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Genetic Programming - 17th European Conference, EuroGP 2014, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Miguel Nicolau, Krzysztof Krawiec, Malcolm I. Heywood, Mauro Castelli, Pablo Garcia-Sanchez, …
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The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European
Conference on Genetic Programming, Euro GP 2014, held in Grenada,
Spain, in April 2014 co-located with the Evo*2014 events, Evo BIO,
Evo COP, Evo MUSART and Evo Applications. The 15 revised full
papers presented together with 5 poster papers were carefully
reviewed and selected form 40 submissions. The wide range of topics
in this volume reflects the current state of research in the field.
Thus, we see topics as diverse as search-based software
engineering, image analysis, dynamical systems, evolutionary
robotics and operational research to the foundations of search as
characterized through semantic variation operators.
""I did a lot of bad things, but when I was before the painter I
murmured to myself that I was sorry, that I wished I didn't have
to, and I don't know what he thought when our eyes met, a moist
blaze in the night, but I want to believe he understood, he saw
that I was doing it to save him torment. Without further ado,
without moving from where I was, I put the pistol to his temple and
blew off his head. And then I remembered the pencil. The pencil he
carried behind his ear. This pencil...""Set in the dark days of the
Spanish Civil War, "Qalam an-najjar" charts the linked destinies of
Dr Daniel Da Barca, the Republican who, like his Biblical namesake,
cheats death in Franco's prisons, and Herbal, the illiterate
Falangist and Da Barca's shadow and tail, and of the unnamed
painter with the carpenter's pencil, the man who unites them in
life and death. Marisa Mallo, loved by both Da Barca and Herbal;
Pepe Sanchez, the bolero singer; "Genghis Khan," the wrestler;
Dombod+n the Kid, the innocent; Mother Izarne, the nun. All are
bound by the events of the Civil War-the artists and the peasants
alike-and all are rendered, in Rivas's skillful hand, with the
power of the carpenter's pencil, a pencil that draws both the
measured line and the artist's fanciful vision.
It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. In a prison in the pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela, an artist sketches the famous porch of the cathedral, the Pórtico da Gloria. He uses a carpenter's pencil. But instead of reproducing the sculptured faces of the prophets and elders, he draws the faces of his fellow Republican prisoners. Many years later in post-Franco Spain, a survivor of that period, Doctor Daniel da Barca, returns from exile to his native Galicia, and the threads of past memories begin to be woven together. This poetic and moving novel conveys the horror and savagery of the tragedy that divided Spain, and the experiences of the men and women who lived through ti. Yet in the process, it also relates one of the most beautiful love stories imaginable.
For Manuel Rivas, words are the most sensitive of creatures. In the
same way that frogs or glow-worms are the first to manifest signs
of pollution in the natural environment, words suffer as a result
of corruption in the socio-political sphere. In his work as
journalist, writer of fiction, poetry or essays, he is consistent
in his role as custodian of all sensitive creatures; his writings
document historical damage and alert us to potential future harm to
our natural, linguistic and political eco-systems. "Rivas is,
without doubt, the most important figure (and the best known) in
contemporary Galician literature [...]. His fictions bear the tone
of an oral tale." -Alberto Manguel "Manuel Rivas is an important
storyteller because he is sensitive and has an incredible ear,
which, in his fiction, is allied to great integrity." -John Berger
"Rivas is an indisputable classic" -The Scotsman "An author who
knows how to introduce poetry, not only in his phrasing, but also
in his way of seeing the world." - Raphaelle Rerolle, Le Monde
Many readers outside Spain do not know that the acclaimed novelist,
Manuel Rivas, is a significant poet in his homeland, writing in his
native Galician. This volume redresses the balance, offering a
bilingual edition of his 2009 collection A desaparicion da neve,
which, in an unusal move, was published in four national languages
under one set of covers-Galician, Castilian, Catalan and Basque.
Desde que el uso del PSA para el diagnostico precoz del Cancer
Prostatico se generalizo, el perfil del Cancer Prostatico
diagnosticado ha cambiado. En la actualidad, se ha incrementado la
incidencia de tumores prostaticos sin significacion clinica. Ademas
existe un solapamiento del Cancer Prostatico con la Hiperplasia
Benigna de Prostata, enfermedad benigna que tambien incrementa los
niveles de PSA. En este contexto se hace necesario precisar mas el
diagnostico del Cancer prostatico con el fin de evitar pruebas
invasivas innecesarias y diagnosticar tumores prostaticos con
relevancia clinica. En este trabajo se analizan el uso de variantes
geneticas de la Metaloproteasa de matriz 9 que podrian complementar
al PSA en el diagnostico del Cancer prostatico. Se trata del
analisis de los 100 primeros casos de un estudio a mayor escala. Se
analizan los problemas actuales del diagnostico del Cancer
Prostatico asi como la implicacion de las metaloproteasas de matriz
en el desarrollo tumoral y su relacion con el diagnostico del
Cancer prostatico."
Las Metaloproteasas de Matriz son un grupo de enzimas cuya funcion
mas conocida consiste en la degradacion de las membranas basales,
pero juegan un importante papel en todos los pasos de la cadena de
desarrollo y progresion tumorales. La MMP-9 es una de las
metaloproteasas mas estudiadas, y ha demostrado valor como marcador
diagnostico y pronostico en varias estirpes tumorales. En el caso
del Cancer de Prostata la medida de los niveles de MMP-9 tisulares
ha demostrado una relacion directa con la presencia de tumor,
ademas de con factores pronosticos como el grado Gleason o el PSA.
El estudio de los niveles de MMP-9 sanguineos ha aportado hasta
ahora resultados contradictorios, probablemente por deficiencias en
el diseno de los estudios realizados. El presente estudio muestra
la relacion existente entre los niveles de MMP-9 sericos y la
presencia o ausencia del cancer de prostata, asi como la relacion
entre la MMP-9 y diversos factores pronosticos."
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