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[Poesia] Três poemas de Alberto Secama
No full textThree poems by Alberto Secama. About the author: Alberto Secama is an Angolan poet who has poems published on many websites and on facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Xungurra/abouthttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/africa-em-verso-rio-kwanza-por-alberto-secamahttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/africa-em-verso-zong-por-alberto-secamahttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/coluna-africa-em-verso-o-sol-la-fora-por-alberto-secamaTres poemas de Alberto Secama. Sobre el autor: Alberto Secama es un poeta angoleño que tiene poemas publicados en varios sitios y en el facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Xungurra/abouthttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/africa-em-verso-rio-kwanza-por-alberto-secamahttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/africa-em-verso-zong-por-alberto-secamahttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/coluna-africa-em-verso-o-sol-la-fora-por-alberto-secamaTrês poemas de Alberto Secama. Sobre o autor: Alberto Secama é um poeta angolano que possui poemas publicados em vários sites e no facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Xungurra/abouthttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/africa-em-verso-rio-kwanza-por-alberto-secamahttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/africa-em-verso-zong-por-alberto-secamahttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/coluna-africa-em-verso-o-sol-la-fora-por-alberto-secam
Orizzonti mantovani. Spunti e dinamiche paesaggistiche ne L'Illustrissimo di Alberto Cantoni
No full textIn the literary production of Alberto Cantoni, short story writer and novelist between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the novel L'Illustrissimo is highly important both because it is the last publication of the author, from Pomponesco, a small town a few kilometers south of Mantua, both because it summarizes in a single text the different nuances and different directions that his writing has taken over the course of his literary career, also due to a writing and processing time that embraces the entire span of years of his career itself. In the foreground, in addition to the numerous and brilliant characters, one of the protagonists is the Mantuan landscape which, not a simple background, becomes a true literary parameter which in different and significant ways affects the purposes and mechanisms of the novel
Plenary Session: Luis Alberto Urrea
No full texta) Plenary Session: Luis Alberto Urrea, Mexican American Chicago Writer
Luis Alberto Urrea is a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for non-fiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame. He is a prolific and acclaimed writer who has used his dual-culture life border experiences to explore the complex and interconnected Mexican-US American reality. The critically acclaimed and best-selling Mexican-born author of 13 books, Urrea has won numerous awards for his poetry, fiction and essays.
Moderator: Dr. Héctor García, Loyola University Chicag
Solar System data mining for Gaia and ground-based observational support
No full textInternational audienceThe Gaia mission will observe between 2.5 and 3x105 Solar System objects. Most of them will be asteroids. As described elsewhere (Cellino et al. 2007, Tanga et al. 2007, Mignard et al. 2008) Gaia will provide a complete dynamical and physical characterisation of these bodies, that has no comparisons with the datasets ever obtained by a single groundor spacebased telescope. In fact, high precision astrometry, flux measurements and spectra will be available in an homogeneous set of data. However, in order to fully exploit the scientific potential of the data, a dedicated processing structure is needed. For this reason, a specific data reduction and analysis pipeline is under development. Some aspects of the implementation require solving interesting challenges in Solar System dynamics, consisting in new and more complex formulations of classic problems. We discuss, in particular, the determination of asteroid masses and the measurement of non-gravitational forces. Also, we show that - in the case of Solar System objects - the high astrometric accuracy of Gaia cannot completely rule out the use of ground-based data for increasing the extent of the final mission products. Well planned and focused preand post-mission observational campaigns could thus greatly help to reach goals situated at the edge (or beyond) the reach of Gaia observations alone. References Cellino, A., Tanga, P., Dell'Oro, A., Hestroffer, D. 2007. Asteroid science with Gaia: Sizes, spin properties, overall shapes and taxonomy. Adv. Space Res. 40 (2), 202-208 Mignard, F.,Cellino, A., Muinonen, K., Tanga, P., Delbo, D., Dell'Oro, A., Granvik, M., Hestroffer, D., Mouret, S., Thuillot, W., Virtanen, J. 2008. The Gaia mission: expected applications to asteroid science. Earth Moon and Planets, in press Tanga, P., Hestroffer, D., Cellino, A., Mignard, F. 2007. Gaia observations of Solar System objects: Impact on dynamics and ground-based observations. Adv. Space Res. 40 (2), 209-21
Asteroid “one-sided” families: Identifying footprints of YORP effect and estimating the age
