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More Less | | PRO-level points: 31, Questions answered: 24 | | 0 entries | | Wire transfer | Sample translations submitted: 2 Spanish to English: Rayos Cósmicos: Las Partículas más Energéticas de la Naturaleza (F. Arqueros) --- 3 párrafos iniciales
General field: Science
Detailed field: Physics | Source text - Spanish
Fuente: http://www.gae.ucm.es/fisica/report.html
Aunque se trata de un hecho perfectamente comprobado, seguramente muchas personas se sorprenderían si supieran que constantemente se encuentran sometidas al bombardeo de partículas de muy alta energía. Concretamente, a nivel del mar, cada una de nuestras manos extendidas de forma horizontal es atravesada por una de estas partículas, en promedio, una vez por segundo. Esta radiación es debida a un fenómeno que fue un enigma durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX y cuyo estudio ha tenido consecuencias de gran trascendencia para la Física. Por un lado dió lugar al descubrimiento de nuevas partículas elementales provocando un cambio radical en nuestra concepción de la estructura microscópica de la materia. Pero además está aportando una valiosísima información acerca de la estructura del Universo.
Al comenzar este siglo ya se conocía la existencia de tres tipos de radiactividad: los rayos alpha, constituidos por núcleos de helio que son frenados en unos pocos centímetros de aire; los rayos beta, que son electrones y tienen mayor poder de penetración y, finalmente, los rayos gamma que, a diferencia de los anteriores, no son desviados por campos eléctricos ni magnéticos y tienen un gran poder de penetración ya que son necesarios centímetros de plomo para reducir apreciablemente su intensidad.
En aquella época, se medía la radiactividad con ayuda de electroscopios que detectaban la ionización que ésta producía en el aire. Era bien sabido que aún alejados de fuentes radiactivas de laboratorio, estos aparatos detectaban una ligera ionización que fue exclusivamente atribuida a las fuentes radiactivas naturales que se encuentran en la superficie terrestre. De ser esto cierto, la señal de fondo debería disminuir al alejarnos de la superficie. Para comprobar esta hipótesis, Victor Hess realizó en 1912 una serie de experimentos transportando una cámara de ionización en un globo con el que ascendió hasta 5000 metros de altura y, sorprendentemente encontró que la señal de fondo aumentaba con la altitud. Una vez descartadas otras posibles explicaciones se llegó a la conclusión de que esta radiación provenía de arriba, es decir, del exterior de la Tierra. Este experimento supuso el nacimiento de la Física de Rayos Cósmicos (Nombre debido a Millikan, 1925). | Translation - English
COSMIC RAYS: THE MOST ENERGETIC PARTICLES IN THE NATURE (F. Arqueros) --- 3 first paragraps
Despite being a well-confirmed phenomenon, probably the most of people would be surprised if they knew that are constantly living under a high energy particle rain. It has been proved that, at sea level, if you extend your hands horizontally one particle would pass through each hand every second, as average. This radiation is provoked by a phenomenon, which was a mystery during the first decades of the 20th century and whose understanding implied relevant consequences for Physics. It conducted to the discovery of new elemental particles, what contributed to radically change our conception of matter microstructure. Additionally, such an understanding is still providing us really worthy information about Universe structure.
At the beginning of the current century, three types of radioactivity were already known: alpha rays, formed by helium nuclei, slowed down in the first centimetres of the atmosphere; beta rays, electrons with much more penetration power; and, finally, gamma rays which, unlikely the previous ones, can not diverted by either electric or magnetic fields and whose penetration power is so high that their intensity can only be appreciably reduced by several centimetres of lead.
