A preliminary study of two village tanks (reservoirs) in the Polonnaruwa area with biological notes on these reservoirs in Ceylon

The present study was initiated in conjunction with a project to utilize some of these small tanks as fishponds by introducing desirable species like Tilapia mossambica Peters and harvesting them at the end of a single season which may vary from 4-8 months depending on the reservoir. Two reservoirs Timbirigaswewa and Dalukanawewa were chosen for this study. Both of these are in the Polonnaruwa area (Fig. 1). Timbirigaswewa (Fig 4) is as all rain fed tank of about 30 acres while Dalukanawewa (Fig. 2) is stream fed with an acreage of just over 100.

Spanish Sociology and Anti-Semitism Between passed prejudice and key to civilization

There is a significant lack of sociological research in Spain about anti-Semitism. At the same time there are alarming anti-Semitic tendencies and anti-Jewish stereotypes which are above the European average. This article aims to explain this lack of sociological research about anti-Semitism in Spain. Therefore two types of explications are offered: on the one hand side some structural problems will be shown which sociology in general had since its beginnings and which complicate the understanding of anti-Semitism. Furthermore explications regarding the specific social and historic situation in Spain and of Spanish sociology in particular will be exposed. It will be shown that for its rationalistic character and with the exception of very few authors – who are considered marginalized for practical research – sociology in general has had enormous problems in understanding anti-Semitism. The specific historic situation, Francoism, the dispute about the historic memory and the delayed institutionalisation of sociology could also explain the lack of sociological interest in the topic especially in Spain. The article shows that the study of anti-Semitism is not only relevant for struggling against this burden of society in many of its variants. Furthermore, thinking about anti-Semitism can help sociology to recognise its own epistemological problems. It can serve to criticise and improve instruments of sociological research by showing the limitations of the sociological approach and to uncover the importance of interdisciplinary research for understanding specific social phenomena. In that sense, anti-Semitism, far from being a marginal subject, can be considered a key topic in the process of civilisation and it can help us to decipher the contemporary Spanish society.

Histoire romaine

UANL

Filosofía y literatura: la experiencia estética en Estanislao Zuleta

Dos son los principales propósitos de esta investigación: por un lado, dar cuenta de la manera en que Estanislao Zuleta hizo filosofía desde la literatura, y, por otro, destacar como consecuencia principal de un hacer filosófico tan particular la presencia en la obra de Zuleta de una inconclusa teoría estética. En procura de cumplir estos objetivos, tres serán los derroteros a seguir: primero, desde el concepto de Lebenswelt y la noción freudiana de sublimación, justificar la compleja relación que tiene lugar entre vida, literatura y filosofía en el pensador colombiano. Segundo, definir el criticismo de Zuleta desde una lectura de Kant semejante a la de la “ontología del presente” de Foucault para mostrar cómo desde allí la literatura obtiene un privilegiado lugar en la reflexión filosófica de la modernidad. En tercer lugar, ver cómo desde la novela moderna y la lectura cruzada que hace Zuleta de Marx y Freud es posible justificar una noción de experiencia estética según la cual la literatura, como el arte en general, ofrece la posibilidad de reconocer la identidad cultural e individual de forma autónoma y crítica. La construcción de esta noción de experiencia estética atravesará el conjunto de la exposición revelando y articulando paulatinamente el concepto de sublimación de Freud, la estética kantiana, el concepto de transfiguración artística común a Nietzsche y Heidegger y las estrechas relaciones que guardan las nociones de historia y trabajo en Marx con el concepto de elaboración de Freud.

Identidad, educación e investigación en la universidad : elementos para una discusión

El presente trabajo se orienta al rescate del sujeto y de la subjetividad en aras de la individuación. Se parte de hacer una reflexión sobre la identidad personal enmarcada en los procesos de transformación contemporáneos.

sector cultural de esparcimiento en Colombia Actividades de las industrias culturales y del esparcimiento y su contribución al producto interno bruto colombiano

A partir de tales consideraciones las ciencias sociales en todo el mundo plantearon un conjunto de nuevos interrogantes respecto a la dinámica económica de la cultura. Ello en respuesta a la creciente necesidad de los agentes gubernamentales

Rotational spectra induced by vibrations

Mizushima and Venkateswarlu showed in 1953 that certain molecules have the property that excited vibrational states may possess rotational spectra even when the rotational spectrum of the ground vibrational state is forbidden by symmetry. We call such a spectrum a vibrationally induced rotational spectrum, and have made a systematic examination of the point groups which permit such behaviour. We also give formulae for the approximate line frequencies and intensities in these spectra, and discuss some of the problems involved in observing them. The spectra can only arise from degenerate vibrational states, and are of three possible types: i) symmetric top perpendicular spectra, shown by molecules belonging to the point groups Dnh, Dn and Cnh, where n is odd; (ii) symmetric top parallel spectra, shown by molecules belonging to Dnd and S2n, where n is even; and (iii) spherical top spectra, shown by molecules belonging to T or Td. Excited vibrational states of polar molecules of point groups Cnv or Cn, where n is odd, may also possess vibrationally induced perpendicular components of type (i), in addition to their ordinary parallel spectra. In addition to the above limitations on the point groups there are, in general, limitations on the symmetry species of the degenerate vibrational states.

Die bevorstehenden Reichstagswahlen

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Was brachten uns die Landtagswahlen?

W.

Les puissances étrangères dans le Levant, en Syrie et en Palestine [Rezension]

F. W.

Neue Vereine zur Kolonisation Palästinas

F. W.

Lecho-Daudi

Benjamin Segel