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Transformation in consumption dynamics: the digital era
Full text link[Resumen] La digitalización ha impulsado un cambio significativo en los hábitos de consumo, transformando la manera en que los/as jóvenes perciben y participan en el mercado. En este contexto, las redes sociales y las plataformas digitales no solo facilitan la compra de productos, sino que también actúan como espacios simbólicos donde se construyen identidades y relaciones sociales, influenciadas por sus decisiones y patrones de consumo.
De este modo, se ha llevado a cabo una metodología mixta basada en las técnicas de encuestas y entrevistas, para así analizar cómo las/os jóvenes de entre 18 y 30 años interactúan con un modelo de consumo emergente. Este enfoque permite no solo identificar patrones generales en sus comportamientos, sino también profundizar en las percepciones individuales sobre la influencia del entorno digital. Por tanto, se busca comprender cómo las redes sociales y las estrategias de márketing impactan en sus decisiones de consumo.[Resumo] A dixitalización impulsou un cambio significativo nos hábitos de consumo, transformando a maneira na que os/as mozos/as perciben e participan no mercado. Neste contexto, as redes sociais e as plataformas dixitais non só facilitan a compra de produtos, senón que tamén actúan como espazos simbólicos onde se constrúen identidades e relacións sociais, influídas polas súas decisións e patróns de consumo.
Deste xeito, levouse a cabo unha metodoloxía mixta baseada nás técnicas de enquisas e entrevistas, para así analizar como as/os mozos/as de entre 18 e 30 anos interactúan cun modelo de consumo emerxente. Este enfoque permite non só identificar patróns xerais nos seus comportamentos, senón tamén profundizar nas percepcións individuais sobre a influencia do entorno dixital. Por tanto, búscase comprender como as redes sociais e as estratexias de márketing impactan nas súas desicións de consumo.[Abstract] Digitalization has driven a significant change in consumption habits, transforming the way young people perceive and participate in the market. In this context, social networks and digital platforms not only facilitate the purchase of products but also act as symbolic spaces where identities and social relationships are constructed, influenced by their decisions and consumption patterns.
In this way, a mixed methodology was carried out based on surveys and interviews to analyze how young people between 18 and 30 years old interact with an emerging consumption model. This approach not only allows for the identification of general patterns in their behavior but also delves into individual perceptions of the influence of the digital environment. Therefore, the aim is to understand how social networks and marketing strategies impact their consumption decisions.Traballo fin de grao (UDC.SOC). Socioloxía. Curso 2024/202
Female Historians at the Dawn of the Professionalization of the Discipline
Full text link[Resumen] Introducción: Son muchas las mujeres que han contribuido a la profesionalización de la Historia desde que comenzó a considerarse una disciplina académica. El objetivo de este estudio es visibilizar algunas de las primeras historiadoras de habla inglesa reconocidas como tales. Asimismo, examinaremos su contribución personal. Metodología: Se ha utilizado el subcorpus de manuscritos histórico-científicos CHET, del Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing, con una muestra de 2 historiadores por década. Contamos con 40 historiadores durante 2 siglos (1700-1900), de los que 8 son mujeres. Las fuentes documentales proceden de archivos históricos, bibliotecas y diversas instituciones. Resultados: Existe una importante representación de historiadoras en los albores de la profesionalización de la disciplina Historia. La documentación archivística refleja la dinámica actividad profesional de las historiadoras de la época. Discusión: Muchas historiadoras contribuyeron prolífica y significativamente a la profesionalización de la disciplina Historia sin que ello repercutiese en su visibilidad en la actualidad. Conclusiones: Los nombres y trabajos de las historiadoras que contribuyeron a la profesionalización de la disciplina están conservados en bibliotecas, instituciones y archivos históricos. Queda pendiente para futuros/as historiadores/as restaurar el lugar de estas mujeres en la historia de la Historia.[Abstract] Introduction: There are many women who have contributed to the professionalization of History since it began to be considered an academic discipline. The aim of this study is to make visible some of the first female English-speaking historians recognized as such. We will also examine their personal contribution. Methodology: The subcorpus of historical-scientific manuscripts CHET, from the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing, has been used, with a sample of 2 historians per decade. We have 40 historians over 2 centuries (1700-1900), of which 8 are women. The documentary sources come from historical archives, libraries and various institutions. Results: There is an important representation of female historians at the dawn of the professionalization of the discipline History. The archival documentation reflects the dynamic professional activity of the historians of the time. Discussions: Mauris Many female historians contributed prolifically and significantly to the professionalization of the discipline History without this impacting its visibility today. Conclusions: The names and works of the historians who contributed to the professionalization of the discipline are preserved in libraries, institutions and historical archives. It remains for future historians to restore the place of these women in the history of History
