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A metaforização da Amazônia em textos de Euclides da Cunha
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Florianópolis, 2013Abstract: This thesis is the result of a research which had as objective analyzing Euclides da Cunha´s metaphorical discourse about Amazonia, and how that discourse is organized in the texts written by this author. The design of this general objective arose from the following research problems: what is Euclides da Cunha´s metaphorical discourse about Amazonia made of? What metaphors does he use to describe Amazonia in his texts? Why did he use so many metaphors to refer to the region? The study has searched for answer(s) to such questions, on the limits of the research nature, which has followed along three big guiding axes: Amazonia, Euclides da Cunha, and Metaphor. Through the analysis of Euclides´s texts, I try to show that he was a good metaphorist. I make the reading of the Amazonian metaphors in Euclides from a classical approaching (initiated by Aristotle), an interactionist approaching (whose precursor was I. A. Richards, and whose main exponent was Max Black), and conceptual approaching (created by George Lakoff and Max Johnson), and the live metaphor (proposed by Ricoeur). I explore, from each one of these theories, metaphors which Euclides da Cunha created for reflecting about his work and for describing geographical and landscaping aspects of Amazonia, as well as the people, social relationships, boundary conflicts, and other region snapshots. I describe Euclides da Cunha´s views on the Amazonia, having as starting point his Amazonian metaphors, and I explore the dichotomy on artistic writing versus scientific writing on the writer´s texts. The study has its support on one basic hypotheses: Euclides da Cunha, on his Amazonian texts, fights two crucial dilemmas: firstly the difficulty of dealing with a threefold boundary he had to pass by: boundaries of territory, of science, and of comprehensible things; secondly, the metalinguistic reflections about his texts, when he stumbles before science crossed lines with fiction, by feeling incompatibility between literary text and scientific text, but at the same time, he does not get rid of the trend of conciliating these two methodologies, inconceivable for him. In this work, I defend the thesis that the metaphor was the recourse found by Euclides da Cunha for dealing with two dilemmas. I develop considerations about this dichotomy in Euclides da Cunha´s writings, taking as basis the theoretical considerations of Ricoeur (1983), Lakoff and Johnson (2002) and Paiva (2005), principally. The methodological way of this thesis was made by the channel of bibliographic research, including on this purpose: the decisive points of travellers´ writing tradition about the Amazonia region, Carvajal´s reports on the nineteenth century; Euclides da Cunha´s texts, mainly those on Amazonia collectanea ? a lost paradise, published in 2003 by Editora Valer in Manaus/Am, besides the author´s active letters where he refers to the region; texts of theories about metaphors regarding different views and reflections on the dichotomy scientific language versus artistic language. The bibliographic research has supplied elements for the theoretical foundation and contributed for reinforcing the analyses and the final version of this thesis. Among the theoretical principles, indispensable for the study support, are the concepts on Amazonia, metaphor, metalanguage, and literature. The checking of different views and slopes on metaphor which I revisit has allowed me to recollect supplementary data, from diverse conceptions, which decisively contributed for enabling me a more diversified view, on different angles, about the main metaphors that Euclides da Cunha created on his interpretation of Amazonia. And, considering that the author´s texts are full of metaphors, I pointed out for this study only those that are relevant for the hypothesis highlighted. The research points out that Euclides wanted to build a language that synthesized the science and art truth. Writing about Amazonia, he has started this discourse, but it was incomplete, like the own earth incompleteness. Euclides has found the key for the metaphor enigma ? it only is able to say the unsayable, translate the untranslatable, embrace the unembraceable. Therefore, Euclides used it without parsimony. Metaphor is introduced there as a bridge over the ineffable abyss. And it still contributes to fill in many troublesome gaps both on scientific and artistic language. So I conclude that both in the case of sertões baianos and Amazonia, it was the metaphors that have redeemed Euclides, giving vigor to his writings and offering an access key to an unfinished world for in a certain way comprehend him
Data sequences
No full textNucleotide sequeces data file from: molecular and phylogenetic analysis of HIV-1 subtype C in Bahia state, northeastern Brazil.Authros: Rodrigo Cunha Oliveira, Juliana Sacramento Mota de Souza, Luiz Carlos Júnior Alcântara, Monick Lindenmeyer Guimarães, Carlos Brites and Joana Paixão Monteiro Cunha
Description of a new genus and species of Chrysopetalidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the NE Atlantic, with some further records of related species
No full textRavara, Ascensão, Aguado, M. Teresa, Rodrigues, Clara F., Génio, Luciana, Cunha, Marina R. (2019): Description of a new genus and species of Chrysopetalidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the NE Atlantic, with some further records of related species. European Journal of Taxonomy 539: 1-21, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.53
Caffeine, adenosine and acetycholine and neuronal function in the cortex
No full textMansvelder, H.D. [Promotor]Cunha, R. [Promotor
Rapturella atlas Cunha & Simone 2018, n. sp.
