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Daughter of fortune: Isabel Allende's popularity from a readership perspective
No full textThe primary aim of this thesis is to explore and critically interrogate Isabel Allende’s popularity cross-culturally in Britain and Spain. It analyses readers’ responses to Allende’s works as well as the discourses surrounding her public representation, an approach that is ‘readerly’ but must also take account of production and text. This approach is intended to further the understanding of Allende’s work which so far has always been analysed from a textual perspective. However, the relationship between Allende’s popularity, her texts, public representation and readers has not been yet analysed in detail.This thesis is innovative in other ways too. Methodologically, it approaches readers through the under studied cultural form of the reading group. It also incorporates a comparative dimension by looking at the reception of Allende in two different cultural contexts: the British and Spanish respectively. Finding out about Allende’s popularity has involved asking readers about their reading experiences as well as analysing the production of discourses around her public representation. Paul Ricoeur’s (1984, 1988) perspective on authorial intentions and readers’ responses to texts helps in understanding the intricacies surrounding what is involved in reading any text. It draws attention to Allende’s and her publishers’ authorial strategies, her ‘strategies of persuasion’ and the specificity of the lives and contexts of British and Spanish reading publics. Equally, this ‘readerly’ approach draws on feminist audience research and primarily on the work of Ien Ang and Janice Radway. Their work with viewers and readers respectively is particularly useful in establishing and developing methodological parameters for the study of reading groups. As a whole, this thesis contributes to the understanding of Allende’s cross-cultural popularity by situating readers at the centre
Jornalismo, história e memória: análise da cobertura jornalística do incidente na Pacheco Fernandes em Brasília no Governo JK
Get PDFDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Jornalismo, Florianópolis, 2010Esta dissertação faz uma análise empírica de notícias publicadas em jornais, de fevereiro de 1959, sobre o incidente no acampamento da construtora Pacheco Fernandes Dantas. Busca-se constatar se este episódio foi apurado jornalisticamente pelos veículos de comunicação impressos da época, comparando os conteúdos publicados. Propõe-se a discussão deste caso na condição de paradigma ou referência para outras ocorrências similares em que o jornalismo deixa de cumprir seu papel social, de investigador e questionador do Poder Público. Assim, discute-se neste trabalho sobre a importância do jornalismo para elucidar ocorrências como esta que foram esquecidas pela historiografia oficial. E, principalmente, sobre a responsabilidade social do jornalista, a partir do rigor da apuração e da verificação, de ser um mediador da realidade e não um mero reprodutor de versões. Discute-se aqui o jornalismo enquanto atividade fundamental para a construção da História e da memória social. Sem o registro imediato do jornalista o trabalho do historiador torna-se mais difícil. O registro do cotidiano realizado pelo jornalista está ligado à construção histórica e à memória social que permanece.This dissertation makes an empirical analysis of news published in newspapers of February 1959, about the incident at the construction camp of Pacheco Fernandes Dantas Company. It aims at searching if this episode was journalistically investigated by the media of that time, through the comparison of the published content. This work proposes the discussion of the case as a paradigm or reference for other similar occurrences in which Journalism fails to fulfill its social role as a government investigator and questioner. Thus, this paper discusses the importance of journalism to elucidate events like this which have been forgotten by the official historiography, and mainly, on the social responsibility of the journalist, through its investigation and verification rigor as a mediator of reality and not a mere version copyist. It discusses the journalism as a fundamental activity for the construction of social memory and history. With no immediate reports of journalist work of the historian becomes more difficult. The daily record made by the journalist is linked to building social and historical memory that remains
