50 research outputs found
Tradução comentada de Trilce, de César Vallejo
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2016.A presente tese se insere na área de tradução de poesia e tem como objetivo principal apresentar a tradução comentada de Trilce de César Vallejo. No primeiro capítulo, é esboçada uma contextualização do autor e de sua obra, examinando sua fortuna crítica. No segundo capítulo, é examinado o percurso das traduções da obra de Vallejo no Brasil. No terceiro capítulo, discuto as ideias de Antoine Berman e Paulo Henriques Britto sobre tradução poética e sua relevância para a minha tradução da poesia de Vallejo. Finalmente, no quarto capítulo, são apresentadas e comentadas minhas traduções dos poemas de Trilce.Abstract : This dissertation belongs to the poetry translation area and aims to present the commented translation of Trilce, by César Vallejo. In the first chapter, I contextualize the author and his work, examining his critical reception. In the second chapter I examine the history of Vallejo´s translations in Brazil. In the third chapter, I discuss Antoine Berman and Paul Henriques Britto s ideas about poetry translation and its relevance for my translation of Vallejo´s poetry. Finally, in the fourth chapter I present and comment my translation of Trilce´s poems
Livsførelseslisten: Omfattende identitetsforandring efter bande/rocker-involvering
No full textThe article is about a social technology called the Life Conduct List (LCL). The primary focus is to describe the LCL approach, which is being used in the social work supporting the exit process of former (biker) gang mem- bers. The article is written by the two creators of LCL, these being a professor, Line, and a former biker gang member, Martin, who is cur- rently working with the exit process of others.
In order to examine each of our roles in the process of creating the LCL, we refer to our- selves in the third person as “Line and Martin”, we also refer to ourselves in the first person plural as “we” and in the first person singular as “I”, when we illustrate examples of content from the prototype of the original LCL.
The theoretical and methodological origin of the LCL is described through examples. We illustrate how the LCL can be used to understand, maintain an overview, prioritize, coordinate, remember and document the continuity and changes in how the exit candidates conduct their daily life.
The article also includes a sample of a specific LCL, which consists of two separate lis ings. At the top is the “list of positives”, which is a list of all the good things the exit candidate, who is also the co-author and co-creator of the life conduct list, is already working actively with as a part of his way of conducting his life during the exit process. The second part is being referred to as “the list of potentials”, and consists of all the problems, dilemmas, stagnations, which caused a lot of stress the first year of Martin’s exit process, combined with concrete possibilities of action.
Finally, we discuss how the LCL constitutes an alternative to the established exit program and how Martin has recontextualized the LCL approach in his work with other exit candidates.Artiklen handler om arbejdsredskabet livsførelseslisten (LFL). Artiklens hovedfokus er at sætte ord på en såkaldt livsførelseslistetilgang, som bruges til arbejdet med at understøtte tidligere bandemedlemmers og rockeres exit- processer. Artiklen er skrevet af LFL’s udviklere, hhv. en forsker Line og en tidligere rocker Martin, der nu selv arbejder med andres exitprocesser.
For bedst muligt at kunne undersøge vores bidrag til, og perspektiver på, processen med at skabe LFL, omtaler vi os i denne artikel både i tredje person, som hhv. Line og Martin, og i førsteperson som “vi”. Vi benytter også hvert vores “jeg”, der taler til “du” eller “dig”, når vi i boksene om hhv. ‘positivlisten’ og ‘udviklingslisten’ illustrerer eksempler på indhold fra LFL’s oprindelige prototype.
Artiklen formidler LFL’s teoretiske og metodologiske ophav, hvordan LFL opstod og hvordan vi har praktiseret livsførelseslistetilgangen i vores fælles praksis. Vi giver dermed eksempler på, hvordan livsførelseslistetilgangen kan anvendes til at komme til forståelse med, skabe oversigt, prioritere, koordinere, huske og dokumentere kontinuitet, samt æn- dringer, i exitkandidaters daglige livsførelse.
