635 research outputs found
Becoming the Prince's Counsellor: Alexandre Kojève's Vichy-Period Manuscripts
No full textDuring the short lifespan of the Vichy regime, Alexandre Kojève produced a set of philosophical policy documents at the behest of Henri Moysset. In 2020, The Notion of Work and Notice on the Political Neoformations of the Twentieth Century were unearthed from the French National Archives, shedding new light on his intriguing correspondence with Moysset. The purpose of this article is to discuss the content of these manuscripts, which, at least in the mind of their author, combine political counsel with doing philosophy. Kojève’s sudden transition from academic philosophy to civil service has long been a contentious subject and a puzzle to his biographers. The Notion of Work and Neoformations may help us establish Kojève as a thinker who remained true to his philosophical system and show the extent to which the political advice he produced was influenced by his philosophy
Author(s) First Name Middle Name Surname Role Frederico B. A. Alexandre Third Author Affiliation
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What\u27s in a name? Who are you calling a B?
No full textThe political is personal. The personal is political. And, it all starts and ends with language. In this talk, Michèle asks the audience to think carefully about how coded and gendered words negatively impact not only women, but society at large. With one word, we have the power to affirm or destroy, to liberate or create sub-hierarchies that continue to dehumanize others. Michèle Alexandre came to the United States at the age of 15, not speaking a word of English. Less than two years later, she earned a scholarship to Colgate University. In college, she earned the distinction of valedictorian of her class, making her the first black female valedictorian in the history of Colgate University. She has earned a Watson Fellowship, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a Fulbright fellowship. At The University of Mississippi School of Law, she is now the Professor of Law and Leonard B. Melvin, Jr., Lecturer. Michèle is the author of Sexploitation: Sexual Profiling and the Illusion of Gender (Routledge, 2014) and of many law review articles and op-eds. When she is not working with her students, speaking at different conferences, or writing, Michèle enjoys time with family and friends, running, and binging on Orange Is the New Black
Dataset from<b> '</b><b>Observational evidence of the association between physical and psychological determinants of aging with cognition in older adults'</b>
No full textDataset from the study: Observational evidence of the association between physical and psychological determinants of aging with cognition in older adultsValéria Feijó Martins; Leonardo Alexandre Peyré-Tartaruga; Aline Nogueira Haas; Ana Carolina Kanitz; Flávia Gomes Martinez; Andréa Kruger Gonçalves* Corresponding author</p
Observation of H -> b(b)over-bar decays and V H production with the ATLAS detector
No full textA search for the decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson into a b (b) over bar pair when produced in association with a W or Z boson is performed with the ATLAS detector. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 79.8 fb(-1) were collected in proton-proton collisions during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, an excess of events over the expected background from other Standard Model processes is found with an observed (expected) significance of 4.9 (4.3) standard deviations. A combination with the results from other searches in Run 1 and in Run 2 for the Higgs boson in the bb decay mode is performed, which yields an observed (expected) significance of 5.4 (5.5) standard deviations, thus providing direct observation of the Higgs boson decay into b-quarks. The ratio of the measured event yield for a Higgs boson decaying into b (b) over bar to the Standard Model expectation is 1.01 +/- 0.12(stat.) (-0.15) (+0.16)(syst.). Additionally, a combination of Run 2 results searching for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson yields an observed (expected) significance of 5.3 (4.8) standard deviations. (C) 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V
Roddenberryus pelegrina Sánchez-Ruiz & Bonaldo 2023, gen. et comb. nov.
