones [...]

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Editorial: Los deslizamientos submarinos producidos por hidratos de gas

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En este artículo se presentan las principales características de dos arenas de origen aluvial (Tumaco y Cali) potencialmente licuables, que históricamente han sido sometidas [...]

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Uno de los principales problemas cuando se enfrentan proyectos donde se involucran suelos granulares gruesos es la falta de equipos para ensayar probetas de grandes dimensiones. [...]