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  1. Porta-enxertos para a tangerineira 'Michal' no Rio Grande do Sul Rootstocks for 'Michal' tangerine in Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil

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    Eduardo Cesar Brugnara

    2009-08-01

    Full Text Available A tangerineira 'Michal' (Citrus clementina x C. tangerina poderá ser uma boa alternativa ao Rio Grande do Sul como cultivar copa para produção de frutos em época precoce. No entanto, há falta de informações sobre seu comportamento em cultivo nas condições ambientais desse Estado. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o desenvolvimento das plantas, a produção e a qualidade dos frutos da tangerineira 'Michal' enxertada sobre cinco porta-enxertos: citrangeiro 'Troyer', citrumeleiro 'Swingle', limoeiro 'Cravo', tangerineira 'Sunki' e trifoliata 'Flying Dragon', na Depressão Central do Rio Grande do Sul. Foram avaliados os seguintes parâmetros: a altura das plantas, a circunferência do tronco, a área de projeção da copa (APC, o número e a massa (MF de frutos produzidos, a relação MF/APC (IP, o teor de sólidos solúveis totais (SST, a acidez total titulável (ATT e a relação SST/ATT do suco, além do tamanho dos frutos e do rendimento de suco. O citrumeleiro 'Swingle' promoveu bom vigor, boa produção, bom IP, bons níveis de SST e de ATT da 'Michal', enquanto o limoeiro 'Cravo' conferiu bom vigor, boa produção, bom IP e bom tamanho dos frutos, ambos podendo ser indicados como porta-enxertos em pomares de tangerineira 'Michal'.'Michal' tangerine (Citrus clementina x C. tangerina can be a good choice as canopy for early maturing fruit production in Rio Grande do Sul. The limitation is the lack of information about its performance and management. The aim of this research was to evaluate the development, production and fruit quality of 'Michal' tangerine grafted on five rootstocks: 'Troyer' citrange, 'Swingle' citrumelo, 'Cravo' lemon, 'Sunki' tangerine and 'Flying Dragon' trifoliate orange, in the Depressão Central of Rio Grande do Sul. The following variables were evaluated: plant height; trunk circumference; canopy projection area (APC; produced fruit number and weight (MF; MF/APC relation (IP; juice total soluble solids

  2. Ferdinand Freudenstein

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    In this article the life and work of Ferdinand. Freudenstein is ... cated several generations of new engineers, researchers and ... In addition, since everything in our universe is moving .... son to join him in business, but Ferdinand had a desire to be a pure .... over the domestic management of the household, and became a.

  3. Apollo, Marsyas and Ferdinand I

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    Bažant, Jan

    2009-01-01

    Roč. 2007, č. 22 (2009), s. 127-136 ISSN 0567-8269 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90090514 Keywords : Apollo * Marsyas * Ferdinand I * Prague * Renaissance Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

  4. Der Dramatiker, Kulturhistoriker und Theaterkritiker Ferdinand Břetislav Mikovec / Ferdinand Mikowetz zwischen Deutschen und Tschechen

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    Petrbok, Václav

    2011-01-01

    Roč. 14, - (2011), s. 44-81 ISSN 1803-7518 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90560517 Keywords : drama * theatre * Mikovec, Ferdinand Břetislav * Czech culture * German culture * journalism Subject RIV: AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision

  5. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913).

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    Dinneen, Francis P.

    1990-01-01

    A discussion of the work of Ferdinand de Saussure focuses on the influence of Emile Durkheim, particularly his study of suicide; language as state or process; the influence of William Dwight Whitney; the goals of linguistics; the state of language; the linguistic sign; and linguistic value. (CB)

  6. Perseus as Alter Ego of Ferdinand I

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    Bažant, Jan

    2016-01-01

    Roč. 20, č. 1 (2016), s. 127-150 ISSN 1212-5865 Institutional support: RVO:67985955 Keywords : Ferdinand I * Perseus * And romeda * Renaissance art * relief sculpture * allegory Subject RIV: AB - History http://studiahercynia.ff.cuni.cz/en/magazin/2016-1-2/

  7. The Royal Summer Palace, Ferdinand I and Anne

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    Dobalová, Sylva

    2015-01-01

    Roč. 7, č. 2 (2015), s. 162-175 ISSN 1804-1132 Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : Anne of Jagiello * Prague Castle * Ferdinand I of Habsburg * olive tree * dynasticism Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

  8. Zum 215. Gebutstag von Admiral Ferdinand Baron von Wrangell : (29. Dezember 1797 - 25. 25. Mai 1870) / Peter Krienitz

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    Krienitz, Peter

    2012-01-01

    Admiral Ferdinand Baron von Wrangellist tema 215. sünniaastapäeva puhul. Silmapaistavast Kirde-Siberi uurijast. Tema poliitilisest tegevusest ja elust Roela mõisas. Ferdinand Baroni poolt seatud viisil tähistati jõulusid Roelas kuni 1944. aasta lõpuni.

  9. Erzherzog Ferdinand II., Astrologie und das Lustschloss Hvězda (Stern)

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    Purš, Ivo

    -, č. 14 (2014), s. 15-29 ISSN 1213-5372 Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : astrology * iconography * archduke Ferdinand of Tirol * Star (Hvězda) villa Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

  10. Die drei "Hofburgen" zur Zeit König Ferdinands I.: Vergleiche und Fragen

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    Muchka, Ivan

    -, č. 15 (2015), s. 146-158 ISSN 1213-5372 Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : Ferdinand I of Habsburg * Hofburg * renaissance * residential architecture Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

  11. Mälestused minu elust / Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann ; tõlk. Kalev Jaago

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    Wiedemann, Ferdinand Johann

    2000-01-01

    Järg Sep/21;23;26;28;30 Oct/3;5;7;10;12;14 Ferdinand Johann Wiedemanni (1805-1887) mälestuste saksakeelne algkäsikiri aastast 1878 asub Eesti Ajaloomuuseumis Otto Greifenhageni fondis nr. 65, säilik 6. Kommentaar: Kalev Jaago

  12. The Philosophy of Science of Ferdinand Braun

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    Pechenkin, Alexander

    2013-03-01

    Full Text Available The Nobel Prize winner Karl Ferdinand Braun has not left anyconsiderable writings on the philosophy of science. Nevertheless, hisphilosophical excursions help us to understand his creative work in physics and the philosophical positions of his disciples. Braun emphasized the fundamental position of the so-called “integral laws” to which the law of conservation of energy belongs. He was a consecutive empiricist and emphasized the relativity of physical schemes and models with respect to experimental devices. I n the style of some German physicists he proclaimed the oscillatory unification of the theory of electricity and optics.

  13. Letter from Thomas Moran to Ferdinand Hayden and Paintings by Thomas Moran

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    Potter, Lee Ann; Eder, Elizabeth K.; Hussey, Michael

    2012-01-01

    Medical doctor and geologist Dr. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden selected more than 30 scientists, technical personnel, and artists, including photographer William Henry Jackson and painter Thomas Moran, to join the survey of the Yellowstone region in northwest Wyoming territory. Thomas Moran was an accomplished artist when he joined the survey to…

  14. Resenha de: Recueil des travaux historiques de Ferdinand Lot

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    Eurípedes Simões de Paula

    1968-03-01

    Full Text Available RECUEIL DES TRAVAUX HISTORIQUES DE FERDINAND LOT. Tome premier. Coleção "Hautes Études Médievales et Modernes". Centre de Recherches d'Histoire et de Philologie de la IVe Section de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études. Prefácio de Ch. Samaran e biografia por I. Vildé-Lot e M. Mahn-Lot. Publicado com o concurso do Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Genebra, Librairie Droz e Paris, Librairie Minard. In-89, XVIII -I- 780 pp

  15. Ferdinand Břetislav Mikovec jako přispěvatel Die Grenzboten und Wiener Zeitung

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    Petrbok, Václav

    2015-01-01

    Roč. 26, č. 2 (2015), s. 78-88 ISSN 0862-5409 Institutional support: RVO:68378068 Keywords : Mikovec, Ferdinand Břetislav * theater * journalism * culture * cultural mediation Subject RIV: AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision

  16. Digging up the Past: Space, Time, and Memory in Josef Haslinger’s "Fiona und Ferdinand"

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    Anna Souchuk

    2015-08-01

    Full Text Available Josef Haslinger’s story "Fiona und Ferdinand" (2006 revolves around a disclosed secret in its narrator’s childhood hometown, which implicates two (deceased village elders in a decades-old rape and murder mystery long blamed on two anonymous “Russian soldiers.” The discovery of two partial skeletons locked in a bedroom trunk awakens the narrator’s memory: years before as a child, he unearthed the same skeletons after first spying a finger bone buried in a stream. The identification of the bones is central in determining the perpetrators of the rape/murder, but no one -- and in particular the narrator’s mother -- seems interested in hearing the testimony of the crime’s lone eyewitness, now an aged woman. Instead, the revelation evokes a collective effort to willfully impede any investigation into the truth, presumably as a means to maintain the town’s dual pretenses of order and respectability. "Fiona und Ferdinand" emphasizes Haslinger’s preoccupation with the Austrian failure to confront its own past, specifically via families as fundamental units of transmission and memory. In this analysis of the text, I explore Haslinger’s treatment of space, time, and memory in several ways. First, I examine how his notion of “officially sanctioned memory” intersects with a landscape that contains past and present alike. Second, I discuss how bodies, either the violated female body or the rotted skeletons Fiona and Ferdinand, are emblems that raise discussions of space, gender, and memory. Last, I consider collective memory and how it enables processes of forgetting. The reluctance to “dig up the past” is thematized in "Fiona und Ferdinand" using devices common throughout Haslinger’s oeuvre, and this paper will analyze the story through the lens of Haslinger-as-archaeologist, exploring how families, and the memories they possess, are both the key to truth and the foil to its revelation. 

  17. [Robert Schweitzer. Eine Unveröffentlichte Quelle zur Schulgeschichte von Reval Ferdinand Wiedemanns Geschichte des Revaler Gouvernementsgymnasiums aus dem Jahr 1856] / Paul Kaegbein

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    Kaegbein, Paul

    2008-01-01

    Arvustus: Robert Schweitzer. Eine Unveröffentlichte Quelle zur Schulgeschichte von Reval Ferdinand Wiedemanns Geschichte des Revaler Gouvernementsgymnasiums aus dem Jahr 1856. - Buch und Bildung im Baltikum. Münster : LIT, 2005. lk. 495-525. Kubermangugümnaasiumi vanemõpetaja Ferdinand Wiedemann kirjutas 1856. aastal kooli ajaloo, mis mingitel põhjustel jäi avaldamata. Tema tööd on kasutanud 1881. aastal Gotthard von Hansen

  18. Los conceptos de “comunidad” y “sociedad” de Ferdinand Tönnies

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    Daniel Álvaro

    2010-03-01

    Full Text Available El presente trabajo intenta ser el punto de partida para una profunda reconsideración de la tan mentada oposición entre los conceptos de “comunidad” y “sociedad” elaborados por Ferdinand Tönnies. En concreto, el trabajo está orientado a reflexionar sobre las múltiples y a veces contradictorias significaciones que estos conceptos asumen en la primera versión de su obra capital, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (1887, y en las sucesivas reelaboraciones de la misma.

  19. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 28 June 1914

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    Meryem

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available Sunday, June 28, 1914, the world will change in the days of a political murder was carried out. Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Sarajevo visit with his wife and both died as a result of an assassination. The Sarajevo assassination, referred in the history texts as “spark” of the First World War or “like a clap of thunder to Europe”. In Serbia, the secret organization “Black Hand” engaged in activities for the unity of Serbs; together with Gavrilo Princip and Nedjelko Cabrinovic, Trifko Grabez, Muhamed Mehmedbasic, Vaso Cubriloviç , Cvijetko Popoviç had a mystical trip to the assassination plot. The background of the assassination in Sarajevo, causes and consequences of the assassination will be discussed in this study.

  20. Ferdinand von Mueller's interactions with Charles Darwin and his response to Darwinism.

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    Lucas, A M

    2010-01-01

    Although Ferdinand Mueller (later von Mueller), Government Botanist of Victoria, opposed Darwin's theories when "On the origin of species" was published, there has been little detailed study of the nature of Mueller's opposition from 1860, when he received a presentation copy of "Origin," to his death in 1896. Analysis of Mueller's correspondence and publications shows that he remained a theist and misunderstood key aspects of Darwin's theory. However, Mueller did come to accept that natural selection could operate within a species, although never accepting it could produce speciation. Despite these differences he retained a cordial relationship with Darwin.

  1. Die Zitruskultur am Hofe Ferdinands I. und Anna Jagiellos. Import und Anbau von Südfrüchten in Prag 1526–1564

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    Dobalová, Sylva; Hausenblasová, J.

    -, č. 15 (2015), s. 9-36 ISSN 1213-5372 Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : Ferdinand I * Anna of Jagiello * orange fruit * renaissance gardens * trade * residence Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

  2. Wien unter Ferdinand I. 1521–1564. Über die Verflechtungen von Fürst, Stadt und Residenz aus kunsthistorischer Perspektive / Vienna under Ferdinand I, 1521-1564. Relations between the prince, the town and the residence from the perspective of art history

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    Renate Holzschuh-Hofer

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available Driven by his political ambition to obtain the imperial title following his brother Charles V as well as being under the Ottoman threat, Ferdinand I had advocated Vienna’s establishment as the residential capital since 1522. The architecture of his main residence, the Vienna Hofburg, acquired with his imperial guiding principle a corresponding iconic character.

  3. Feuereisen im Dienst politischer Propaganda von Burgund bis Habsburg. Zur Entwicklung der Symbolik des Ordens vom Goldenen Vlies von Herzog Philipp dem Guten bis Kaiser Ferdinand I.

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    Holzschuh-Hofer, Renate

    2010-08-01

    Full Text Available Since the reign of Philip the Good, the combination of fire-iron, flint and fire has been used in the Duchy of Burgundy for symbolic purposes. On the founding of his Order of the Golden Fleece in the year 1430, the Golden Ram was added to create the symbol of the Order. The article sheds light on the way this symbolism was utilised within the iconography of the Dukes Philip the Good and Charles the Bold as well as the Emperors Maximilian I. and Ferdinand I. The motivation approaching and analysing this question arose out of the substantially unrecognized elitist usage and scale of implementation of this imagery under Ferdinand I. which never has been a subject of intense research so far. Compared to his predecessors, Ferdinand I. used these symbols in all his art procurement with exceptional concentration, especially on his residential architecture, i.e. the Belvedere in Prague, Bratislava Castle, and the Hofburg in Vienna. This had an enduring effect also on the art of his successors.

  4. A Book as a Gift for Ferdinand I of Habsburg. An unknown Bohemical manuscript from the collections of the Austrian National Library in Vienna

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    Šárovcová, Martina

    2015-01-01

    Roč. 7, č. 2 (2015), s. 236-246 ISSN 1804-1132 Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : Fabián Puléř * Johannes Cavalerius * Ferdinand I of Habsburg * illuminated manuscripts * prayer books * Turkish threat Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

  5. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden and the founding of the Yellowstone National Park

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    1973-01-01

    Following the Civil War, the United States intensified the exploration of her western frontiers to gain a measure of the vast lands and natural resources in the region now occupied by our Rocky Mountain States. As part of this effort, the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories was formed and staffed under the leadership of geologist Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden. Originally organized under the U.S. Public Land Office in 1861, the Hayden Survey (as it was most often identified) was placed under the Secretary of the Interior in 1869 and later, under the newly created U.S. Geological Survey. Its records, maps, and photographs were then transferred to the latter agency. In commemorating the centennial of Yellowstone National Park, the U.S. Geological Survey drew upon those items deposited by Hayden to describe the early exploration of the Yellowstone area and to recount events that led to the establishment of Yellowstone as the Nation's first national park.

  6. 'The adventure': Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz's extraordinary stroke diary.

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    Bogousslavsky, J

    2010-01-01

    The famous Swiss writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz suffered a stroke at 65 years, which he called 'the adventure' or 'the accident'. He developed language disturbances suggesting crossed aphasia in a right hander with left hemiparesis. This uncommon pattern allowed him to continue to write his diary and to report his disturbances, with a unique depth and precision, especially for cognitive-emotional changes. Language and motor dysfunction recovered within a few weeks, but Ramuz complained of persisting emotional flattening alternating with irritability, fatigue, depression, anxiety, and concentration difficulty, which gave him the feeling to have become another person and to be inhabited by a stranger, whom he compared with devils. Ramuz fought several months to resume his literary activity, having the impression to have lost inspiration and creativity. However, the novels he wrote less than 6 months after stroke show no stylistic changes and have been found to be of the same quality as his previous production. Ramuz even 'used' his stroke experience in his work, in particular in a novel depicting an old man who has a stroke and dies of it. Ramuz's diary, with his own daily description of stroke features and consequences during acute and recovery phases, is a unique document in a writer of his importance, and provides invaluable information on subjective emotional and cognitive experience of stroke. Copyright (c) 2010 S. Karger AG, Basel.

  7. “A matéria e a tarefa da linguística” em Ferdinand de Saussure: da decodificação à tradução

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    Gilmar Martins de Freitas Fernandes

    2017-03-01

    Full Text Available Haja vista a notoriedade e relevância dos três Cursos de Linguística Geral (CLG ministrados por Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles Bally (1865-1947 e Albert Sechehaye (1870-1946 tomaram para si a difícil tarefa de tornar as ideias do linguista conhecidas por meio de um livro. A reconstituição que culminou no CLG apresenta uma interpretação das anotações dos alunos do curso e, também, de anotações pessoais de Saussure. Posteriormente à publicação do CLG, emergiu outra dificuldade: a de traduzir as ideias, conceitos e teorias do linguista em outras línguas. Neste artigo, portanto, objetiva-se analisar e discutir sobre a tradução do capítulo II do CLG, tendo em vista os desdobramentos que as traduções para as línguas inglesa e portuguesa podem ter sobre a compreensão e interpretação das teorias de Ferdinand de Saussure.

  8. The story of Ferdinand: De Nueva York a Salamanca

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    Roberto Martínez-Mateo

    2014-11-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar dos versiones en lengua española realizadas a partir del álbum ilustrado originalmente escrito en inglés The story of Ferdinand (1935 por Munro Leaf e ilustrado por Robert Lawson. La comparación de este tipo específico de narrativa se establece entre dos traducciones al castellano y sus ilustraciones cuya fecha de publicación dista más de 30 años y cuyo lugar de publicación está separado por el océano Atlántico Norte (una americana de 1962 y otra española de 1994. Este artículo presta especial atención a la relación multimodal que se establece entre el código semiótico visual y escrito de ambas versiones españolas de cara a dilucidar la distinta orientación ideológica que cada traducción asume al dirigirse a un público receptor, principalmente de carácter infantil. La obra fue escrita a las puertas del estallido de la Guerra Civil española, donde ya sabemos por la historia que la oleada de violencia había llegado a unos extremos de gran crudeza. Es interesante indagar en la actualidad que cobra en España este álbum ilustrado de origen americano al poco de publicarse con el estallido de la Guerra Civil española y, poco después, en el continente Europeo con la 2ª Guerra Mundial. Haciendo un uso metafórico de una fiesta tradicional española caracterizada también por su violencia y crueldad, la imaginería y la traducción de cada versión en castellano dan respuesta a unas motivaciones comunicativas (Moya y Pinar, 2007, p.22 que condicionan la recepción del texto en el lector y cultura meta. This paper aims to analyze two Spanish editions of the picture book The story of Ferdinand (1935 written by Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson. The comparison of this specific narrative type is made between two translations into Spanish and their illustrations whose release dates are more than 30 years apart and that were published on both shores of the North Atlantic Ocean (one

  9. Between Hobbes and Spinoza. Research on the Philosophical Matrix of Ferdinand Tönnies’ Sociological Categories

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    Furio Ferraresi

    2017-07-01

    Full Text Available This essay reconstructs the main lines of Ferdinand Tönnies’ (1855-1936 critical approach to the thought of Hobbes and Spinoza. Specifically it shows the role played by the two philosophers in developing the categories of community (Spinoza and society (Hobbes. From the stand point of political thought, the essay reveals how Tönnies’ on going interpretation of Hobbes focuses more and more on the constitutive moment of the modern form of State. In this area it draws on Spinoza’s reflections on democracy as an absolutum omnino imperium. Tönnies is thus able to distinguish conceptually between the Hobbesian State, as a “society” that absorbs all natural law, and its natural law origin (the «original assembly», where we find a “common” element that can never be entirely neutralized by the State.

  10. Ferdinand Buisson (1841-1932 educador e pacifista: as influências libertárias de James Guillaume e Paul Rodin

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    Martine Brunet

    2012-07-01

    Full Text Available  Ferdinand Buisson foi uma grande figura da Terceira República. Alto funcionário da instrução pública, professor de pedagogia na Sorbonne, deputado do partido radical e radical-socialista, recebeu o Prêmio Nobel da Paz em 1927. Suas atividades foram numerosas e imensas, tanto no âmbito religioso como político e pedagógico; ao longo de sua vida, esses três campos estiveram interpenetrados. Muito cedo ingressou na vida pública, e notabilizou-se pela tomada de posições radicais contra a guerra, participando dos primeiros congressos da Liga da Paz e da Liberdade, na Suíça. Desde a queda do Império, participou da vida política da municipalidade do 17° arrondissement de Paris, que tinha como adjunto do prefeito o anarquista Benoit Malon. Buisson entrou na Guarda Nacional, participou ativamente das iniciativas políticas e sociais da municipalidade. Foi co-fundador do jornal anarquista A República dos Trabalhadores, com Aristide Rey, os irmãos e Benoit Malon. Foi durante a guerra e o sítio em Paris que fundou um orfanato. Esse estabelecimento laico recebia subsídios da Internacional e ministrava uma educação integral. resultante das idéias anarquistas de Paul Robin. Após a derrota da Comnna, o orfanato foi transferido para Cempuis, na região do Oise. Em 1879, Ferdinand Buisson foi nomeado diretor do ensino primário, chamou a Paul Robin para dirigir o orfanato segundo os métodos da educação libertária. O estabelecimento e seu diretor são violentamente atacados pelos reacionários católicos. A experiência inovadora de Cempuis terminou em 1894.Palavras-chave: educação libertária, liberdade, pacifismo.   Résumé Ferdinand Buisson est une grande figure de la Troisieme République. Haut fonctionnaire de l'instruction publique, professeur de pédagogie à Ia Sorbonne, député du parti radical et radical-socialiste, il reçut en 1927 le prix Nobel de la Paix. Ses activités furent nombreuses et immenses, à Ia fois

  11. Diversidad y continuidad ¿Cómo enseñaba prácticas idiomáticas Ferdinand de Saussure?

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    Claudia Mejía Quijano

    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo presenta una reflexión general sobre los resultados de la investigación ''Práctica y teoría en Ferdinand de Saussure'', realizada en la Universidad de Antioquia. Después de explicar el objetivo, el material y el recorrido de la investigación, los resultados sobre las prácticas idiomáticas de Saussure como docente se relacionan con su teoría general del lenguaje. De esta manera, se demuestra un vínculo entre la teoría saussuriana y el saber práctico de Saussure con respecto a la enseñanza de la traducción y la lengua sánscrita.

  12. Adoption of Habsburg Portrait Models for Aristocratic Likenesses in the Czech Lands in the Reign of Ferdinand I

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    Blanka Kubíková

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available In the reign of Ferdinand I of Habsburg, important examples of portrait painting were done in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Though few examples of Renaissance portraiture of that period have survived, there are some noteworthy portraits dating from 1526–1564. The paper focuses on the reception of the so-called Habsburg portrait type in portrait painting in Bohemia and Moravia and examines the purpose for which the commissioners used it. Two specific approaches will be illustrated on the portrait cycle of Adam I of Hradec and his family, painted by Jacob Seisenegger and dated 1529, and portraits of William of Rosenberg, his brother and sisters, commissioned between 1552 and 1554. In both cases, the commissioners were persons of the highest rank in Bohemian aristocratic society

  13. Portrayal of negative qualities in a doctor as a potential teaching tool in medical ethics and humanism: Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine.

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    Wolf, G

    2006-02-01

    Fictional stories about physicians and patients are increasingly used as a powerful teaching resource for medical students. Very often, but not exclusively, stories of physicians as positive role models are selected to teach students virtues and ethical values. Negative role models are rarely used and if so, physicians are rather described as medical quacks in such fiction then exhibiting primarily a corrupted character. I suggest that a fictional story that presents exclusively a negative role model of a physician could also be a valuable, admittedly difficult, teaching resource to demonstrate the consequences of absolute loss of ethical standards and virtues in physicians. A not widely known example of this genre is Louis-Ferdinand Céline's (1894-1961) novel Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night), published in 1932. Having a strong autobiographical background, the novel described the adventures of the medicine student, Ferdinand Bardamu, during the first world war, in the African colonies as a trader, in the United States of America as factory worker, and later after finishing his education, as a doctor for the poor. Unfortunately, Dr Bardamu develops an unprofessional, even criminal behaviour, and may serve as a negative role model for the virtues of physicians. This article will familiarise the reader with the novel and its physician author.

  14. ["In Stockholm they apparently had some kind of countermovement" - Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875-1951) and the Nobel prize].

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    Hansson, Nils; Schagen, Udo

    2014-01-01

    The archive of the Nobel Assembly for Physiology or Medicine in Solna, Sweden, is a remarkable repository that contains reports and dossiers of the Nobel Prize nominations of senior and junior physicians from around the world. Although this archive has begun to be used more by scholars, it has been insufficiently examined by historians of surgery. No other German surgeon was nominated as often as Ferdinand Sauerbruch for the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in the first half of the 20th century. This contribution reconstructs why and by whom Sauerbruch was nominated, and discusses the Nobel committee evaluations of his work. Political factors did not play an obvious role in the Nobel committee discussions, in spite of the fact that Adolf Hitler in 1937 had prohibited all German citizens to accept the Nobel Prize. The main reasons why Sauerbruch ultimately was not considered prize- worthy were that Sauerbruch's achievements were marked by scientific priority disputes, and that his work was not seen as original enough.

  15. Ferdinand de Saussure e o Curso de Linguística Geral: questão de pontos de vista

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    Patrícia dos Santos

    2016-03-01

    Full Text Available No presente artigo, pretendemos apresentar algumas reflexões a partir de questionamentos elaborados por estudiosos e pesquisadores da área de Linguística sobre o Curso de Linguística Geral, de autoria atribuída a Ferdinand de Saussure. Os principais autores que norteiam e embasam o estudo são Bouquet (2009, Normand (2009, Arrivé (2010, Fiorin et al (2013 e Flores (2013. Para dar conta disso, evidenciamos possíveis articulações, a partir do ponto de vista desses estudiosos a respeito das questões saussurianas sobre a importância dos postulados do Curso de Linguística Geral para a Linguística Moderna. Assim, as reflexões se fazem em torno do quanto o Curso de Linguística Geral pode ser questionado/criticado e continuar significando a história da Linguística Moderna.

  16. Un regard oblique : « L’œil du sorcier » dans Une vie de boy de Ferdinand Oyono

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    Full Text Available Ce texte remet en question la lecture réaliste qui a généralement été faite d’Une vie de boy (1957, premier roman de la trilogie de Ferdinand Oyono. Partant d’une étude du regard, il vise à montrer que celui-ci détermine autant un contenu qu’il met l’accent sur une forme, une esthétique littéraire. En effet, dans le récit, si le regard renvoie à un instrument de pouvoir (celui qui oppose les colons et les colonisés et constitue un enjeu de subversion, il se traduit aussi par une écriture allusive, alliant la distance, l’ironie et l’insolite. Par son caractère indiciel, voire figural, cette « écriture du regard » dont témoigne le journal intime de Toundi en fait une sorte de « récit-forme », où l’espace du texte et le hors-texte (le social se convoquent mutuellement.

  17. Biochemical Pathways: An Atlas of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (edited by Gerhard Michal)

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    2000-02-01

    For decades, a wall chart detailing living organisms' metabolic pathways has been a fixture in many classrooms and laboratories where biochemistry is taught. One of the most popular of those charts first appeared 30 years ago. Now its editor, Gerhard Michal, has produced a book that summarizes metabolism (broadly defined) in graphical and textual formats. The book retains the elegance of the chart. Names of molecules are printed in a crisp, easy-to-read font, and structural formulas are shown with exemplary clarity. Color coding serves multiple purposes: to differentiate enzymes, substrates, cofactors, and effector molecules; to indicate in which group or groups of organisms a reaction has been observed; and to distinguish enzymatic reactions from regulatory effects. The primary advantage of presenting this information in book format is immediately apparent. A typical metabolic chart covers about 2 m2; the book has a total surface area nearly 10 times greater. The extra space is used to add explanatory text to the figures and to include many topics not covered by the traditional definition of metabolism. Examples include replication, transcription, translation, reaction mechanisms for proteolytic enzymes, and the role of chaperones in protein folding. Illustrating these topics is not as straightforward as delineating a metabolic pathway, but the author has done an admirable job of designing figures that clarify these and other aspects of biochemistry and complement the accompanying text. A potential deficiency of book format is the inability to clearly show links between different realms of metabolism: carbohydrate and amino acid pathways, for example. The book overcomes this problem in two ways. A diagrammatic overview of metabolism (with references to applicable sections of the book) is printed inside its front cover, and key compounds (pyruvate, for example) have a distinctive green background to provide a visual link between pathways. (The author compares this

  18. Un análisis paradigmático de los aportes de Ferdinand de Saussure y Noam Chomsky al campo de los estudios del lenguaje

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    Santos Caicedo Doris Adriana

    2005-06-01

    Full Text Available En este artículo se analizan, desde una perspectiva paradigmática de las ciencias, algunas de las contribuciones de dos de los más importantes lingüistas del siglo XX, Ferdinand de Saussure y Noam Chomsky. La tesis central que se sustenta aquí es que existe evidencia proveniente de estos aportes a favor de la consolidación de la Lingüística como una ciencia madura en el estudio de la estructura del lenguaje humano, y de una comunidad científica, cuyos orígenes dan cuenta de lo que podría llamarse la prehistoria de la lingüística. Se recurre, para este propósito, a una línea de argumentación centrada en algunos conceptos propuestos por Thomas Kuhn en su libro La Estructura de las Revoluciones Científicas.

  19. Ferdinand Buisson no Brasil: pistas, vestígios e sinais de suas idéias pedagógicas (1870-1900

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    2012-06-01

    Full Text Available  O presente estudo analisa a influência das idéias pedagógicas de Ferdinand Buisson no Brasil, nas três décadas finais do século 19, a partir da análise da produção de dois representantes da ilustração brasileira - Rui Barbosa (1849-1923 e Joaquim José Menezes Vieira (1848-1897. Busca pistas, sinais e vestígios de sua influência na tradução de Primary Object Lessons (leçons de choses de Norman Allison Calkins, por Rui Barbosa em 1881; na implantação do método intuitivo; na elaboração dos Pareceres de Reforma do Ensino Primário, Secundário, Superior e de várias instituições complementares, por Rui Barbosa (1882-1883; na realização de exposições pedagógica (1883 e escolares; na implantação do Pedagogium (1890-1919, museu pedagógico brasileiro segundo o modelo francês; na redação da Revista Pedag6gica (1890-1896, editada segundo a organização da Revue Pédagogique, por Menezes Vieira.Palavras-chave: história da educação, idéias pedagógicas, influência francesa.   Résume L'étude analyse I'influence des idées pédagogiques de Ferdinand Buisson au Brésil, pendant les trois dernieres décennies du 19eme siecle, à travers I'analyse de Ia production des deux représentants de l'illustration brésilienne - Rui Barbosa (1849-1923 et Joaquim José de Menezes Vieira (1848-1897. On cherchera des traces, signaux et vestiges de l'influence de Buisson dans Ia traduction, par Rui Barbosa, de l'oeuvre Primary Object Lessons (Leçon de choses, de Norman Allison Calkins, en 1881; dans l'élaboration des Pareceres de Reforma do Ensino Primário, Secundário, Superior e de Várias Instituições Complementares (Exposé sur Ia Réforme de I'Enseignement primaire, secondaire, supérieur et d'autres institutions complémentaires par Rui Barbosa (1882-1883; dans promotion de Ia méthode intuitive; dans Ia réalisation d'expositions pédagogiques (1883 et scolaires; dans I'implantation du musée pédagogique Pedagogium

  20. The Need for a Revised Joint Personnel Accounting Doctrine

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    recoveries to field operations for the 11 David R. Graham, Ashley N. Bybee , Susan L. Clark-Sestak, and...Naval War College, 2009), XI-43. 16 David R. Graham, Ashley N. Bybee , Susan L. Clark-Sestak, and Michal S. Finnin, Assessment of DOD Central...Division, 8 June 2005. Graham, David R., Ashley N. Bybee , Susan L. Clark-Sestak, and Michal S. Finnin. Assessment of DOD Central

  1. Un análisis paradigmático de los aportes de F. de Saussure y N. Chomsky al campo de los estudios del lenguaje A paradigmatic analysis of Ferdinand de Saussure’s and Noam Chomsky’s contribution to the field of language studies

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    2005-06-01

    Full Text Available En este artículo se analizan, desde una perspectiva paradigmática de las ciencias, algunas de las contribuciones de dos de los más importantes lingüistas del siglo XX, Ferdinand de Saussure y Noam Chomsky. La tesis central que se sustenta aquí es que existe evidencia proveniente de estos aportes a favor de la consolidación de la Lingüística como una ciencia madura en el estudio de la estructura del lenguaje humano, y de una comunidad científica, cuyos orígenes dan cuenta de lo que podría llamarse la prehistoria de la lingüística. Se recurre, para este propósito, a una línea de argumentación centrada en algunos conceptos propuestos por Thomas Kuhn en su libro La Estructura de las Revoluciones Científicas.The author of the article analyzes some contributions of two of the most prominent linguists of the 20th century, Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky, from a paradigmatic viewpoint of science. The main statement supported here is the evidence, yielded by these contributions, which confirms that linguistics is a mature science in the study of the structure of human language, and also, that there existed a scientific community whose origins account for what could be called the prehistory of linguistics. The author employs for this purpose an argumentative chain which is focused on some core concepts as proposed by Thomas Kuhn in his book La Estructura de las Revoluciones Científicas.

  2. Бароны Врангели / Алла Беленкова

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    Беленкова, Алла

    2009-01-01

    Baltisaksa päritolu vene meresõitjast ja polaaruurijast Ferdinand von Wrangelist ning tema pojast Ferdinand Georg Friedrich von Wrangelist, Keiserliku Aleksandri Lütseumi õppejõust, hilisemast direktorist. Ka Ferdinand von Wrangeli vanema poja Wilhelm von Wrangeli, Roela mõisaomaniku järeltulijatest

  3. La productivité des ratures dans le travail de Ferdinand de Saussure

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    Silveira Eliane

    2012-07-01

    Full Text Available Ce travail est centré surtout sur une analyse des manuscrits de Ferdinand de Saussure : Première Conférence à l’Université (cours d’ouverture qui contient 30 feuilles, localisées et cédées par Mme. Marie de Saussure et organisées, classées et archivées à la Bibliothèque Publique de Genève, par Robert Godel. Cette première conférence, objet de notre intérêt, fait partie d’un ensemble plus important de manuscrits qui ont servi ce notes préparatoires pour les trois premières conférences de Saussure à Genève et marque son retour à la terre natale. Notre analyse se concentre sur les moments d’interruption du lisible provoqués par des hésitations de Saussure lors de l’écriture de son texte et a mis l’enjeu sur la productivité de telles hésitations. Outre cela, cette première conférence mérite notre attention par la façon dont Saussure a cherché à y construire un discours à propos de la linguistique et du rôle du linguiste à partir de la nature de son objet, qui ne lui paraît pas, non plus, éclairée. Notre analyse nous a permis de différencier trois groupes de ratures à partir des thèmes délimités par eux-mêmes. Le thème du premier groupe semble être cher à Saussure: la place des études du langage dans le cadre des sciences humaines ; le thème du deuxième groupe est très cher à linguistique, elle-même : la nature de son objet; dans le troisième groupe on a les questions qui concernent le général et le particulier dans l’approche de l’objet de la linguistique et finalement, on a ce qui semble être demeuré à l’ombre d’une élaboration dans ce manuscrit : la parole. L’analyse de ces trois groupes de ratures, qui gravitent autour de certains thèmes, nous a permis de pointer des moments de tension et/ou d’hésitation lors de l’élaboration des concepts qui devraient encore être définis, plus spécifiquement. Ce qui se présente, c’est la nécessité de définir ce

  4. Polish visit

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    On 6 October, Professor Michal Kleiber, Polish Minister of Science and Chairman of the State Committee for Scientific Research, visited CERN and met both the current and designated Director General, Luciano Maiani and Robert Aymar. Professor Kleiber visited the CMS and ATLAS detector assembly halls, the underground cavern for ATLAS, and the LHC superconducting magnet string test hall. Michal Kleiber (left), Polish minister of science and Jan Krolikowski, scientist at Warsaw University and working for CMS, who shows the prototypes of the Muon Trigger board of CMS.

  5. 3'-5' RNA degradation pathways in human cells

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    RNA synthesis and degradation are key steps in the regulation of gene expression in all living organisms. During the course of his PhD studies, Michal Lubas centred his research on the nuclear and cytoplasmic RNA turnover of both noncoding and coding RNAs in human cells. His proteomic studies...... revealed the interaction network of the main 3'-5' RNA degradation machinery – the RNA exosome complex. One of the key findings was the identification and characterisation of the Nuclear Exosome Targeting (NEXT) complex, important for nuclear functions of the exosome. Michal Lubas also studied the role...

  6. The Role of Rhetorical Theory in Military Intelligence Analysis: A Soldier’s Guide to Rhetorical Theory

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    2003-04-01

    the course of day-to-day activities; and in 1994, according to Ferdinand Saussure , “the very ones who use it daily are [often] ignorant of it...the Discourse on Lan­ guage, 45. 25. Ibid., 5. 26. Foss, Foss, and Trapp, 12. 27. Ferdinand de Saussure , “Nature of the Linguistic Sign,” in... Saussure , Ferdinand de. “Nature of the Linguistic Sign.” In Pro­ fessing the New Rhetorics: A Sourcebook. Edited by Theresa Enos and Stuart Brown. Boston

  7. Esietendused

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    Hendrik Toompere jun. lavastatud Boguslaw Schaefferi "SiinSeal" Eesti Draamateatri väikeses saalis. Nukuteatri ovaalsaalis Ferdinand Veike kava "Ferdinand Veike ja Lilleprintsess". Rakvere Teatris prantsuse näitekirjaniku Eric-Emmanuel Schmitti "Kahe maailma hotell". Vanalinnastuudios Trevor Griffithsi komöödia "Koomikud"

  8. Analytic Culture in the U.S. Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study

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    2005-01-01

    Cultures; Jacques Lacan, Ecrits; Ferdinand de Saussure , Course in General Linguistics. 97 CHAPTER EIGHT is the process of learning the ropes; training...American Journal of Sociology 48 (1943): 593–602. Saussure , Ferdinand. Course in General Linguistics. Translated by W. Baskin. New York: McGraw

  9. Le conseil féminin dans les chroniques du règne de Ferdinand III

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    Estelle MAINTIER-VERMOREL

    2011-11-01

    Full Text Available Dans le cadre d’une réflexion sur le conseil et les conseillers du roi, comment ne pas s’interroger sur le conseil féminin et les conseillères. En effet ce conseil existe bel et bien, et c’est ce que l’on s’attachera à prouver à la lumière de la lecture des chroniques de Luc de Tuy, Rodrigue de Tolède et Jean d’Osma, rédigées sous le règne de Ferdinand III. Le conseil féminin est bien présent, sous divers aspects, que ce soit celui d’une mère à son fils ou d’une femme à son époux ; ses domaines d’application sont étonnamment vastes, allant jusqu’à s’étendre aux affaires du royaume et au champ militaire. Toutefois, ces constatations ne doivent pas faire oublier les limites de ce conseil, qui est bien souvent un substitut à l’action et dont la légitimité reste contestée. Seules les reines réunissant certaines conditions, certaines vertus, peuvent prétendre au titre de conseillères, et encore y a-t-il un prix à payer pour que leurs conseils soient entendus, et ce prix est celui du dévouement à l’homme, dans l’oubli de leurs intérêts personnels.En el marco de una reflexión sobre el consejo y los consejeros del rey, cómo no interrogarse sobre el consejo femenino y las consejeras. Pues este consejo existe de verdad, y eso es lo que trataremos de mostrar a la luz de la lectura de las crónicas de Lucas de Túy, Rodrigo de Toledo y Juan de Osma, redactadas bajo el reinado de Fernando III. El consejo femenino está muy presente, bajo varios aspectos, con el consejo de una madre a su hijo, o el de una mujer a su esposo ; sus dominios de aplicación resultan sorprendentemente amplios y cubren hasta los asuntos del reino y el campo militar. Sin embargo, estas constataciones no deben hacer olvidar los límites de este consejo que sigue siendo a menudo un sustituto para la acción, y cuya legitimidad sigue discutida. Sólo las reinas capaces de reunir ciertas condiciones, ciertas virtudes

  10. Masky touhy: úvaha ajvazovská

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    2012-01-01

    Roč. 60, č. 4 (2012), s. 517-542 ISSN 0009-0468 Institutional support: RVO:68378068 Keywords : Czech literature * Ajvaz, Michal * interpretation * void Subject RIV: AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision

  11. Inimsuhete kujutamisest uuemas heebrea kirjanduses / Kalle Kasemaa

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    Artiklis on käsitletud järgmisi autoreid: Amos Oz, Abraham B. Jehoshua, Sami Michael, Dorit Rabinjan, Shifra Horn, Ronit Matalon, Judit Katzir, Tsruja Shalev, Klil Zisapel, Benjamin Tammuz, Michal Shalev, Edna Mazja

  12. Investor Laaril esimene miljon teenitud / Kertu Ruus, Raivo Sormunen

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    Mart Laar, Imre Sooäär ja Kristen Michal oma aktsiaportfellist ja investeerimisstrateegiast. Edetabel: Riigikogus kolm miljonärist väikeinvestorit. Tabel: Ekspeaminister Laar on investeerinud erinevatesse piirkondadesse. Kommenteerivad Peeter Luikmel ja Pertti Rahnel

  13. Three European ministers visit CERN

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    There have been three ministerial visits to CERN this month. Gediminas Kirkilas, Prime Minister of Lithuania, and Robert Aymar, CERN’s Director-General.On 2 July, the Prime Minister of Lithuania, Gediminas Kirkilas, was welcomed by CERN’s Director-General, Robert Aymar, before being taken on a visit of the ATLAS cavern at Point 2 and the LHC tunnel. Michal Sewerynski, Poland’s Minister for Science and Higher Education, and Robert Aymar, CERN’s Director-General.Ten days later, Poland’s Minister for Science and Higher Education, Michal Sewerynski, visited the CMS cavern and assembly hall and the LHC tunnel. He was also given a tour of the LHC Computer Centre and the CERN Control Centre. His visit was rounded off with a presentation of Polish companies involved in CERN’s activities, followed by a meeting with Polish personnel working at CERN. J�...

  14. Searching for a Different Understanding of Operational Art

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    real world military scenario. The concept of structuralism began with Ferdinand de Saussure , a Swiss linguist, who examined language as a critical...an object with a word provides a defined meaning to that object. In explaining this relationship between an object and a word, Saussure coined two...New York: Pantheon, 1978). 12 Ferdinand de Saussure , Course in General Linguistics, trans. Wade Baskin (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011), 65-78. 7

  15. Bolest, před níž neunikneš do hloubky ani do dálky: O smrti otce a synovském vztahu v nové české próze

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    Přibáňová, Alena

    2011-01-01

    Roč. 27, č. 5 (2011), s. 24-28 ISSN 1211-9938 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90560517 Keywords : Czech literature * Hakl, Emil * Balabán, Jan * Matoušek, Ivan * Viewegh, Michal Subject RIV: AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision

  16. Reduction of CO2 emissions from road transport in cities impact of dynamic route guidance system on greenhouse gas emission

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    2017-01-01

    Michal Markiewicz presents the outcomes of his research regarding the influence of dynamic route guidance system on overall emission of carbon dioxide from road transport in rural areas. Sustainable transportation in smart cities is a big challenge of our time, but before electric vehicles replace vehicles that burn fossil fuels we have to think about traffic optimization methods that reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions. Contents Comparison of Travel Time Measurements Using Floating Car Data and Intelligent Infrastructure Integration of Cellular Automata Traffic Simulator with CO2 Emission Model Impact of Dynamic Route Guidance System on CO2 Emission Naxos Vehicular Traffic Simulator Target Groups Lecturers and students of computer science, transportation and logistics Traffic engineers The Author Dr. Michal Markiewicz defended his PhD thesis in computer science at the University of Bremen,TZI Technologie-Zentrum Informatik und Informationstechnik, Germany. Currently, he is working on commercializat...

  17. A Study of Soviet Use of Field Artillery Weapons in a Direct Fire Role.

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    1986-06-06

    direct result of the introduction of powerful new weapons fielded by the Germans beginning at the Battle of Kursk (the 60 ton Tiger tank and 70 ton...unit in the Orel-Kursk sector in July of 1943. Intelligence reported the movement of a German unit of twenty Tiger tanks and four Ferdinand self...and Tiger tanks and Ferdinand heavy self-propelled guns. When the engagement was over the Soviet artillery had destroyed forty-five of the German

  18. William Shakespeare byl barovým pianistou : Věcná poezie Michala Šandy

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    2008-01-01

    Roč. 19, č. 5 (2008), s. 8-9 ISSN 0862-657X R&D Projects: GA ČR GD405/05/H526 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90560517 Keywords : Czech Poetry * Šanda, Michal Subject RIV: AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision

  19. USA muusikakriitikud järjestasid aasta 2004 heliplaadid

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    New Yorgi kultuuriajakiri Village Voice avaldas muusikaküsitluse Pazz & Jop Poll tulemused: 1. Kanye West "The College Dropout", 2. Brian Wilson "SmiLE", 3. Loretta Lynn "Van Lear Rose", 4. Franz Ferdinand "Franz Ferdinand", 5. Green Day "American Idiot". Aasta parimaks singliks valiti Franz Ferdinandi "Take Me Out", järgnesid Jay-Z "99 Problems" ja Usheri "Yeah". Kanye Westile ka Grammy aasta parima räpp-albumi eest ja Franz Ferdinandile kui parimale briti rockbändile Britside-Suurbritannia muusikaauhind

  20. Surveillance and Liberty in Céline's New York, the City That Doesn't Sleep (Around)

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    2005-01-01

    This essay focuses on Ferdinand Bardamu's account of his stay in New York City in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's bleak bildungsroman, Journey to the End of the Night (1932). In it I explore the rather surprising absence of reference to the Statue of Liberty in a text narrated by a French immigrant of sorts who spends weeks on Ellis Island and who immediately personifies the city as an androgynous, steely, and indeed statue-like woman. Applying to the text Foucault's theories on the disciplinary nat...

  1. Jitka Folwarczna

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    Transient expression of Human papillomavirus type 16 L2 epitope fused to N- and C-terminus of coat protein of Potato virus X in plants · Noemi Cerovska Hana Hoffmeisterova Tomas Moravec Helena Plchova Jitka Folwarczna Helena Synkova Helena Ryslava Viera Ludvikova Michal Smahel · More Details Abstract Fulltext ...

