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Characterizing physical habitats in rivers using map-derived drivers of fluvial geomorphic processes
No full textNew understanding of fluvial geomorphological processes has successfully informed flood mitigation strategies
and rehabilitation schemes in recent years. However well established geomorphological assessments are
location-specific and demanding in terms of resource and expertise required, and their routine application
for regional or national river characterization, although desirable, is unlikely at present. This paper proposes
a framework based on GIS procedures, empirical relationships and the self organized map for the analysis and
classification of map-derived drivers of fluvial morphological processes. The geomorphic controls analysed
are: channel gradient and hydrology, specific stream power, river order and floodplain extent. The case
study is a gravel bed river in England. Using the self organized map, we analyse patterns of these controls
along the river longitudinal profile and identify clusters of similar configuration. The reciprocal relationships
that emerge amongst the geomorphic controls reflect the hierarchical nature of fluvial systems and are
consistent with the current theoretical understanding of fluvial processes. Field observations from the River
Habitat Survey are used to prove the influence of geomorphic drivers on reach-scale morphological forms.
Six clusters are identified which describe six distinctive channel types. These proved to be characterized by
distinctive configurations of geomorphic drivers and specific sets of physical habitat features. The method
successfully characterizes the notable transitions in channel character along the river course. The framework
is suitable for regional or national scale assessments through automatic GIS and statistical procedures with
moderate effort
Rozpor ako východisko, láska ako smer u Simone Weilovej (Contradiction as base, Love as direction in writings of Simone Weil)
No full textArticle is explaining contradiction and love, Simone Weil‘s essential terms of hermeneutics of human Being. It introduces close relation of these terms with her understanding of God as well as with her overall concept of religion. Author also mentions Simone Weil‘s inspirations with philosophical and spiritual concepts of the East
“I beg you to tell me what has become of Djamila”: The Political Mobilization of Simone de Beauvoir’s Readers During the Boupacha Affair
No full textBy Sophia Millman This is a condensed version of a Masters thesis dedicated to the political mobilization of Simone de Beauvoir’s readers. The citations from the letters were translated from French by the author. *** On June 2, 1960, the French government ordered all copies of the daily Algiers edition of Le Monde seized and destroyed to suppress the publication of Simone de Beauvoir’s article “Pour Djamila Boupacha.” Beauvoir, a self-professed “woman of letters”, not “of action[1]”, and one ..
De coleções a narrações : recortes de um caminhamento em terapia ocupacional
No full textA presente pesquisa buscou refletir acerca do processo de trabalho clínico, em terapia ocupacional, nos atendimentos a sujeitos com transtornos mentais graves. Partindo da experiência de trabalho da pesquisadora, que se desenvolve em um centro de atenção psicossocial (caps), da Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre, procurou-se refletir acerca do processo de construção narrativa e do estatuto do objeto na clínica da terapia ocupacional, inserida no contexto da rede pública de dispositivos de saúde mental. Tomando como ponto de partida o ato de colecionar, esse estudo se tramou a partir de fragmentos da prática clínica cotidiana, bem como de uma reflexão mais detalhada acerca do processo de escrever de um paciente, a quem se chamou de Ciro. Utilizou-se o termo caminhamento, cunhado por Antoninho, também paciente do caps, como eixo metodológico, alçando referido termo ao estatuto de conceito. Com o sentido de caminhar acompanhado, tomou-se o conceito de caminhamento, no qual não se tem, propriamente, como objetivo, um bem aprioristicamente determinado a alcançar, mas sim, uma posição de disponibilidade para um encontro. A construção do objeto de estudo se deu a partir de elementos articulados, primeiramente, aos moldes de uma coleção. Estes elementos, ao longo do texto vão sendo tramados para produzir a narrativa dessa dissertação. Utilizou-se a figura topológica da Banda de Moebius como lente para refletir acerca do trabalho que se produz em dobra, no sentido de que, como efeito do jogo transferencial, o formato que a escrita da dissertação toma é homólogo