No full textRapturella atlas n. sp. (Figure 1) Type material. Holotype MZSP 91018 (Fig. 1 A–B). Paratypes: BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro state, Cape São Tomé, 21°58.32' S 40°02.05' W, 155 m, MZSP 107499, 1 shell (18.vi.2005); São Paulo state, São Sebastião, 24°44'69" S 44°44'965" W, 153 m, MZSP 107496 (Fig. 1 C–F), 1 shell, MZSP 107497, 1 shell, MNHN 25271, 2 shells, MNRJ 30855, 2 shells; 24°42.8' S 44°42.9' W, 162 m, MZSP 107498, 2 shells (20.xi.1997); 25°14.4' S 45°03.1' W, 147 m, MZSP 107500, 4 shells (21.xi.1997). Type locality. BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro, off Cape São Tomé, 22°00.708' S 40°03.380' W, 162 m (Project Frade Development, sta BC_A_E39_1, C.H. Caetano coll., 29.vi.2005). Etymology. In honors of Atlas, the nick name of Frank Fontaine, the character of the science-fiction video game series BioShock: an allusion to the hidden identity of the species. The noun in apposition. Diagnosis. Small shell with walls strongly thickened. Umbilicus deep and narrow. Spiral grooves on teleoconch separated by regularly spaced intervals, each interval about 10 times wider than the grooves; last whorl has about 11 spiral grooves, but no subsutural grooves. Palatal region has no thickened area. Description. Shell oval, profile rounded, maximum length (L) 3.1 mm; about 1.3 times longer than wide. Walls thickened. Color white; spire short, length about 1/4 of total length (Fig. 1A, B). Protoconch small, glossy, 1 whorl; width about 0.4 mm; separated from teleoconch by narrow orthocline furrow (Fig. 1F: arrows). Teleoconch up to 4 whorls, each whorl convex (Fig. 1C). Surface smooth, glossy, sculptured with narrow punctuated spiral grooves distributed on entire teleoconch; punctuations very small, oval (Fig. 1D); grooves regularly spaced, separated by gaps about 10 times wider than grooves; last whorl with about 11 spiral grooves, gradually becoming deeper and closer to each other towards umbilical area; 3 grooves on anterior half and 8 on posterior half; umbilicus rimate, partially covered by extension of columellar margin. Aperture about 2/3 of total length, antero-posteriorly elongated, length about 1.5 times width; posterior end pointed, anterior (siphonal) rounded. Inner lip concave; superior half convex, rounded, with thin callus, about 1.3 times length of inferior half; inferior half slightly concave, with shallow edge, and small thickened columellar fold in posterior region. Outer lip thick, with sharp edge. Measurements (length by width in mm). Holotype: 2.8 by 1.6 (Fig. 1 A–B). Paratypes: MZSP 107496 (Fig. 1 C–F), 1 shell, 3.1 by 2.2; MZSP 107497, 1 shell, 2.6 by 1.7; MZSP 107498, 1 shell, 2.7 by 1.8; MZSP 107500, 3 shells, (#1) 2.3 by 1.5, (#2) 1.7 by 1.3, (#3) 2.3 by 1.6; MZSP 138843, 1 shell, 2.7 by 1.8; MNHN 25271, 2 shells, (#1), 2.0 by 1.4, (#2) 2.5 by 1.7; MNRJ 30855, 2 shells, (#1) 1.8 by 1.3; (#2) 2.5 by 1.7; MZSP 90698, 1 shell, 3.3 by 2.2; MZSP 91018, 1 shell, 2.6 by 1.7. Distribution. Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo, Brazil. Habitat. Muddy sand bottom, 147–162 m depth. Material Examined. Types. Remarks. Rapturella atlas n. sp. fits in the genus Rapturella because it presents most of the diagnostic features of the genus including a minute shell size with thick walls, rounded spire whorls with a subsutural shelf, a teleoconch sculptured by spiral grooves composed of rounded punctae, and the characteristic aperture with a rounded trapezoidal shape, a columellar region thickened with a weak fold, a narrow anal canal, and a rounded siphonal canal region. Rapturella atlas n. sp. most resembles R. ryani, from the Florida Keys, USA. It differs by having a smaller size (length up to 2.5 mm, while R. ryani easily reaches 4 mm); thicker walls forming a more solid shell; 3 spiral grooves on the penultimate whorl (5 more closely spaced grooves on R. ryani), about 3 grooves in the periumbilical region (about 10 more closely spaced grooves on R. ryani), and a smaller protoconch (0.42 mm, against 0.47 mm of R. ryani). Despite it being a smaller species, the smaller protoconch of R. atlas is a relevant developmental parameter. Rapturella atlas n. sp. differs from R. globulina (Forbes, 1884), from the Eastern Atlantic (Salvador & Cunha, 2016), by its slightly rounded whorls forming a straighter profile (whorls of R. globulina are more rounded), the small subsutural shoulder on each whorl (absent on R. globulina), and by the more widely spaced spiral grooves on its shell surface. Additionally, R. atlas n. sp. differs from its congeners in lacking two closely spaced, punctate, subsutural grooves (Salvador & Cunha 2016: fig. 4C, F), and in lacking a faint tooth-like thickening on the palatal region. This discovery expands the geographic distribution of the genus Rapturella southwards to the southwest Atlantic region off the Brazilian coast. However, the distribution of the genus remains restricted, like that of the genera Callostracon Repetto & Bianco, 2012 and Mysouffa Marcus, 1974, to the Atlantic and Mediterranean. This conforms to the heterogenic distribution of acteonids, with most genera confined to specific regions such as the subarctic (e.g. Neactaeonina Thiele, 1912), the Pacific (e.g. Pseudactaeon Thiele, 1925 and Maxacteon Rudman, 1971) or the Western Atlantic (e.g. Ovulactaeon Dall, 1889). Only the genus Acteon has a more widespread range, but, with species of such diverse shell shapes (e.g. Rudman 1971; Marcus 1974; Valdés 2008), further taxonomic investigation may result in its segregation into more genera. The new species, as well as the genus Rapturella, are recognized only by a combination of few conchological characters. The lack of soft tissue samples inhibits any comparative morphological evaluations or molecular analyses. Thus, the putative relationships of the genus with other acteonids and the classification of the species, which we here assign to Rapturella, need to be tested once new quality samples become available.Published as part of Cunha, Carlo M. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2018, A new species of the genus Rapturella (Gastropoda: Acteonidae) from southeast Brazil, pp. 125-128 in Zootaxa 4521 (1) on pages 125-126, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/260972
Fundamental rights in the reasoning of Judge Cunha Rodrigues
No full textBased on the writings of Judge Cunha Rodrigues, the author finds that due to the current prevalence of the case law of the Court of Justice on fundamental rights, the primordial establishment of the principles of primacy and direct effect. He draws attention to the functionalist consequences of the case law of the Court of Justice regarding the relationship between the Union and the Member States and the birth of the concept of Union citizenship, contributing to overcome what had once only aspired to be the construction of a common market. Finally, he notes the Union deadlock after the creation of the single currency, divided between developing the political project and the intergovernmental retreat, supported by national electorates.</jats:p
Additions to the Tanaidomorpha (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from mud volcanoes and coral mounds of the Gulf of Cadiz and Horseshoe Continental Rise
No full textEsquete, Patricia, Cunha, Marina R. (2018): Additions to the Tanaidomorpha (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from mud volcanoes and coral mounds of the Gulf of Cadiz and Horseshoe Continental Rise. Zootaxa 4377 (4): 517-541, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4377.4.
C. F. Gauss et J. A. da Cunha.
No full textSUMMARY. — This note is a supplement to an article by the author on J. A. da Cunha published in Revue d'Histoire des Sciences, XXIV -1 ; it calls attention to a very favourable opinion expressed in 1811 by C. F. Gauss on the definition of exponential and logarithmic functions given by J. A. da Cunha in his Principios Mathematicos, 1790.RÉSUMÉ. — Cette note complète un article de l'auteur sur J. A. da Cunha publié dans la Revue d'Histoire des Sciences, XXVI-1 ; elle met en relief un jugement très favorable prononcé en 1811 par G. F. Gauss sur la définition des fonctions exponentielle et logarithmique proposée par J. A. da Cunha dans ses Principios Mathematicos, 1790.Youschkevitch A. P. C. F. Gauss et J. A. da Cunha.. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences, tome 31, n°4, 1978. pp. 327-332
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