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Henri Temianka Correspondence; (Acosta)
No full textThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/3302/thumbnail.jp
Dataset ICEDEG 2019 Accessibility Evaluation of Multimedia
No full textMore information in the publication of the congress ICEDEG 2019 of the author Patricia Acosta-Varga
Dataset ICEDEG 2019 Accessibility Evaluation of Multimedia
No full textMore information in the publication of the congress ICEDEG 2019 of the author Patricia Acosta-Varga
El compendio de Joaquín Acosta y la construcción de memoria histórica en Nueva Granada (1830-1848)
No full textEsta tesis estudia el proceso de elaboración, las influencias y contenidos del Compendio histórico del descubrimiento y colonización de la Nueva Granada en el siglo decimosexto, libro publicado en París, en 1848, por el político, intelectual y hombre de ciencia Joaquín Acosta. En los primeros capítulos se establece el contexto sociocultural y político del autor, para luego indagar por las improntas que recibió de la tradición narrativa anterior, en particular del Semanario de Francisco José de Caldas, las obras de Alexander von Humboldt, de William Prescott y de los cronistas coloniales. Se plantea que el Compendio responde a un proyecto patriótico de conocimiento llevado a cabo por iniciativa privada, en un momento en que sentía la estabilidad de la República amenazada por fuerzas internas y externas. Se argumenta que el principal aporte de Acosta en la construcción de una memoria histórica nacional, es la representación de una “civilización chibcha” comparable en grandeza con las antiguas civilizaciones de México y Perú.Abstract. This dissertation examines the process of creation, influence and content of Compendio histórico del descubrimiento y colonización de la Nueva Granada en el siglo decimosexto. This book was published in Paris, in 1848, by Joaquín Acosta, a politician, intellectual and scientist born in New Granada. In the first chapters the author´s sociocultural and political context is established. The dissertation then explores the imprint that prior narrative tradition left on the author, particularly the Semanario, by Francisco José de Caldas, works by Alexander von Humboldt, William Prescott, and the colonial chronicles. It is stated that Compendio responds to a patriotic project of knowledge, undertaken by a private initiative. All this, at a time when the stability of the Republic was threatened by internal and external forces. It is argumented that Acosta´s main contribution in the construction of a national historical memory is the representation of a “Chibcha civilization”, comparable in grandeour to those of the ancient civilizations of Mexico and Peru.Maestrí
Dataset ICEDEG 2019 Accessibility Evaluation of Multimedia
No full textMore information in the publication of the congress ICEDEG 2019 of the author Patricia Acosta-Varga
Soledad Acosta de Samper: Botany, Food, and Gender in 19th Century South America
No full textVanesa Miseres Fig. 1. Daguerreotype of Soledad Acosta (1880).Cultura Banco de la República de Colombia. Soledad Acosta de Samper (1833-1913) was one of the most renowned South American writers of the 19th century and critical to the construction of gendered notions of national identity in South America. She worked as a translator, journalist, and author and spent much of her life traveling between Colombia, Peru, and Europe. What is most notable about her, however, was her work as scienti..
Myrcia urquiolae Z. Acosta 2022, sp. nov.
