The Legacy of Frankenstein’s Creature: Monstrosity and Female Grotesque in Mary Shelley, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson

This English Literature thesis (European PhD EDGES – Women’s and Gender Studies – 34th cycle) is an investigation into the representation of the monstrous body according to the British writers Mary Shelley, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. The main objective is to observe how the representation of the categories of monstrous, abject and grotesque in Western cultural imagination have been influenced across time and literary genres. In the novels of Shelley, Carter and Winterson, the monstrous subject is configured as an alternative to the anthropocentric ideal embodied by the normative subject, of which Victor Frankenstein is the paradigmatic exponent. Plus, there are places considered anti-topoi within which the monster acquires a situatedness and claims a voice, generating an opposed counter-narrative to the imaginary conveyed by the normative subject. Monstrosity outlined by Shelley in the novels Frankenstein and The Last Man constitutes the starting point of my research, aiming to observe how the discourse of the normative body vs. the anti-normative body intersects with the discourse of the spaces of the centre vs. the spaces of the margin. In Carter's novels The Passion of New Eve and Nights at the Circus, the monstrous female constitutes the embodiment of wills, desires and claims challenging the heteronormative system. The space of otherness in which Carter's monster-woman is confined becomes a possibility of reshaping identity for the Subject, deconstructing the logic of power that moulded her within society. Finally, Winterson creates two monstrous women in Sexing the Cherry and The Passion who move through urban spaces, going from the centre to the margins and testifying to the arbitrariness of the system and its weaknesses. Similarly, in Frankissstein, Winterson recovers Shelley's original novel and transforms it into a parodic and intertextual speculation on the fluidity of identity and the limits of transhumanism.

The Legacy of Lolita: A Literary Genre of Pedophilia?

This thesis analyzes four works of fiction that portray a pedophilic relationship in order to establish whether we can identify what might be called a genre of pedophilia in literature. In the last decade, books about the topic have been published with great success, so it would seem that there is a need to classify and define the genre of pedophilia. To answer the question I started with the novel Lolita (1955), by Vladimir Nabokov, which is the most famous work of literary fiction on the topic of pedophilia. In my analysis of this text, I tried to show how this novel has laid the ground plan, as it were, for the genre. I then analyzed three contemporary novels: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (2016) by Bryn Greenwood, My Absolute Darling (2017) by Gabriel Tallent and My Dark Vanessa (2020) by Kate Elizabeth Russell, and compared them with Lolita to find the essential elements that constitute the genre of pedophilia. The analysis showed that there were many elements, mostly themes, which the contemporary novels had in common with Lolita, which helped classify the genre of pedophilia as both transgressive and romantic fiction. But while the three contemporary novels share many aspects with Lolita, they also bring into play themes such as female desire, and a resistance to seeing the female as only victim, with little agency. While the most important aspect is that the work of fiction must show the evolution, from the beginning to the end, of a sentimental relationship and sexual acts between an adult and a child, the contemporary novels of this genre take this basic trait – particularly All the Ugly and Wonderful Things -- in surprisingly transgressive directions of their own.

A Rosetta Stone For Nature's Benefits To People.

After a long incubation period, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is now underway. Underpinning all its activities is the IPBES Conceptual Framework (CF), a simplified model of the interactions between nature and people. Drawing on the legacy of previous large-scale environmental assessments, the CF goes further in explicitly embracing different disciplines and knowledge systems (including indigenous and local knowledge) in the co-construction of assessments of the state of the world's biodiversity and the benefits it provides to humans. The CF can be thought of as a kind of Rosetta Stone that highlights commonalities between diverse value sets and seeks to facilitate crossdisciplinary and crosscultural understanding. We argue that the CF will contribute to the increasing trend towards interdisciplinarity in understanding and managing the environment. Rather than displacing disciplinary science, however, we believe that the CF will provide new contexts of discovery and policy applications for it.