  2. Transport Traffic Analysis for Abusive Infrastructure Characterization

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    2012-12-14

    comparison between our fetching engine and a default Firefox 10.0 web browser with JavaScript enabled. We analyze URL and content of the final page in the...characteristics. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev., 38(4):171–182, 2008. [29] Michal Zalewski. Passive OS fingerprinting tool, 2003. http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx

  3. Postmodern Chapel Services for Generation X and Millennial Generation Soldiers

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    2008-06-13

    lives, joys, and sorrows of six Generation X friends living in Manhattan, had gone into syndication five years earlier in 2000. This provided a...Michale Kinsley, a New Republic columnist and later editor in chief for Slate.com, complained about Xers, “these kids today. They’re soft. They don’t

  4. České barokní korunovace

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    2006-01-01

    The Bohemian coronations in the baroque period certainly ranked among the most significant politi cal events in the entire Habsburg monarchy in the 17th and 18th centuries. In my study, I tried to compare the coronations of Ferdinand III. (1627), of his two sons Ferdinand IV. (1646) and Leopold I. (1656) and of Leopolďs son Charles Vl. (1723). I discussed four spheres, in which we can see these events. The first one was the political sphere: after the battle on the White Mountain, Bohemia bec...

  5. Areeni aasta albumid 2004

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    2004-01-01

    Heliplaatidest: Franz Ferdinand "Franz Ferdinand", Toe Tag "Legendaarne", The Libertines "The Libertines ", Morrissey "You Are The Qarry", The Streets "A Grand Don't Come For Free", Kalm "Generalissimus Kalm", Brian Wilson "Smile", Madvillain "Madvillainy", Scissor Sisters "Scissor Sisters", Gary Wilson "Mary Had A Brown Hair", Animal Collective "Sung Tongs", Keane "Hopes And Fears", Todd Rundgren "Liars", Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus", Mylo "Destroy Rock'n'Roll", Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing In The Hands", Stefani "Love Angel Music Baby", Björk "Medulla", Moodymann "Black Mahogani"

  6. An Alternative Macro-economic Model for the Classroom

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    1976-01-01

    Presents Michal Kalecki's macro-economic model and two-sector version of the model by Robinson and Eatwell as circular flow diagrams. Advantages of using this approach in first-year undergraduate economics programs are discussed. Available from: General Secretary, Economics Association, Room 340, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9BH,…

  7. Rahvuspaviljon kui lakmuspaber / Reet Varblane

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    2003-01-01

    50. Veneetsia biennaal "Unistused ja konfliktid". Kuraator Francesco Bonami. Võrdlus 49. Veneetsia biennaaliga. Šveitsi paviljonis näidatud Emanuelle Antille'i filmist "Angels Camp", iisraeli kunstniku Michal Rovneri ja Luksemburgi esindava Su-Mei Tse (rahvusväljapaneku preemia) ruumist, Eesti väljapanekust "Marko und Kaido" - Marko Mäetamm ja Kaido Ole

  8. An Analysis of the Morality of Intention in Nuclear Deterrence, with Special Reference to Final Retaliation

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    1990-01-01

    conditions taken together stress the relative value to the agent of the two intentions. 3.3 Nonfulfillment of the Evil Intention The third condition...caant coditionally isnted to do what one is cumin one will now have occeaj o So me.’ Dasard William (p. 107) offm-aad Michal Doummo (p M2) atua-a

  9. Remarks to Dr. Paul E. Tomaszewski’s comments on the research of Jan Czochralski’s curriculum vitae (a reply (in Polish

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    Michał KOKOWSKI

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available The author replies to the text entitled “Remarks to the comment by Prof.  Michal Kokowski on the research of Jan Czochralski’s biography” by Dr. Paweł E. Tomaszewski (2015, highlighting the key contentious issues, including the need to rely systematically on historical sources and the criticism thereof.

  10. 2278-IJBCS-Article-Nanfack Minkeu Ferdinand

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    Available online at http://ajol.info/index.php/ijbcs. Int. J. Biol. Chem. Sci. 9(3): 1630-1643, ..... (Ferrer, 2003; Pimentel, 2005; Meeker et al.,. 2008; Zeinab et ..... Collado A, Stevenson J, Scaife S,. Dafa'alla T, Fu G, .... Kisinza W, David J-P. 2014.

  11. 2467-IJBCS-Article-Youzan Ferdinand Djohan

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    2Laboratoire de Biotechnologies et d'Amélioration Animale, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques,. Université ... pour fabriquer des médicaments traditionnels améliorés grâce aux ..... extraits protéiques issus de la pulpe du fruit de Momordica ...

  14. FERDINAND VON ARLT AND ERNST FUCHS*

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    were chosen, teachers who inspired the students not only through their teaching, but ... child, of the poor food and the severe cold he suffered during the winter months. .... Extracts from his travel diaries have been published by. ·his on. He was ...

  15. 2278-IJBCS-Article-Nanfack Minkeu Ferdinand

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  16. This is not a bomb / Triin Männik

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    Moskva I rahvusvaheline kaasaja kunsti biennaali lisaprogrammist. Erikülalistena esinesid Christian Boltanski, Bill Viola, Michal Rovner, Ilja Kabakov. Informbüroo projektist, Andrei Jerofejevi kureeritud "Kaasosaliste" ülevaatenäitusest Tretjakovi galeriis, näitusest "Invasioon" ja Robert Mapplethorpe'i fotode väljapanekust Moskva fotograafiakeskuses, näitustest "Post-diasporaa : rännakud ja missioonid" (kuraator Olga Kopenkina) ja "Sooprobleemid" Moskva moodsa kunsti muuseumis

  17. Cubiertas de madera de las iglesias fernandinas de Córdoba

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    2007-09-01

    Full Text Available After Cordoba´s reconquest by king Saint Ferdinand in 1236, Cordoba town was urbanized into fourteen districts, or parishes. Social, administrative and religious center of these districts was situated in fourteen churchs. These buildings are named ferdinand churchs’, because they were constructed by king Saint Ferdinand. A similar architectural pattern was followed in construction of these churchs. This pattern is characterized by reiteration of fixed arquitectural elements, like roof structure made of timber, in central and lateral church-bodies. Roof timber structure used in lateral church-bodies was tilted frame, while triangular truss with butress and anchor was used in central church-body. Some of these churchs have been destroyed or greatly transformed. However, in survivor ferdinand churchs’ is posible to study the roof timber structure, a singular cover system that was originated by union of medieval constructive and mussulman ornamental technics. The aim of this article is to describe the roof timber structure of cordovan ferdinand churchs’ as well as to research into their origin.Tras la reconquista de Córdoba por San Fernando, en 1236, la ciudad se reorganizó en base a catorce barrios o parroquias, cuyo centro social, administrativo y religioso correspondía a sendas iglesias. Por esta razón estos templos se conocen con el nombre de iglesias fernandinas. Todas ellas se construyeron siguiendo un mismo patrón arquitectónico, en el que se repiten con pocas diferencias una serie de elementos constructivos, entre los que destacan el sistema de cubiertas con madera de las naves central y laterales. Así, mientras que para las laterales se utilizaron forjados inclinados o colgadizos, la central se cubrió con una armadura de par y nudillo, formada por la unión de cerchas paralelas unidas por estribos y tirantes. A pesar de que algunas de estas iglesias han desaparecido y otras han sufrido grandes transformaciones, en

  18. Kalevipoeg - ein Interview mit Prof. Dr. Peter Petersen / Peter Petersen ; interv. Laine Paavo

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    Kalevipoja uuest saksakeelsest väljaandest: Kalevipoeg : das estnische Nationalepos / in der Übersetzung von Ferdinand Löwe ; herausgegeben von Peter Petersen Ilm. andmed Stuttgart ; Berlin : Mayer, 2004.

  19. Middendorffi õhtud : Peterburi haritlaskonna seltskonnaelust XIX sajandi teisel poolel / Ada Ambus

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    Hermann Daltoni ja Ferdinand Johann Wiedemanni mälestused valitud teadlasteringi kooskäimistest Petreburis, baltisaksa geograafi Alexander Theodor von Middendorffi juures. Sisaldab ka kooskäinud isikute nimekirja

  20. Conflict and Compromise in the Southern Philippines: The Case of Moro Identity

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    1998-01-01

    .... Rather, it is the result of an historical politicization of Moro identity that, when combined with the centralization processes of President Ferdinand Marcos, ignited a guerilla war that prevented...

  1. Concepts of “Aesthetics of Arts” in Slovak Aesthetics of the 19th Century and Kant’s Conception of “Harmonization”

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    2015-11-01

    Full Text Available The paper analyses three concepts of aesthetics of arts in Slovak aesthetics in the first third of the 19th century based on the ideas of three Slovak authors (Michal Greguš, Andrej Vandrák and Karol Kuzmány who all shared creative reading of Kant and transformation of the process of “harmonization” as a foundation of defining possible aesthetic potentiality of art.

  2. Úvod do neparametrických metod

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    2012-01-01

    Title: Introduction to Nonparametric Methods Author: Natália Prelecová Department: Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Michal Kulich,Ph.D., Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to introduce basic nonparametric methods. Nonparametric methods embrace a large class of statistical procedures which do not assume specific data distribution such as normal distribution. They often re- present the only availab...

  3. [Christian Westerhoff. Zwangsarbeit im Ersten Weltkrieg. Deutsche Arbeitskräftepolitik im besetzten Polen und Litauen 1914-1918, Tilman Plath.Zwischen Schonung und Menschenjagden. Die Arbeitseinsatzpolitik in den baltischen Generalbezirken des Reich

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    Arvustus: Westerhoff, Christian. Zwangsarbeit im Ersten Weltkrieg. Deutsche Arbeitskräftepolitik im besetzten Polen und Litauen 1914-1918 (Studien zur historischen Migrationsforschung, 25). Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh. Padeborn 2011

  4. Malý zámeček s šesti cípy do tvaru hvězdy. Rozhovor se Sylvou Dobalovou, Blankou Kubíkovou a Ivanem P. Muchkou nejen o neobvyklém půdorysu letohrádku Hvězda, ale také o jeho výzdobě a poslání

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    2017-01-01

    Roč. 39, č. 7 (2017), s. 23-25 ISSN 0418-5129 Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol * summer palace * Prague Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

  5. Kuu plaat : Lauri Saatpalu ja Katrin Mandel "Sa oled hea". Plaadid kauplusest Lasering

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    Heliplaatidest: Lauri Saatpalu ja Katrin Mandel "Sa oled hea", Goldfrapp "Supernature", Ultima Thule "Ingel ja suli", Sigur Ros "Takk...", Franz Ferdinand "You Could Have It So Much Better", Ans.Andur "Tuled peale"

  6. Drahocenné objekty ze zlata, handštajny či slonovina. Ke kunstkomoře Ferdinanda Tyrolského

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    2017-01-01

    Roč. 39, č. 7 (2017), s. 20-22 ISSN 0418-5129 Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol * kunstkammer * 16th century Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

  7. Operational Design: Distilling Clarity from Complexity for Decisive Action

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    de Hartog, Genghis Khan, 86–98. 3. Greene , 33 Strategies of War, 181. 4. US Army, Army Strategic Planning Guidance, 14–15. 5. Thayer, War without...the Course of World His- tory. New York: Universe Publishing, 2011. Greene , Robert. The 33 Strategies of War. New York: Penguin, 2007. Harari, Michal...Piaget, Jean, and Bärbel Inhelder. Memory and Intelligence. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. Pike, Douglas. The Viet-Cong Strategy of Terror

  8. Comparison of three screening tests for autism in preterm children with birth weights less than 1,500 grams

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    Iva Dudova,1 Daniela Markova,2 Martina Kasparova,3 Jana Zemankova,4 Stepanka Beranova,1 Tomas Urbanek,5 Michal Hrdlicka1 1Department of Child Psychiatry, Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic; 2Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Charles University First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; 3Department of Pediatrics, Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine and Un...

  9. Der Umgang mit den beschlagnahmten Kunstwerken aus Schlössern des ehemaligen Herrscherhauses Habsburg-Lothringen. Ein Dilemma für die junge Tschechoslowakische Republik nach 1918

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    Uhlíková, Kristina

    2016-01-01

    Roč. 70, 1/2 (2016), s. 232-245 ISSN 0029-9626 Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : Archduke Franz Ferdinand d´Este * history of monument preservation * castles Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

  10. Domácí násilí z pohledu týraných žen a z pohledu personálu o ně pečujícího

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    2010-01-01

    - 66 - ANNOTATION Author: Lucie Michalčíková Institution: Department of Social Medicine LF UK in Hradec Králové Nursing Department Title: Domestic violence from point of womens and nurses Leading tutor: PhDr. Mariana Bažantová Page count: 78 stran Attachments: 6 p íloh Year of defence: 2010 Keywords Violence, family, forms of violence, violence in family, pathological behaviour, partnership, intervention, syndrome of learned powerlessness, learned powerlessness, society, law. Anotation Bachel...

  11. L’orrore della colpa nell’ultimo Grossman

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    The recognition of the sins of the survivors of totalitarian regimes has great importance for the victims in Vasily Grossman’s last works. This paper analyzes how this issue turns out to be central in the artistic delineation of some of the most remarkable characters in Grossman’s works, from the half-mad Ikonnikov in Life and Fate to the cook Anna Sergeevna Michalëva, who, in Everything Flows, tells the story of the Holodomor.

  12. L’orrore della colpa nell’ultimo Grossman

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    2014-02-01

    Full Text Available The recognition of the sins of the survivors of totalitarian regimes has great importance for the victims in Vasily Grossman’s last works. This paper analyzes how this issue turns out to be central in the artistic delineation of some of the most remarkable characters in Grossman’s works, from the half-mad Ikonnikov in Life and Fate to the cook Anna Sergeevna Michalëva, who, in Everything Flows, tells the story of the Holodomor.

  13. Some children with autism have latent social skills that can be tested

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    Hrdlicka, Michal; Urbanek, Tomas; Vacova, Maria; Beranova, Stepanka; Dudova, Iva

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    Michal Hrdlicka,1 Tomas Urbanek,2 Maria Vacova,1 Stepanka Beranova,1 Iva Dudova1 1Department of Child Psychiatry, Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, Prague, 2Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Background: The idea of latent social skills in autism emerged as a possible interpretation of the rapid (but temporary) improvement of autistic subjects in oxytocin studies. We tested a hypothesis that a normal response to Item...

  14. Art education, Creativity and Society

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    2012-01-01

    Title: Art education, Creativity and Society Author: Michal Filip Department: Department of Art Education Supervisor: doc. PaedDr. Pavel Šamšula, CSc. Abstract: The dissertation addresses the issue of creativity in art education. The theoretical part of the work first explains the general foundation of the social context, which plays a key role in education focused on the development of creativity. The author outlines the historical roots of the relationship between art education and creativi...

  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss -60 ...

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    was born into the family of Gebhard Dietrich Gauss, a bricklayer at the German town of ... Duke Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick to demonstrate .... the asteroid Ceres. For about ... impossibility of making constant scale maps of the Earth.

  16. Plaadid / Sergo Selder

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    Uutest heliplaatidest Ans. Andur "Tuled peale", Franz Ferdinand "You Could HAve It So Mush Better", The Rolling Stones "A Bigger Bang", Bill Frisell "East/West", Sheryl Crow "Wildflower", Fun Lovin' Criminals "Livin' In The City", Sentenced "The Funeral Album"

  17. "Avatud värav - Open Gate" : das Kinder-, Jugend- Schutz- und Ausbilduingshaus Kiekel/Kiikla / Luts Dettmann

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    Väikesest Kiikla mõisast Ida-Virumaal, kus mõisniku külaliseks oli sageli ka Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819). 2000. aastal alustati seal projektiga "Avatud värav". Selle raames tegutseb Kiiklas alates 2008. aastast lastekodu

  18. Catalytic Reaction Sets: A First-Principle Approach to the Evolution of Communication

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    2005-07-06

    of a quote by Ferdinand de Saussure may be 2 L. I. Perlovsky, Neural Networks and...appearance of language”, in de Saussure , F. 1966. Course in General Linguistics. Translated by Wade Baskin. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 4 H

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    world has seen tremendous advances in wireless transmission ... ence won him the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year] 909. He shared the Nobel Prize with Karl. Ferdinand ... George C Verghese in Resonance (Vol.3, No.2) mentions the fact ...

  20. The Use of Hungarian and Serbian in the City of Szabadka/Subotica : An Empirical Study

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    Siarl Ferdinand

    2017-09-01

    Full Text Available In this study Ferdinand and Komlosi analyze the use of Hungarian and Serbian in the city of Szabadka/Subotica, which is located in the Serbian region of Northern Vajdaság/Vojvodina. A mostly Hungarian speaking city for centuries, Szabadka/Subotica suffered the strong pro-Serbian language policy implemented by the Yugoslavian government from the end of the First World War until the dismantlement of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, which gave Hungarian and other local minority languages a second chance to survive. Nowadays, Szabadka/Subotica is home to two main language groups, southern Slavic languages such a Serbian and Croatian (over sixty per cent and Hungarian (thirty three per cent. Although Ferdinand and Komlosi employed official figures from the Serbian censuses to determine the size of each group, the situation of each language was mapped through empirical observation of language use in informal conversations, in official signage, and in permanent as well as temporary commercial signage. The results show that the role of Serbian (mostly written in Latin script is dominant in almost all spheres of public life and as a lingua franca among various groups. Nevertheless, Hungarian maintains a strong presence in the city, especially in the center and in its northwestern districts. In this paper, Ferdinand and Komlosi aim to contribute to a better general understanding of group dynamics in bilingual settings and, specifically, to provide a clearer view of the language situation in one of the Hungarian-speaking regions lost by the historic Kingdom of Hungary after World War I.

  1. GPU Pro 5 advanced rendering techniques

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    Engel, Wolfgang

    2014-01-01

    In GPU Pro5: Advanced Rendering Techniques, section editors Wolfgang Engel, Christopher Oat, Carsten Dachsbacher, Michal Valient, Wessam Bahnassi, and Marius Bjorge have once again assembled a high-quality collection of cutting-edge techniques for advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) programming. Divided into six sections, the book covers rendering, lighting, effects in image space, mobile devices, 3D engine design, and compute. It explores rasterization of liquids, ray tracing of art assets that would otherwise be used in a rasterized engine, physically based area lights, volumetric light

  2. Pictures from Words, Pictures from Text: Constructing Pictorial Representations of Meaning from Text

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    2009-11-02

    characteristics of language symbolism is its arbitrariness, as Saussure pointed out [17]. Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the...Kingdom, 20-22 November 2000. The British Computer Society. [17] Saussure , Ferdinand de. 1959. Course in General Linguistics. New York, NY: McGraw

  3. Záměr Wittgensteinova Traktátu (1). Předmluva a motto

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    Glombíček, Petr

    2014-01-01

    Roč. 21, č. 3 (2014), s. 363-380 ISSN 1335-0668 Institutional support: RVO:67985955 Keywords : Ferdinand Kürnberger * new wittgenstein * Paul Ernst * Tractatus * Wittgenstein Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2014/3/363-380.pdf

  4. Gachet' kogu Amsterdamis

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    Van Goghi Muuseumis 5. detsembrini doktor Paul Ferdinand Gachet' (1828-1909) (Vincent van Goghi raviarst) kollektsiooni rekonstruktsioon 'Cezanne'ist van Goghini'. Pärast Gachet' surma jagunes kunstikogu Pariisi ja Amsterdami muuseumide vahel. 14. novembrini Van Goghi Muuseumi uue tiiva projekteerinud jaapani arhitekti Kisho Kurokawa retrospektiiv

  5. La lecture de Merleau-Ponty par Renaud Barbaras

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    Pechar, Jiří

    2015-01-01

    Roč. 11, č. 2 (2015), s. 1-6 ISSN 1336-6556 Institutional support: RVO:67985955 Keywords : Merleau-Ponty * Husserl * phenomenology * linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion http://www.ostium.sk/sk/la-lecture-de-merleau-ponty-par-renaud-barbaras/

  6. Kabaree kaminaserval ehk ehisskulptuuri õitseaeg sajandi algul / Mirjam Peil

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    Art deco pisiplastikast, millele moodne interjöör pakkus sobivaid paiku. Skulptorite armastatuim tegelane - moodne naine. Materjalidest, meelistehnikast -krüüselelefantiinist. Tegutsenud kunstnikke: saksa skulptor Ferdinand Preiss, Pariisis tegutsenud rumeenlane Dem̊tre Chiparus, belglanna Claire-Jeanne-Roberte Colinet, Marcel Bouraine, austerlane Bruno Zach

  7. Poststructuralism as Theory and Practice in the English Classroom. ERIC Digest.

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    Bush, Harold K., Jr.

    This digest provides a historical review of some current literary theories and practices which developed from contemporary philosophy. Structuralism, associated with Ferdinand de Saussure and Claude Levi-Strauss, with a seemingly scientific view of language and culture posited a systemic "center" that organized and sustained an entire…

  8. Language and "Psychological Race": Leopold de Saussure on French in Indochina.

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    Joseph, John E.

    2000-01-01

    Suggests that certain features of race as defined in the work of Gustave Le Bon and Leopold de Saussure (on the psychology of French colonization) may survive in Ferdinand de Saussure's concept of "langue," adapted and transformed by Saussure's more modernist concept of history. (Author/VWL)

  9. „...folglich ich keines Weges einem meiner Mit-Collegen nachtheilig bin...“ Die Deregulierung des habsburgischen Buchhandels unter Joseph II. am Beispiel des Prager Buchdruckers J. N. F. von Schönfeld

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    Wögerbauer, Michael

    2009-01-01

    Roč. 34, č. 2 (2009), s. 46-72 ISSN 0340-4528 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA408/08/1545 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90560517 Keywords : book studies * Schönfeld, Johann Ferdinand Nepomuk Subject RIV: AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision

  10. The Allegory of Dynastic Succession on the Facade of the Prague Belvedere (1538-1550)

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    Bažant, Jan

    -, č. 2 (2017), s. 269-282 ISSN 0567-8269 Institutional support: RVO:67985955 Keywords : Renaissance art * Ferdinand I * Prague * allegory Subject RIV: AB - History OBOR OECD: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

  11. GPU Pro 4 advanced rendering techniques

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    Engel, Wolfgang

    2013-01-01

    GPU Pro4: Advanced Rendering Techniques presents ready-to-use ideas and procedures that can help solve many of your day-to-day graphics programming challenges. Focusing on interactive media and games, the book covers up-to-date methods producing real-time graphics. Section editors Wolfgang Engel, Christopher Oat, Carsten Dachsbacher, Michal Valient, Wessam Bahnassi, and Sebastien St-Laurent have once again assembled a high-quality collection of cutting-edge techniques for advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) programming. Divided into six sections, the book begins with discussions on the abi

  12. Jídlo jako kulturní a společenský fenomén, etika stolování - gastronomický svět

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    Vrána, Michal

    2013-01-01

    TITTLE: Food as cultural and social phenomenon, ethics of dining - gastronomical world. AUTHOR: Michal Vrána DEPARTMENT: Ústav profesního rozvoje pracovníků ve školství SUPERVISOR: PhDr. Jan Šmíd, Ph. D. ABSTRACT: In his thesis on "Food as a cultural and social phenomenon, ethics dining - gastronomic world" by dealing with the phenomenon of food in the context of broader socio-cultural and artistic fields. Introduce general views on food and gastronomy in different historical epochs and civil...

  13. 2008. aasta eelarve on tulevikkuvaatav / Ivari Padar

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    2008. aasta riigieelarvest. Muudatused maksumaksjale, turvalisus, haridus ja sotsiaalne kindlus, hädavajalik palgatõus. Lisatud tabelid: 2008. a. valitsemisala eelarvete kasvude pingerida; Suurimad kulud eelarves. Vt. samas: Kajar Lember. 2008. eelarve ei ole konservatiivne; Kristen Michal. Eelarve arvestab erinevate huvidega; Juhan Parts. Eelarve üle mõistab kohut käimasolev aasta; Aivar Sõerd. 2008. aasta riigieelarve kasvatab inflatsiooni; Margus Tsahkna. Eelarvega võib rahule jääda!; Rein Järvelill. Oleme 2008. aasta eelarvega rahul!; Toomas Trapido. Eelarve ei arvesta kiireneva inflatsiooni ega maailmaturu energiahindadega

  14. Citizens or Cosmopolitans? Nationalism, Internationalism, and Academic Identity in the Early American Republic

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    Nelson, Adam R.

    2013-01-01

    Historically, the changing roles of academics have often been associated with changing relations between scholarship and the state. What functions did the state expect scholars to fulfill? Using a historical-biographical approach, this essay considers the example of early nineteenth-century astronomer Ferdinand Rudolf Hassler, who immigrated to…

  15. Increasing insightful thinking in analytic geometry

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    Timmer, Mark; Verhoef, Neeltje Cornelia

    Elsewhere in this issue Ferdinand Verhulst described the discussion of the interaction of analysis and geometry in the 19th century. In modern times such discussions come up again and again. As of 2014, synthetic geometry will not be part of the Dutch 'vwo - mathematics B' programme anymore.

  16. Emociones y sentimientos. La construcción social del amor (Luisa Abad González y Juan Antonio Flores Martos, Ed.

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    Lorenzo Mariano Juárez

    2011-09-01

    Full Text Available En 1965, Jean-Luc Godard hacía hablar en Pierrot le fou a un Jean Paul Belmondo que habitaba la piel de Ferdinand, un profesor de Lengua Española que viaja huyendo sin rumbo junto a la joven Marianne, interpretada por Anna Karina.

  17. Leonard Bloomfield and the "Cours de Linguistique Generale."

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    Koerner, Konrad

    A discussion of the development of Leonard Bloomfield's theory of linguistics focuses on the influence of Ferdinand de Saussure's "Cours de linguistique generale" on Bloomfield's thinking. The discussion begins with a characterization of Bloomfield's early position with regard to general linguistics, especially as found in his 1914 book…

  18. Alienation, Mass Society and Mass Culture.

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    Dam, Hari N.

    This monograph examines the nature of alienation in mass society and mass culture. Conceptually based on the "Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft" paradigm of sociologist Ferdinand Tonnies, discussion traces the concept of alienation as it appears in the philosophies of Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and others. Dwight Macdonald's "A Theory of Mass…

  19. Художники Кюгельгены. Ч. I-II / Марат Гайнуллин, Александра Мурре

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    Гайнуллин, Марат, 1933-

    2010-01-01

    Saksa kunstnikest, Venemaal, sh. Eesti alal elanud ja töötanud kaksikvendadest Karl Ferdinand ja Gerhard Franz Kügelgenist ning nende kunstnikest järglastest Wilhelm von Kügelgenist (Gerhard Franzi poeg), Konstantin von Kügelgenist (Karl Ferdinandi poeg) ning viimase tütrest Sally von Kügelgenist

  20. Extra-Required Service: A Radical Shift in Frontline Geriatric Caregiving

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    Clarke, Egerton

    2011-01-01

    Much research examines the professional nursing practices of traditional and modern caregivers, but it remains unclear whether the delivery of extra-required services is diminished as the caregiver moves from traditional to modern community. Building on the classical works of sociologists Ferdinand Tonnies, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim, this…

  1. Resenha de: Recherches sur les effectifs des armées françaises des Guerres d'Italie aux Guerres de Religion

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    Eurípedes Simões de Paula

    1963-12-01

    Full Text Available LOT, Ferdinand. Recherches sur les effectifs des armées fran-çaises des Guerres d'Italie aux Guerres de Religion. Paris. S. E. V. P. E. N. École Pratique des Hautes Études. VIe Sec-tion. Collection Bibliothèque Générale.

  2. Resonance journal of science education

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    Photograph of laser-cooled cloud of ytterbium atoms taken with a CCD camera. The inven- tors of the CCD sensor shared the 2009 Nobel. Prize in Physics. See page 732. (Courtesy: Atomic and Optical Physics Lab, IISc). Ferdinand Freudenstein. (1926–2006). ( Illustration: Subhankar Biswas ). Front Cover. Back Cover. 681.

  3. LANGUE AND PAROLE IN AMERICAN LINGUISTICS.

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    LEVIN, SAMUEL R.

    THE PROBLEM OF THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE STRUCTURE IS CONSIDERED AND THE FORM WHICH ANY LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTION SHOULD TAKE. THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE INFLUENCE OF THE SWISS LINGUIST, FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE, ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. THE QUESTION OF "MENTALISM" IN LINGUISTICS IS REDUCED TO THE PROBLEM OF WHETHER LINGUISTIC…

  4. The Family Resemblance Model and Communicative Competence. Lektos: Interdisciplinary Working Papers in Language Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 2.

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    St. Clair, Robert

    The concept of a speech community is investigated within the theoretical frameworks of sociology and linguistics, and it is concluded that the collective competence models of Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky are inadequate. They fail in that they are limited as linguistic models which have consistently overlooked the sociological importance…

  5. Doc Immelman

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    Baarde, briewe en barmhartigheid (2013) verskyn as 'n laaste saluut aan die Namibiese skrywer,. Doc Immelman, ná sy dood in Maart 2013. Hierdie rubriekbundel is Immelman se twee- de versameling rubrieke ná Ruacana tot Rosh. Pinah (2011). Daniel Ferdinand (Doc) Immel- man was onder meer 'n rubriekskrywer, dig-.

  6. Modern Theories of Language.

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    Davis, Philip W.

    This volume explores objectively the essential characteristic of nine twentieth-century linguistic theories with the theoretical variant for discussion based on one closely representative of work within a given approach or usually associated with the name of the theory. First, the theory of Ferdinand de Saussure is discussed based on his book,…

  7. Renesanční podoba Pražského hradu z archeologického pohledu

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    Blažková, Gabriela

    2015-01-01

    Roč. 7, č. 2 (2015), s. 121-134 ISSN 1804-1132. [Prag - Residenz des Habsburgers Ferdinand I. 1526-1564. Praha, 26.03.2015-28.03.2015] R&D Projects: GA ČR GP13-34374P Institutional support: RVO:67985912 Keywords : Prague * Prague Castle * Renaissance * ceramic * glass Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology

  8. The Philippine Press after Marcos: Restored Freedoms and New Problems.

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    Guimary, Donald L.

    With the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos from his 20-year rule of the Philippines, the news media regained its freedom and its voice, and now faces a new set of problems: low circulation, questionable ethical standards of reporters and their lack of experience, and ominous indications from the Corazon Aquino government that the administration might…

  9. Botany and the Taming of Female Passion: Rousseau and Contemporary Educational Concepts of Young Women

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    Kleinau, Elke

    2012-01-01

    Central in the analyses of women's and gender studies within the history of education has been Rousseau's (Emil oder Uber die Erziehung, 12th edn. Ferdinand Schoningh, Paderborn 1762) educational novel Emile, especially Book 5, which deals with the education of Sophie, Emilie's future spouse. Given the lasting interest in the person of Rousseau…

  10. All new for NA62

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    2012-01-01

    This week sees the start of the first run of the new NA62 experiment. This will be a unique opportunity for the collaboration to test its new beam, new detectors and new data acquisition system before the physics run in 2014. Speaking to the Bulletin, the NA62 technical coordinator Ferdinand Hahn shares the many challenges that the various teams faced to be on time for beam. Ready, steady, start!   A Large Angle Veto detector (white) in place in the NA62 decay volume (blue). With components from almost all the detectors in place downstream of the decay point of the mother particles – the kaons – and of the KTAG detector that tags the kaons before they decay, NA62 is ready for its first technical run. This unique run will test all the equipment as well as the trigger and the data acquisition systems. “This year, we will have about five weeks of beam from the SPS before the long shutdown of all the CERN machines,” says Ferdinand Hahn, NA62 Technical Co-...

  11. Surveillance and Liberty in Céline's New York, the City That Doesn't Sleep (Around

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    2005-06-01

    Full Text Available This essay focuses on Ferdinand Bardamu's account of his stay in New York City in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's bleak bildungsroman, Journey to the End of the Night (1932. In it I explore the rather surprising absence of reference to the Statue of Liberty in a text narrated by a French immigrant of sorts who spends weeks on Ellis Island and who immediately personifies the city as an androgynous, steely, and indeed statue-like woman. Applying to the text Foucault's theories on the disciplinary nature of modern western society, I suggest that it is Bardamu's suspicion that he is under unobtrusive yet constant surveillance while in the Big Apple that explains his deliberate erasure of Liberty/liberty from the skyline he paints in his narrative. I further argue that Bardamu tends to see the implacable surveillance he undergoes throughout his American adventure as feminine. That is, he identifies it as emanating principally from those cold, impenetrable, but impossibly beautiful creatures—les Américaines—that this vertical and imposing mother-city has birthed.

  12. The Role of Combatives Teaching in Physical Education, by Michal Vit and Zdenko Reguli

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    Full Text Available Vit, M., & Reguli, Z. (2015. The Role of Combatives Teaching in Physical Education. Brno: Masaryk University. 128 pp. Retrieved from https://munispace.muni.cz/index.php/munispace/catalog/book/694 There is here a new book, dedicated to the application of martial arts elements in physical education. Sequentially are presented authors, the definition of 'combatives', discussed the contents of the book, pointing out its strengths and weaknesses. A short conclusion is finishing the review article.

  13. 3 field squadron, SAEC (Part 2) | Van Zyl | Scientia Militaria: South ...

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    In 1884 when Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal became a member of the French Academy, he was welcomed by Ernest Renan. In his speech Renan remarked that not only had two inland seas been connected, but the site of a future battlefield had been marked. During the Second World War his prediction ...

  14. Sjögren, Wiedemann ja liivi keele sõnaraamat. Panus 19. sajandi teadusajalukku / Eberhard Winkler

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    Uuritakse, milline võis olla kummagi teadlase osa esimese liivi keele sõnaraamatu koostamisel: Sjögren, Andreas Johan. Gesammelte Schriften. Band II. Theil I., Joh. Andreas Sjögren's Livische Grammatik nebst Sprachproben ; Band II. Theil II., Joh. Andreas Sjögren's livisch-deutsches und deutsch-livisches Wörterbuch / bearbeitet von Ferdinand Joh. Wiedemann. St. Petersburg, 1861

  15. Dutch Linguists between Humboldt and Saussure. The case of Jac. van Ginneken (1877-1945)

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    2002-01-01

    The impact Ferdinand de Saussure’s Cours de linguistique générale (1916) had on Dutch linguistics in the 1930s and 1940s has not yet become the object of a thorough investigation. It can be pointed out, however, that in the interwar period Dutch reactions to the Cours were of a mixed character. When

  16. Klimti tööd tagasi saanud juudi pere müüb need maha

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    Klimti maalide "Kasemets/Pöögimets" (1901), "Adele Bloch-Bauer II" (1912), "Õunapuu" (1912) ja "Majad Unterachis Attersee ääres" (1916) õiguspäraseks omanikuks tunnistati Ferdinand Bloch-Baueri vennatütar Maria Altmann. Maalid müüakse sügisel. Praegu asuvad maalid New Yorgis saksa ja austria kunsti muuseumis Neue Galerie's

  17. De Sancie à Bérengère

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    2006-02-01

    Full Text Available Pour les règnes de Ferdinand Ier à Ferdinand III, il n’existe aucun témoignage manuscrit de la Version concise de l’Histoire d’Espagne (1270. Seule la confrontation des différentes versions – Chronique de vingt rois, Version sancienne, Chronique de Castille –, indépendantes les unes des autres mais dépendant toutes de la Version alphonsine primordiale, permet de la reconstituer. On peut ainsi définir le modèle de femme régnante qu’élabore l’historiographe alphonsin à partir des sources latines. Reines, infantes et régentes, de Sancie, femme de Ferdinand Ier, à Bérengère, mère de Ferdinand III, se distinguent par leurs actions pieuses et leurs bons conseils, qu’elles peuvent légitimement prodiguer au roi car elles sont toutes dotées d’une qualité essentielle : le bon entendement. Les écarts entre les différentes versions historiographiques témoignent aussi de l’évolution de ce modèle en fonction du contexte socio-politique de production des textes. Plus radicale, la Chronique de vingt rois, écrite à la fin du règne d’Alphonse X, sanctionne sévèrement les débordements. La Chronique de Castille, écrite sous la minorité de Ferdinand IV, accentue le modèle alphonsin en présentant une lignée de femmes exemplaires dont la régente Marie de Molina est la digne descendante. En outre, les femmes de la Chronique de Castille excellent en un domaine, le spirituel, et veillent ainsi à la préservation et à la pérennité de l’image de la royauté.No existe ningún testimonio manuscrito de la Versión concisa de la Historia de España (1270 para los reinados de Fernando I a Fernando III. Para reconstituirla, sólo se pueden cotejar las distintas versiones –Crónica de veinte reyes, Versión sanciana, Crónica de Castilla–, independientes unas de otras pero que se fundamentan todas en la Versión alfonsí primordial. Este cotejo permite definir el modelo de mujer reinante que elabora el

  18. The ’Great Code’ in Shakespeare’s Henriad

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    the ’triadic’ character of symbol [sign] use;" Ferdinand de Saussure , who analyzed "the human sign as the union of the signifier (significant) and the...would say myth) is a sign that has a "dual natureŖM. This last point comes from Saussure who expounded the idea that ’[i]n a sign, the signifier and

  19. Un vistazo a los pilares de la Lingüística Moderna: Saussure, Chomsky Y Van Dijk. Del Estructuralismo a la Lingüística textual

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    JOSELYN CORREDOR TAPIAS

    2007-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo pretende dar un vistazo a los postulados básicos del estructuralismo, del generativismo y de la lingüística del texto - con sus principales figuras: Ferdinand de Saussure, Noam Avram Chomsky y Teun Adrian Van Dijk, puesto que estas corrientes se consideran como los grandes paradigmas de la lingüística moderna.

  20. Keskkonnaarhitektuuri suundumusi - 7 projekti

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    1983-01-01

    Ilmjärve pioneerilaager (Tiit Trummal, proj. 1980), Lümanda sovhoosi kontor-klubi (Veljo Kaasik, proj. 1980), Kingissepa EPT olmehoone juurdeehitus (Ain Padrik, proj. 1980), maanteearhitektuur Kose-Ristil (Andres Alver, proj. 1981), Lennuki t. 21 asuva sauna rekonstruktsioon (Ferdinand Mäll, proj. 1980), lasteaia laiendus Haabneemes (Ado Eigi, proj. 1981) ja kolhoosi "Sõprus" kontor-klubi juurdeehitus (Jaan Ollik, proj. 1979)

  1. Daptomycin: a novel lipopeptide antibiotic against Gram-positive pathogens

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    Andres Beiras-Fernandez

    2010-08-01

    Full Text Available Andres Beiras-Fernandez1,*, Ferdinand Vogt1,*, Ralf Sodian1, Florian Weis21Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany; 2Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany *Andres Beiras-Fernandez and Ferdinand Vogt contributed equally to this paperAbstract: The aim of this review is to summarize the historical background of drug resistance of Gram-positive pathogens as well as to describe in detail the novel lipopeptide antibiotic daptomycin. Pharmacological and pharmacokinetic aspects are reviewed and the current clinical use of daptomycin is presented. Daptomycin seems to be a reliable drug in the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections, infective right-sided endocarditis, and bacteremia caused by Gram-positive agents. Its unique mechanism of action and its low resistance profile, together with its rapid bactericidal action make it a favorable alternative to vancomycin in multi-drug resistant cocci. The role of daptomycin in the treatment of prosthetic material infections, osteomyelitis, and urogenital infections needs to be evaluated in randomized clinical trials.Keywords: daptomycin, multi-drug resistance, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA, pneumonia, urinary tract infection, left-sided endocarditis

  2. Browse Author Index

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    Items 451 - 500 of 2921 ... Bassou, D. Bathula, S · Bauer, D · Bawa, L M · Bawa, LM · Baxter, R.M. · Bayat, Mehdi · Bayo, K. Bayo-Bangoura, M. Böhm, L. Bedassa, T. Beder, S.M. · Bedi Sahouo, G. Beecher, C.W.W. · Bekele, Amha · Bekele, Tefera · Bekele, Tesfaye · Bekircan, Olcay · Belaj, Ferdinand · Belhakem*, Ahmed

  3. Michales AAF, Dugway, Utah. Revised Uniform Summary of Surface Weather Observations (RUSSWO). Parts A - F

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    1974-03-21

    Thus; 6.4 percent of the observations meet the criteria: " celling >𔃾 500 feet with visibility > 1 mile, but < 3 miles; or ceiling> 500 feet, but...EATI-E R SE ,vICE/ ACPSCRMTISU AY STAT-ON STAMIN NAME YEARS MONTH 0 PAGE Z 0300-0500 HOURS IL. S. t I Temp -T WET BULB TEMPERATURE -SION (F)TOA I TTL _3

  4. 1986 AMEDD (Army Medical Department) Clinical Psychology Short Course: Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.

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    1987-09-01

    system in which it operates. Beginning with Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1914) and his published lectures entitled, Course in General Linguistics (1915...an important contribution was made to the study of language and human communication. Saussure introduced the idea that the study of one language (alone...and by itself) without reference to other language or languages was, indeed, a worthy occupation for a language scientist. Saussure built upon the

  5. Semiotics and the Study of Occupational and Organizational Cultures.

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    1983-06-01

    traces its roots to the teachings of Ferdinand de Saussure (1966), the father of modern structural - . - linguistics, and to the pragmatic philosophy of...For example, Saussure conceived ofthe sign as composed of the two parts (the signifier and the signified), while Pierce advocated a tripartate concept...published lectures of Saussure (1966) but also in the writings of Barthes (1967), Hawkes (1977), and Culler (1976). For the Piercian perspective, Morris

  6. Anemia prevalence and treatment practice in patients with non-myeloid tumors receiving chemotherapy

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    Laura Merlini,1 Giacomo Cartenì,2 Stefano Iacobelli,3 Caterina Stelitano,4 Mario Airoldi,5 Peter Balcke,6 Felix Keil,7 Ferdinand Haslbauer,8 Laura Belton,9 Beatriz Pujol10 1Department of Medical Oncology, Ospedale Civile S, Bortolo, Vicenza, 2Department of OncoHematology, Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale "Antonio Cardarelli", Napoli, 3Department of Medical Oncology, Ospedale Clinicizzato SS Annunziata, Chieti, 4Department of Hematology, Azienda Ospedali...

  7. Divadlo on teater, Nitra on linn / Tiina Talts

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    2006-01-01

    Rahvusvahelisest teatrifestivalist "Divadelna Nitra" ("Teatraalne Nitra") Slovakkias 22. - 27. septembrini. Lühidalt lavastustest Georg Brüchner "Woyzeck" (Wojciech Boguslawski teater, Poola, lavastaja Maja Kleczewska); Thomas Bernhard "Before retirement" (Slovakkia teater Astorka-Korzo'90, lavastaja Juraj Nvota); Tatjana Tolstaja "Sonja" (Läti Riia Uus Teater, lavastaja Alvis Hermanis); Michel Houllebecq "Platform" (Belgia NTGent, lavastaja Johan Simons); William Shakespeare "Richard III" (Tšehhi Rahvusteater, lavastaja Michal Docekal); Neil LaBute "The shape of things" (Slovakkia Andrej Bagari Teater, lavastajad Roman Olekshak ja Maja Hrieshik); Rainald Goetz-Martin Heidegger "The consolation of the country path" (Tšehhi kodanike ühendus Mezery, lavastaja Miroslav Bambushek); Mark Ravenhill "Product" (Inglismaa Paines Plough, lavastaja Ravenhill); Anton Tshehhov "Ivanov" (Slovakkia Kammerteater, lavastaja Roman Polak)

  8. Towards a Semiotic Information Position Framework for Network Centric Warfare

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    2011-06-01

    study of anything which stands for something else [10]. Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and American logician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce...are considered as the founders of semiotics [10]. As a linguist, Saussure was interested in the relationships between words (or signs) and he argued...to Eco, Saussure “did not define the signified any too clearly, leaving it half way between a mental image, a concept and a psychological reality

  9. From Cognition To Language: The Modeling Field Theory Approach

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    2006-10-02

    multi-agent framework was probably best made by Ferdinand de Saussure in his famous statement “language is not complete in any speaker; it exists...according to de Saussure (see quotation above), this is not an acceptable framework for language. In addition, a bias toward compositionality is built in...signals to exchange information about n objects. Actually, since the groundbreaking work of de Saussure [1] it is known that signals refer to real

  10. Subvertising versus advertising : a semiotical analysis of the culture jamming act

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    2005-01-01

    Cataloged from PDF version of article. This study examines the act of Culture Jamming on the basis of semiotic theory mainly by Ferdinand de Saussure and Roland Barthes. Accordingly, the analysis based on the examination of existing Culture Jamming examples. Depending on the related issues of Culture Jamming as a social phenomenon, history of advertising, ideology and propaganda are explored. This study also includes practical side that is conducted to a better understand...

  11. The Ghanaian Economic Recovery

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    NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG. 2 Only Syria, Zambia , Myanmar, and Algeria had slower growth rates in 1966. 3 Ferdinand Bakoup, Republic of Ghana Country Strategy Paper (Accra...available economic data from the World Bank (1961 to 2011). During that time, Ghana’s GDP growth rate deviated significantly from the regional growth rate...quantitative controls, and reduce taxes on agriculture. See Ho-Won Jeong, “Ghana: Lurching Toward Economic Rationality,” World Affairs 159, no. 2

  12. "Plus de figures!"

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    Dam Christensen, Hans

    2012-01-01

    Artiklen fokuserer på den schweiziske lingvist Ferdinand de Saussures brug af billeder i hovedværket Cours de linguistique générale (1916). Enkelte af værkets illustrationer er velkendte, men udgør kun en meget lille del af de billeder, der er til stede i værket. Det blev imidlertid en hjørnesten i...... tilblivelses- og receptionshistorie antyder artiklen, at Saussure ikke er så ”billedfjendsk” som det umiddelbart synes i eftertidens versioneringer....

  13. Recommended Reading List for Faculty and Students, Military Qualification Standards (MQS) II Reading List.

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    1983-01-01

    Cornwell , James. Foch (1972). DC 342.8 A narrative of Ferdinand Fooh as a military onmander. F6 143 Marshall-Cornwall, J. H. Nepoleon as Militarh Comander...based on the author’a reotlletions of their actiona, decislons, N 52 and behavior. Montgoery, Bernard . The Memoirs of Field Hershal Viscount...effect the Battle of Stalingrad had on the E 68 outcome. Fall, Bernard B. Hell in a Very Small Place (1964). DS 550 An account of the 56-day siege of

  14. Filipina Welserová mezi českou a německojazyčnou historickou pamětí

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    Boumová, Eliška

    2016-01-01

    This bachelor thesis deals with the life story of Philippine Welser (1527-1580), the ignoble wife of Ferdinand II., Archduke of Austria (1529-1595), as a subject for literary, theatrical and visual inspiration. The thesis draws on sources dating from the 16th century to the present and it also maps how castle and chateau expositions treat the topic. The methodology is based on the Czech tradition of exploration of Second Life. Comparison of sources of linguistically Czech and German-speaking ...

  15. Tapered diode laser pumped 946 nm Nd:YAG laser

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    Cheng, Haynes Pak Hay; Jensen, Ole Bjarlin; Petersen, Paul Michael

    2009-01-01

    We successfully implemented a 946 nm Nd:YAG laser based on a 808 nm tapered diode pump laser. The tapered diode is developed at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institute fur Hochstfrequenztechnik in Germany. Figure 2 shows the experimental setup and results of each pump source coupled into a 1.5 mm crystal...... laser, we show that tapered diode laser pumping potentially increase the power of 946 nm lasers by a factor of two and reduce the threshold by a factor of three....

  16. Nas sendas de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda documentos sobre uma expedição Florentina à Amazônia, em 1608

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    Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron

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    Full Text Available After the initiatives by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, this article gathers some documents found in the Archivio di Stato from Florence which attest definitely the reality of the attempt of colonization of the Amazon basin by the Grand Duke of Florence Ferdinand I in the beginning of the 17th century. Those documents expose the circumstances of the enterprise through its preparation, the realization and the results of the expedition, as well as through the diplomatic negociations which preceded it.

