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Traumatic identity and aura in David Lodge's "Author, author"
No full textEste artículo analiza la novela Author, Author (2004) de David Lodge como ejemplo de bioficción neo-victoriana centrada en una celebridad, en este caso concreto, Henry James. El género forma parte del renacimiento Victoriano actual que afecta a los estudios culturales en su conjunto. Mi argumento central es que la novela de Lodge constituye una respuesta a las ansiedades culturales actuales, en particular a las que se refieren a la crisis identitaria y autoría literaria, así como a la pérdida del aura artística de Walter Benjamin, sublimándolas a través de los traumas de finales del siglo XIX. La elección de James, como demuestra el artículo, no es casual. Es el último representante de un mundo perdido en el que el aura aún tenía un espacio; el ser humano en crisis y traumatizado porque no encaja en un status quo nuevo.This paper delves into David Lodge’s Author, Author (2004) as an example of neo-Victorian celebrity biofiction, more concretely on Henry James. The genre belongs to the wave of Victorian revival in current literature which also affects cultural studies in general. My main contention is that Lodge’s novel responds to current cultural anxieties, particularly the crisis of identity and authorship and the end of Walter Benjamin’s concept of aura, by sublimating them into late-nineteenth-century traumata. The choice of James is, the article argues, not casual. He represents the redeeming figure of a lost auratic world; the human in crisis, traumatized because he does not fit in the new status quo
Identifying author-inventors from Spain: methods and a first insight into results
No full textThe aim of this paper is to describe a matching and disambiguation methodology for the identification of author-inventors located in the same country. It aims to maximize precision and recall rates by taking into account national name writing customs in the name matching stage and by including a recursive validation step in the person disambiguation stage. An application to the identification of Spanish author-inventors is described in detail, where all SCOPUS 2003-2008 publications of Spanish authors are matched to all 1978-2009 EPO applications with Spanish inventors. Using this data, we identify 4,194 Spanish author-inventors. A first look at their patenting and publication patterns reveal that Spanish author-inventors make quite a significant contribution to the overall country’s scientific and technological production in the time periods considered: 27% of all EPO patent applications invented in Spain and 15% of all SCOPUS scientific articles authored in Spain, with important differences across fields and excluding journals in non-technologically relevant fields.Peer reviewe
¿Qué es el plagio?
No full textEl plagio es tomar un fragmento de una obra artística o intelectual ajena y hacerlo pasar como propio, sin la debida acreditación del autor.Plagiarism is taking a fragment of another's artistic or intellectual work and passing it off as one's own, without due accreditation of the author
Microbial larvicide application by a large-scale, community-based program reduces malaria infection prevalence in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Malaria control in Africa is most tractable in urban settlements yet most research has focused on rural settings. Elimination of malaria transmission from urban areas may require larval control strategies that complement adult mosquito control using insecticide-treated nets or houses, particularly where vectors feed outdoors.\ud
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METHODS AND FINDINGS\ud
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Microbial larvicide (Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis (Bti)) was applied weekly through programmatic, non-randomized community-based, but vertically managed, delivery systems in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Continuous, randomized cluster sampling of malaria infection prevalence and non-random programmatic surveillance of entomological inoculation rate (EIR) respectively constituted the primary and secondary outcomes surveyed within a population of approximately 612,000 residents in 15 fully urban wards covering 55 km(2). Bti application for one year in 3 of those wards (17 km(2) with 128,000 residents) reduced crude annual transmission estimates (Relative EIR [95% Confidence Interval] = 0.683 [0.491-0.952], P = 0.024) but program effectiveness peaked between July and September (Relative EIR [CI] = 0.354 [0.193 to 0.650], P = 0.001) when 45% (9/20) of directly observed transmission events occurred. Larviciding reduced malaria infection risk among children < or =5 years of age (OR [CI] = 0.284 [0.101 to 0.801], P = 0.017) and provided protection at least as good as personal use of an insecticide treated net (OR [CI] = 0.764 [0.614-0.951], P = 0.016).\ud
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CONCLUSIONS\ud
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In this context, larviciding reduced malaria prevalence and complemented existing protection provided by insecticide-treated nets. Larviciding may represent a useful option for integrated vector management in Africa, particularly in its rapidly growing urban centres
GUMMI CHEW / RECYCLE / RE-USE
No full text50 páginasSabían ustedes que el chicle tarda cinco años en degradar? o que es el segundo contaminante más grande del mundo después del cigarrillo y que puede tener cerca de diez mil bacterias y hongos? Aproximadamente en un año, en Colombia, se mueven aproximadamente 6.900 toneladas del chicle las cuales terminan pegados en los patrimonios urbanos de las ciudades y para la Alcadía, tiene un valor de 50 pesos retirar cada chicle. Puede que no sea un valor extraordinario pero bien, en el año 2013, se contaron más de 50.000 y a diario en las estructuras de transmilenio se encuentran mil chicles diarios. Esto nos da un valor anual de $18¿000.000 solo por recolectar las gomas en las estructuras de este servicio de transporte y si en la Plaza de bolívar hay esta enorme cantidad, ¿se pueden imaginar cuanto costará retirar todos los chicles de la ciudad?