No full textIn a previous paper (Icarus 274, 314 (2016)) we have developed a new method to estimate the ages of asteroid families, based on an analysis of some expected consequence of the YORP effect acting on family members. The method is based on the identification of what we called the YORP eye, namely a region of depletion of the domain occupied by family members in the absolute magnitude - orbital semi-major axis plane. In this paper we develop a technique ("Mirroring tool") to apply the same age determination method also in cases of strongly asymmetric families, for which it is difficult to assess the existence and location of a YORP eye. At the same time, we also apply some modifications to the procedure described in the previous paper. The results indicate that the mirroring tool can, in some cases, be satisfactorily effective, whereas in some other cases the results we obtain are more ambiguous. A necessary next step of this analysis will be to develop a better calibration of this method against the results obtained by means of other techniques, including primarily the age determination techniques based on analyses of the Yarkovsky-driven spreading in the semi-major axis of family members of different sizes
O duplo significado do sentir e do pensar nas obras de Alberto Caeiro e Descartes
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em LiteraturaA pretensão desta dissertação intitulada O duplo significado do sentir e do pensar nas obras de Alberto Caeiro e Descartes é investigar a relação entre o sentir e o puro pensar, usando como referência a poesia O Guardador de Rebanhos, de Alberto Caeiro, que apresenta de forma evidente o tema; e como este assunto é tratado nas Meditações Metafísicas de René Descartes, também de forma claramente visível. Podemos perceber em ambos os autores, uma diplopia, uma espécie de duplo olhar sobre a relação sentir e puro pensar. No primeiro capítulo vou falar sobre a tese do duplo olhar de Descartes, a respeito da relação sentir e puro pensar na leitura de Merleau-Ponty, salientando a visão de natureza. No segundo capítulo, parto da leitura das três primeiras Meditações Metafísicas para caracterizar a tensão que se pode verificar entre Descartes e Alberto Caeiro quando se referem ao puro pensar. O foco principal de Descartes, nas três primeiras Meditações, é o pensar puro, e neste ponto Alberto Caeiro critica o pensar puro. No terceiro capítulo, analisando as três últimas Meditações, percebe-se que há uma virada no pensamento de Descartes, no qual o autor inverte seu ponto de vista, aproximando-se da idéia de Alberto Caeiro. No quarto capítulo, mostrarei a leitura que outros autores fazem acerca do sentir e do pensar na obra de Alberto Caeiro, mostrando que assim como Descartes, este também ostenta uma diplopia, não do sentir, mas do pensar. The pretension of this work entitled O duplo significado do sentir e do pensar nas obras de Alberto Caeiro e Descartes is to investigate the relationship between the feeling and the pure thinking, using as reference the poetry O Guardador de Rebanhos, by Alberto Caeiro, that presents in an evident way this theme; and as this subject is treated in René Descartes' Metaphysical Meditations, also in a clearly visible way. It is possible to notice in both authors, the diplopy, a sort of double look about the relationship between feeling and pure thinking. The thesis about Descartes'double look regarding the relation of feeling and pure thinking, in Merleau-Ponty reading, pointing out the nature vision, will be treated in the first chapter. In the second chapter, I start from the reading of the first three Metaphysical Meditations to characterize the tension that can be verified between Descartes and Alberto Caeiro when they refer to the pure thinking. Descartes' main focus in the first three Meditations is pure thinking and, in this point, Alberto Caeiro criticizes pure thinking. In the third chapter, analyzing the last three Meditations, it is possible to notice that there is an alteration in Descartes' thought, in which the author inverts his point of view, approaching of Alberto Caeiro's idea. In the fourth chapter, I will show the reading that other authors do concerning feeling and thinking in Alberto Caeiro's work, showing that as well as Descartes, this also shows a diplopy, not of feeling, but of thinking
Division III: Commission 15: Physical Studies of Comets and Minor Planets
No full textThe business meeting of IAU Commission 15 (C15) took place in Beijing on 29 August 2012, from 14:00 to 18:00, in room 405 of the China National Convention Center. This report of the business meeting of Commission 15 at the 2012 IAU GA is based on the report provided by Alberto Cellino, past president, and on the minutes taken by Daniel Hestroffer, secretary of Commission 15 in the triennium 2009 to 2012, and current secretary. <P /
Lobbying for change as a new theory and practice of active citizenship: author interview with Alberto Alemanno
No full textDo you believe that lobbying is a vehicle for representing the interests of some rather than all, meaning its actors can never be a force for good? Alberto Alemanno, author of Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society, might convince you of the contrary. This interview with Barbara Aubin, LSE Public Affairs, reflects on the importance of engaging with our political representatives, holding them accountable and lobbying for the causes we deeply care about as fundamental elements of a healthy democracy
Investigating the outcomes of SPH models of catastrophic destruction
No full textWe analyze the differences between the outcomes of SPH models describing catastrophic collisions between asteroids and the structure of ejecta velocity fields provided by Semi Empirical Model
Analysis of the kinematics of ejecta created after a catastrophic collision
No full textIn this paper we compare the ejection velocity fields predicted by hydrodynamical models with the ejection velocity fields simulated by semi-empirical models, in order to identify the features of the velocity distribution that trigger or prevent the fragments’ gravitational re-accumulation
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