cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enter the Anthropocene: Age of Man
Creators: name: Kolbert, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: The path leads up a hill, across a fast-moving stream, back across the stream, and then past the carcass of a dead sheep. In my view it’s raining, but here in the Southern Up-lands of Scotland, I am told, this counts only as a light drizzle, or smirr. Just beyond the final switchback, there’s a waterfall, half shrouded in mist, and an outcropping of jagged rock. The rock has bands that run vertically, like a layer cake that’s been tipped on its side. My guide, Jan Zalasiewicz, a British stratigrapher, points to a wide stripe of gray. “Bad things happened in here,” he says. The stripe was laid down some 440 million years ago, as sediments slowly piled up on the bottom of an ancient ocean. In those days, life was still mostly confined to the water, and it was  undergoing  a  crisis.  Between  one  edge  of  the  three-foot-thick  gray  band  and  the  other,  some  80  percent  of  marine  species  died  out,  most  of  them  the  sorts  of  creatures,  like  grap-tolites, that no longer exist in any form. The extinction event, known as the end-Ordovician, was one of the five biggest of the last half-billion years. It coincided with extreme changes in climate, in global sea levels, and in ocean chemistry—all caused, perhaps, by a supercontinent drifting over the South Pole.Stratigraphers like Zalasiewicz are, as a rule, hard to impress. Their job is to piece together Earth’s history from clues that can be coaxed out of layers of rock millions of years after the fact. They take the long view—the extremely long view—of events, only the most violent of which are likely to leave behind lasting traces. It’s those events that mark the crucial episodes in  the  planet’s  4.5-billion-year  story,  the  turning  points  that  divide  it  into  comprehensible  chapters.from
Correlations at large scales and the onset of turbulence in the fast solar wind
Creators: name: Wicks, Robert T.
name: Roberts, D. Aaron
name: Mallet, Alfred
name: Schekochihin, Alexander A.
name: Horbury, Timothy S.
name: Chen, Christopher H. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the scaling of structure functions of magnetic and velocity fields in a mostly highly Alfvénic fast solar wind stream depends strongly on the joint distribution of the dimensionless measures of cross helicity and residual energy. Already at very low frequencies, fluctuations that are both more balanced (cross helicity $\sim 0$) and equipartitioned (residual energy $\sim 0$) have steep structure functions reminiscent of "turbulent" scalings usually associated with the inertial range. Fluctuations that are magnetically dominated (residual energy $\sim -1$), and so have closely anti-aligned Elsasser-field vectors, or imbalanced (cross helicity $\sim 1$), and so have closely aligned magnetic and velocity vectors, have wide `$1/f$' ranges typical of fast solar wind. We conclude that the strength of nonlinear interactions of individual fluctuations within a stream, diagnosed by the degree of correlation in direction and magnitude of magnetic and velocity fluctuations, determines the extent of the $1/f$ region observed and thus the onset scale for the turbulent cascade.
description: Published in ApJ
Packaging Sludge and Silt
Creators: name: Dredge Research Collaborative  (Becker, Stephen
name: Holmes, Rob
name: Maly, Tim
name: Milligan, Brett)
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: A massive, distended tube thirty feet in circumference and one hundred feet long lies on the bank of a drifting river, among the sludge and muck. A thick hose connected to a dredging barge is filling this black bag with the silt that it is sucking out of a nearby shipping channel. Once full, the tube will be tied shut and left in place. Fluids will slowly seep out, leaving dewatered sediments contained within the casing. This is the geo-tube.1A  geo-tube  is  like  an  oversized2  sausage  casing  made  of  “geotextile,”  a  synthetic  fabric  woven  primarily  from  hydrocarbon-derived  polymers.3  When  deployed,  they  are  inflated  by  liquids, slurries, or sediments, depending on their intended use. Geo-tubes find their applica-tion  where  water  meets  land  and  where  landscape  meets  industry.  They  are  deployed  along  riverbanks,  coastlines,  in  shallows,  or  wetlands.  They  have  spread  quickly  thanks  to  their  flexibility, speed of application, and cheapness.
Turismo acessível em Portugal – o caso do turismo para pessoas com mobilidade reduzida
Creators: name: Prates, Joana
name: Garcia, Ana
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: Segundo o Plano Estratégico Nacional doTurismo elaborado em 2006, a visão para o turismo coloca Portugal como um dos países de maior crescimento na EU, sendo este sector o motor de crescimento da economia nacional (MEI, 2006). De acordo com as estatísticas da Organização Mundial de Turismo (OMT), Portugal deverá estabilizar, até 2020, no top 20 a nível mundial, quer para a chegada de turistas internacionais, quer para as receitas de turismo internacional (representando um total de 11,6 milhões de pessoas o que corresponde aproximadamente a 7,8 US$ biliões) o que, evidentemente, contribuirá positivamente para o crescimento da economia nacional. Resta saber como será realizado esse crescimento e se o mesmo é ou não sustentável; caso contrário entraremos de novo nos erros de outrora, em que o crescimento da receita turística se faz à custa da perda de valores culturais e naturais. (...)
