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English to Portuguese: Health consequences of exercise and inactivity: The endurance athlete- high aerobic capacity and improved longevity General field: Medical Detailed field: Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-)
Source text - English Insulin is an important glucoregulatory hormone, and skeletal muscle accounts for the majority of insulin-mediated glucose uptake. Insulin action on skeletal muscle is therefore of prime importance for the regulation of blood glucose concentrations. Insulin binds to the insulin receptor on the muscle sarcolemma and initiates a signalling cascade, mediated via insulin receptor autophosphorylation, phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) activation and Akt and Akt substrate of 160 kDa (AS160)/TBC1D4 phosphorylation. Ultimately, the translocation of the insulin-responsive glucose transporter (GLUT4) and fusion of GLUT4 vesicles with the plasma membrane and T-tubular network enables glucose uptake and the normalization of plasma glucose concentrations. Therefore, insulin action is influenced by the efficacy of insulin and glucose delivery to skeletal muscle fibers, insulin signal transduction and GLUT4 translocation to and fusion with the plasma membrane.
Translation - Portuguese A insulina é um hormônio glicoregulatório importante, e o músculo esquelético corresponde à maioria da absorção de glicose insulino-mediada. Sua ação no músculo esquelético é, assim, de importância crucial para a regulação das concentrações sanguíneas de glicose. A insulina liga-se ao receptor de insulina no sarcolema muscular e inicia um processo sinalizador, mediado pela autofosforilação dos receptores de insulina, ativação do fosfoinositídeo 3-quinase e o substrato Akt e Akt da fosforilação do 160 kDa (AS160)/TBC1D4. Finalmente, a translocação do transportador de glicose insulino-receptivo (GLUT4) e a fusão das vesículas do GLUT4 com a membrana plasmática à rede T-tubular possibilita a absorção de glicose e a normalização da concentração de glicose plasmática. Doravante a ação da insulina é influenciada pela eficácia do transporte de insulina e glicose para as fibras do músculo esquelético, transdução do sinal de insulina além da translocação e fusão do GLUT4 com a membrana plasmática.
English to Portuguese: Rasputin Megaways General field: Other Detailed field: Gaming/Video-games/E-sports
Source text - English Wins are awarded on left to right adjacent symbols regardless of size, starting with the leftmost reel, except Scatters. Payouts are multiplied by stake.
Translation - Portuguese Vitórias são contabilizadas por símbolos adjacentes da esquerda para direita independentemente do tamanho, começando com o carretel mais à esquerda, exceto Scatters. Prêmios são multiplicados pela aposta.
English to Portuguese: Dialectics, Complexity, and the Systemic Approach: Toward a Critical Reconciliation General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Source text - English In this article and elsewhere I refer to Bunge’s approach as “systemism” or “emergentist systemism.” Bunge himself seldom uses the latter term because systemism implies emergentism (cf. Mahner and Bunge 1997, 48-49). He nevertheless agrees with me that the adjective “emergentist” is “a useful psychological or tactical maneuver” (Mario Bunge, personal correspondence, December 22, 2011). I have two reasons for including this adjective: (1) For some analytically oriented social scientists, while they admit that social systems can play an explanatory role in social scientific explanations (as in what Bunge calls the Boudon-Coleman diagram), some of them tend to avoid ascribing any ontological status to these systems. The adjective is therefore a reminder to them that these systems have (explainable but ontologically real) emergent properties or emergent causal powers, which indicate that these systems are not just assumed to be real tentatively in an explanation, but have sui generis ontological status. (2) This adjective is also a reminder that a social entity qualifies as a social system if it possesses emergent properties (e.g., a bonding structure). Therefore, families, clubs, and organizations are perfectly social systems. This is intended as an antidote to the myth prevailing among some social scientists that only such large-scale social entities as states or “the whole society” can be seen as social systems.