Transmissão psíquica transgeracional e construção de subjetividade: relato de uma psicoterapia psicanalítica vincular

O presente artigo tem como objetivo refletir acerca do conceito de transmissão psíquica entre gerações, especificamente de uma modalidade - a transmissão psíquica transgeracional - e sua influência na construção das subjetividades individuais e dos vínculos familiares, enfatizando-se aqui o vínculo mãe-filha como gerador de sintomas na criança e conflitos no âmbito familiar, através de um relato clínico de uma psicoterapia psicanalítica vincular, segundo os referenciais de Eiguer (2006) e Berenstein e Puget (1997, 2005). A apresentação do caso clínico permite discutir, ainda, a relação entre a transmissão psíquica transgeracional e o estabelecimento da “maternagem”, bem como os resultados obtidos ao longo de todo o processo psicoterápico. A finalidade desse espaço terapêutico familiar é a de propiciar transformações frente ao legado geracional, promovendo o surgimento de uma subjetividade nova, impulsionadora de vida.

As vivências: questões de tradução, sentidos e fontes epistemológicas no legado de Vigotski

O objetivo deste artigo é abordar a questão das vivências na perspectiva de L.S. Vigotski, tratando de suas fontes epistemológicas, de suas raízes na língua russa e de seus sentidos específicos, priorizando "A Tragédia do Hamlet, Príncipe da Dinamarca" (1916) e os textos pedológicos dos anos 1930, com destaque para "A questão do meio na pedologia". Destacam-se as transformações das ideias do autor sobre vivências e sua contribuição metodológica à  análise da relação indivíduo-meio no desenvolvimento humano, articulada aos conceitos de consciência e sistema.

Procedimentos coletivos de saúde bucal: gênese, apogeu e ocaso

Descreve-se o surgimento e o que significaram para a política nacional de saúde bucal os procedimentos coletivos (PC) de saúde bucal, introduzidos em 1992 e extintos em 2006. Realizou-se pesquisa bibliográfica e análise documental. Criados no governo Collor (1990-1992) como elemento central da sua política de saúde bucal, os PC pretendiam reverter o modelo assistencial cirúrgico-restaurador e extinguir o TC (tratamento completado) como instrumento para remuneração do setor, visando a possibilitar que estados e municípios fossem remunerados por ações preventivas. Durante os anos 1990, os PC ocuparam lugar de destaque nas ações de saúde bucal no SUS, impulsionando, sob apoio financeiro, as ações de promoção e prevenção em centenas de municípios. Mas a sua vinculação com os mecanismos de transferência de recursos, tida inicialmente como um avanço, foi tirando a sua característica de instrumento potente para mudar o modelo de atenção. Não obstante as dificuldades e limitações, sua criação e amplo emprego representaram um esforço para alterar substancialmente o modelo de prática odontológica predominante no setor público, redirecionando-o para ações preventivas e de promoção da saúde, o que se tornou seu principal legado.

Charles Darwin goes to school: the role of cartoons and narrative in setting science in an historical context

Science education is under revision. Recent changes in society require changes in education to respond to new demands. Scientific literacy can be considered a new goal of science education and the epistemological gap between natural sciences and literacy disciplines must be overcome. The history of science is a possible bridge to link these `two cultures` and to foster an interdisciplinary approach in the classroom. This paper acknowledges Darwin`s legacy and proposes the use of cartoons and narrative expositions to put this interesting chapter of science into its historical context. A five-lesson didactic sequence was developed to tell part of the story of Darwin`s expedition through South America for students from 10 to 12 years of age. Beyond geological and biological perspectives, the inclusion of historical, social and geographical facts demonstrated the beauty and complexity of the findings that Darwin employed to propose the theory of evolution.