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 11 (2009)
Blank Stare (10 Images and Corresponding Notes on the Pensive in Photography and its Utility in the Face of Catastrophe, as Excerpted from A History of the Future)
Creators: name: Sayler, Susannah
name: Morris, Edward
name: Project, The Canary
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Most of us barely know how to read the land. But once you start to learn, even a little, you are confronted everywhere with absence. You are drawn back into the past, and this seems, at first, the only direction you can go. You see glaciers in the striations on the stone, the flatness of the valley at the foot of the mountain, the melt water, the rocks left in a field thousands of years ago by the withdrawal of a nearly unimaginable force. Yet, feeling the past in this way is like taking a few, hard steps up a hill, gaining elevation from which you ultimately hope to see in all directions, even the future...
Jarrod Beck: Geologic Anxiety
Creators: name: Reeve, Anne
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: It’s a straightforward proposition, but one just as often overlooked: what’s here is here now, only  because  of  how  it  was  then,  and  it  won’t  be  this  way  forever.  It  seems  we  are  uniquely  able to appreciate this when the terrain around us changes, when a storm or an interruption (a quake, a tidal wave) jostles our sense of scale and proportion and their accompanying vari-ables shift. A body shrinks and quiets against an unspeakably broad landscape, rain cracks a bright day into pounding blackness. Yet,  how  do  we  measure  ourselves  against  slower,  monumental  shifts  that  carve  the  land  around us? What “geologic anxiety” might manifest from our sense of being in a continual, if imperceptible, state of flux? On five acres in the far West Texas desert outpost of Terlingua, artist Jarrod Beck is care-fully enacting a “Disruption Regime” to explore this question. In local intraterrestial parlance, this “disruption” refers to overgrazing that permanently changes the structure of the ground plane,  eroding  the  root  system  and  in  turn  the  ground’s  ability  to  withstand  summer  rain-storms. These Texas storms then become floods, sending the land on the move and rendering it  permanently  hostile  to  many  forms  of  growth.  Beck  appropriates  the  term  for  an  experi-mental “ground-drawing,” which he views as a test in marking human action against the top strata of the geology it occupies.
Satire in the neopicaresque novel: the committed poetic in European and American picaresque fiction 1942-1962
Creators: name: Syers, Jessica
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2022
Subjects: picaresque novels
picaresque genre
neopicaresque novels
satire
postwar fiction

description: The picaresque genre was a formative influence on the development of the novel in Western literature from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Previous research has suggested that there were significant new currents of picaresque writing in British, German, Spanish, and American fiction during the mid-twentieth century. This study aims to substantiate and analyse the existence of a transnational neopicaresque phenomenon at this time, and to examine the use of picaresque elements in the context of the midcentury. Drawing on existing research within the different national literatures, this study asks: Can we speak of a transnational neopicaresque novel? And if so, why did this neopicaresque novel emerge in these nations and at this time? This study considers the committed poetic (poética comprometida) or satiric orientation described by Antonio Rey Hazas to be the factor that most clearly explains the authors’ interest in reviving the picaresque genre. A comparative analysis of satire was carried out on eight examples of neopicaresque fiction (two from each nation, in their original languages). This analysis investigates the recurrence of classic picaresque themes, considering their significance in the modern context in order to determine the satiric orientation of the works. The analysis indicates that the satire of the neopicaresque novel, like that of its antecedents, is concerned with unmasking the unreality of the social world, exploring themes of marginalisation and identity, and dramatising a perceived conflict between man and his society. The neopicaresque novels continue in the tradition of the picaresque genre, satirising analogous social issues of modernity, but do so with a strong connection to the specific postwar contexts of each of the nations in question. This analysis leads us to the conclusion that the formal features of picaresque writing are revived in the neopicaresque novels in response to particular postwar concerns about man, modern society, and the future of human civilisation.
Neo-Eocene
Creators: name: Kellhammer, Oliver
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Back in the mid-1960s, I was a feral sort of a child who loved scampering around construc-tion sites, climbing the huge, grey piles of excavated shale that were popping up all over my rapidly developing Toronto suburb. I might have been six or so when I first really noticed the slabs of muddy smelling rock often contained  the  imprints  of  scallop  shells,  snails,  and  fragments  of  coral,  things  I  recognized  from picture books but hadn’t yet seen in real life as we lived hundreds of miles from the near-est ocean. Yet 450 million years before, during the Ordovician era, where I was playing would have been the middle of a vast ocean whose limpid, tropical waters teemed with fantastic life forms such as giant, predatory sea scorpions and nautiloids that jetted through the primeval currents like living missiles. I knew this from visiting the Royal Ontario Museum’s brand new, McLuhan-inspired,  Hall  of  Invertebrate  Paleontology,  which  recreated  detailed  dioramas  of  life in Ontario’s ancient seas, complete with theatrical lighting and interactive, taped-looped narratives played through banks of telephone receivers
Thermoplasmonics: Quantifying plasmonic heating in single nanowires
Creators: name: Herzog, Joseph B.