Aquí nace GUMMI, un proyecto que recicla la goma de mascar, la esteriliza y posteriormente la transforma en un nuevo polímero totalmente reciclado, tal como y se ve reflejado en nuestro slogan ¿Chew | Recycle | Re-use¿
Experiencing the armed struggle : the Soweto generation and after
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 354-369).This study explores the experiences of the rank-and-file soldiers of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Azanian People's Liberation Anny. Extensive interviews by the author and other researchers reveal the voices of the soldiers themselves. The African National Congress and Pan African Congress archives at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Fort Hare supplement and verify these oral testimonies, as do some published sources. Most previously published materials about the armed struggle against apartheid have already focused on diplomacy, strategy and tactics, operations, leadership, and human rights abuses to the neglect of the soldiers' actual experiences. This study complements these with significant new oral history materials from the Soweto generation of soldiers and their successors. When dealing with MK, many authors have documented issues of the camp structure in Angola, and operations inside South Africa, so much of this detail is only addressed briefly, leaving space to explore the soldiers' experiences. In the case of APLA, very little has been written on its history, and more detail is provided on these subjects. This study therefore deals with the soldiers' politicisation and motivation for joining the armed struggle, their experiences in leaving South Africa and training in exile, the crises in exile which limited their effectiveness for a time, their return to fight in South Africa, and their difficulties in the "new" South Africa. These materials reveal that vast problems remain facing these veterans of the struggle against apartheid, and that they have the potential, if properly supported and employed, to contribute substantially to the development of present day South Africa. Conversely, if their neglect continues, they also have the potential to bring vast harm to the country. Further use of the investigative tools of oral history, especially if extended to the former soldiers' vernacular languages, is necessary to augment the history of South Africa, and these soldiers' contributions
İcāzet-nāme; اجازتنامه
No full text1. Kitabın İçindekiler : Eserin ilk sayfaları eksiktir. 1a-34b: Hz. Muhammed’in doğumu, ahlakı, mucizeleri, miracı, hicreti, ve ayrıntılı olarak ölümü manzum olarak anlatılır. 35a-36a: Hatim duası; 36b-38a: Münacat duası. 2. Kitabın İçindekiler : İlmiye icazetnamesidir. En sonda Ahmed Nazif Sinobi, belgenin hocası Es-seyyid el-Hâc Rif’at b. el-Hâc İbrahim el-Ankaravi’den aldığı icazet sureti olduğunu belirtir. (46a). Burada Ahmed Nazif Es-Sinobi’nin mührü de vardır. 46a’da son bulan icazetnamenin rıka yazıyla farklı bir kağıda yazılmış bir diğer kopyası da 48b-50b arasındadır. 53b-55a: Farklı bir kağıda farklı bir yazıyla muhtemelen bir mevlidden alınmış Hz. Muhammed’in hayatına ait kısa bir manzume.Original scanned with Zeutschel OS 12000C A2 scanner and saved as 300 ppi uncompressed tiffs. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP20002 vol. in 1; 22x16,5 c
Comparison of corrosion of magnesium and aluminium in palm biodiesel / Chew King Vee
No full textSalat is an Islamic prayer ritual that all Muslims must perform five times a day. The salatphysical manoeuvres steps include various motions such as standing, bowing, prostration, and sitting. Recently, the study of salat movements from the perspective of science has been widely investigated. The current study evaluated the impact of salatmovements on the biomechanical response of human muscle using electromyography (EMG). The eight upper-bodymuscles involved were the neck extensors (NE), sternocleidomastoideus (SCM), trapezius (TRP), deltoid (DL), bicepsbrachii (BB), triceps brachii (TB), rectus abdominus (RA), and erector spine (ES) and the four lower-body muscles involved were the rectus femoris (RF), biceps femoris (BF), tibialis anterior (TA), and gastrocnemius (GAS) muscles. A group of undergraduates aged between 19 to 28 years voluntarily participated in this study. The subjects were asked to performsalat movements(takbir, bowing, prostration, sitting, and salam) and specified exercises (squat exercise and toe touching exercise). During the experiment, the root mean square (RMS) and maximum voluntary contraction (MVC) for each muscle in every position of salatwas recorded. The result showed that the muscles produced different EMG levels during each salat’s positions. For example, the highest EMG level achieved during the ‘takbir’movement was at the TRP (23.11% MVC), followed by DL (10.57%MVC), BB (9.75%MVC), ES (5.50%MVC), NE (3.93%MVC), RA (3.25%MVC), SCM (2.94%MVC), and TB (2.61%MVC). Forstatisticalanalysis, the Wilcoxon’sRank Sum Test was used to compare the neighbouring and antagonistic muscles: NE to SCM, TRP to DL, BB to TB, and ES to RA. The finding showed that there were significant differences in the performances for all the antagonist muscles during each salat’sposition (p<0.05). For the comparison between the salat and the specified exercises, the test found a statistically no significant difference between salatand the specified exercises for the RF, BF, and GAS, but for