  17. ANTONÍN MARKUS - ŽIVOTOPISNÁ STUDIE

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    HOMEROVÁ, Libuše

    2010-01-01

    Antonín Markus (1886 - 1968) is a very important historian and archivist in history of the State regional archive in Třeboň as well as in the history of the Czech archival science in general. Native of Wien, who spent most of his life in south Bohemian Třeboň, was graduated from studies of history and auxiliary historical sciences at the Philosophical faculty of the Charles - Ferdinands University in Prague in 1910. He was a student of important Czech historians Jaroslav Goll, Josef Pekař and...

  18. Sine Fine: Dios, los Habsburgo y el traspaso de las insignias de poder en el Quinientos

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    Mínguez, Víctor

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    Partiendo del estudio de una pintura flamenca de Ambrosius Francken, Allegorie auf die Kaiserkrönung Ferdinands II. am 9. September 1619 (Deutsches Historisches Museum de Berlín), se analiza en esta investigación la construcción iconográfica de la entrega divina de las insignias del poder a los emperadores o reyes de la Casa de Habsburgo, a través de diversos grabados y pinturas. Estas imágenes configuran un discurso visual y retórico que pretendía justificar públicamente la...

  19. Los buscavidas : nómadas del capitalismo

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    García Rovira, Oriol

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    Esta investigación se propone describir los rasgos esenciales de un tipo de personajes que hemos denominado, a efectos de generalización teórica, como “buscavidas”, peregrinos antihéroes del sistema laboral contemporáneo, deficientemente integrados a los valores del capitalismo e irreductibles a sus principios disciplinarios, que podemos hallar en la novelística del s. XX. He escogido a título de ejemplo cuatro novelas emblemáticas: Viaje al fin de la noche (1932), de Louis-Ferdinand Celine (...

  20. Was Wundt the first to try to make psychology an independent discipline?

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    Full Text Available A recent research rediscovered the figure of Ferdinand Bernard Ueberwasser, a professor at the University of Münster who tried to make psychology an independent discipline almost a century before Wundt. In 1787, Ueberwasser published a book in which he proposed a scientific psychology based on the manipulation of variables and the replication of observations, and that should study areas such as perception, memory, creativity, or empathy. The Napoleonic Wars and the discontinuation of the University of Münster made Ueberwasser's legacy to be almost completely forgotten, until today.

  1. [Albert Reder Ritter von Schellmann (1826-1904)].

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    Schmidt, G; Holubar, K

    1990-01-01

    Albert Reder von Schellmann (1826-1904) was an important syphilidologist of the Vienna Medical School in the second half of the nineteenth century. He went in for the dualistic concept of the origin of syphilis and ulcer caused by soft chancre. In 1870 - Reder became head of a third dermato-syphilidologic department in the "Josephinum" in Vienna, where military surgeons got their medical education. At the same time the two full professorships of dermatosyphilidology in the Vienna General Hospital were held by Ferdinand von Hebra (1816-1880) and Carl Ludwig Sigmund von Ilanor (1810-1883).

  2. Punanahklusest: Majakovskist indiaanlasteni / Vaapo Vaher

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    Tutvustus: Jangfeldt, Bengt. Mäng elu peale : Vladimir Majakovski ja tema lähikond / tõlkinud Anu Saluäär. Tallinn : Varrak, 2011 ; Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Reis öö lõppu / tõlkinud Heli Allik. Tallinn : Varrak, 2010 ; Simone, Claude. Flandria tee / tõlkinud Leena Tomasberg. Tallinn : Eesti Raamat, 2011 ; Härm, Tiiu. Jää voolab : Eesti polaarränduri August Masiku maailm. Tallinn : Eesti Raamat, 2010 ; Page, Jake. Suure vaimu rüpes : Ameerika indiaanlaste 20 000-aastane ajalugu / tõlkinud Matti Piirimaa. Tallinn : Tänapäev, 2011

  3. Emanuel Chalupný a Ferdinand Peroutka o J.A. Komenském

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    2000-01-01

    Roč. 30, 63-64 (2000), s. 171-176 ISSN 0323-2220. [Obraz Jana Amose Komenského ve 20. století. Věda-mýtus-ideologie /22./. Uherský Brod, 07.10.1999-08.10.1999] Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z9009908 Keywords : Comeniology Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

  4. COMMERCIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND SPAIN IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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    2017-12-01

    Full Text Available This article examines the development of trade relations between Russia and Spain during the reign of two Spanish kings: Charles IV and Ferdinand VII. The author’s attention is focused on the agency of diplomats, who made a big advance in the formation of trading relations between the two countries. The author concentrates on Ivan Muravyov-Apostol, the Russian ambassador to Spain (1802-1805, his Spanish partner Gaspar Maria de la Nava y Álvarez de Noroña (1802-1807, and on the consuls of Spain Antoni de Colombí (St. Petersburg and Francisco de Baguer y Ribas (Odessa. Based on their reports, which are located in both Rus-sian and Spanish archives, it is possible to trace the dependence of commercial relations from the political situation in the world, established in Europe in the era of Napoleonic wars. Their information also allows revealing the main stages of development in trading during these years and the future, observe the merchantry on the Baltic Sea and in the area of the Black Sea. Ana-lyzing these materials, conclusions about the cause of diminishing of the commercial activity between Russia and Spain during the reign of Ferdinand VII can be made. The attention of the author is also paid to the conditions, which were established for the trade of Spain´s main export product to Russia - wine, and trading of grain through the area of the Black and Mediterranean Seas, which received special progress in the beginning of the 19th century.

  5. High-voltage batteries. Competition in Germany, Europe, and Asia; Hochvolt-Energiespeicher. Konkurrenz in Deutschland, Europa und Asien

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    Dudenhoeffer, Ferdinand [Duisburg-Essen Univ., Duisburg (Germany). CAR Center Automotive Research; Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg (Germany). Lehrstuhl fuer Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre

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    With its ''National Electromobility Development Plan'', the German government intends to build up domestic know-how on the development and production of high-voltage batteries. The current research phase of science, industry, and policy already indicates the assignment of future roles. The strong competition of Asian producers will be faced with German core competences and development potentials, according to Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, head of the CAR Center Automitive Research, an institute that compares supply structures worldwide. The analysis shows that while many manufacturers are strong in their own country, they cannot survive without international joint venture partners. (orig.)

  6. Pemikiran Epistemologi Barat: dari Plato Sampai Gonseth

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    Nunu Burhanuddin

    2015-06-01

    Full Text Available This paper riviewing the Western epistemology thought. The theme focuses on Plato to Gonseth. The Epistemology that referred in this article, is to think about "how humans acquire knowledge?". From this then appear four types of sect modern western epistemology thought, namely: sect of empiricism, rationalism sect, kantinian sect, sect of positivism. Furthermore, the social positivism sciences developed by Comte leaves serious problems associated with the loss of the role of the subject. This problem being the background of epistemology philosophy appears that by Emund Husserl developed through the phenomenology, Habermas through hermeneutics, and Ferdinand Gonseth through critical theory.

  7. High-voltage batteries. Competition in Germany, Europe, and Asia; Hochvolt-Energiespeicher. Konkurrenz in Deutschland, Europa und Asien

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    Dudenhoeffer, Ferdinand [Duisburg-Essen Univ., Duisburg (Germany). CAR Center Automotive Research; Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg (Germany). Lehrstuhl fuer Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre

    2010-08-15

    With its ''National Electromobility Development Plan'', the German government intends to build up domestic know-how on the development and production of high-voltage batteries. The current research phase of science, industry, and policy already indicates the assignment of future roles. The strong competition of Asian producers will be faced with German core competences and development potentials, according to Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, head of the CAR Center Automitive Research, an institute that compares supply structures worldwide. The analysis shows that while many manufacturers are strong in their own country, they cannot survive without international joint venture partners. (orig.)

  8. Análisis semiológico del Guernica de Picasso. Semiológical analysis of Picasso’s Guernica.

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    Cogollo Ospina, Sonia Natalia

    2009-01-01

    Semiológical analysis of Picasso’s Guernica.Resumen La obra tal vez más famosa de Pablo Picasso, Guernica (1937), es examinada en este artículo con el método de la semiología. Para ello se contextualiza la obra, se pormenoriza en los detalles que la componen, tanto en el aspecto formal como en el de su contenido. De esta obra se sirve la autora para ilustrar los conceptos de lengua, habla, significante y significado, propios de la semiología que propone Ferdinand de Saussure como “ciencia que...

  9. Queen Mariana of Austria's Journey to Spain: political divergences and protocol tensions within the house of Habsburg (1648-1649

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    Luis Tercero Casado

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    Full Text Available Spain’s isolation at the end of the Thirty Year’s War due to the Empire’s separate signature with France and Sweden in the Peace of Westphalia unleashed brief but intense political turmoil between the two Habsburg branches. Although Philip IV and Mariana of Austria’s marriage was ensured, the new Queen’s journey to Spain brought attention to the failure of another engagement between her brother and Emperor’s son, the King of Hungary Ferdinand, and the Infanta Maria Theresa. Given such context, the trip undoubtedly emphasized the tensions between both European powers.

  10. Areeni aastaalbumid 2005. Personaalsed edetabelid / Tõnu Kaalep

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    Kaalep, Tõnu, 1966-2018

    2005-01-01

    Heliplaatidest: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti "Worn Copy", Chalice "Süsteemsüsteem", Animal Collective "Feels", Röövel Ööbik "Supersymmetry", Arcade Fire "Funeral", Kanye West "Late Registration", White Stripes "Get Behind Me Satan", The Fall "Fall Heads Roll", Antony and the Johnsons "I Am a Bird Now", Sufjan Stevens "Illinoise", Bloc Party "Silent Alarm", LCD Soundsystem "LCD Soundsystem", Devendra Banhart "Cripple Crow", Architecture In Helsinki "In Case We Die", Kate Bush "Aerial", M.I.A. "Arular", Ans.Andur "Tuled peale", Gorillaz "Demon Days", Franz Ferdinand "You Could Have It So Much Better", Songs of Green Pheasant "Songs of Green Pheasant"

  11. Por uma aprendizagem significativa da língua materna: o ensino fundamentado em Saussure e Ausubel

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    Azevedo, Tânia Maris

    2014-01-01

    O tema da pesquisa é a proposição de conceitos da linguística saussuriana como fundamentos primeiros de um ensino cujo foco seja a aprendizagem significativa da língua materna. Para o desenvolvimento do tema, a investigação utilizar-se-á da linguística de Ferdinand de Saussure, mais especificamente, das noções de relação, de oposição, de diferença, de sistema e dos conceitos de língua/linguagem/fala e valor, bem como da Teoria da Aprendizagem Significativa, de David Ausubel, principalmente, d...

  12. New series of ORACLE tutorials, March-June 2006

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    2006-01-01

    The IT DES Oracle Support team is pleased to announce the new series of Oracle tutorials with the proposed schedule: Thursday 20 April - SQL I - Eva Dafonte Perez Thursday 27 April - SQL II - Lucia Moreno Lopez Thursday 4 May - Architecture - Montse Collados Thursday 11 May - Tuning - Michal Kwiatek Thursday 1 June - PL/SQL I - Eva Dafonte Perez Thursday 8 June - PL/SQL II - Nilo Segura Thursday 15 June - Oracle Tools and Bindings with languages - Eric Grancher, Nilo Segura These tutorials will take place in the IT Auditorium (bldg. 31/3-004) starting at 10:00. The average duration will be 1 hour plus time for questions. There is no need to register in advance. You can access the previous 2002-2003 sessions at http://it-des.web.cern.ch/IT-DES/DIS/oracle/tutorials.html If you need more information, please contact Catherine.Delamare@cern.ch

  13. Live Webcast | 60 years of CERN – 60 years of Science for Peace | 17 September

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    Live webcast of the colloquium entitled “60 years of CERN – 60 years of Science for Peace”.    17 September 2014 at 4 p.m. Watch the webcast at www.cern.ch/webcast Programme Part 1 of the colloquium: 4 - 6 p.m. 4.00 - 4.05 p.m.: "Introduction" - Rolf Heuer, CERN Director General 4.05 - 4.45 p.m.: “Sixty years of CERN in the evolving international landscape” - Giora Mikenberg 4.45 - 5.25 p.m.:“CERN and Eastern European countries during the Cold War” - Michal Turala 5.25 - 6.05 p.m.: “SESAME: a parallel universe in the Middle East?” - Eliezer Rabinovici Part 2 of the colloquium: 7 - 9 p.m. 7.00 - 7.40 p.m.: “Scientific research, proliferation and disarmament”- Jonathan Forman 7.40 - 8.20 p.m.: “The World Wide Web and human rights” - Jillian York 8.20 - 9.00 p.m.: “Basic research for education and society&rdq...

  14. New series of ORACLE tutorials, March-June 2006

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    2006-01-01

    The IT DES Oracle Support team is pleased to announce the new series of Oracle tutorials with the proposed schedule: Thursday 30 March - Design - Arash Khodabandeh Thursday 20 April - SQL I - Eva Dafonte Perez Thursday 27 April - SQL II - Lucia Moreno Lopez Thursday 4 May - Architecture - Montse Collados Thursday 11 May - Tuning - Michal Kwiatek Thursday 1 June - PL/SQL I - Eva Dafonte Perez Thursday 8 June - PL/SQL II - Nilo Segura Thursday 15 June - Oracle Tools and Bindings with languages - Eric Grancher, Nilo Segura These tutorials will take place in the IT Auditorium (bldg. 31/3-004) starting at 10:00. The average duration will be 1 hour plus time for questions. There is no need to register in advance. You can access the previous 2002-2003 sessions at http://it-des.web.cern.ch/IT-DES/DIS/oracle/tutorials.html If you need more information, please contact Catherine.Delamare@cern.ch

  15. Atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of early-onset schizophrenia

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    2015-04-01

    Full Text Available Michal Hrdlicka, Iva Dudova Department of Child Psychiatry, Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic Abstract: Atypical antipsychotics (AAPs have been successfully used in early-onset schizophrenia (EOS. This review summarizes the randomized, double-blind, controlled studies of AAPs in EOS, including clozapine, risperidone, olanzapine, aripiprazole, paliperidone, quetiapine, and ziprasidone. No significant differences in efficacy between AAPs were found, with the exception of clozapine and ziprasidone. Clozapine demonstrated superior efficacy in treatment-resistant patients with EOS, whereas ziprasidone failed to demonstrate efficacy in the treatment of EOS. Our review also focuses on the onset of action and weight gain associated with AAPs. The data on onset of action of AAPs in pediatric psychiatry are scanty and inconsistent. Olanzapine appears to cause the most significant weight gain in patients with EOS, while ziprasidone and aripiprazole seem to cause the least. Keywords: early-onset schizophrenia, atypical antipsychotics, efficacy, onset of action, weight gain

  16. INFLUENCE OF GREAT HYDRAULIC WORKS UPON NATURE AND MANKIND

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    2011-11-01

    Full Text Available The great hydraulic works represent heavy environmental modifications and influence both humans (during the construction and the utilization and nature. The present paper compares these influences for two such works the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal. Both are relatively recent, have the same purpose (the increase of the East-West trade and were initiated by Ferdinand de Lesseps. The possibility of realization was analyzed long time before the beginning of the work. Both works are sources of huge incomes and created endless disputes between the great powers. The forecast level increase of the planetary ocean will affect differently these works.

  17. OS NEOLOGISMOS COMO AÇÃO ILOCUCIONÁRIA DO SUJEITO ENUNCIADOR EM UM TEXTO LITERÁRIO

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    Maria Aparecida Lino Pauliukonis

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available Este trabalho analisa os neologismos presentes noconto Nós, os temulentos, (Tutameia, Guimarães Rosa,1968, a partir dos conceitos de Sistema, Norma e Uso,propostos por Eugenio Coseriu, em face da dicotomiaLangue e Parole de Ferdinand de Saussure . Tendo emvista uma concepção de texto como um ato de linguagem,as criações neológicas do texto, fonte para o enriquecimentodo léxico português, testemunham uma atividadeilocucionária consciente do sujeito enunciador,o qualexplora as potencialidades da Língua, a partir das virtualidadesdo Sistema.Palavras-chave: Neologismos; enunciação; atos de fala.

  18. Semiotika Strukturalisme Saussure

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    Fajriannoor Fanani

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    Full Text Available Ferdinand de Saussure is widely known as one of the prominent contributor to the theories of sign and language in semiotic. His theory in semiotic create a mark in the history of semiology. His semiotic was also known as one of the foundation of structuralism that growth in France. Structuralism, later become a movement that widespread not only in the field of linguistic but to the field of humanities and social sciences in general. How his semiotic works and how his view on structuralism applied in world of sign and language are interesting object. This writing try to overview all this in a simple and understandable way

  19. Fluid inclusion geothermometry

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    Cunningham, C.G.

    1977-01-01

    Fluid inclusions trapped within crystals either during growth or at a later time provide many clues to the histories of rocks and ores. Estimates of fluid-inclusion homogenization temperature and density can be obtained using a petrographic microscope with thin sections, and they can be refined using heating and freezing stages. Fluid inclusion studies, used in conjunction with paragenetic studies, can provide direct data on the time and space variations of parameters such as temperature, pressure, density, and composition of fluids in geologic environments. Changes in these parameters directly affect the fugacity, composition, and pH of fluids, thus directly influencing localization of ore metals. ?? 1977 Ferdinand Enke Verlag Stuttgart.

  20. Parteide salajased rahastajad tuleb välja anda / Raimo Poom, Mirko Ojakivi ; kommenteerinud Ülle Madise, Kristen Michal, Priit Toobal

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    2009-01-01

    Uue erakonnaseaduse eelnõus plaanitakse muuta ka erakondade rahastamise põhimõtteid, seaduse muutmise kava salastamisest. Hiljemalt 31. oktoobril peab justiitsministeerium saatma vastuse Euroopa Nõukogu korruptsioonivastaste riikide ühendusele GRECO, kelle raportis nõuti Eestilt sõltumatut erakondade rahastamist kontrolliva organi sisseseadmist. Näiteid erakondade küsitava rahastamise kohta

  1. Corpus methods and their reflection in linguistic theories of the 20th century

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    Simon Krek

    2013-05-01

    Full Text Available In the 20th century structuralism established itself as the central linguistic theory, in the first half mainly through its originator Ferdinand de Saussure, and in the second half with the figure of Noam Chomsky. The latter consistently refused to acknowledge analysis of extensive quantity of texts as a valuable method, and favoured linguistic intuition of a native speaker instead. In parallel with structuralism other trends in linguistics emerged which pointed to the inadequateness of the prevailing linguistic paradigm and to theoretical insights which were only possible after the systematic analysis of large quantities of texts. The paper discusses some of the dilemmas stemming from this dichotomy and places corpus linguistics in a broader linguistic context.

  2. Montessus de Ballore, a pioneer of seismology: The man and his work

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    Cisternas, Armando

    2009-06-01

    Ferdinand de Montessus de Ballore was one of the founders of scientific seismology. He was a pioneer in seismology at the same level as Perrey, Mallet, Milne and Omori. He became familiar with earthquakes and volcanoes in Central America (1881-1885). After his experience in El Salvador his interest for understanding earthquakes and volcanoes oriented all of his life. Back in France he worked out a most complete world catalogue of earthquakes with 170.000 events (1885-1907), and completed his career being the head of the Chilean Seismological Service (1907-1923). Many of his ideas were in advance of later discoveries. He was an exceptional writer and published more than 30 books and hundreds of papers.

  3. The Wage Determination Process in Turkey: An Empirical Analysis in Kaleckian Perspective

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    Başak Gül AKTAKAS

    2014-05-01

    Full Text Available Orthodox economists generally think about labor market that the price stability and low unemployment cannot be achieved at the same time. In this sense, the Orthodox argument discusses that a decline in the aggregate demand will decrease the money wages and real wages proportionally, and increase the volume of employment. Michal Kalecki denies such a wage policy which is consistently determined by this idea. Wages reflect the price-money wage relation in real terms. Prices set in regard to the degree of monopoly. In this context, it is assumed real wages is determined depending upon the degree of monopoly, labor productivity and price of import goods. According to Kalecki, Orthodoxian view which relates a decrease in real wages with an increase in production based on increasing marginal cost assumption and Kalecki does not accept this perspective. Kaleckian PostKeynesian labor market will be theoretically discussed and the determination process of the real wage will be empirically analyzed for Turkish economy over the period 1989:1 to 2012:4.

  4. Incidence of remuneration to capital on the colombian business cycle from 1980 to 2005

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    Julio César Chamorro Futinico

    2011-07-01

    Full Text Available The business cycle was one of the most important issues in the economic agendafrom the late 19th Century to the mid 20th Century. The importance of the studylay in the priority of finding the causes and duration of economic crisis, and tobe able to determine or predict how often they would happen. Currently, and with the recent financial crisis in the United States (2008 and in Colombia(1998-2009, among others, this study has gained importance once more. Thispaper presents a number of points of view on the matter and focuses on an approach that has been given very little consideration: Michal Kalecki’s theory,which provides a basis for analyzing the Colombian business cycle from 1980to 2005, and thus compare the model estimated through the Three-Stage LeastSquares (3SLS method with the behavior of the remuneration to capital during the same period. Based on this, a close relation is found between the latter, the decision to invest and, therefore, the declining phase of the business cycle.

  5. CERN Technical Training 2007: IT3T - IT Technical Training Tutorials (Autumn 2007)

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    CERN Technical Training and the Internet Services group of the IT department (IT/IS) are jointly organizing a series of free tutorials, addressing some topics of common interest: the IT Technical Training Tutorials (IT3T). The first IT3T series will be offered in October 2007, in French, with the following schedule: IT3T/2007/1 "Introduction to Collaboration Workspaces using SharePoint", October 23rd , 14:30-16:00, Alexandre Lossent IT3T/2007/2 "What is new in Office 2007", October 25th, 14:30-15:30, Emmanuel Ormancey IT3T/2007/3 "Working with Windows Vista at CERN", October 30th, 14:30-15:30, Michal Kwiatek IT3T/2007/4 "Read your mail and more with Outlook 2007", November 1st, 14:30-15:30, Sebastien Dellabella All IT Technical Training Tutorials will take place in the Training Centre Auditorium (building 593, room 11), at 14h30. The tutorials are free of charge, but separate registration to each is required. Participation to any of the tutorials is open: attendance to any ...

  6. Norm Entrepreneurs and Atlanticist Foreign Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: The Missionary Zeal of Recent Converts / Kristina Mikulova, Michal Simecka

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    Artikkel arutleb atlantitsismi kui aktiivse ja väärtustepõhise välispoliitika allikate ja motivatsioonide üle post-kommunistlikes Ida-ja Kesk-Euroopa riikides a-tel 2002-2009 (sh Eesti). Juhtumiuuringutena on käsitlusel Tšehhi ja Slovakkia

  7. Absolutism versus doceañista liberalism. The Visual Counterattack

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    Carlos Reyero

    2017-09-01

    Full Text Available The aim of this article is to identify some dominants themes within absolutists discourses and to sketch out how they are translated to images, in order to persuade against and to denigrate liberalism. Descriptions of public ornaments in events honoring king Ferdinand VII in 1814 and 1823 are used as the main reference sources. Absolutism is recognized looking for associations between images and words, resemblances, metaphors, symbols and iconographic matches. Visual imagery to achieve absolutist goal emphasized the primacy of the king, the rhetoric of vassalage, a strong motherland, the uniqueness of religion, and the exclusion of the political enemy. In order to totally eliminate the constitutional risk, the tradition was presented as a paradise of peace and happiness.

  8. "Cosmomorphistic geometry" in the unconscious geometry of Johannes Kepler

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    Adam, Adolf

    Some mathematical aspects of the Music theory by Johannes Kepler are discussed, paying a special attention to the book "De harmonice mundi". Other scientists interested in Music theory are mentioned throughout the paper: The Pythagorean school, Klaudios Ptolemaios, Leonard Euler, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian von Goldbach, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholz, Karl Friedrich Gauss. The relation with the ancient chinese schools of cosmography has been discussed: From the the Pythagorean to the ancient Chinese schools of cosmography we find arithmo-geometrical applications of numbers which are emblematic, hold meaning or represent the essence of things, the author writes. It was Johannes Kepler who taught us this "transconstructive method" of forming classical and ancient begginings of structuralistic thinking into a system from which deductions can readily be made.

  9. ¿Fue Wundt el primero en intentar que la psicología fuera una disciplina independiente?

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    Karlos Luna

    2016-08-01

    Full Text Available Una reciente investigación ha redescubierto la figura de Ferdinand Bernard Ueberwasser, profesor de la Universidad de Münster que intentó dar un impulso a la psicología como disciplina independiente casi un siglo antes que Wundt. En 1787 publicó un libro en el que propuso una psicología científica basada en la manipulación de variables y la replicación de observaciones, y que debía tratar temas tan variados como la percepción, la memoria, la creatividad o la empatía. Las Guerras Napoleónicas y el cierre de la Universidad de Münster hicieron que el legado de Ueberwasser prácticamente se perdiera, hasta hoy.

  10. [Was Claude Bernard an atheist?].

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    Donnet, V

    1998-01-01

    During his stay at Villefranche-sur-Saône College, Claude Bernard became acquainted with Ferdinand Donnet, appointed a short while ago, priest of the Parish. This priest became Cardinal and carried out his apostolate at Bordeaux for 47 years. 40 years after their meeting at Villefranche, Cardinal Donnet and Claude Bernard found again each other as "Sénateurs d'Empire" in Paris. In his writings, Claude Bernard never mentioned Religion: he rather gave impression, in many ways, of being anticlerical! Paul Bert and his colleagues looked upon Claude Bernard as a great priest of atheism. Shortly after his death, Cardinal Donnet wrote a letter where he entirely proved that Claude Bernard has been, on the contrary, a fervent catholic.

  11. Cosmopolitan sociology and the classical canon: Ferdinand Tönnies and the emergence of global Gesellschaft.

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    Inglis, David

    2009-12-01

    How relevant are figures from the classical sociological canon for present day efforts to found cosmopolitan forms of sociological thought? According to the critique of Ulrich Beck, the classical sociologists remain far too wedded to nation-state-centred ways of thinking to play an important role in the development of cosmopolitan sociology. This paper argues that such a critique fails to account for the ways in which certain classical sociologists were attuned to the emerging cosmopolitical conditions of their own time, were not wholly wedded to nation-state-based conceptualizations, and thus can function as both groundings of, and inspirations for, cosmopolitan sociological endeavours. The apparently unpromising case of Tönnies is focused on, the paper showing how he outlined an account of how and why a planet-spanning condition of Gesellschaft developed a position which diverges from and counterpoints Marx's analysis of similar phenomena in important ways. The stereotype of Tönnies as an arch-conservative is also dissolved, allowing him to be considered as one of the most important antecedents of contemporary cosmopolitan sociological practice and a canonical figure still relevant for present-day purposes.

  12. ALGUNS ASPECTOS DA RELAÇÃO ENTRE A TEORIA SAUSSURIANA DA LINGUAGEM E A TEORIA DO SIGNIFICANTE LACANIANO A FEW ASPECTS OF THE RELATION ENTER THE SAUSSURE'S THEORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND THE THEORY OF THE LACAN'S SIGNIFICANT

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    Sergio Augusto Franco Fernandes

    2010-05-01

    Full Text Available Faz-se necessário uma busca de elementos que venham a facilitar a compreensão das origens do significante lacaniano, na tentativa de esclarecer, pela via do estruturalismo lingüístico, até onde vai, realmente, a influência saussuriana. Sabe-se que o significante lacaniano, mesmo tendo como referência epistemológica o significante saussuriano, ambos não devem ser confundidos. Normalmente se atribui a Ferdinand de Saussure a invenção da teoria do signo. Ressaltaremos, entretanto, que essa “invenção” é bem anterior às teorias do lingüista genebrino. Levaremos em conta as observações de Jean-Luc Nancy e Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, na medida em que esses autores demonstram que o deslocamento operado sobre o esquema saussuriano não vai depender, como comumente se pensa, da autonomia do significante. Verificaremos, portanto, até que ponto mostra-se legítimo o uso do termo significante na teoria lacaniana.A search of elements becomes necessary to facilitate the understanding of the origins of the Lacan´s significant, in the attempt to explain through structural linguistic, the limits of the Saussure´s influence. It is known that the Lacan´s significant, even though has the Saussure´s influence as a reference in epistemology, both “significant” must not be mistaken. It is usually attributed to Ferdinand de Saussure the invention of the theory of the linguistic sign. We will stand out, however, that this “invention” is previous to the theories of the genevan linguist. We will observe the comments of Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, to the point where these authors demonstrate that the displacement operated on the Saussure´s scheme will not depend on, as it is well known, the significant’s autonomy. It will be verified, therefore, how legitimate it is, the use of the significant´s term in the Lacan´s theory.

  13. Philippines. Church vs. state: Fidel Ramos and family planning face "Catholic Power".

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    1994-08-24

    Catholic groups and individuals united in a public rally in Manila's Rizal Park to decry a "cultural dictatorship," which promotes abortion, homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual perversion, condoms, and artificial contraception. Government spokesmen responded that condoms and contraception were part of government policy to spread family planning knowledge and informed choices among the population. Cardinal Jaime Sin and former president Corazon Aquino joined forces to lead the movement against the national family planning program in the largest demonstration since the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. Also criticized was the 85-page draft action plan for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) scheduled for September 1994. Cardinal Sin accused President Clinton of using the action plan to promote worldwide abortion. Under the administration of President Fidel Ramos, family planning funding has quintupled and the number of family planning workers has increased from 200 to 8000. President Ramos has gone the farthest of any administration in opposing the Church's positions on contraception and abortion, although years ago Fidel Ramos and Cardinal Sin were allies in the effort to push out Ferdinand Marcos. The population of the Philippines is 85% Catholic, and laws reflect the Church's doctrine against divorce and abortion. The current growth rate is 2.3%, and the goal is to reduce growth to 2.0% by 1998, the end of Ramos's term in office. The population target is in accord with demographic goals proposed in the UN draft action plan. The Vatican has opposed the language in the plan and may have encouraged other religious leaders to join those opposed to the "war against our babies and children." Sin said that contraceptive distribution was "intrinsically evil" and should be stopped now. Ramos's administration stated that their policies and programs are not "in the hands of the devil" and there is support for the Church on family values and

  14. Political Issues. The Debates around the Govern- ment of New Spain during the Process of Independence

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    Alfredo Ávila

    2009-07-01

    Full Text Available When Charles IV relinquished his dominions in favor of Bonaparte, the inhabitants of New Spain and other Hispanic territories faced a major problem: who would be in charge of government? Or, in Servando Teresa de Mier's words: what had to be done so that a group of individuals could be recognized by the heads of the military and obeyed by the people? The main political actors soon realized that any option would be disputable.  Our paper examines this phenomenon during the process of Independence. Juntas, congresses and governments would always be liable to questioning. The return of Ferdinand VII to the throne and his incapacity to restore the pre-1808 order proved that there was no turning back the process of debating the political order.

  15. Characterization of diode-laser stacks for high-energy-class solid state lasers

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    Pilar, Jan; Sikocinski, Pawel; Pranowicz, Alina; Divoky, Martin; Crump, P.; Staske, R.; Lucianetti, Antonio; Mocek, Tomas

    2014-03-01

    In this work, we present a comparative study of high power diode stacks produced by world's leading manufacturers such as DILAS, Jenoptik, and Quantel. The diode-laser stacks are characterized by central wavelength around 939 nm, duty cycle of 1 %, and maximum repetition rate of 10 Hz. The characterization includes peak power, electrical-to-optical efficiency, central wavelength and full width at half maximum (FWHM) as a function of diode current and cooling temperature. A cross-check of measurements performed at HiLASE-IoP and Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) shows very good agreement between the results. Our study reveals also the presence of discontinuities in the spectra of two diode stacks. We consider the results presented here a valuable tool to optimize pump sources for ultra-high average power lasers, including laser fusion facilities.

  16. Biomedical analysis of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue samples: The Holy Grail for molecular diagnostics.

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    Donczo, Boglarka; Guttman, Andras

    2018-06-05

    More than a century ago in 1893, a revolutionary idea about fixing biological tissue specimens was introduced by Ferdinand Blum, a German physician. Since then, a plethora of fixation methods have been investigated and used. Formalin fixation with paraffin embedment became the most widely used types of fixation and preservation method, due to its proper architectural conservation of tissue structures and cellular shape. The huge collection of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) sample archives worldwide holds a large amount of unearthed information about diseases that could be the Holy Grail in contemporary biomarker research utilizing analytical omics based molecular diagnostics. The aim of this review is to critically evaluate the omics options for FFPE tissue sample analysis in the molecular diagnostics field. Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier B.V.

  17. [The Coris, a married couple native to Prague and Nobel laureates].

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    Cech, P

    2001-01-19

    The husband and wife Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984) and Gerty Theresa Radnitz-Cori (1896-1957), two of five Prague-born Nobel laureates (the only ones in medicine), have so much slipped away from the citizens' memory in the course of the half-century totalitarian rule over the country of birth, that hardly anybody knows them nowadays, nothing to say of their relation to Prague. At pains to rescue them from oblivion, a recent search for the lost traces of Coris and their ancestors had revealed a number of hitherto unknown facts that have fundamentally contributed to the Corian genealogy; identification of both forgotten birth-houses (6 Salmovská st., 29 Petrská st.) at long last resulted in placement of memorial tablets (October 26th, 2000) to display the birth-place's pride and gratitude.

  18. Tycho Brahe in China: the Jesuit mission to Peking and the iconography of European instrument-making processes

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    Chapman, Allan

    In the late 1660s, Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish Jesuit missionary in Peking, was instructed to re-equip the Imperial Observatory. The new instruments which he caused to be built were modelled neither upon contemporary European prototypes, nor those of traditional Chinese astronomy, but on the pieces in Tycho Brahe's Mechanica, of eighty years before. The Chinese instruments were lavishly illustrated, moreover, in 105 woodcuts that contained detailed representations of their processes of construction. It is argued that these illustrations not only give us valuable insights into what the technical Jesuits did in Peking, but show how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European craftsmen constructed their instruments, for while the location was Oriental, the technology was Western. They can also give important insights into how Tycho's prototypes had been built, and provide us with useful information regarding European instrument-making technology.

  19. About signs and symptoms: can semiotics expand the view of clinical medicine?

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    Nessa, J

    1996-12-01

    Semiotics, the theory of sign and meaning, may help physicians complement the project of interpreting signs and symptoms into diagnoses. A sign stands for something. We communicate indirectly through signs, and make sense of our world by interpreting signs into meaning. Thus, through association and inference, we transform flowers into love, Othello into jealousy, and chest pain into heart attack. Medical semiotics is part of general semiotics, which means the study of life of signs within society. With special reference to a case story, elements from general semiotics, together with two theoreticians of equal importance, the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and the American logician Charles Sanders Peirce, are presented. Two different modes of understanding clinical medicine are contrasted to illustrate the external link between what we believe or suggest, on the one hand, and the external reality on the other hand.

  20. Critical mm-wave components for synthetic automatic test systems

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    Michael Hrobak studied hybrid integrated front end modules for high frequency measurement equipment and especially for synthetic automatic test systems. Recent developments of innovative, critical millimeter-wave components like frequency multipliers, directional couplers, filters, triple balanced mixers and power detectors are illustrated by the author separately and in combination.  Contents Synthetic Instruments Resistive Diode Frequency Multipliers Planar Directional Couplers and Filters Triple Balanced Mixers Zero Bias Schottky Power Detectors Integrated Front End Assemblies  Target Groups Scientists and students in the field of electrical engineering with main emphasis on high frequency technology Engineers and Practitioners dealing with the development of micro- and millimeter-wave measurement instruments  About the Author Dr. Michael Hrobak is with the Microwave Department of the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH), Berlin, Germany, where he is involved in the development and measurement of monolithic i...

  1. The life of Rudolf Nissen: advancing surgery through science and principle.

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    Fults, D W; Taussky, P

    2011-06-01

    Rudolf Nissen (1896-1981) was a surgeon whose career began in Germany during the first third of the 20th century, a period of rapid progress in biomedical technology, during which neurosurgery, anesthesiology, and other specialties emerged. A protégé and later close colleague of thoracic surgery pioneer Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875-1951), Nissen resigned from the Berlin Charité Clinic and left Germany in 1933, in response to the rise of Nazi fascism. Throughout his subsequent career in Istanbul, Turkey, the American cities of Boston and New York, and finally Basel, Switzerland, Nissen developed innovative surgical techniques, advocated for patient-centered medical education, and promoted surgical subspecialization. A lifelong proponent of clear scientific writing, Nissen expressed, in extensively published work, his philosophy that progress in surgery depends critically on rigorously applying the scientific method, upholding professional integrity, and respecting human dignity.

  2. Medical semiotics; its influence on art, psychoanalysis and Sherlock Holmes.

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    Moore-McCann, Brenda

    2016-11-01

    Semiotics is the analysis and interpretation of signs and the basis of medicine since antiquity. It is suggested that the growth of technology has led to the virtual eclipse of the clinical examination with consequent loss of skill, empathy and patient trust. This paper views the value of medical semiotics through the method of the 19th century Italian doctor, Giovanni Morelli, which has had a significant but little recognised impact on the early development of psychoanalysis, the detective novel and art connoisseurship. Semiotics and, specifically, the linguistic semiotics of Ferdinand Saussure have been influential in the fields of the visual arts, literature and the social sciences since the 20th century. With its roots in the medical treatises of antiquity, medical semiotics should again be brought to the forefront of medical practice. © The Author(s) 2014.

  3. Un análisis paradigmático de los aportes de F. de Saussure y N. Chomsky al campo de los estudios del lenguaje

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    2005-01-01

    Full Text Available En este artículo se analizan, desde una perspectiva paradigmática de las ciencias, algunas de las contribuciones de dos de los más importantes lingüistas del siglo XX, Ferdinand de Saussure y Noam Chomsky. La tesis central que se sustenta aquí es que existe evidencia proveniente de estos aportes a favor de la consolidación de la Lingüística como una ciencia madura en el estudio de la estructura del lenguaje humano, y de una comunidad científica, cuyos orígenes dan cuenta de lo que podría llamarse la prehistoria de la lingüística. Se recurre, para este propósito, a una línea de argumentación centrada en algunos conceptos propuestos por Thomas Kuhn en su libro La Estructura de las Revoluciones Científicas

  4. “Plus de figures!”

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    Christensen, Hans Dam

    2016-01-01

    In this article, the spotlight is directed towards one of the supposed modern sinners contributing to the maintenance of the hierarchy between word and image, the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) and in particular his chief work Cours de lingustique générale, published in 1916....... Saussure was not explicit about the relation between word and image, but his work became a cornerstone in the development of modern linguistics and semiotics as well as later in the breakthrough of structuralism in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This article shows that Saussure was not as hostile...... to images that posterity seems to deduce from the more or less internalized ‘verbocentrism’ of large parts of semiotics and structuralism. Moreover, and most important, the article makes a contribution to a multifaceted understanding of signifying processes. First, the article presents the origin of Cours...

  5. Vincenz Fukala (1847-1911): versatile surgeon and early historian of ophthalmology.

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    Schmidt, Dieter; Grzybowski, Andrzej

    2011-01-01

    Vincenz Fukala is best known for his technique of discission and linear extraction of the lens in young, highly myopic eyes--the technique adopted by Harold Ridley in preparation for lens implantation in young patients. He was Polish and trained in Vienna under Karl Ferdinand. von Arlt. Fukala practiced first in Pilsen (1889-1894), but returned to Vienna in 1895. He studied trachoma in Egypt in 1872. His research on scrofulous eye disease led him twice to the United States, in 1891 and 1892. Fukala also developed highly successful, pioneering techniques for the treatment of ectropion in blepharitis, of trachoma, and of shallow sockets following enucleation. In glaucoma, he recommended early iridectomy of the fellow eye when the first eye has gone blind. He was also an expert on the history of ancient European texts and of Arabic ophthalmology. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  6. The Importance of Augustin Hallerstein for Cultural and Political Relations with China and Korea

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    Mitja SAJE

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available Since symbols of early cultural relations between Europe and East Asia are important, we are striving to restore the image of Augustin Hallerstein (1703–1774 in China and earn his legacy its appropriate position in the history of the Qing dynasty next to other great Jesuits like Adam Shall von Bell (1591–1666, Ferdinand Verbiest (1623–1688, or Ignatius Kogler (1680–1746. A two-year EU project made possible the publication of a monograph in English, which was translated into Chinese and published in China in February 2015. Wider popularization of his achievements should be beneficial to Slovenia as well as to China, where he did his work. Such common heroes of the past could often be used to promote better understanding and cooperation between China and Slovenia. Through strong connections with Korean scholars he gained a high reputation in Korea as well.

  7. Historia del Lupus

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    Alvaro Rodríguez Gama

    2004-09-01

    Se encontrarán los lectores con una gran cantidad y calidad de biografías sobre investigaciones, médicos y científicos que han enfrentado el reto de tratar de entender y tratar el lupus, desde los médicos clásicos como Hipócrates, Galeno y Celso, los protodermatólogos Daniel Turner, Jean Astruc, Antoine Lorry y Josef von Plenk; el primer dematológo Robert Willam y médicos de los siglos XVIII y XIX como Thomas Bateman, Jean Lous Alibert, Theódore Biett, Olive Rayer, Pierre Cazenave, Antoine Bazin, Ferdinand von Hebra, Moriz Kaposi, Ernest Besnier, Alfred Fournier, Louis Brocq, Jean Darier, el clasificador Jonathan Hutchinson, Paul Unna, William Osler, Emanuel Libman, George Baehr y así decenas de colosos de la ciencia médica, cuyas historias son descritas minuciosamente por el Dr. Iglesias...

  8. Jelena Krmpotić-Nemanić (1921-2008): contributions to human neuroanatomy.

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    Judas, Milos; Petanjek, Zdravko; Kostović, Ivica

    2011-01-01

    Jelena Krmpotić-Nemanić (1921-2008) was a world-famous anatomist, internationally distinguished otolaryngologist, a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts and appreciated professor at the School of Medicine University of Zagreb. The founding influence in her scientific career came from her mentor Drago Perovid who was a student of Ferdinand Hochstetter, the leading authority in the field of human developmental neuroanatomy and embryology. Such an influence was obviously important in early shaping of the research agenda of Jelena Krmpotić-Nemanić, and it remains important in a long series of studies on developing human telencephalon initiated by Ivica Kostović and his collaborators - with an always present and active support of Jelena Krmpotić-Nemanić. The aim of this mini review is to briefly describe her numerous contributions to the anatomy of the human peripheral and central nervous system.

  9. The nuclear news interview. John Gilleland. On the traveling-wave reactor

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    Michal, Rick; Blake, E. Michael

    2010-01-01

    The traveling-wave reactor, in concept, would use depleted uranium to produce vast amounts of energy without the need for enrichment plants and reprocessing facilities, which is why billionaire Bill Gates is interested in developing it. TerraPower LLC has been launched by the company Intellectual Ventures to design a traveling-wave nuclear reactor that could run for 100 years without refueling or removing spent fuel. So convincing is the science behind the concept that billionaire Bill Gates has gotten involved to help finance the project. Led by John Gilleland, TerraPower's chief executive officer, a team of researchers has run computer simulations and is doing engineering studies that have produced evidence that a wave of fission moving slowly through a fuel core could generate a billion watts of electricity continuously without refueling. Gilleland noted that these new reactors could reduce the amount of nuclear waste by using existing stockpiles of depleted uranium as fuel. ''By extracting centuries' worth of energy from waste at enrichment plants, these reactors would turn a social and financial liability into an asset,'' he said. Gilleland, a member of the American Nuclear Society, talked about the traveling-wave reactor with Nuclear News editors Rick Michal and E. Michael Blake. (orig.)

  10. Design and characteristics of cytotoxic fibroblast growth factor 1 conjugate for fibroblast growth factor receptor-targeted cancer therapy

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    Full Text Available Anna Szlachcic, Malgorzata Zakrzewska, Michal Lobocki, Piotr Jakimowicz, Jacek Otlewski Department of Protein Engineering, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland Abstract: Fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs are attractive candidate cancer therapy targets as they are overexpressed in multiple types of tumors, such as breast, prostate, bladder, and lung cancer. In this study, a natural ligand of FGFR, an engineered variant of fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF1V, was conjugated to a potent cytotoxic drug, monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE, and used as a targeting agent for cancer cells overexpressing FGFRs, similar to antibodies in antibody–drug conjugates. The FGF1V–valine–citrulline–MMAE conjugate showed a favorable stability profile, bound FGFRs on the cell surface specifically, and efficiently released the drug (MMAE upon cleavage by the lysosomal protease cathepsin B. Importantly, the conjugate showed a prominent cytotoxic effect toward cell lines expressing FGFR. FGF1V–vcMMAE was highly cytotoxic at concentrations even an order of magnitude lower than those found for free MMAE. This effect was FGFR-specific as cells lacking FGFR did not show any increased mortality. Keywords: fibroblast growth factor 1, FGF receptor, targeted cancer therapy, cytotoxic conjugates, FGFR-dependent cancer, MMAE, auristatin

  11. Pioneers of representation theory

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    1999-01-01

    The year 1897 was marked by two important mathematical events: the publication of the first paper on representations of finite groups by Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849-1917) and the appearance of the first treatise in English on the theory of finite groups by William Burnside (1852-1927). Burnside soon developed his own approach to representations of finite groups. In the next few years, working independently, Frobenius and Burnside explored the new subject and its applications to finite group theory. They were soon joined in this enterprise by Issai Schur (1875-1941) and some years later, by Richard Brauer (1901-1977). These mathematicians' pioneering research is the subject of this book. It presents an account of the early history of representation theory through an analysis of the published work of the principals and others with whom the principals' work was interwoven. Also included are biographical sketches and enough mathematics to enable readers to follow the development of the subject. An introductor...

  12. Penokohan Film Sawung Kampret Karya Dwi Koendoro (Dwi Koen Dalam Perspektif Strukturalisme

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    Dyah Gayatri Puspitasari

    2015-03-01

    Full Text Available Tulisan ini berisi  kajian penokohan film Sawung Kampret yang diadaptasi dari komik Le- genda Sawung Kampret. Kajian ini menarik karena dua hal. Pertama, komik dan film adaptasi- nya diciptakan dan disutradarai oleh orang yang sama, yakni Dwi Koendoro. Kedua, kajian film yang diadaptasi dari komik Indonesia merupakan yang pertama. Melalui pendekatan struktural Ferdinand de Saussure, kajian berpusat pada relasi berbagai elemen penokohan yang membentuk keutuhan struktur narasi film. Didapat beberapa temuan menarik dimana unsur kelucuan pada penokohan film Sawung Kampret direlasikan dengan sejarah, hingga mampu membentuk narasi asosiatif yang mengusung nasionalisme berdasar nilai kemanusiaan, kebe- ragaman etnis dan budaya. Fakta tersebut menunjukkan bahwa melalui film Sawung Kampret, Dwi Koendoro mampu menciptakan perspektif struktur baru dengan melakukan kritik terha- dap struktur lama. Pasangan berlawanan (binary opposition dalam sistem lama coba diperta- nyakan. Sebagai hasil akhir maka dapat disimpulkan bahwa film Sawung Kampret merupakan film parodi sejarah yang sarat akan muatan pesan moral dan nasionalisme.       Kata kunci: film, adaptasi, penokohan, struktur, relasi

  13. Towards a mathematical theory of meaningful communication

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    Corominas-Murtra, Bernat; Fortuny, Jordi; Solé, Ricard V.

    2014-04-01

    Meaning has been left outside most theoretical approaches to information in biology. Functional responses based on an appropriate interpretation of signals have been replaced by a probabilistic description of correlations between emitted and received symbols. This assumption leads to potential paradoxes, such as the presence of a maximum information associated to a channel that creates completely wrong interpretations of the signals. Game-theoretic models of language evolution and other studies considering embodied communicating agents show that the correct (meaningful) match resulting from agent-agent exchanges is always achieved and natural systems obviously solve the problem correctly. Inspired by the concept of duality of the communicative sign stated by the swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, here we present a complete description of the minimal system necessary to measure the amount of information that is consistently decoded. Several consequences of our developments are investigated, such as the uselessness of a certain amount of information properly transmitted for communication among autonomous agents.