aos processos trilhados por Ciro, os quais considerou-se terem sido da ordem de um movimento que partiu de coleções, chegando a narrações possíveis. Entendendo o trabalho em oficinas terapêuticas como situado em um espaço híbrido (Rickes, 2007), em uma zona de fronteira entre o campo clínico e o educativo, utilizou-se, para escrever e ler a experiência, referenciais conceituais oriundos da psicanálise, principalmente das obras de Freud e Lacan, e de leituras das mesmas realizadas por autores contemporâneos. Procurou-se pensar, tomando o caminhamento como método, nos efeitos produzidos através deste trabalho em terapia ocupacional, a partir das reflexões acerca da negativa (Freud, 1925), na perspectiva da disjunção que produz o campo do não eu, marcando, conseqüentemente a diferença entre o fora e o dentro; do estranho (Freud, 1919), para problematizar os momentos em que se faz necessária a (re)fundação destes campos; do endereçamento (Lacan, 1955-1956), no sentido de que a inscrição psíquica só se efetiva quando encontra representação no discurso social (no Outro, desde a psicanálise); e da densidade simbólica diferenciada (Guerra, 2004), estatuto do objeto produzido em um espaço de oficinas terapêuticas, como operador de um corte, uma disjunção na relação de continuidade que se estabelece entre o psicótico e o Outro.The aim of the present work is to reflect on the process of clinical occupational therapy practice, in the caring for individuals with severe mental disease. Based on the author's experience working at a municipal psychosocial outpatient center (“CAPS”) in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, the objective was to reflect on the process of developing a narrative and also on the status of the object in the occupational therapy practice as part of the public mental health system. Utilizing the act of collecting as a starting point, the study evolved from fragments of daily clinical practice into a more detailed reflection into the writing process of a patient whom we named Ciro.The term "caminhamento" (a word not existent in the Portuguese language, coined by Antoninho, also a patient at the “CAPS”) was used as methodological axis, as well as, eventually, a concept. While uttered originally with the meaning of "walking with a companion", the concept of "caminhamento" refers to a process without an objective to be reached, but as a situation of openness to an encounter. The objective of this study grew from articulated fragments assembled as a collection, initially. These elements are intertwined throughout the text, producing a narrative, which is this dissertation. The topological picture of a Moebius strip was used as a lens through which to view this work, as a loop. As an effect of transferential play, the format that this narrative took is homologous to the process utilized by Ciro considering he started with collections and proceeded to tentative narratives. From the standpoint that the therapeutic workshop is a hybrid space (Rickes 2007), on the border between clinical and educational, the conceptual references used to describe the experiences herein came from the field of psychoanalysis, specially the works of Freud and Lacan and their more contemporary scholars. Utilizing "caminhamento" as a method, the author attempted to think about the effects of this work in occupational therapy. Reflecting on negation (Freud, 1925) , in the perspective of the disjunction that creates the field of "not me", consequently stressing the difference between the out and the in; on the uncanny (Freud, 1919), to question the moments when the (re)foundation of these fields is necessary; on the addressment (Lacan,1955-1956), in the sense that psychic inscription is only effective when it finds representations in the social discourse (in the Other, from psychoanalysis); and, on the differentiated symbolic density (Guerra, 2004), status of object originated in therapeutic workshops as the one that severs the relationship of continuity that is established between a psychotic individual and the Other
Testemunho e transmissão : do excesso à produção de um saber