name: Knight, Mark W.
name: Natelson, Douglas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Plasmonic absorption of light can lead to significant local heating in metallic nanostructures, an effect that defines the sub-field of thermoplasmonics and has been leveraged in diverse applications from biomedical technology to optoelectronics. Quantitatively characterizing the resulting local temperature increase can be very challenging in isolated nanostructures. By measuring the optically-induced change in resistance of metal nanowires with a transverse plasmon mode, we quantitatively determine the temperature increase in single nanostructures, with the dependence on incident polarization clearly revealing the plasmonic heating mechanism. Computational modeling explains the resonant and nonresonant contributions to the optical heating and the dominant pathways for thermal transport. These results, obtained by combining electronic and optical measurements, place a bound on the role of optical heating in prior experiments, and suggest design guidelines for engineered structures meant to leverage such effects.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures + 3 pages supporting material
International Climate Justice, Conflict and Gender – Scoping study
Creators: name: Duncanson, Claire
name: Bastick, Megan
name: Funnemark, Anne
Publisher: name: University of Edinburgh
Year: 2022
Subjects: climate change
climate justice
gender
conflict

description: Climate change, conflict and gender are mutually reinforcing dynamics that interact to destroy lives and livelihoods, especially for the most disadvantaged. From an analysis of Scottish Government work to date, and best practices in international policy and programming, this report suggests strategic policy opportunities through which the Scottish Government could boost its global roles in climate justice and gender equality, and contribute to peace and security.
Trace-Cameraless Records of Radioactive Contamination
Creators: name: Takeda, Shimpei
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: As an artist working with analog photographic techniques that are rapidly in decline, a native of Japan, and moreover being born in Fukushima prefecture, I took on a mission to create a physical record of the worst man-made nuclear accident in history.  A  photograph  can  be  created  by  electromagnetic  radiation  other  than  light.  Radiation  and visible light are similar forms of energy, they just travel in different wavelengths. Using cameraless processes, I want to capture the current state of Japan directly, by exposing photo-sensitive material to traces of radiation emitted from contaminated particles.  Through  visualizing  the  traces  into  visible  form,  the  resulting  images  will  speak  to  us  be-yond the photograph, and perhaps they will be a valuable asset and documentation for future generations.
Turismo de natureza acessível – percursos pedestres
Creators: name: Queiroz, António Lago
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: As actividades de natureza, como o montanhismo ou o pedestrianismo deixaram de ser vistas apenas como uma prática desportiva para um público restrito, para se transformarem progressivamente num enorme recurso turístico, movimentando actualmente milhões de pessoas por países dos cinco continentes. Esta realidade, perfeitamente consolidada noutros países da Europa, começa a dar os primeiros sinais efectivos no nosso país. Por outro lado, o conceito de acessibilidade e de um turismo para todos é cada vez mais assumido, não só como um dever social de integração, mas também como uma oportunidade de negócio, dado que os cidadãos portadores de alguma forma de incapacidade representam actualmente uma importante quota de potenciais clientes. Este facto é confirmado pela procura crescente de destinos turísticos acessíveis por parte de grupos com estas características, principalmente oriundos do mercado internacional. O Congresso de Turismo Acessível na Lousã veio de uma forma marcante sensibilizar vários agentes para estes temas. O presente artigo disserta sobre o Turismo de Natureza focado nos percursos pedestres e a Acessibilidade neste contexto, referindo o desafio que implica esta abordagem. Neste trabalho, são expostas duas iniciativas práticas que surgiram deste congresso e que demonstram o facto significativo desta reunião ter impulsionado num curto prazo de tempo o desenvolvimento de projectos concretos que em breve poderão ser implementados no terreno.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 11 (2009)
Near-Infrared Spectral Monitoring of Pluto's Ices II: Recent Decline of CO and N$_2$ Ice Absorptions
Creators: name: Grundy, W. M.
name: Olkin, C. B.
name: Young, L. A.
name: Holler, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IRTF/SpeX observations of Pluto's near-infrared reflectance spectrum during 2013 show vibrational absorption features of CO and N$_2$ ices at 1.58 and 2.15 μm, respectively, that are weaker than had been observed during the preceding decade. To reconcile declining volatile ice absorptions with a lack of decline in Pluto's atmospheric pressure, we suggest these ices could be getting harder to see because of increasing scattering by small CH$_4$ crystals, rather than because they are disappearing from the observed hemisphere.
description: 10 pages, 1 table, 2 figures
Velocity selector with a microwave magnetic dipole transition
Creators: name: Castaños, L. O.