  14. Valuable books from the library of Paul Gore (Identification and/or inventory of sources

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    Maria Danilov

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    Full Text Available Paul Gore (1875-1927 - an outstanding figure of the socio-political, scientific and cultural life of Bessarabia at the beginning of 20th century, was also known among his contemporaries as a keen collector of old and rare books. Undoubtedly, the most valuable part of the library of Paul Gore consisted of books on the history of Bessarabia. Documents from the National Archives of the Republic of Moldova in Chişinău confirm that he inherited a large part of books from his father Gheorghe Gore (1839-1909. A study of the Paul Gore Fund at the National Archives of Romania in Bucharest gave us a lot of documentary evidence of the destiny of this Bessarabian noble library, which later became a property of the King Ferdinand Fund. However, the fate of its most valuable part - books on the history of Bessarabia, consisted of 651 units of the total number of 6456 volumes - is still unknown.

  15. “Hindi Bayani/Not a Hero”: The Linguistic Landscape of Protest in Manila

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    Jennifer Monje

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    Full Text Available This article examines the linguistic landscape of Manila during a protest march in November 2016 in response to the burial of deposed president Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Cemetery. This article is situated among linguistic landscape of protest research (Kasanga, 2014; Seals, 2011; Shiri, 2015 where data is composed of mobile posters, placards, banners, and other ‘unfixed’ signs, including texts on bodies, t-shirts, umbrellas, and rocks. Following Sebba (2010, this article argues that both ‘fixed’ linguistic landscape and ‘mobile’ public texts are indices of the linguistic composition of cities, linguistic diversity, and ethnolinguistic vitality (Landry & Bourhis, 1997. Through a qualitative analysis of selected pictures produced during the protest march and uploaded onto social media, the multilingual nature of Manila is rendered salient and visible, albeit temporarily, and strategies of dissent are reflective of the language of the millennials who populated the protests.

  16. Properties of the Irregular Satellite System around Uranus Inferred from K2, Herschel, and Spitzer Observations

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    Farkas-Takács, A.; Kiss, Cs.; Pál, A.; Molnár, L.; Szabó, Gy. M.; Hanyecz, O.; Sárneczky, K.; Szabó, R.; Marton, G.; Mommert, M.; Szakáts, R.; Müller, T.; Kiss, L. L.

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    In this paper, we present visible-range light curves of the irregular Uranian satellites Sycorax, Caliban, Prospero, Ferdinand, and Setebos taken with the Kepler Space Telescope over the course of the K2 mission. Thermal emission measurements obtained with the Herschel/PACS and Spitzer/MIPS instruments of Sycorax and Caliban were also analyzed and used to determine size, albedo, and surface characteristics of these bodies. We compare these properties with the rotational and surface characteristics of irregular satellites in other giant planet systems and also with those of main belt and Trojan asteroids and trans-Neptunian objects. Our results indicate that the Uranian irregular satellite system likely went through a more intense collisional evolution than the irregular satellites of Jupiter and Saturn. Surface characteristics of Uranian irregular satellites seem to resemble the Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects more than irregular satellites around other giant planets, suggesting the existence of a compositional discontinuity in the young solar system inside the orbit of Uranus.

  17. Scientific Psychology in the 18th Century: A Historical Rediscovery.

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    Schwarz, Katharina A; Pfister, Roland

    2016-05-01

    As early as 1783, the almost forgotten philosopher, metaphysicist, and psychologist Ferdinand Ueberwasser (1752-1812) designated himself "Professor für empirische Psychologie und Logik" (professor of empirical psychology and logic) at the University of Münster, Germany. His position was initiated and supported by the minister and educational reformer Franz von Fürstenberg (1729-1810), who considered psychology a core scientific discipline that should be taught at each school and university. At the end of the 18th century, then, psychology seems to have been on the verge of becoming an independent academic discipline, about 100 years before Wilhelm Wundt founded the discipline's first official laboratory. It seems surprising that Ueberwasser's writings-including a seminal textbook on empirical psychology-have been almost entirely overlooked in most historical accounts. We focus on this important founding moment of psychological science and on the circumstances that eventually brought this seminal development to a halt. © The Author(s) 2016.

  18. Properties of the Irregular Satellite System around Uranus Inferred from K2 , Herschel , and Spitzer Observations

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    Farkas-Takács, A.; Kiss, Cs.; Pál, A.; Molnár, L.; Szabó, Gy. M.; Hanyecz, O.; Sárneczky, K.; Szabó, R.; Marton, G.; Szakáts, R.; Kiss, L. L. [Konkoly Observatory, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, H-1121 Budapest (Hungary); Mommert, M. [Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 6010, Flagstaff, AZ 86011 (United States); Müller, T., E-mail: farkas.aniko@csfk.mta.hu [Max-Plank-Institut für extraterrestrsiche Pyhsik, Garching (Germany)

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    In this paper, we present visible-range light curves of the irregular Uranian satellites Sycorax, Caliban, Prospero, Ferdinand, and Setebos taken with the Kepler Space Telescope over the course of the K2 mission. Thermal emission measurements obtained with the Herschel /PACS and Spitzer /MIPS instruments of Sycorax and Caliban were also analyzed and used to determine size, albedo, and surface characteristics of these bodies. We compare these properties with the rotational and surface characteristics of irregular satellites in other giant planet systems and also with those of main belt and Trojan asteroids and trans-Neptunian objects. Our results indicate that the Uranian irregular satellite system likely went through a more intense collisional evolution than the irregular satellites of Jupiter and Saturn. Surface characteristics of Uranian irregular satellites seem to resemble the Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects more than irregular satellites around other giant planets, suggesting the existence of a compositional discontinuity in the young solar system inside the orbit of Uranus.

  19. The Good Portrait of the Academic Author

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    2005-01-01

    This article is to give the reader a language with which one can discuss portraits of academics and their usage. Moreover the four most frequently used genres of portraits of academic authors will be introduced. And it will be argued why insight into, and knowledge of these genres is crusial...... in order to make correct choice of portrait in the light of the context. The most relevant genres within photography of academics can be found within four categories: The classical portrait, the staged portrait, the situational portrait and the news portrait. When choosing a portrait whether...... it is for the news, public relations or the back cover of a book it is useful to have a vocabulary about the visual elements concerning photography of academics. Such a language can be provided by semiotics, and in this context I have drawn on aspects of the semiotic theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes...

  20. Les je gigognes du roman célinien

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    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available Le présent article se penchera sur des aspects narratologiques des trois derniers romans de l’écrivain français Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961, d’un château l’autre (1957, nord (1960 et rigodon (publication posthume en 1964. Les romans, que la tradition critique solidement établie réunit en trilogie allemande,1 présentent l’aboutissement des recherches poétiques de l’écrivain tant au niveau du style qu’au niveau des techniques narratives. L’analyse qui s’appuiera pour l’essentiel sur le modèle narratologique de Gérard Genette (Genette 1972, 1983 se centrera sur différentes valeurs du je célinien :   –      je comme instance(s narrative(s, –      je comme foyer(s de perception, –      je comme personnage(s romanesque(s.

  1. New insights into the catalytic mechanism of human glycine N-acyltransferase.

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    van der Sluis, Rencia; Ungerer, Vida; Nortje, Carla; A van Dijk, Alberdina; Erasmus, Elardus

    2017-11-01

    Even though the glycine conjugation pathway was one of the first metabolic pathways to be discovered, this pathway remains very poorly characterized. The bi-substrate kinetic parameters of a recombinant human glycine N-acyltransferase (GLYAT, E.C. 2.3.1.13) were determined using the traditional colorimetric method and a newly developed HPLC-ESI-MS/MS method. Previous studies analyzing the kinetic parameters of GLYAT, indicated a random Bi-Bi and/or ping-pong mechanism. In this study, the hippuric acid concentrations produced by the GLYAT enzyme reaction were analyzed using the allosteric sigmoidal enzyme kinetic module. Analyses of the initial rate (v) against substrate concentration plots, produced a sigmoidal curve (substrate activation) when the benzoyl-CoA concentrations was kept constant, whereas the plot with glycine concentrations kept constant, passed through a maximum (substrate inhibition). Thus, human GLYAT exhibits mechanistic kinetic cooperativity as described by the Ferdinand enzyme mechanism rather than the previously assumed Michaelis-Menten reaction mechanism. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

  2. Sarajevo 1914: An Examination of the Context by which Austria Hungary Responded to the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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    disputes. Romania and Serbia were recognized as independent states in this Congress, but the agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina was a half-way house...Greece, and Romania together against Bulgaria. After fighting, peace was arranged and borders re-drawn without Austro-Hungarian input. Williamson...Monarchy 1848- 1918 . 2 vols. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1950. May, Arthur J. The Hapsburg Monarchy 1867-1914. Harvard University Press

  3. [Once upon a time there was a medical faculty--a brief history of the Medical Faculty of the Erzsébet University in Pressburg (1914-1919)].

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    Kiss, László

    2010-01-01

    Despite the fact that the idea of expanding the medical faculties of Budapest and Kolozsvár was formed in the 1870s, it only came true in the 1910s. The XXXVI. Law of 1912 ensured establishing new faculties in Pozsony and Debrecen. The medical faculty of Erzsébet University in Pozsony opened in 1914. The first three professors, i.e. Lajos Bakay, Ferenc Herzog and Dezső Velits, who formerly worked as head physicians for the State Hospital in Pozsony and the Institute for Midwives, were appointed then. The appointment of further professors and launching the 3rd, 4th and 5th forms were delayed by the outbreak of the war until 1918. After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy the newly formed Czechoslovakia dissolved the Hungarian university in 1919. The clinics and institutes of the medical faculty were passed to Czechoslovak ownership, the Hungarian lecturers were dismissed. It is worth mentioning though that Albert Szent-Györgyi and Carl Ferdinand Cori (both Nobel Prize winners) started their scientific career in Pozsony.

  4. Exchange of equipment between CERN and JINR

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    2010-01-01

    The drift chambers of the former NA48 experiment have recently left CERN to be installed in the MPD experiment at the future NICA accelerator in Dubna, Russia. As a counterpart, the JINR Laboratory will produce drift chambers for the new NA62 experiment. This operation is a fruitful exchange of technology that profits both laboratories and enhances their collaboration.   On 22 July, in the occasion of the departure of the chambers from CERN, Mikhail Itkis (centre), acting Director of the JIINR visited the NA62 experimental area accompanied by Rolf Heuer (left), CERN Director General and Ferdinand Hahn, NA62 technical Co-ordinator. The NA48 drift chambers were overhauled in 2000 and employed until 2008. With a total of 110 kilometres of wire soldered to a very high degree of precision, the four drift chambers were a crucial element of the experimental kaon programme at CERN. The chambers are now moving to a new challenge as they will be re-used by the Multi Purpose Detector (MPD) experiment, under...

  5. Negative or positive? The iron lung and poliomyelitis-Zurich, 1951.

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    Eichel, T; Dreux, M L

    2017-03-01

    During the poliomyelitis epidemics of the last century hospitals were inundated with patients in acute respiratory failure. Between 1946 and 1949, Nandor (Ferdinand) Eichel documented the use of the iron lung in children with acute poliomyelitis at the University Children's Hospital, Zurich. The aim was to assess the effectiveness of the Iron lung and negative pressure respiratory support for this indication and to establish its role in the context of other existing therapies at the time. Eichel produced his review and data as the Inaugural Dissertation towards his medical degree from the the University of Zurich, published in 1951. The dissertation was written in German and first translated into English in 2014. The current paper explores the findings of the dissertation and explains why there has been the transition to techniques of respiratory support today. It includes a biography of Dr F. N. Eichel and an update on the current status of poliomyelitis. The original dissertation was found in the home of Nandor's son and was of great interest to the current authors, Nandor's granddaughter and her colleague.

  6. «Tagliare a pezzi». Cesare Borgia tra rimandi biblici e fonte senofontea in Machiavelli

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    Scichilone Giorgio E.M.

    2012-04-01

    Full Text Available Only in three parts of Machiavelli’s writings occurs a stark expression: «tagliare a pezzi». Two of them are in The Prince, the third one in Discorsi. Two of them concern ancient examples (Hiero and Clearchus, the other one a modern experience, the famous and violent episode in which Cesare Borgia executes his lieutenant Rimirro, a capital punishment that Machiavelli watched in Cesena. The essay tries to show how all of Machiavelli’s examples deal in a subtle way with a topical Machiavelli’s view – civil principality. From this discussion, a survey (or journey between Machiavelli’s text and historical context begins, where some other striking questions are approached, such as the absence of Cesare Borgia in Discorsi (so sensational as neglected, the relationship between Machiavelli and Michelangelo linked by a ‘republican’ David, or the figure of pope Leo X, that would be, according to this essay, that «certain prince of present times, whom it is best not to name», and not, according to the common opinion, Ferdinand the Catholic.

  7. AIDS as a political issue: working with the sexually prostituted in the Philippines.

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    Tan, M; De Leon, A; Stoltzfus, B; O'donnell, C

    1989-07-01

    An estimated 200,000-500,000 men, women, and children work in prostitution in the Philippines in a variety of venues, including brothels, nightclubs, pubs, massage parlors, and other legitimate entertainment establishments. Few, however, are voluntary prostitutes. Many people who work as prostitutes have been recruited from the provinces, kept in conditions similar to slavery, and forced to earn money from prostitution to pay for their transportation, board, and lodging. Many prostitutes work in urban centers and tourist resorts in the countryside. During the 1970s, then President Ferdinand Marcos promoted tourism as a major industry, effectively marketing attractive Filipinas to tourists. Sex tourism has flourished in the country ever since. Thousands of prostitutes are also located in Olongapo and Angeles, 2 cities north of Manila, from where they serve the sexual desires of US military personnel. The presence of US military personnel in the Philippines has always been associated with prostitution. The country's social hygiene centers, prostitutes in Manila and Davao, and AIDS education are briefly discussed.

  8. Symbolismus jako inspirace pro 20. století. Pojem „kulturního paradigmatu“ // Symbolism as inspiration for the 20th century: a concept of a cultural paradigm

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    Vladimír Svatoň

    2017-05-01

    Full Text Available Literary history commonly grounds itself in the heritage of philosophical positivism. It is not only its predilection for facts, but also a belief that the facts themselves can provide for the contours of syntheses and concepts of major styles and genres. The era of symbolism marked the renewed interest in philosophical hermeneutics, and, consequently, the realization that empirical knowledge is structured by a ground of a-priori assumptions (the rehabilitation of “prejudice”. This ground gave rise to a series of major concepts, the best known of which are Ferdinand Saussure’s “langue” and “parole”, but there are many more of similar pairs: Viktor Shklovsky “story” (fabula and “plot” (syuzhet, Jan Mukařovský’s “semantic gesture” and “structure”, or Yury Tynianov’s “tightness of a verse line” and “syntax”. In the field of philosophy it is Arnold Toynbee’s pair of terms “challenge” and “answer”. Husserl’s concept of “Lebenswelt” is the most important explication of this approach in philosophy.

  9. Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel: morire per la rivoluzione

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    Maria Rosaria Pelizzari

    2009-04-01

    Full Text Available Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel, poetess, scholar of jurisprudence, natural and mathematical sciences, at first, was an enthusiastic supporter of Ferdinand IV of Burbon’s enlightened politics reforms. After the French Revolution and the radical change of Neapolitan government policy, much more illiberal and repressive, she was an active protagonist of 1799’ Revolution and founded the “Neapolitan Republic”. Editor of «Monitore napoletano», she was a free, courageous, journalist, committed in changing of “Neapolitan plebs” into “Civil people”. At fall of Republic, she showed herself fearless in meeting the death on the scaffold. Up to the Eighties of XXth century, her final sacrifice has been represented by Virile woman’ image, as a praise for meaning an extraordinary, and intellectually like a man, woman. Today writers represent Eleanor like a “Modern heroin”, far by nineteenth-century Virile woman’s characters. Intellectual virtues do not seem to be sexed any longer: they belong to men and to women at the same time.

  10. Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel: morire per la rivoluzione

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    Maria Rosaria Pelizzari

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel, poetess, scholar of jurisprudence, natural and mathematical sciences, at first, was an enthusiastic supporter of Ferdinand IV of Burbon’s enlightened politics reforms. After the French Revolution and the radical change of Neapolitan government policy, much more illiberal and repressive, she was an active protagonist of 1799’ Revolution and founded the “Neapolitan Republic”. Editor of «Monitore napoletano», she was a free, courageous, journalist, committed in changing of “Neapolitan plebs” into “Civil people”. At fall of Republic, she showed herself fearless in meeting the death on the scaffold. Up to the Eighties of XXth century, her final sacrifice has been represented by Virile woman’ image, as a praise for meaning an extraordinary, and intellectually like a man, woman. Today writers represent Eleanor like a “Modern heroin”, far by nineteenth-century Virile woman’s characters. Intellectual virtues do not seem to be sexed any longer: they belong to men and to women at the same time.

  11. The Adventure of Semiotics

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    Mehmet Fatih ÜNAL

    2016-12-01

    Full Text Available Linguistic philosophy has become one of the most popular study fields that has overstepped the borders of philosophy in the twentieth century. 1960s are the years of vehement discussions between existentialism, structuralism and Marxism. In these years, the studies of natural languages primarily expanded to cover artificial language studies as well. As a consequence of the influence of these studies, semiotics, trying to resolve and define all of the meaningful systems, has emerged. While Ferdinand de Saussure was forming semiology with his Linguistic studies in Europe on these dates, Charles Sanders Peirce was dealing with determining the principles of semiotics that was going to be used as a framework in order to define the relationships between signs in America. On the other hand, Roland Barthes was accepted as the founder of semiotics with his sign theory in the second half of the 1960s. This paper aims at describing how semiotics has emerged as a result of debates in the language philosophy by examining the first philosophical texts and current discussions.

  12. THE GREAT SILK ROAD BECOMES THE GREAT OIL AND GAS ROAD

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    I. S. Zonn

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    Full Text Available The Great Silk Road (GSR called so in the late 19th century by German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen started shaping in the 2nd century B.C. In the minds of peoples the Silk Road is a generalized symbol of trade caravan routes crossing Central Asia, connecting until the 16th century the Far East, in particular Japan, China, with Middle Asia. Appearance in the early 21st century of new independent states in Central Asia along the GSR route was a powerful impetus for revival of the ancient trade route. In September 2013 Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, during his visit to the Central Asian countries offered the strategic concept of joint construction of the “economic corridor along the Silk Road” based on innovative cooperation in order to revive and consolidate the economic contacts among the Eurasian countries. Establishment of the modern analog of GSR, a powerful transport and pipeline corridor includes the integrated system of railroads and automobile roads, oil and gas pipelines, airlines, and sea lines.

  13. A comunidade: da sociologia clássica à sociologia contemporânea

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    Alan Delazeri Mocellim

    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available A comunidade é um dos conceitos de maior importância, desde o nascimento da Sociologia. Sua relevância permanece tal que o debate em torno de sua definição é contínuo, adentrando a teoria social contemporânea. Recorrente nesse debate é a dicotomia entre comunidade e sociedade e entre a forma de vida tradicional e a moderna. Neste artigo, debatem-se algumas das principais teorizações clássicas e contemporâneas sobre a ideia de comunidade, enfocando principalmente as teorias que contrapõem as relações sociais comunitárias e a individualização característica da vida moderna. Entre os “clássicos” da Sociologia, optou-se por debater as teorias de Émile Durkheim e Ferdinand Tönnies, e, entre as teorias contemporâneas, optou-se pelas de Michel Maffesoli e Zygmunt Bauman. O objetivo aqui é demarcar divergências e similitudes entre suas diferentes abordagens.

  14. Spanish Occupation of Roussillon in 1815

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    Matías Ramisa Verdaguer

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available The subject of this article is the invasion of the French Pyrénées- Orientales department by Spanish troops under the orders of General Castaños in late August 1815, shortly after the Waterloo defeat and the occupation of France by the Seventh Coalition allies. The article also presents the situation before the Waterloo battle in the province of Catalonia, the preparation of the previously mentioned invasion and its consequences, all framed in the foreign policy of the Ferdinand VII government. The sources used in this work are the case files of the National Historical Archive (Madrid that relate to this episode, and specialized literature. The objective of this study was to relate a lesser-known event, occurred shortly after the end of the War of Independence, to highlight the scarce and indecisive Spanish foreign policy during the Congress of Vienna period. The Napoleonic invasion accentuated the Spanish internal crisis and the international decline of the country. This is reflected in the occupation of the Roussillon and rapid withdrawal ordered by General Castaños.

  15. Reflexões sobre a contribuição da Carnot à primeira lei da termodinâmica Reflections on the contribution of Carnot to the first law of thermodynamics

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    Cássius K. Nascimento

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    Full Text Available The classical interpretations of Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot on some physical principles involved in the operation of heat engines were fundamental to the development and formulation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Moreover, an accurate historical survey clearly reveals that Carnot was, by that time, also well aware about some new concepts, which were further worked out by other scientists to lead to what was, some time later, known as the mechanical equivalent of heat and the conservation of energy. Benoit Paul Émile Clapeyron recognized these original concepts in the first of Carnot´s monographs, published in 1824, but no explicit citation is found in any post-Carnot classical texts dealing with the First Law of Thermodynamics, including those by Julius Robert Mayer, James Prescott Joule and Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz. The main objective of the present work is to point out some historical evidences of the pioneering contribution of Carnot to the modern concept of the First Law of Thermodynamics.

  16. Illusionists

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    N.J Wade

    2014-08-01

    Full Text Available Illusions have been displayed in art for millennia but they were not addressed seriously by visual science until the mid-nineteenth century when Johann Joseph Oppel referred to the small spatial distortions as ‘geometrical optical illusions’. Many of the illusion figures described thereafter bear the names of those who illustrated them. Original forms of the illusions were shown together with illusory portrayals of those who described them. These included (in chronological sequence: Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Louis Albert Necker, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Adolf Fick, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering, August Kundt, Joseph-Rémi-Léopold Delbæuf, Ernst Mach, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Helmholtz, Ludimar Hermann, Wilhelm von Bezold, Henri Beaunis, Franz Carl Müller-Lyer, Theodor Lipps, Armand Thiéry, Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt, Hugo Münsterberg, Friedrich Schumann, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Edward Bradford Titchener, Joseph Jastrow, James Fraser, Mario Ponzo, Edgar Rubin, Matthew Luckiesh, Friedrich Sander, Walter Ehrenstein, Adelbert Ames, Richard Gregory, Gaetano Kanizsa, Michael White, Roger Shepard, and Bernd Lingelbach.

  17. Spotlight on acupuncture in laboratory animal medicine

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    2017-08-01

    Full Text Available Elizabeth R Magden Department of Veterinary Sciences, Michale E Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Bastrop, TX, USA Abstract: Acupuncture has been practiced for thousands of years, although it is only in the past century that science has worked to unravel the mechanisms behind its use. Literature supporting the efficacious use of acupuncture to treat a variety of conditions has been and continues to be published, including the randomized controlled studies we all appreciate when practicing evidence-based medicine. The use of acupuncture in veterinary medicine has paralleled the trends observed in people, with an increasingly common use to remedy specific medical conditions. These conditions are commonly related to neurological dysfunction or orthopedic pain. Although pain relief is the most common use of acupuncture, numerous other conditions have been shown to improve with this therapy. Laboratory animals are also benefiting from acupuncture. Its use is starting to be incorporated into research settings, although there is still further progress to be made in this field. Acupuncture has been shown to improve clinical conditions and quality of life in laboratory animals, and should be considered as a tool to treat laboratory animals with conditions known to benefit from therapy. Here we review the history, mechanisms of action, and use of acupuncture to treat veterinary patients and laboratory animals. Keywords: acupuncture, laboratory animals, nonhuman primates

  18. Pycellerator: an arrow-based reaction-like modelling language for biological simulations.

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    Shapiro, Bruce E; Mjolsness, Eric

    2016-02-15

    We introduce Pycellerator, a Python library for reading Cellerator arrow notation from standard text files, conversion to differential equations, generating stand-alone Python solvers, and optionally running and plotting the solutions. All of the original Cellerator arrows, which represent reactions ranging from mass action, Michales-Menten-Henri (MMH) and Gene-Regulation (GRN) to Monod-Wyman-Changeaux (MWC), user defined reactions and enzymatic expansions (KMech), were previously represented with the Mathematica extended character set. These are now typed as reaction-like commands in ASCII text files that are read by Pycellerator, which includes a Python command line interface (CLI), a Python application programming interface (API) and an iPython notebook interface. Cellerator reaction arrows are now input in text files. The arrows are parsed by Pycellerator and translated into differential equations in Python, and Python code is automatically generated to solve the system. Time courses are produced by executing the auto-generated Python code. Users have full freedom to modify the solver and utilize the complete set of standard Python tools. The new libraries are completely independent of the old Cellerator software and do not require Mathematica. All software is available (GPL) from the github repository at https://github.com/biomathman/pycellerator/releases. Details, including installation instructions and a glossary of acronyms and terms, are given in the Supplementary information. © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

  19. Hispanoamericanos en Londres a comienzos del siglo XIX

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    Manuel Ortuño Martínez

    1999-01-01

    Full Text Available Durante las primeras décadas en del siglo XIX en Londres coincidieron los exiliados liberales procedentes de España y los patriotas insurgentes de las provincias de América. Desde Miranda a Rocafuerte, pasando por Bello, Alvear, Moreno, Sarratea, Teresa de Mier, Palacio Fajardo, Irisarri, Belgrano, los Fagoaga y Alamán, buscaban el apoyo de la Gran Bretaña y el reconocimiento de la independencia, que se retrasó hasta 1824. Con ellos convivió en Londres Xavier Mina el joven liberal radical español que luchó en México contra el absolutismo de Fernando VIIDuring the three first decade of the xix Century in London the Spanish Liberal exiles were living among the insurgents patriots coming from Spanish America, From Miranda to Rocafuerte through Bello, Alvear, Moreno, Sarratea, Teresa de Mier, Palacio Fajardo, Irisarri, Belgrano, the Fagoaga's and Alamán, all of them were seeking for the United Kingdom support and recognition to their Independence, finally arrived at 1824. The yound radical liberal Xavier Mina was there before he goes to México to fight against the Ferdinand VII absolutism.

  20. A melancolia, a narrativa melancólica e sua abdução pela mídia sob os auspícios do discurso do capitalista

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    Ernesto Sohnle

    2014-01-01

    Full Text Available Pretendemos, partindo da caracterização estrutural da melancolia em Freud, Lacan e seus leitores, apontar os ecos estilísticos da mania na narrativa melancólica de Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Para tal, confrontamos o desespero degradante em Céline, com a forma shandiana assumida pelo Machado maduro, onde a ficção melancólica produz, paradoxalmente, um saber/satisfazer-se com a vida. Na sequência, examinamos os efeitos melancolizantes articulados à invenção do significante depressão, abduzido pelo discurso da ciência e difundido pela mídia, sob os auspícios do discurso do capitalista. O que nos confronta com uma ideologia da depressão, antecipada pela melancolia poética dos Paraísos artificiais. Tal ilusão de sociedade sem mal-estar, quando cooptada pela biopolítica, seria capaz de aguçar certas tendências narcotizantes no laço social, que vão da toxicomania medicamentosa, compatível com a sociedade de consumo, até o apetite desagregador pelas drogas ilícitas.

  1. The Social Theories of the press: journalism and society

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    Beatriz Marocco

    2005-06-01

    Full Text Available For a short period of time, between the end of the 19th century and the middle of the 20th, newspapers and journalists were under the spotlight as never before. However, the comprehensive reviews of the theories of the press do not acknowledge the thought of this period and its development into “the social theories of the press” (H. Hardt, 1979. This article is positioned in this gap of press studies, and it uses as a starting point the foucaultian description of the diff erent thresholds that establish the levels of discourse elaboration (Foucault, 1995. It aims at exploring the theoretical production that approximates German and American scholars such as Albert Schäffle (1831-1903; Karl Knies (1821-1898; Karl Bücher (1847-1930; Ferdinand Tönnies (1835-1936; Albion Small (1854-1926; Edward Ross (1856-1951; Max Weber (1864-1920; Robert Park (1864-1944 and Walter Lippmann (1889-1974, rescuing this production from the pre-history of the press to materialize evidence that this production coincides, in its external origin, with the modern newspaper practices, although there seemed to be no dependence between them at the time.

  2. Notes about the Palais des Machines of 1889 in Paris: space, structure and ornament

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    Oscar Linares de la Torre

    2018-04-01

    Full Text Available The Palais des Machines of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889, designed by the architect Charles Louis Ferdinand Dutert (1845-1906 and the engineer Victor Contamin (1840-1893, is undoubtedly an icon of the 19th century architecture: its powerful spatiality, its portentous structure and its straightforward tectonics have rightly received high praise by critics and architects from the second half of the 20th century. However, critical tradition and historiography from the end of the last century have frequently offered a biased interpretation of this work, aimed at underlining certain architectonic values for then presenting them as a direct product of the author’s will. The aim of this article is to explain, altogether and with maximum transparency, how the conjunction between certain circumstantial issues and the will/ability of both authors made possible the construction of one of the most important works of the nineteenth-century architecture. To achieve this, the three most celebrated architectural aspects of the building are analysed: the huge scale of the central space, the particular structural system chosen and the uneven usage of ornament.

  3. La sacralización del rey. Fernando VII, la insurgencia novohispana y el derecho divino de los reyes

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    Landavazo, Marco Antonio

    2001-04-01

    Full Text Available This article analyzes what the author called the «process of sacralization» of King Ferdinand VII’s image in New Spain, and its political and ideological consequences in the Mexican Independence War. The people’s believes, values and attitudes towards the Monarchy were an essential part of the local political culture. These played a decisive role in the course of political and social events of the period.

    En este artículo se describe y analiza lo que he llamado el proceso de sacralización de la figura del rey Fernando VII en Nueva España y las implicaciones políticas e ideológicas que ello tuvo en el curso de la guerra de independencia mexicana, como una forma de mostrar que las creencias, los valores y las actitudes que los novohispanos poseían en torno a la institución monárquica jugaban un papel fundamental en la definición de la cultura política de la época, y condicionaron de hecho, en buena medida, el curso de los acontecimientos más relevantes del periodo.

  4. Reaching for Success: Picasso’s Rise in the Market (The First Two Decades

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    Enrique Mallen

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    Full Text Available This article explores the exhibitions of Picasso’s works in the first two decades of his artistic career, as well as the dealers and collectors who came into contact with them. It describes the relationship between Picasso and his first dealers, Pere Manyach, Berthe Weill, Clovis Sagot, Père Soulier, Ambroise Vollard, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Georg Caspari, L. W. Guthier, Hans Goltz, Heinrich Thannhauser, Otto Feldmann, Alfred Flechtheim, Emil Richter, Gottfried Tanner, Michael Brenner, R. J. Coady, Léonce Rosenberg, Paul Rosenberg, etc.; as well as his first collectors, Leo and Gertrude Stein, Olivier Sainsère, Joachim Gasquet, Wilhelm Uhde, Herman Rupf, Vincenc Kramář, Frank Stoop, Hugo Perls, Edwin Suermondt, Dr. Paul Ferdinand Schmidt, Princess Mechtilde Lichnowsky, Henry Simms, Ludwig and Rosy Fischer, Professor Wilhelm Kreis, Adolf Erblösch, Justin K. Thannhauser, Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin, Ivan A. Morosov, etc. It also identifies all important Picasso expositions in this time period and how those dealers and collectors were involved in their arrangement. The information provided here has been excerpted from an exhaustive study of the critical literature on Pablo Picasso, as well as from published exhibition catalogues.

  5. The Social Theories of the press: journalism and society

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    Beatriz Marocco

    2011-02-01

    Full Text Available For a short period of time, between the end of the 19th century and the middle of the 20th, newspapers and journalists were under the spotlight as never before. However, the comprehensive reviews of the theories of the press do not acknowledge the thought of this period and its development into “the social theories of the press” (H. Hardt, 1979. This article is positioned in this gap of press studies, and it uses as a starting point the foucaultian description of the diff erent thresholds that establish the levels of discourse elaboration (Foucault, 1995. It aims at exploring the theoretical production that approximates German and American scholars such as Albert Schäffle (1831-1903; Karl Knies (1821-1898; Karl Bücher (1847-1930; Ferdinand Tönnies (1835-1936; Albion Small (1854-1926; Edward Ross (1856-1951; Max Weber (1864-1920; Robert Park (1864-1944 and Walter Lippmann (1889-1974, rescuing this production from the pre-history of the press to materialize evidence that this production coincides, in its external origin, with the modern newspaper practices, although there seemed to be no dependence between them at the time.

  6. RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY AND CONGRESSES OF TROPPAU AND LAIBACH

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    Александр Владимирович Чернов

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    Full Text Available The article describes the process of preparation and holding of congresses in Troppau and Laibach. At the beginning of 1820 there was a revolution of Spain. The Russian diplomats headed by Emperor Alexander I and J. Capodistria offered to convene the congress to develop the measures to combat the Spanish revolution. But the British and Austrians opposed that. However when Naples revolution started, Metternich requested permission for the suppression of the rebellion from Alexander I, but Russians insisted on the convocation of the conference. On the congress of Troppau the Russian delegation insisted on the development of the universal measures to the struggle against revolutions that had to be hold in a peaceful manner. The Austrians, who sought to the carrying out of one-sided armed intervention in Naples, were forced to agree with the Russian project. The Preliminary protocol was based on this project. On the congress J. Capodistria offered the new version of his project of the “universal union”. When the king of Neapolitan Ferdinand IV arrived to Laibach he immediately demanded the intervention in Naples. The Russian plan failed. Alexander I was forced to agree to the armed intervention.

  7. O último curso de Ferdinand de Saussure e a sua presença no “Curso de Linguística Geral”

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    Micaela Pafume COELHO

    2011-10-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo apresenta uma análise do Curso de Linguística Geral, cujo principal objetivo é identificar quais partes da obra são referentes ao terceiro curso de Linguística Geral ministrado por Saussure entre 1910 e 1911, na Universidade Pública de Genebra. Para realizar essa identificação, utilizamos duas edições críticas do próprio Curso de Linguística Geral, uma de Tulio Mauro (2005 e outra de Rudolf Engler (1989, as quais apresentam o corpus utilizado por C. Bally e A. Sechehaye para elaborar a obra, além de especificar quais destas fontes foram utilizadas em cada parte dela. Assim, após a leitura dessas edições e a análise do Curso de Linguística Geral, pudemos apontar as páginas e parágrafos da obra que pertencem ao conteúdo exposto no terceiro curso ministrado por Saussure, atingindo o objetivo proposto como primordial de nossa análise.

  8. Olfactory functions are not associated with autism severity in autism spectrum disorders

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    Full Text Available Iva Dudova, Michal HrdlickaDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech RepublicBackground: Changes in olfactory functions have been found in many neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders, including autism spectrum disorders (ASDs. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between olfactory functions (odor-detection thresholds, odor identification, and odor preference and autism severity and sensory-related behavior in children and adolescents with ASD.Subjects and methods: Our sample consisted of 35 high-functioning patients with ASD (mean age 10.8±3.6 years, 31 boys. Olfactory testing (threshold and identification used the Sniffin' Sticks test. Odor pleasantness was assessed on a 5-point scale using the Identification part of the Sniffin’ Sticks test. The severity of autistic psychopathology was measured using the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS.Results: Using Spearman’s correlation, we found no significant correlations between autism severity (as expressed by total CARS score and odor-detection thresholds (R=0.144, P=0.409, odor identification (R=0.07, P=0.966, or odor pleasantness (R=-0.046, P=0.794. There was also no significant relationship between CARS item 9 (“Taste, smell, and touch response and use” and odor-detection thresholds (R=0.170, P=0.330, odor identification (R=0.282, P=0.100, or odor pleasantness (R=0.017, P=0.923.Conclusion: We did not find any significant relationship between the severity of autistic psychopathology and olfactory functions.Keywords: autism spectrum disorders, psychopathology, Sniffin’ Sticks, odor threshold, odor identification, odor pleasantness

  9. 100 years of MTU; 100 Jahre MTU

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    Basshuysen, Richard van; Siebenpfeiffer, Wolfgang (eds.)

    2009-03-15

    The Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH, the predecessor of MTU Friedrichshafen, was founded in March 1909. This was the age of pioneers like Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin and Wilhelm and Karl Maybach - names that will always be remembered. MTU could not have been founded without them, and these roots are something to be proud of. The technical developments of Karl Maybach were pioneering feats. MTU constructed the first supercompressor aircraft engine as well as the first fast turbocharged industrial diesel engine and the first industrial diesel engine with modern CR injection. MTU today is a leading producer of industrial diesel engines and complete propulsion systems for marine applications, industrial plants and decentral power generation. The new 1600 line was introduced in 2009; it widens the product range in the lower-capacity range of 270 to 730 kW and comprises the only engine in the market that was developed specially for off-highway applications. Since 2008, the label 'MTU Onsite Energy' stands for decentral power supply, where MTU is a leading producer of decentral power supply systems based on diesel engines, gas engines, and fuel cells. This special issue of MTZ presents a picture of milestones and future prospects. (orig.)

  10. A grotesque carnival on the sea: twentieth-century revisitings of the “Ship of fools” (from Conrad to Fellini

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    Paolo Lago

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    Full Text Available Questo saggio si propone di analizzare, per mezzo di un’analisi comparata, la sopravvivenza dei tratti grotteschi e degli elementi carnevaleschi studiati da Michail Bachtin nella rappresentazione di nuove “navi dei folli” in alcuni romanzi e film del Novecento.  Le navi raccontate da Joseph Conrad e Louis-Ferdinand Céline  (in Typhoon, 1902, in The Shadow-Line, 1917 e in Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1932 sono cariche di corpi segnati dalla malattia e dal disfacimento, rappresentati come grottesche maschere di carnevale, che ritroviamo anche sulla “nave morta”, destinata al naufragio, nell’omonimo romanzo di B. Traven (The Death Ship, 1926. Nel racconto lungo Un viaggio terribile (Un viaje terrible, 1941 di Roberto Arlt e nel romanzo La nave dei folli (Ship of Fools, 1962 di Katherine Anne Porter, la nave dei folli è un microcosmo metaforico nel quale si rispecchia carnevalescamente l’intera umanità. Federico Fellini, invece, sembra recuperare soprattutto i tratti grotteschi e ‘carnevaleschi’ nella rappresentazione del corpo: pensiamo ai personaggi imbarcati sulla nave di Lica nel Fellini-Satyricon (1969 o a quelli di E la nave va (1983. La sopravvivenza della nave dei folli, nel Novecento, è perciò segnata da un costante rimando al grottesco e al carnevalesco analizzato da Bachtin.

  11. Diálogos de Lacan na reinvenção do inconsciente

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    Francisco Rafael Barbosa Caselli

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar e explicitar três momentos da interlocução de Jacques Lacan com o estruturalismo em seu percurso de reinvenção do inconsciente. Como metodologia, foram analisados três textos dos teóricos estruturalistas referidos por Lacan: o antropólogo Claude Lévi-Strauss e os linguistas Ferdinand de Saussure e Roman Jakobson. Com o intuito de dimensionar a asserção lacaniana de que “o inconsciente é estruturado como uma linguagem”, este trabalho propõe um percurso de leitura que busca evidenciar em profundidade o diálogo que Lacan manteve com estes autores. Tal proposta é desenvolvida a partir da leitura rigorosa e elaboração de comentários sobre os textos dos autores estruturalistas, com foco na formulação original de seus conceitos e apropriações efetuadas por Lacan. Desse modo, busca-se demonstrar como alguns conceitos propostos pela antropologia estrutural de Lévi-Strauss e pela linguística estrutural de Saussure e Jakobson, uma vez reformulados, constituem os pilares sobre os quais repousam a estrutura do inconsciente lacaniano formalizada no escrito “A instância da letra no inconsciente”.

  12. Terces, predicació i recaptació de la croada durant el regnat de Ferran d 'Antequera

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    Salicrú i Lluch, Roser

    1999-12-01

    Full Text Available Beyond those provided by the unedited sections of the chronicle of Alvar García de Santa María, after the Antequera campaign and during the reign of Fernando I we haved very scarce data on the granting of indulgences and tercias and on their collection. This article presents some new documents that complete the descriptions offered in the chronicle, and constitutes another instance of the sustained interest for the kingdom of Castile and for the Granadan affairs during his short rule.[fr] Après la campagne d'Antequera et sous le règne de Ferdinand Ier, en dehors des informations fournies par la partie inédite de la chronique d'Álvar García de Santa Maria, on disposait de peu de données relatives à la délivrance d'indulgences et de tercias, et concernant leur perception. Cet article présente quelques documents nouveaux qui complètent les descriptions de la chronique, et apporte un autre témoignage de l'intérêt que le monarque continua à manifester pour les affaires de Castille et de Grenade même après son intronisation.

  13. Violent Fathers and Runaway Sons: Colonial Relationships in Une vie de boy and Mission terminée

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    Laurie Corbin

    2003-06-01

    Full Text Available This study examines familial relationships in two novels published by Ferdinand Oyono and Mongo Beti shortly before Cameroon's independence in 1960, making use of three levels of analysis. The first shows the impact of colonization on familial and social structures, in particular the ways in which the weakening of the traditional hierarchy leads to the flight of young men from their families and villages. The second looks at the two novels as showing the relationship of France (who was often represented as a kindly parent to its colonies, the colonized countries, and their citizens: the unpredictable and brutal father can be seen as representing the French, the helpless and brutalized mother the colonized country, and the protagonist the colonized person "orphaned" by colonialism. The third level of analysis makes use of Lacanian theory, in particular Lacan's theorization of the accession to the Symbolic order, to examine the place of language and what could be described as the Law of the Father in these texts. These different levels of analysis show the ways in which these writers were addressing the problems of colonies moving toward independence after having been crippled—socially, economically, politically, and psychologically—by years of foreign domination.

  14. Les marbres dans la décoration du Palais royal de Madrid : origines et incidence

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    María Luisa Tárraga Baldó

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available La construction du Palais royal de Madrid a marqué un tournant dans l’histoire de l’art espagnol. La décoration intérieure y a employé une profusion de marbres et de pierres ornementales choisies en raison de leur couleur ou de leur rareté. Au xviiie siècle, il est décidé de décorer tous les murs des salons principaux du palais afin de ne laisser aucune paroi sans marbre. La volonté d’imiter les marbriers italiens qui avaient exécuté le tabernacle et le retable de la chapelle de l’Escorial pour Philippe II est certainement présente. Ces œuvres ont depuis toujours constitué un motif d’orgueil national.Pour la décoration du Palais royal de Madrid, Philippe V et ses successeurs ont décidé de n’utiliser que des matériaux espagnols. Cette exclusivité a provoqué une véritable campagne d’exploration et d’exploitation géologique du territoire, qui a fourni une information exhaustive sur l’orographie nationale, jusqu’à ce que Ferdinand VI permette en 1748 l’ouverture des carrières privées pour continuer le chantier.

  15. Relationship between sarcopenia and physical activity in older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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    Steffl M

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    Full Text Available Michal Steffl,1 Richard W Bohannon,2 Lenka Sontakova,1 James J Tufano,1 Kate Shiells,3 Iva Holmerova3 1Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; 2Department of Physical Therapy, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC, USA; 3Faculty of Humanities, Centre of Gerontology, Charles University Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Abstract: Physical activity (PA has been identified as beneficial for many diseases and health disorders, including sarcopenia. The positive influence of PA interventions on sarcopenia has been described previously on many occasions. Current reviews on the topic include studies with varied PA interventions for sarcopenia; nevertheless, no systematic review exploring the effects of PA in general on sarcopenia has been published. The main aim of this study was to explore the relationship between PA and sarcopenia in older people on the basis of cross-sectional and cohort studies. We searched PubMed, Scopus, EBSCOhost, and ScienceDirect for articles addressing the relationship between PA and sarcopenia. Twenty-five articles were ultimately included in the qualitative and quantitative syntheses. A statistically significant association between PA and sarcopenia was documented in most of the studies, as well as the protective role of PA against sarcopenia development. Furthermore, the meta-analysis indicated that PA reduces the odds of acquiring sarcopenia in later life (odds ratio [OR] =0.45; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.37–0.55. The results of this systematic review and meta-analysis confirm the beneficial influence of PA in general for the prevention of sarcopenia. Keywords: aging, sarcopenia, physical activity 

  16. Depersonalization: An exploratory factor analysis of the Italian version of the Cambridge Depersonalization Scale.

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    Fagioli, F; Telesforo, L; Dell'Erba, A; Consolazione, M; Migliorini, V; Patanè, M; Boldrini, T; Graziani, R; Nicoletti, F; Fiori-Nastro, P

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    "Depersonalization" (DP) is a common symptom in the general population and psychiatric patients (Michal et al., 2011 [1]). DP is characterized by an alteration in the experience of the self, so that one feels detached from his or her own mental processes or body (or from the world), feeling as being an outside observer of his or her own self, and loosing the experience of unity and identity (American Psychiatric Association, 2013 [2]). We performed an exploratory factor analysis of the Cambridge Depersonalization Scale Italian version (CDS-IV). We enrolled 149 inpatients and outpatients of psychiatric services located in two Italian regions, Lazio and Campania. Patients were aged between 15 and 65 and diagnosed with schizophrenic, depressive or anxiety disorders. Four factors accounted for 97.4% of the variance. Factor 1 (10, 24, 26, 1, 13, 23, 9, 2, 5, and 11), called "Detachment from the Self", captures experiences of detachment from actions and thoughts. Factor 2 (19, 20, 27, 3, 12, 23, 22, and 11), called "Anomalous bodily experiences", refers to unusual bodily experiences. Factor 3 (7, 28, 25, 6, 9, and 2), named "Numbing", describes the dampening of affects. Factor 4 (14, 17, and 16), named "Temporal blunting", refers to the subjective experience of time. We did not find any specific factor that refers to derealization; this suggests that the constructs of depersonalization/derealization (DP/DR) were strongly related to each other. Our results show that the constructs of DP/DR subsume several psychopathological dimensions; moreover, the above mentioned factors were broadly consistent with prior literature. Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier Inc.

  17. The late-medieval Royal chancery of the Kingdom of Sicily and the inquisitio of Giovan Luca Barberi (14th-16th century

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    Alessandro Silvestri

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    Full Text Available At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Giovan Luca Barberi, Magister notarius of the Sicilian Royal chancery, led an intense and long-lasting inquisitio on the royal patrimony of the island and on the possessions of local lords on behalf of King Ferdinand II of Aragon. This well-known inquiry arouse the interest of a number of scholars, who have especially stressed the aspects connected to its importance in the history of law, as well as its political consequences. However, by analysing Barberi’s work (a system of books known as capibrevi through an administrative perspective, it can now be understood as the result of an “archival enterprise” and, at the same time, strictly connected to the role of Magister notarius that Barberi had in the Sicilian chancery. On the one hand, this study describes the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century dynamics that influenced the functioning of the Regia cancelleria and the tasks of its personnel, as well as to define the methods for producing, recording and preserving documentation. On the other hand, this study promotes a new explanation of Barberi’s inquisitio, illustrating in detail how the Magister notarius worked in royal archives and how carried out his inquiry, in other words, how he retrieved, used and organised information for compiling the capibrevi.

  18. [Contribution of Berlin clinics and especially the Charité to the development of modern anesthesia in Germany].