No full textO percurso desta tese partiu de uma inquietação, decorrente do encontro com um processo de trabalho no campo da clínica das psicoses, referente à necessidade de que algo (relacionado ao trabalho clínico com a psicose) ganhasse passagem. No campo de produções na cultura, delineou-se a questão da pesquisa: a articulação entre uma vivência da dimensão do excessivo e a subsequente necessidade de produzir uma perda no campo do Outro, por meio da produção de um saber, de algo endereçável. Perguntamo-nos sobre os efeitos desses encontros com o excessivo, quando o sujeito estaria na condição de testemunha de uma vivência alheia que lhe chegaria através de produções culturais (orais, escritas, imagéticas) deles decorrentes. Buscamos, na psicanálise freudo-lacaniana, as articulações teórico-conceituais para sustentar a formulação relativa à (re)inscrição da disjunção, que separa e coloca em relação (ao modo de uma torção, como a da Banda de Moebius) os campos do sujeito e do Outro, e que teria se suspendido em uma vivência do excesso. Refletindo sobre a produção de um saber, trabalhamos com as noções de experiência, testemunho, transmissão e endereçamento, tomando, além de elementos da literatura de testemunho e de fragmentos da criação de filmes, a produção do CD com livreto Minha Longa Milonga – 12 Canções para Keidânia, do artista porto-alegrense Claudio Levitan. O percurso da pesquisa nos permitiu concluir que haveria uma peculiaridade nessas produções, a saber, a força da dimensão de permanência com que são dotadas, no sentido de replicar, naquele que as receberia, tanto a vivência de um excesso, quanto a necessidade subsequente de fazer algo com isso, de seguir inventando palavras. Dessa forma, o circuito se recolocaria: um novo saber se produziria e assim sucessivamente, da forma como a cada um fosse possível tornar própria uma experiência, transmitindo-a.The path to this thesis arose from a certain disquietude due to encountering a work process in the field of clinic of psychoses, referring to need that something (related to clinic work with psychoses) gain passage. In the field of cultural production, the focus of the research was delineated: the articulation between living in the dimension of the excessive and the subsequent need of producing a loss in the field of the Other, by creating knowledge, something addressable. We asked ourselves about these encounters with the excessive, when the subject is in a condition of witness of somebody else’s experience which they would receive through cultural productions (orally, in writing, in imagery). We search, in freudian lacanian psychoanalysis, the theoretical-conceptual articulations to support the formulation relative to the (re)inscription of the disjunction, that separates and puts the subject and the Other in relation (as in the twisting of a Möbius strip), and that was suspended in during the experience of the excess. Reflecting upon the production of knowledge, we work with the ideas of experience, bearing witness, transmission and addressing, taking elements from the literature and fragments of movie productions, and also from the production of the CD and Booklet “Minha Longa Milonga – 12 Canções para Keidânia” from the artist from Porto Alegre, Claudio Levitan. The route that this research took, allowed us to conclude that these productions bear a peculiarity, which is the power of the dimension of permanence that they possess, in the sense of replicating, in the one that receives them, not only the experience of an excess, but also the subsequent need of doing something with it, to continue inventing words. Then, the circuit is repositioned: a new knowledge is produced and so forth, making it possible to make an experience one’s own, and transmit it forward
A comparative study of form and theology in the works of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil
No full textIn this comparative study of the form and theology of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil I interrogate how Weil's philosophical writings and her theology illuminate O'Connor's use of both narrative and non-fictional forms, and her Catholicism. The Introduction analyses how Weil's concept of superposed reading provides a new method of approaching both O'Connor, her writings, and O'Connor
studies, and focuses on how such apparently different women interconnect. Chapter One explores how both Weil and O'Connor attempt to write their theologies on the
souls of their readers yet are each subject to constraints imposed by form. Weil's concept of locating equilibrium between incommensurates is discussed, and her
distinctively philosophical approach to fictions and fictionality is used to investigate O'Connor's notion of prophetic fictions and the writer's role. Chapter Two assesses how both writers revivify Christian paradoxes. Weil's monstrous concept of affiiction, and O'Connor's use of the grotesque genre to jolt secular man into an
awareness of the sacred are scrutinised. Chapter Three studies how both writers consider an encounter between God and man is possible through the action of grace. My Conclusion interrogates how Weil's work can deepen our understanding of O'Connor's writings, and examines how successful O'Connor is at realising a truly
