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Transcripts for dissertation, "Iron fellows : commitment and activism in a poor people's movement"
No full textThis set contains transcripts from Marcos Perez's dissertation project. Data is available by request to interested scholars and students. Visitors may not download the files without express permission from the author. Visitors may not make copies of the transcripts, nor distribute any part of them separately. To request access, please contact [email protected]
Courageous women in media: Marcos and censorship in the Philippines
No full textWhen Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972, press freedom became the first casualty in the country that once boasted of being the 'freest in Asia'. Printing presses, newspaper offices, television and radio stations were raided and padlocked. Marcos was especially fearful of the press and ordered the arrest of journalists whom he charged with conspiring with the 'Left'. Pressured into lifting martial law after nearly 10 years, Marcos continued to censor the media, often demanding publishers to sack journalists whose writing he disapproved of. Ironically, he used the same 'subversive writings' as proof to Western observers that freedom of the press was alive and well under his dictatorship. This article looks at the writings of three female journalists from the Bulletin Today. The author examines the work of Arlene Babst, Ninez Cacho-Olivares, and Melinda de Jesus and how they traversed the dictator's fickle, sometimes volatile, reception of their writing. Interviewed is Ninez Cacho-Olivare, who used humour and fairy tales in her popular column to criticise Marcos, his wife, Imelda, and even the military that would occasionally 'invite' her for questioning. She explains an unwritten code of conduct between Marcos and female journalists that served to shield them from total political repression
Role of essential oils for the cure of human pathogenic fungal infections
No full textEssential oils (EOs) are complex mixtures of low molecular weight compounds isolated from several plant families, mainly obtained by steam distillation and other simple techniques. The major components that provide the characteristic fragrance and biological properties to EOs are terpenoids and phenylpropanoid derivatives from mevalonic and shikimic acid pathway, respectively. They have been used by different medical traditional systems to treat a large number of diseases related to infections since ancient times. Many pharmaceutical and biological activities like, antibacterial, antifungal, anticancer, antimutagenic, antidiabetic, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and antiprotozoal properties are assigned to them. Chemical characterization of EOs is extremely important since they often exhibit variations in their composition depending on different factors like plant variety, nutrition, application of fertilizers, climate, geographic location, seasonal variations, etc. The current status of human diseases produced by fungi, as well as a deep revision of drugs used to treat them and trends in the pharmaceutical industry for searching new antifungal drugs, are covered in this chapter. EOs as antifungal agents against human pathogens have also been discussed as alternative to drugs clinically used nowadays. We also provide the mechanism of antifungal action of these natural products.Fil: Di Liberto, Melina Gabriela. Universidad Nacional de Rosario; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Svetaz, Laura Andrea. Universidad Nacional de Rosario; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Castelli, Maria Victoria. Universidad Nacional de Rosario; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Rai, Mahendra. Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University; IndiaFil: Derita, Marcos Gabriel. Universidad Nacional del Litoral; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
Producing Ferdinand E. Marcos, the Scholarly Author
No full textThisarticle discusses the compelling evidence—found in various primaryand secondary sources and analyzed through methods drawn from bookhistory and plagiarism detection—that not one of the books authored byPres. Ferdinand E. Marcos was actually written by him. Thearticle alsoshows how many of “Marcos’s” books had either plagiarized content(e.g., republishing contents from previous works) or were “padded” withlengthy appendices. It also explains the seemingly far-reaching distributionnetwork of these books. Lastly, thearticle looks into how these books,although they have not been republished for decades, continue to servetheir intended functions.KEYWORDS: FERDINAND E. MARCOS • BOOK HISTORY • GHOSTWRITING • PLAGIARISM• ADRIAN CRISTOBA
CFD based aerodynamic redesign of a Marcos LM600