De atributo jacobeo a reliquia isabelina: el bordón de peregrina de la santa reina Isabel
Get PDFDurante la apertura de la tumba de la Beata Isabel, infanta de Aragón y reina de Portugal —esposa del rey D. Dinis—, en marzo de 1612, para dar continuidad a su proceso de canonización, fueron encontrados, depositados sobre el ataúd, algunos objetos personales: el bordón y la escarcela ofrecidos por el arzobispo de Santiago de Compostela durante su peregrinación en 1325. Adquiriendo un valor espiritual inmediato, como una auténtica reliquia, el bordón de peregrina fue dispuesto a la veneración de los fieles dentro de un relicario de plata, ejecutado entre 1612 y 1614, y luego transportado en una pomposa procesión durante las fiestas celebradas en Coimbra con motivo de su canonización, alcanzada en 1625, mientras que la escarcela y un fragmento del bordón fueron enviados a la Corte de D. Felipe III de Portugal – IV de España. Privilegiamos, como líneas principales de investigación en el campo de la Historia del Arte, la presentación de los datos obtenidos tras un riguroso análisis material y de una consulta exhaustiva de las fuentes documentales disponibles que se refieren a la única reliquia del llamado Tesoro de la Reina Isabel dispuesta para la veneración pública, dentro de un cuadro cronológico histórico comprendido entre 1325 y 1625
Structure-function relationship in type II cytochrome c 3 from Desulfovibrio africanus: a novel function in a familiar heme core
No full textNMR and visible spectroscopy were used to characterize the type II tetraheme cytochrome c 3 isolated from the periplasmic space of Desulfovibrio africanus, a sulfate-reducing bacterium. Although structurally similar to other cytochromes c 3, this protein displays distinct functional properties. Proton NMR signals from the four hemes were assigned to the structure in the ferri- and ferrocytochromes using two-dimensional NMR experiments. The thermodynamic parameters of the hemes and of an acid-base center in the type II cytochrome c 3 were determined using NMR and visible spectroscopies. The thermodynamic features indicate that electrostatic effects dominate all of the interactions between the centers and no positive cooperativity between hemes is observed. The redox-Bohr effect in this protein is associated with the acid-base equilibrium of a propionate of heme II instead of propionate 13 of heme I as is the case for all of the type I cytochromes c 3. These novel functional properties are analyzed together with the redox-linked structural differences reported in the literature and reveal a mechanistic basis for type II cytochromes c 3 having a physiological function that is different from that of type I cytochromes c 3
British Women Travellers And The Harems: Liberties, Enslavement and Domesticity
No full textThis thesis examines the complex perspective of a woman traveller. Wortley Montagu, Martineau, Burton and their contemporaries, represented the harem through various lenses. The Oriental harem has fascinated Western civilization since time immemorial. This sacred place, reserved for the women and children of the Muslim household, had long been a terra incognita to British outsiders, until the publication of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s (1689-1762) Turkish Embassy Letters (1763), which gave impetus to a whole tradition of travel writings, particularly harem accounts, penned by British women. The aristocratic Wortley Montagu recasts Turkish women from their previous Western image as over-sexed and soulless beings to idealized domestic goddesses, living in an ideal world, the harem. Harriet Martineau(1802-1876) , travelled to the Ottoman Empire more than a century after Wortley Montagu’s residency in Oriental lands. Martineau was a rare talent. She was an accomplished journalist and a pioneering figure in Western sociology. She spent her life validating a place for herself and her sex in a patriarchal and male-dominated society; she earned her own keeping, and lived independently. Martineau related her eastern experience in Eastern Life: Past and Present (1848), in which the Oriental harem figures very little. Martineau pitied the women she encountered in Egypt, and depicted them as slaves of a corrupt system, the harem and the practice of polygamy. My thesis ends with the travel writings of Lady Isabel Burton (1831-1896) whose view of the Oriental women she met in Syria is the most tempered. Her Inner Life of Syria, Palestine and the Holy Lands: from my Private Journal (1875) displays a tolerance of other cultures and a move toward moral and cultural relativisms.