name: Gomez, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We proposed a method based on microwave magnetic dipole transitions to prepare samples of atoms with well defined position and velocity. Each microwave pulse corresponds to a position measurement for the atoms and two pulses separated by a given delay result in a velocity measurement. The method gives velocity sensitivity approaching that obtained with Raman transitions but it is easier to implement. Moreover, it has the advantages that it also selects in position and has less demanding experimental requirements. The method can be demonstrated in a magneto-optical trap.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Factores de sucesso e propostas de acções para implementar o “turismo para todos”. Relevância económico-social
Creators: name: Peixoto, Nuno
name: Neumann, Peter
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: O Turismo tem-se vindo a tornar, nas últimas décadas, num dos mais importantes sectores de actividade económica, sendo também um dos com maior potencial de crescimento. “Turismo acessível para todos” significa fazer viagens e destinos, produtos e informação turística apropriada para todos aqueles que têm necessidades especiais ao nível da acessibilidade, os seus familiares e amigos, sem que nenhum sector ou grupo seja discriminado, devendo constituir uma realidade acessível em alojamento, transporte, isto em termos físicos, mas também, em termos de acesso às actividades, informação e comunicação. Pretende incentivar os industriais do turismo, ter em consideração as necessidades dos grupos que se confrontam com situações de desvantagem, pois, só assim todos poderão usufruir dos benefícios do turismo.(...)
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 11 (2009)
O projecto MIT – uma iniciativa de colaboração transfronteiriça com preocupações de acessibilidade
Creators: name: Katenholz, Elisabeth
name: Carvalho, Filipe
name: Pinho, Cláudia
name: Azevedo, Joana
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: O projecto “MIT – Mobilidade, Inovação e Território” enquadra-se nas iniciativas da Comunidade de Trabalho Castilla y León – Região Centro de Portugal, existente desde 1995, que tem por objectivo promover a valorização da realidade territorial das duas regiões através de iniciativas de colaboração.(...)
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 11 (2009)
Aus dem Briefwechsel Paul Usteris mit Naturforschern und Medizinern
Creators: name: Oechsli, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Kommissionsverlag von Beer & Cie.
Year: 1917
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
subject: 836 Deutsche Briefe
subject: 949 Geschichte anderer Teile Europas
subject: Zürich
subject: Usteri, Paulus
subject: Römer, Johann Jakob
subject: Briefsammlung
subject: Naturwissenschaften

description: Enthält: Übersicht über den gesamten Briefwechsel Paul Usteris ; Die botanischen und medizinischen Korrespondenten Usteris ; Aus dem Briefwechsel J. J. Römers und Paul Usteris
Backmatter
Creators: name: Ellsworth, Elisabeth (Ed.)
name: Kruse, Jamie (Ed.)
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Ellsworth and Kruse have curated a powerful collection of words and images, “speculative or aesthetic devices” designed to instigate a new economy of discernment. It incites by showcasing a host of geologic actants—rivers, shale, escarpments, volcanos, tectonic plates, glaciers, river deltas, riprap, mud, clay—at work around and within human bodies, machines, cities, identi-ties, architectures. Such “activations of geologic materiality”1 help to recompose the default perceptual regime, which had tended to overlook the geologic (except on special occasions) and to forget how thoroughly we ourselves are geo-creatures—Earthlings. We are Earthlings both in the sense that we need a host of other bodies (“the planet”) to live and in the sense that “we” are made of the same elements as is the planet. We are “walking, talking  minerals,”  redistributions  of  “oxygen,  hydrogen,  nitrogen,  carbon,  sulfur,  phospho-rous, and other elements of Earth’s crust into two-legged, upright forms.”2 Like wind or river, human individuals and groups are geologic forces that can alter the planet in countless and, as the concept of the Anthropocene marks, game-changing ways.