Translation - Portuguese Neste artigo e em outros trabalhos refiro-me à aproximação de Bunge como “sistemismo” ou “sistemismo emergentista”. O próprio Bunge utiliza o último termo, pois o sistemismo implica em emergentismo (cf. Mahner e Bunge 1997, 48-49). Ele, consequentemente, concorda comigo que o adjetivo “emergentista” é “uma útil manobra tática ou psicológica” (Mario Bunge, correspondência pessoal, 22 de dezembro de 2011). Tenho duas razões para incluir este adjetivo: (1) Para alguns cientistas sociais analiticamente orientados, enquanto admitem que os sistemas sociais possam ter um papel explanatório nas conclusões científicas (como no que Bunge chama de diagrama de Boudon-Coleman), alguns deles tendem a evitar incutir qualquer status ontológico para estes sistemas. O adjetivo é, logo, um lembrete para eles que estes sistemas possuem propriedades emergentes (explanáveis, mas ontologicamente reais) ou poderes causais emergentes, os quais indicam que estes sistemas não são apenas hipoteticamente reais em uma explicação, mas possuem sim um status ontológico sui generis. (2) Este adjetivo é também lembrete de que uma entidade social se qualifica como sistema social apenas caso possua propriedades emergentes (ou seja, uma estrutura aglutinadora). Logo, famílias, clubes e organizações são perfeitamente sistemas sociais. Isto é previsto como um antídoto para o mito que prevalece entre alguns cientistas sociais de que apenas entidades sociais de larga-escala como estados ou “toda a sociedade” podem ser vistos como sistemas sociais.
English to Portuguese: Health consequences of exercise and inactivity: The endurance athlete - high aerobic capacity and improved longevity General field: Medical Detailed field: Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-)
Source text - English An increase in skeletal muscle capillary density and mitochondrial content are well-described adaptations to endurance exercise and are responsible for the elevated capacity for fuel and oxygen extraction and total aerobic ATP production in athletes. The intracellular events involved in the stimulation of muscle contraction including Ca2+ release, increased ATP turnover and generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), activate signaling pathways that increase the expression of transcription factors [NRF (nuclear respiratory factor)-1, NRF-2, peroxisome-proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs), Tfam (transcription factor A, mitochondrial)] and transcriptional co-activators [such as PPARγ co-activator 1α (PGC1α)]. This induces an increase in the expression of genes encoding mitochondrial enzymes and transporter proteins such as GLUT4 and fatty acid translocase (FAT)/CD36. This ultimately results in an increase in the protein content of the majority of enzymes involved in fuel mobilization, transport, and oxidation. The resultant increased capacity for oxidation of plasma- and IMTG- derived FAs seems to play an important role in the improved muscle insulin sensitivity.
Translation - Portuguese Um aumento na densidade capilar do músculo esquelético e do conteúdo mitocondrial são adaptações bem-conhecidas aos exercícios de resistência, sendo responsáveis pela elevada capacidade de extração de combustível e oxigênio, além da produção total de ATP aeróbico em atletas. Os eventos intracelulares envolvidos no estímulo da contração muscular, incluindo a liberação de Ca2+, aumento na rotatividade do ATP e na geração de espécies de oxigênio reativo (ROS), ativam caminhos de sinalização que aumentam a expressão de fatores de transcrição [NRF (fator respiratório nuclear)-1, NRF-2, receptores ativados por proliferadores de peroxissoma (PPARs), Tfam (fator de transcrição mitocondrial A)] e coativadores transcricionais (como o coativador 1α PPARy (PGC1α)]. Isso induz um aumento na expressão de genes que codificam enzimas mitocondriais e proteínas de transporte como a GLUT4 e a translocase de ácido graxo (FAT)/CD36. Isso, por fim, resulta no aumento do conteúdo de proteína da maioria das enzimas envolvidas na mobilização de combustível, transporte e oxidação. O resultante aumento na capacidade de oxidação dos ácidos graxos derivados do plasma — e do TAG (triacilglicerol) intramuscular — aparenta ter um papel importante na melhoria da sensibilidade muscular à insulina.
English to Portuguese: Materialism, Idealism and the Onto-Epistemological Roots of Geography General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Geography
Source text - English Metaphysics was predominant in Kantian Geography. Far from being in equal level of relevancy, Nature would be subordinated to Man, in a way that his discipline of Anthropology would explain the internal part of Being, while Geography the external one: Nature. Kant’s teleological argument express this subordination, in which Nature’s existence derives and depends on Man. The human being is seen here quite literally as Nature’s true end, existing from and for Mankind. As Space (here separated from Time and History) is, following Kant’s account, an a priori, it should be therefore studied by Reason alone. With Nature per se existing only inside Space, the final cause of every empirical analysis of Nature or Man falls, inevitably, into the aprioristic instruments of thought from Man himself. Indeed, the study of Space by itself is not something seen even as attainable by empirical knowledge. Therefore, in an analogous way to the description of his Idealist method above, knowledge of Reality takes on empirical data as a mere negligible appendix, as Epistemology essence’s simply cannot be obtained by any epistemological means. Rather, its foundation lies in the Idea, the Spirit: human understanding itself.