A safety assessment methodology applied to CNS/ATM-based air traffic control system

In the last decades, the air traffic system has been changing to adapt itself to new social demands, mainly the safe growth of worldwide traffic capacity. Those changes are ruled by the Communication, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) paradigm, based on digital communication technologies (mainly satellites) as a way of improving communication, surveillance, navigation and air traffic management services. However, CNS/ATM poses new challenges and needs, mainly related to the safety assessment process. In face of these new challenges, and considering the main characteristics of the CNS/ATM, a methodology is proposed at this work by combining ""absolute"" and ""relative"" safety assessment methods adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in ICAO Doc.9689 [14], using Fluid Stochastic Petri Nets (FSPN) as the modeling formalism, and compares the safety metrics estimated from the simulation of both the proposed (in analysis) and the legacy system models. To demonstrate its usefulness, the proposed methodology was applied to the ""Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcasting"" (ADS-B) based air traffic control system. As conclusions, the proposed methodology assured to assess CNS/ATM system safety properties, in which FSPN formalism provides important modeling capabilities, and discrete event simulation allowing the estimation of the desired safety metric. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Prevalence of peripheral arterial disease: persistence of excess risk in former smokers

Objective: To determine the age-standardised prevalence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and associated risk factors, particularly smoking. Method: Design: Cross-sectional survey of a randomly selected population. Setting: Metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. Participants: Men aged between 65-83 years. Results: The adjusted response fraction was 77.2%. Of 4,470 men assessed, 744 were identified as having PAD by the Edinburgh Claudication Questionnaire and/or the ankle-brachial index of systolic blood pressure, yielding an age-standardised prevalence of PAD of 15.6% (95% confidence intervals (CI): 14.5%, 16.6%). The main risk factors identified in univariate analyses were increasing age, smoking current (OR=3.9, 95% CI 2.9-5.1) or former (OR=2.0, 95% CI 1.6-2.4), physical inactivity (OR=1.4, 95% CI 1.2-1.7), a history of angina (OR=2.2, 95% CI 1.8-2.7) and diabetes mellitus (OR=2.1, 95% CI 1.7-2.6). The multivariate analysis showed that the highest relative risk associated with PAD was current smoking of 25 or more cigarettes daily (OR=7.3, 95% CI 4.2-12.8). In this population, 32% of PAD was attributable to current smoking and a further 40% was attributable to past smoking by men who did not smoke currently. Conclusions: This large observational study shows that PAD is relatively common in older, urban Australian men. In contrast with its relationship to coronary disease and stroke, previous smoking appears to have a long legacy of increased risk of PAD. Implications: This research emphasises the importance of smoking as a preventable cause of PAD.

The John Dewey`s epistemology and informational literacy

The `reflexive thinking` concept is discussed in this article as a means of contextualizing John Dewey`s intellectual legacy. `Reflection` represents a fundamental element for the construction of the necessary competences to information seeking and use, and consequently to individual and collective development. Since the reflexive thinking habit in information literacy is a way of learning, some questions concerning teaching and learning processes are also investigated. The discussion is, therefore, supported by the supposition that reflexive thinking is a cognitive strategy that allows a deeper comprehension of related problems, phenomena, and processes by means of the perception of the relations and the identification of involved elements, as well as the analysis and interpretation of meanings, empowering the information literacy process.

Data grid for the management, reconstruction, analysis and visualisation of archaeological data

In 2007 Associate Professor Jay Hall retires from the University of Queensland after more than 30 years of service to the Australian archaeological community. Celebrated as a gifted teacher and a pioneer of Queensland archaeology, Jay leaves a rich legacy of scholarship and achievement across a wide range of archaeological endeavours. An Archæological Life brings together past and present students, colleagues and friends to celebrate Jay’s contributions, influences and interests.