Prismatic Words: 'Passionate'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This introductory prismatic animation presents a phrase from Jane Eyre, Chapter 2, with translations into Greek by Polly Moschopoulou (1991), Dimitris Kikizas (1997) and Maria Exarchou (2011), researched by Eleni Philippou, and into Portuguese by Leyguarda Ferreira (1951), Maria das Mercês de Mendonça Soares (1974), and Alice Rocha (2011), researched by Ana Marques dos Santos. Full details of the translations quoted are in the PDF attached to this record. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
Iniciativa natureza para todos: o acesso universal às áreas protegidas portuguesas
Creators: name: Santo, Ricardo Espírito
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: Os Parques e as Reservas Naturais incluem nos seus territórios protegidos algumas das melhores paisagens portuguesas, promovendo oportunidades para contactar de perto com a natureza. É por este motivo que o Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e da Biodiversidade possui estruturas de visitação em todas as Áreas Protegidas. Estas, no entanto, não estão dimensionadas para acolher a diversidade da população, com as suas variadas capacidades e constrangimentos. Fomentar o acesso aos espaços naturais e às actividades de lazer e Turismo de Natureza constitui, por si mesmo, uma forma de melhorar a qualidade de vida e a igualdade de oportunidades de todos os cidadãos. A iniciativa Natureza para Todos tem por principal propósito orientar o processo de desenvolvimento dos Acessos Universais ao espaço natural e dinamizar o usufruto da Natureza, abrindo-a a novos públicos que dela estejam arredados. Do conjunto de princípios orientadores desta iniciativa, destacam-se a busca e promoção da transversalidade, o incentivo à multiplicação das medidas noutros espaços e por outras entidades, a utilização e melhoria da capacidade instalada, a realização de parcerias públicas e público-privadas, procurando uma orientação para obtenção de resultados na perspectiva de mercado, na aplicação do normativo e promoção da coesão europeia e na criação de valor através da inovação. A captação de parceiros e mecenas é o elemento chave para a velocidade e qualidade de implementação da iniciativa, bem como para a sua operacionalidade em termos de manutenção futura das estruturas.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 11 (2009)
Dirac-harmonic maps with torsion
Creators: name: Branding, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C27, 58E20, 58J20, 53C43

description: We study Dirac-harmonic maps from surfaces to manifolds with torsion, which is motivated from the superstring action considered in theoretical physics. We discuss analytic and geometric properties of such maps and outline an existence result for uncoupled solutions.
Rethinking the Nigerian/Biafran Civil War in Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun: A War Fought to Foster Unity or Genocide Against a Particular People
Creators: name: Johnkenedy Azubuike Ozoemena
name: Festus Uwakwe Ngwoke
name: Walter Ugwuagbo
name: Uchenna Ifeabunike
name: Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke
name: Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nigeria, Biafra, Genocide, Civil War.

description: Abstract

The thirty-month civil war fought between the Nigerian federal government and the secessionist Biafra from 1967 to 1970 has widely been justified by non-Igbo Nigerians, the aggressors, and foreigners as “a war fought to keep Nigeria one.” The aim of this article is therefore to examine the remote causes of the Nigerian/Biafran civil war and to ascertain whether or not this general mantra of keeping Nigeria one by wasting more than three million lives with property worth millions of pounds all from one tribe is a genocide. In this article the theory of new historicism and qualitative descriptive research methods are applied to examine this historical event from the perspectives of Chimamanda Adichie’s artistic recreation, but realistic representation of the Nigerian/Biafran war in her award-winning novel Half of a Yellow Sun. This article concludes that one of the causes of the Nigerian/Biafran civil war is the fear of political domination among the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria and that the war is a genocide against the Igbo nation, hence the definition of genocide by the United Nations, as any act committed with the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
Turismo accesible, turismo para todos en una ciudad patrimonio de la humanidad: el caso de Ávila
Creators: name: Arcos, F. Javier Melgosa
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: El derecho al ocio se concibe para todos los individuos sin discriminación alguna, y por ello, los poderes públicos estamos obligados a remover todos los impedimentos para que este derecho pueda ser real y efectivo. De acuerdo con los últimos datos disponibles, un 23% de la población Europea tiene problemas de movilidad permanente o parcial, cifra que se presume,seguirá incrementándose como consecuencia, sobre todo, del fuerte envejecimiento de la población.(...)
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 11 (2009)
Greek Returns: The Poetry of Nikos Karouzos
Creators: name: Skiadopoulos, Nick
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Nikos Karouzos had a communist teacher for a father and an orthodox priest for a grandfather. From his four years up to his high school gradua-tion he was incessantly educated, reading the entire private library of his granddad, comprising mainly the Orthodox Church Fathers and the an-cient classics. Later on in his life he sold the library for money, only to buy a little more time before he went broke again. Selling his only remaining capital for a few thousand drachmas, Karouzos traded not simply life, but language for poetry.  What twisted type of economy upholds this very decision? Can we speak of a certain investment, with specific returns? “I am talking about the fate of Lazarus: at once pauper and saved.” Nowadays – and ridiculously recently – we are more than apt to speak of a certain insouciance pertaining to the Greek form of expenditure: expendi-ture without any type of investment. This imprudent stance still conjures a “capital punishment”: each time, at each act of excess what is at stake is a caput, a head – the haunting dead metaphor for capital. Decapitation, as a road of no return, implies that capital is the condition for the possibility of returns – at least in this life. In that sense, the argument against imprudent economic conduct is not itself economic, but ethical if not ontological – Max Weber being our witness