Artiklen indeholder også et “sample”.
LFL’s ‘sample’ består af to adskilte oplist- ninger. Øverst er ‘positivlisten’, som er en oplistning af alle de gode ting som exitkandi- daten, der også er medforfatter og medudvikler af listen, arbejdede aktivt med som en del af hans livsførelse under exitforløbet. Den anden del, som omtales ‘udviklingslisten’, udgør en oplistning af eksempler på problemstillinger, dilemmaer og fastlåsheder, der stressede Mar- tin i det første år af hans exitproces, herunder tilhørende handlemuligheder og potentialer for udvikling.
Artiklen diskuterer også, hvordan LFL udgør et alternativ til det etablerede exitprogram, samt hvordan Martin rekontekstualiserer livsførelseslistetilgangen i arbejdet med andre exitkandidater
Validation of a 5-DoF intrumented speed skate: Towards a power meter for speed skating
No full textSpeed skates are the most important part of equipment of a speed skater, where weight, rocker and bend are just a few characteristics that are to a high degree individualized. This poses a challenge for any type of research in speed skating where forces have to be measured in a reliable manner. For this purpose, a 5 degrees of freedom (DoF) instrumented speed skate (VU-Skate) has been designed and validated, weighing only 130 gram extra. Skaters use their own blades and shoes, something skaters are very keen on. A calibration tool has been developed to calibrate the 5 DoF. The quality of the data has been validated in 2 ways: 1. With the use of force plates and 2. By comparing the signals to another (also newly developed) Ultra-light Forces sensor. The results are remarkably good. This is the first step in being able to measure power continuously during each stroke
A critical intersectional analysis of Danish "bandepakker"
No full textI de seneste årtier har opmærksomheden fra nyhedsmedier, politikere og danske borgere været rettet mod gadebander og deres voldelige konflikter. Involvering i bandekriminalitet udgør et socialt problem på grund af flere faktorer: det medfører en vedvarende kriminalitet, skaber utryghed og giver langsigtede og skadelige konsekvenser for de involverede individer. Dette projekt vil undersøge udviklingen af politiets rocker- og banderapporter fra 2007 til 2023. Projektet udspringer af spørgsmålet: ”Har bandepakkerne forstærket uligheder, marginalisering samt diskrimination, og hvordan kan dette analyseres med et intersektionelt perspektiv?”. Derfor vil projektet fokusere på den potentielle utilsigtede problematik, som regeringens bandepakker muligvis har skabt mod etniske minoritetsmænd. I problemfeltet vil denne problematik blive specificeret og uddybet. Herefter vil litteraturgennemgangen gennemgå relevante forskningsartikler, der alle omhandler emnet og har bidraget til en øget forståelse af denne potentielle utilsigtede problematik. Til at besvare problemformuleringen, benyttes den kvalitative metode, som omfatter en dokumentanalyse, af de føromtalte rocker- og banderapporter. Disse rapporter vil blive analyseret ud fra den anti- intra og inter- kategoriale tilgang. Derudover vil analysen tage udgangspunkt i den kritiske videnskabsteoretiske retning, poststrukturalistismen, i lyset af Kimberlé W. Crenshaws teori om begrebet intersektionalitet, for at forklare opfattelsen og forvaltningen af disse bandepakker. Ydermere er litteraturreviewet en fast bestanddel gennem projektets analyse. Afslutningsvis vil det blive diskuteret, om bandepakkerne på lang sigt påvirker reduktionen og bekæmpelsen af bandekriminalitet. Derfor er det afgørende at undersøge, hvordan implementeringen af disse pakker har påvirket konkrete statistikker og tendenser inden for bandekriminalitet. Herunder vil der blive drøftet, om de iværksatte foranstaltninger rent faktisk har haft en synlig indvirkning på at mindske antallet af personer tilknyttet bandemiljøet. Hvor vi ud fra anti-, intra- og interkategoriale analysetilgange kan konkludere at implementeringen af bandepakkerne potentielt medvirker til at forsage uligheder, marginalisering og diskrimination, gennem faktorer såsom identitetskategorier, geografisk placering og klasse
Memoria histórica del grupo rockero al Sur del Cielo.
