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A saga de um clã Xavier
No full textThe book brings together historical memories of the Xavier family, of which the author is a member, and includes everything from the heroic episode between members of the Xavier family and Lampião's gang, to a Xavier family tree and tributes to the members of this family, as well as photographic records of known members. The author rescues and preserves important memories of the family, reconstructing facts that, if told orally, could gradually be erased. The story told by Maria do Socorro Cardoso Xavier is also a way of preserving the memory of Ipueira, reporting on the social life and historical setting of the place, using family narrative.O livro reúne registros de memórias históricas da família Xavier, da qual a autora é membro,
e traz desde o episódio heróico entre membros da família Xavier e o bando de Lampião, à
uma árvore genealógica dos Xavier e homenagens aos membros dessa famílias, além de
registros fotográficos dos membros conhecidos. A autora resgata e preserva memórias
importantes da família, reconstituindo fatos que, contados oralmente, poderiam se apagar aos
poucos. A história narrada por Maria do Socorro Cardoso Xavier também é uma forma de
preservar a memória de Ipueira, relatando sobre a vida social e cenário histórico do lugar,
utilizando da narrativa familiar
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Sir William Collins and Xavier Herbert
No full textSir William Collins, publisher and Xavier Herbert, author. Hand written comment about the photograph by Xavier Herbert on verso. [Gift of David Rowbotham
San Xavier District pedestrian access and safety study : final report
No full textabstract: The San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation is home to approximately 2,000 people. Numerous others come to the District to visit the San Xavier del Bac Mission Church. The San Xavier District Pedestrian Access and Safety Study is being prepared to improve the walking and bicycling environment on the San Xavier District for Community members and visitors alike. The study is being funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation Multimodal Planning Division’s Planning Assistance for Rural Areas program.Includes bibliographical references
Interview with Xavier Aldana Reyes
No full textXavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film in Manchester, a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, and the author of Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation (2017) and Gothic Cinema (2019). His publications in Gothic and horror studies include Twenty-First-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (with Maisha Wester; 2019), Horror: A Literary History (2016) and Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon (with Linnie Blake; 2015). Aldana Reyes also edited fiction anthologies for the British Library series, Tales of the Weird, including the following titles: The Gothic Tales of H.P. Lovecraft (2018), The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson (2019), Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science (2019) and Roarings from Further Out: Four Weird Novellas, by Algernon Blackwood (2019)
Xavier Albó: Memoria, Crónica, Perfil
No full textAuthor historicizes the monumental contribution to the study of Quechua of linguist and anthropologist Xavier Albó. Author recalls Albó's early linguistic and anthropological influence during the late 1960s as a clear inspiration to study Quechua linguistics, the largest indigenous language spoken today in the Americas
Digital Gothic : an interview with Xavier Aldana Reyes
No full textXavier Aldana Reyes is Reader/Associate Professor in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University and a founder member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. He is author of Gothic Cinema (2020), Spanish Gothic (2017), Horror Film and Affect (2016) and Body Gothic (2014), and editor of Twenty-First-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (with Maisha Wester, 2019), Horror: A Literary History (2016) and Digital Horror (with Linnie Blake, 2015). Xavier is chief editor of the Horror Studies book series at the University of Wales Press, and has edited anthologies of Gothic and horror fiction for the British Library. One of Xavier's research interests is the optical dynamics of found footage horror films. On this topic, he has published an article on narrative framing for Gothic Studies, and chapters on affective immersion in the film [REC] (2007) and viewer involvement and guilt in The Last Horror Movie (2003). More recently, he wrote a chapter on 'Online Gothic' that considers social media found footage horror for the collection The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic (2022)
The end of social confinement and COVID-19 re-emergence risk
