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Miradas Al Sur: a criação mitológica do bairro sur na obra de Jorge Luis Borges
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis, 2014Este estudo investiga como Jorge Luis Borges constrói o Sur como espaço mítico, em seus três primeiros livros de poesia. Para tanto, analisou-se de que forma a representação de tal espaço torna-o simbólico e, posteriormente, mítico, tanto no conjunto da obra do autor, como também, a partir desse movimento individual de Borges, no imaginário coletivo da cidade. Estudou-se ainda como a memória própria e o imaginário criaram espaços afetivos, que permeiam a totalidade dos textos do autor.Abstract: This study investigates how Jorge Luis Borges builds Sur neighborhood as mythic space in his first three books of poetry. To this end, we analyzed how the representation of such a space make of it a symbolic and later a mythical space, both in the overall work of the author, but also that individual movement of Borges that achieve the collective imagination of the city. Still we have studied how the personal memory and the imagery is able to create emotional spaces, which constitute the totality of texts by the author
Brand Borges: A Computer-Assisted Analysis of the Works of Jorge Luis Borges (1923-1955)
No full textThere is a particular idea about the Argentine author, Jorge Luis Borges, that has proliferated over time and has continued to maintain popularity in both the scholarly literature and in popular culture until the present. The general sentiment of this idea—referred to as “Brand Borges” in this dissertation—presumes that Borges is disconnected from Argentina and from reality in general. He is deemed to be more concerned with that which is not real, and when he does engage with the real world, he is thought to be more focused on international affairs rather than the events and traditions of his own country.
This study uses a variety of digital tools, such as methods of computer-assisted text analysis and those developed in geographic information systems, to analyze the first thirteen major works of Borges and challenge the idea of Brand Borges. By interpreting the results of digital analyses of Borges’s oeuvre, and assessing the people, places, and other elements explicitly mentioned, it is argued that he in fact does appear to be connected to both reality and Argentina.
For that which is implicit in Borges’s work, this dissertation then uses traditional methods of literary interpretation to examine a selection of texts and reveal that even when a story is set in a foreign land with international characters, it is often described in such a way as to relate the events, setting, or characters back to Argentina and reality
Accuracy of 3-D planning and navigation in bone tumor resection
No full textSurgical precision in oncologic surgery is essential to achieve adequate margins in bone tumor resections. Three-dimensional preoperative planning and bone tumor resection by navigation have been introduced to orthopedic oncology in recent years. However, the accuracy of preoperative planning and navigation is unclear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of preoperative planning and the navigation system.A total of 28 patients were evaluated between May 2010 and February 2011. Tumor locations were the femur (n=17), pelvis (n=6), sacrum (n=2), tibia (n=2), and humerus (n=1). All resections were planned in a virtual scenario using computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging fusion. A total of 61 planes or osteotomies were performed to resect the tumors. Postoperatively, computed tomography scans were obtained for all surgical specimens, and the specimens were 3-dimensionally reconstructed from the scans. Differences were determined by finding the distances between the osteotomies virtually programmed and those performed. The global mean of the quantitative comparisons between the osteotomies programmed and those obtained through the resected specimen was 2.52±2.32 mm for all patients.Differences between osteotomies virtually programmed and those achieved by navigation intraoperatively were minimal.Fil: Ritacco, Lucas. Hospital Italiano; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Milano, Federico Edgardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Hospital Italiano; ArgentinaFil: Farfallini, Luis. Hospital Italiano; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Ayerza, Miguel A.. Hospital Italiano; ArgentinaFil: Muscolo, Domingo L.. Hospital Italiano; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Aponte Tinao, Luis A.. Hospital Italiano; Argentin
Public Support for the Financing of RD&D Activities in New Clean Energy Technologies