Matemáticas y técnica
No full textA Iniciativa “Principia”, presentada o día 26 de febrero de 2025 no Salón de actos da ETSAC, consta de 27 rexistros audiovisuais que inclúen clases maxistrais, entrevistas, conversacións, reflexións e sesións docentes, co obxetivo de construir e compartir a historia da ETSAC e deixar un rexistro audiovisual dunha significativa mostra do profesorado que contribuíu de xeito decisivo a poñela en marcha, conformando a súa identidade ao longo do tempo como resultado da confluencia das súas moi diversas traxectorias docentes e profesionais. Idea, dirección e montaxe do arquitecto Xosé Manuel Rosales Noves.Rexistro audiovisual que recolle unha conferencia da profesora da ETSAC, Rosa Fernández Esteller, e que forma parte da colección “Principia” que, con motivo do 50 aniversario da Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura da Coruña, fai un recoñecemento académico á súa labor e legado
BetaGPU: Harnessing GPU power for parallelized beta distribution functions
Full text linkPermanent link to code/repository used for this code version: https://github.com/ElsevierSoftwareX/SOFTX-D-24-00555.
Link to developer documentation/manual: https://github.com/UDC-GAC/BetaGPU[Abstract]: The efficient computation of Beta distribution functions, particularly the Probability Density Function (PDF) and Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF), is critical in various scientific fields, including bioinformatics and data analysis. This work presents BetaGPU, a high-performance software package written in C++ and CUDA that leverages the parallel processing capabilities of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to significantly accelerate these computations, with an OpenMP version for multiCPU systems, and integrated seamlessly with popular statistical programming languages R and Python. This open-source package provides an accessible, accurate, and scalable solution for researchers and practitioners. By offloading intensive calculations to the GPU, this software is significantly faster than traditional single-core CPU-based methods, facilitating faster data analysis and enabling real-time applications. The software’s high performance and ease of use make it an invaluable tool for users in bioinformatics and other data-intensive domains.This work was supported by grants TED2021-130599A-I00 and PID2022-136435NB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/ (TED2021 also funded by “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR and PID2022 by “ERDF A way of making Europe”, EU); grant TSI-100925-2023-1, funded by Ministry for Digital Transformation and Civil Service and Next-GenerationEU/RRF; and FPU predoctoral grant of Alejandro Fernández-Fraga ref. FPU21/03408, funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain. We gratefully thank the Galician Supercomputing Center (CESGA) for the access granted to its supercomputing resources. Funding for open access charge: Universidade da Coruña/CISUG.Financiado para publicación en acceso aberto: Universidade da Coruña/CISU
Better Benchmarking LLMs for Zero-Shot Dependency Parsing
Full text linkPresented at: Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025), pages 121–135, March 3-4, 2025 ©2025 University of Tartu LibraryCódigo asociado: https://github.com/anaezquerro/naipar[Abstract]: While LLMs excel in zero-shot tasks, their performance in linguistic challenges like syntactic parsing has been less scrutinized. This paper studies state-of-the-art openweight LLMs on the task by comparing them to baselines that do not have access to the input sentence, including baselines that have not been used in this context such as random projective trees or optimal linear arrangements. The results show that most of the tested LLMs cannot outperform the best uninformed baselines, with only the newest and largest versions of LLaMA doing so for most languages, and still achieving rather low performance. Thus, accurate zero-shot syntactic parsing is not forthcoming with open LLMs.We acknowledge grants SCANNER-UDC (PID2020-113230RB-C21) funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033; GAP (PID2022-139308OA-I00) funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and ERDF, EU; LATCHING (PID2023-147129OB-C21)
funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and ERDF, EU; and TSI-100925-2023-1 funded by Ministry for Digital Transformation and Civil Service and “NextGenerationEU” PRTR; as well as funding by Xunta de Galicia (ED431C 2024/02), and Centro de Investigación de Galicia “CITIC”, funded by the Xunta de Galicia through the collaboration agreement between the Consellería de Cultura, Educación, Formación Profesional e Universidades and the Galician universities for the reinforcement of the research centres of the Galician University System (CIGUS). We also extend our gratitude to CESGA, the supercomputing center of Galicia, for granting us access to its resources.Xunta de Galicia; ED431C 2024/0
Galegando21: unha aplicación móbil basada en minixogos para promover o uso da lingua galega
Full text link[Resumo]: En Galicia, o uso e a promoción da lingua galega é unha prioridade cultural e educativa.
