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Daughter of fortune: Isabel Allende's popularity from a readership perspective
No full textThe primary aim of this thesis is to explore and critically interrogate Isabel Allende’s popularity cross-culturally in Britain and Spain. It analyses readers’ responses to Allende’s works as well as the discourses surrounding her public representation, an approach that is ‘readerly’ but must also take account of production and text. This approach is intended to further the understanding of Allende’s work which so far has always been analysed from a textual perspective. However, the relationship between Allende’s popularity, her texts, public representation and readers has not been yet analysed in detail.This thesis is innovative in other ways too. Methodologically, it approaches readers through the under studied cultural form of the reading group. It also incorporates a comparative dimension by looking at the reception of Allende in two different cultural contexts: the British and Spanish respectively. Finding out about Allende’s popularity has involved asking readers about their reading experiences as well as analysing the production of discourses around her public representation. Paul Ricoeur’s (1984, 1988) perspective on authorial intentions and readers’ responses to texts helps in understanding the intricacies surrounding what is involved in reading any text. It draws attention to Allende’s and her publishers’ authorial strategies, her ‘strategies of persuasion’ and the specificity of the lives and contexts of British and Spanish reading publics. Equally, this ‘readerly’ approach draws on feminist audience research and primarily on the work of Ien Ang and Janice Radway. Their work with viewers and readers respectively is particularly useful in establishing and developing methodological parameters for the study of reading groups. As a whole, this thesis contributes to the understanding of Allende’s cross-cultural popularity by situating readers at the centre
Genômica e biotecnologia aplicadas à adaptação a mudanças climáticas.
No full textMudanças climáticas globais e seus impactos na agricultura. Pesquisa e desenvolvimento de tecnologias transgênicas. Genômica funcional para descoberta de genes de valor agronômico. Bancos de dados genômicos. Genômica comparativa. Análise filogenética de famílias gênicas. Aplicações de tecnologias de sequenciamento de próxima geração. Seleção em larga escala de eventos transgênicos. A Unidade Mista de Pesquisa em Genômica Aplicada a Mudanças Climáticas (UMiP GenClima)
A-R-E: The Author-Review-Execute Environment
No full textAbstractThe Author-Review-Execute (A-R-E) is an innovative concept to offer under a single principle and platform an environment to support the life cycle of an (executable) paper; namely the authoring of the paper, its submission, the reviewing process, the author's revisions, its publication, and finally the study (reading/interaction) of the paper as well as extensions (follow ups) of the paper. It combines Semantic Wiki technology, a resolver that solves links both between parts of documents to executable code or to data, an anonymizing component to support the authoring and reviewing tasks, and web services providing link perennity
Estabelecimento de uma coleção de plasmídeos para transformação genética de eucalipto.
No full textEditores técnicos: Marcílio José Thomazini, Elenice Fritzsons, Patrícia Raquel Silva, Guilherme Schnell e Schuhli, Denise Jeton Cardoso, Luziane Franciscon. EVINCI. Resumos
British Women Travellers And The Harems: Liberties, Enslavement and Domesticity
No full textThis thesis examines the complex perspective of a woman traveller. Wortley Montagu, Martineau, Burton and their contemporaries, represented the harem through various lenses. The Oriental harem has fascinated Western civilization since time immemorial. This sacred place, reserved for the women and children of the Muslim household, had long been a terra incognita to British outsiders, until the publication of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s (1689-1762) Turkish Embassy Letters (1763), which gave impetus to a whole tradition of travel writings, particularly harem accounts, penned by British women. The aristocratic Wortley Montagu recasts Turkish women from their previous Western image as over-sexed and soulless beings to idealized domestic goddesses, living in an ideal world, the harem. Harriet Martineau(1802-1876) , travelled to the Ottoman Empire more than a century after Wortley Montagu’s residency in Oriental lands. Martineau was a rare talent. She was an accomplished journalist and a pioneering figure in Western sociology. She spent her life validating a place for herself and her sex in a patriarchal and male-dominated society; she earned her own keeping, and lived independently. Martineau related her eastern experience in Eastern Life: Past and Present (1848), in which the Oriental harem figures very little. Martineau pitied the women she encountered in Egypt, and depicted them as slaves of a corrupt system, the harem and the practice of polygamy. My thesis ends with the travel writings of Lady Isabel Burton (1831-1896) whose view of the Oriental women she met in Syria is the most tempered. Her Inner Life of Syria, Palestine and the Holy Lands: from my Private Journal (1875) displays a tolerance of other cultures and a move toward moral and cultural relativisms.