No full textMyrcia urquiolae Z. Acosta, sp. nov. (Figures 1, 2 and 3). Type:— Cuba, Prov. Holguín, municipio Mayarí, Sierra de Nipe, charrascales de La Caridad cerca del río Naranjo, 13 June 2018, Z. Acosta & J.L. Gómez s.n. (holotype HAJB 1255!; isotypes: B!, FTG!, HAC!, HAJB 1254!, HAJU!, HJBHO!, PAL-Gr 129938!). Diagnosis:— Myrcia urquiolae differs by all Cuban congeneric species by its strongly revolute linear leaves. Description:— Small tree up to 7 m high, branchy; old branches cylindrical, glabrous, olive-green with longitudinal and scaly striations due to the loss of the suber; the young branches quadrangular, bright green, with abundant simple hairs and glands visible as black dots. Leaves opposite; petioles 1–2 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide, cylindrical, glabrous; laminas linear, 2.5–4 × 0.15–0.3 cm, bright green and glabrous on the upper surface, brownish green on the underside and brown tomentose on the midvein, bright brown on the upper surface and light brown on the underside when dry, coriaceous, glandular dotted, apex acute to obtuse, base acute to rounded, margin strongly revolute, entire, middle vein sunken on the upper surface and prominent on the underside, secondary veins not visible on both surfaces. Inflorescences in axillary panicles, with up to 10 flowers, peduncles 2–5 cm long, white-tomentose. Flowers with pedicels 2–3 mm long; bracts filiform, albo-tomentose, 1.5–2 × 0.5–0.8 mm, persistent after anthesis; hypanthium albotomentose, conical. Calyx 4–merous, opening irregularly, white-tomentose, with abundant visible glands, sepals 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm, apex acute. Petals 4, yellowish–white, deltoid, glandular-dotted, 2–3.5 × 1.5 mm. Stamens numerous, filaments white, 5–6 × 0.2 mm; staminal ring thickened, 0.4–0.5 mm thick; anthers light brown, rounded to oblong, 0.5–1 × 0.5 mm, two thecae. Ovary white-tomentose, glandular, bilocular with 2 ovules per locule; style 10–12 × 0.4–0.5 mm, stigma truncate, 0.6–07 diameter. Fruits and seeds unknown. Etymology:—The epithet is dedicated to Dr.Armando Jesús Urquiola Cruz (1949–2009), eminent Cuban botanist, founder of the Botanical Garden of Pinar de Río, who dedicated his life to the study and conservation of the flora of Pinar de Río, the Myrtaceae family and Cuban aquatic plants. Professor Urquiola was the first to recognize this species as new to science, in an expedition with the first author in 2007. Distribution and habitat:—Local endemic species of Sierra de Nipe. It is only known from the Charrascales de La Caridad, near the Naranjo river (20.474592 N; - 75.740322 W), Mayarí municipality, Holguín province (Figure 3). It grows in xeromorphic sub-thorny thickets over serpentinite rocks, on ferromagnesian red-brownish fersialitic soils, between 300–450 m elev. The shrub strata of the charrascal, where the species lives, varies between 3–4 m in height and its cover on the ground is 70–80%. Species composition include Mazaea shaferi (Standley 1918: 42) Delprete (1999: 221), Metopium venosum (Grisebach 1866: 67) Engler (1883: 367), Miconia rosmarinifolia (Grisebach 1866: 93) M. Gómez (1894: 68), Psychotria rufovaginata Grisebach (1866: 136), Plumeria nipensis Britton (1915: 505) y Solenandra myrtifolia (Grisebach 1866: 125) Borhidi (2002: 227). Reproductive biology:—Tiny yellowish-white flowers with numerous stamens indicate probable insect pollination. Although the fruits of the new species are unknown, dispersal by birds has been reported for other Myrcia species (Torezan-Silingardi & Alves 2004). Conservation status:— Myrcia urquiolae is known from only one locality, which was affected by fire in March 2019. In the only population known to date, 25 adult individuals have been registered in an extent of occurrence and area of occupation of 1 km 2. Although this locality is located within La Mensura-Piloto National Park, a managed protected area of national significance, this site is vulnerable to increased fire frequency. For this reason, a future decrease in the area, extent and quality of habitat and in the number of mature individuals is projected. Therefore, according to IUCN (2019) criteria, the available data support the evaluation of Myrcia urquiolae as Critically Endangered (CR), by criteria: B1ab(ii, iii,v)+2ab(ii, iii,v); C2a(i,ii); D. Taxonomic remarks:— Myrcia urquiolae belongs to Myrcia sect. Myrcia due to its hairy floral disc and the nonprolonged hypanthium on the summit of the ovary, characters that distinguish it from the other sections of the genus. Additionally, it presents a thickened staminal ring, which comprises more than 50% of the disc (vs. less than 30% in Myrcia sect. Gomidesia (O. Berg 1855 –1856: 5) B. S. Amorim & E. Lucas in Lucas et al. 2018: 9), and anthers with thecae of equal size that