Con todo, existen poucos recursos interactivos que fomenten a aprendizaxe e uso do galego
entre os mozos. Este proxecto presenta unha aplicación móbil educativa chamada “Galegando21”
deseñada para promover o uso da lingua galega a través de xogos interactivos e
educativos. A aplicación inclúe varios minixogos que axudan aos usuarios a aprender vocabulario
e cultura galega de maneira divertida e atractiva. A aplicación foi desenvolta en
Kotlin e usaronse técnicas de recuperación de información para obter datos para os xogos.
Ademáis, para asegurar a calidade e o bo funcionamento da aplicación, realizouse unha proba
pechada na Play Store con máis de 20 usuarios, cuxo feedback foi fundamental para mellorar
as funcionalidades chave.[Abstract]: In Galicia, the use and promotion of the Galician language is a cultural and educational
priority. However, there are few interactive resources that encourage the learning and use of
Galician among young people. This project presents an educational mobile application called
“Galegando21” designed to promote the use of the Galician language through interactive and
educational games. The application includes several mini-games that help users learn Galician
vocabulary and culture in a fun and engaging way. The application was developed in Kotlin
and information retrieval techniques were used to obtain data for the games. Additionally,
to ensure the quality and proper functioning of the application, a closed test was conducted
on the Play Store with over 20 users, whose feedback was fundamental in improving key
functionalities.Traballo fin de mestrado (UDC.FIC). Enxeñaría Informática. Curso 2024/202
A los alumnos
No full textA Iniciativa “Principia”, presentada o día 26 de febrero de 2025 no Salón de actos da ETSAC, consta de 27 rexistros audiovisuais que inclúen clases maxistrais, entrevistas, conversacións, reflexións e sesións docentes, co obxetivo de construir e compartir a historia da ETSAC e deixar un rexistro audiovisual dunha significativa mostra do profesorado que contribuíu de xeito decisivo a poñela en marcha, conformando a súa identidade ao longo do tempo como resultado da confluencia das súas moi diversas traxectorias docentes e profesionais. Idea, dirección e montaxe do arquitecto Xosé Manuel Rosales Noves.Rexistro audiovisual que recolle unha conferencia dos profesores da ETSAC, Andrés Reboredo Santos, e que forma parte da colección “Principia” que, con motivo do 50 aniversario da Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura da Coruña, fai un recoñecemento académico á súa labor e legado
Economic Recession, Illicit Drug Use and the Young Population: a Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
No full text[Abstract] Aims: Economic recessions impact on drug use through different channels, with potential conflicting outcomes. Previous studies have reached mixed outcomes, and a clear and comprehensive picture is difficult to depict.
Methods: We use a systematic review of literature – conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines – and a hierarchical mixed-effects meta-analysis to provide a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the relationship between business cycle and the use of drugs by young populations. The heterogeneity of studies was assessed by the I2 statistic, and the publication bias was evaluated with contour-enhanced funnel plots.
Results: We identify 25 studies, published over the period 2008–2020. These articles carried out an empirical analysis of the impact of the business cycle on illegal drug consumption in Organisation for Economic Co-operation Development (OECD) countries. Most of the studies (17 studies) covered the 2007 financial crisis. Among the outcomes, 9 studies traced a countercyclical relationship between economic recessions and drug use, 3 showed a procyclical relationship and 13 studies found mixed results. Unemployment was the most widely used variable to assess macroeconomic conditions in most of the studies (21 studies). The meta-analysis shows a partial correlation of .03 (95% confidence interval (CI): .0147–.0453) between the unemployment rate and drug use among young individuals. Therefore, we conclude that, on average, recessions tend to boost drug use. This impact is more marked with cannabis use than it is with cocaine, opioids or other drugs.