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    Wauer, H J; Kühne, H; Kox, W J

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    Soon after announcement of the first American ether anesthesias in 1846 one started to anesthetize with ether in Europe. The first ether anesthesia in Germany took place on January 24th, 1947, and was given by Johann Ferdinand Heyfelder in Erlangen. Two weeks later the first ether anesthesia in Berlin was given on February 6th, 1847, by the orthopaedic surgeon Heimann-Wolff Berend. On February 12th, 1847, the surgeon Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach used ether to anesthetize a patient in the Berlin university hospital. Still in 1847 he published his book "The Ether against Pain" which used to be the standard textbook of anesthesia in Germany for many years to come. On February 15th, 1847, Johann Christian Jüngken operated his first patient under ether anesthesia in the surgical department of the Charité hospital assisted by Rudolf Virchow. Since then several famous Berlin surgeons influenced the development of modern anesthesia until the middle of the 20th century. The nitrous oxide bottle was introduced into practice by the Barth company in cooperation with the dentist Carl Sauer and Kurt Schimmelbusch introduced his mask for ether anesthesia. Carl Ludwig Schleich reported at the German congress of surgery in 1894 about his first experience with infiltration anesthesia. Spinal anesthesia developed by August Bier in Kiel was improved during his time in Berlin.

  19. Truth and Fibble-Fable in Renaissance Satire

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    Branko Madžarevič

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    Full Text Available Throughout the years of my close involvement with wor(lds’ transactions, as a translator, in the triangle of the Renaissance doctors Rabelais, Montaigne, and, yes, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, the French author of the novel Journey to the End of Night (1932, their views on satire can be considered from a rather unconventional angle. By means of an imaginary morbid epistolary medical council, the impromptu introduction tries to entangle this peculiar trio in a freewheeling alliance, leading to the assumption that every translation defies the interpretational ambiguities of the utopian Thelema motto “Do as you will”. In the satirical context of all source and target faces, it is always acting on the verge of the paradoxical encomium, the hypothetical pasticcio, and obscurantist reversals of the original text. Of course, the issue at stake here is one of the convolutions of Erasmus’ Praise of Folly, Rabelais’ utopian Thelema Abbey, and the German Epistles of Obscure Men in pathetically wretched Latin. This paper deals with Renaissance and humanist satire, focusing on Rabelais’ five books of Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564 and the interplay between the ideas of truth, truthfulness, and seriousness. In addition, the paper deals with how the Renaissance spirit of this satirical contemporary and ally of ours challenges the issue of verbal boundaries and the materiality of language.

  20. KRITIK SOSIAL DALAM KOMIK STRIP PAK BEI

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    Yudhi Novriansyah

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    Full Text Available This research aimed to do interpret the marking which flange social criticism and know laboring ideology in story of Comic Strip Pak Bei. Research based on theory of structural semiotic according to Ferdinand De Saussure. Using analysis of Syntagmatic as first level of meaning to the text network and also picture, and analysis of Paradigmatic as second level of meaning or implicit meaning (connota-tion, myth, ideology Analysis done to six Comic choice edition of Strip Pak Bei period of November 2004 - Februari 2005 which tend to flange social criticism. At band of syntagmatic, result of research indicate that story theme lifted from social problems that happened in major society. The fact clear progressively when connected by Intertextual with information and texts which have preexisted. At band of Paradigmatic, social criticism tend to emerge dimly, is not transparent. Because of Comic Strip Pak Bei expand in the middle of Java cultural domination that developing myth of criticize as action menacing compatibility and orderliness of society. Story of Comic Strip Pak Bei also confirm dominant ideology in Java society culture, namely ideology of Patriarkhi and Feudalism which still go into effect until now. This prove ideology idea according to Louis Althusser which not again opposition between class, but have been owned and practiced by all social class.

  1. [Systems, boundaries and resources: the lexicographer Gerhard Wahrig (1923-1978) and the genesis of his project "dictionary as database"].

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    Wahrig-Burfeind, Renate; Wahrig, Bettina

    2014-09-01

    Gerhard Wahrig's private archive has recently been retrieved by the authors and their siblings. We undertake a first survey of the unpublished material and concentrate on those aspects of Wahrig's bio-ergography which stand in relation to his life project "dictionary as database", realised shortly before his death. We argue that this project was conceived in the 1950s, while Wahrig was writing and editing dictionaries and encyclopedias for the Bibliographisches Institut in Leipzig. Wahrig, who had been a wireless operator in WWII, was well informed about the development of computers in West Germany. He was influenced both by Ferdinand de Saussure and by the discussion on language and structure in the Soviet Union. When he crossed the German/German border in 1959, he experienced mechanisms of exclusion before he could establish himself in the West as a lexicographer. We argue that the transfer of symbolic and human capital was problematic due to the cultural differences between the two Germanies. In the 1970s, he became a professor of General and Applied Linguistics. The project of a "dictionary as database" was intended both as a basis for extensive empirical research on the semantic structure of natural languages and as a working tool for the average user of the German language. Due to his untimely death, he could not pursue his idea of exploring semantic networks.

  2. Acerca de la contribución militar de la Junta General de la provincia de Guipúzcoa a la Guerra de Granada en 1484

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    García Fernández, Ernesto

    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available The Guipuzcoans participated with their militias and their armed men in the war against Granada waged by the Catholic Monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand, from their ascension to the throne of the Crown of Castile to the conquest of the Muslim kingdom of Granada in 1492. In this paper we look into how several requests were made from the Province of Guipuzcoa for several ships with their respective armed crews in order to control the different points of access to the Strait of Gibraltar, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, we examine the replies given by the representatives of the Province councils after the Board Meeting at Usarraga.

    Los guipuzcoanos participaron con sus milicias y hombres armados en la Guerra de Granada auspiciada por los Reyes Católicos, Isabel y Fernando, desde su ascenso al trono de la Corona de Castilla hasta la conquista del reino nazarí en 1492. En este artículo se estudian por una parte las demandas a la Provincia Guipúzcoa de varias embarcaciones con sus respectivas tripulaciones armadas para controlar los accesos a Granada a través del Estrecho de Gibraltar y por otra las diversas respuestas dadas por los procuradores generales de los concejos de la Provincia, reunidos en la Junta General de Usarraga.

  3. Duality of the Sign Deconstructed. On the Basis of the Works by Jacques Derrida

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    Paulina Kłos

    2014-11-01

    Full Text Available This paper is an inquiry into some parts of the project of deconstruction by Jacques Derrida, who deconstructs but also and before all demystifies the traditional metaphysical language, language that is “larded with” dualistic concepts. The most spectacular dualisms in philosophy, which are taken into consideration by Derrida, are for instance: Plato’s theory of Ideas or Kantian Thing-In-Itself and its phenomena. All they belong to the tradition of logocentrism, which, with its consequences in the form of metaphysics of presence, appears in the writings by Derrida as the systematic desire for the transcendental signified; the final ground, the foundation of all signs. Derrida proposes something contrary to the dualisms of logocentrism: he treats the presentation of the thing itself as the re – presentation, as the image, as the double and in result he endorses the substitution of the presence and the simplicity of the intuitive evidence with the multiplication of meaning. In paper is examined also the line of argumentation where Derrida contradicts the main assumptions about the character of the sign made by Ferdinand de Saussure. The objective is to show how is it in Derrida’s writings that “the manifestation of the thing does not reveal a presence of this thing, but [that] it makes it another sign.”

  4. Narrating Palaeolithic Human Settlement History : the case of the Imjin-Hantan River Area, Korea

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    Yongwook Yoo

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    Full Text Available This article intends to furnish a narrative story-telling with the broad perspective on the human past rather than simply depending on the analytical examination of archaeological data. For the purpose of this task, Ferdinand Braudel’s concept of “la longue durée” is applied to parallel the environmental background and hominid’s life/land-use patterns based on the geological data and archaeological remains. The Imjin-Hantan River Area (IHRA, known for the discovery of Acheulian-like handaxe, was occupied from ca 0.23 mya to the final Pleistocene; the hominids continuously changed their residing patterns in the landscape with actively modifying the lithic technological organization as a response to the environmental change. Integrating the geological features, absolute dates and characteristics of lithic assemblages from individual sites, we can recognize six phases of environmental changes based on the development of river channel system. These six phases witness different patterns of hominid’s adaptation in this area and correspondingly yield different mode of raw material utilization and lithic procurement. While more accurate geological dates are yet to be published and the description of lithic assemblages may be changed by new data, it is prospecting that Braudel’s la longue durée is a useful concept for meaningfully narrating a long-term human occupation history in the discipline of prehistoric archaeology.

  5. A MELANCOLIA, O DISCURSO MELANCÓLICO E SUAS RELAÇÕES COM A MÍDIA E COM O CONSUMO

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    Ernesto Söhnle Jr.

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    Full Text Available Pretendemos, partindo da revisão estrutural da melancolia em Freud, Lacan e seus leitores, apontar os ecos estilísticos da mania no discurso melancólico de Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Para tal, confrontamos a obrigação celiniana de tamponar o vazio do real com a verdade toda, própria de seu estilo maníaco, com a forma shandiana assumida pelo Machado maduro, onde a ficção melancólica produz, paradoxalmente, um saber/satisfazer-se com a vida, baseado em uma verdade não-toda. Na sequência, examinamos os efeitos do discurso melancólico, a partir da invenção do significante depressão, abduzido pelo discurso da ciência e articulado pela mídia, sob os auspícios do discurso do capitalista. O que nos confronta com uma ideologia da depressão, antecipada pela melancolia poética dos Paraísos artificiais. Entretanto, essa ilusão de civilização sem mal-estar, via política da felicidade, é capaz de produzir certas consequências narcotizantes no laço social, que vão da toxicomania medicamentosa, compatível com a sociedade de consumo, até o apetite desagregador pelas drogas ilícitas.

  6. Star crossings and stone monuments-Field astronomy by the Wheeler Survey in 1870s Colorado

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    Wilson, William E.

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    The decade of the 1870s was a time of extensive exploration and surveying in the American West. The nation needed knowledge of the cultural features, topography, natural resources, and geology of this land to promote and aid the 'rapid development of an empire.' The need was particularly acute in the region that still was known in the early 1870s as Colorado Territory. There, cities and towns were springing up along the base of the Front Range, railroads were expanding, and in the mountains prospectors and miners were exploring the countryside seeking and extracting the region's abundant mineral resources. Also, recurring conflicts between the newcomers and Native Americans made it desirable to have accurate maps for military purposes. Four major government-sponsored scientific surveys formed the principal organized effort to provide critical knowledge of the land. Civilian scientists led three of these: John Wesley Powell ('Geographical and Topographical Survey of the Colorado River of the West'); Ferdinand V. Hayden ('Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories'); and Clarence King ('Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel'). Lt. George Montague Wheeler, a young graduate of West Point (Class of 1866) and a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, led the fourth and most ambitious project ('United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian').

  7. Treatment cost of narcolepsy with cataplexy in Central Europe

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    Maresova P

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    Full Text Available Petra Maresova,1 Michal Novotny,2,3 Blanka Klímová,4 Kamil Kuča3,51Department of Economics, Faculty of Informatics and Management, 2Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Králové, 3Biomedical Research Center, University Hospital Hradec Králové, 4Department of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Informatics and Management, 5Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic Background: Narcolepsy is a lifelong, rare neurological sleep disorder characterized by chronic, excessive attacks of daytime sleepiness. This disease is often extremely incapacitating, interfering with every aspect of life, in work and social settings.Objective: The purpose of this study is to specify the treatment costs of patients in the Central Europe (Czech Republic, while the attention is mainly paid to the drugs that were fully or partially covered by public health insurance. Furthermore, concomitant therapy is also evaluated, since it incurs a certain financial burden for patients and their family members. On the basis of the calculated costs, impact on the public budget is evaluated.Patients and methods: This study monitors the direct costs of the drugs for 13 patients, who represent ~1.3% of the total number of diagnosed patients in the Czech Republic, and evaluates the costs associated with their treatment during the period from January 9, 2011 to April 23, 2013.Results: Most of the treatment costs (~80% were covered by publicly available sources. This finding is also true for the concomitant therapy of comorbidities. Additional payments for the drugs constitute about 20% of the total costs. Keywords: cataplexy, cost, narcolepsy, orphan drug, rare disease, sodium oxybate

  8. Some children with autism have latent social skills that can be tested

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    Full Text Available Michal Hrdlicka,1 Tomas Urbanek,2 Maria Vacova,1 Stepanka Beranova,1 Iva Dudova1 1Department of Child Psychiatry, Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, Prague, 2Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Background: The idea of latent social skills in autism emerged as a possible interpretation of the rapid (but temporary improvement of autistic subjects in oxytocin studies. We tested a hypothesis that a normal response to Item No 59 “Secure Base” from the third version of the Autism Diagnostic Interview – Revised (ADIR-59 could indicate the presence of latent social skills in autism.Methods: We examined 110 autistic children (88 boys and 22 girls with a mean age of 6.0±2.5 years (range: 2.2–14.8 years using the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS – Generic. A diagnosis of mental retardation was established in 68 autistic children (62%.Results: The difference in the ADOS social domain between children aged ≤5 years on one side and children older than 5 years on the other side was significant in subjects with normal responses to ADIR-59 (9.60 vs 6.47; P=0.031 but not in those with abnormal responses to ADIR-59 (10.62 vs 9.63; P=0.537. In a predictive model, lower ADOS social domain scores were predicted by older age (P=0.001, lower scores on the ADIR-59 (P=0.01, and the absence of mental retardation (P=0.049.Conclusion: The results support the hypothesis that the normal response to item ADIR-59 “Secure Base” indicates the presence of latent social skills in autism that might foretell further social growth in older autistic subjects. Keywords: autism, latent social skills, Autism Diagnostic Interview – Revised, Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, prediction

  9. The Beginnings and Development of the Collection of Historic Musical Instruments of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

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    Beatrix Darmstaedter

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    Full Text Available The Collection of Historic Musical Instruments of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (KHM was founded during the First World War when the inventories of the collections owned by Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este (1863-1914 went to the Imperial museum in Vienna after his assassination. From 1916/17 on, the renowned art historian Julius von Schlosser (1866-1938 and his successor, Hermann Julius Hermann (1869-1953, organized one of the most important collections and exhibitions exclusively dedicated to musical instruments. They assembled valuable items from the 16th century that had belonged to Archduke Ferdinand II’s (1529-1595 Cabinet of Curiosities, objects collected by members of the Obizzi dynasty in the castle of Catajo, and recently acquired historical instruments connected with the Viennese tradition of instrument making. In 1920, Schlosser wrote his fundamental catalogue on the newly established collection that  is considered to be the fi rst systematical and scientifi c publication on historic musical instruments in Austria. During the following years, he strove towards amplifying the inventory and expanding the exhibition. He transferred precious items originally belonging to the movables depot of the erstwhile court (Hofmobiliendepot and instruments left in former imperial residences, such as the castle of Laxenburg. The contribution reviews previously unpublished archived sources documenting the early history of the collection and broaches the issue of the extended exhibition in the 1920s, discusses the thematic orientations of the collection and the principles in museum didactic that consequently arose. Moreover, the position of the collection and its policy in the context of other museums with similar emphases at that time will be analyzed. La collezione di strumenti musicali antichi del Kunsthistorisches Museum a Vienna (KHM é stata fondata durante la prima guerra mondiale quando l’inventario delle collezioni dell

  10. Por que não distinguir sentido próprio de sentido figurado em Saussure e em Ducrot?

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    Leci Borges Barbisan

    2017-02-01

    Full Text Available Este texto propõe uma reflexão sobre as noções clássicas de sentido próprio e de sentido figurado, com base em princípios e conceitos apresentados por Ferdinand de Saussure, no Curso de linguística geral e nos Escritos de linguística geral, e por Oswald Ducrot, a propósito da postulação da tese de que a argumentação está na língua. Dentre os conceitos saussurianos mais importantes para as reflexões feitas ao longo deste texto, destacam-se os de arbitrário, de relação e de valor. Ganha o acento este último conceito da teoria de Saussure, visto que é baseado nele e na noção de alteridade apresentada por Platão, em O Sofista, que Ducrot rejeita a existência de um aspecto objetivo na linguagem e une os aspectos subjetivo e intersubjetivo ‒ constitutivos do sentido de enunciados ‒ no que chamou de valor argumentativo. Mantendo-se, portanto, fiel ao modo saussuriano de olhar para a linguagem, Ducrot construiu a Teoria da Argumentação na Língua ‒ « L'Argumentation Dans la Langue » ‒ e defende, até o momento atual da teoria, a hipótese que rejeita a distinção dos tradicionalmente chamados sentidos denotativo e conotativo.

  11. DIALETIKA ETNOGRAFI KOMUNIKASI EMIK-ETIK PADA KAIN TENUN

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    Full Text Available Penelitian ini bertujuan mendialetikakan pemaknaan emik-etik simbol warna dan gambar kain tenun (Mollo desa Tutem. Tahapan pada penelitian ini yaitu interpretasi (Ferdinand De Saussure, reinterpretasi (Roland Barthes, Dialog (Jurgen Habermas, dan dekonstruksi (Jaques Derrida. Hasil interpretasi (emik dan reinterpretasi (etik, didialetikakan dengan menghasilkan sintesis berupa dialog antara masyarakat Tutem dan peneliti, diakhiri dengan analisis dekonstruksi guna mengantisipasi potensi kemajemukan makna simbol warna dan gambar kain tenun desa Tutem di kemudian hari. Paradigma penelitiannya adalah kualitatif dan bermetode studi etnografi komunikasi. Data diperoleh dengan wawancara mendalam, observasi-partisipatoris, dan dokumentasi visual kain tenun. Hasil penelitian ini adalah: dalam pemaknaan emik masyarakat Tutem, simbol warna kain tenun mengacu pada keberagaman kelompok suku dan simbol gambar kain tenun merujuk kepada realitas historis. Pemaknaan etik peneliti, simbol warna dan gambar kain tenun merujuk kepada kondisi geografis (Sumber Daya Alam, moral dan perilaku sosial (Sumber Daya Manusia, dan sejarah. Melalui prosedur tindakan komunikatif (dialog, kesepakatan intersubjektif yang dicapai, mencakup: 10 jenis simbol warna dan 7 varian gambar kain tenun diterima dan 2 varian gambar kain tenun ditolak. Terdapat 3 jenis simbol warna dan pola gambar ruang kain tenun yang wajib didekonstruksi maknanya oleh peneliti. Proses interpretasi, reinterpretasi, dialog, dan dekonstruksi menjadi tahapan ideal dalam memberdayakan kain tenun sebagai salah satu wujud produk kebudayaan masyarakat Tutem. Pelaksanaan tahapan tersebut melibatkan peran aktif masyarakat Tutem dan peneliti. Akhirnya, masyarakat Tutem dan peneliti sama-sama membangun ‘cerita’ tentang simbol warna dan gambar kain tenun dalam spirit falibilisme.

  12. Hydrogen sulfide (H{sub 2}S) and sour gas effects on the eye. A historical perspective

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    Lambert, Timothy William [Environmental Health, Calgary Health Region, 1509 Centre St SW, Calgary Alberta, T2G 2E6 (Canada)]. E-mail: tim.lambert@calgaryheathregion.ca; Goodwin, Verona Marie [VM Goodwin Research and Consulting Ltd. (Canada); Stefani, Dennis [Environmental Health, Calgary Health Region, 1509 Centre St SW, Calgary Alberta, T2G 2E6 (Canada); Strosher, Lisa [Environmental Health, Calgary Health Region, 1509 Centre St SW, Calgary Alberta, T2G 2E6 (Canada)

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    The toxicology of hydrogen sulfide (H{sub 2}S) and sour gas on the eye has a long history beginning at least with Ramazzini's observations [Ramazzini B. Diseases of Workers-De Morbis Artificum Diatriba-1713. Wright WC (trans). New York, C. Hafner Publishing Co Inc.; 1964. 98-99 pp.]. In contrast, a recent review by Alberta Health and Wellness (AHW Report) concluded that there is little evidence of eye irritation following short-term exposures to H{sub 2}S at concentrations up to 100 ppm and that the H{sub 2}S literature on the eye is a series of unsubstantiated claims reproduced in review articles dating back to the 1930s [Alberta Health and Wellness (AHW report). Health effects associated with short-term exposure to low levels of hydrogen sulfide: a technical review, Alberta Health and Wellness, October 2002, 81pp.]. In this paper, we evaluated this claim through a historical review of the toxicology of the eye. Ramazzini noted the effects of sewer gas on the eye [Ramazzini B. Diseases of Workers-De Morbis Artificum Diatriba-1713. Wright WC (trans). New York, C. Hafner Publishing Co Inc. 1964. 98-99 pp.]. Lehmann experimentally showed eye effects in men at 70-90 ppm H{sub 2}S and also in animals [Lehmann K. Experimentalle Studien uber den Einfluss technisch und hygienisch wichtiger Gase und Dampfe auf den Organismus. Arch Hyg 1892;14:135-189]. In 1923, Sayers, Mitchell and Yant reported eye effects in animals and men at 50 ppm H{sub 2}S. Barthelemy showed eye effects in animals and men at 20 ppm H{sub 2}S [Barthelemy HL. Ten years' experience with industrial hygiene in connection with the manufacture of viscose rayon. J Ind Hyg Toxicol 1939;21:141-51]. Masure experimentally showed that H{sub 2}S is the causative agent of eye impacts in animals and men [Masure R. La Keratoconjunctivite des filatures de viscose; etude clinique and experiementale. Rev Belge Pathol 1950;20:297-341]. Michal upon microscopic examination of the rat's cornea, found nuclear

  13. PREFACE: Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop of the European Microbeam Analysis Society (EMAS) on Modern Developments and Applications in Microbeam Analysis

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    young scientist for her talk entitled Application of focussed ion beam technique for TEM multilayer materials examination. This volume contains the full texts of 5 of the invited plenary lectures and of 24 papers on related topics originating from the posters presented at the workshop. All the papers have been subjected to peer review by a least two referees. January 2009 Acknowledgements On behalf of the European Microbeam Analysis Society I would like to thank all the invited speakers, session chairs and members of the discussion panels for making the meeting such a great success. Special thanks go to Michal Zelechower and Luc Van't dack who directed the organisation of the workshop giving freely of their time and talents. As was the case for previous workshops, the EMAS board in corpore was responsible for the scientific programme. I am particularly grateful to the exhibiting companies and sustaining members for their generous support of the workshop. In this context I would like particularly to mention: Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice Gdansk University of Technology Polish Society for Microscopy (PTMi), Krakow Polish Academy of Sciences - Materials Science Committee, Warsaw Polish Academy of Sciences - Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Krakow Polish Academy of Sciences - Institute of Physics, Warsaw AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow Warsaw University of Technology Below is a combined list of the exhibiting companies and sponsors of the workshop: Ametek GmbH (Germany) Blackwell Publishing Ltd (UK) Bruker AXS Microanalysis GmbH (Germany) Cameca SA (France) Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH (Germany) COMEF Aparatura Naukowo-Badawcza (Poland) EU-JRC: Inst. for Transuranium Elements (Germany) FEI Company (The Netherlands) IfG - Institute for Scientific Instruments GmbH (Germany) Jeol (Europe) SAS (France) John Wiley & Sons (UK) Olympus Soft Imaging Solutions GmbH (Germany) Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis Ltd (UK) Probe Software, Inc. (USA

  14. Hvězdnice sivá (Aster canus), Christian Ferdinand Hochstetter a dva málo známé prameny ke květeně Moravy

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    Roč. 43, č. 1 (2008), s. 1-16 ISSN 1211-5258 R&D Projects: GA MŠk(CZ) LC06073 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60050516 Keywords : history of botany * halophytes * exsiccate series Subject RIV: EF - Botanics

  15. Déjouer le spectacle de la violence. Représenter les événements du 11 septembre 2001

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    Full Text Available Comment représenter les événements du 11 septembre 2001 sans pour autant alimenter le spectacle qui les a déjà mis en forme? Comment aller au-delà du spectaculaire et rejoindre une mise en discours et en image qui permette de dépasser la simple répétition? Il faut déconstruire ce spectacle, défaire la représentation et aller contre le grain de l’image. Il faut transformer les tours du World Trade Center en figures de l’imaginaire. Au lieu d’inciter à une exacerbation de la représentation, qui respecte la logique du spectaculaire, il faut chercher à effacer les tours, à les dégager des dispositifs discursifs et iconiques que maintiennent leur présence naïve dans l’imaginaire contemporain pour les réinvestir sur un tout autre mode, opaque plutôt que transparent, à mille lieues des habituels effets de réel. Il faut effacer les tours. C’est bien ce qu’avait compris Art Spiegelman, le dessinateur new yorkais. La livraisondu 24 septembre 2001 du magazine The New Yorker, premier numéro après les événements du 11 septembre, présente en page couverture une œuvre d’une rare intensité. En fait, la une imaginée par Art Spiegelman est une page monochrome où les deux tours du world Trade Center sont figurées en noir sur un fond noir. Leurs contour et forme apparaissent grâce à une légère dépression à la surface du papier. L’œuvre, reproduite sur la page couverture de In the Shadow of No Towers (2004 propose une version minimaliste des attentats, tablant sur l’élimination de la couleur et sur une représentation aux limites de la figuration. Une stratégie complémentaire de cet effacement est proposée par Michal Kosakowski dans son film expérimental Just Like the Movies (21 minutes, 2006. Ce n’est plus l’imaginaire des comics du début du vingtième siècle qui est sollicité, mais celui plus récent de la production hollywoodienne. Le film de Kosakowski est un extraordinaire exemple de

  16. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and disordered eating behaviors: links, risks, and challenges faced

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    Full Text Available Radek Ptacek,1,2 George B Stefano,1,3 Simon Weissenberger,1 Devang Akotia,1 Jiri Raboch,1 Hana Papezova,1 Lucie Domkarova,1 Tereza Stepankova,1 Michal Goetz4 1Department of Psychiatry, Charles University 1st Medical Faculty and General Teaching Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; 2Department of Psychology, University of New York in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; 3MitoGenetics Research Institute, MitoGenetics, LLC, Farmingdale, NY, USA; 4Department of Child Psychiatry, Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic Abstract: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder that often persists in adulthood. It is defined by inattention and/or hyperactivity–impulsivity. ADHD is associated with many comorbidities, including eating disorders (EDs. In the last decade, studies have reported that ADHD is linked with binge EDs, bulimia nervosa, and anorexia nervosa. Many postulates have been proposed to explain the association: 1 impulsive behavior in ADHD patients leads to disordered eating behavior; 2 other psychologic comorbidities present in ADHD patients account for eating behavior; 3 poor eating habits and resulting nutritional deficiencies contribute to ADHD symptoms; and 4 other risk factors common to both ADHD and EDs contribute to the coincidence of both diseases. Additionally, sex differences become a significant issue in the discussion of EDs and ADHD because of the higher incidence of bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa in females and the ability of females to mask the symptoms of ADHD. Interestingly, both EDs and ADHD rely on a common neural substrate, namely, dopaminergic signaling. Dopaminergic signaling is critical for motor activity and emotion, the latter enabling the former into a combined motivated movement like eating. This linkage aids in explaining the many comorbidities associated with ADHD. The interconnection of ADHD and EDs is discussed from

  17. LHC preparations change gear

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    After the formal approval by CERN Council in December (January, page 1) of the LHC protonproton collider for CERN's 27- kilometre LEP tunnel, preparations for the new machine change gear. Lyndon Evans becomes LHC Project Leader, and CERN's internal structure will soon be reorganized to take account of the project becoming a definite commitment. On the experimental side, the full Technical Proposals for the big general purpose ATLAS and CMS detectors were aired at a major meeting of the LHC Committee at CERN in January. These Technical Proposals are impressive documents each of some several hundred pages. (Summaries of the detector designs will appear in forthcoming issues of the CERN Courier.) The ALICE heavy ion experiment is not far behind, and plans for other LHC experiments are being developed. Playing an important role in this groundwork has been the Detector Research and Development Committee (DRDC), founded in 1990 to foster detector development for the LHC experimental programme and structured along the lines of a traditional CERN Experiments Committee. Established under the Director Generalship of Carlo Rubbia and initially steered by Research Director Walter Hoogland, the DRDC has done sterling work in blazing a trail for LHC experiments. Acknowledging that the challenge of LHC experimentation needs technological breakthroughs as well as specific detector subsystems, DRDC proposals have covered a wide front, covering readout electronics and computing as well as detector technology. Its first Chairman was Enzo larocci, succeeded in 1993 by Michal Turala. DRDC's role was to evaluate proposals, and make recommendations to CERN's Research Board for approval and resource allocation, not an easy task when the LHC project itself had yet to be formally approved. Over the years, a comprehensive portfolio of detector development has been built up, much of which has either led to specific LHC detector subsystems for traditional detector tasks

  18. In vitro controlled release of cisplatin from gold-carbon nanobottles via cleavable linkages

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    Full Text Available Jian Li,1 Sia Lee Yoong,2 Wei Jiang Goh,2 Bertrand Czarny,1 Zhi Yang,1 Kingshuk Poddar,2,3 Michal M Dykas,2,3 Abhijeet Patra,2,3 T Venkatesan,2,3 Tomasz Panczyk,4 Chengkuo Lee,5 Giorgia Pastorin1–3 1Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, 2NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, Centre for Life Sciences (CeLS, 3NUSNNI-NanoCore, National University of Singapore, Singapore; 4Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland; 5Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore Abstract: Carbon nanotubes’ (CNTs hollow interior space has been explored for biomedical applications, such as drug repository against undesirable inactivation. To further devise CNTs as smart material for controlled release of cargo molecules, we propose the concept of “gold-carbon nanobottles”. After encapsulating cis-diammineplatinum(II dichloride (cisplatin, CDDP in CNTs, we covalently attached gold nanoparticles (AuNPs at the open-tips of CNTs via different cleavable linkages, namely hydrazine, ester, and disulfide-containing linkages. Compared with our previous study in which more than 80% of CDDP leaked from CNTs in 2 hours, AuNPs were found to significantly decrease such spontaneous release to <40%. In addition, CDDP release from AuNP-capped CNTs via disulfide linkage was selectively enhanced by twofolds in reducing conditions (namely with 1 mM dithiothreitol [DTT], which mimic the intracellular environment. We treated human colon adenocarcinoma cells HCT116 with our CDDP-loaded gold-carbon nanobottles and examined the cell viability using lactate dehydrogenase assay. Interestingly, we found that our nanobottles with cleavable disulfide linkage exerted stronger cytotoxic effect in HCT116 compared with normal human fetal lung fibroblast cells IMR-90. Therefore, we infer that our nanobottles strategy with inbuilt disulfide linkage could

  19. Expanded DMPK repeats in dizygotic twins referred for diagnosis of autism versus absence of expanded DMPK repeats at screening of 330 children with autism

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    Full Text Available Zuzana Musova,1 Miroslava Hancarova,1 Marketa Havlovicova,1 Radka Pourova,1 Michal Hrdlicka,2 Josef Kraus,3 Marie Trkova,4 David Stejskal,4 Zdenek Sedlacek1 1Department of Biology and Medical Genetics, 2Department of Child Psychiatry, 3Department of Child Neurology, Charles University 2nd Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, 4Gennet, Centre for Fetal Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic Abstract: Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1 belongs to the broad spectrum of genetic disorders associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASD. ASD were reported predominantly in congenital and early childhood forms of DM1. We describe dizygotic twin boys with ASD who were referred for routine laboratory genetic testing and in whom karyotyping, FMR1 gene testing, and single nucleotide polymorphism array analysis yielded negative results. The father of the boys was later diagnosed with suspected DM1, and testing revealed characteristic DMPK gene expansions in his genome as well as in the genomes of both twins and their elder brother, who also suffered from ASD. In accord with previous reports on childhood forms of DM1, our patients showed prominent neuropsychiatric phenotypes characterized especially by hypotonia, developmental and language delay, emotional and affective lability, lowered adaptability, and social withdrawal. The experience with this family and multiple literature reports of ASD in DM1 on the one side but the lack of literature data on the frequency of DMPK gene expansions in ASD patients on the other side prompted us to screen the DMPK gene in a sample of 330 patients with ASD who were first seen by a geneticist before they were 10 years of age, before the muscular weakness, which may signal DM1, usually becomes obvious. The absence of any DMPK gene expansions in this cohort indicates that targeted DMPK gene testing can be recommended only in ASD patients with specific symptoms or family history suggestive of DM1. Keywords: autism, myotonic

  20. With thanks to our 2016 peer reviewers

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    2016 peer reviewers We are grateful to the following people for their significant contribution to Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada as peer reviewers in 2016. Their expertise ensures the quality of our journal and promotes the sharing of new knowledge among peers in Canada and internationally. Jillian Avis Sunday Azagba Sharon Bartholomew Michèle Boileau-Falardeau Jimmy Bourque Darren Brenner Robert Brison Yves Carrière Neena Chappell Guanmin Chen Yue Chen Edward Chesney Anna Chudyk Martin Cooke Erica Di Ruggiero Janet Durbin Charlene Elliott Peter Ellis Alexa Ferdinands Bradley Ferguson Lauren Fiechtner Maylene Fong Marilyn Fortin Nancy Gell Margo Greenwood Rita Henderson Erin Hobin Andrew Howell Natalie Iciaszczyk Jeff Johnson Janet Elizabeth Jull Tetyana Kendzerska Nicholas King Elaine Kingwell Victoria Kirsh Erin Kropac Liana Leach Claire Leblanc Yann Le Bodo Daniel Lebouthillier Isra Levy Elizabeth Lin Catherine Mah Loraine Marrett Caitlin McArthur Teri McComber Amy McPherson Verena Menec Leia Minaker Howard Morrison Yeeli Mui Kiyuri Naicker Tor Oiamo Scott Patten Marie-Claude Paquette Cheryl Peters Jennifer Petkovic William Pickett Michelle Ploughman Daniel Poremski Harry Prapavessis Steven Prus Jürgen Rehm Laurene Rehman Sandra Reynolds Annie Rhodes Celia Rodd Kaley Roosen Ellen Rosenberg Linda Rothman Jerry Schultz Kelly Skinner Robin Skinner Robin Somerville Becky Spencer Richard Stanwick Michael Stevenson David Streiner Laura Struik Anna Syrowatka Christopher Tait Chen Tang Kara Thompson Michelle Vine Claudio Violato JianLi Wang Stéphanie Ward Cynthia Weijs Russell Wilkins Keri Lynn Williams Renate Ysseldyk Tingting Zhang Christopher Zou

  1. Mujeres de la Najerense

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    Georges Martin

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    Full Text Available Partiendo del propósito de castellanizar y exaltar la dinastía regia fundada o propiciada por Fernando I, los autores de la Crónica najerense fueron llevados a ensalzar en muchos campos el protagonismo histórico de la mujer. Al contrario de la tradición historiográfica astur-leonesa e incluso gallega, éstos aceptaron y valoraron la intervención de la mujer en el ámbito público de los poderes seculares. Las mujeres de la Najerense, sólo en apariencia buenas o malas, pues todas son o legitimadoras o fundadoras, son a fin de cuentas expresiones varias de la emergencia, en la historiografía regia, de un sujeto femenino pleno y cabal de la historia.Partant du projet de castillaniser et d’exalter la dynastie royale fondée ou préparée par Ferdinand Ier, les auteurs de la Chronica naiarensis furent amenés à louer dans bien des domaines l’action historique de la femme. Au contraire de la tradition historiographique astur-léonaise et même galicienne, ces hommes acceptèrent et valorisèrent l’intervention publique des femmes dans les affaires séculières. Les femmes de la Naiarensis ne sont bonnes ou mauvaises qu’en apparence. Toutes légitimatrices ou fondatrices, elles ne font au bout du compte qu’exprimer diversement l’émergence dans l’historiographie royale d’un sujet féminin plein et entier de l’histoire.

  2. PERAN PROMOTIONAL MIX SEBAGAI VARIABEL MODERASI ORIENTASI PELANGGAN DAN ORIENTASI PESAING TERHADAP KINERJA PEMASARAN (Studi Empiris pada UKM Rumah Makan di Kabupaten Sragen

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    Full Text Available Increasingly fierce competition makes Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs restaurants are required to create the right strategy in creating consumer satisfaction by improving marketing performance. The existence of SMEs restaurants began unrivaled or even displaced by the business café or culinary stalls with a more varied and representative appearance. More and more restaurants are emerging illustrates the increasing level of competition in SMEs Restaurant, especially in Sragen regency. Looking at the phenomenon, the research team submitted research related to marketing strategy such as customer orientation, competitor orientation and promotional mix which is predicted to improve marketing performance of SME Restaurant in Sragen Regency. The population in this study is the owner or manager of SME Restaurant in Sragen regency in accordance with the criteria. The criterion of the owner or manager of SMEs being the population in this study is the data published by BPS as SMEs and in accordance with (Law No. 20 of 2008. A representative sample size for using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM analysis is at least five times the number of parameters. (Hair, 2004; Ferdinand, 2005. In this study the number of parameters is 20 so that the minimum sample size is: 20 x 5 = 100. The sampling technique in this study uses convenience sampling. The results showed that customer orientation has a positive and significant influence on marketing performance. The competitor's orientation has a positive and significant impact on marketing performance. Promotional mix moderates the effect of customer orientation on marketing performance. Promotional mix moderates the influence of competitors' orientation on marketing performance.

  3. Semiotika Atribut Sebagai Pesan Komunikasi: Studi Kasus Atribut Ibu Anggota DPR RI

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    Dominikus Tulasi

    2014-10-01

    Full Text Available Research aims to know denotative and connotative meaning of the attributes used by female members of House of Representatives as an integrated signifier and signified in their appeance. In terms of the research context “performance” was “sign” itself, by seeking the new structure existing in the attribute of their appearance. Attribute denotative meaning is the overall objects seemed. Connotative meaning is the meaning existing fits to the context of local culture, within it loads particular human being expression individually. The method used in the study is inductive-posteriori-explorative-qualitative, with a case study using semiotic analysis of communication led to internalization of the researcher towards the phenomenon of attributes used by the female members of the House of Representatives. The choice and use of attributes in each appearance can be used to give impressions used an anchor by the researcher to provide further interpretation of the attributes worn. This study took the paradigm theory of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Sanders Peirce to see through its problems in the field. The result is Saussure’s view is able to reconstruct all objects visible to the researcher. Similarly, Peirce's view has three major characteristics that are capable of being a mirror to see the reality in the field. The results showed an attempt to reconstruct the understanding of semiotics and attributes as a form of nonverbal communication message. The study concludes the denotative meaning of attributes can provide communication and connotative message over the attributes used by female members of the Parliament.

  4. Amerigo di Narbona, ultimo sovrano di Arborea?

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    Gallinari, Luciano

    1999-12-01

    Full Text Available In the light of a new document that has been found in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragón in Barcelona, this article presents a new outline of the political situation in the interior of the "Giudicato" or Kingdom of Arborea while the news concerning the agreement between the "judge" of Arborea William II, viscount of Narbonne, and the king of Aragon, Ferdinand I, for the selling of the "judge" 's rights about the "Giudicato" spread in Sassari in 1414. In consequence of this agreement, Sassari, capital town of Arborea, refusing the William II's decision, elected new "judge" of Arborea Aymeric of Narbonne, viscount's brother, and took the oath.[fr] A la lumière d'un nouveau document des Archives de la Couronne d'Aragon de Barcelona, cet article présente des nouveaux données sur la situation politique à l'intérieur du Judicat ou royaume d'Arborée lorsque en 1414 à Sassari se répandit la nouvelle que le juge d'Arborea Guillaume II, vicomte de Narbonne, et le roi d'Aragon Ferdinan 1er étaient arrivés à un accord pour la vente des droits que le juge avait sur le Judical sarde. En consequence de cet accori, la capitale judicale Sassari, en refusant la décision de Guillaume II, nomma nouveau juge d'Arborée Aymeric de Narbonne frère du vicomte, en lui prêtant serment.

  5. Uma distinção entre entidades e unidades linguísticas: implicações para o método em Linguística

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    Full Text Available No presente artigo, buscamos problematizar, a partir de uma leitura do Cours de Linguistique Générale de Ferdinand de Saussure, a distinção conceitual entre entidade e unidade linguísticas. Embora essa distinção possa parecer irrelevante, ela não o é; ao contrário, ela pode contribuir para desautomatizar algumas leituras do Cours e, assim, re-significar o discurso da linguística sobre ele. É preciso, então, (revisitá-las para não reduzi-las a uma mera sinonímia. Estudá-las pode ser uma forma de dar densidade às afirmações de que não há, no Saussure do Cours, o tão propalado expurgo do sujeito-falante. Pensar essa distinção no espaço do presente artigo é uma forma de dar a ver que as unidades da língua estão em função da produção da fala e do sujeito-falante que as delimita no mo(vimento de significação. Para melhor explicarmos a distinção entre os dois conceitos, analisamos algumas manifestações da linguagem, como propaganda, piada, notícia e provérbio, a fim de evidenciar o modo como o sujeito-falante delimita uma entidade concreta em unidade linguística. Assim procedendo, demonstramos que essa distinção conceitual está na base do método linguístico.

  6. Progress in high duty cycle, highly efficient fiber coupled 940-nm pump modules for high-energy class solid-state lasers

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    Platz, R.; Frevert, C.; Eppich, B.; Rieprich, J.; Ginolas, A.; Kreutzmann, S.; Knigge, S.; Erbert, G.; Crump, P.

    2018-03-01

    Diode lasers pump sources for future high-energy-class laser systems based on Yb-doped solid state amplifiers must deliver high optical intensities, high conversion efficiency (ηE = > 50%) at high repetition rates (f = 100 Hz) and long pulse widths (τ = 0.5…2 ms). Over the last decade, a series of pump modules has been developed at the Ferdinand-BraunInstitut to address these needs. The latest modules use novel wide-aperture single emitter diode lasers in passively side cooled stacks, operate at τ = 1 ms, f = 100…200 Hz and deliver 5…6 kW optical output power from a fiber with 1.9 mm core diameter and NA of 0.22, for spatial brightness BΩ > 1 MW/cm2 sr. The performance to date and latest developments in these high brightness modules are summarized here with recent work focusing on extending operation to other pumping conditions, as needed for alternative solid state laser designs. Specifically, the electro-optic, spectral and beam propagation characteristics of the module and its components are studied as a function of τ for a fixed duty cycle DC = 10% for τ = 1...100 ms, and first data is shown for continuous wave operation. Clear potential is seen to fulfill more demanding specifications without design changes. For example, high power long-pulse operation is demonstrated, with a power of > 5 kW at τ = 100 ms. Higher brightness operation is also confirmed at DC = 10% and τ = 1 ms, with > 5 kW delivered in a beam with BΩ > 4 MW/cm2 sr.

  7. In Defence of Throne and Shrine. The Organization of the Royalist Volunteers in Lerida | En defensa del trono y del altar. La organización de los cuerpos de voluntarios realistas en Lérida

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    Antoni Sánchez Carcelén

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available This study focuses on the formation of the Royalist Volunteers (1823-1826 units after Ferdinand VII’s second restoration in the city of Lerida. It analyses the establishment of the Committee for the Promotion of the Lerida Royalist Volunteers intended to obtain the necessary equipment and weaponry. It also examines the oath of the flag by the Royalist Volunteers on the basis of Priest Manuel Costa’s sermon, the first officers appointed by the municipal corporation –all of them members of the local oligarchy–, the establishment of a Royalist Volunteers Deputy-Inspection, the new officers and, finally, the social and professional background of those enlisted immediately after the 1826 regulations were published. | Este estudio se centra en la formación de los cuerpos de Voluntarios Realistas (1823-1826 tras la segunda restauración en el trono de Fernando VII en la ciudad de Lérida. El texto analiza el establecimiento de la Junta de Fomento de los Voluntarios Realistas de Lérida para poder así adquirir el equipamiento y armamento necesario; el juramento de la bandera por parte de los Voluntarios Realistas a partir del sermón pronunciado por el eclesiástico Manuel Costa; los primeros oficiales designados por la corporación municipal –pertenecientes a la oligarquía local–; la instauración de la Subinspección de Voluntarios Realistas; los nuevos oficiales; y, finalmente, la composición socio-profesional de los primeros alistados una vez publicado el reglamento de 1826.

  8. Machiavellian rather than Machiavellic: the Presence of The Prince, Discourses on Livy and Life of Castruccio Castracani in Gracián’s The Politician King Ferdinand the Catholic

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    Miguel Saralegui Benito

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    Full Text Available One of the most common topics in Gracián’s bibliography is to study the influence of machiavellism in his works. It has been usual to stress Gracián’s machiavellism. In this large bibliography, more attention has been paid to describe Gracián as a machiavellian than to study how particular ideas and works of Machiavelli are present in his works. In this article, I want to describe how El político Don Fernando el Católico includes ideas from The prince, the Discourses and The life of Castruccio Castracani, a work neglected by Gracián’s scholars. Among others, the ideas that Gracián shares with Machiavelli are the following: the theory of occasion and riscontro, the division of the politician character between impulsive and prudent, the criterion to evaluate political succes and the method to write a political biography. The result of my research shows that Gracián, instead of being a purely machiavellian thinker, shares with Machiavelli a great number of ideas, many of which have nothing to do with the immoral Machiavelli.

  9. Development and Dissemination: Deliberations on Spanish Renaissance Music

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    Lindsey E. Pfeifer

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available Every musical culture grows and developed under a specific set of influences, whether political, philosophical, or geographical. Varying sets of influences create likewise varying types of music. Spanish music, in particular, enjoyed an especially unique array of influences during the fifteenth century. My presentation explores these influences. How did the interaction of Spain’s three major religions—Christianity, Islam, and Judaism—affect musical development? How did the newly unified government, ruled by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, influence the musical culture? How did Spain’s discovery and conquest of the New World facilitate the spread of Spanish music beyond its borders? These three factors made Spain distinct from other Western nations during the fifteenth century. In my presentation, I first describe the interaction of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. This synergy created a rich, collaborative community of shared musical ideas, prompting the development of both sacred and secular genres. Next, I address the influence that Spain’s unified government exerted on the musical culture. Historically, politics have played a substantial role in the development of music. Spain is distinctive in this respect because most other nations during this time were not unified under one ruler, whereas Spain was. This unique governmental structure in turn affected the musical culture. Lastly, I will explain how the spread of Spanish music and its interaction with native tribes in America impacted its development, both within and outside Spain’s borders. Spain was particularly poised to both exert their influence and be influenced by the different people groups they encountered in the New World. These three factors would create a uniquely Spanish music culture.

  10. Escultores académicos del siglo XVIII en el Diccionario de Ceán Bermúdez. Nuevas adiciones (I

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    Albarrán Martín, Virginia

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    Full Text Available Toward the end of 1799, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Ferdinand, in charge of the publication of Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez's Diccionario de los más ilustres profesores de las Bellas Artes en España, decided not to include information pertaining to living artists. All of this material, preserved in the National Library in Madrid, and never before published, is presented in this first article dealing with academic sculptors letters A to E. A comparison of this new information with existing studies demonstrates the need for a profound revision of the works of certain artists.

    A finales del año 1799, la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Femando, una vez que se hace cargo de la publicación del Diccionario de los más ilustres profesores de las Bellas Artes en España de Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez, decide editar la obra sin la información referente a los artistas todavía en activo. De toda esa documentación, conservada en la Biblioteca Nacional y no publicada hasta el momento, se da a conocer en este primer artículo la perteneciente a los escultores académicos desde la letra A hasta la E. La comparación de esta información con los estudios existentes dedicados a la cuestión, muestra la necesidad de una nueva revisión en profundidad de la obra de determinados artistas.

  11. Cancillería castellana y lengua vernácula : su proceso de consolidación

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    Pilar Ostos Salcedo

    2004-01-01

    Full Text Available La utilización de la lengua romance en la cancillería regia castellana fue resultado de un paulatino proceso que puede rastrearse a través de los numerosos documentos conservados y en los que se aprecia cómo se fue imponiendo al latín en función del contenido de los documentos y de su tipología. Los primeros indicios claros se detectan en la última etapa del reinado de Alfonso VIII, es decir, a finales del siglo XII y primeros años de la centuria siguiente. Su avance es incontestable en la época de Fernando III y en especial a partir de 1230. El triunfo del castellano en la documentación real — también notarial— se produce en la segunda mitad del siglo XIII, en el decisivo reinado de Alfonso X.The use of the Romance language in the Castilian royal Chancellory was the result of a progressive process tracked through many documents preserved, and in which it is observed how it was imposing to the latin, according to the documents contents and their typology. The first clear signs are detected during the last years of the kingdom of Alphonse VII, that is to say, at the end of the 12th century, and during the first years of the following century. Its advance is unquestionable during Ferdinand III, and specially since 1230. The success of the Castilian language in the royal documentation —also in the notarial— happens in the second half of the 13th century, during the decisive kingdom of Alphonse X.