Each of the women considered in this thesis formed her own harem, projecting on to this distant Oriental structure her fears, hopes and desires. Wortley Montagu’s harem was a utopia for women only. The Victorian Martineau opined that the Oriental harem was a hell on earth. Lady Isabel Burton constructed a happy medium between the two. Although at times ambivalent towards the Syrian women she encountered, she partook in their customs and manners, particularly public bathing, smoking and other Eastern indulgences. Her attitude illustrates that the British home and the Oriental harem are not so dissimilar, bridging the gap between us and them
Factors associated with the humoral response after three doses of COVID-19 vaccination in kidney transplant recipients
Get PDF[Introduction] Kidney transplant recipients showed a weak humoral response to the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine despite receiving three cumulative doses of the vaccine. New approaches are still needed to raise protective immunity conferred by the vaccine administration within this group of high-risk patients.[Methods] To analyze the humoral response and identify any predictive factors within these patients, we designed a prospective monocentric longitudinal study of Kidney transplant recipients (KTR) who received three doses of mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine. Specific antibody levels were measured by chemiluminescence. Parameters related to clinical status such as kidney function, immunosuppressive therapy, inflammatory status and thymic function were analyzed as potential predictors of the humoral response.[Results] Seventy-four KTR and sixteen healthy controls were included. One month after the administration of the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, 64.8% of KTR showed a positive humoral response. As predictive factors of seroconversion and specific antibody titer, we found that immunosuppressive therapy, worse kidney function, higher inflammatory status and age were related to a lower response in KTR while immune cell counts, thymosin-a1 plasma concentration and thymic output were related to a higher humoral response. Furthermore, baseline thymosin-a1 concentration was independently associated with the seroconversion after three vaccine doses.[Discussion] In addition to the immunosuppression therapy, condition of kidney function and age before vaccination, specific immune factors could also be relevant in light of optimization of the COVID-19 vaccination protocol in KTR. Therefore, thymosin-a1, an immunomodulatory hormone, deserves further research as a potential adjuvant for the next vaccine boosters.This study was supported by a grant from the Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria (FIS/PI21/00357), which is co-founded by Fondos Europeos para el Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) “Una manera de hacer Europa”. VG-R, IO-M and AB-R were supported by Instituto de Salud Carlos III (CD19/00143, FI19/00298 and CM19/00051, respectively). MP-B was supported by the Consejería de Transformación Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades [DOC_01646 to MP-B] and YP was supported by the Consejería de Salud y Familias of Junta de Andalucía through the “Nicolás Monardes” [RC-0006-2021].Peer reviewe
Rescaldo - Perceção de risco e experiência prévia com incêndios florestais na sua relação com a resistência familiar e sentido de comunidade
No full textDissertação de Mestrado em Psicologia Clínica Sistémica e da Saúde apresentada à Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da EducaçãoIn recent years, Portugal has faced devastating rural fires, prompting a pressing need to understand their social impacts. This study examines the relationship between risk perception, previous experience with rural fires, family hardiness, and sense of community and its objective is to understand how perception and experience with rural fires impact families and communities. The sample consisted of 332 participants ages 19 to 75 years (M = 36.33, SD = 13.08). The findings reveal that direct, catastrophic experiences with rural fires significantly increased risk perception. While overall family hardiness and community sense did not strongly correlate with risk perception, specific dimension did. Families with greater sense of control perceived less risk perception, while those who view challenges as growth opportunities showed heightened perception to potential risks. Additionally, the emotional connection in a community proved to be significant for awareness of risks related to rural fires, as it increased it. Regarding previous experience, the study did not find it to significantly influence overall family hardiness, but it positively affected specific aspects of community sense, such as emotional connection and group membership. Family hardiness and community sense