Conclusion: This study provides robust evidence that in periods of economic downturns, the young populations tend to increase the use of illegal drugs, with cannabis as their main preference. Therefore, in periods of economic severity, society may particularly benefit from implementing widely reaching public prevention programmes and demand reduction interventions, targeting this subgroup of the population.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This article is part of the research involved in the project funded under the agreement no. CT.20.HEA.0132.1.0. The sole responsibility for the content of this research lies with the author
Direct and indirect relationships between Food Parental Practices, diet quality, and food satisfaction in adolescents
Full text link[Abstract] Introduction: The relationship between four parental feeding practices from the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire for adolescents (CFPQ-Teen) and Satisfaction With Food-related Life (SWFoL) in adolescents was evaluated using diet quality measured using the Adapted Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) as a mediating variable. Methods: Participants were 860 adolescents aged 10–16 years of both sexes who responded to four factors on the CFPQ-Teen, food satisfaction scale, and diet quality index. Structural equation analysis was used in a structural mediation model on a polychoric correlation matrix using the weighted least squares mean-variance adjusted (WLSMV) method. Results: Diet quality was a mediating factor in the interaction between two parental practices related to parental modeling and adolescent control over SWFoL. There was evidence of a direct relationship between monitoring and restrictive factors for weight control and SWFoL. Conclusions: The findings indicated that the association between parental feeding practices and food satisfaction may be direct or mediated by diet quality in adolescents.The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This study was funded by the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID), Fondecyt Project No. 1190017 and Fondecyt Project No. 1230060Chile. National Agency for Research and Development; 1190017Chile. National Agency for Research and Development; 123006
Sponge Ctttes in China. Ecological lnfrastructure for a Resilient Future
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China enfrenta desafíos hídricos como inundaciones, escasez de agua y contaminación, causados por su clima monzónico, geografía y cambio climático. Este análisis, que considera antecedentes históricos como las inundaciones de 1931, aborda problemas actuales del agua y estrategias de gestión. Un viaje al país asiático me permitió conocer y cuestionar la innovadora metodología del estudio Turenscape, que se apoya en tradiciones agrícolas orientales basadas en los principios de los sistemas hídricos de infiltración, almacenamiento, purificación, uso y drenaje para diseñar infraestructura ecológica contemporánea. Ejemplos de esta filosofía son el Parque de Tormentas en Harbin y el Parque de Houtan en Shanghái. Además, el trabajo establece vínculos con Galicia, explorando la aplicabilidad de estos principios en nuestro territorio para promover un desarrollo urbano sostenible y una sociedad más consciente que armonice la actividad humana con el medio ambiente.[Resumo]
China enfróntase a desafíos hídricos como inundacións, escaseza de auga e contaminación, causados polo seu clima monzónico, xeografía e cambio climático. Esta análise, que considera antecedentes históricos como as inundacións de 1931, aborda problemas actuais da auga e estratexias de xestión. Unha viaxe ao país asiático permitiume coñecer e cuestionar a innovadora metodoloxía do estudo Turenscape, que se apoia en tradicións agrícolas orientais baseadas nos principios dos sistemas hídricos de infiltración, almacenamento, purificación, uso e drenaxe para deseñar infraestrutura ecolóxica contemporánea. Exemplos desta filosofía son o Parque de Tormentas en Harbin e o Parque de Houtan en Shanghái. Ademais, o traballo establece vínculos con Galicia, explorando a aplicabilidade destes principios no noso territorio para promover un desenvolvemento urbano sostible e unha sociedade máis consciente que harmonice a actividade humana co medio ambiente.[Abstract]
China faces water challenges such as flooding, water scarcity, and pollution, caused by its monsoon climate, geography, and climate change. This analysis, which considers historical antecedents such as the 1931 floods, addresses current water issues and management strategies. A trip to the Asian country allowed me to learn about and question the innovative methodology of the Turenscape study, which relies on Eastern agricultural traditions based on the principies of water systems for infiltration, storage, purification, use, and drainage to design contemporary ecological infrastructure. Examples of this philosophy include the Stormwater Park in Harbin and the Houtan Park in Shanghai. Furthermore, the work establishes connections with Galicia, exploring the applicability of these principies in our region to promote sustainable urban development and a more aware society that harmonizes human activity with the environment.Traballo fin de grao (UDC.ETSA). Estudos en arquitectura. Curso 2024/202