  12. Broca and the General Language Faculty

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    Grazia Basile

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    Full Text Available In this paper, I examine the important impact of Paul Broca on our understanding of language. Broca not only discovered the brain area responsible for language production, but he also highlighted the importance of a general language faculty – as Ferdinand de Saussure would later do in his Course in General Linguistics – considered as a kind of semiotic faculty that enables us to establish a constant relationship between an idea and a sign, between an entity that is situated on the level of content and an entity that is situated on the level of expression. Saussure later emphasized that this faculty of associating something on the level of content with something on the level of expression is a natural tendency in every human being. In this paper we will argue – with reference to the socio-constructivist theory of meaning – that the “generality” to which Broca refers should be understood to be closely correlated with the “naturalness” intended by Saussure. In particular, general and natural should be considered together, taking into account the ways in which human beings who live within a linguistic community put into practice, from childhood, their ability to build a language and, conversely, what happens when, in cases of aphasia, patients - so to speak - “lose the words”. Both children who are acquiring their mother tongue and aphasic patients who fail to “find the words” behave in a holistic way, within forms of life, that is, shared situations in which their own life experiences, habits, knowledge, words and so on come to life.

  13. Juan Gálvez y Leandro Fernández de Moratín : cuatro escenas, obra de Gálvez, inspiradas en las comedias de Moratín

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    Juan Martínez Cuesta

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    Full Text Available Este artículo analiza los cuatro lienzos ejecutados por Juan Gálvez (1774-1847 destinados a ilustrar la edición de las obras del dramaturgo Leandro Fernández de Moratín, publicadas por la Real Academia de la Historia, en 1830. Juan Gálvez fue uno de los pintores de cámara en la Corte de Fernando Vil, trabajando en distintos Reales Sitios. Fue director de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Los cuatro lienzos citados constituyeron el modelo para las litografías de las siguientes obras de Moratín: 1 «El sí de las niñas», acto III, escena XIII; 2 «La mojigata», acto II, escena II; 3 «La escuela de maridos», acto III, escena Vil; 4 «El médico a palos», acto ¡I, escena V.This article describes the four canvas painted by Juan Gálvez (1774-1847 in order to alústrate the comedies written by Leandro Fernández of Moratín, published by the Royal Spanish Academy of History, in 1830. Juan Gálvez was one of the official painter in Ferdinand Vlll's court, also he was director of the Royal Spanish Academy of Arts. The four canvas were models for litographies of Moratín's world's: 1 «El sí de las niñas», act III, scene XIII; 2 «La mojigata», act II, scene II; 3 «La escuela de maridos», act III, escena VII; 4 «El médico a palos», act II, scene V.

  14. Heinrich von Wlislocki in the memories of his contemporaries

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    Svetlana Procop

    2017-12-01

    Full Text Available The article presents Heinrich von Wlislocki – a folklorist, literary historian, linguist and educator, wide ly known in the scientific circles of Europe of the late XIX century, as one of the first XIX century European researcher of the gypsies – in the memories of his contemporaries. He was a Doctor of Philosophy, one of those whom his colleagues called a “friend of the Gypsies”, he went to wander with the camp of Transylvanian gypsies to collect field material directly in their midst. As a result, about 80 papers were published in selected publications, as well as in well-known scientific journals in Europe. Most often, his publications could be seen in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, of which he was a member. Being a contemporary of George Henry Borrow (1803–1881, Alexander Gheorghe Paspati (1814–1891, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903, Francis Hindes Grum (1851–1902, Anton Herrmann (1851–1926, Hans Ferdinand Helmolt (1865–1929, Heinrich von Wlislocki (1856–1907 was one of the few folklorists and connoisseurs of Gypsy life and culture of the XIX century. The latter completely immersed themselves in the life of the Gypsy, mastering for the first time the ethnographic method of included observation. It was a heroic period of studying folklore in Europe, when dedicated scientists created a folkloric field of research from the scratch. 110 years passed since the death of Heinrich von Wlislocki but this did not erase his name from the historical memory, folklorist researchers still refer to his works, including them in scientific circulation.

  15. Calipso não se consolava com a partida de Ulisses: a ilha da igualdade Calypso could not get over the departure of Ulysses: an isle of equality

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    Stéphane Douailler

    2003-04-01

    Full Text Available Quando, em 1987, Jacques Rancière publicou O mestre ignorante, de Joseph Jacotot, o método universal de emancipação intelectual e o aprendizado de leitura sem mestre explicador inscreviam o nome de seu autor no livro de ouro dos precursores da escola e da pedagogia. Após uma releitura do estatuto que, em 1911, o Dictionnaire de pédagogie de Ferdinand Buisson lhe havia conferido, Stéphane Douailler, professor do departamento de filosofia da Universidade Paris VIII, busca ressaltar, neste breve artigo, algumas das linhas de ruptura graças às quais o livro de Jacques Rancière conseguiu estilizar a aventura de Jacotot num paradigma excepcional da questão filosófica da igualdade das inteligências e da emancipação universal, na contramão das verdades em torno das quais, historicamente, a escola se fundou.When, in 1987, Jacques Rancière published The ignorant schoolmaster, by Joseph Jacotot, the universal method of intellectual emancipation and reading training without an explaining master definitively entered the gallery of school and education precursors. After reviewing the status he was given by the Dictionnaire de Pédagogie edited by Buisson, in 1911, Stéphane Douailler, professor at the department of philosophy at the University of Paris 8, attempts to draw out some of the rupture lines through which Rancière's book succeeded to stylize the adventure of Jacotot into an exceptional paradigm of the philosophical question of intelligence equality and universal emancipation, that went against the tide of the truths around which school was historically founded.

  16. Using Webgis and Cloud Tools to Promote Cultural Heritage Dissemination: the Historic up Project

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    Tommasi, A.; Cefalo, R.; Zardini, F.; Nicolaucig, M.

    2017-05-01

    On the occasion of the First World War centennial, GeoSNav Lab (Geodesy and Satellite Navigation Laboratory), Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Italy, in coooperation with Radici&Futuro Association, Trieste, Italy, carried out an educational Project named "Historic Up" involving a group of students from "F. Petrarca" High School of Trieste, Italy. The main goal of the project is to make available to students of Middle and High Schools a set of historical and cultural contents in a simple and immediate way, through the production of a virtual and interactive tour following the event that caused the burst of the First World War: the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia in Sarajevo occurred on June 28, 1914. A set of Google Apps was used, including Google Earth, Maps, Tour Builder, Street View, Gmail, Drive, and Docs. The Authors instructed the students about software and team-working and supported them along the research. After being checked, all the historical and geographic data have been uploaded on a Google Tour Builder to create a sequence of historical checkpoints. Each checkpoint has texts, pictures and videos that connect the tour-users to 1914. Moreover, GeoSNaV Lab researchers produced a KML (Keyhole Markup Language) file, formed by several polylines and points, representing the itinerary of the funeral procession that has been superimposed on ad-hoc georeferenced historical maps. This tour, freely available online, starts with the arrival of the royals, on June 28th 1914, and follows the couple along the events, from the assassination to the burial in Arstetten (Austria), including their passages through Trieste (Italy), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Graz and Wien (Austria).

  17. Philippine Technocracy and the Politics of Economic Decision Making During the Martial Law Period (1972-1986

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    Teresa E. Encarnacion Tadem

    2013-12-01

    Full Text Available This paper seeks to elucidate the Philippine technocracy’s rise into the power elite as well as its fall from position during the martial law period (1972- 1986. It aims to bring in the insights of the technocrats concerning their role in President Ferdinand E. Marcos’s authoritarian regime and their views of the nature of the politics, which facilitated as well as impeded the economic decision-making process. It will validate this with what has already been written. The paper argues that the technocracy’s technical expertise and shared development vision with the leadership and the country’s major donors, the International Monetary Fund (IMF and the World Bank, provided their power base.This was, however, continually challenged by the other economic power blocs which consisted mainly of factions within the technocracy, the Marcos cronies, and that of the First Lady Mrs. Imelda Marcos. For as long as the technocracy could access the needed IMF/World Bank loans for the country, the leadership gave it substantive bargaining leverage. This, however, would deteriorate with the country’s economic and political instability as brought about by failed technocratic policies and worldwide economic recession in 1981 and the burgeoning antidictatorship movement spawned further by the 1983 assassination of ex-Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. The technocracy’s loss of power was further aggravated by Marcos’s failing health giving more clout to Mrs. Marcos’s power bloc. What contributed to the technocracy’s ultimate demise was their alienation from the general public as brought about by their vast differing perceptions of the causes of corruption, underdevelopment, and human rights abuses of the regime.

  18. Juan de Caramuel y su “Declaración mystica de las armas de España” (Bruselas, 1636

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    Mínguez, Víctor

    2007-12-01

    Full Text Available In 1636, coinciding with a decisive moment in the Thirty Year’s War, Juan de Caramuel y Lobkowitz published in Brussels the Declaración Mystica de las Armas de España, invictamente belicosas (Mystical Declaration of the Arms of Spain, invincibly warlike, dedicated to the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria. This publication was in fact a symbolic and mystical eulogium of the arms of the Hispanic Monarchy, through the explanation of each of the coats of arms pertaining to the kingdoms constituting the monarchy. These discourses provide emblematic content for the heraldry of kingdoms, and constitute the models for many subsequent series of festive hieroglyphs, which were to represent political territories or geographical allegories by means of symbolically explained coats of arms.

    Coincidiendo con un momento álgido de la Guerra de los Treinta Años, Juan de Caramuel y Lobkowitz publica en Bruselas en 1636 la Declaración Mystica de las Armas de España, invictamente belicosas, dedicada al Cardenal Infante Don Fernando de Austria. Se trata de una apología místico simbólica de las armas de la monarquía hispánica a través de la explicación de cada uno de los escudos de los reinos que componen la monarquía. Sus discursos dotan de contenido emblemático a los blasones de reinos y establecen las pautas de muchas series de jeroglíficos festivos posteriores que representarán territorios políticos o alegorías por medios de escudos explicados simbólicamente.

  19. Oxidative stress response in neural stem cells exposed to different superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles

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    Pongrac IM

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    Full Text Available Igor M Pongrac,1 Ivan Pavičić,2 Mirta Milić,2 Lada Brkič Ahmed,1 Michal Babič,3 Daniel Horák,3 Ivana Vinković Vrček,2 Srećko Gajović1 1School of Medicine, Croatian Institute for Brain Research, University of Zagreb, 2Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia; 3Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic Abstract: Biocompatibility, safety, and risk assessments of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs are of the highest priority in researching their application in biomedicine. One improvement in the biological properties of SPIONs may be achieved by different functionalization and surface modifications. This study aims to investigate how a different surface functionalization of SPIONs – uncoated, coated with D-mannose, or coated with poly-L-lysine – affects biocompatibility. We sought to investigate murine neural stem cells (NSCs as important model system for regenerative medicine. To reveal the possible mechanism of toxicity of SPIONs on NSCs, levels of reactive oxygen species, intracellular glutathione, mitochondrial membrane potential, cell-membrane potential, DNA damage, and activities of SOD and GPx were examined. Even in cases where reactive oxygen species levels were significantly lowered in NSCs exposed to SPIONs, we found depleted intracellular glutathione levels, altered activities of SOD and GPx, hyperpolarization of the mitochondrial membrane, dissipated cell-membrane potential, and increased DNA damage, irrespective of the surface coating applied for SPION stabilization. Although surface coating should prevent the toxic effects of SPIONs, our results showed that all of the tested SPION types affected the NSCs similarly, indicating that mitochondrial homeostasis is their major cellular target. Despite the claimed biomedical benefits of SPIONs, the refined determination of their effects on various cellular functions

  20. Derivation and validation of a multivariable model to predict when primary care physicians prescribe antidepressants for indications other than depression

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    Full Text Available Jenna Wong, Michal Abrahamowicz, David L Buckeridge, Robyn Tamblyn Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada Objective: Physicians commonly prescribe antidepressants for indications other than depression that are not evidence-based and need further evaluation. However, lack of routinely documented treatment indications for medications in administrative and medical databases creates a major barrier to evaluating antidepressant use for indications besides depression. Thus, the aim of this study was to derive a model to predict when primary care physicians prescribe antidepressants for indications other than depression and to identify important determinants of this prescribing practice. Methods: Prediction study using antidepressant prescriptions from January 2003–December 2012 in an indication-based electronic prescribing system in Quebec, Canada. Patients were linked to demographic files, medical billings data, and hospital discharge summary data to create over 370 candidate predictors. The final prediction model was derived on a random 75% sample of the data using 3-fold cross-validation integrated within a score-based forward stepwise selection procedure. The performance of the final model was assessed in the remaining 25% of the data. Results: Among 73,576 antidepressant prescriptions, 32,405 (44.0% were written for indications other than depression. Among 40 predictors in the final model, the most important covariates included the molecule name, the patient’s education level, the physician’s workload, the prescribed dose, and diagnostic codes for plausible indications recorded in the past year. The final model had good discrimination (concordance (c statistic 0.815; 95% CI, 0.787–0.847 and good calibration (ratio of observed to expected events 0.986; 95% CI, 0.842–1.136. Conclusion: In the absence of documented treatment indications, researchers may be able to use

  1. Sordera, tragedia y muerte de Ludwig van Beethoven

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    Darío Morón Díaz

    2008-07-01

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    La sordera de Ludwig van Beethoven fue atribuida a distintas enfermedades: a una neuritis
    acústica debido a la fiebre tifoidea, a la sífilis, a la hepatitis, a una colitis, al reumatismo, a abscesos,
    a una criopatia debida al frío y a la osificación del tejido cartilaginoso que conduce al oído ínterno,
    también mencionaron la sarcoidosis.
    Dos hechos fueron fundamentales para desechar tales especulaciones: el primero, la decisión del
    joven Ferdinand Hiller, que el 27 de marzo de 1827 cortó un mechón de cabello del cadáver de Ludwig
    van Beethoven. El segundo, el avance científico de la medicina moderna. Ambos acontecimientos han
    permitido profundizar con certeza en la etiología u origen de la sordera de Beethoven y la variada síntomatología que sufrió el genio musical.

    Esbozo biográfico
    EL 16 de diciembre de 1770, en Bonn, nació Ludwig van Beethoven, hijo de Johann Beethoven y
    Maria Magdalena Keverich; el matrimonio tuvo siete hijos, cuatro fallecieron siendo niños y tres sobrevivieron: Ludwig, Kaspar Antón Karl y Nicolás Johann.
    El padre de Beethoven fue dipsómano, debido a los excesos alcohólicos y en medio de los escándalos el
    padre agredía al niño. Deambulaba entre la Iglesia y la taberna. María Magdalena por el contrario era tierna y afectuosa con su hijo, situación que por contraste servía de refugio a Ludwig.

  2. La pluma contra las Cortes y el Trono. La prensa y el desmontaje del liberalismo hispánico en el Perú, 1821-1824

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    Peralta Ruiz, Víctor

    2011-12-01

    Full Text Available Through analysis of the discourse of the press during the period of independence, mainly published in Lima, this article will show how it was possible to extirpate Hispanic liberalism from Peruvian political culture. It will be argued that the second period of Spanish constitutionalism known as the Liberal Triennium was easy for newspapers to represent not only as a period of intolerance of Latin American independence but as a plebeian government ready to bring down enlightened nobility and religion, and a system in which servile absolutists and both moderate and extremist liberals shared with Ferdinand VII a congenitally despotic form of conduct. The article is divided into three sections corresponding to the period of the Protectorate, the establishment of the Congreso Constituyente and the dictatorship of Simón Bolívar.

    A través del análisis del discurso de la prensa del periodo de la independencia, básicamente publicada en Lima, se demostrará cómo pudo extirparse el liberalismo hispánico de la cultura política peruana. Se argumentará que el segundo constitucionalismo español conocido como Trienio Liberal fue fácilmente representado por los periódicos no solo como un periodo de intolerancia a la independencia hispanoamericana sino como un gobierno de la plebe dispuesta a acabar con la nobleza ilustrada y la religión y un sistema en que los serviles absolutistas y los liberales moderados y exaltados compartían con Fernando VII una congénita conducta despótica. El artículo se divide en tres partes que se corresponden, sucesivamente, con la etapa del Protectorado, el establecimiento del Congreso Constituyente y la dictadura de Simón Bolívar.

  3. Changing libraries, encountering the law

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    Isabelle Giannattasio

    2004-10-01

    Full Text Available The technical and legal issues associated with digital material, originally the concern principally of audiovisual librarians, now impact upon library management in general. Three factors, occurring simultaneously, have driven the digital agenda for library managers: the high profile accorded to the accomplishment of mission; the ever-increasing complexity of copyright legislation; and the Internet which has served as a catalyst for deregulation and globalisation. The purpose of this short article is to explore both the opportunities and the obstacles posed by these factors across three core areas of digital collection management: conservation, access and development. I shall draw upon the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF in this context. The BnF is a national library containing heritage collections, largely legal deposit and used for research purposes,. and also collections aimed at a far wider public.. The Audiovisual department is in charge of phonograms, videograms, multimedia and electronic documents. The collection was originally created in 1911 by the linguist Ferdinand Brunot of the Sorbonne University as 'Les Archives de la parole'. Subsequently the collection has been further developed mainly with published records, mostly as legal deposit. The collection now has over one million documents, in all kinds of technical devices and carriers. In France, three institutions share the audiovisual heritage collections: the BnF for documents, the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC for film, and the Institut national de l'Audiovisuel for radio and television archives. In the BnF audiovisual collections are enlarged by legal deposit, by acquisitions and by donations. But whereas we own the carriers - a material property -, we do not own the intellectual property in the work. The protection of authors' rights and neighbouring rights are central to the actions we have to perform in order to accomplish our missions of conservation and

  4. USING WEBGIS AND CLOUD TOOLS TO PROMOTE CULTURAL HERITAGE DISSEMINATION: THE HISTORIC UP PROJECT

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    A. Tommasi

    2017-05-01

    Full Text Available On the occasion of the First World War centennial, GeoSNav Lab (Geodesy and Satellite Navigation Laboratory, Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Italy, in coooperation with Radici&Futuro Association, Trieste, Italy, carried out an educational Project named “Historic Up” involving a group of students from “F. Petrarca” High School of Trieste, Italy. The main goal of the project is to make available to students of Middle and High Schools a set of historical and cultural contents in a simple and immediate way, through the production of a virtual and interactive tour following the event that caused the burst of the First World War: the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia in Sarajevo occurred on June 28, 1914. A set of Google Apps was used, including Google Earth, Maps, Tour Builder, Street View, Gmail, Drive, and Docs. The Authors instructed the students about software and team-working and supported them along the research. After being checked, all the historical and geographic data have been uploaded on a Google Tour Builder to create a sequence of historical checkpoints. Each checkpoint has texts, pictures and videos that connect the tour-users to 1914. Moreover, GeoSNaV Lab researchers produced a KML (Keyhole Markup Language file, formed by several polylines and points, representing the itinerary of the funeral procession that has been superimposed on ad-hoc georeferenced historical maps. This tour, freely available online, starts with the arrival of the royals, on June 28th 1914, and follows the couple along the events, from the assassination to the burial in Arstetten (Austria, including their passages through Trieste (Italy, Ljubljana (Slovenia, Graz and Wien (Austria.

  5. DEDE KORKUT KİTABI’NDA AĞAÇ KAVRAMININ SEMİYOTİK VE SEMANTİK AÇILIMI / SEMIOTIC AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF TREE CONCEPT IN DEDE KORKUT BOOK

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    Servet KARÇIĞA

    2016-04-01

    Full Text Available The study of semiotics and semantics in Linguistic starts with Ferdinand de Saussure in the modern sense. Semiotics, known also as semiology, has the answer to the question how a sign that is present in the mind come into existence in immediate memory. According to this, signs comprise of signifier that is acoustic sound system and of signified that carries the meaning of a concept. In semiotics which is also a subject of sociology some of the signs have conventional features. The figurative usage of signs takes an important place in these conventional features. Semantic, shortly described as a science that analyzes meaning, is one of the most debatable field of Linguistics. What gives rise to this discussion is the thought of meaning changes according to individuals and context. Dede Korkut book is a magic mirror that reflects worldview of Turks with the knowledge it includes. Those who know this book in all its parts will be able to find a lot of information regarding Turkish language, history, mores, belief system, mythology e.t.c. With this aspect, this book functions as a handbook of Ghuzz Turks. Some concepts take place with their figurative features in Dede Korkut and one of them is tree. The concept of tree provides significant clues as to belief system of Ghuzz Turks. Besides, this concept attracts notice since it used in nearly all the field of social life. In this study firstly information about importance and place of Dede Korkut in Turkish Literature will be discussed Later, semiotic and semantic will be analyzed with the aspect of this study. Finally the concept of tree in Dede Korkut will be analyzed with the aspect of semantic and semiotic.

  6. المرجعية الفلسفية للسرد

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    Full Text Available After studying the philosophical reference listed it became clear that the linguistic impact (Ferdinand Saussure in Tnaiyate (language / speech (signifier / signified (synchronization / sequencers and the coming of the (Roman Jakobson in the composition and functions of the language (reference, susceptibilities, Alavhammeh, Alantbahah, Almaoralgoah , poetic in the maturity of the sender, addressee concepts, code, message, context, etc., it has been associated with the impact of anthropological studies (for Strauss and his statements that the language is the crossing point for the thought of society and its culture and its history and it is a tribal concepts continent in the human mind and his views with (PRWEB in the analysis of myths and stories superstitious in connecting the narrative of the lesson from the impact and influenced by the ideas and dimensions of society, morals, and are linked to them (Jacques Lacan and his studies in psychology and his views with Freud that the language expressing the unconscious side of bitumen in the human mind went lesson narrative to express their ideas and desires, and imagination of the individual self and society Assembly, and then accompanied them fourth axis which is the impact of Marxist thought and his statements in being the absolute truth and is an interview trilogy (god, ego, infrastructure, and that the mind is in control of the world's Fidel (the death of God, human Ripper .. the power of the group and Superman thus the expression of the author's death and control structure of the text from the inside, and this gives the narrative of the sacred aspect of the expression and delivery of messages to the outside of the text done and focus on Functional dimension orderly, coherent with the features of reality as seen Todorov.

  7. A PRESENÇA DE SAUSSURE NA TEORIA DA ARGUMENTAÇÃO NA LÍNGUA DE OSWALD DUCROT

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    Leci Borges Barbisan

    2014-06-01

    Full Text Available O texto “A presença de Saussure na Teoria da Argumentação na Língua” tem por objetivo avaliar a filiação da teoria, criada por Oswald Ducrot na École de Hautes Études em Sciences Sociales de Paris, a conceitos de Ferdinand de Saussure. È mostrada inicialmente a importância que o Curso de Linguística Geral assumiu , apesar das dificuldades que contém, para a preservação do pensamento de Saussure, e a valiosa contribuição que trouxe para o desenvolvimento de teorias não apenas da linguagem, mas também das ciências humanas, durante o século XX. Dentre os conceitos mais relevantes do saussurianismo são destacados os de relação e de valor. A Teoria da Argumentação na Língua constrói uma interpretação do valor linguístico saussuriano pelo olhar da alteridade que se encontra no diálogo O Sofista de Platão. É a partir dessa noção que Ducrot, excelente conhecedor da Filosofia clássica, desenvolve seu conceito de valor argumentativo, mostrando como, pela relação entre entidades lexicais, é possível explicar os sentidos que se encontram em discursos. Em vista disso, o sentido decorre da linguagem, não é resultado de referência à realidade. Na conclusão, surge uma questão: Ducrot ultrapassou Saussure? Responde-se negativamente, considerando-se que o trabalho de Ducrot, embora seja devedor do pensamento de Saussure, não o continuou, produziu uma semântica sintagmática da língua.

  8. Recibir princesas y enterrar reina (Zamora 1501 y 1504

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    Manuel Fernando Ladero Quesada

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    Full Text Available Entre las fiestas que tienen lugar en las ciudades medievales, hay algunas celebraciones que, por su carácter excepcional, adquieren una mayor relevancia y repercusión sobre la memoria colectiva de sus habitantes, destacan aquellas que tienen como protagonistas, de una manera u otra, a personajes de la realeza. En el presente trabajo se comentan dos acontecimientos que tienen lugar en la ciudad de Zamora en los primeros años del siglo xvi. La visita a la ciudad en 1501 de Catalina de Aragón, hija menor de los Reyes Católicos, de paso hacia Inglaterra para contraer matrimonio, sucesivamente, con los dos hijos de Enrique Vil; y los actos que se organizan para honrar la memoria de la reina Isabel -exequias-, fallecida en noviembre de 1504. El artículo se acompaña de una breve selección documental, con textos procedentes del Archivo Histórico Nacional y el Archivo Histórico Provincial de Zamora.Bettween the festivlties of the medieval cities, there are some celebratlons that, for their exceptional cháracter, acquire repercussion In the colectivo memory of their habitants, bettween them exist that ones that have as main cháracters the royal family. In this report are comentd two events In Zamora in the first years of the xvi century. The visit in 1501 to the city of Catalina de Aragón, daugther of the kings Ferdinand and Elisabeth, in her journey to England to get married, successively, with two Henry's Vil sons; and the acts thet were organised to honour queen's Elisabeth memory (exequias, death in November of 1504. The study is accompained by a short documental selectlon, with text from the National Historlcal Archives and Historlcal Archives of Zamora.

  9. Get the most from your data: a propensity score model comparison on real-life data

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    Ferdin

    2016-05-01

    Full Text Available Dennis Ferdinand,1 Mirko Otto,2 Christel Weiss1 1Department of Biomathematics and Medical Statistics, 2Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Mannheim (UMM, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany Purpose: In the past, the propensity score has been in the middle of several discussions in terms of its abilities and limitations. With a comprehensive review and a practical example, this study examines the effect of propensity score analysis of real-life data and introduces a simple and effective clinical approach. Materials and methods: After the authors reviewed current publications, they applied their insights to the data of a nonrandomized clinical trial in bariatric surgery. This study examined weight loss in 173 patients where 127 patients received Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery and 46 patients sleeve gastrectomy. Both groups underwent analysis in terms of their covariate distribution using Mann–Whitney U and χ2 testing. Mean differences within excess weight loss in native data were examined with Student’s t-test. Three propensity score models were defined and matching was performed. Covariate distribution and mean differences in excess weight loss were checked with Mann–Whitney U and χ2 testing. Results: Native data implied a significant difference in excess weight loss. The propensity score models did not confirm this difference. All models proved that both surgical procedures were equal, due to their weight-loss induction. Covariate distribution improved after the matching procedure in terms of an equal distribution. Conclusion: It seemed that a practical clinical approach with outcome-related covariates as a propensity score base is the ideal midpoint between an equal distribution in covariates and an acceptable loss of data. Nevertheless, propensity score models designed with clinical intent seemed to be absolutely suitable for overcoming heterogeneity in covariate distribution. Keywords: nonrandomized clinical

  10. Retour sur l’enquête dialectologique de Brunot en Berry et Limousin (1913

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    Bergounioux Gabriel

    2014-07-01

    Full Text Available A la suite de la création des Archives de la Parole en 1911, Ferdinand Brunot, titulaire de la chaire d’histoire de la langue française à la Sorbonne, a entrepris de compléter les collections en constituant une collection d’enregistrements qui conserverait le témoignage des parlers de France. Il a conduit pour mener à bien ce projet deux missions (la poursuite de ce travail est interrompue par la guerre, la première dans les Ardennes avec Charles Bruneau, la seconde en 1913 en deux étapes, en Berry et en Limousin. A partir des publications de F. Brunot et des documents sonores, on se propose de montrer en quoi, dans la sélection des informations et la conduite de l’enquête, le recueil des données de la seconde mission se conforme à une représentation du français et des langues de France dont on s’efforce de suivre les fluctuations durant tout le XIXe siècle. On étudie la façon dont les conceptions qui ont guidé l’observation s’avèrent tributaires des modalités de l’introduction du comparatisme en France et des discussions qui ont eu lieu autour des caractères de l’identité nationale, en particulier après la guerre de 1870. On rappelle, à cette occasion selon quelles modalités l’état est amené à établir une politique scolaire pour promouvoir la connaissance de la langue nationale et la façon dont, en tant qu’auteur de manuels, F. Brunot y a apporté sa contribution.

  11. Editorial: Focus on Atom Optics and its Applications

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    Schmidt-Kaler, F.; Pfau, T.; Schmelcher, P.; Schleich, W.

    2010-06-01

    Couvert, B Georgeot and D Guéry-Odelin Analysis of the entanglement between two individual atoms using global Raman rotations A Gaëtan, C Evellin, J Wolters, P Grangier, T Wilk and A Browaeys Spin polarization transfer in ground and metastable helium atom collisions D Vrinceanu and H R Sadeghpour A fiber Fabry-Perot cavity with high finesse D Hunger, T Steinmetz, Y Colombe, C Deutsch, T W Hänsch and J Reichel Atomic wave packets in amplitude-modulated vertical optical lattices A Alberti, G Ferrari, V V Ivanov, M L Chiofalo and G M Tino Atom interferometry with trapped Bose-Einstein condensates: impact of atom-atom interactions Julian Grond, Ulrich Hohenester, Igor Mazets and Jörg Schmiedmayer Storage of protonated water clusters in a biplanar multipole rf trap C Greve, M Kröner, S Trippel, P Woias, R Wester and M Weidemüller Single-atom detection on a chip: from realization to application A Stibor, H Bender, S Kühnhold, J Fortágh, C Zimmermann and A Günther Ultracold atoms as a target: absolute scattering cross-section measurements P Würtz, T Gericke, A Vogler and H Ott Entanglement-assisted atomic clock beyond the projection noise limit Anne Louchet-Chauvet, Jürgen Appel, Jelmer J Renema, Daniel Oblak, Niels Kjaergaard and Eugene S Polzik Towards the realization of atom trap trace analysis for 39Ar J Welte, F Ritterbusch, I Steinke, M Henrich, W Aeschbach-Hertig and M K Oberthaler Resonant superfluidity in an optical lattice I Titvinidze, M Snoek and W Hofstetter Interference of interacting matter waves Mattias Gustavsson, Elmar Haller, Manfred J Mark, Johann G Danzl, Russell Hart, Andrew J Daley and Hanns-Christoph Nägerl Magnetic trapping of NH molecules with 20 s lifetimes E Tsikata, W C Campbell, M T Hummon, H-I Lu and J M Doyle Imprinting patterns of neutral atoms in an optical lattice using magnetic resonance techniques Michal Karski, Leonid Förster, Jai-Min Choi, Andreas Steffen, Noomen Belmechri, Wolfgang Alt, Dieter Meschede and Artur Widera

  12. Age at diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders: is there an association with socioeconomic status and family self-education about autism?

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    Hrdlicka M

    2016-07-01

    Full Text Available Michal Hrdlicka,1 Maria Vacova,1 Hana Oslejskova,2 Veronika Gondzova,2 Iveta Vadlejchova,3 Jana Kocourkova,1 Jiri Koutek,1 Iva Dudova1 1Department of Child Psychiatry, Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, Prague, 2Department of Child Neurology, Masaryk University Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Brno, 3Child Psychiatry Clinic, Chomutov, Czech Republic Background: The marked increase in autism spectrum disorders (ASD prevalence has stimulated worldwide interest in exploring broader circumstances of care of autistic children, including the role of socioeconomic status (SES and family information on autism.Methods: Our sample comprised of 160 children who participated in a diagnostic examination focused on autism, and their parents who completed a simple descriptive questionnaire focusing on the family situation as well as family self-education about autism. The diagnosis of ASD was confirmed in 120 children (75% of the sample; 94 boys, 26 girls with mean age 6.2±2.7 years (median 5.3, range 2.2–17.2 years. In 71 autistic patients (59.2%, a diagnosis of mental retardation was also established.Results: The age at diagnosis of ASD correlated negatively with maternal (P=0.014 and paternal (P=0.002 ages at the time of birth of the ASD child as well as with paternal (P=0.002 and maternal (P=0.050 education. The age at diagnosis of ASD did not correlate with family SES. Mothers were significantly more active in seeking information on autism than fathers or both parents equally (80 vs 9 vs 28 cases, respectively; P<0.001. The mean number of information sources on autism was 3.5±1.8 with a range 0–9. The mean number of resources did not differ among the three SES groups (3.50 vs 3.49 vs 4.25, respectively; P=0.704. The mean number of sources did not correlate with the age at diagnosis of ASD. The most often used sources were the Internet (81.7%, followed by psychologists (48.3%, books (46.7%, and

  13. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles enhance production of superoxide anion and alter the antioxidant system in human osteoblast cells

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    Niska K

    2015-02-01

    Full Text Available Karolina Niska,1 Katarzyna Pyszka,1 Cecylia Tukaj,2 Michal Wozniak,1 Marek Witold Radomski,3–5 Iwona Inkielewicz-Stepniak1 1Department of Medical Chemistry, 2Department of Electron Microscopy, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland; 3School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, The University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; 4Kardio-Med Silesia, 5Silesian Medical University, Zabrze, Poland Abstract: Titanium dioxide (TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs are manufactured worldwide for a variety of engineering and bioengineering applications. TiO2NPs are frequently used as a material for orthopedic implants. However, to the best of our knowledge, the biocompatibility of TiO2NPs and their effects on osteoblast cells, which are responsible for the growth and remodeling of the human skeleton, have not been thoroughly investigated. In the research reported here, we studied the effects of exposing hFOB 1.19 human osteoblast cells to TiO2NPs (5–15 nm for 24 and 48 hours. Cell viability, alkaline phosphatase (ALP activity, cellular uptake of NPs, cell morphology, superoxide anion (O2•- generation, superoxide dismutase (SOD activity and protein level, sirtuin 3 (SIR3 protein level, correlation between manganese (Mn SOD and SIR, total antioxidant capacity, and malondialdehyde were measured following exposure of hFOB 1.19 cells to TiO2NPs. Exposure of hFOB 1.19 cells to TiO2NPs resulted in: (1 cellular uptake of NPs; (2 increased cytotoxicity and cell death in a time- and concentration-dependent manner; (3 ultrastructure changes; (4 decreased SOD and ALP activity; (5 decreased protein levels of SOD1, SOD2, and SIR3; (6 decreased total antioxidant capacity; (7 increased O2•- generation; and (8 enhanced lipid peroxidation (malondialdehyde level. The linear relationship between the protein level of MnSOD and SIR3 and between O2•- content and SIR3 protein level was observed. Importantly, the cytotoxic

  14. Wearable cardioverter defibrillators for the prevention of sudden cardiac arrest: a health technology assessment and patient focus group study

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    2017-11-01

    Full Text Available Sabine Ettinger,1 Michal Stanak,1 Piotr Szymański,2 Claudia Wild,1 Romana Tandara Haček,3 Darija Erčević,3 Renata Grenković,3 Mirjana Huić3 1Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology Assessment, Vienna, Austria; 2Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland; 3Department for Development, Research and Health Technology Assessment, Agency for Quality and Accreditation in Health Care and Social Welfare, Zagreb, Croatia Aim: To summarize the evidence on clinical effectiveness and safety of wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD therapy for primary and secondary prevention of sudden cardiac arrest in patients at risk. Methods: We performed a systematic literature search in databases including MEDLINE via OVID, Embase, the Cochrane Library, and CRD (DARE, NHS-EED, HTA. The evidence obtained was summarized according to GRADE methodology. A health technology assessment (HTA was conducted using the HTA Core Model® for rapid relative effectiveness assessment. Primary outcomes for the clinical effectiveness domain were all-cause and disease-specific mortality. Outcomes for the safety domain were adverse events (AEs and serious adverse events (SAEs. A focus group with cardiac disease patients was conducted to evaluate ethical, organizational, patient, social, and legal aspects of the WCD use. Results: No randomized- or non-randomized controlled trials were identified. Non-comparative studies (n=5 reported AEs including skin rash/itching (6%, false alarms (14%, and palpitations/light-headedness/fainting (9% and discontinuation due to comfort/lifestyle issues (16–22%, and SAEs including inappropriate shocks (0–2%, unsuccessful shocks (0–0.7%, and death (0–0.3%. The focus group results reported that experiencing a sense of security is crucial to patients and that the WCD is not considered an option for weeks or even months due to expected restrictions in living a “normal” life. Conclusion: The WCD appears to be relatively safe for short

  15. Dynamic balance in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and its relationship with cognitive functions and cerebellum

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    2017-03-01

    Full Text Available Michal Goetz,1 Jaroslava Paulasova Schwabova,2 Zdenek Hlavka,3 Radek Ptacek,4 Craig BH Surman5 1Department of Child Psychiatry, Second Faculty of Medicine, Motol University Hospital, 2Department of Neurology, 3Department of Statistics, 4Department of Psychiatry, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; 5Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Background: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD is linked to the presence of motor deficiencies, including balance deficits. The cerebellum serves as an integrative structure for balance control and is also involved in cognition, including timing and anticipatory regulation. Cerebellar development may be delayed in children and adolescents with ADHD, and inconsistent reaction time is commonly seen in ADHD. We hypothesized that dynamic balance deficits would be present in children with ADHD and they would correlate with attention and cerebellar functions. Methods: Sixty-two children with ADHD and no other neurological conditions and 62 typically developing (TD children were examined with five trials of the Phyaction Balance Board, an electronic balancing platform. Cerebellar clinical symptoms were evaluated using an international ataxia rating scale. Conners’ Continuous Performance Test was used to evaluate patterns of reaction. Results: Children with ADHD had poorer performance on balancing tasks, compared to TD children (P<0.001. They exhibited significantly greater sway amplitudes than TD children (P<0.001 in all of the five balancing trials. The effect size of the difference between the groups increased continuously from the first to the last trial. Balance score in both groups was related to the variation in the reaction time, including reaction time standard error (r =0.25; P=0.0409, respectively, r =0.31; P=0.0131 and Variability of Standard Error (r =0.28; P=0.0252, respectively, r =0.41; P<0.001. The burden of cerebellar symptoms was strongly related to

  16. Étude comparée du Liber Judiciorum et du Fuero Juzgo

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    Estelle MAINTIER-VERMOREL

    2009-04-01

    Full Text Available Étant donné sa situation géographique, entre l’Europe et le monde arable, la Castille a joué un rôle particulièrement important, au Moyen Âge, dans le cadre des activités de traduction - notamment avec la célèbre École de Tolède ou les ateliers d’Alphonse X. Cette étude est centrée sur l’une de ces traductions, réalisée sous le règne de Ferdinand III, qui a représenté un point de départ dans le passage des textes officiels du latin au romance. Il s’agit du Fuero Juzgo, un ensemble de lois octroyé, pour la première fois, par Ferdinand III en 1241 à la ville de Cordoue et présenté comme la simple traduction du Liber Judiciorum, élaboré cinq siècles plus tôt dans les Conciles wisigothiques. Nous n’aborderons pas ici cette traduction d’un point de vue linguistique, mais historique et politique. Par le biais d’une comparaison détaillée des prologues des deux textes - qui constituent de véritables traités politiques portant sur le rôle du roi et ses relations avec l’Eglise - nous tenterons de démontrer comment le texte a pu être adapté, au travers de changements minimes mais nombreux et systématiques. Nous essaierons également de montrer pourquoi, dans un contexte de réunion entre Castille et León et également de grande extension du territoire, due à la Reconquête, cette réélaboration subtile du contenu peut être imputée à une manipulation à des fins politiques. Une manipulation, qui plus est, dotée d’une orientation très claire, c’est-à-dire en faveur du roi et au détriment de l’Église - un phénomène qui pourrait constituer les prémices de ce que l’on a coutume d’appeler la genèse de l’État moderne.Dada su situación geográfica, entre Europa y el mundo árabe, Castilla tuvo un papel particularmente importante en el marco de las actividades de traducción durante la Edad Media - especialmente con la famosa Escuela de Toledo o los talleres de Alfonso

  17. Por hacer paz y justicia: la traición como arma política durante el Interregno en el reino de Aragón (1410-1412

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    Sandra De La Torre Gonzalo

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo se centra en la figura del traidor en el pensamiento político de la Baja Edad Media, personificado en el noble aragonés Antón de Luna, en el contexto del Interregno que siguió a la muerte de Martín I en 1410, sin heredero. El asesinato del arzobispo de Zaragoza a manos de Antón de Luna es el acontecimiento decisivo en el desarrollo de la crisis dinástica. Permite iniciar dos procesos judiciales por traición contra este noble, el principal partidario del candidato Jaime de Urgell, y permite también rodear a la figura de su rival, Fernando de Antequera, de un cierto valor moral y de la legitimidad pertinente. El análisis de este problema autoriza a efectuar algunas conclusiones sobre la construcción de esta legitimidad, con el uso de conceptos extraidos de la Antigüedad clásica, como la traición y el tiranicidio.Cet article se concentre sur la figure du traître dans la pensée politique du Bas Moyen Âge, incarné dans le noble aragonais Antón de Luna, dans le contexte de l’interrègne qui suivit la mort de Martin I en 1410 qui ne laissa pas d’héritier. L’assassinat de l’archevêque de Saragosse par Antón de Luna représente l’évenement décisif dans le déroulement de la crise dynastique. Il permet de lancer deux procès judiciaires pour trahison contre ce noble, principal partisan du candidat Jacques d’Urgell, et permet également concéder à la figure de son rival, Ferdinand d’Antequera, certaine valeur morale et une legitimité pertinente. L’analyse de cette affaire autorise certains conclusions sur la construction de cette legitimité, avec l’emploi des concepts issus de l’Antiquité classique comme la trahison et le tyrannicide.

  18. Handheld XRF analysis of a 16th century Mexican Feather Headdress

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    Karydas, A.G; Padilla-Alvarez, R.; Drozdenko, M.; Korn, M.; Moreno Guzmán, M.O.

    2014-01-01

    The 16th century feather headdress in the Weltmuseum Wien (WMW), an affiliated institution of the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna, is the most renowned of the few remaining pre-Columbian “Arte Plumaria” artefacts, which were made by feather artisans (Amantecas) using traditional techniques in the territory of present day Mexico. The recorded history of the headdress begins in 1596, when it is first mentioned in the estate inventory of the art collection of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol at Ambras Castle. Due to its age, the variety of materials used, its history and former restoration treatments, the artefact is today one of the most sensitive and demanding care objects of the museum. Despite the object’s long history, very little documentation on past interventions exists. From 2010-2012, a binational research project between Mexico (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia) and Austria (Weltmuseum Wien) performed a systematic investigation focused on the identification of manufacturing techniques and the various materials, the old restoration measures and its conservation. Handheld x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometers are extremely useful for the study of art works in museum collections. The possibility of bringing the instrument to inspect the objects on-site facilitates the study of artefacts that cannot be moved either due to their extreme fragility or due to their large size and/or weight. In addition, non-destructive analysis constitutes a preferred alternative to invasive sampling techniques, which are usually not allowed in the study of unique or extremely valuable objects. The aim of the XRF analysis was twofold: to investigate the possible presence of inorganic toxic elements that could be associated to the use of pesticides in past conservation interventions and; to characterize the chemical composition of the authentic gold and the gilded brass ornaments, which were added in the 19th century. The results of the XRF analytical

  19. "We will not rest." Filipino women want a fertility management program that respects women's dignity, women's bodies and women's choices.

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    Alvarez, R O

    1993-03-01

    The program officer for the Institute for Social Studies and Action presents 1) her views on women's fertility management under different political administrations in the Philippines, 2) the political postures of influential groups, 3) the goals of women's and health groups, and 4) the actions taken by Filipino women. Under Ferdinand Marcos, the official family planning (FP) program emphasized reduction of population growth and established a quota system and incentives for the number of new acceptors. Women, as a result, became victims; e.g. IUDs were inserted without prior knowledge, and inadequate information and follow-up were provided on oral contraceptive use. Efforts were criticized for treating women as program targets and not as individuals capable of making choices. Under Corazon Aquino, the Roman Catholic hierarchy dominated and would have banned all forms of artificial contraception had women's and health groups not blocked the effort. Only in 1989 did President Aquino finally announce that multiple methods of family planning (FP) would be promoted. There was a transition in program services during the transfer to the Department of Health. Currently the government promotes FP within the safe motherhood and child survival context, but adolescents and unmarried women and couples are excluded from FP services. Population control advocates believe FP is a health issue. The Roman Catholic Church accepts only natural methods and believes artificial methods interfere with the natural processes of procreation. Anti-FP groups promote only natural FP methods and wage campaigns to discredit contraceptive methods. Women's and FP groups contend that it is a woman's right to regulate her own fertility. Safe abortion should be made available to those who need it. Women's networks are mobilizing to talk about the issues, to hold public activities to change laws and policies and to encourage women's involvement in decision making affecting their lives, and to conduct

  20. Steam generator corrosion 2007; Dampferzeugerkorrosion 2007

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    Born, M. (ed.)

    2007-07-01

    Between 8th and 9th November, 2007, SAXONIA Standortentwicklungs- und -verwertungsgesellschaft GmbH (Freiberg, Federal Republic of Germany) performed the 3rd Freiberger discussion conference ''Fireside boiler corrosion''. The topics of the lectures are: (a) Steam generator corrosion - an infinite history (Franz W. Alvert); (b) CFD computations for thermal waste treatment plants - a contribution for the damage recognition and remedy (Klaus Goerner, Thomas Klasen); (c) Experiences with the use of corrosion probes (Siegfried R. Horn, Ferdinand Haider, Barbara Waldmann, Ragnar Warnecke); (d) Use of additives for the limitation of the high temperature chlorine corrosion as an option apart from other measures to the corrosion protection (Wolfgang Spiegel); (e) Current research results and aims of research with respect to chlorine corrosion (Ragnar Warnecke); (f) Systematics of the corrosion phenomena - notes for the enterprise and corrosion protection (Thomas Herzog, Wolfgang Spiegel, Werner Schmidl); (g) Corrosion protection by cladding in steam generators of waste incinerators (Joerg Metschke); (h) Corrosion protection and wear protection by means of thermal spraying in steam generators (Dietmar Bendix); (i) Review of thick film nickelized components as an effective protection against high-temperature corrosion (Johann-Wilhelm Ansey); (j) Fireproof materials for waste incinerators - characteristics and profile of requirement (Johannes Imle); (k) Service life-relevant aspects of fireproof linings in the thermal recycling of waste (Till Osthoevener and Wolfgang Kollenberg); (l) Alternatives to the fireproof material in the heating space (Heino Sinn); (m) Cladding: Inconal 625 contra 686 - Fundamentals / applications in boiler construction and plant construction (Wolfgang Hoffmeister); (n) Thin films as efficient corrosion barriers - thermal spray coating in waste incinerators and biomass firing (Ruediger W. Schuelein, Steffen Hoehne, Friedrich

  1. Croatian Chemists. II. Karlo Weber

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    Soljačić, I.

