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Lingüística quantitativa i lleis lingüístiques: de la lingüística a la intel·ligència artificial i la tecnoètica
(2023-06-30)
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Open AccessTot i que el recorregut terminològic arrela en els mateixos orígens de la computació, l’emergència recent de les aplicacions basades en la intel·ligència artificial ha popularitzat molts ètims ja antics, a la vegada que ... -
Impact of a Gamification Learning System on the Academic Performance of Mechanical Engineering Students
(Tempus Publications, 2022-09-20)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThis study examines the effects of using a gamification tool as a teaching strategy. Specifically, Kahoot! is evaluated as a tool for enhancing student learning. The activities were part of the laboratory sessions of the ... -
Compression principle and Zipf’s Law of brevity in infochemical communication
(2022-07)
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Open AccessCompression has been presented as a general principle of animal communication. Zipf’s Law of brevity is a manifestation of this postulate and can be generalized as the tendency of more frequent communicative elements to ... -
Desvelando los misterios de las feromonas
(2022-09-01)
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Open AccessAunque a los humanos nos llame más la atención todo lo audiovisual, la mayor parte de la comunicación que se da en los seres vivos se realiza mediante señales químicas. La vida es química, más que cualquier otra cosa. La ... -
Exploring forward-thinking technology perspectives of sustainable development for the year 2030 in the identity of engineering students
(2022)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThis study focuses on the identity of engineering students, to explore their future perspectives and the presence of a vision of technology in the transition to sustainable development. Students from universities in Norway ... -
Towards a long-term sustainable development vision in the self: a study with engineering students
(2021)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThe objective of this study was the identification of the presence of a sustainable development vision (year 2030) in engineering students. The focus was on the self, related to the reflection and self-knowledge of the ... -
Speech pause distribution as an early marker for Alzheimer’s disease
(2022-01)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyBackground: Pause duration analysis is a common feature in the study of discourse in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) since this patient group has shown a consistent trend for longer pauses in comparison to healthy controls. This ... -
La reflexión tecnoética a través del cine de ciencia ficción
(2021)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyLa tecnoética estudia los aspectos morales y éticos de la tecnología en la sociedad, en un sentido amplio: nos incumben tanto el diseño como la creación y el uso de la tecnología. Si seguimos la poliédrica definición de ... -
Zipf’s laws of meaning in Catalan
(Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2021-12-16)
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Open AccessIn his pioneering research, G. K. Zipf formulated a couple of statistical laws on the relationship between the frequency of a word with its number of meanings: the law of meaning distribution, relating the frequency of a ... -
Infographics, a better medium than plain text for increasing knowledge
(2022)
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Open AccessInfographics in social networks present more elaborate proposals than simple text. In this study we analyze the general patterns of Twitter infographic messages to determine its main characteristics. Subsequently, we ... -
Can Menzerath’s law be a criterion of complexity in communication?
(Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2021-08-20)
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Open AccessMenzerath’s law is a quantitative linguistic law which states that, on average, the longer is a linguistic construct, the shorter are its constituents. In contrast, Menzerath-Altmann’s law (MAL) is a precise mathematical ... -
Fostering sustainability and critical thinking through debate: a case study
(2021-06)
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Open AccessTransversal competences such as sustainability or critical thinking have become more important in the last decades in University teaching. The objective of this article is to assess the effectiveness of debate as a teaching ...