No full textSeveral market failures, as well as other technical, economic and regulatory barriers to the market penetration of clean energy technologies result in under-investment of private innovators in RD&D. Therefore, public support is needed in order to induce innovations. Policy tools creating market conditions that are attractive for the exploitation of clean technologies (market pull) must be combined with other tools directly supporting the development of these technologies through the provision of public funds (technology push). Thereby, financing policy instruments should be chosen so that their characteristics match with those of the specific innovation process being targeted at the same time that social welfare is maximized. We develop an analytical framework to define the form of public support and to provide recommendations on the optimal choice of both technology push and market pull instruments.clean energy technologies; innovation finance; public support; technology push; market pull
Escribirse en México: estudio sobre la escritura de refugiado y el caso de Luis Cardoza y Aragón
No full textThis is a study about refugee creation. It is concerned with those bonds an exiled author establishes with the nation where he seeks refuge. It is in debt to Homi Bhabha’s theory of nation as narration, one trying to educate its readers or one making them perform the nation along the narrative enunciation. Beyond conforming community, nation narratives legitimize exclusion, separating citizens from mere inhabitants. Refugees, such as Carlos Mérida, Olga Costa, Helen Fowler or Luis Cardoza, resisted the exclusion by intervening, challenging or recreating such discourses. This work analyzes refugee art and literature in an environment where nationalist positions were radically expressed within the state apparatuses, as was the case in Mexico following the Revolution, when policies regarding immigration were radically restrictive. The dissertation focusses in Luis Cardoza y Aragón’s essays —La nube y el reloj (1940) and Apolo y Coatlicue (1944)— and poetry —Pequeña sinfonía del Nuevo Mundo (1948)— as refugee creation. On the one hand, it elucidates the match between local and universal as the foundation for Cardoza’s vanguardist attempt to decenter Western expression and to invest Latin America, after arielismo modernista, as the heir of European culture. On the other, it unveils how Cardoza corrodes symbolic borders in order to insert refugees like himself in Mexican time and space as citizens of merit, and to open the nation as an internation about to face imperialism. Cardoza exceeds national codification, displaces discourse through the ineffable of poetry, returns us to the materiality of signification and, in doing so, gives us the possibility to reformulate the nation’s terms
Effect of Erroneous Surgical Procedures on Recurrence and Survival Rates for Patients with Osteosarcoma
No full textTo determine whether inappropriate surgical procedures based on an initial misdiagnosis affected recurrence and survival rates, we retrospectively reviewed the surgical treatment and results of 117 patients with high-grade osteosarcomas treated from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 2000. Nine patients had intralesional curettage performed at other institutions based on an erroneous diagnosis of a benign lesion. Two of the nine patients had amputations and seven patients had limb-salvage procedures. Of the 108 patients who were not misdiagnosed, six patients had amputations and 102 patients had limb-salvage procedures. All patients received neoadjuvant therapy. Fifteen of the 117 patients had local recurrences. Patients who had erroneous surgical procedures based on the initial misdiagnosis of osteosarcoma had an increased risk of local recurrence and decreased 10-year survival rate. Response to adjuvant therapy and the amount of previous violation of natural tumor barriers should be evaluated carefully before deciding surgical treatment.Fil: Ayerza, Miguel A. Hospital Italiano; ArgentinaFil: Muscolo, Domingo L.. Hospital Italiano; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Aponte Tinao, Luis A. Hospital Italiano; ArgentinaFil: Farfalli, German. Hospital Italiano; Argentin
CORR Insights®: Does the Addition of a Vascularized Fibula Improve the Results of a Massive Bone Allograft Alone for Intercalary Femur Reconstruction of Malignant Bone Tumors in Children?
No full textCuring Cholera: Pathogens, Places and Poverty in South Asia
No full textIn this paper I will seek to provide a new understanding of endemicity of disease in India. Through a study of cholera research in the twentieth century I will argue that disease and its endemicity has to be understood in biological factors as well as within a wider social and economic context. I will discuss the medical efforts at locating the causality of cholera from the nineteenth century in Indian climate, water bodies and human anatomy to show that cholera is no more a biological phenomena than water is an ecological or environmental problem. Both are essentially political and economic questions
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