Opportunity cost of ad hoc marine reserve design decisions: an example from South Australia

Like many states and territories, South Australia has a legacy of marine reserves considered to be inadequate to meet current conservation objectives. In this paper we configured exploratory marine reserve systems, using the software MARXAN, to examine how efficiently South Australia's existing marine reserves contribute to quantitative biodiversity conservation targets. Our aim was to compare marine reserve systems that retain South Australia's existing marine reserves with reserve systems that are free to either ignore or incorporate them. We devised a new interpretation of irreplaceability to identify planning units selected more than could be expected from chance alone. This is measured by comparing the observed selection frequency for an individual planning unit with a predicted selection frequency distribution. Knowing which sites make a valuable contribution to efficient marine reserve system design allows us to determine how well South Australia's existing reserves contribute to reservation goals when representation targets are set at 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 and 50% of conservation features. Existing marine reserves that tail to contribute to efficient marine reserve systems constitute 'opportunity costs'. We found that despite spanning less than 4% of South Australian state waters, locking in the existing ad hoc marine reserves presented considerable opportunity costs. Even with representation targets set at 50%, more than halt of South Australia's existing marine reserves were selected randomly or less in efficient marine reserve systems. Hence, ad hoc marine reserve systems are likely to be inefficient and may compromise effective conservation of marine biodiversity.

A economia clássica contra os fatos ou Sismondi entre os ricardianos

O artigo trata do debate ocorrido entre Sismondi e os economistas ricardianos, na primeira metade do século dezenove, a respeito do equilíbrio dos mercados, do papel da competição e dos efeitos da maquinaria nas sociedades industriais. A seção inicial reconstitui os principais termos do discurso crítico de Sismondi direcionado à ortodoxia clássica. A seguir, detalham-se as respostas elaboradas por McCulloch e Torrens em defesa da livre concorrência, do caráter ilimitado da demanda e do avanço da mecanização na atividade produtiva. A terceira seção considera a argumentação posterior de Sismondi na qual ele reitera sua teoria das crises de superprodução a partir de uma abordagem histórica do capitalismo. Ao final, procede-se a uma breve avaliação da herança ricardiana à economia política em vista da controvérsia examinada.

Reflexões sobre a apropriação de objetos na arte contemporânea

Nesta dissertação discutimos os movimentos em torno da temática da apropriação evidenciando o deslocamento do objeto de uso comum para o campo da arte em três movimentos paradigmáticos: o Dadaísmo, o Surrealismo e o Novo Realismo, e seus desdobramentos na arte contemporânea no sentido de legado cultural. Permitimo-nos transitar pelas demais vertentes dos processos de apropriação na arte nova-iorquina e europeia seguindo as propostas da arte com objetos. Investigamos os processos envolvidos nas controvérsias do ready-made, executado por Marcel Duchamp desde 1913, para dar partida ao percurso histórico das manifestações onde ocorre o objet trouvé, a colagem e a assemblagem. Nosso objetivo é responder à pergunta com a qual o filósofo Arthur C. Danto inicia suas investigações filosóficas acerca das apropriações e condições que fazem de um objeto comum uma obra de arte. Para tanto buscamos as teorias de Abrahan Moles e Jean Baudrillard acerca do objeto industrializado e Roland Barthes com as questões metalingüísticas de sua função-signo. Para discutir tais relações da arte com os objetos, recorremos aos textos de Peter Bürger, André Breton, Pierre Restany, Gregory Battcock, Walter Benjamin, Hal Foster e outros. Destacamos alguns trabalhos artísticos, evidenciando o objeto caixa, tratado como um utilitário com forma e finalidade definidas, reafirmando-se como objeto de consumo, no discurso sobre a poética do espaço de Gaston Bachelard. A pesquisa propõe analisar as transformações radicais das estruturas conservadoras da arte e especular sobre o gesto de apropriação dos objetos, com algumas reflexões direcionadas sobre o objeto e a transgressividade da apropriação como experiência de tensão e poder.

Combining Formal Methods and Functional Strategies Regarding the Reverse Engineering of Interactive Applications

Abstract. Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) make software easy to use by providing the user with visual controls. Therefore, correctness of GUI’s code is essential to the correct execution of the overall software. Models can help in the evaluation of interactive applications by allowing designers to concentrate on its more important aspects. This paper describes our approach to reverse engineer an abstract model of a user interface directly from the GUI’s legacy code. We also present results from a case study. These results are encouraging and give evidence that the goal of reverse engineering user interfaces can be met with more work on this technique.