170 research outputs found
Rescate y conservación del Acervo Histórico del Palacio de Minería: Informe de las labores de conservación preventiva e intervenciones menores en material Bibliohemerográfico y actividades en apoyo al Acervo Histórico : octubre 2011 - febrero 2012
No full textEl presente informe tiene como finalidad dar constancia de los trabajos realizados en el Acervo Histórico del Palacio de Minería, por los restauradores Roderick Palacios, Isabel Ritter y Eleonora Cruz, pasantes de la Licenciatura en Restauración de Bienes Culturales como prestación de su servicio social.</p
Roderick the Last of the Goths (1814) de Robert Southey: estructura, análisis y traducción
No full textThis paper analyses the most relevant work written by the English poet Robert Southey: Roderick the Last of the Goths. With this poem, written in 25 cantos, the author gained a reputation with his contemporary critics that raised him over Milton’s Paradise Lost. After presenting a brief introduction to Don Rodrigo’s figure, that inspired Southey, and also to that of this minor Lake poet and his forays into Spanish history, the present study provides an analysis of the poem and the translation of Canto II, “Roderick in Solitude”, composed of 246 lines in free verse. The translation in alexandrines will allow us to maintain the same elegance and atmosphere of the original poem.Trabajo que analiza la obra más relevante del escritor inglés Southey: Roderick the Last of the Goths, poema escrito en 25 cantos y por el que su autor recibiría los elogios más encendidos de la crítica contemporánea, que lo llegaría a encumbrar por encima de Paradise Lost de Milton. Tras una breve introducción a la figura en que se inspira Southey, el rey Don Rodrigo, así como al menor de los poetas lakistas y sus incursiones en la historia de España, llevamos a cabo un análisis del poema, para traducir posteriormente el canto segundo, “Roderick in Solitude”, formado por 246 versos libres, que traducidos en alejandrinos, lo que nos permite conservar toda la elegancia y atmósfera del poema original
Robert Southey’s Roderick the Last of the Goths (1814): structure, analysis and translation
Full text linkTrabajo que analiza la obra más relevante del escritor inglés Southey: Roderick the Last of the Goths, poema escrito en 25 cantos y por el que su autor recibiría los elogios más encendidos de la crítica contemporánea, que lo llegaría a encumbrar por encima de Paradise Lost de Milton. Tras una breve introducción a la figura en que se inspira Southey, el rey Don Rodrigo, así como al menor de los poetas lakistas y sus incursiones en la historia de España, llevamos a cabo un análisis del poema, para traducir posteriormente el canto segundo, “Roderick in Solitude”, formado por 246 versos libres, que traducidos en alejandrinos, lo que nos permite conservar toda la elegancia y atmósfera del poema originalThis paper analyses the most relevant work written by the English poet Robert Southey: Roderick the Last of the Goths. With this poem, written in 25 cantos, the author gained a reputation with his contemporary critics that raised him over Milton’s Paradise Lost. After presenting a brief introduction to Don Rodrigo’s figure, that inspired Southey, and also to that of this minor Lake poet and his forays into Spanish history, the present study provides an analysis of the poem and the translation of Canto II, “Roderick in Solitude”, composed of 246 lines in free verse. The translation in alexandrines will allow us to maintain the same elegance and atmosphere of the original poem
Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
Full text linkJames's fiction, especially in the Middle Phase, centres
on the figure of the artist and is characterized by, the two
interrelated aspects which previous criticism has largely
overlooked: the Bakhtinian 'polyphonic' -creation of
'author-thinkers'; and the conflict between ephebes and
precursors, for which Harold-Bloom's concept of 'the-anxiety of
influence' is the most illuminating model. Polyphony is the
narrative mode, and influence is the intra-artistic, theme.
These, as the Introduction to the thesis makes clear, are
rehearsed in James's inaugural novel, Roderick Hudson. Rowland
Mallet is an author-thinker, and his failure is caused by
authorial limitations. His monologism -is impaired by his
mistaking empathy for the authorial sympathy. Likewise,
Hudson's failure does not arise from a mercurial temperament,
but from a polyphonic shortcoming: not possessing the power of
fiction to contain the fiction of power in, his mentor. And the
relationships among the three artists - Gloriani, Hudson and
Singleton - perfectly exemplify the Bloomian-theme. It is these
two concepts, polyphony and influence, which are the major
preoccupation in the Middle Phase; as, the works chosen
demonstrate. These are a novella, a novel, and a number of
short stories all of which have been unjustifiably neglected.
Chapter One, on The Aspern Papers, argues that Tina Bordereau,
far from being, the artless victim seen by many critics,
actually challenges and defeats the narrator by the very form
of her narrative. Her 'realist' discourse undermines his
language of 'romance', and shows up its internal unstability.
