1,526 research outputs found
El diablo dijo… “¡acción!”: Hellboy en el laberinto Del Toro
No full textDirected by Guillermo del Toro from the comic-book created by Mike Mignola, Hellboy (2004) is the most cherished film by the author of Pan’s Labyrinth (2006). This paper analyses the film’s literary debts –gothic narrative, Lovecraft, Machen, american pulp serials– as well as filmic homages and borrows –Spielberg, Lucas, 50’s science fiction, B movies, cartoons, manga, etc.– that enriches the deltorian imaginery
Defying the law, negotiating change The Futanke’s opposition to the national ban on FGM in Senegal
No full textThis thesis is concerned with the politics of the preservation and ‘abandonment’ of female circumcision in Fouta Toro, Senegal. The focal point of analysis is the overt opposition to the law criminalising female genital cutting in 1999, and development projects raising awareness about excision in human rights and reproductive health education programmes. As an ethnography of the politics around bodily practices in the light of governmental and non-governmental intervention, the thesis looks at how different interest groups justify their position towards excision. This is a timely enquiry, given the Senegalese government’s ‘acceleration programme of the complete abandonment of excision by 2015’ and some Futanke leaders’ non-compliance with, and opposition to this intervention.
After providing details about ‘the ban’ on ‘female genital mutilation’ in Senegal and a critical reflection on the events that are seen to have led to the call for this ban, I carefully disentangle what ‘the opposition to the law’ is and who disagrees with ‘the abandonment’ of the practice in Fouta Toro. The central part of the thesis is guided by an analysis of how excision is embedded in constructions of personhood, sociality and ethnic identity, and how the body is imagined and located in this process. I show how conceptions of ethnic purity and pride are formulated in terms of fear about a ‘loss of culture’ and ‘foreign invasion’ which nourishes discourses of opposition to the law and non-governmental intervention. Others use ‘human rights’ associated with non-governmental organisations and the state as a vehicle to express their views against excision and those who oppose its criminalisation. I examine how idioms like ‘the state’, ‘human rights’ and ‘Futanke way of life’ feature in discourses around the ban of excision in Fouta Toro, and how respectability and honour are maintained through competing representations of the female body as a site of morality. Some claim the female body – a reproducer of cultural identities – with reference to duties through kin obligations, others with reference to ‘human rights’ and ‘the state’.
Based on 15 months’ ethnographic fieldwork in Fouta Toro and nine years working in and researching the impact of development in Senegal, this dissertation contributes to scholarship on Fouta Toro and indicates how governmental and non-governmental intervention stirs up the caste-related power structures of a society led by the Tooroɓɓe since the Islamic revolution in the 18th century. It shows how the female body is located as a site of morality, key to the reproduction of cultural identities
Paesaggio del recupero. Forte Corno, Forte Larino, il Toro del Corno, la galleria di Peschiera
No full textSi tratta di numerosi interventi puntuali di valorizzazione del patrimonio architettonico relativo ai manufatti della prima guerra mondiale tutelati dalla Soprintendenza ai Beni architettonici della Provincia Autonoma di Trento, redatti in collaborazione con altri architetti e che costituiscono, nel loro insieme, la trama di un parco storico-ambientale. Nello specifico, si tratta del progetto di restauro del Forte Corno (a pag. 49 un mio modello per uno studio preliminare), del Forte Larino (a pag. 52 un mio disegno di studio), una scultura landmark denominata Il Toro del Corno collocata di fianco ad un bunker in un punto paesisticamente strategico (progetto esecutivo e D.L. miei, disegno del prof. Luciano Semerani), il recupero della galleria di Peschiera (progetto esecutivo e D.L., il disegno della porta d'ingresso è del prof. Luciano Semerani). Il progetto per il paesaggio fortificato dell’Alta valle del Chiese con la valorizzazione dei manufatti minori (gallerie, postazioni di artiglieria, bunker, ecc) è un’inziativa congiunta dei quattro Comuni di Lardaro, Praso, Roncone e Bondo, con finanziamento della Soprintendenza per i beni architettonici della Provincia autonoma di Trento. Il progetto e la direzione lavori sono degli architetti Luciano Semerani e Lamberto Amistadi
Househould goods stock improvement procedures in Toro Ltd
No full textŠī darba mērķis ir izpētīt uzņēmuma SIA “Toro” krājumu novērtēšanas un uzskaites metodes, kā arī tā krājumu apriti, to uzraudzību un noliktavas darbības procesus. Darba autore ir izstrādājusi darbu trīs nodaļās, kurās ietverta krājumu teorētiskais apkopoums pēc speciālās literatūras un likumiem, novērtētas pielietojamās krājumu uzskaites metodes SIA “Toro”, kā arī analizēta uzņēmuma noliktavas darba organizēšana un inventarizācija. Pēc SIA “Toro” izpētes, ir konstatētas nepilnības noliktavas darba procesā, tāpēc ir izstrādāti priekšlikumi noliktavas darba un preču piegādes uzlabošanai. Atslēgvārdi: apgrozāmie līdzekļi, krājumu uzskaites metodes, krājumi, inventarizācija, noliktava.The aim of this paper is to analyse the company "Toro" stock valuation and accounting methods, as well as the movement of inventory, monitoring and warehouse operational processes. The author has developed a work in three chapters, which include theoretical inventory research after literature and laws, assessed inventory accounting methods in Toro Ltd., also analysis of the company's warehouse work organization and inventory. According to Toro Ltd. research has identified shortcomings in warehouse work process author made suggestions for warehouse labor and product delivery improvement. Keywords: current assets, asset keeping methods, assets, inventory, warehouse
Sahuarita/ El Toro corridor study : final report
No full textabstract: The Sahuarita/El Toro Corridor Study is a joint effort by the Town of Sahuarita and the Arizona Department of Transportation. The purpose of the study is to assess the feasibility of a transportation corridor that will provide adequate capacity for the potential future growth of the Town of Sahuarita and surrounding areas as well as increase local and regional connectivity in Pima County. The study is being funded by Federal Highway Administration’s State Planning and Research Program and administered through ADOT’s Multimodal Planning Division. In the completed Town of Sahuarita Transportation Study, it was recommended that El Toro Rd be constructed as a six-lane parkway to alleviate the severely congested principal thoroughfares due to the future growth identified in that study
Memoria personal e Historia nacional: conversando con Suso de Toro - Memoria personale e Storia nazionale: conversazione con Suso de Toro
No full textIn the following interview, Suso de Toro recalls his career as a novelist from the beginnings to the present day. He focuses on the evolution of his narrative style against the backdrop of the recent Spanish historical context. The author concentrates on those works that characterize him as an engaged writer: Non volvas (2000), Home sen nome (2006), Sete palabras (2010) e Somnámbulos (2014)
Sudden cardiac death in ischaemic heart disease: coronary thrombosis or myocardial fibrosis?