No full textThe final years of the 1960s mark the introduction of aerodynamics to the field of motorsport and they have grown to be inextricably connected ever since. The competing cars in nearly every motorsport category are fitted with aerodynamic devices while Formula One teams actually have departments that are primarily concerned with the aerodynamic design of their vehicles. The GT-class is another motorsport category that hosts cars that are predominantly shaped with the aim to optimize aerodynamic efficiency. The Marcos LM600 is one of the cars that competes in the GT-class and forms the sculpture of this thesis. The subject of this thesis is to enhance the aerodynamic characteristics of the Marcos LM600 through utilization of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). This implies that on going through this report a number of modifications to the Marcos LM600 will be presented with the aim of obtaining an aerodynamically improved racing car. In a sense the Marcos LM600 thus resembles a sculpture that assumes its final shape after a succession of modifications. The aerodynamic characteristics that are of primary significance to a racing car are the downforce and drag. The obvious target is to maximize the downforce and downforce-to-drag ratio. Apart from this force ratio, the downforce distribution between the wheel axes is another important racing car characteristic. The actual handling stability of the car is determined by the force balance between the front and rear wheels. Too much ”grip” on the front wheels causes oversteer, while too much rear wheel grip causes understeer. Thus when designing racing cars, the aerodynamicist should take into account the front wheel and rear wheel downforce and to obtain either a vehicle with neutral steer or slightly oversteer1. However, vehicle handling is beyond the scope of this thesis, which is why the Marcos LM600 will only be optimized in terms of downforce and drag, leaving out their effect on the vehicle stability.Aerospace Engineerin
Teoremas de ponto fixo
No full textThis work is concerned with the Fixed Point theorems, more precisely, we deal with the Banach, Brouwer, Schauder and Schaefer theorems, and their applications. For the proof of Banach?s theorem, the iterative process has been presented providing the successive approximation algorithm for applications. In order to prove the Brouwer Fixed Point theorem, we show that there is no continuous retraction from the unit ball into its boundary. The machinery of the Null- Lagrangian and some Functional Analysis results are used. The Shauder theorem is proven as a generalization of the Brouwer Fixed Point theorem to the infinite-dimensional compact and convex sets. Finite-dimensional projections are used for continuous operators to show the to be possessed with a fixed point. As a corollary, we prove in the sequel the Schaefer Fixed Point theorem which is useful to solve boundary and initial-boundary value problems for non-linear differential equationsNeste trabalho estudaremos teoremas sobre pontos fixos, a citar, Banach, Brouwer, Schauder e Schaefer, e apresentamos algumas aplicações destes. Para o de Banach, sua demonstração fornece um processo interativo para encontrar o ponto fixo. Munidos dos resultados sobre Lagrangianas nulas provamos que não existe uma retração suave da bola unitária em sua fronteira. Utilizando ideias de função suavizante constatamos que não existe retração contínua, com a posse desses fatos demonstramos o teorema do ponto fixo de Brouwer. O teorema de Schauder, é uma generalização do teorema de Brouwer, cuja prova é obtida por aproximações de aplicações com imagens de dimensão finita, e pelo teorema do ponto fixo de Brouwer conseguimos provar o resultado. Sobre aplicações compactas e um certo conjunto limitado, definimos uma aplicação nas hipóteses do teorema de Schauder onde computamos a existência de um ponto fixo que a fortiori é o ponto fixo desejado no teorema do Schaefer. Trazemos como resultados do teorema do ponto fixo de Banach as equações integrais de Fredholm e Volterra, o teorema de Picard-Lindelöf sobre sistema de equações diferenciais ordinárias e a existência de solução fraca de uma equação diferencial parabólica semilinear. Como aplicações dos teorema de Schauder e Schaefer comprovamos a existência de solução fraca para equações diferenciais elípticas semilinear e quase linea
Absolute configuration assignment of an unusual homoisoflavanone from Polygonum ferrugineum using a combination of chiroptical methods
No full textThe absolute configuration of the homoisoflavanone 5,7-dihydroxy-6-methoxy-3-(9-hydroxy-phenylmethyl)-chroman-4-one (1), found in Polygonum species, has been determined as 3R,9R by using a combination of electronic and vibrational chiroptical spectroscopic methods. The experimental spectra were interpreted with the aid of density functional theory calculations. The risks of relying upon a single method for stereochemical characterization of natural products are discussed.Fil: Batista Jr., João Marcos. Universidade Federal do Sao Carlos; BrasilFil: Wang, Bo. BioTools; Estados UnidosFil: Castelli, Maria Victoria. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas. Departamento de Química Orgánica. Area Farmacognosia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnológico Rosario; ArgentinaFil: Blanch, Ewan W.. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; AustraliaFil: López, Silvia Noelí. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas. Departamento de Química Orgánica. Area Farmacognosia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnológico Rosario; Argentin
Supporting medical decisions for treating rare diseases through genetic programming