the TA, there was significant difference with a difference of 5.67%MVC. Muscle contraction and relaxation that occurred showed an agonist-antagonist response which is good for exercise and strengthening programmes. Hence, the current experiment can be taken as a pilot study on the biomechanical response of the human muscles during the act of performing the salat
Participatory mapping of target areas to enable operational larval source management to suppress malaria vector mosquitoes in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Half of the population of Africa will soon live in towns and cities where it can be protected from malaria by controlling aquatic stages of mosquitoes. Rigorous but affordable and scaleable methods for mapping and managing mosquito habitats are required to enable effective larval control in urban Africa.\ud
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A simple community-based mapping procedure that requires no electronic devices in the field was developed to facilitate routine larval surveillance in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The mapping procedure included (1) community-based development of sketch maps and (2) verification of sketch maps through technical teams using laminated aerial photographs in the field which were later digitized and analysed using Geographical Information Systems (GIS).\ud
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Three urban wards of Dar es Salaam were comprehensively mapped, covering an area of 16.8 km2. Over thirty percent of this area were not included in preliminary community-based sketch mapping, mostly because they were areas that do not appear on local government residential lists. The use of aerial photographs and basic GIS allowed rapid identification and inclusion of these key areas, as well as more equal distribution of the workload of malaria control field staff.\ud
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The procedure developed enables complete coverage of targeted areas with larval control through comprehensive spatial coverage with community-derived sketch maps. The procedure is practical, affordable, and requires minimal technical skills. This approach can be readily integrated into malaria vector control programmes, scaled up to towns and cities all over Tanzania and adapted to urban settings elsewhere in Africa
Coca: An Andean Daily Chew
No full text“Coca: An Andean Daily Chew” distinctly separates the benign tradition of coca chewing in South America, an 8,000 year old practice, from the modern plague of cocaine addiction. The article specifically addresses Western misconceptions about coca. The text goes on to detail many aspects of the process of coca chewing, from the fields of the Andes to the mouths of the chewer. Coca is chewed with quick lime and this process is compared to the preparation of corn tortillas in Mexico. The most celebrated variety of coca, Erythroxylum novogranatense var. truxillense, or Tupa Coca in Quechua, is positioned as the most coveted variety of coca for both the ancient and modern chewer. The article closes by noting that the habitat and physical characteristics of Tupa Coca put the plant at odds with the drug trade.
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“Coca: La mascada de cada día” separa distintamente la tradición benigna de mascar coca en Sudamérica, una costumbre que data 8000 años, de la plaga moderna de la adicción a la cocaína. El artículo se avoca a combatir las nociones falsas sobre la hierba y detalla aspectos del proceso de mascar coca, desde su cultivo en los campos de los Andes hasta ser mascada por los campesinos. La coca se masca con cal. Este proceso se compara a la preparación de las tortillas de maíz en México. El tipo de coca más celebrada, novogranatense de Erythroxylum variedad truxillense, o Tupa Coca en Quechua, es la variedad de coca codiciado para el campesino antiguo y moderno. El artículo se cierra analizando el hábitat y las características físicas de Tupa Coca y su incompatibilidad con el narcotráfico
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