open completely in two equal parts (vs. vertically displaced that retain curvature at dehiscence) (see Lucas et al. 2018). The phylogenetic position of M. urquiolae in Myrcia sect. Myrcia was proven by Flickinger et al. (2020, as Myrcia sp. 1), where in the phylogeny of the family for the Greater Antilles it nested along with M. apodocarpa Urban (1923: 87), M. retivenia (C. Wright 1869: 433) Urban (1923: 86) and M. abbottiana (Urban 1925: 341) Alain (1971: 138). Regarding the other species of the section in Cuba, M. urquiolae differs by its strongly revolute linear leaves.Published as part of Ramos, Zenia Acosta & Hechavarría, José Luis Gómez, 2022, Myrcia urquiolae (Myrtaceae), a new species from eastern Cuba, pp. 111 in Phytotaxa 549 (1) on page 111, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.549.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/660524
L’emancipation educative de Cecilio Acosta (1818-1881)
No full textCecilio Acosta (1818-1881) was one of the best intellectuals of Hispano-America and the republican moment of Venezuela. His modern thinking covers a set of topics that dialogue with each other, and that, according to Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta (1982), bifurcate in the following aspects: Politics, Jurisprudence, Economics History, Necrologies, Literature, Philology, Poetry and Epistolary. Our author, we maintain the idea of modernizing the teaching system, from a decentralizing perspective, we incorporate new disciplines of knowledge that must be accompanied with the practice of the workshop as the key word for the progress of the country and that Acosta calls the “ true lord of a new civilization”, to work on his educational ideas, such as “Reform of Laws II and III of the Code of Public Instruction” (1847), “Things Known and Things to Know” (1856) and “Magazine of Europe and the United States ofAmerica” (1879).Cecilio Acosta (1818-1881) fue uno de los intelectuales más notorios de Hispanoamérica y del momento republicano de la Venezuela finisecular. Su pensamiento moderno abarca un conjunto de temas que dialogan entresí, y que, según Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta (1982), se bifurcan en los siguientes aspectos: política, jurisprudencia, economía, historia, necrologías, literatura, filología, poesía y epistolario. Nuestro autor mantuvo la idea de modernizarel sistema de la enseñanza desde una visión descentralizadora, que incorporara nuevas disciplinas de conocimientos que debían ir acompañadas con la práctica del taller como palabra clave para el progreso del país y que Acosta lo denomina el “verdadero señor de una nueva civilización”. Trabajaremos sus ideas educativas tomando como norte los siguientes artículos: “Reforma de las Leyes II y III del Código de Instrucción Pública (1847); “Cosas sabidas y Cosaspor saberse” (1856) y “Revista de Europa y de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica” (1879).Cecilio Acosta (1818-1881) était l’un des intellectuels les plus notoires de l’Amérique espagnole et le moment républicain du Venezuela de la fin du siècle. Sa pensée moderne couvre un ensemble de sujets qui dialoguent entre eux et qui, selon Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta (1982), se divisent en deux volets: politique, jurisprudence, histoire de l’économie, nécrologies, littérature, philologie, poésie et épistolaire. Notre auteur a maintenu l’idée de moderniser lesystème d’enseignement, dans une perspective décentralisatrice, en intégrant de nouvelles disciplines de la connaissance qui doivent être accompagnées de la pratique de l’atelier en tant que mot clé du progrès du pays et qu’Acostaappelle «le vrai Seigneur d’une nouvelle civilisation. Nous travaillerons avec vos idées éducatives en prenant comme guide les articles suivants: “Réforme des lois II et III du Code d’instruction publique. (1847); “Choses connues et chosesà savoir” (1856) et “Magazine de l’Europe et des États-Unis d’Amérique du Nord” (1879)
RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY: Measuring the Social, Economic, and Environmental Value of Sustainable Business
No full textIn today’s climate, companies must be economically successful and at the same time take social responsibility. Author Cesar Sandro Saenz Acosta introduces a new SROIM (Social Return on Investment Management) model, to design and measure the social value created by companies. © 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited
Corrigendum to “Primary testicular teratoid Wilms tumor in a 40-year-old male with retroperitoneal lymph node involvement: A case report” [Urol Case Rep (March 2024) 102701]
No full textThe author, Andrés M. Acosta, from Indiana University School of Medicine, was erroneously added to the original publication
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