Chapter Two is an extensive study of the critical reception of
The Tragic Muse. The most common areas of critical attention
have been its contemporary topicality, its relation to previous
novels on similar themes, and the possible genealogy of Gabriel
Nash. Those have all missed the core of the work. - Chapter Three
demonstrates how polyphony and the anxiety of influence make
the novel what it really is. Influence arises from the
juxtaposition of, and the wrestling between, artistic ephebes
and their precursors (Nick and Nash,, Miriam and Madame Carre).
The dialogic quality defined by Bakhtin is crucial to the
proper, and even-handed, characterization of all, the conflicts
in the novel. And since most of James's tales in the eighties
and nineties -are about 'masters - and acolytes, the anxiety of
influence remains central. Chapter Four is a study of 'The
Author of Beltraffiol' and 'The Lesson of the Master'. Again the
characters' manipulations are a crucial focus in a way that
G6rard Genette's terminology helps to illuminate. The fact that
the ephebe is the author-thinker emphasizes the inextricability
of the Bakhtinian and the Bloomian in James. Just as
polyphony offers a different focus for explicating the poetics
of James's fiction; so the ephebal conflict provides the basis
for a fresh perception of James's own artistic struggle
Fundamentals for modelling the airway wall:Interplay between cells, extracellular matrix, dimensionality, architecture and mechanics in the lung
Full text linkOur body, organs and tissues are made up of cells that are held together by a sort of glue called the extracellular matrix (ECM). In this three-dimensional environment the cells stick together and to the ECM. Mechanical properties of the ECM such as stiffness determine the fate and function of the bound cells. Therefore, it may come as no surprise that changes in the ECM’s composition and stiffness have an adverse effect on the organ’s function that is composed of the cells. This thesis showed that during chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lethal disease without cure, the cross-talk between cells and ECM is disrupted. We developed threedimensional culture models to understand fibroblasts i.e. cells from the connective tissue of main lung and airway cells are affected by ECM from healthy and diseased lungs as well as by varying stiffnesses. As it appears, higher than normal ECM stiffnesses promote airway disease. Our results pave the way for the development of novel therapies to treat COPD by targeting the derailed ECM
Juridicité et normativité dans la théorie sociojuridique de R.A. Macdonald
No full textLa théorie sociologique du droit, développée par le professeur Roderick A. Macdonald (Université McGill) sur des bases fort originales, s’inscrit dans la perspective d’un pluralisme juridique critique. Pour mieux en saisir la spécificité et la fécondité, l’auteur propose de comparer cette théorie avec l’approche qui fut défendue par Max Weber, l’une des figures les plus importantes de la discipline. La comparaison fait apparaître un nombre significatif de convergences, tant sur le plan épistémologique et méthodologique que sur le plan substantif. Elle met également en lumière certaines divergences fondamentales qui portent sur la définition du droit et le concept de norme. A cet égard, l’auteur croit que l’approche wébérienne présente l’avantage de livrer, à titre heuristique, des critères permettant de délimiter un champ spécifique du juridique, alors que la théorie de Macdonald, en dépit d’apports indéniables, n’autorise pas une distinction adéquate entre la normativité sociale et la normativité juridique.The sociological theory of law, constructed by Roderick A. Macdonald (McGill University) in a highly original fashion, is oriented towards a critical legal pluralism. To better grasp its originality, the author compares Macdonald's theory with the classical approach promoted by Max Weber, one of the leading figures of the sociology of law. This comparison brings to light a significant number of similarities, on the substantive as well as on the epistemological and methodological level. It also reveals some fundamental divergencies, as regards the definition of law and the concept of norm in particular. Considering those elements, the author believes that the Weberian approach provides heuristic devices that help delineate a specific legal field, whereas Macdonald's theory, quite inadequately, refuses to draw a line between social and legal normativity
Time-Optimal Transfers Between Planar Solar-Sail Libration Point Orbits
No full textThis paper presents time-optimal transfer trajectories between planar solar-sail displaced libration point orbits around the and points of the Sun-Earth and Earth-Moon systems. Initial guesses for these transfers are generated as two-segment trajectories, with a fixed sail attitude along each segment. The position and velocity discontinuity between the segments is minimized by means of a genetic-algorithm approach. The time of flight of these trajectories is then optimized by means of a direct pseudo-spectral collocation method as well as a multiple shooting differential correction (MSDC) method. The results of these methods are subsequently compared. Pseudo-spectral collocation was found to outperform MSDC in the solar-sail augmented Sun-Earth system, obtaining trajectories with transfer times as short as 101 days. Differential correction generally yields trajectories with slightly longer flight times than pseudo-spectral collocation, but converges more reliably. In the time-dependent solar-sail augmented Earth-Moon system, pseudo-spectral collocation fails to provide reproducible results. Transfer trajectories with flight times as short as 15.6 days are obtained in the Earth-Moon system using MSDC, but these trajectories feature control discontinuities that are likely to be problematic in practice.Aerospace Engineerin
- …