No full textThis article discusses the emergence and evolution of the South Corporation Rocker
Cultural Al of Heaven, which is an important element in the Ecuadorian cultural
diversity. The objective pursued is the development of the historical memory of that
cultural organization as well as the obstacles and challenges it has faced in its
development. To display the theme we started with a series of questions that guided
the author in collecting data and more relevant to the reconstruction of the history of
the Corporation information. Selected for the historical study methodology is
qualitative, as this allows entering and interpreting the perceptions about the
development of culture in Ecuador rocker, and the impact on the lives of exponents
and followers of the genre. The type of study is descriptive, which is consistent with
the investigative tools applied: the interview and document analysis. The historical
memory presented on these pages collects and presents the major milestones that have
marked the development of rocker movement in the country, which is now
fundamental part of the diverse framework, culturally speaking, that is Ecuador. The
most important conclusion is arrived at work it is that the development of the
Ecuadorian rocker movement until its institutionalization in the Corporation Rocker
Cultural South of Heaven, has been plagued by obstacles that have circumvented
thanks to the perseverance and love Ecuadorian rockers to this culture.El presente artículo aborda el surgimiento y evolución de la Corporación Rockero
Cultural Al Sur del Cielo, la cual constituye un elemento importante dentro de la
diversidad cultural ecuatoriana. El objetivo que se persigue es la elaboración de la
memoria histórica de la mencionada organización cultural, así como los obstáculos y
retos que ha debido enfrentar la misma en su desarrollo. Para desplegar el tema se
partió de una serie de preguntas que orientaron a la autora en la recopilación de los
datos e informaciones más relevantes para la reconstrucción de la historia de la
Corporación. La metodología seleccionada para el estudio histórico es la cualitativa,
pues esta permite adentrarse e interpretar las percepciones acerca del desarrollo de la
cultura roquera en Ecuador, y el impacto en la vida de los exponentes y seguidores del
género. El tipo de estudio es descriptivo, lo que es coherente con las herramientas
investigativas aplicadas: la entrevista y el análisis de documentos. La memoria
histórica presentada en estas páginas recoge y presenta los principales hitos que han
marcado el desarrollo del movimiento roquero del país, el cual constituye hoy parte
fundamental del entramado diverso, culturalmente hablando, que es Ecuador. La
conclusión más importante a la que se arriba en el trabajo, es que el desarrollo del
movimiento roquero ecuatoriano, hasta su institucionalización en la Corporación
Rockero Cultural Al Sur del Cielo, ha estado plagado de obstáculos que han sorteado
gracias a la perseverancia y el amor de los roqueros ecuatorianos hacia esta cultura
Hover and fast flight of minimum-mass mission-capable flying robots
No full textHighly automated Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or "flying robots" are rapidly becoming an important asset to society. The last decade has seen the advent of an impressive number of new UAV types and applications. For many applications, the UAVs need to be safe, highly automated, and versatile. Safety is a prerequisite to allowing their use in society. While flight safety comprises many aspects, one important safety factor is the total system mass. The common thread through this research is therefore to minimize the system mass while maintaining mission capabilities to increase safety. Flight automation is required to reach many applications' full potential by addressing operational labor costs and scalability. But despite great advances in ground-based robotics, the weight and power constraints of flying robots still constitute important challenges. Last but not least, many applications also require versatile aircraft that combine the ability to hover and fly fast efficiently. Hover is required for precision take-off & landing in confined areas at a growing number of locations and for the close-up inspection of assets. Fast and efficient flight is needed to reach distant locations, perform large surveys, cope with high headwind conditions, or simply reach destinations quickly. Unfortunately, the requirements for hover and fast flight are conflicting, and this drives the search for solutions to ``combine hover with fast flight in mission-capable flying robots while cost-effectively minimizing their size and maximizing their safety.'' To investigate the