No full textBakurov, I., Castelli, M., Vanneschi, L., & Freitas, M. J. (2019). Supporting medical decisions for treating rare diseases through genetic programming. In P. Kaufmann, & P. A. Castillo (Eds.), Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 22nd International Conference, EvoApplications 2019, Held as Part of EvoStar 2019, Proceedings (pp. 187-203). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11454 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16692-2_13. ISBN: 978-3-030-16691-5; Online ISBN: 978-3-030-16692-2Casa dos Marcos is the largest specialized medical and residential center for rare diseases in the Iberian Peninsula. The large number of patients and the uniqueness of their diseases demand a considerable amount of diverse and highly personalized therapies, that are nowadays largely managed manually. This paper aims at catering for the emergent need of efficient and effective artificial intelligence systems for the support of the everyday activities of centers like Casa dos Marcos. We present six predictive data models developed with a genetic programming based system which, integrated into a web-application, enabled data-driven support for the therapists in Casa dos Marcos. The presented results clearly indicate the usefulness of the system in assisting complex therapeutic procedures for children suffering from rare diseases.authorsversionpublishe
Parrhesía e loucura no exemplo de Estamira
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Florianópolis, 2015.Um autor como Michel Foucault (1926-1984), ao apresentar um estudo extenso sobre saber, poder e ética, deixa o leitor com dúvidas e indagações: O sujeitado ao poder não teria como se contrapor à submissão? O poder psiquiátrico, com seus saberes sobre a loucura, seria tão poderoso assim? Na tentativa de responder estas questões, estabeleceu-se como objetivo geral investigar a parrhesía e a loucura no exemplo de Estamira. Como pressuposto metodológico, optou-se pelos escritos de Michel Foucault sobre a temática da loucura. Na análise do documentário a respeito de Estamira, produzido por Marcos Prado em 2004, foram analisadas algumas cenas, fundamentando-se, sobretudo, em seus últimos escritos, de 1980 a 1984, do Collège de France. O pensamento último de Foucault evidencia uma preocupação histórica do que seria o cuidado de si e a parrhesía no período da Grécia Clássica, por volta do séc. IV a.C., o período helênico romano séc. I e II d.C. e os primeiros cristãos (IV a V d.C.). O autor consegue perceber, na antiguidade grega, a existência de uma subjetividade que não segue normas, a qual se torna uma prática de liberdade (práticas ascéticas), uma busca de como dizer a verdade (parrhesía) que leva a uma constituição ética atrelada à estética da existência da vida do sujeito. Conclui-se, com base nas análises históricas foucaultianas, que o exemplo de Estamira nos remete a uma ?ontologia do presente?, ?ontologia dos discursos verdadeiros?, uma concepção de subjetividade, de verdade e de filosofia de vida para o indivíduo, com sua loucura, transformar sua vida e ser diferente do que é, governando a si mesmo pela parrhesía, ser franco, falar a verdade.Abstract : An author such as Michel Foucault (1926-1984) when presenting an extensive study of knowledge, power and ethics, leaves the reader with doubts and questions: The subjected to power could not possibly oppose itself from submission? The psychiatric power, with its knowledge about insanity, would be that powerful? In the attempt to answer these questions, it was established as a general objective to investigate the parrhesia and insanity in the case of Estamira. For the methodological presupposition, it was chosen the writings of Michel Foucault on the theme of madness. In the documentary film analysis about Estamira, produced by Marcos Prado in 2004, some scenes were analyzed mostly based in his later writings, from 1980 to 1984, from the Collège de France. The final thought of Foucault reveals a historical concern of what would be the self care and the Parrhesia in the Classical Greece period from around the IV century B.C., the Roman Hellenistic period during the I and II century A.D. and the early Christians (IV to V A.D.). The author is able to perceive that in Greek antiquity, the existence of a subjectivity that does not follow rules, which turns to a practice of freedom (ascetic practices), a search for how to tell the truth (parrhesia) leading to an ethical constitution tied to the aesthetics of existence of the subject´s life. The conclusion is, based on Foucault's historical analysis, that the example of Estamiranos refers to an "ontology of the present", "ontology of real discourses," a conception of subjectivity, truth and life philosophy for the individual, with his insanity, to transform his life and be different than it is, ruling himself through parrhesia, be honest and to tell the truth
Vida e historia en el Marcos de Obregón
No full textPicaresque is a genre in which the words life and writing carry a special relevance. The case of Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón, published by Vicente Espinel in 1618, is one of the most outstanding examples since its author, by exploiting the formal framework of rogue novels, made its protagonist, Marcos de Obregón, to go beyond the limits of fiction in order to appropriate of his real
life and thus become his alter ego.La picaresca es un género en el que las palabras vida y escritura tienen una relevancia especial. El caso de las Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón, publicadas por Vicente Espinel en 1618, es uno de los ejemplos más significativos, pues su autor, aprovechando el marco formal que le ofrecía la novela picaresca, hará que su protagonista, Marcos de Obregón, rebase los límites de la ficción para apropiarse de su vida, convirtiéndolo así en su alter ego
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