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available An account of Professor Karlo Weber's life is given. He was born January 25th, 1902 in Mramorak (Vojvodina and died September 1st, 1978 in Zagreb. He studied chemistry and physics in Graz and Freiburg and obtained his Ph. D. at the University of Graz in 1926. The first part of his career from 1927 to 1945 Weber spent at the Department of Chemical Technology, Technical Faculty. His advancement from assistantship to full-professorship was not smooth. After May 8th, 1945, Weber barely saved his life and on September 5th, 1945 was formally dismissed from the Technical Faculty. He was out of a job, but soon was employed in the bookstore Juraj Križanić first as a staff-member and then as a salesman. Weber was dismissed from this job on June 30th, 1946. Two weeks later, he joined the Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb. He again started at the bottom of the hierarchy as a low-paid lab-assistant, but being a very able researcher he advanced relatively quickly to the position of full research professor in 1960.Weber was a physical chemist whose main research interest were chemical kinetics, photochemistry and optical phenomena (luminescence, fluorescence, photography. The more important part of his research work was published while he was at the Department of Chemical Technology. In the Department of Forensic Medicine, Weber encountered research different kind of problems – problems from forensic medicine and toxicology. This change in research environment did not prevent Weber in his productivity, he published 159 research papers, more than 70 technical papers, and 4 monographs. Among them especially prominent is Inhibitorwirkungen – Eine Darstellung der Negative Katalyse in Lösungen (Ferdinand Enke-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1938., which was the first monograph on the subject.Under his supervision, 13 M. Sc. theses and 24 Ph. D. theses were produced. Data for the Ph. D. theses are given (although incomplete. Weber is

  2. Storytelling as modern architecture of narration in marketing communication

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    Magdalena Zubiel-Kasprowicz

    2016-03-01

    Advertising as a communication statement includes all statement functions as highlighted by Roman Jacobson, from expressive, to impressive, cognitive, and ending with the metalinguistic and the poetic one. These last two functions of marketing statements are characteristic of modern advertising, striving to cover its external persuasiveness. The persuasive nature of advertising causes its constant evolution, change and adaptation to the times, places or culture within which it operates. Further, advertising is constantly looking for still fresh and innovative means of expression. It also amends the existing system of rules for the valid standards. Using the values that are highly appreciated, such as beauty, goodness, and sublimity through aptly selected narrative techniques tends to an etherisation of the message and elimination of overt persuasion. Persuasion identified with the marketing message with informative and manipulative overtones turns into a coded persuasion, which is the basis for erecting the narrative superstructure in the form of storytelling elements. In the wake of recent changes to generate new trends in designing marketing messages, advertising can be reduced to signification not just appearances but whole stories. Narration in the advertising messages is by no means a modern invention. This type of communication is derived from Ferdinand de Saussure’s theory of signs. Jung’s theory of archetypes, Campbell’s model of monomyth, and Barthes’ concept of the symbol and the meaning together with his theory of the marketing message imperative to be based on a narrative, to concoct a story, because only a story has the potential imprint in memory, all can be inscribed into de Saussure’s system. Stories in advertising messages combat the indifference of the recipient of these messages. To correctly decipher the content encrypted in the image, the symbol or reference to a myth, the consumer must engage intellectually with the substance of the

  3. Book Reviews

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    1966-07-01

    Full Text Available - Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, Matthias Hermanns, Die religiös-magische weltanschauung der Primitivstämme Indiens. Band I. Die Bhagoria Bhil. Franz Steiner Verlag. Wiesbaden 1964. 543 seiten, 10 Abb., 2 Karten, 26 tafeln. - S.J. Tambiah, S. Arasaratnam, Ceylon. The Modern Nations in Historical Perspective, Robin W. Winks (General Editor Prentice-Hall, Inc. New Jersey 1964. 172 pages. - Mohan K. Gautam, L.P. Vidyarthi, The Maler. A study in nature-man-spirit complex of a hill tribe in Bihar. Foreword by Julian Steward. XVI and 261 pp., with 24 plates, 6 tables, 12 figures, 15 appendices with a glossary of local terms. Calcutta 1963. Bookland Private Ltd. - L. Sluimers, J.M. Halpern, Government, politics and social structure in Laos: A study of tradition and innovation. Wyoming enz., The Cellar Bookshop, 1964. VIII, 197 blz. Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University; Monograph Series No. 4. - P.E. de Josselin de Jong, M.G. Swift, Malay peasant society in Jelebu. L.S.E. Monographs on Social Anthropology no. 29. The Athlone Press, London 1965. 178 pp. - C.H.M. Nooy-Palm, John M. Garvan, The Negritos of the Philippines. Edited by Hermann Hochegger. Wiener Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte und Linguistik, Band XIV. Verlag Ferdinand Berger, Horn-Wien 1963. 288 pgs., krt. - L.F.B. Dubbeldam, H.L. Peters, Enkele Hoofdstukken uit het sociaal-religieuze leven van een Dani-groep. Diss. 1965 Utrecht, printed by Dagblad voor Noord-Limburg N.V. Venlo. 184 pp., ills. - R. Roolvink, Hans Andreas Poetzelberger, Einführung in das Indonesische. Wiesbaden, 1965. 147 pages, 1 table, 1 map. - P. Voorhoeve, M.D. Wainwright, A guide to western manuscripts and documents in the British Isles relating to South and South East Asia. Compiled by M.D. Wainwright and N. Matthews under the general supervision of J.D. Pearson. London 1965. xix, 352 pp., N. Matthews (eds.

  4. Philippine president announces population policy.

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    President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines has announced a national policy for family planning, following his recent reelection for a second term of office. Under the policy adopted by the President, the Philippine Government is committed to undertake and encourage programs to provide information and advice for couples wishing to space or limit their child-bearing activities. The Presidential Commission on Population, in a report based on recommendations drawn up after more than 20 meetings by the 22 members, and states that the unfettered population growth will gravely hamper efforts to improve living standards for Filipinos and will block the attainment of national development goals. However, the Commission emphasized that the program will be educational and persuasive, not coercive. Family planning services have been growing rapidly in the Philippines over the past few years as a result of the initiative of several pioneer organizations assisted by the IPPF. President Marcos' government signed the United Nations Declaration on Population in 1967 and in January 1969 he established The Commission on Population. The Philippine press has consistently backed the campaign for widespread availability of family planning services. The Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization, under it's Director, Dr. Francisco Dy, which has its headquarters in Manila, has its headquarters in Manila, has fostered a regional interest through its technical discussions and the training of field personnel. Depthnews recently reported that the latest Philippine demographic survey asserts that Filipina women are bearing children so fast that the country will hold on to the undisputed title of possessing the highest birth rate in Asia. The growth rate is 3.5%, and the average completed size of a Filipino family is 6.8 children. This swift rate of growth will boost the 1969 population of 37.1 million to 38.4 at the end of this decade. It is noted that unless curbed, it will

  5. Un impresor ante la crisis de las Luces: Fermín Villalpando (1794-1830

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    Sánchez Espinosa, Gabriel

    2005-12-01

    Full Text Available Taking as its point of departure an exhaustive series of cuantitative analysis, this article studies the production of the printer Fermín Villalpando, active in Madrid between the years 1794-1830. Throughout his business career, which extended from the reign of Charles IV to the restoration of the absolutist monarchy under Ferdinand VII (having been able to survive the dramatic and fateful years of the Peninsular War, Villalpando printed a total of 281 different works, covering a broad spectrum of topics (new thought, travel literature, poetry, theatre, Spanish classics, medicine, law, religion, all of which reflect, as would a seismograph, the political unrest and changing cultural fashions of these difficult decades. (In 1821, for example, he printed in his presses works by Jeremy Bentham, Cesare Beccaria and Fray Diego José de Cádiz. Characteristically, the Villalpando press always took special care with the material design and presentation of its books, specializing in small formats that combine beautiful workmanship with a serene Neoclassical design.Partiendo de una serie de análisis cuantitativos, este artículo estudia la producción del impresor Fermín Villalpando, activo en Madrid entre 1794 y 1830. Durante su carrera, que se extiende entre el reinado de Carlos IV, la Guerra de la Independencia y la restauración bajo Femando VII, Villalpando imprimió un total de 281 títulos diferentes, encuadrados en un variado conjunto de temas (pensamiento, viajes, poesía, teatro, clásicos españoles, medicina, derecho, religión, que reflejan como un sismógrafo las modas culturales, los vaivenes políticos y la incertidumbre social de estas difíciles décadas (así, por ejemplo, en 1821 comparten su sello editorial Jeremy Bentham, Cesare Beccaria y fray Diego José de Cádiz. Muy cuidadoso con el diseño material, la imprenta de Villalpando se especializará en un libro de bolsillo que combina una bella factura con una serena apariencia

  6. Le spectre culturel et métaphorique dans Le vieux nègre et la médaille de Ferdinand Oyono : étude de quelques implicites sur un génocide culturel africain

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    Julia Ndibnu-Messina Ethé

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    Full Text Available Cet article met en relief les turpitudes d’un élu dénommé Meka, afin d’identifier l’impact du colonialisme non seulement sur les comportements des Africains avant et après les indépendances mais également les agissements des occidentaux. L’usage abondant des métaphores et de l’ironie fait ressortir les implicites sur la situation burlesque du personnage principal qui devient progressivement conscient de son exploitation. Au final, Meka, quasiment phagocyté culturellement, participant inconscient de l’éradication de l’identité culturelle camerounaise et serviteur soumis, met en avant son occidentalisation, symbole de la destruction idéologique croissante des valeurs culturelles traditionnelles chez les Camerounais.

  7. A possible role of the Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile in screening for autism: a proof-of-concept study in the specific sample of prematurely born children with birth weights <1,500 g

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    Beranova S

    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available Stepanka Beranova,1 Jan Stoklasa,2 Iva Dudova,1 Daniela Markova,3 Martina Kasparova,4 Jana Zemankova,5 Tomas Urbanek,6 Tomas Talasek,2 Pasi Luukka,7 Michal Hrdlicka1 1Department of Child Psychiatry, Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, Prague, 2Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc, 3Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Charles University First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, 4Department of Pediatrics, Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, Prague, 5Department of Pediatrics, Charles University Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Hradec Kralove, 6Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic; 7Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the potential of the Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile (ITSP as a screening tool for autism spectrum disorders (ASD in prematurely born children.Methods: Parents of 157 children with birth weights <1,500 g (aged 2 years, corrected for prematurity; 88 boys, 69 girls completed a screening battery that included the ITSP, Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT, and the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Developmental Profile Infant-Toddler Checklist (CSBS-DP-ITC. Children with known disabilities were excluded. All the children who were screened positive on any of the screening tools subsequently underwent clinical examination including the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule.Results: We used classification trees to answer the question whether ITSP (or some of its subscales could be combined with the M-CHAT and/or the CSBS-DP-ITC or its subscales into an effective ASD screening tool. Using the CSBS-DP-ITC, overall score, and the Sensation Seeking subscale of the ITSP, we obtained a screening tool that was able

  8. ADHD and lifestyle habits in Czech adults, a national sample

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    2018-01-01

    Full Text Available Simon Weissenberger,1,2 Radek Ptacek,1,2 Martina Vnukova,1,2 Jiri Raboch,1 Martina Klicperova-Baker,3 Lucie Domkarova,1 Michal Goetz4 1Department of Psychiatry, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, 2Department of Psychology, University of New York in Prague, Prague, 3Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 4Department of Paediatric Psychiatry, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic Background: Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD has been added as a diagnosis to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders version 5 (DSM5 in 2013, thus making ADHD, which has been classically known as a childhood disorder, a lifelong disorder. Those suffering from the condition show very specific behavioral traits, which manifest as lifestyle habits; they also show comorbidities that can be the symptoms and/or consequences of certain lifestyles.Materials and methods: The targeted population was adults aged 18–65 years. The total sample was 1,012 (507 males and 505 females. The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS V. 1.1 was administered to evaluate the current symptoms of ADHD and a questionnaire regarding lifestyles that are pertinent to ADHD, exercise, drug use, and diet.Results: An ASRS score of 4–6 points was found in 11.4% of the male population and 9.7% of the female population (5–6 points indicate very high-intensity symptoms. A score of 6, the highest intensity of symptomatology, was found in 1.18% of males and 0.99% of females. Gender differences in scores were not statistically significant. In terms of self-reported lifestyles, we calculated an ordered logistic regression and the odds ratios of those with ASRS scores >4. Those with higher ASRS scores had higher rates of self-reported unhealthy lifestyles and poor diets with high consumption of sweets. We also

  9. Book Reviews

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    Ger P. Reesink

    1995-07-01

    Full Text Available - Rogier Busser, Peter Post, Japanse bedrijvigheid in Indonesië, 1868-1942; Structurele elementen van Japan’s vooroorlogse economische expansie in Zuidoost Azië. Proefschrift Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1991, xviii + 374 pp. - H.J.M. Claessen, Arne Aleksej Perminow, The long way home; Dilemmas of everyday life in a Tongan village. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1993, 166 pp. - Aone van Engelenhoven, René van den Berg, Studies in Sulawesi linguistics III. Jakarta: Badan Penyelenggara Seri Nusa, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, 1994, xii + 116 pp. [NUSA, Linguistic Studies of Indonesian and Other Languages in Indonesia 36.] - Will Derks, Wolfgang Marschall, Texts from the Islands; Oral and written traditions of Indonesia and the Malay world, (Procedings of the 7th European Colloquium on Indonesia and Malay Studies, Berne, June 1989 1994, iii + 411 pp. [Ethnologica Bernensia 4]. - Michael Kaden, Krishna Sen, Indonesian Cinema; Framing the New Order, London: Zed Books, 1994, x + 188 pp. - Nico Kaptein, Mona Abaza, Indonesian Students in Cairo; Islamic education perceptions and exchanges, Paris: Association Archipel, 1994, 198 pp. [Cahier d’Archipel 23.] - P. Keppy, Chris Manning, Indonesia assessment 1993; Labour: Sharing in the benefits of growth? Canberra: Australian National University, 1993, xxi + 326 pp., Joan Hardjono (eds. - Anke Niehof, Jan-Paul Dirkse, Development and social welfare; Indonesia’s experiences under the New Order, Leiden: KITLV Press, 1993, xi + 295 pp., Frans Hüsken, Mario Rutten (eds. - Hetty Nooy-Palm, Michale C. Howard, Textiles of Southeast Asia; An annotated and illustrated bibliography. Bangkok: White Lotus, 1994, 212 pp. + 64 pp. pf photographs in colour. - Harry A. Poeze, Hans van Miert, Een koel hoofd en een warm hart; Nationalisme, Javanisme en jeugdbeweging in Nederlands-Indië, 1918-1930. Amsterdam: De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1995, 424 pp. - Ger P. Reesink, Jürg Wassmann, Historical atlas of

  10. Screening for autism in preterm children with extremely low and very low birth weight

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    Dudova I

    2014-02-01

    Full Text Available Iva Dudova,1 Martina Kasparova,2 Daniela Markova,3 Jana Zemankova,4 Stepanka Beranova,1 Tomas Urbanek,5 Michal Hrdlicka1 1Department of Child Psychiatry, Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic; 2Department of Pediatrics, Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic; 3Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Charles University First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; 4Department of Pediatrics, Charles University Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic; 5Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Background: Studies of children with very low birth weight (VLBW, 1,000–1,500 g and extremely low birth weight (ELBW, less than 1,000 g indicate that this population seems to be at increased risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD. Methods: Parents of 101 VLBW and ELBW children (age 2 years, corrected for prematurity agreed to participate in the study and signed informed consents; however, parents of only 75 children (44 boys, 31 girls completed the screening questionnaires. The screening battery included the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT, Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Developmental Profile Infant-Toddler Checklist (CSBS-DP-ITC, and the Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile (ITSP. Children with disabilities were excluded. All children who screened positive on any of the screening tools were subsequently invited for a detailed assessment. Results: Thirty-two children (42.7% screened positive on at least one of the screening questionnaires. The screening tool with the most positive results was the CSBS-DP-ITC (26 positive screens, followed by the M-CHAT (19 positive screens and the ITSP (11 positive screens. Of the 32 children who tested positive, 19 participated in the detailed follow-up assessment. A

  11. “Beyhude Ömrüm” Adlı Hikâyenin Greımas’ın Eyleyenler Modeline Göre İncelenmesi Analysıs Of Story “Beyhude Ömrüm” Accordıng To Greımas’ Actants Model

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    Hatice ALTUNKAYA

    2012-12-01

    Full Text Available The art of story is a form of narrative that is not independent from its creator, namely the narrator, and created within the theme fictionalized by its narrator. When the work is created, it is the reader’s turn to interpret and give meaning to it. The reader’s duty is to reinterpret, transform the structures in the text and themes as well as unveiling the meaning connections between those. Semiology derivedfrom Ancient Greek word semeion meaning sign and logos meaningscience is known as science of signs in Turkish.Two people should be mentioned as founders of Semiology. Theseare Charles Sanders Peirce and Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.Saying “Although the universe is not entirely made up of signs, itoverflows with signs”, Peirce expresses that all objects can be subject ofSemiology.The goal of this study is to analyze Mustafa Kutlu’s story titled“Beyhude Ömrüm” according to the Greimas’ analysis method ofactants model. A.J. Greimas argues that an incident starting the storyand an element transforming the initial status are required for creatingthe narrative. The study divided the story into five sections byconsidering that the said incident and transforming elements areavailable. The sections confirmed that six actants of the actants modelare available; manipulation, competence and performance of narrativeroutine as well as stages of sanction routine are available and thesubjects of actants model realized competence, conclusive andhonorable experiences. Besides, it is seen that using the expression “Idied” is not an appropriate form of narrative used by the author tellingthe story as a narrator using pronoun I. Hikâye sanatı, onu meydana getiren anlatıcısından bağımsız olmayan, anlatıcısının kurguladığı izlencede meydana gelen bir anlatı türüdür. Eser meydana geldikten sonra eseri yorumlama, anlamlandırma sırası okura gelir. Metnin içerdiği yapıları, izlekleri yeniden yorumlamak, d

  12. ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PHONEME THEORY FONEM TEORİSİNİN ÖNEMİ HAKKINDA

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    Kerim DEMİRCİ

    2011-06-01

    Full Text Available Analyzing the structure of language has primarily to do with understanding the sounds that make up language. Saussure’s idea of ‘language is a system of mutually defining entities’ [there is nothing but differences in language] has been the main incentive behind the phoneme theory. The theory in modern terms has been formed especially by Baudouin de Courtenay and linguitsts such as Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Paul Passy, Roman Jakobson, Sergey Karçevski. These scholars made a tremendous contribution to linguistics by setting a system that made possible to differentiate speech sounds and phonemes from all other unprocessed (raw ones. This system laid the foundation of modern phonetic and phonology. This study examines the main features of the phoneme theory that analyzes distinctive features of speech sounds from a systematic approach Dilin yapısını çözümlemek öncelikli olarak dili oluşturan seslerin anlaşılmasıyla ilişkilidir. Ferdinand de Saussure’ün ‘Dilde aykırılıklardan başka bir şey yoktur’ varsayımından yola çıkan dilciler fonem teorisinin ortaya çıkmasını sağlamışlardır. Modern anlamda fonem teorisi, özellikle Rus bilgin Baudouin de Courtenay başta olmak üzere Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Paul Passy, Roman Jakobson, Sergey Karçevski gibi birçok uzmanın çalışmalarıyla şekillenmiştir. Bu bilginler dillerin konuşma seslerini çözümlemeyi mümkün kılan bir sitemi dilbilime kazandırmıştır. Bu sistem modern fonetik ve fonoloji çalışmalarının altyapısını oluşturmuştur. Bu yazıda konuşma seslerine mahsus ayırt edici özelliklerin bilimsel metotlarla tespitine dayanan fonem teorisinin en temel özellikleri ele alınacaktır.

  13. [Early contributions from Erlangen to the theory and practice of ether and chloroform anesthesia. 1. Heyfelder's clinical trial with ether and chloroform].

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    Hintzenstern, U v; Schwarz, W

    1996-02-01

    The era of modern anaesthesia in Germany began on January 24th, 1847. This day, professor in ordinary Johann Ferdinand Heyfelder anaesthetized a patient with sulphuric ether in the clinic of surgery and ophthalmology of the University of Erlangen. By March 17th, 1847, Heyfelder had performed 121 surgical procedures under ether. The operations in majority were teeth-extractions, and a few more complex operations such as the treatment of a harelip or of lip cancer or the resection of the shoulder joint. Heyfelder described in detail 108 of these inhalations in a little book entitled The experiments with sulphuric ether. This monograph published in March, 1847, represents one of the first complete dissertations on sulphuric ether in the German literature. In a special chapter he analyzed the development of various physiological and psychological parameters during etherization. Heyfelder also examined blood and urine of some etherized patients and reported that he did not find any important or specific alterations. In 1847, Heyfelder was probably the first to apply salt-ether in man. After 4 administrations he concluded that salt ether acted more quickly but shorter than sulphuric ether. Advantageous were its application without problems and ease of induction. Disadvantageous were its high volatility, its price and the difficulty of getting it in a pure form. From December, 1847, on Heyfelder started to use chloroform. He was now able to perform more major operations, for example, the total resection of the hip-joint. In his book The experiments with sulphuric ether, salt ether, and chloroform he describes a great number of anaesthetic administrations using these 3 agents. In his summary Heyfelder concluded, that chloroform was undoubtly superior to sulphuric ether mainly because it was a quicker acting and longer lasting agent and leads to deeper narcosis. Moreover its application was much easier for it needed no special apparatus. However, because of its great

  14. A propósito del Carlos V con el perro de Tiziano

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    Kusche, María

    2004-09-01

    Full Text Available Since the beginning of the 20* century, art historians have tried to establish which of the two portraits of the Emperor Charles V with a dog —one by Seisenegger, court painter to Ferdinand of Austria, and the other by Titian— is the original and which is the copy. Following Glück's thesis (1927 Seisenegger's portrait was generally thought to be the first one. Nevertheless, recent publications, based on X-ray studies, and not taking into consideration the four earlier portraits of the Emperor by Seisenegger, have challenged this view and declared Titian's portrait to be the original. In this study the author presents and analizes the four portraits of the Emperor by Seisenegger prior to the portrait with a dog, as well as the corresponding documentation. The conclusion is that Seisenegger's and not Titian's portrait is the original. Consequently, Titian's portrait is not a first «retrato de aparato italiano,» but the adoption of the millenial Central European model of the «Miles Christianus».

    Ya desde principios del siglo XX los historiadores del arte han intentado determinar cual de los dos retratos del Emperador Carlos V con el perro —uno de Seisenegger, pintor de corte de Femando de Austria, y el otro de Tiziano— es la copia y cual es el original. A partir de la tesis de Glück (1927 generalmente se daba la primacía a Seisenegger. Sin embargo en recientes publicaciones, basándose en unos estudios de rayos X, y sin tener en cuenta los cuatro retratos anteriores del Emperador, de Seisenegger, se ha refutado esta opinión y se ha considerado original el de Tiziano. En este trabajo se presentan y analizan los cuatro retratos del Emperador de Seisenegger anteriores al del perro, y también la documentación correspondiente. Se llega al resultado de que el original es el de Seisenegger y no el de Tiziano. No se trata pues en el retrato de Tiziano de un primer «retrato de aparato italiano», sino de la adopción del modelo

  15. Molecular genetic analyses of 300-year old skeletons from Auersperg tomb

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    Full Text Available Background: In 2009 the archaeologists excavated five skeletons from a 17th-century archaeological site in Ljubljana. They were found in the side chapel of the church in the Franciscans monastery, which was the Auerspergs’ tomb. Beside the skeletons, the finds revealed a bronze bowl with the heart , and the name of Ferdinand II and the years of birth and death (1655–1706 engraved. In 2011, we were asked to identify those five skeletons. The skeletons were poorly preserved and bones degraded to small pieces. Fragments of femurs and teeth were preserved only in two skeletons, therefore for the remaining three the fragments of cranium were used for molecular genetic analyses.Methods: We cleaned the bones and teeth, removed surface contamination, and ground them into powder. Prior to DNA isolation, bone or tooth powder was decalcified. DNA was purified in the Biorobot EZ1 device (Qiagen. Nuclear DNA of the samples was quantified using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR. Short tandem repeat (STR typing of autosomal DNA was performed using Investigator ESSplex Kit (Qiagen, the NGM Kit (Applied Biosystems and the MiniFiler Kit (Applied Biosystems. Typing of the Y-STRs was performed using the YFiler Kit (Applied Biosystems. The two hypervariable regions HVI and HVII of the mtDNA were sequenced.Results: We were able to extract up to 10.7 ng DNA/g of tooth powder from Auersperg chapel archaeological site skeletal remains. We managed to obtain nuclear DNA for successful STR typing from skeletal remains that were over 300 years old. From one skeleton we obtained a complete male genetic profile of autosomal DNA, almost complete Y-STR haplotype, which enabled us to track the paternal line and mtDNA haplotype for HVI and HVII regions, which enabled us to track the maternal line. After comparing the profiles with elimination database, no match was found, and thus the authenticity of genetic profiles was confirmed.Conclusions: Now we are waiting for

  16. Out of the Shadows

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    Byers, Nina; Williams, Gary

    2010-12-01

    Foreword Freeman J. Dyson; Introduction Nina Byers; 1. Hertha Aryton 1854-1923 Joan Mason; 2. Margaret Maltby 1860-1944 Peggy Kidwell; 3. Agnes Pockels 1862-1935 Gary A. Williams; 4. Marie Curie 1867-1934 A. Pais; 5. Henrietta Leavitt 1868-1921 Jean L. Turner; 6. Harriet Brooks 1876-1933 C. W. Wong; 7. Lise Meitner 1878-1968 Ruth Lewin Sime; 8. Emmy Noether 1882-1935 Nina Byers; 9. Inge Lehmann 1888-1993 Bruce A. Bolt; 10. Marietta Blau 1894-1970 Leopold Halpern and Maurice M. Shapiro; 11. Hertha Sponer 1895-1968 Helmut Rechenberg; 12. Irene Joliot-Curie 1897-1956 Hélène Langevin-Joliot and Pierre Radvanyi; 13. Katherine Burr Blodgett 1898-1979 Gary A. Williams; 14. Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin 1900-1979 Vera C. Rubin; 15. Mary Cartwright 1900-1998 Freeman J. Dyson; 16. Bertha Jeffreys 1903-1999 Ruth M. Williams; 17. Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale1903-1971 Judith Milledge; 18. Maria Goeppert Mayer 1906-1972 Steven A. Moszkowski; 19. Helen Megaw 1907-2002 A. Michael Glazer and Christine Kelsey; 20. Yvette Cauchois 1908-1999 Christiane Bonnelle; 21. Marguerite Perey 1909-1975 Jean-Pierre Adloff and George B. Kauffman; 22. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin 1910-1994 Jenny P. Glusker; 23. Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber 1911-1998 Alfred Scharff Goldhaber; 24. Chien Shiung Wu 1912-1997 Noemie Bencze-Koller; 25. Margaret E. Burbidge 1919 Virginia Trimble; 26. Phyllis Freier 1921-1992 Cecil J. Waddington; 27. Rosalyn S. Yalow 1921 M. S. Dresselhaus and F. A. Stahl; 28. Esther Conwell 1922 Lewis Rothberg; 29. Cecile Dewitt-Morette 1922 Bryce DeWitt; 30. Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat 1923 James W. York Jr.; 31. Vera Rubin 1928 Robert J. Rubin; 32. Mildred S. Dresselhaus 1930 G. Dresselhaus and F. A. Stahl; 33. Myriam Sarachik 1933 Jonathan R. Friedman; 34. Juliet Lee-Franzini 1933 Paolo Franzini; 35. Helen T. Edwards 1936 John Peoples; 36. Mary K. Gaillard 1939 Andreszej Buras; 37. Renata Kallosh 1943 Andrei Linde and Michael Gutperle; 38. Jocelyn Bell Burnell 1943 Ferdinand V. Coroniti and Gary A

  17. Treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia: a qualitative systematic review

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    Full Text Available Roxanne Ferdinand,1 Stephen A Mitchell,2 Sarah Batson,2 Indra Tumur11Pfizer, Tadworth, UK; 2Abacus International, Bicester, UKBackground: Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML is a myeloproliferative disorder of blood stem cells. The tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI imatinib was the first targeted therapy licensed for patients with chronic-phase CML, and its introduction was associated with substantial improvements in response and survival compared with previous therapies. Clinical trial data are now available for the second-generation TKIs (nilotinib, dasatinib, and bosutinib in the first-, second-, and third-line settings. A qualitative systematic review was conducted to qualitatively compare the clinical effectiveness, safety, and effect on quality of life of TKIs for the management of chronic-, accelerated-, or blast-phase CML patients.Methods: Included studies were identified through a search of electronic databases in September 2011, relevant conference proceedings and the grey literature.Results: In the first-line setting, the long-term efficacy (up to 8 years of imatinib has been confirmed in a single randomized controlled trial (International Randomized Study of Interferon [IRIS]. All second-generation TKIs reported lower rates of transformation, and comparable or superior complete cytogenetic response (CCyR, major molecular response (MMR, and complete molecular response rates compared with imatinib by 2-year follow-up. Each of the second-generation TKIs was associated with a distinct adverse-event profile. Bosutinib was the only second-generation TKI to report quality-of-life data (no significant difference compared with imatinib treatment. Data in the second- and third-line setting confirmed the efficacy of the second-generation TKIs in either imatinib-resistant or -intolerant patients, as measured by CCyR and MMR rates.Conclusion: Data from first-line randomized controlled trials reporting up to 2-year follow-up indicate superior response

  18. Comparison of three screening tests for autism in preterm children with birth weights less than 1,500 grams

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    Full Text Available Iva Dudova,1 Daniela Markova,2 Martina Kasparova,3 Jana Zemankova,4 Stepanka Beranova,1 Tomas Urbanek,5 Michal Hrdlicka1 1Department of Child Psychiatry, Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic; 2Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Charles University First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; 3Department of Pediatrics, Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic; 4Department of Pediatrics, Charles University Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic; 5Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Background: Preterm children seem to be at increased risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD. Methods: Parents of 157 children with birth weights less than 1,500 g (age 2 years, corrected for prematurity; 88 boys, 69 girls completed screening questionnaires. The screening battery included the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT, Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Developmental Profile Infant-Toddler Checklist (CSBS-DP-ITC, and the Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile (ITSP. Children with disabilities were excluded. All children who screened positive on any of the screening tools were subsequently assessed by clinical examination including the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule. Results: Fifty-six children (35.7% screened positive on at least one of the parental screening questionnaires. Of the 56 children who tested positive, 33 participated in the detailed clinical follow-up assessment. A diagnosis of ASD was confirmed in 13 of the 33 children. The ASD prevalence was 9.7% of the sample. Analysis of children with and without an ASD diagnosis found significant differences relative to gestational age (26.9 weeks vs 28.3 weeks, P=0.033 and length of the stay in hospital (89.5 days vs 75.4 days, P=0.042. The

  19. Proceedings of the Magellan workshop 2016. Connecting neutrino physics and astronomy

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    The first Magellan Workshop took place on March 17th/18th 2016 in Hamburg. Several topics have been addressed during the workshop with the most time devoted to discussing stellar physics and supernova physics. These two key topics are especially interesting to two distinct fields, each with their own approach, method and extensive knowledge gained: astrophysics and neutrino physics. It is thus no surprise that the workshop specifically intended to bring these groups together was met with a certain enthusiasm. 46 scientists working in institutions across seven countries attended a total of 30 plenary talks during their two days in Hamburg. The workshop then concluded with a trip to the Hamburg Observatory, for a tour of the historic and current telescopes. While supernovae of course were a primary topic, the presentations included many different, exciting projects. From relatively nearby objects in studies on geoneutrinos originating from inside the Earth via stellar physics in the refinement of solar models to high energy sources across multiple galaxies to the Cosmic Microwave Background. One particular subject in the field of supernova physics for the past 29 years of course has been the supernova SN1987A, mostly owed to its fairly recent explosion enabling modern science to observe the event from Earth and space alike both in electromagnetic waves and particle fluxes. These measurements have greatly expanded our knowledge as many theories on both the internal mechanisms as well as the evolution of supernovae could consequently be tested. Not only does the Large Magellanic Cloud which hosts this famous supernova serve as a pictoral symbol for our workshop, it is also now commonly named after Ferdinand Magellan, who was not the first to discover this prominent feature in the southern night sky, but the one whose journey brought news of its marvellous sight to European astronomers back in the late 16th century. Furthermore this journey shall serve as a symbol of

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    Dahmke, Stefan K.G.

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    The first Magellan Workshop took place on March 17th/18th 2016 in Hamburg. Several topics have been addressed during the workshop with the most time devoted to discussing stellar physics and supernova physics. These two key topics are especially interesting to two distinct fields, each with their own approach, method and extensive knowledge gained: astrophysics and neutrino physics. It is thus no surprise that the workshop specifically intended to bring these groups together was met with a certain enthusiasm. 46 scientists working in institutions across seven countries attended a total of 30 plenary talks during their two days in Hamburg. The workshop then concluded with a trip to the Hamburg Observatory, for a tour of the historic and current telescopes. While supernovae of course were a primary topic, the presentations included many different, exciting projects. From relatively nearby objects in studies on geoneutrinos originating from inside the Earth via stellar physics in the refinement of solar models to high energy sources across multiple galaxies to the Cosmic Microwave Background. One particular subject in the field of supernova physics for the past 29 years of course has been the supernova SN1987A, mostly owed to its fairly recent explosion enabling modern science to observe the event from Earth and space alike both in electromagnetic waves and particle fluxes. These measurements have greatly expanded our knowledge as many theories on both the internal mechanisms as well as the evolution of supernovae could consequently be tested. Not only does the Large Magellanic Cloud which hosts this famous supernova serve as a pictoral symbol for our workshop, it is also now commonly named after Ferdinand Magellan, who was not the first to discover this prominent feature in the southern night sky, but the one whose journey brought news of its marvellous sight to European astronomers back in the late 16th century. Furthermore this journey shall serve as a symbol of

  1. Aliénor, une infante entre la Castille, l’Aragon et le Portugal

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    Full Text Available Aliénor (?-1445, fille de l’infant Ferdinand de Castille, est devenue infante d’Aragon par l’accession de son père à la couronne d’Aragon et princesse puis reine du Portugal par son mariage avec Édouard (1391-1438. Dans cette étude, nous essayons de démontrer qu’elle ne se contenta pas d’être un simple pion dans les jeux de pouvoir des hommes de ses deux familles – la famille d’origine et la famille d’alliance –, mais qu’elle y prit part activement sans pourtant manquer à ses obligations spécifiquement féminines. Elle mit au monde neuf enfants, garantissant ainsi la continuité dynastique et de fructueuses alliances avec d’autres monarchies, prodigua à son mari affection et conseils et assura la régence du royaume au nom de son fils, tout en gardant un contact étroit avec ses frères et les aidant le cas échéant. Elle fut pourtant déchue du pouvoir par ses beaux-frères. Abandonnée par les infants d’Aragon, elle mourut en exil dans un dénuement presque complet.Leonor (?-1445, hija del infante Fernando de Castilla, fue infanta de Aragón por la elevación de su padre a ese trono, princesa y luego reina de Portugal por su matrimonio con Eduardo (1391-1438. En este estudio, intentamos demostrar que ella no se contentó con ser un simple peón en los juegos de poder de los hombres de sus dos familias – la familia de origen y la familia de alianza – sino que participó en ellos activamente sin por eso faltar a sus deberes específicamente femeninos. Tuvo nueve hijos, garantizando así la continuidad dinástica y fructuosas alianzas con otras monarquías, prodigó a su marido afecto y consejos, y aseguró la regencia del reino en nombre de su hijo, guardando al mismo tiempo un contacto estrecho con sus hermanos y ayudándoles en caso de necesidad. Sin embargo fue descartada del poder por sus cuñados. Abandonada por los infantes de Aragón, murió en exilio en la más extrema necesidad.

  2. Kristijono Donelaičio Metų kompozicijos problemos | On Composition of Kristijonas Donelaitis’ Metai – Selected problems

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    Vaidas Šeferis

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available The article deals with the crucial question of Kristijonas Donelaitis’ literary work: is his Metai (The Seasons a single and coherent literary text or a group of four independent poems? The first publisher of Donelaitis’ work Liudwig Rhesa (Liudvikas Rėza introduced in 1818 for the first time the title Metai (which was not given by Donelaitis himself, presented four seasons as a single poem and held on the traditional seasons-sequence, beginning the text with spring and ending it with winter. Next publishers August Schleicher (1865 and Georg Hans Ferdinand Nesselmann (1869 accepted neither the title Metai nor the idea of four seasons as a single poem. Especially Nesselmann was strongly against Rhesa’s concept and pointed out its textological and historical “inaccuracy”. Modern Lithuanian philology, however, came back to the concept of Rhesa. In this paper, the analysis of The Seasons shows that we need a more accurate approach to the question of its composition. According to the studies of Rimvydas Šilbajoris, Tomas Venclova, and Saulius Žukas, there is no single plot in The Seasons, which could serve as a basis for a poetic coherence of the poem. The structure of Donelaitis’ work is based on binary oppositions between an “ideal world” and “real world” – two semiotic paradigms existing in the dialectic relation to each other. Thus, the paradigmatic level of the text, on which both opposite semiotic worlds unfold, has a dominant position over the syntagmatic text relations. That is why the syntagmatic reading of Donelaitis’ work is inaccurate: four Donelaitian seasons build a coherent semiotic universe (which we traditionally call the seasons, but are not composed as a strong syntagmatic structure. The article suggests that The Seasons should be understood as a poetic cycle of four parts (seasons. In this circular composition, there is no reason to talk about “the beginning” or “the end” of the text. All four

  3. The Meeting (Slet оf the Czech Sokol Movement in Brno on June 27-28, 1914

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    Kotov Viktor

    2014-11-01

    Full Text Available The present article is devoted to the so called slet of the Czech Sokol (Falcon movement which took place on June 27–28, 1914 in Brno, the capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia, which was a crown land within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czech Sokol Union was one of the most powerful nationalistic organizations in the country. Sport was primary, but not the only agenda of the Sokol movement, which was advancing Czech interests since 1862. This festival held on 27th and 28th of June 1914 was the last major Sokol event before the outbreak of World War I. The slet is examined as yet another episode of the national conflict between Czechs and Germans in the region. Officially it took place not in Brno, but in the nearby town of Královo Pole (“King’s field”, where the local authorities were Czech. In fact, this place was one of the urban districts of Brno, but the German-led town council kept it independent not to let the local Czech inhabitants vote at the elections. More then 100 000 participants and spectators of the slet wanted to turn some of the Czech-speaking locals, who were indifferent to the national cause or preferred the German identity, into Czechs and to proclaim Brno a Czech city. In this argument they relied on so called historical and natural rights at the same time. This desire inevitably led to the street clashes. At that time Brno was visited by lots of journalists and public figures from Serbia, Russian Empire and the Slovak lands. The slet was not only a major sporting event, but also a unique opportunity to promote Moravian cultural and artistic trends to the world. Elaborately prepared, the slet was cancelled on its second day, when the information from Sarajevo about an Archduke Franz Ferdinand being assassinated came. The Sokols in Lviv experienced a similar turn of events, when their celebration of the 200th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth was cancelled due to the bad news from Bosnia. Brno

  4. Effect of shortened Integrated Management of Childhood Illness training on classification and treatment of under-five children seeking care in Rwanda

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    Harerimana JM

    2014-05-01

    Full Text Available Jean-Modeste Harerimana,1 Laetitia Nyirazinyoye,1 Jean-Bosco Ahoranayezu,2 Ferdinand Bikorimana,3 Bethany L Hedt-Gauthier,1,4 Katherine A Muldoon,5 Edward J Mills,6,7 Joseph Ntaganira1 1University of Rwanda College of Medicine and Health Sciences School of Public Health, Kigali, Rwanda; 2Community Vision Initiative, Kigali, Rwanda; 3Maternal and Child Health, Child Unit, Rwandan Ministry of Health, Kigali, Rwanda; 4Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 5University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 6University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada; 7Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Background: Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI is an effective 11-day standard training; however, due to budgetary expenses and human resource constraints, many health professionals cannot take 11 days off work. As a result, shortened training curriculums (6-day have been proposed. We used a cross-sectional study to evaluate the effect of this shortened training on appropriate IMCI classification and treatment of under-five childhood illness management in Rwanda. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 22 health centers in Rwanda, comparing data from 121 nurses, where 55 nurses completed the 11-day and 66 nurses completed the 6-day training. Among 768 children, we evaluated clinical outcomes from May 2011 to April 2012. Descriptive statistics were used to display the sociodemographic characteristics of health providers; including level of education, sex, age, and professional experiences. Bivariable and multivariable analyses were used to test for differences between nurses in the 6-day versus 11-day training on the appropriate classification and treatment of childhood illness. Results: Our findings show that at the bivariable level and after controlling for confounders in the multivariable analysis, the only significant differences detected between nurses in the long and short training was the classification of fever (adjusted odds

  5. The New Right and family politics.

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    1992-05-01

    's efficacy of the market in guarantees of freedom, and Ferdinand Mount's concern for family based in humanist, secular, and anticollectivist thought. Thatcher and Reagan both incorporated the ideological contradictions of the aforementioned positions. The failure of the New Right in implementing policy is explained. The greatest obstacle was the major demographic, economic, social, and cultural shifts which impacted on the role of women. The camp was divided. Economic policies did not strengthen the traditional family. It is likely that the family will remain as a political pressure point.

  6. [1913: A hundred years ago, the Society of the History of Pharmacy was born].

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    Lefebvre, Thierry

    2014-10-01

    The "Société d'histoire de la pharmacie" was chronologically the first society for the history of pharmacy in the world. It was initiated by a triumvirate : Eugene-Humbert Guitard (1884-1976), a young graduate of the "Ecole des chartes", Charles Buchet (1848-1933), director of an important pharmaceutical cooperative named "Pharmacie central de France", and Paul Dorveaux (1851-1938), the librarian of the Superior School of Pharmacy of Paris. Those three men were perfectly complementary: the pharmacist Buchet was the "financial", the doctor Dorveaux was the "strategist" and Guitard was in charge of the practical realization. To carry out this project, they appealed to men of good will. Finally, on February 1, 1913, seventy founding members gave birth to the "Societe d'histoire de la pharmacie". These founders came from diverse backgrounds. Some of them, such Dorveaux, belonged to the "Société française d'histoire de la medecine", founded ten years ago. Others were members of the Supervisory Committee of the "Pharmacie centrale de France". A third group consisted of university teachers, as Leon Guignard, the former director of the Superior School of Pharmacy of Paris. There was also some archivists and writers, for example Camille Bloch, Ferdinand Brunot and, of course, Eugene-Humbert Guitard. The largest contingent was made up of French historians and collectors, like Antoine Balland and Charles-Henri Fialon. There was also four foreign founders: the Danish John William Schibbye Johnsson (1868-1929), the American Edward Kremers (1865-1941), and the Germans Hermann Emil Schelenz (1848-1922) and Karl Sudhoff (1853-1938). All of them were correspondents and friends of Paul Dorveaux. As Guitard wrote in 1938, Dorveaux office was, at that time, the "world center" of the studies ofhistory of pharmacy. Morever, according Guitard, the new group could have be called "Societe internationale d'histoire de la pharmacie". The term "international" seemed unfortunately too

  7. Od atentata do rata. Konstruisanje rata Austro-Ugarske sa Srbijom 28. jun - 28. jul 1914.

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    Momčilo Pavlović

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    Full Text Available The author reviews the political events between the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914 until the dispatch of the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia on 25th July 1914. In this period a military action against Serbia was prepared. After the assassination, special editions of Viennese newspapers were released on the afternoon of 28th June 1914. The titles emphasized that the assassins were Serbs; Moreover, the journalist claims were such that the impression was created that the assassins were from Serbia. The whole event was explained as the plot with the Kingdom of Serbia behind it. Two circumstances were emphasized: (1 both of the assassins visited Belgrade earlier, and (2 the Serbian origin of the bombs. Aside from small exceptions the whole press in the AustroHungarian Empire asked immediate declaration of the war on Serbia. The idea of "construction a war against Serbia" appeared immediately in Vienna already on 29th June 1914. This idea prevailed in official circles and became fully created on following day, on charges that "widely ramified conspiracy” was hatched in Belgrade. Having received the support for military action from the Germany on 5th July, the Austro-Hungary decided to send an ultimatum to Serbia already on 7th July 1914. It was "formulated with sufficient clarity that must be rejected." At a meeting of the Viennese political and military leadership on 14th July, it was decided that the Council of Ministers review and approve the draft of the ultimatum on 19th July, but to deliver it to the Belgrade government on the 23rd July. The schedule of delivery was planned to follow the end of the visit of French President to Russia. The Austro-Hungarian plan was to organize the local war on Serbia, without entering of other European Great Powers. It proved that this expectation was a fatal mistake. Despite the absence of the evidences, which were needed to prove involvement of the Serbian government in

  8. A nnals of the Academ y of Romanian Scientists Series on History and Arch a eology ISSN 2067 - 5682 Volume 9 , Number 1 / 201 7 79 OF THE AUST RIA - HUNGARIAN SAFETY STRUCTURES IN THOSE OF THE GREAT ROMANIA. CASE OF THE ARAD OFFICER ILIE MIŞCUŢIA (1913 - 1924

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    Full Text Available Ilie Miscutia (1893 -? was born in the city of Jula (Bichisghiula, Gyula -today in Hungary, at the border with Romania considered until today “the great city of the Romanians” a Romanian-Serbia family. A graduate of the trade Hungarian School in Lipova; in 1913, he is recruited by the Austria-Hungary army where he attends a Special Course of information. During the Austro -Hungarian-Serbia war (1914-1915, he will be infiltrated as a spy within the Serbia geographical territory. In 1918, along with the decomposition of the Austria- Hungary he joins the political forces in Transylvania that will prepare the Unification from Alba Iulia. We find him, as an officer in the Romanian military units in Prague, then in Budapest in close to the Romanian Central National Council, and in Arad becomes “the guard body” for Stefan Cicio-Pop. He accompanies the delegation of the Transylvanian Romanians that shall submit to the King Ferdinand, in Bucharest, the act of Unification of Transylvania with the Romanian Kingdom. Within theframework of the Diligent Council in Sibiu, the secretary dr.Eugen Bianu is appointed as the head of the Safety Service in Transylvania and Banat. Since 1 January 1919, he is incorporated in the Romanian Army in the framework of the Organizational Section of the Body VII Sibiu Army, named with the rank of sub -lieutenant in the Intelligence Service of the same Army Body. Between 1918-1920 he takes part to the defense of the city and the Committee of Arad and the Committee Bichis (Bekes today in Hungary, against the Hungarian nationalist guards and of the French army of occupation which were playing the game of the governments in Budapest, watching even keeping the Romanian west in the Hungarian state. In the period March 1920 -September 1924 he is part, as officer, of the Police Prefecture in Arad. He withdraws by his resignation, remaining as civil, a known personality in Arad, in dealing with the management of his own

  9. From Avezzano (1915) to L’Aquila (2009) earthquake: evolution of design criteria

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    Clemente, Paolo; Bongiovanni, Giovanni; Buffarini, Giacomo; Saitta Fernando

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    The paper analyzes the evolution of the anti-seismic design criteria presenting and discussing the changes in the seismic code in Italy. A brief presentation of the main earthquakes that hit the peninsula in the 20. century is given, and the subsequent evolution of the code. The first law, which gave rules for buildings, was issued by Ferdinand IV de Bourbon, king of the Two Scillies, in the 1784, after the seismic event in the Calabria and Sicily regions in 1783, Macro-seismic Intensity XI. Already other significant earthquakes were remembered at that date, especially the one of 1693 in Val di Noto, Sicily, with a 7,4 estimated magnitude. According to the above mentioned law, rules for minimal dimensions of structural elements, masonry walls and foundations, were given, as well as specific prescriptions on the connection between walls and roof. Interesting regulations for reconstruction were also given by pope Pio IX after the earthquake of 1859 in Norcia. The first severe earthquakes after the creation of the Italian Kingdom were the Messina and Reggio Calabria earthquake with magnitude 7.1 (1908), and the Marsica earthquake (1915) with magnitude 7.0. In the 'Regio Decreto' n. 193 of April 18. 1909, a list of municipality classified as seismic ones was proposed. This list was progressively updated but only after earthquakes. Seismic forces in structural design were introduced by the D.L. n. 1526 of November 5. 1916, after the Marsica earthquake, with an almost constant distribution of the acceleration along the building height, not accounting for the actual dynamic behavior of the structures. Only after the n. 64/1974 law and the subsequent seismic code (DM of March 3rd 1975), modal and spectrum analyses appeared. Seismic check could be carried out by means of the static analysis, with horizontal acceleration linearly increasing along the height simulating the first mode of a cantilever beam, or by the dynamic analysis, with modal contributions combined

  10. Development of the curve of Spee.

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    Marshall, Steven D; Caspersen, Matthew; Hardinger, Rachel R; Franciscus, Robert G; Aquilino, Steven A; Southard, Thomas E

    2008-09-01

    Ferdinand Graf von Spee is credited with characterizing human occlusal curvature viewed in the sagittal plane. This naturally occurring phenomenon has clinical importance in orthodontics and restorative dentistry, yet we have little understanding of when, how, or why it develops. The purpose of this study was to expand our understanding by examining the development of the curve of Spee longitudinally in a sample of untreated subjects with normal occlusion from the deciduous dentition to adulthood. Records of 16 male and 17 female subjects from the Iowa Facial Growth Study were selected and examined. The depth of the curve of Spee was measured on their study models at 7 time points from ages 4 (deciduous dentition) to 26 (adult dentition) years. The Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to compare changes in the curve of Spee depth between time points. For each subject, the relative eruption of the mandibular teeth was measured from corresponding cephalometric radiographs, and its contribution to the developing curve of Spee was ascertained. In the deciduous dentition, the curve of Spee is minimal. At mean ages of 4.05 and 5.27 years, the average curve of Spee depths are 0.24 and 0.25 mm, respectively. With change to the transitional dentition, corresponding to the eruption of the mandibular permanent first molars and central incisors (mean age, 6.91 years), the curve of Spee depth increases significantly (P < 0.0001) to a mean maximum depth of 1.32 mm. The curve of Spee then remains essentially unchanged until eruption of the second molars (mean age, 12.38 years), when the depth increases (P < 0.0001) to a mean maximum depth of 2.17 mm. In the adolescent dentition (mean age, 16.21 years), the depth decreases slightly (P = 0.0009) to a mean maximum depth of 1.98 mm, and, in the adult dentition (mean age 26.98 years), the curve remains unchanged (P = 0.66), with a mean maximum depth of 2.02 mm. No significant differences in curve of Spee development were found between

  11. Adoration of Virgin Mary Attended by Two St. Johns in Wawel Cathedral Collection

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    Magdalena Piwocka

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    Full Text Available There is a canvas (98,5 x 222,5cm in the Wawel Cathedral that is not connected with any existing or historically documented altars inside the church (il. 1-3. Owing to its shape it has so far been considered to have been a predella, which - taking into account its size and proportions - seems rather unlikely. It may have been the top of the middle part of a retable, possibly in an altar dedicated to the two St. Johns. The painting presents the Virgin Mary with the Child seated under a canopy, attended by the two Saints, adored by kneeling angels with censers in their hands. A graphic model of the scene has been found; it is an engraving by Jan Sadeler (1550-1600 based on a design by Hans von Aachen (1552-1615, released in Munich in 1589 (il. 4. In Albertina, in Vienna, a working copy of the graphic made by Hans von Aachen has been preserved (il. 5 as well as a composition sketch by the same artist at the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig. An inscription on the drawing from 1589 reads: POENA ET PROEMIVM; there are also quotations from psalms and a dedication to Phillip Wilhelm (1576-1598, bishop of Regenzburg in 1589, later cardinal (1596, son of a Bavarian ruler Wilhelm V Wittelsbach (1548-1626. The young hierarch got it in the year of his consecration as a bishop. A pendant to it is the plate by Jan Sadeler of 1590, after Peter Candid (1548-1628, which was dedicated to Phillip Wilhelm’s younger brother - Ferdinand (1577-1650, later bishop of Cologne. The engraving also shows St. Mary with the Child in the company of St. Stephen and St. Laurence. Both works coincide with the artistic activity of Jan Sadeler and Hans von Achen in Munich, where they were summoned by Wilhelm V, and represent strictly planned art created for his court. Another painted version of Sadeler’s engraving was found in a Polish private collection. This is a small, good painting on panel, faithfully reproducing physiognomy and inscriptions known from the

  12. Anemia prevalence and treatment practice in patients with non-myeloid tumors receiving chemotherapy

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    Full Text Available Laura Merlini,1 Giacomo Cartenì,2 Stefano Iacobelli,3 Caterina Stelitano,4 Mario Airoldi,5 Peter Balcke,6 Felix Keil,7 Ferdinand Haslbauer,8 Laura Belton,9 Beatriz Pujol10 1Department of Medical Oncology, Ospedale Civile S, Bortolo, Vicenza, 2Department of OncoHematology, Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale "Antonio Cardarelli", Napoli, 3Department of Medical Oncology, Ospedale Clinicizzato SS Annunziata, Chieti, 4Department of Hematology, Azienda Ospedaliera "Bianchi Melacrino Morelli", Reggio Calabria, 5Department of Medical Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Le Molinette, Torino, Italy; 61st Medical Department, General Hospital St Pölten and Karl Landsteiner Institute of Oncology, St Pölten, 73rd Medical Department (Hematology and Oncology, Hanusch Krankenhaus der Wiener Gebietskrankenkasse, Vienna, 8Department of Oncology, Landeskrankenhaus Vöcklabruck, Vöcklabruck, Austria; 9Contract biostatistician, Amgen Ltd, Uxbridge, UK; 10Research and Development Haematology/Oncology, Amgen Europe, Zug, Switzerland Purpose: To describe the prevalence and management of anemia in cancer patients. Methods: This cross-sectional, observational survey was conducted in Italy and Austria. Centers prespecified one day, during a 4-month enrollment window, to report specific data collected during normal clinical practice for patients with non-myeloid tumors attending for chemotherapy (±radiotherapy treatment. The primary endpoint was the prevalence of anemia as determined using a prespecified algorithm: hemoglobin (Hb ≤10 g/dL on/within 3 days prior to visit; ongoing anemia treatment; physician diagnosis of anemia, together with ≥1 anemia symptom. Results: Between November 18, 2010 and March 18, 2011, data for 1412 patients were collected (Italy n = 1130; Austria n = 282. Most patients (n = 1136; 80% had solid tumors; 809 (57% had received ≤ 3 chemotherapy cycles. The prevalence of anemia was 32% (95% confidence interval: 29.4%–34

  13. Foreword

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    Sujkowski, Z.