also didn’t show buffering effects on the relationship between previous experience and community sense, nor did they moderate it. These insights highlight the importance of community factors in shaping responses to rural fires and the need to foster family control and community bonds to enhance resilience. The study provides important insights for creating interventions to enhance community and family resilience in the face of increasing rural fire threats.Nos últimos anos, Portugal tem enfrentado incêndios rurais devastadores, criando uma crescente necessidade de compreender os seus impactos sociais e familiares. Este estudo examina a relação entre perceção de risco, experiência prévia com incêndios rurais, resistência familiar e sentido de comunidade, tendo como objetivo geral entender como a perceção e a experiência com incêndios rurais impactam as famílias e comunidades. A amostra consistiu em 332 participantes com idades entre 19 e 75 anos (M = 36.33, DP = 13.08). Os resultados revelaram que experiências diretas e catastróficas com incêndios rurais amplificam significativamente a perceção de risco. Algumas dimensões específicas da resistência familiar e sentido de comunidade apresentam relações significativas com a perceção de risco. A perceção de risco é menor em famílias que sentem mais controlo sobre a sua situação e mais alta nas que vêm os desafios como oportunidades de crescimento. As ligações emocionais mostraram-se importantes para a perceção de riscos associados aos incêndios rurais. Em relação à experiência prévia, o estudo encontrou correlações positivas entre dimensões específicas do sentido de comunidade, como a ligação emocional e a pertença ao grupo. Por sua vez, nem a resistência familiar nem o sentido de comunidade mostraram efeitos de buffering na relação entre experiência prévia e perceção de risco, nem moderaram essa relação. Os resultados do estudo contribuem para o desenvolvimento de intervenções destinadas a melhorar a resiliência familiar e comunitária, focadas no sentido de controlo das famílias e dos laços comunitários de forma a aumentar a resiliência face à crescente ameaça dos incêndios florestais
Erratum: Medication Adherence Reminder System for Virtual Home Assistants: Mixed Methods Evaluation Study (Jmir Form Res (2021)5:7 (E27327) Doi: 10.2196/27327)
No full textIn “Medication Adherence Reminder System for Virtual Home Assistants: Mixed Methods Evaluation Study” (JMIR Form Res 2021;5(7):e27327), three errors were noted. Due to a system error, the name of one author, Cynthia F Corbett, was replaced with the name of another author on the paper, Elizabeth M Combs. In the originally published paper, the order of authors was listed as follows: Elizabeth M Combs, Elizabeth M Combs, Peyton S Chandarana, Isabel Stringfellow, Karen Worthy, Thien Nguyen, Pamela J Wright, Jason M O\u27Kane This has been corrected to: Cynthia F Corbett, Elizabeth M Combs, Peyton S Chandarana, Isabel Stringfellow, Karen Worthy, Thien Nguyen, Pamela J Wright, Jason M O\u27Kane In the originally published paper, the ORCID of author Cynthia F Corbett was incorrectly published as follows: 0000-0002-2254-6958 This has been corrected to: 0000-0003-2706-2116 In the originally published paper, the email of the Corresponding Author was incorrectly published as follows: [email protected] This has been corrected to: [email protected] The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website on January 27, 2022, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories
Edad y violencia en el cine. Diálogos entre estudios etarios, de género y fílmicos
Get PDFFrancisco A. Zurian, M. Isabel Menéndez Menéndez y Francisco José García-Ramos (eds.), Edad y violencia en el cine. Diálogos entre estudios etarios, de género y fílmicos. Islas Baleares: Edicions UIB, 2019, 203 págs
Abordagem contingencial na macroergonomia : proposição de um modelo de intervenção em projetos organizacionais
Get PDFDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro TecnologicoO tema da dissertação considera os elementos comportamentais dos indivíduos em uma análise macroergonômica em organizações, em especial e de modo indireto quanto aos aspectos psicossociais e psicoculturais dos trabalhadores. A variável de análise é a auto-estima, a qual reflete ser capaz de revelar as tendências de conduta dos indivíduos e influem diretamente no comportamento organizacional. A construção do modelo de intervenção em projetos organizacionais deriva desta variável em confronto com os diversos estilos gerenciais, estes que advém normalmente como reflexo da estrutura organizacional. A modelação proposta é denominada de Modelo Contingencial Homem-Organização e torna-se uma ferramenta às análises e possíveis intervenções organizacionais, visando buscar a eficiência e eficácia das empresas e seus trabalhadores
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