481 research outputs found
Manon de Boer
No full textThe Candian debut of Brussels-based artist Manon de Boer presented film portraits of two women recalling their formative years in Paris in the 1970s. Sylvia Kristel – Paris (2003) depicts the star of the famed soft-core Emmanuelle films reminiscing about her past. Resonating Surfaces (2005) meanwhile, creates a picture of both Paris and São Paulo through the memories of Suely Rolnik, a psychoanalyst, translator and former lover of Gilles Deleuze. Departing from traditional narrative cinema’s reliance on images of women, de Boer creates complex, poetic portraits that privilege texture and the female voice – overlapping elements that keep picture, sound and text in a state of flux. Akin to the experimental novels of Marguerite Duras, de Boer circles around her subjects but never seeks to fix them. Characters are elusive, memory is flexible and bodily experience shapes subjectivity
Transient observations : the textualizing of St Helena through five hundred years of colonial discourse
No full textThis thesis explores the textualizing of the South Atlantic island of St Helena (a
British Overseas Territory) through an analysis of the relationship between
colonizing practices and the changing representations of the island and its
inhabitants in a range of colonial 'texts', including historiography, travel writing,
government papers, creative writing, and the fine arts.
Part I situates this thesis within a critical engagement with post-colonial
theory and colonial discourse analysis primarily, as well as with the recent
'linguistic turn' in anthropology and history. In place of post-colonialism's rather
monolithic approach to colonial experiences, I argue for a localised approach to
colonisation, which takes greater account of colonial praxis and of the continuous
re-negotiation and re-constitution of particular colonial situations.
Part II focuses on a number of literary issues by reviewing St Helena's
historiography and literature, and by investigating the range of narrative tropes
employed (largely by travellers) in the textualizing of St Helena, in particular
with respect to recurrent imaginings of the island in terms of an earthly Eden.
Part III examines the nature of colonial 'possession' by tracing the island's
gradual appropriation by the Portuguese, Dutch and English in the sixteenth and
early seventeenth century and the settlement policies pursued by the English
East India Company in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century.
Part IV provides an account of the changing perceptions, by visitors and
colonial officials alike, of the character of the island's inhabitants (from the late
eighteenth to the early twentieth century) and assesses the influence that these
perceptions have had on the administration of the island and the political status of
its inhabitants (in the mid- to late twentieth century).
Part V, the conclusion, reviews the principal arguments of my thesis by
addressing the political implications of post-colonial theory and of my own
research, while also indicating avenues for further research.
A localised and detailed exploration of colonial discourse over a period of
nearly five hundred years, and a close analysis of a consequently wide range of
colonial 'texts', has confirmed that although colonising practices and
representations are far from monolithic, in the case of St Helena their continuities
are of as much significance as their discontinuities
Atividade estral de cabras Boer submetidas a dois protocolos de sincronização do estro.
No full textO obejetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a atividade estral de 42 cabras Boer submetidas a dois protocolos de sincronização de estro. Foram avaliadas os dois protocolos T1: Esponja com 60 mg de acetato de Medroxiprogesterona (MAP) por seis dias. No momento da colocação da esponja, foi aplicado 75 ug de cloprostenol mais 300 UI de eCG (Gonadotrofina coriônica) na retirada da esponja; T2: Esponja com 60 mg de MAP por 11 dias. Dois dias antes das retiradas das esponjas (dia9), foram aplicadas injeções intramusculares de 75 mg de cloprostenol e 300 UI de eGG. O protocolo de 6 dias mostrou ser tão eficaz quanto o de 11 dias na sincronização do estro de cabras Boer. A taxa de fertilidadeao parto deve ser avaliada na utilização do protocolo de 6 dias.Editores: Gherman Garcia Leal de Araújo, Fábio Mourer, Silvia Helena Nogueira Turco, Alex Uilamar Nascimento Cunha
The Blind Viewer
Full text linkAfter watching Peter Gidal’s Room Film 1973, Michael Snow commented: ‘Your film had to be worked at. I felt… as if it was made by a blind man. I felt that searching tentative quality, the quality of trying to see’ (1.). The desire to see anew, as if it was for the first time, a learning to unlearn (2.), is one of the most enduring aspects of Gidal’s film practice and theory. A body of material as rich with possibilities as unresolved questions, paradoxes and dead ends. And yet, at a time when artists’ moving image has too often become a sheer repository for discourse, a reinvestment in Gidal’s attentiveness to the ‘coming into presence’ of the film may shed light on what these images and sounds do, rather than say. The question remains: how is a critique of image-production enacted, instead of represented?