    2003-01-01

    power plant, a strong attractor for various visitors, the high school students first of all), etc. An European grant to the Training Department shows that this activity is gaining a wide recognition. The belt tightening resulted also in a long Christmas leave - two weeks of forced holidays. The traditional end-of-the year solemn session of the Scientific Council was postponed till January. As usual, this was an occasion to listen to a lecture on the latest Nobel prize in physics, to hand out various diplomas, to exchange best wishes with colleagues, etc. We have used the opportunity to also honour four retiring eminent members of the Council, the long time employees of the Institute: professor Wojciech Ratynski, the director of the Institute in the years 1987 - 1996, dr Michal Gryzinski, prof. Stanislaw Kulinski and MSc. Marian Pachan. Three of them have been awarded the Institute's medal of merit for the outstanding contributions to their respective fields of research. Let me finish with a few wishes: may our funding authorities appreciate good research regardless whether it fits the rather peculiar priorities of the 6th Framework of UE or not, may their preaching about the ''knowledge based society in Poland'' come true, may we be successful in finding worthy successors in our trade, may all Colleagues inside and outside our institute enjoy a happy and successful year 2003. (author)

  14. Three Jews in Günter Grass' novel The Tin Drum

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    Full Text Available In the novel The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel, 1959 Günter Grass depicts three periods of German history: pre-war time, World War II, and post-war time. In all the segments of the novel, there is a Jewish character: in the first part it is the toy dealer, Sigismund Markus; in the second, Mr Feingold; and in the third it is Ferdinand Schmuh. The aim of this paper is to determine similarities and differences among these characters, bearing in mind the changes in socio-political situation, as well as the status of Jews in the world of petite bourgeoisie. Sigismund Markus was in love with Oskar's mother, and he was loyal to her, even though she was cheating her husband with another man. He warned her of the changing circumstances and he himself decided to get baptised, in order to survive in the new society. However, he was attacked in Crystal Night then he killed himself in order to avoid the destiny which the Nazis have planned for him. The second Jew in the novel is a survivor, Mr Feingold. Although his entire family has been killed in the concentration camp Treblinka, he is eager to help and to protect Maria, Oskar and Kurt. He helps Oskar during the fever and eventually proposes to Maria, but Maria is now ready to leave Gdansk, so Mr Feingold was turned down, just like Markus few years back. Symbolically, the devoted love of the Jews for the Germans and for Gdansk has been refused, as well as hope for a fresh start for the Jews and Germans. While Markus and Feingold show love and respect for women and understanding for Oskar, Schmuh is embittered because Germans have not learnt to mourn and are incapable of crying. He is giving them an opportunity to learn it by serving them onions which makes them shed tears and open their hearts. However, this is only temporary; they do not really change; so Schmuh vents his negative feelings in cursing toilet women and regularly killing twelve sparrows in an afternoon. As he once exaggerated and killed one

  15. «God save us from more revolutions»: the Aranjuez Mutiny and the Dos de Mayo uprising in the light of Count Fernán Núñez’s widow | «Dios nos libre de más revoluciones»: el Motín de Aranjuez y el Dos de Mayo vistos por la condesa viuda de Fernán Núñez

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    Full Text Available This essay’s objective is to analyse a direct and unpublished testimony of the two biggest Spanish historical events of 1808: the Mutiny of Aranjuez and Dos de Mayo Uprising. With this purpose we present to the public a collection of letters written by Maria Esclavitud Sarmiento, Countess of Fernan Nuñez, and found in the French National Archives of Paris. In this lady’s correspondence we can appreciate the fears, the hopes and the speculations lived and suffered by the people from Madrid during this period. Thanks to this source we have access to the impressions of an eyewitness (a woman, something even more interesting and unusual who was in constant relation with the current situation, gathering news and rumours, sometimes already obsolete in the next letter because of the frenetic political situation. By her contacts with well-informed people (such as her son, the count of Fernan Nuñez, or members of government like Pedro Cevallos or Eusebio Bardaji, the widow countess offers interesting information about the most important figures and events of this year: Ferdinand VII (his rise to the throne and the preparation for his trip to Bayonne, Napoleon (his arrival to Spain and his recognition, or not, of the new king, Manuel Godoy (his imprisonment and his delivery to French authorities, Charles IV (the renounce of his claim and his posterior regret and Marie Louise of Parme (many rumours related to her dark legend. | El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer al lector un testimonio directo e inédito de lo acontecido en Madrid durante los dos grandes hitos históricos españoles de 1808: el Motín de Aranjuez y el Dos de Mayo. Para ello utilizaremos principalmente unas cartas de María Esclavitud Sarmiento, condesa viuda de Fernán Núñez, encontradas en los Archivos Nacionales de París. Esta dama de la alta nobleza reflejó en su correspondencia los miedos, esperanzas y especulaciones que asaltaron a la sociedad madrileña del momento. De

  16. Représentations de la transgression dans les littératures d'Afrique subsaharienne Images of Transgression in Subsaharian African Literatures

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    s novel Things Fall Apart. On the other hand, transgression of laws or taboos instituted by the coloniser as in Mongo Beti or Ferdinand Oyono’s novels.However, it is sometimes difficult to perceive the transgression inside colonial societybecause African women or men do not always fight colonial laws and uses directly. This aspect especially appears when a writer shows a character trying to appropriate the coloniser’s knowledge. We observe such a fact in autobiographic texts, such as Camara Laye’s L’enfant noir, Peter Abraham’s Tell freedom, and Ezechiel Mphahlele’s Down Second Avenue. In conclusion, we wonder whether African literature describes a specific form of transgression or if this general process can be found in any literature.

  17. Les Outils Informatiques au Service de la Terminologie Saussurienne

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    Full Text Available Bien que l’œuvre de Ferdinand de Saussure ait été diffusée à travers le monde, sa pensée a été en grande partie reconstruite et interprétée par ses étudiants et disciples. Ses écrits authentiques revêtent pourtant, de notre point de vue, une importance fondamentale : ils mettent en lumière l’attention que Saussure accorde à la terminologie linguistique. Lui-même utilise souvent un vocabulaire particulier. Il forge des néologismes ou confère un sens nouveau à des mots existants, il emploie quelques termes de façon éphémère, change la dénotation de certains concepts au fil du temps, créant ainsi une terminologie qui lui est propre. Dans cet article, nous présentons le premier thésaurus-lexique électronique de la terminologie linguistique saussurienne, en cours de création. La population de ce lexique est constituée par une nomenclature mise à jour, comprenant non seulement la terminologie répertoriée par Godel et Engler mais également de nouveaux termes extraits de manuscrits actuellement à l’étude. À travers ce lexique, nous nous proposons de fournir une représentation structurée de la terminologie saussurienne, de définir le contenu sémantique de chacun des termes ainsi que la nature des relations qui les unissent. À cet effet, nous avons choisi de customiser le modèle lexical SIMPLE qui, dans le panorama de la Lexicographie Computationnelle, s’est imposé comme standard de facto et offre une représentation sémantique hautement structurée des unités lexicales. Le processus de customisation du modèle de base s’est tout d’abord focalisé sur la conception d’une ontologie lexicale de domaine (ontologie SIMPLE_FdS, et sa traduction dans le langage de représentation d’ontologie Web OWL. Puis, les deux autres composants du modèle de base, i.e. un réseau de relations sémantiques et un ensemble de traits sémantiques, ont été également adaptés aux exigences du domaine traité. Les

  18. GUIDELINES FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF SYNCOPE (2009

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    Full Text Available Внешние эксперты: Haruhiko Abe (Япония, David G. Benditt (США, Wyatt W. Decker (США, Blair P. Grubb (США, Horacio Kaufmann9 (США, Carlos Morillo (Канада, Brian Olshansky (США, Steve W. Parry (Великобритания, Robert Sheldon (Канада, Win K. Shen (СШАЧлены Комитета Европейского общества кардиологов по практическим рекомендациям (ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines: CPG: Alec Vahanian (Председатель (Франция, Angelo Auricchio (Швейцария,Jeroen Bax (Нидерланды, Claudio Ceconi (Италия, Veronica Dean (Франция, Gerasimos Filippatos (Греция, Christian Funck-Brentano (Франция, Richard Hobbs (Великобритания, Peter Kearney (Ирландия, Theresa McDonagh (Великобритания, Keith McGregor (Франция, Bogdan A. Popescu (Румыния, Zeljko Reiner (Хорватия, Udo Sechtem (Германия, Per Anton Sirnes (Норвегия, Michal Tendera (Польша, Panos Vardas (Греция, Petr Widimsky (ЧехияРецензенты: Angelo Auricchio (Координатор от CPG (Швейцария, Esmeray Acarturk (Турция, Felicita Andreotti (Италия, Riccardo Asteggiano (Италия, Urs Bauersfeld (Швейцария, Abdelouahab Bellou4 (Франция, Athanase Benetos6 (Франция, Johan Brandt (Швеция, Mina K. Chung3 (США, Pietro Cortelli 8 (Италия, Antoine Da Costa (Франция, Fabrice Extramiana (Франция, Jose´ Ferro7 (Португалия, Bulent Gorenek (Турция, Antti Hedman (Финляндия, Rafael Hirsch (Израиль, Gabriela Kaliska (Словакия, Rose Anne Kenny6 (Ирландия, Keld Per Kjeldsen (Дания, Rachel Lampert 3 (USA, Henning Mølgard (Denmark, Rain Paju (Эстония, Aras Puodziukynas (Литва, Antonio Raviele (

  19. The Geologic Story of the Uinta Mountains

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    1969-01-01

    The opening of the West after the Civil War greatly stimulated early geologic exploration west of the 100th Meridian. One of the areas first studied, the Uinta Mountains region, gained wide attention as a result of the explorations of three Territorial Surveys, one headed by John Wesley Powell, one by Clarence King, and one by Ferdinand V. Hayden. Completion of the Union Pacific Railroad across southern Wyoming 100 years ago, in 1869, materially assisted geologic exploration, and the railheads at Green River and Rock Springs greatly simplified the outfitting of expeditions into the mountains. The overlap of the Powell, King, and Hayden surveys in the Uinta Mountains led to efforts that were less concerted than competitive and not without acrimony. Many parts of the area were seen by all three parties at almost the same time. Duplication was inevitable, of course, but all three surveys contributed vast quantities of new knowledge to the storehouse of geology, and many now-basic concepts arose from their observations. Powell's area of interest extended mainly southward from the Uinta Mountains to the Grand Canyon, including the boundless plateaus and canyons of southern Utah and northern Arizona. King's survey extended eastward from the High Sierra in California to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and encompassed a swath of country more than 100 miles wide. Hayden's explorations covered an immense region of mountains and basins from Yellowstone Park in Wyoming southeast throughout most of Colorado. Powell first entered the Uinta Mountains in the fall of 1868, having traveled north around the east end of the range from the White River country to Green River, Wyoming, then south over a circuitous route to Flaming Gorge and Browns Park, and finally back to the White River, where he spent the winter. In 1869, after reexamining much of the area visited the previous season, Powell embarked on his famous 'first boat trip' down the Green and Colorado Rivers. This trip was more exploratory

  20. Europinė semiotika šiandien | Sémiotique européenne d’aujourd’hui

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    Full Text Available Dans le champ sémiotique, deux approches épistémologiques se distinguent : sémiotique européenne et sémiotique américaine. La sémiotique européenne, issue de la théorie du signe linguistique de Ferdinand de Saussure, dans les années 1960 voit se former deux écoles indépendantes : celle de Paris (de Greimas et celle de Tartou-Moscou (de Lotman.La sémiotique dite « standard » de Greimas présente une théorie du discours envisagé comme un tout de signification. En comprenant la signification comme un processus, Greimas décrit les transformations des significations d’après le modèle du discours mythique élaboré par Vladimir Propp. Le monde est traité comme discontinu et composé d’oppositions. Dans les années 1980 l’école greimassienne passe de la sémiotique de faire à celle d’état, de la discontinuité à la continuité, de l’objet au sujet, de l’énoncé à l’énonciation. Dans la sémiotique des passions au centre du programme narratif se trouve une compétence modale du sujet. Ces derniers temps, parmi les héritiers de Greimas, à côté de la sémiotique tensive qui choisit un métalangage savant et des schématisations un peu arides, apparaît une sémiotique esthésique, issue de De l’imperfection de Greimas.Le concept de systèmes modelants secondaires est devenu une sorte d’emblème de l’école de Tartou. Ce terme détermine des structures communicatives différentes, organisées d’après le modèle des signes linguistiques. A la recherche d’un métalangage scientifique, commun aux diverses disciplines humaines, on s’oriente vers la linguistique structurale et la théorie de l’information. Autour de l’année 1980, dans la sémiotique de Lotman la conception du texte commeune manifestation de la langue est changée par celle du texte qui produit sa propre langue. Le texte est considéré non plus comme un systéme autonome, synchronique mais comme un énoncé, inséparable de la m

  1. The philologist Pedro Martínez López: an imaginative liberal lampoonist | El filólogo Pedro Martínez López: un libelista liberal imaginativo

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    Aline Vauchelle-Haquet

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    Full Text Available In 1830, the philologist Pedro Martínez López was forced to go into exile in France for political reasons. In 1832, he published Representación a Fernando VII, rey de España, a lampoon in which he made a whole string of accusations against the tyrant. At the end of the following year, he published España en 1833, al expirar Fernando VII, another lampoon in which he blamed the king's despotic reign for the country's disastrous situation and asserted that such abuses and injustices could only be remedied by re-establishing the Constitution of Cádiz of 1812. In 1834, he ceased to rail against his political enemies, changed strategy, and using his considerable imagination, wrote a kind of fable entitled Una noche en el infierno, vista entre sueños. With a mixture of humour and acid wit, it told of how all the devils in the Kingdom of Darkness, embracing the «sacred» cause of liberalism, vented their anger on the deceased Ferdinand and his followers, who were still in power. It would appear that the work was a success, since it was republished in 1836. In 1835, disillusioned with the tepid and conservative liberal regime of the Estatuto Real, Martínez López wrote another story, Las Brujas en Zugarramurdi, in which different satanic creatures, this time sorceresses, take it upon themselves to defeat moderantismo and establish a progressive regime. After this, he ceased to publish lampoons and political parables and devoted himself to producing learned works, bringing out various dictionaries and grammars which were republished several times. | En 1830, el filólogo Pedro Martínez López tuvo que exiliarse a Francia por motivos políticos. En 1832, sacó a luz en Burdeos una Representación a Fernando VII, rey de España, panfleto en el que espetaba toda una sarta de acusaciones contra el tirano. A finales del año siguiente, publicó La España en 1833, al expirar Fernando VII, otro libelo en que responsabilizaba al despotismo de la

  2. The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

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    Clerk Maxwell, James; Niven, W. D.

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    homogeneous quadratic functions; 57. On the focal lines of a refracted pencil; 58. An Essay on the mathematical principles of physics. By Rev. James Challis. (Review); 59. On Loschmidt's experiments on diffusion in relation to the kinetic theory of gases; 60. On the final state of a system of molecules in motion subject to forces of any kind; 61. Faraday; 62. Molecules (a lecture); 63. On double refraction in a viscous fluid in motion; 64. On Hamilton's characteristic function for a narrow beam of light; 65. On the relation of geometrical optics to other parts of mathematics and physics; 66. Plateau on soap-bubbles (Review); 67. Grove's Correlation of physical forces (Review); 68. On the application of Kirchhoff's rules for electric circuits to the solution of a geometric problem; 69. Van der Waals on the continuity of the gaseous and liquid states; 70. On the centre of motion of the eye; 71. On the dynamical evidence of the molecular constitution of bodies (a lecture); 72. On the application of Hamilton's characteristic function to the theory of an optical instrument symmetrical about its axis; 73. Atom; 74. Attraction; 75. On Bow's method of drawing diagrams in graphical statics with illustrations from Peaucellier's Linkage; 76. On the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances; 77. Diffusion of gases through absorbing substances; 78. General considerations concerning scientific apparatus; 79. Instruments connected with fluids; 80. Whewell's Writing and correspondence (Review); 81. On Ohm's Law; 82. On the protection of buildings from lightning; 83. Capillary action; 84. Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Helmholtz; 85. On a paradox in the theory of attraction; 86. On approximate multiple integration between limits by summation; 87. On the unpublished electrical papers of the Hon. Henry Cavendish; 88. Constitution of bodies; 89. Diffusion; 90. Diagrams; 91. Tait's Thermo

  3. PREFACE: 13th International Conference on Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation and Resonance

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    The 13th International Conference on Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation and Resonance (μSR2014) organized by the Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institute in collaboration with the University of Zurich and the University of Fribourg, was held in Grindelwald, Switzerland from 1st to 6th June 2014. The conference provided a forum for researchers from around the world with interests in the applications of μSR to study a wide range of topics including condensed matter physics, materials and molecular sciences, chemistry and biology. Polarized muons provide a unique and versatile probe of matter, enabling studies at the atomic level of electronic structure and dynamics in a wide range of systems. The conference was the thirteenth in a series, which began in Rorschach in 1978 and it took place for the third time in Switzerland. The previous conferences were held in Cancun, Mexico (2011), Tsukuba, Japan (2008), Oxford, UK (2005), Williamsburg, USA (2002), Les Diablerets, Switzerland (1999), Nikko, Japan (1996), Maui, USA (1993), Oxford, UK (1990), Uppsala, Sweden (1986), Shimoda, Japan (1983), Vancouver, Canada (1980), and Rorschach, Switzerland (1978). These conference proceedings contain 67 refereed publications from presentations covering magnetism, superconductivity, chemistry, semiconductors, biophysics and techniques. The conference logo, displayed in the front pages of these proceedings, represents both the location of μSR2014 in the Alps and the muon-spin rotation technique. The silhouette represents the famous local mountains Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau as drawn by the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler and the apple with arrow is at the same time a citation of the Wilhelm Tell legend and a remembrance of the key role played by the muon spin and the asymmetric muon decay (which for the highest positron energy has an apple like shape). More than 160 participants (including 32 registered as students and 13 as accompanying persons) from 19 countries

  4. EDITORIAL: Quanta and leaps

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    Dobson, Ken

    2000-11-01

    On Sunday 7 October 1900 Herr Doktor Heinrich Rubens and his wife dropped in on the Planck's Berlin household for tea and some (inevitable) shop-talk. Rubens and his colleague Ferdinand Kurlbaum had been working on an experimental project dear to Max Planck's heart: the variation of intensity with frequency of the radiation from hot objects. They had developed state-of-the-art techniques for taking measurements in the infrared, and Rubens outlined their latest results, due to be presented to the Prussian Academy on 25 October. Between teatime and suppertime Planck had deduced the final version of the radiation law. He was able to work so quickly because he had been working on the problem of reconciling the obviously incomplete Rayleigh law - and various other versions - for many years. The new data confirmed his fairly ad hoc reconciliation of electromagnetic theory and statistical thermodynamics and he sent the outline of his new relationship to Rubens by postcard the same evening. Almost as quick as an e-mail. This itself was a highly important step forward in physics - but what was really outstanding and original was yet to follow, after `a few weeks of the most strenuous work of my life', said the 42 year-old Planck. He realized the significance of his work: `Today I have made a discovery as important as that of Newton,' he confided to his son. This was his based on his determination to find a physical meaning for what had started off as `fictional' mathematical aids to help him derive his formula. The logic compelled him, somewhat reluctantly it appears, to accept that the vibrating objects in a hot body responsible for the oscillating electromagnetic waves they emitted could change in energy only by small discrete amounts: energy packets (quanta) of a size linked to frequency by the relationship E = hf. Not many people took a lot of notice of all this. One did - the obscure Albert Einstein who generalized it in his annus mirabilis 1905 to show that the

  5. „To nie była Ameryka”. Z Michaelem Charlesem Steinlaufem rozmawia Elżbieta Janicka (Warszawa – Nowy Jork – Warszawa, 2014–2015

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    zbiorowej. Kontrowersja nie omija zjawisk współczesnych, konceptualizowanych potocznie jako „odrodzenie kultury żydowskiej w Polsce” oraz „dialog polsko-żydowski”. Bohaterem rozmowy jest także Michał Sztajnlauf (1940–1942, przyrodni brat Michaela C. Steinlaufa. Historia braci weszła do kanonu kultury polskiej za sprawą opowiadania Hanny Krall Dybuk (1995 oraz teatralnej inscenizacji Krzysztofa Warlikowskiego pod tym samym tytułem (2003. Abstrahując od konwencji przekazu artystycznego, rozmówcy próbują dowiedzieć się czegoś więcej o samym Michale. Czytelniczki i czytelnicy po raz pierwszy mają możność zobaczyć jego fotografie pochodzące z getta warszawskiego. Rozmowa jest bogato ilustrowana niepublikowanymi dotąd archiwaliami sprzed drugiej wojny światowej i z okresu powojennego, a także z czasów okupacji hitlerowskiej w Polsce.

  6. Book Reviews

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    (50 pp. - R. de Ridder, Dennis Tedlock, The spoken word and the work of interpretation, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. ix + 365 pp., 8 ill. - R. de Ridder, Dennis Tedlock, Popol Vuh, The definitive edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. 380 pp., 32 ill. - G. van Roon, Dietmar Rothermund, Die Peripherie in der Weltwirtschaftskrise: Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika 1929-1939, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schýningh, 1983, 295 pp. - Thilo C. Schadeberg, Gýnter Dabitz, Geschichte der erforschung der Nuba-Berge, Arbeiten aus dem Seminar fýr Výlkerkunde der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitýt Frankfurt am Main, Band 17, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1985. 280 pp., maps, tables, illus. - L. van Vroonhoven, Ger van Roon, Derde Wereld in depressie, Leiden: Nijhoff, 1985, 139 p. - Wim van Zanten, Nigel Phillips, Sijobang, sung narrative poetry of West Sumatra, Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, no. 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xi + 255 pp., photos, texts and translations, short glossary of Minangkabau words, Bibliography, index.

  7. Revista História da Educação - RHE - v. 14, n. 32, 2010.

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    éhère-Júnior e Sandra Farto Botelho Trufem, "O ensino profissionalizante na imperial cidade de São Paulo, Brasil (1823-1889, que analisa uma questão cada vez mais presente em nossos trabalho: a questão do ensino técnico.

    O pesquisador gaúcho Maximiliano Mazewski Monteiro de Almeida que tem se destacado na área da análise de textos didáticos, de modo especial os de ensino de história e de geografia nos brinda com um texto de grande qualidade O livro didático de geografia do RS para as escolas republicanas (1898.

    O pesquisador Nicola José Frattari Neto envereda por uma temática também bastante prestigiada em nossa área, isto é, a relação entre educação e confessionalidade religiosa. O texto Educação espírita em Minas Gerais: a presença do educandário Ituiutabano (1958-1978 representa uma incursão pioneira na relação entre espiritismo e educação.

    Com o trabalho Missão evangelizadora: mediações da prática esportiva, as pesquisadoras Flávia Obino Corrêa Werle e Ana Maria Carvalho Metzler adentram nesta mesma perspectiva em um trabalho de excepcional qualidade.

    O texto de María  Verónica  Cheli,  As  construções históricas do "outro" e seu impacto no campo pedagógico: uma análise da provincia de Buenos Aires, encerra esta seção de artigos com chave de ouro analisando as construções históricas do "outro" no campo pedagógico.

    Em nossa tradicional seção Documentos apresentamos a tradução  do  verbete  Laicidade  extraído  do  dicionário  de pedagogía publicado sob direção de Ferdinand Buisson e traduzido por Maria Helena Camara Bastos.

     

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  8. EDITORIAL: Focus on Plasma Medicine

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    Morfill, G. E.; Kong, M. G.; Zimmermann, J. L.

    2009-11-01

    -pressure microwave plasmas in an N2 and O2 gas mixture M K Singh, A Ogino and M Nagatsu Degradation of adhesion molecules of G361 melanoma cells by a non-thermal atmospheric pressure microplasma H J Lee, C H Shon, Y S Kim, S Kim, G C Kim and M G Kong The acidification of lipid film surfaces by non-thermal DBD at atmospheric pressure in air A Helmke, D Hoffmeister, N Mertens, S Emmert, J Schuette and W Vioel Reduction and degradation of amyloid aggregates by a pulsed radio-frequency cold atmospheric plasma jet D L Bayliss, J L Walsh, G Shama, F Iza and M G Kong The effect of low-temperature plasma on bacteria as observed by repeated AFM imaging René Pompl, Ferdinand Jamitzky, Tetsuji Shimizu, Bernd Steffes, Wolfram Bunk, Hans-Ulrich Schmidt, Matthias Georgi, Katrin Ramrath, Wilhelm Stolz, Robert W Stark, Takuya Urayama, Shuitsu Fujii and Gregor Eugen Morfill Removal and sterilization of biofilms and planktonic bacteria by microwave-induced argon plasma at atmospheric pressure Mi Hee Lee, Bong Joo Park, Soo Chang Jin, Dohyun Kim, Inho Han, Jungsung Kim, Soon O Hyun, Kie-Hyung Chung and Jong-Chul Park Cell permeabilization using a non-thermal plasma M Leduc, D Guay, R L Leask and S Coulombe Physical and biological mechanisms of direct plasma interaction with living tissue Danil Dobrynin, Gregory Fridman, Gary Friedman and Alexander Fridman Nosocomial infections-a new approach towards preventive medicine using plasmas G E Morfill, T Shimizu, B Steffes and H-U Schmidt Generation and transport mechanisms of chemical species by a post-discharge flow for inactivation of bacteria Takehiko Sato, Shiroh Ochiai and Takuya Urayama Low pressure plasma discharges for the sterilization and decontamination of surfaces F Rossi, O Kylián, H Rauscher, M Hasiwa and D Gilliland Contribution of a portable air plasma torch to rapid blood coagulation as a method of preventing bleeding S P Kuo, O Tarasenko, J Chang, S Popovic, C Y Chen, H W Fan, A Scott, M Lahiani, P Alusta, J D Drake and M Nikolic A two

  9. Homenaje a la Medicina Francesa

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    Fernando Serpa Florez

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    (Palabras pronunciadas por el doctor Fernando Serpa Flórez en el Salón de Conferencias de la Clínica de Marly, el25 de octubre de 1995.

    Han querido las directivas de nuestra asociación Colombo-Francesa de Medicina, que rememoremos los lazos que unen la medicina de nuestra patria con la de aquel país, tan admirado por los aquí presentes.

    Para hacer más obligante la ocasión en este año recordatorio de Luis Pasteur (1820-1895, sabio francés por antonomasia, nos reunimos bajo el propicio ámbito de la Clínica de Marly, cuyo nombre trae a nuestra mente amables memorias del “rey sol” y las campiñas lutecias, así como el ancestro de nuestro Director y de su ilustre padre el profesor Jorge Cavelier, a quien tanto debe la ciencia colombiana en su polifacética actividad docente, quirúrgica y de creador e impulsor de instituciones como el Hospital de la Samaritana, la Cruz Roja Nacional, la Academia de Medicina, la cátedra urológica, la fundación de la Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, el progreso –en fin- y desarrollo del país y, desde luego, esta Clínica, a cuyo esfuerzo debemos su permanencia y admirable funcionamiento actual.

    Su padre fue el ingeniero Germán Cavelier, nacido en Normandía el siglo pasado y quien vino a nuestra patria a laborar en la construcción del Canal de Panamá, bajo la dirección de Ferdinand de Lesseps. Aquí formaría su hogar con la dama cartagenera doña Cristina Jiménez. De él heredó la severa dignidad de la perseverante consagración al trabajo, emblema de su estirpe.

    La presencia de la medicina francesa entre nosotros, de la investigación científica en términos más amplios, quizá fue favorecida de alguna manera con la llegada de los Barbones al trono de España, don Carlos III y don Carlos IV especialmente, quienes no pudieron sustraerse a la influencia de la ilustración que destelló por entonces en el mundo.

    Así vemos que

  10. Studies in Organisational Semiotics: an introduction

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    Rodney Clarke

    2001-05-01

    of the 20th Century with the emergence of two independent traditions. The work of Ferdinand de Saussure represents one of these traditions. Considered to be the founder of modern linguistics, he is also a pivotal figure in semiotics by distinguishing the former from the later in Cours de linguistique generate (1916- a volume assembled from lecture notes edited by colleagues and published three years after his death (currently available as Bally, Sechehaye and Riedlinger eds/ 1993. The other tradition is represented by the work of Charles Sanders Peirce, a founder of symbolic logic as well as an expert in philosophy, mathematics, and many other fields. Peirce developed a pansemiotic view so all-inclusive and elaborate that the definitive, chronological collection of his work called the Peirce Edition Project remains unfinished, only six of an estimated twenty volumes of have been published to date (see for example Houser et al eds/ 1999. Other semiotic traditions exist. There are semiotic forms of linguistics - referred to here as semio linguistics - which adopt a semiotic theorisation of text rather than using an explicit sign model during analysis. Examples include text semiotics, systemic functional linguistics (Halliday 1978, 1985; Martin 1992 and systemic semiotics (Fawcett 1986. There is also at least one influential form of semio-linguistics that does uses an explicit sign model (Hjelmslev 1943/1963, while Social Semiotics (Kress 1985; Hodge and Kress 1988 develops concepts of discourse, text and social subjectivity based on the 'social sign' of Bakhtin (see Todorov 1984. Despite the obvious applicability to information systems of a discipline that concerns itself with the study of 'patterns of interpretive behaviour', there have been impediments to more vigorous interchange between semiotics and informatics. There are several contributory reasons for this situation. A major contributory reason is that Western semiotics likes to trace its lineage back to the

  11. BOOK REVIEW: Carl Christian Bruhns - Ein bedeutender Naturwissenschaftler in der zweiten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts

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    Duerbeck, H. W.; Hansel, C.; Munzel, G.; Ilgauds, H.-J.; Borngen, M.

    2006-12-01

    The biography of the former member of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences, Carl Christian Bruhns, and appropiately published in their Transactions, originated from a series of lectures given some years ago. Gisela Munzel and Hans-Joachim Ilgauds, who have already written an authoritative history of Leipzig observatories, joined geophysicist Michael Borngen to describe various aspects of Bruhns' life and activities in different scientific fields. For the astronomical reader, Gisela Munzel's contribution is certainly the most rewarding one, and it covers almost the complete first half of the book. She not only describes Bruhns' astronomical career, but also supplies many details of his life. Having passed something equivalent to a junior high school, his father urged him to become apprentice in his own field, that of a locksmith. C.C. Bruhns became a mechanic in several companies in Berlin, and started also part-time work as a computer at Berlin Observatory in 1851. He soon was "discovered" by its director Johann Franz Encke, and became second assistant in mid-1852, first assistant in 1854 and observer in 1855. In mid-1856 he received his PhD on the topic of minor planets. A prize assignment on astronomical refraction developed into his habilitation thesis of 1859. When in 1857 the observer Heinrich d'Arrest left Leipzig Observatory, there were plans to replace him by an astronomer who would later also take over the post of the aging August Ferdinand Mobius. There were already plans to move the old Observatory on the tower of Pleissenburg castle to another location, when Bruhns was appointed observer and professor in April 1860. In Summer, construction of the new Observatory at Johannistal started, and it was inaugurated in late 1861. Munzel faithfully traces his work, his assistants and colleagues - Engelmann, Weinek, Zollner, and many more - , his activities in the founding of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, his work as a commissar of the ``Mitteleuropaische

  12. Récit de guerre et éthique. Singularité, communauté et temporalité Adieu à tout cela de Robert Graves et La main coupée de Blaise Cendrars

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    Anne MOUNIC

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    war, which Graves called “murder” until the very end of his life. Cendrars wrote an essay called “J’ai tué”.The war experience caused those two poets to refuse the idealistic dualism of the absolute; they rejected the post-war exaltation of manhood, as described by G.L. Mosse, and never indulged in an aesthetic view of war in the perspective of Ernst Jünger or Louis-Ferdinand Céline, to mention only those authors. Considering the war narratives along those lines induces an interesting reflection which may help us to understand even the present moment.

  13. Hannibal Rosselli - professor of the Cracov Academy and author of "Pymander"

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    Wiesław Murawiec

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    letzterem greift er das Gedankengut von Lombardus auf und untermauert es mit vielen zusätzlichen Argumenten aus der Lektüre griechischer und römischer Philosophen sowie aus der antiken Poesie.Als Rosselli mit seiner Arbeit am Kommentar zu "Pymander" und "Asclepius" fast fertig war, folgte er der Bitte des Provinzalministers der polnischen Franziskanerobservanten /hier Bernhardiner genannt/ Erazm Pęcicki und dem Wunsch des Generalministers Franz Gonzaga und begab sich 1581 nach Polen, um dort die posttridentinische Reform in der polnischen Provinz der Franziscaner durchzuführen, vor allem aber das Niveau des Ordensschule zu heben. Er begann damit, dass er an der Ordendsschule am Kloster des hl. Bernhardins aus Siena jeden Tag drei Stunden lang die "Lehrmeinungen" von Petrus Lombardus aus der Sicht des Duns Scotus kommentierte. Im gleichen Jahr nahm er Darüber hinaus die Vorlesungstätigkeit an der Theologischen Fakultät der Krakauer Universität zu Problemen des zweiten Buches der "Lehrmeinungen" auf. Ausser theologischen Vorlesungen hielt er auch Vortäge Uber philosophische Probleme. Parallel zu seiner Lahrtätigkeit bereitete er den Druck seines mehrbändigen Kommentars zu den "Lehrmeinungen" und zu den hermetischen Schriften unter dem Titel: "Pymander Mercurii Trismegisti" vor, die in Geiste einer versöhnlichen Irenik gehalten waren. Es gelang ihm aber nicht, die irenische Denkweise auf den polnischen Boden zu übertragen. Er konnte allenfalls finanzielle Unterstützung führender kirchlicher Persönlichkeiten für sein verlegerisches Vorhaben gewinnen. Zu seinen Mäzenen zählten der polnische König, Stefan Batory und der Primas Stanislaw Karnkowski. Die einzelnen Bände sind jeweils einer der grossen Persönlichkeit seiner Zeit gewidmet, so z. B. der Band I - dem Generalminister des Ordens, Franz Gonzaga; der Band II - Ferdinand Medici; der Band III - dem Grossherzog von Toscana Franz Medici; der Band IV - dem polnischen Primas, Kardinal Stanislaw Karnkowski

  14. Los galeotes de la monarquía hispánica durante el Antiguo Régimen

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    José Luis de las HERAS SANTOS

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    fully established in all the territories of the Crown of Aragon. With regard to Castile, condemnation to the galleys was introduced by Ferdinand the Catholic and later in 1530, Charles V fully regulated condemnation to the galleys and the types of offences that incurred this punishment. For his part Philip II made a great effort to increase the power of the galley fleet. As a result he increased the duration of those condemned to convict galley service and widened the number of crimes sanctioned by it both in the Crown of Castile and that of Aragon. Initially neither territory established a list of crimes that incurred condemnation to the galleys. Instead capital punishment, exile and other similar penalties were commuted to convict galley service. Nevertheless, the revision of penal legislation highlighted that, as time passed, a good number of criminals became liable for forced labour at the oar: thieves, blasphemers, false witnesses, deserters, prison escapees, vagabunds, those who resisted justice, etc. As military needs grew as Habsburg hegemony developed, it proved necessary to modify some aspects of the condemnation to the galleys: the length of service of those condemned was extended, new crimes were added to those punishable by forced labour at the oar, etc. While not all oarsmen were convicts, they constituted a majority of the manpower that drove the Mediterranean war fleet. The shortage of manpower forced the Crown into a utilitarian concept of punishment. This article also analyses the crimes punished by condemnation to the galleys and the evolution that took place under the Habsburgs and Borbons. The article concludes with an account of the daily life of the convict oarsmen. The rigours of the work, the poor diet and the wretched conditions in which they lived produced high annual mortality rates. A study of the three centuries or thereabouts of the Early Modern period points to the conclusion that the passage of time did not moderate the punishment. Men

  15. FOREWORD: The XXV IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems marks half a century tradition

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    Susan-Resiga, Romeo

    2010-05-01

    IAHR75_logoUPT90_logoARFT_logo International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research'Politehnica' University of TimisoaraRomanian Academy - Timisoara Branch The 25th edition of the IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, held in Timisoara, Romania, 20-24 September 2010, jointly organized by the 'Politehnica' University of Timisoara and the Romanian Academy - Timisoara Branch, marks a half century tradition of these prestigious symposia. However, it is the first time that Romania hosts such a symposium, and for good reasons. The Romanian electrical power system has a total of 20,630 MW installed power, out of which 6,422 MW in hydropower plants. The energy produced in hydropower facilities was in 2008 of 17,105 GWh from a total of 64,772 GWh electrical energy production. Moreover, for the period 2009-2015, new hydropower capacities are going to be developed, with a total of 2,157 MW installed power and an estimated 5,770 GWh/year energy production. Within the same period of time, the refurbishment, modernization and repair programs will increase the actual hydropower production with an estimated 349 GWh/year. The 'Politehnica' University of Timisoara is proud to host the 25th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, in the year of its 90th anniversary. The 'Politehnica' University of Timisoara is one of the largest and most well-known technical universities from Central and Eastern Europe. It was founded in 1920, a short time after the union into one state of all the Romanian territories, following the end of the First World War, in order to respond to the need engineers felt by the Romanian society at that time, within the economical development framework. During its 90 years of existence, 'Politehnica' University of Timisoara educated over 100,000 engineers, greatly appreciated both in Romania and abroad, for their competence and seriousness. King Ferdinand I of Romania said while visiting the recently established

  16. List of Participants

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    2007-11-01

    Ceresole Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and Università di Torino Kang Sin Choi University of Bonn Michele Cirafici University of Patras Andres Collinucci Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Aldo Cotrone Universitat de Barcelona Ben Craps Vrije Universiteit, Brussel Stefano Cremonesi SISSA, Trieste Gianguido Dall'Agata Padova University Sanjit Das Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Forcella Davide SISSA, Trieste Jose A de Azcarraga Valencia University and Instituto de Fìsica Corpuscular (CSIC-UVEG), Valencia Sophie de BuylInstitut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette Jean-Pierre Derendinger Université de Neuchâtel Stephane Detournay Università Degli Studi di Milano Paolo Di Vecchia NORDITA, København Oscar Dias Universitat de Barcelona Vladimir Dobrev Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia Joel Ekstrand Department of Theoretical Physics, Uppsala University Federico Elmetti Università di Milano I Diaconu Eugen University of Craiova Oleg Evnin Vrije Universiteit, Brussel Bo Feng Imperial College, London Livia Ferro Università di Torino Pau Figueras Universitat de Barcelona Raphael Flauger University of Texas at Austin Valentina Forini Università di Perugia Angelos Fotopoulos Università di Torino Denis Frank Université de Neuchâtel Lisa Freyhult Albert-Einstein-Institut, Golm Carlos Fuertes Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid Matthias Gaberdiel Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich Maria Pilar Garcia del Moral Università di Torino Daniel Gerber Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid Valentina Giangreco Marotta Puletti Uppsala University Joaquim Gomis Universitat de Barcelona Gianluca Grignani Università di Perugia Luca Griguolo Università di Parma Umut Gursoy École Polytechnique, Palaiseau and École Normale Supérieure, Paris Michael Haack Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München Troels Harmark Niels Bohr Institute, København Alexander Haupt Imperial College, London Michal

  17. Charting the Giants

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    the very massive galaxy cluster RXCJ1131.9-1955 at redshift z = 0.306 [3] in a very rich galaxy field with two major concentrations. It was originally found by George Abell and designated "Abell 1300". The image was obtained with the ESO/MPG 2.2-m telescope and the WFI camera at La Silla. ESO PR Photo 18c/04 ESO PR Photo 18c/04 Galaxy Cluster RXCJ0937.9-2020 [Preview - JPEG: 400 x 746 pix - 60k] [Normal - JPEG: 800 x 1491 pix - 1.3M] [HiRes - JPEG: 2380 x 4437 pix - 14.2M] Caption: PR Photo 18c/04 shows the much smaller, more nearby galaxy group RXCJ0937.9-2020 at a redshift of z = 0.034 [3]. It is dominated by the massive elliptical galaxy seen at the top of the image. The photo covers only the southern part of this group. Such galaxy groups with typical masses of a few 1013 solar masses constitute the smallest objects included in the REFLEX catalogue. This image was obtained with the FORS1 multi-mode instrument on the ESO 8.2-m VLT Antu telescope. ESO PR Video Clip 05/04 ESO PR Video Clip 05/04 Galaxy Clusters in the REFLEX Catalogue (3D-visualization) [MPG - 11.7Mb] Caption: ESO PR Video Clip 05/04 illustrates the three-dimensional distribution of the galaxy clusters identfied in the ROSAT All-Sky survey in the northern and southern sky. In addition to the galaxy clusters in the REFLEX catalogue this movie also contains those identified during the ongoing, deeper search for X-ray clusters: the extension of the southern REFLEX Survey and the northern complementary survey that is conducted by the MPE team at the Calar Alto observatory and at US observatories in collaboration with John Huchra and coworkers at the Harvard-Smithonian Center for Astrophysics. In total, more than 1400 X-ray bright galaxy cluster have been found to date. (Prepared by Ferdinand Jamitzky.) Following this idea, a European team of astronomers [2], under the leadership of Hans Böhringer (MPE, Garching, Germany), Luigi Guzzo (INAF, Milano, Italy), Chris A. Collins (JMU, Liverpool), and Peter