minimal feasible mass of mission-capable robots, in this thesis, a novel 20 g tailed flapping-wing robot called DelFly Explorer is presented that can autonomously explore unknown unprepared rooms. It was equipped with a 4 g micro stereo-vision system which necessitated algorithms that were optimized for tiny microcontrollers with low memory. Combined with a navigation strategy that keeps the area in front of the robot free of obstacles, a 0.9 g autopilot, and DelFly's novel stable slow hovering flight regime, this led to the lightest flying indoor exploration robot that could navigate in unknown environments. But to combine passive dynamic longitudinal stability at slow hover and fast flight in tailed ornithopters, a shift in the center of gravity location was shown to be needed. Moreover, the aerodynamically stabilizing tail also causes sensitivity to turbulence. Therefore, by using four pairs of flapping wings, a new tail-less flapping-wing concept called Quad-thopter was created which can hover precisely and transition to fast forward flight. The cranked-rocker-based mechanism contains no expensive parts and by re-using the main propulsion motors for attitude control, powerful control moments can be created which are very important in disturbance rejection. This design represents one of the first tailless flapping wing designs that was sufficiently light and agile for performing real missions while featuring a mechanism simple enough to permit large-scale production. Versatility of flight is also an asset for outdoor flight. Theory predicts that the most efficient hover is achieved by using a single large rotor while the most efficient forward flight is performed by using high aspect ratio fixed wings to generate lift. The combination of both has led to a novel helicopter-with-wings concept called DelftaCopter. The control of this platform yields unique challenges such as the inertia of the large fixed-wing interferes with the dynamics of the helicopter rotor. A controller was derived, and the dynamics were identified in hover and forward flight. The real-world performance of this flying robot is presented by analyzing the results of its participation in the outback medical challenge, showing that large single-rotor-equipped fixed-wing aircraft combine powerful attitude control, efficient hover, and efficient forward flight. Since efficiency in forward flight is not sufficient to achieve a very long endurance in electrically powered flying robots, a novel platform was developed around a hydrogen pressure cylinder and a fuel cell. The concept focuses on versatility, minimal weight, good control, and redundancy. A 12-motor tail-sitter is presented that re-uses all its motors for attitude control, hover, and forward flight and uses the wing structure to carry the propulsion. A dual automotive CAN-bus control network and dual flight modes remove the most critical single points of failure. The platform is called the NederDrone and is shown to fly 3h38 in a test departing from a moving ship at sea in 5 Beaufort wind conditions. While reaching fast flight in large free blocks of air is mainly a challenge for the design of the airframe and its energy source, as soon as obstacles are introduced, new bottlenecks appear and the weight and power consumption of sensing and processing become driving design considerations. Increasing the flight speed of flying robots in obstacle-packed or GPS-denied environments highlights the need for very lightweight fast but intelligent systems, as the processing weight and power not only reduce the flight times but also reduce the maneuvering capabilities and the maximum speed. Therefore, in this work, an extreme example is studied in the context of autonomous drone racing. A computationally light Artificial Intelligence (AI) based monocular navigation system is presented for indoor flight through obstacles. It enabled the flying robot to fly at higher speeds than what was possible with state-of-the-art visual-inertial odometry solutions. Overall, aerospace platforms require extreme optimization as every gram kept in the air requires constant energy. The consequence is that different missions will require vastly different platforms, while traditionally a lot of flying robot applications are still performed by multicopters. This thesis contributes to the design of intelligent flying robots that can both hover and fly fast, by solving several fundamental problems in novel concepts optimized around the five key requirements of mass, agility, efficiency, range, and speed-near-obstacles. These concepts are expected to contribute to the improvement of the mission capabilities of minimal-size flying robots to address the needs of society.Control & Simulatio
