Comparing the Effect of Product-Based Metrics on the Translation Process.

Characteristics of the translation product are often used in translation process research as predictors for cognitive load, and by extension translation difficulty. In the last decade, user-activity information such as eye-tracking data has been increasingly employed as an experimental tool for that purpose. In this paper, we take a similar approach.

Glassy dynamics of soft matter under 1D confinement: how irreversible adsorption affects molecular packing, mobility gradients and orientational polarization in thin films.

The structural dynamics of polymers and simple liquids confined at the nanometer scale has been intensively investigated in the last two decades in order to test the validity of theories on the glass transition predicting a characteristic length scale of a few nanometers. Although this goal has not yet been reached, the anomalous behavior displayed by some systems--e.g.

Crystallization of thin polymer layers confined between two adsorbing walls.

Confined at the nanoscale level, polymers crystallize much slower than in bulk, and in some cases, the formation of ordered structure is inhibited within extremely long experimental time scales. Here, we report on the thickness dependence of the conversion rate of the amorphous fraction of ultrathin films of poly(ethylene terephthalate) during isothermal cold crystallization. We present a new analytical method assessing the impact of irreversible chain adsorption and permitting to disentangle finite size and interfacial effects.