Notes:
(1.) Snow, Michael, September 1973, quoted by Peter Gidal, ‘Theory and Definition of Structural / Materialist Film’, Structural Film Anthology, London: BFI, 1978, p.17
(2.) Borrowing a famous line from the poem, ‘what we see of things is things’ by Alberto Caeiro. Pessoa, Fernando, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro, Exeter: Shearsman Books, 200
First record of a white rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis) off West Africa including notes on rough-toothed dolphin surface behaviour
No full textIn June 2009, a white rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis) calf was photographed in a group of at least 50 dolphins in the southern Gulf of Guinea, 95 nauticol miles off the Gabon coast (01°45'S 007°29'E), West Africa. Reports of unusually pigmented cetaceans are infrequent and this record represents the first of an all-white rough-toothed dolphin. Furthermore, there is little documentation concerning rough-toothed dolphins and this note contributes to the knowledge of this species in tropical West African water
Ingestive behavior ½ blood boer goats fed with hay of saltbrush.
Full text linkThe objective of this experiment was to evaluated the ingestive behavior of ½ blood Boer goats fed diets consisting of 8.4, 18.8, 31.2 and 48.3% hay of saltbrush, associated with spineless cactus ( Opuntia ficus ) added with urea and different concentrates of a base of corn and soy meal to make the diets isonitrogenous and isocaloric
RESPOSTAS FISIOLÓGICAS DE CAPRINOS BOER E ANGLO-NUBIANA EM CONDIÇÕES CLIMÁTICAS DE MEIO-NORTE DO BRASIL
Full text linkThis work was carried out to measure the adaptability on the heart rate (HR), respiratory frequency (RF) and rectal temperature (RT) in Boer and Anglo-nubiana goats at Meio-Norte, Brazil. Fourteen male goats were used (7 = Boer and 7 = Anglo-nubiana) in the same conditions. In the same days and times were too collected the temperature and (TA) and relative humidity of the air (UR). The SNK test was used to compare the means. The results obtained to Bôer and Anglo-nubiana was, in dry period, HR (beats/minutes) = 79.3±16.1 and 97.0±18.3; RF (mov.min-1.) = 25.5±5.9 and 34.4±13.3; TR (oC) = 39.2±0.4 and 39.4±0.4. In rain period, in the same breed order HR = 75.1±6.9 and 82.5±6.0; RF (mov./min.-1) = 27.7±4.47 e 26.7±5.5; TR (oC) = 39.3±0,4 and 39.4±0,4. The TA, in oC, and UR, in %, were in the dry period 33.0±1.5 and 55.0±7.43; and in the rain period, 30.0±2.02 and 81.2±6,99. The Anglo-nubiana goats showed the highest HR, RF and RT relative to the Boer goats in the dry and in the rain periods that indicate the Boer goats are better adaptable in the hot stress conditions
De la representación del trabajo al trabajo de representación. Manifestaciones contemporáneas del intervalo en películas de Sharon Lockhart, Rodney Graham y Manon de Boer
No full textEste trabajo parte de la hipótesis de que el intervalo es un concepto clave para analizar de qué modo algunos artistas contemporáneos están interviniendo en las formas cinematográficas. Para ello, se propone un análisis comparativo de tres retratos fílmicos recientes que representan distintas formas de trabajo: el industrial (Sharon Lockhart), el intelectual (Rodney Graham) y el artístico (Manon de Boer). De este modo, esta investigación se centra en la relación entre la representación del trabajo, el trabajo de representación y el trabajo de interpretación del espectador. La propuesta de este estudio, al fin, es que mientras la teoría soviética del intervalo implica un movimiento hacia una resolución, estas intervenciones contemporáneas en el espacio del intervalo inducen, por el contrario, una fisura o un espacio de no-resolución que cuestiona la economía del tiempo propia de una sociedad post-fordista, en la que el tiempo del consumo y de la producción parecen haber invadido todas las esferas de la vida
De la representación del trabajo al trabajo de representación. Manifestaciones contemporáneas del intervalo en películas de Sharon Lockhart, Rodney Graham y Manon de Boer