O projecto “Lousã, destino de turismo acessível”: um estudo de caso da aplicação de uma abordagem sistémica ao turismo acessível
Creators: name: Fontes, António
name: Monteiro, Ivânia
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: Se o Turismo é um direito universal, então é-o também para as pessoas com incapacidade. A associação entre os conceitos de acessibilidade e de turismo dá lugar ao Turismo Acessível, uma definição complexa que não se limita apenas às pessoas com deficiência, como muitos ainda teimam em ver, e que não encontra em Portugal expressão significativa nos dias que correm. A complexidade das necessidades específicas ao turista com incapacidade obriga um qualquer Destino Turístico a reorganizar-se e a requalificar os serviços oferecidos no quadro de uma oferta turística comum. Esse efeito será obtido pela aplicação eficaz da abordagem sistémica na tarefa de o acessibilizar. O concelho da Lousã, pela tradição e pelo quadro de actores que conseguiu reunir em torno da iniciativa conjunta de acessibilizar o Destino Turístico, projecta ser um exemplo nacional de excelência em matéria de Turismo Acessível, justificando um olhar renovado sobre o turismo em Portugal.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 11 (2009)
Interface magnetic moments enhancement of FePt-L1$_0$/MgO(001): an ab-initio study
Creators: name: Cuadrado, R
name: Chantrell, R W
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interface between FePt--L1$_0$ and MgO(001) alloys has been studied using density functional calculations. Because the stacking of the face-centered tetragonal L1$_0$ phase is formed by alternating Fe and Pt planes, both the Fe- and Pt-terminated contact layers were studied. Furthermore, due to the large mismatch between the in-plane lattice constants of both systems, we have chosen some common $a$ values for both alloys in order to explore in detail the adsorption energy, the electronic structure and the interface magnetism. The adsorption energy has been calculated by subtracting the energy of clean FePt and MgO alloys from the total energy. The preferred adsorbed geometric sites for Fe/Pt atoms are when they lie on $top$ of the O species, having a smaller adsorption energy for the remaining positions. We found that expanding the MgO lattice enhances the magnetic moment of the Fe species but the Pt moments remain almost constant.
Selected Poems
Creators: name: Karouzos, Nikos
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Γιατί κρατούσαμε κάποτε ώς την πέμπτη μέρατο πασχαλινό πρόβατο;Τα κείμενα λένε: μ’ αυτού του θύματος το κρέαςέπρεπε να καθαρίσουμε όλες τις αισθήσεις.Για να δώσουμε κύμα στη ζωή λευκότατοθαυμάσιες ευωδιές στην έκταση του στήθους.Ιδανικά στο χάρο.Για να βλέπουμε τα λαμπράχαράματα του Άψινθου και να ’ναι η ψυχήστόλισμα βαθυχάρακτοτης πλώρης που την είπαμε θέληση.Τότε πολλές δορκάδες τρέχονταςανάμεσα στην καταπράσινηφύση με τους υδάτινους ύμνους,τότε, κατεβαίνοντας οι αθέλητοι άγγελοιμε κυλινδούμενο το ύψος στην ορμή τουςχαρίζονται της αστραφτερής Περιπέτειας.
Prismatic Words: 'Grande Passion'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This prismatic animation presents a phrase from Jane Eyre, Chapter 15, with multiple translations researched by Eugenia Kelbert, Céline Sabiron, Ana Teresa Marques dos Santos, Andrés Claro, Adriana X. Jacobs, Matthew Reynolds, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Jernej Habjan, Ida Klitgård, Kayvan Tahmasebian, and Ulrich Timme Kragh. Details of the translations quoted are in the PDF attached to this record. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
Phillip Stearns: DCP Series
Creators: name: Allen, Jamie
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: A collection of Images produced by intentionally corrupting the circuitry of a Kodak DC280 2 MP digitalcamera. By rewiring the electronics of a digital camera, glitched images are produced in a manner that parallels chemically processing unexposed film or photographic paper to pro-duce photographic images without exposure to light. The DCP Series of Digital Images are direct visualizations of data generated by a digital camera as it takes a picture. Electronic processes associated with the normal operations of the camera, which are usually taken for granted, are revealed through an act of intervention. The camera is turned insideout through complexes of shortcircuits, selected by the artist, transforming the camera from a picture taking device to a data capturing device that renders raw data (electronic signals) as images. In essence, these images are snapshots of electronic signals dancing through the camera’s circuits, manually rerouted, written directly to the onboard memory device. Rath-er than seeing images of the world through a lens, we catch a glimpse of what the camera sees when it is forced to peer inside its own mind.
Developing a european road map for accessible tourism policy
Creators: name: Ambrose, Ivor
Publisher: name: Journal of Tourism & Development
Year: 2009

description: The focus of this chapter is the development of a “Road Map” for accessible tourism policy,which has been described in a larger study of tourism policies in Europe, conducted in 2006-2007 by the founding partners of the European Network for Accessible Tourism, ENAT1 . That study, published in 2008 has been supplemented with some more recent information and analysis for the present paper. (...)
description: Journal of Tourism & Development, n.º 11 (2009)
Reflection groups in non-negative curvature
Creators: name: Fang, Fuquan
name: Grove, Karsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide an equivariant description/classification of all complete (compact or not) non-negatively curved manifolds M together with a co-compact action by a reflection group W, and moreover, classify such W. In particular, we show that the building blocks consist of the classical constant curvature models and generalized open books with non negatively curved bundle pages, and derive a corresponding splitting theorem for the universal cover.