No full textThe mechanisms underlying sudden cardiac death (SCD) in patients with ischaemic heart disease (IHD) caused by coronary atherosclerosis are not yet clarified. For decades, acute coronary causes have been sought as the main triggers of SCD in these patients. In fact, angiographic and pathological studies in cardiac arrest survivors and SCD victims, respectively, consistently show that acute plaque events occur in ∼50% of SCD of patients with IHD. Among the acute events, plaque rupture and erosion triggering acute coronary thrombosis remain the main substrates; however, a significant percentage of plaque haemorrhage (20%) is identified by pathological studies. Its role in acute coronary thrombosis is unknown and deserves future intravascular imaging developments. In the remaining 50% of SCD, the atherosclerotic coronary disease shows the characteristics of structural stability. More recent studies have focused attention not only on the coronary tree and on the search for acute complications of atherosclerotic plaques but also on myocardial tissue, identifying replacement and patchy fibrosis as the most frequent findings in the post-mortem hearts of these patients, a feature followed by cardiac hypertrophy, as assessed by the heart weight, usually associated with fibrosis. The possibility of characterizing myocardial fibrosis in vivo, besides confirming the pathological data, now offers new risk stratification perspectives to prevent SCD in IHD, alongside the consolidated secondary prevention criteria based on left ventricular dysfunction
TD1-P01779 - Unea & John Gorogo & Eno Eno, Kopi (Tom Gavi's mother); Albert Toro
No full textSide 1 -- 1. Unea & John Gorogo (Vanapa) (& family & James Umebo'i in background) on Jack Tanner -- 2. Eno Eno (Manumanu) on same. -- Side 2 -- 1. Kopi (Tom Gavi's' (Jr) mother) (000-310) -- 2. Albert Toro, author of 'Sugar Days' (NBC Radio Play) (316-451). Interview with Albert Toro -- Location: Papua New Guinea, place unspecified -- Date: Monday, 17 September 1979 -- Transcript is at TD1-P01779-B.rtf/pdf. Language as given: Englis
O comportamento entre homes e mulleres: obxectividade e prexuízos na narrativa de Suso de Toro
No full textEl comportamiento entre hombres y mujeres es una problemática que afecta tanto a la sociedad, que ha derivado en un tema muy controvertido, tratado no sólo por los medios de comunicación de masa, sino por muchos escritores y escritoras contemporáneos. Un autor como Suso de Toro (Santiago de Compostela, 1956) que, con su mirada de cámara, se ha ocupado de observar las enfermedades que corrompen el mundo moderno, no podía quedarse al margen; por esta razón este trabajo pretende, partiendo de las consideraciones personales del autor santiagués y pasando por un pequeño análisis de sus publicaciones, presentar la dinámica que se desarrolla entre hombres y mujeres en su obra narrativa y las distintas visiones que ambos sexos tienen respectivamente el uno del otro.The behaviour between men and women is a problem that affects the society, which has resulted in a controversial issue, a theme dealt with by mass media and many contemporary writers. An author such as Suso de Toro (Santiago de Compostela, 1956) who, with his camera view, has occupied his time in observing the modern world’s diseases, he couldn’t stay out; for this reason, the aim of this study is, on the basis of the personal considerations of the author born in Santiago and making a brief analysis of his publications, to present the dynamic which is developed between men and women in his narrative work and the different views which men and women have of each other.O comportamento entre homes e mulleres é unha problemática que afecta tanto á sociedade, que derivou nun tema moi controvertido, tratado non só polos medios de comunicación de masas, senón por moitos escritores e escritoras contemporáneos. Un autor como Suso de Toro (Santiago de Compostela, 1956) que, coa súa mirada de cámara, se ocupou de observar as enfermidades que corrompen o mundo moderno, non podía quedar á marxe; por esta razón este traballo pretende, partindo das consideracións persoais do autor santiagués e pasando por unha pequena análise das súas publicacións, presentar a dinámica que se desenvolve entre homes e mulleres na súa obra narrativa e as distintas visións que ambos os sexos teñen respectivamente un do outro
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