No full textEste trabajo parte de la hipótesis de que el intervalo es un concepto clave para analizar de qué modo algunos artistas contemporáneos están interviniendo en las formas cinematográficas. Para ello, se propone un análisis comparativo de tres retratos fílmicos recientes que representan distintas formas de trabajo: el industrial (Sharon Lockhart), el intelectual (Rodney Graham) y el artístico (Manon de Boer). De este modo, esta investigación se centra en la relación entre la representación del trabajo, el trabajo de representación y el trabajo de interpretación del espectador. La propuesta de este estudio, al fin, es que mientras la teoría soviética del intervalo implica un movimiento hacia una resolución, estas intervenciones contemporáneas en el espacio del intervalo inducen, por el contrario, una fisura o un espacio de no-resolución que cuestiona la economía del tiempo propia de una sociedad post-fordista, en la que el tiempo del consumo y de la producción parecen haber invadido todas las esferas de la vida
Composição corporal e exigências nutricionais em proteína, energia e macrominerais de cabritos com constituição genética 3/4 Boer e 1/4 Saanen
No full textOs objetivos deste estudo foram estimar as exigências nutricionais e desenvolver equações para predizer a composição química do corpo e da carcaça. Trinta e quatro cabritos Boer o Saanen, não castrados, foram utilizados, dos quais sete foram abatidos no início do experimento, com 21,2 kg PV. Outros seis foram abatidos ao atingirem 28,2 kg PV. Os 21 restantes foram distribuídos aleatoriamente em sete grupos de três animais. Os tratamentos foram definidos por três níveis de consumo de matéria seca (CMS): à vontade e restrição de 30 ou 60% do CMS. Cada grupo foi abatido quando o animal do tratamento à vontade atingiu 35 kg de PV. Foi utilizado o método da abate comparativo para o cálculo das exigências. A exigência líquida (EL) diária de energia e proteína para mantença foram estimadas em 78,2 kcal/kg0,75 de peso do corpo vazio (PCV) e 2,4 g/kg0,75 PCV. Com relação aos macrominerais, a EL diária para mantença foi estimada em 32,3 mg Ca; 30,8 mg P; 1,31 mg Mg; 8,41 mg K e 5,14 mg Na por kg de PCV. A EL para ganho de energia, para animais pesando entre 20 a 35 kg PV, variou entre 2,5 a 3,0 Mcal/kg ganho PCV (GPCV); a de proteína variou entre 178,8 e 185,2 g/kg GPCV e a de macrominerais variou de 6,5 a 7,0 g Ca; 5,3 a 5,4 g P; 0,29 a 0,31 g Mg; 0,67 a 0,62 g Na e 1,18 a 1,05 g K por kg GPCV. A composição química (CQ) do corpo e da carcaça foram melhores estimadas por meio da CQ dos componentes não carcaça e das costelas, respectivamente.Meat production of goats has become an important livestock enterprise in several parts of the world. Nonetheless, energy and protein requirements of meat goats have not been defined thoroughly. The objective of this study was to determine energy and protein requirements for maintenance and growth and to develop equations to predict the chemical composition of body and carcass using chemical composition of body components of Boer and oSaanen crossbred, intact male kids. In the first trial, 34 Boer and oSaanen crossbred, intact male kids were used. The baseline group (BL) was comprised of seven randomly selected kids, averaging 21.2 l 0.36 kg of BW. An intermediate group consisted of six randomly selected kids that were slaughtered when they reached 28.2 l 0.39 kg BW. The remaining kids (n = 21) were allocated randomly to three levels of DMI (treatments: ad libitum and restricted to 30 or 60% of the ad libitum intake) within seven slaughter groups. A slaughter group consisted of one kid from each treatment and was slaughtered when the ad libitum treatment kid reached 35 kg BW. Individual body components were weighed, ground, mixed, and subsampled for chemical analyses. The calculated daily NEm requirement was 78.2 kcal/kg0.75 of empty BW (EBW). A value of 2.44 g of net protein/kg0.75 of EBW for daily maintenance was determined. Net energy and protein (NPg) requirements for growth ranged from 2.55 to 3.0 Mcal/kg of empty weight gain (EWG) and 178.8 to 185.2 g/kg of EWG for 20 and 35 kg of BW, respectively. The daily net requirement of macrominerals for maintenance was 32.3 mg of Ca; 30.8 mg of P; 1.31 mg of Mg; 8.41 of K and 5.14 mg of Na per kg of EBW. Net macrominerals requirements for growth ranged from 6.5 to 7.0 g of Ca; 5.3 to 5.4 g of P; 0.29 to 0.31 g of Mg; 0.67 to 0.62 g of Na and 1.18 to 1.05 g of K per kg of EWG. The chemical composition of the non-carcass components...(Complete abstract, acess undermentioned eletronic adress)Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP
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