description: 20 pages
Objects as Temporary Autonomous Zones
Creators: name: Morton, Timothy
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Autonomy  means  that  although  something  is  part  of  something  else,  or  related  to  it  in  some  way,  it  has  its  own  “law”  or  “tendency”  (Greek,  no-mos). In their book on life sciences, Medawar and Medawar state, “Organs and  tissues  [...]  are  composed  of  cells  which  [...]  have  a  high  measure  of  autonomy.” Autonomy  also  has  ethical  and  political  valences.  De  Grazia  writes, “In Kant’s enormously influential moral philosophy, autonomy, or free-dom from the causal determinism of nature, became prominent in justifying the human use of animals.” One of the oldest uses of autonomy in English is a description of the French civil war from the late sixteenth century: “Others of the [...] rebellion entred in counsell, whether they ought to admit the King vpon reasonable conditions, specially hauing their autonomy.” Life, and in particular human life, and in particular human politics, is well served by the usages of autonomy. What about the rest of reality, however? Should it be thought of, if it’s even considered real and mind-independent, as pure stuff for the manipulation or decorative tastes of truly autonomous beings?  We  tend  to  think  of  things  such  as  paperweights  and  iPhones  as  mere tools of human design and human use. To use them is to cause them to exist as fully and properly as they can. But according to Martin Heidegger, when a tool such as a paperweight is used, it disappears, or withdraws (Ent-zug).  We  are  preoccupied  with  copying  the  page  that  the  paperweight  is  holding  down.  We  are  concerned  with  an  essay  deadline,  and  the  paper-weight simply disappears into this general project. If the paperweight slips, or  if  the  iPhone  freezes,  we  might  notice  it.  All  of  a  sudden  it  becomes  vorhanden (present-at-hand) rather than zuhanden (ready-to-hand).
Prismatic Words: 'Picture of Passion'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This prismatic animation presents a phrase from Jane Eyre, Chapter 1, with multiple translations researched by Eugenia Kelbert, Céline Sabiron, Ana Teresa Marques dos Santos, Andrés Claro, Paola Gaudio, Adriana X. Jacobs, Matthew Reynolds, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, and Jernej Habjan. Details of the translations quoted are in the PDF attached to this record. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
title: Environmental lead exposure assessment for children from pre-1970's housing in St. John's, NL
Creators: name: Pickard, Felicia
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2024

description: Environmental media samples from residential properties throughout St. John’s, NL were collected to examine the amount of lead contamination across housing age categories, as previous studies indicated that environmental lead levels on residential properties are above national guidelines, particularly on older properties. Methods: Environmental media samples were collected from properties participating in the study. 194 study households were sampled, representing 249 participants aged 6 months to 6 years. These included soil, indoor dust, indoor tap water, interior and exterior paint chips and garden produce samples. Statistical analyses examined the relationship between housing age category and strong-acid extractable lead levels in media samples, as well as, between media and existing data on children's blood lead levels. A bioaccessibility analysis was also undertaken for soil lead. Results: Significantly higher (p <0.0001) near-total lead concentrations were found for pre-1970 homes compared to reference post-1980 homes for dust, soil, water post-stagnation and paint. Overall the lead content of household floor dust was found to be correlated with concentrations in paint chips and soil, and to be weakly correlated to children’s blood lead levels (p <0.0001, r = 0.13). There was also a weak relationship on correlation analysis for tap water stagnation levels 1,2 and 4 and blood lead levels, as well as for our housing age category of pre-1970. Results of a 1 M HNO3 bioaccessibility method had a strong positively correlation to near-total lead concentrations, and only weakly correlated to other soil properties of CEC content: Mg and K for dripline soil samples. Conclusion: There are elevated levels of lead in indoor dust, soils and tap water of residential properties throughout St. John’s, which may represent an exposure risk to children’s health.
An Exchange-Coupled Donor Molecule in Silicon
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Zalba, M. Fernando
name: Saraiva, André
name: Heiss, Dominik
name: Calderón, Maria J.