Each of the women considered in this thesis formed her own harem, projecting on to this distant Oriental structure her fears, hopes and desires. Wortley Montagu’s harem was a utopia for women only. The Victorian Martineau opined that the Oriental harem was a hell on earth. Lady Isabel Burton constructed a happy medium between the two. Although at times ambivalent towards the Syrian women she encountered, she partook in their customs and manners, particularly public bathing, smoking and other Eastern indulgences. Her attitude illustrates that the British home and the Oriental harem are not so dissimilar, bridging the gap between us and them
X Aniversario. 37 Tercera época (2006) febrero-mayo. Gaceta de Museos
No full text- Diez años, por Emilio Montemayor - La política patrimonial ante los retos actuales, por Jesús Antonio Machuca R. - Edward S. Curtis. La fotografía como testimonio etnográfico, por Marco Antonio Carvajal Correa - Más allá de la pantalla, por Ricardo Contreras - De campamento en el museo, por Edgar Espejel Pérez y Rafael Ríos Chagolla - Planes de manejo, por Isabel Stivalet - Preservación y montaje de documentos y libros, por Lucía O. Torner Morales - Cómo sacarle provecho a las cámaras digitales, por Gliserio Castañeda García - La vitrina del mes: El mito de dos volcanes - La cédula del mes: Happy Victims - El material educativo del mes: Pitao Cocijo - Noticias y reseñas
A gene expression atlas of Vellozia nivea, a desiccation-tolerant species from the Brazilian campos rupestres.
No full textVelloziaceae are an angiosperm family that contains the most desiccation-tolerant species (approximately 200 out of 270 species). More than 80% of the Velloziaceae species occur in South America, where the greatest morphological diversity is also found. The genus Vellozia comprises both desiccation-tolerant and non-desiccation-tolerant species, offering an excellent model for studying the evolution of desiccation- and drought-tolerance traits on plant genomes. To date, only limited genomic or transcript sequences are available for Velloziaceaespecies. Here we present a Vellozia nivea gene expression atlas across different plant organs and tissues, including flower, developing seeds, root, leaf, stem and seedling. Vellozia nivea is a desiccation-tolerant species, endemic to the Brazilian campos rupestres (rupestrian grasslands) and highly adapted to their extreme conditions. A total of 180.67 Gb of raw data were generated, and of these, 152.79 Gb were subjected to downstream analysis after quality control (QC). Vellozia niveade novotranscriptome assembly was performed with the Trinity bioinformatics tool, resulting in 684.615 contigs. After filtering contaminated sequence contigs from bacteria and fungi and removal of contigs with less than 10 sequence reads associated with the initial assembly, the transcriptome resulted in 195.512 remaining sequences. A GO enrichment analysis was performed on tissue‐specific transcripts. The Vellozia nivea transcriptome should be a useful resource for genome annotation and gene function discovery studies.PE1028
Custer Peak Lookout Building and Telephone Line, 1911
No full textReport submitted by Manford R. Hickel, Forester (Admin.), San Isabel National Forest on February 25, 1952, containing diary-style entries about his time working on the project to build a fire lookout building and telephone line on Custer Peak, South Dakota, as a new Forest Service employee in 1911. There is an accompanying letter written by the author of the report
Promoters used in genetic transformation of plants.
No full textThe promoter is a DNA sequence that regulates the expression of a particular gene. Knowledge of the promoters used in gene constructs for genetic transformation is essential for successfully applying GM technology. Promoters can be classified as constitutive, inducible and organ/tissue specific. The use of inducible and organ/tissue promoters has gained importance, because of its extensive applicability. This review presents a summary of the different types of promoters with examples of some of them that have been identified and characterized for genetic transformation of various plant species
Liberação planejada no meio ambiente (LPMA) de plantas transgênicas de cana-de-açúcar.
No full textRESUMO - A utilização das técnicas de modificação genética de plantas já são aplicadas comercialmente na agricultura a cerca de três décadas. No entanto, culturas como a cana-de-açúcar ainda se beneficiam pouco desta tecnologia. O presente trabalho descreve a liberação planejada e controlada no meio ambiente (LPMA) de dois eventos de cana-de-açúcar geneticamente modificados visando aumento da tolerância ao estresse hídrico. O objetivo é avaliar o efeito dos transgenes em condições controladas de cultivo sob irrigação e seca no campo. Para tanto, a área onde o experimento foi instalado teve que atender aos critérios de biossegurança exigidos pela CTNBio, tais como possuir o Certificado de Qualidade em Biossegurança (CQB) e ter a aprovação prévia da LPMA pela CTNBio.CIIC 2019. Nº 19605. Na publicação: Hugo Molinari; Adilson A. Kobayashi; Isabel R. Gerhadt; Juliana Erika Teixeira Yassitepe; Fernada R. Fernades; Geraldo M. A. Cançado
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