No full textRoddenberryus pelegrina (Bryant, 1940) gen. et comb. nov. Figs 14A–C, 15 Caponina pelegrina Bryant, 1940: 272. Diagnosis Roddenberryus pelegrina resembles R. spock gen. et sp. nov., R. mccoy gen. et sp. nov. and R. sargi gen. nov. by having invaginations in the margins of the clypeus (Fig. 14A), but can be distinguished by having a dense tuft of black setae on the apical part of the tibia (Fig. 14A). Type material Holotype CUBA • ♀; Santiago de las Vegas; N. Banks leg.; MCZ 22577. (The holotype was examined and photographed in 2002 by the first author; further attempts to examine this specimen were unsuccessful.) Description Male Unknown. Female (holotype, Fig. 14A–C) Described by Bryant (1940: 272). New data and emendations are as follows: Carapace pale orange, with invaginations on clypeal margin (Fig. 14A). Chelicerae orange (Fig. 14C); palps, endites, labium, sternum and legs pale orange (Fig. 14A–B); coxae and trochanters lighter (Fig. 14B). Abdomen pale gray, without dorsal pattern (Fig. 14A). Anal tubercle and spinnerets lighter than abdomen. Total length 5.4. Carapace 2.4 long, 1.5 wide. Sternum 1.6 long, 1.2 wide. Leg measurements unavailable. External genital area with weakly sclerotized anterior and posterior plate, straight epigastric furrow (Fig. 14B). Internal genitalia not studied. Distribution Known only from the type locality in Cuba (Fig. 15).Published as part of Sánchez-Ruiz, Alexander & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2023, Strange new spiders: on Roddenberryus, a new and unusual caponiid genus (Araneae, Caponiidae), pp. 1-25 in European Journal of Taxonomy 891 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.891.2263, http://zenodo.org/record/832199
Survival or collapse? B. F. Skinner, J. M. Diamond and the fate of cultures / Sobrevivência ou colapso? B. F. Skinner, J. M. Diamond e o destino das culturas
No full textOne of the most interesting and polemic features of B. F. Skinner's work is his interpretation about cultural evolution. According to that author, the consequences of cultural practices have a retroactive effect over the cultures, increasing or decreasing their chances of survival. The book "Collapse" – written by the north-American biologist and geographer Jared Diamond – shows remarkable resemblances with Skinner's theory making clear that the consequences of cultural practices have a decisive influence over the fate of cultures. This paper aims to detail such resemblances, considering that Diamond's book serves as a complement to Skinner's theory, because it illustrates with concrete examples the general statements made by Skinner about cultural evolution and, by doing so, makes these statements clearer and more credible
Characterization of pellicles formed by Acinetobacter baumannii at the air-liquid interface
No full textThe clinical importance of Acinetobacter baumannii is partly due to its natural ability to survive in the hospital environment.
This persistence may be explained by its capacity to form biofilms and, interestingly, A. baumannii can form pellicles at the
air-liquid interface more readily than other less pathogenic Acinetobacter species. Pellicles from twenty-six strains were
morphologically classified into three groups: I) egg-shaped (27%); II) ball-shaped (50%); and III) irregular pellicles (23%). One
strain representative of each group was further analysed by Brewster’s Angle Microscopy to follow pellicle development,
demonstrating that their formation did not require anchoring to a solid surface. Total carbohydrate analysis of the matrix
showed three main components: Glucose, GlcNAc and Kdo. Dispersin B, an enzyme that hydrolyzes poly-Nacetylglucosamine
(PNAG) polysaccharide, inhibited A. baumannii pellicle formation, suggesting that this exopolysaccharide
contributes to pellicle formation. Also associated with the pellicle matrix were three subunits of pili assembled by chaperonusher
systems: the major CsuA/B, A1S_1510 (presented 45% of identity with the main pilin F17-A from enterotoxigenic
Escherichia coli pili) and A1S_2091. The presence of both PNAG polysaccharide and pili systems in matrix of pellicles might
contribute to the virulence of this emerging pathogen
Detecting a prey in a spider orb-web from in-plane vibration
No full textSpiders perform a task similar to solving an inverse problem when detecting the position of a prey, a mate, or a predator perturbing the orb-web. Recent work has advanced in the study of the orb-web as a sensor when it is subjected to small transverse vibrations, using a continuous membrane model for the orb-web. However, in-plane vibrations have not been investigated yet as data for the prey detection problem. In the present work, we develop the structure of the small in-plane vibratory response of an axially symmetric orb-web supported at the boundary. Additionally, we prove that knowledge of the in-plane dynamic response inside an annulus centered at the origin of the orb-web, where the spider is assumed to stay for a sufficiently large registration time, allows us to determine uniquely the in-plane distributed load simulating the prey's impact. The theoretical outcome is illustrated with a numerical implementation of the reconstruction method.This work was supported by Fapesp, the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (2017/07189-2, Visiting Researcher Program, and 2017/06452-1). The work ofthe second author was supported by National Research Project PRIN 2015TTJN95
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