Christian literature. I conclude that despite being a writer of powerful fictions, O'Connor can not be totally successful in her mission as writer-prophet because
ultimately fiction escapes orthodoxy
Microlinices benthovus Simone 2014
No full textbenthovus, Microlinices Simone, 2014 Microlinices benthovus Simone, 2014: 575–578 (figs 6A–J, 7A–H, 11A–C). Gastropoda, Naticidae Paratypes (22 spc): MZSP 105269. Paratypes 1 (15 spc): MZSP 105270. Paratypes 2 (16 spc): MZSP 105271. Paratypes 3 (7 spc): MZSP 105272. Localities: Brazil, Espírito Santo, off Itaúnas, Abrolhos Slope, 18°59' S, 37°50' W, MD55 sta. DC 73, 637 m depth, 27 May 1987; 1) 19°00' S, 37°48' W, MD55 sta. DC72, 950– 1050 m, 27 May 1987; 2) off Regência, 19°40' S, 37°48' W, MD55 sta. CB77, 790– 940 m depth, 27 May 1987; 3) off Itaúnas, Abrolhos Slope, 19°01' S, 37°47' W, MD55 sta. CB79, 1500–1575 m depth, 28 May 1987. Collectors: P. Bouchet, J.H. Leal and B. Métivier. Preservation: Dry. Remarks: Former MNHN, Paris. The catalogue number MZSP 105250 is mentioned twice in Simone’s (2014) paper, among the paratypes of M. ibitingus Simone, 2014 and M. benthovus. This duplicity was a mistake by the author: the latter is an erroneous designation and should be disregarded. The only valid paratype lots for M. benthovus are the ones shown above.Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 10, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/384012
Was bringt die Föderalismusreform? Wahrscheinliche Effekte der geänderten Zustimmungspflicht
No full textThe recently enacted reform of German federalism is supposed to make legislation faster, more efficient and better. To what extent are these expectations justified? In order to assess the likely effects of the reform, this study uses a research design that was recently applied by the Research and Reference Services of the German Bundestag (parliament): we estimate the future effects of the reform by analyzing the impact it would have had on the legislation in the 14th and 15th term of the Bundestag if it had already been been in force at that time. In particular we ask: To what extent would the number of laws requiring the consent of the states' chamber, the Bundesrat, have been reduced? Which type of laws would have been affected by this reduction - the more controversial ones, or the less controversial ones? Which policy sectors would have seen the greatest reduction? How much would the reduction have increased the government's capacity to act effectively? Would the legislative process have been accelerated? -- Die verabschiedete Föderalismusreform soll die Gesetzgebung in Deutschland schneller, effizienter und besser machen. Inwiefern sind diese Erwartungen berechtigt? Zur Abschätzung der Reformfolgen auf die Bundesgesetzgebung folgen wir in dem vorliegenden Working Paper einer Vorgehensweise, die der Wissenschaftliche Dienst des Bundestages kürzlich in einer Studie angewandt hat: Die Auswirkungen der Föderalismusreform insbesondere auf die Zustimmungspflicht werden anhand der Gesetzgebung der 14. und 15. Legislaturperiode untersucht. Wir fragen insbesondere: Wie stark hätte sich der Anteil der Zustimmungsgesetze verringert, wenn die neuen Zustimmungsregeln schon in diesen beiden Legislaturperioden gegolten hätten? Wären eher zwischen Regierung strittige oder unstrittige Gesetze von der Zustimmungspflicht befreit worden? Welche Politikbereiche wären betroffen? Wie sehr hätte sich die politische Handlungsfreiheit der Bundesregierung erhöht? Wäre die Gesetzgebung durch die veränderten Zustimmungsregeln beschleunigt worden?
Idea ofiary u Simone Weil
No full textAutorka omawia ofiarę, jaką z samej siebie złożyła Simone Weil. Głównym celem autorki artykułu jest wykazanie, iż idea ofiary była najważniejszą myślą w życiu francuskiej filozof. W artykule ukazano myśl o ofierze w życiu i pismach intelektualistki, jak również analogie, które rzucają nowe światło na ofiarę Weil. Jako klucz do interpretacji i zrozumienia ofiary Weil, autorka analizuje myśl Emmanuela Levinasa oraz Józefa Tischnera.The author interprets the sacrifice that Simone Weil filed with itself. The main point of the present article is the assumption that the sacrifice Simone Weil was the most important idea of her life. A thought about the victim is portraying the article in the life and letters of the intellectual, as well as is portraying analogies which are shedding new light on the Weil victim. As the key to interpretation and understanding the her victim, the author is analysing the thought of Emmanuel Levinas and Jozef Tischner.Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00
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