No full textThe lack of effective pharmaceutical interventions for SARS-CoV-2 raises the possibility of COVID-19 recurrence. We explore different post-confinement scenarios by using a stochastic modified SEIR (susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered) model that accounts for the spread of infection during the latent period and also incorporates time-decaying effects due to potential loss of acquired immunity, people's increasing awareness of social distancing and the use of non-pharmaceutical interventions. Our results suggest that lockdowns should remain in place for at least 60 days to prevent epidemic growth, as well as a potentially larger second wave of SARS-CoV-2 cases occurring within months. The best-case scenario should also gradually incorporate workers in a daily proportion at most 50% higher than during the confinement period. We show that decaying immunity and particularly awareness and behaviour have 99% significant effects on both the current wave of infection and on preventing COVID-19 re-emergence. Social distancing and individual non-pharmaceutical interventions could potentially remove the need for lockdowns.Funding: the support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the “Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa 2019 2023” Program (CEX2018 000806 S), and support from the Generalitat de Catalunya through the CERCA Program. Partial funding support for X. Rodó was received from the ISCII COVID-19 project COV20/0014, from a project by the Fundació Daniel Bravo Andreu and from HELICAL H2020 Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 81354
Exploring the role of climate variability and change in the spillover of zoonotic diseases: towards the development of Early Warning Systems (RWS)
No full textThe primary goal of this PhD is to deepen our understanding and improve the modeling capacity of zoonotic spillover, the multilevel process by which pathogens manage to overcome a series of natural barriers and infect other species. In particular, a key focus of this study is to unravel the influence of various external environmental and climatic extrinsic factors on this complex ecological process. These include land-use changes, deforestation/vegetation health, and especially climate trends, variability, and extremes. Considering the inherent challenges in forecasting long-term atmospheric conditions, this study delves into the potential of coupled atmosphere-ocean phenomena. Recognized for their enhanced predictive capabilities, these phenomena are analyzed as essential climate covariates, in order to be able to increase the foresight, accuracy, and efficiency of early warning systems targeting zoonotic diseases. Concurrently, the thesis also investigates the role of climate in influencing microbial biodiversity, a portion of which contributes to pathogenic biodiversity. This aspect of the research aims to discern how climatic variables may determine the geographical patterns of zoonotic spillover.L'objectiu principal d'aquesta tesi és aprofundir en la nostra comprensió i millorar la capacitat de modelització del spillover zoonòtic, el complex procés ecològic mitjançant el qual els patògens aconsegueixen superar una sèrie de barreres naturals i infectar altres espècies animals. Més específicament, aquesta tesi se centra en estudiar l'impacte de factors ambientals i climàtics extrínsecs, incloent els canvis en l'ús del sòl, la desforestació, i sobretot les tendències, la variabilitat i els extrems climàtics, en el fenomen del spillover. Ateses les limitacions per realitzar prediccions a llarg termini dels sistemes atmosfèrics, aquest estudi explora el potencial dels fenòmens acoblats atmosfera-oceà. Aquests, reconeguts per la seva major capacitat predictiva, s’estudien com a covariables climàtiques clau per a millorar l’antelació, precisió i eficàcia dels sistemes d'alerta primerenca de malalties zoonòtiques. Paral·lelament, la tesi també aborda el rol del clima en la configuració de la biodiversitat microbiana, una part de la qual és la biodiversitat patògena. Aquesta línia de recerca busca comprendre com els factors climàtics poden influenciar els patrons geogràfics del spillover zoonòtic.Programa de Doctorat en Biomedicin
Darkroom/Body/Literature: Valêncio Xavier
No full textEste trabalho se aproxima da obra Minha mãe morrendo e o menino mentido, de Valêncio Xavier, refletindo sobre as relações entre corpo e literatura. Tem como pontos norteadores os conceitos de câmara escura e dorsalidade. Também está em pauta a ambiência nacional, a fornecer elementos para concepção de história apreendida por Xavier. O diálogo com o cinema será tratado nesta dissertação, numa abertura de focos que propiciará uma análise da dimensão-máquina no projeto narrativo do autor.This research approaches the work Minha mãe morrendo e o menino mentido [My mother dying and the boy lied], by Valêncio Xavier, reflecting on the relationship between body and literature. Its guiding points are the concepts of darkroom and dorsality. The national ambience is also on the focus, providing elements for the conception of history apprehended by Xavier. The dialogue with cinema will be dealt with in this dissertation, in an opening of focuses that will provide an analysis of the machine dimension in the author\'s narrative project
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