Translation - Portuguese A Metafísica era predominante na Geografia kantiana. Longe de serem iguais em grau de relevância, a Natureza seria subordinada ao Homem, de forma que sua disciplina de Antropologia explicaria a parte interna do Ser, enquanto a Geografia aquela externa: a Natureza. O argumento teleológico de Kant demonstra esta subordinação, no qual a existência da Natureza deriva e depende do Homem. O ser humano é aqui visto como, literalmente, o verdadeiro fim da Natureza, existindo da e para à Humanidade. Já que o Espaço (aqui, separado do Tempo e História) é, seguindo a narrativa de Kant, um a priori, ele deve ser estudado, logo, apenas pela Razão. Com a Natureza per se existindo apenas dentro do Espaço, a causa final de toda análise empírica da Natureza ou do Homem reside, inevitavelmente, nos instrumentos apriorísticos do pensar do próprio Homem. De fato, o estudo do Espaço em si não é algo sequer visto como alcançável pelo conhecimento empírico. Assim, de maneira análoga à descrição de seu método idealista acima, o conhecimento da Realidade vê os dados empíricos como meros apêndices marginais, visto que a essência da Epistemologia não pode ser obtida por quaisquer meios epistemológicos. Ao contrário, o seu cerne está na Ideia, no Espírito: o entendimento humano em si.
English to Portuguese: Rasputin Megaways General field: Other Detailed field: Gaming/Video-games/E-sports
Source text - English 10 Free Spins are awarded with an unlimited win multiplier. Win multiplier starts at one and increases by one for every fifth symbol that Rasputin Wilds add to the screen.
Translation - Portuguese Dez Rodadas Grátis são ganhas com um multiplicador de vitórias ilimitado. O multiplicador de vitórias começa em 1 e aumenta em 1 a cada décimo quinto símbolo que os Wilds de Rasputin adicionarem à tela.
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Years of experience: 11. Registered at ProZ.com: Aug 2022.
A native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese with 10+ years' experience as an ENG>PT translator, I have a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences, a Master's degree in Sociology/Philosophy of Science (both from São Paulo State University- UNESP), and was also a Physics studentat the University of São Paulo (USP). Having worked as an Academic Researcher for more than 6 years - in Brazil and abroad -, the English language was always part of my life. But not only as a science-related tool, or as a means to good grades. No, not at all. My first, deep contact with it began at the age of 9, while sitting on a loud, clunky desktop-computer, completely in awe by the ominous playing rock-MIDI music, terrifying demons, and one cool-looking guy blasting them all with a gun. My dazzled child-mind could only distinguish 4 clear letters, forming an utter alien word for me at the time: DOOM.
Since this day, my newborn obsession with videogames began, exclusively from which I (inadvertently) taught myself English over the years. Just game after game, level after level.
By combining these three passions, 1) Science, 2) Philosophy and 3) Gaming, I decided to use my skills and become an English to Portuguese translator. With 10 years of experience translating, more than 15 gaming (😉), and numerous published peer-reviewed scientific works, I have a large expertise with:
academic texts (scientific papers, projects and textbooks, both from hard and soft sciences);
technical, software and game localization (user's, programmer's, installation, hardware and software guides, UI, dialogue, websites, marketing material, etc.),
subtitling (physics, cosmology and game-related videos).
Being a devoted gamer myself, I've encountered my fair share of poorly done translations, broken dialogs and incomprehensible spelling or grammar, all of which can (and do!) absolutely ruin what could be an otherwise excellent game. Bad localization destroys both the player's experience and the company's reputation, wrecking sales revenue and player retention.
This sad awareness inspired me years ago to get things done by myself. My half a decade formation in Social Sciences truly shines here, as it gave me deep cultural, historical, and political knowledge of Brazil, tremendous valuable assets when working on any game localization project: specially in the Culturalization part of it. Besides, as my love for games has (really) no prejudice, ranging from strategy, MMOs, mobile, survival to indie and retro titles, true immersion and terminology fidelity is guaranteed on any given job, passion and skill combined.
Apart from numerous awards and grants from funding agencies - all by academic merit -, I'm also TOEFL certified and verified, with the highest proficiency possible, test score 644 of 677.
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