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How Spanish in an American film is rendered in translation: dubbing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Spain
(2014)This is a case study of the Spanish dubbed version of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969) to illustrate and further develop the concept of L3 as a language that appears in source ... -
Bases cerebrales de la atención sostenida y la memoria de trabajo: un estudio de resonancia magnética funcional basado en el Continuous Performance Test
(2014)Introducción. Uno de los paradigmas más utilizados en el estudio de la atención es el Continuous Performance Test (CPT). La versión de pares idénticos (CPT-IP) se ha utilizado ampliamente para evaluar ... -
Effectiveness of a primary care-based intervention to reduce sitting time in overweight and obese patients (SEDESTACTIV): a randomized controlled trial; rationale and study design
(2014)Background: There is growing evidence suggesting that prolonged sitting has negative effects on people's weight, chronic diseases and mortality. Interventions to reduce sedentary time can be an effective ... -
Online brands: Branding, possible worlds, and interactive grammars
(2008)This paper proposes to reflect from a semiotic perspective on the transformation that brands have undergone since the rise of the Internet. After a brief theoretical introduction to digital communication ... -
Mapping conversations about new media: the theoretical field of digital communication
(2009)This article reflects on the current state of digital communication studies in the context of mass communication research. The objectives of the article are: 1) to characterize the enunciators and ... -
Interval censoring: identifiability and the constant-sum property
(2007)The constant-sum property given in Oller et al. (2004) for censoring models justifies the use of a simplified likelihood to obtain the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator of the lifetime ... -
El Diseño de Diálogos de la Comunicación En Línea. Hacia una nueva gestión del Conocimiento Científico en la era del Software Social
(2007)Este artículo es un recorrido a través del proceso de diseño de Diálogos de la Comunicación versión en línea, un procedimiento que ha incluido diferentes fases: desde la fijación de objetivos hasta ... -
Transmedia Storytelling: Implicit Consumers, Narrative Worlds, and Branding in Contemporary Media Production
(2009)Many concepts have been developed to describe the convergence of media, languages, and formats in contemporary media systems. This article is a theoretical reflection on “transmedia storytelling” from ... -
Interval censoring: model characterizations for the validity of the simplified likelihood
(2004)En analyse de durées de vie, le problème de la censure par intervalle a généralement été traité par des méthodes vraisemblantistes. Comme la vraisemblance est complexe, on suppose souvent que les ... -
Distribución espacial de la población inmigrante en los municipios catalanes: igualdad, exposición, concentración y centralidad
(2006)Dado el importante crecimiento de la población inmigrante en España, es interesante estudiar su distribución sobre el territorio urbano. Desde la estadística se dispone de diferentes indicadores con ... -
Tutorial on methods for interval-censored data and their implementation in R
(2009)Interval censoring is encountered in many practical situations when the event of interest cannot be observed and it is only known to have occurred within a time window. The theory for the analysis of ... -
Beyond the Votes: A European Perspective on the Use of Public Relations to Legitimize Authority in Obama’s Campaign
(2011)In political campaigns in Western society, there are many examples of public relations being behind opinion leaders in getting grassroots committed to a candidate; Obama’s campaign was one example. ... -
Observatorio Barça 2010. La Campaña a la Presodencia del FC Barcelona en prensa deportiva y las redes sociales
(2011)El artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la cobertura que los principales periódicos deportivos catalanes (Sport, Mundo Deportivo, El 9 Esportiu y Gol) hicieron de la campaña a la presidencia del ... -
Prevalence and characteristics of patients with advanced chronic conditions in need of palliative care in the general population: A cross-sectional study
(2014)Background: Of deaths in high-income countries, 75% are caused by progressive advanced chronic conditions. Palliative care needs to be extended from terminal cancer to these patients. However, direct ... -
Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of the incorporation of the pneumococcal 7-valent conjugated vaccine in the routine vaccination schedule of Catalonia (Spain)
(2005)The health and economic costs and benefits of vaccinating a cohort of 60,000 children born in Catalonia in the year 2000 with the pneumococcal 7-valent conjugated vaccine were compared with the alternative ... -
Efficiency of the incorporation of the hepatitis A vaccine as a combined A+B vaccine to the hepatitis B vaccination programme of preadolescents in schools
(2005)In 1998, the Department of Health of Catalonia (Spain) began universal vaccination of preadolescents against hepatitisAby replacing the simple hepatitisBvaccine with a combined hepatitisA+Bvaccine. ... -
‘Having words for everything’. Institutionalizing gender migration in Spain (1998–2008)
(2011)Working from an interdisciplinary perspective, this article examines the development of gender identity categories and the institutionalization of sex-reassignment procedures based on two different ...