name: Koiller, Belita
name: Ferguson, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Donors in silicon, conceptually described as hydrogen atom analogues in a semiconductor environment, have become a key ingredient of many "More-than-Moore" proposals such as quantum information processing [1-5] and single-dopant electronics [6, 7]. The level of maturity this field has reached has enabled the fabrication and demonstration of transistors that base their functionality on a single impurity atom [8, 9] allowing the predicted single-donor energy spectrum to be checked by an electrical transport measurement. Generalizing the concept, a donor pair may behave as a hydrogen molecule analogue. However, the molecular quantum mechanical solution only takes us so far and a detailed understanding of the electronic structure of these molecular systems is a challenge to be overcome. Here we present a combined experimental-theoretical demonstration of the energy spectrum of a strongly interacting donor pair in the channel of a silicon nanotransistor and show the first observation of measurable two-donor exchange coupling. Moreover, the analysis of the three charge states of the pair shows evidence of a simultaneous enhancement of the binding and charging energies with respect to the single donor spectrum. The measured data are accurately matched by results obtained in an effective mass theory incorporating the Bloch states multiplicity in Si, a central cell corrected donor potential and a full configuration interaction treatment of the 2-electron spectrum. Our data describe the basic 2-qubit entanglement element in Kane's quantum processing scheme [1], namely exchange coupling, implemented here in the range of molecular hybridization.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
O desenvolvimento do turismo acessível: dos argumentos sociais aos argumentos de mercado
Creators: name: Devile, Eugénia Lima
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: A reflexão sobre as questões associadas à melhoria da qualidade de vida e à igualdade de oportunidades das pessoas com incapacidade tem vindo chamar a debate a participação das pessoas com incapacidade nas actividades turísticas e de lazer. Assim, a discussão em torno dos aspectos que contribuem para a construção e promoção de uma sociedade mais inclusiva tem tido reflexos também no domínio do turismo, ao mesmo tempo que se verifica um consenso cada vez maior no facto de o turismo ser um bem social de primeira necessidade, que constitui um aspecto essencial na qualidade de vida, devendo por isso estar ao alcance de todas as pessoas, independentemente das suas condições físicas, económicas ou sociais.(...)
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 11 (2009)
Development and Evaluation of Physico-Chemical Properties of Functionalized Cannabis indica Fibers Reinforced Bio-Polymer Composites
Creators: name: Rana, Ashvinder K.
name: Singha, Amar S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: The objective of this research work is to evaluate the variation in mechanical, thermal, dielectric and physico-chemical properties of Cannabis indica fibers fortified unsaturated polyester composites with respect to fiber proportions and type of surface functionalization techniques employed. The various surface functionalization techniques utilized were mercerization and silane, benzoyl chloride and acrylic acid/acrylonitrile graft copolymerization. To optimize fibers proportions, portrayal of polymer composites has been done by considering their mechanical properties like tensile, compressive and flexural strength, and the optimized values have been noted to be 22.66, 51.7 and 53.27 MPa, respectively, when stacked with 30% benzoylated fibers. These composite materials have additionally been assessed for their water absorbance, chemical strength and dampness absorbance behavior, and best properties were observed in case of benzoyl chloride and acrylonitrile grafted fibers. The optimized samples were then characterized by scanning electron microscopy and thermal gravimetric analysis techniques. Additionally, these composites have likewise been assessed for their dielectric properties and combustibility. Furthermore, the ability of magnesium hydroxide and zinc borate fire retardant fillers on the fire resistance properties of Cannabis indica fibers fortified polyester composites has also been examined and was noticed to increase the limiting oxygen index values of polymer composites from 20 to 23%.
The Afterlives of Queer Theory
Creators: name: O'Rourke, Michael
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Post-Continental Queer TheoryIn an interview with Paul Ennis in Post-Continental Voices, Adrian Ivakhiv is asked about his opinion concerning the future of post-continental philoso-phy and he responds that:In an increasingly global context, I’m not sure if either ‘continental phi-losophy’ or “analytical philosophy” have much of a future except as car-riers of certain legacies; they’re carry-overs from a time when philosophy seemed exclusive to the North Atlantic world. In a globally mediated, technologically shaped world of shifting and intersecting biocultural contexts, philosophy will have to be more hybrid, viral, and shapeshifting if it’s to remain efficacious as a motivating and inspirational force for cos-mopolitical world-making – which, to my mind, is what lies ahead of us.
Surface Thermal and Moisture Behavior of Wool Fabrics Treated with Hydrogen Peroxide
Creators: name: Lin, Ling
name: Wang, Chunxia
name: Mao, Haiyan
name: Wu, Huanling
name: Ma, Zhipeng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: Understanding the surface comfort of wool fabrics with modified surface is essential for the application of wool. This work aims to reveal the surface wettability and the surface thermal and moisture behavior of wool fabrics modified by hydrogen peroxide with different concentrations. The water absorbing time and wetting area of the treated fabrics were recorded, and the wick heights were measured to understand the surface wettability of the modified wool fabrics. The thermal resistance and moisture resistance of the treated fabrics were tested, and the dynamic changes of the surface temperature and humidity were traced. It has found that the surface of treated wool fabrics become hydrophilic with enhanced wettability, and the thermal and moisture resistance are enhanced to some extent. Besides, the surface temperature of treated wool fabrics was higher while the relative humidity was lower than untreated in a dynamic moisture liberation process. The results suggested that the concentration of hydrogen peroxide has a significant impact on the surface wettability and thermal and moisture behavior of the treated wool fabrics. This work will provide insights on exploring the application of wool as wettable textiles, such as summer clothing and sportwear.