Refinement of the critical 2p25.3 deletion region: the role of MYT1L in intellectual disability and obesity
No full textItem does not contain fulltextPURPOSE: Submicroscopic deletions of chromosome band 2p25.3 are associated with intellectual disability and/or central obesity. Although MYT1L is believed to be a critical gene responsible for intellectual disability, so far no unequivocal data have confirmed this hypothesis. METHODS: In this study we evaluated a cohort of 22 patients (15 sporadic patients and two families) with a 2p25.3 aberration to further refine the clinical phenotype and to delineate the role of MYT1L in intellectual disability and obesity. In addition, myt1l spatiotemporal expression in zebrafish embryos was analyzed by quantitative polymerase chain reaction and whole-mount in situ hybridization. RESULTS: Complete MYT1L deletion, intragenic deletion, or duplication was observed in all sporadic patients, in addition to two patients with a de novo point mutation in MYT1L. The familial cases comprise a 6-Mb deletion in a father and his three children and a 5' MYT1L overlapping duplication in a father and his two children. Expression analysis in zebrafish embryos shows specific myt1l expression in the developing brain. CONCLUSION: Our data strongly strengthen the hypothesis that MYT1L is the causal gene for the observed syndromal intellectual disability. Moreover, because 17 patients present with obesity/overweight, haploinsufficiency of MYT1L might predispose to weight problems with childhood onset.Genet Med 17 6, 460-466
The postmodern sacred: popular culture spirituality in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and fantastic horror
No full textIn my thesis I argue that the return of the religious in contemporary culture has been in two forms the rise of so-called fundamentalisms in the established faiths-Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, even Buddhist-and the rise of a New Age style spirituality that draws from aspects of those faiths even as it produces something distinctively different. I argue that this shift both produces post-modern media culture, and is itself always-already mediated through the realm of the fictional. Secular and profane are always entangled within one another, a constant and pervasive media presence that modulates the way that contemporary subjects experience themselves and their relationship to the spiritual. I use popular culture as an entry point, an entry point that can presume neither belief nor unbelief in its audiences, showing that it is 'unreal' texts such as Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Matrix and so on that we find religious symbols and ideas refracted through a postmodernist sensibility, with little regard for the demands of 'real world' epistemology.
I argue that it is in this interplay between traditional religions and New Age-ised spirituality in popular culture that the sacred truly finds itself in postmodernity
BATCH-GE : batch analysis of next-generation sequencing data for genome editing assessment
No full textTargeted mutagenesis by the CRISPR/Cas9 system is currently revolutionizing genetics. The ease of this technique has enabled genome engineering in-vitro and in a range of model organisms and has pushed experimental dimensions to unprecedented proportions. Due to its tremendous progress in terms of speed, read length, throughput and cost, Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) has been increasingly used for the analysis of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing experiments. However, the current tools for genome editing assessment lack flexibility and fall short in the analysis of large amounts of NGS data. Therefore, we designed BATCH-GE, an easy-to-use bioinformatics tool for batch analysis of NGS-generated genome editing data, available from https://github.com/WouterSteyaert/BATCH-GE.git. BATCH-GE detects and reports indel mutations and other precise genome editing events and calculates the corresponding mutagenesis efficiencies for a large number of samples in parallel. Furthermore, this new tool provides flexibility by allowing the user to adapt a number of input variables. The performance of BATCH-GE was evaluated in two genome editing experiments, aiming to generate knock-out and knock-in zebrafish mutants. This tool will not only contribute to the evaluation of CRISPR/Cas9-based experiments, but will be of use in any genome editing experiment and has the ability to analyze data from every organism with a sequenced genome
BATCH-GE : batch analysis of next-generation sequencing data for genome editing assessment (vol 6, 30330, 2016)
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