In that time, the radioactivity measuring device was the electroscope, which detected the resulting air ionisation. Even for locations far away from laboratory's radioactive sources, these devices detected a slight ionisation; this phenomenon was attributed exclusively to natural radioactive sources, present in the Earth's surface. If such an assumption would be true, this background signal should get weaker the longer the distance to the surface would become. In order to corroborate such a hypothesis, in 1912, Victor Hess brought an ionisation chamber into his balloon and ascended up to 5000 meter; surprisingly, he found that the background signal was increasing with height. After discarding all the possible feasible explanations, it was concluded that this radiation was coming from up above, that is, from outside the Earth. This experiment represented the birth of Cosmic Ray Physics (as named by Millikan, in 1925). | English to Spanish: Major Features (Curve Fitting Toolbox --- Matlab)
General field: Tech/Engineering
Detailed field: Mathematics & Statistics | Source text - English
Source: http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/pdf_doc/curvefit/curvefit.pdf
Curve Fitting Toolbox™ software is a collection of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and M-file functions for curve and surface fitting that operate in the MATLAB® technical computing environment. The toolbox supplements MATLAB features with:
• Data preprocessing capabilities, such as sectioning, excluding data, and smoothing
• Data fitting using parametric and nonparametric models:
- The toolbox includes a library of parametric models, with polynomials, exponentials, rationals, sums of Gaussians, Fourier polynomials, and many others.
- You can also define custom models to precisely reflect the goals of your
data analysis.
- Nonparametric models are available through a variety of smoothers
and interpolants.
• Fitting methods for linear least squares, nonlinear least squares, weighted least squares, constrained least squares, and robust fitting are available
• Data and fit statistics to assist you in analyzing your models
• Postprocessing capabilities that allow you to interpolate, extrapolate, differentiate, and integrate the fit
• The ability to save your work in various formats, including workspace variables, binary files, and automatically generated MATLAB code | Translation - Spanish
PRINCIPALES CARACTERÍSTICAS (translation of the title)
El paquete Curve Fitting Toolbox™ es una colección de interfaces gráficos de usuario (GUIs, por sus siglas en inglés) y funciones de M-archivos para el ajuste de curvas y superficies que funciona en el entorno de programación técnico MATLAB®. Proporciona funcionalidades adicionales al paquete estándar de MATLAB, concretamente:
• Utilidades de pre-procesado de datos, tales como: seccionamiento, exclusión de datos y procesos regresivos.
• Ajuste de datos, usando modelos paramétricos y no paramétricos:
- Se incluye una librería de modelos paramétricos, con funciones polinomiales, exponenciales, racionales, series de Gauss, series de Fourier y otras muchas
- Asímismo, se contempla la posibilidad de crear modelos definidos por el usuario, que le permitan alcanzar los objetivos perseguidos con el correspondiente análisis de datos, con la mayor precisión posible
- Modelos no paramétricos, disponibles a través de una gran variedad de funciones regresivas e interpoladoras
• Métodos de ajuste por mínimos cuadrados generalizados, tanto lineales como no lineales, ponderados y restringidos, así como el método de ajuste robusto
• Métodos estadísticos para el tratamiento de datos y funciones, que representan una valiosa ayuda en el análisis de cualquier modelo
• Herramientas de post-procesado que le permiten interpolar, extrapolar, derivar e integrar cualquier función
• La posibilidad de guardar su trabajo en diferentes formatos, incluyendo variables de espacio de trabajo, archivos binarios y código de MATLAB auto-generado |
More Less | | Years of translation experience: 10. Registered at ProZ.com: Aug 2009. | | N/A | | N/A | | N/A | | Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Online dictionaries, Search engines (strings, expressions, etc.), Other CAT tool, Powerpoint | | http://www.trendingIT.com | | English (PDF) | | Álvaro Carballo García endorses ProZ.com's Professional Guidelines (v1.0). | | About me EDUCATION
MD in Law, University of Oviedo, Spain [1996-2002]
* Subjects of interest: Corporate law, taxation, International law, European law.
* Exchange student at Westfaelische Wilhelms Universitaet of Muenster, Germany.
BD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Oviedo (Department of Gijón), Spain [2002-2005]
* Specialisation: Machine design.
* Subjects of interest: Thermodynamics, structural mechanics, mechanical design.
* Ranked within top 2% in a class of 300.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Reaction Engineering Solutions Ltd. (Cambridge, UK) [2006-2008]
* Position: Simulation Engineer
* Description: Small-sized engineering consultancy, closely related to the University of Cambridge (CoMo group), specialised on emissions from IC engines.
trendingIT (Ponferrada, Spain) [2008-present]
* Position: Development Engineer/General Manager
* Description: after developing an innovative numerical simulation tool, without relying on any existing mathematical/statistical theory (mathematical foundation: "Comparison within an Environment"): trendingBot, the trend finder. I have been working on building the company to commercialise it (trendingIT).
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