Searches for long-lived charged particles in pp collisions at □ =7 and 8 TeV

Abstract: Results of searches for heavy stable charged particles produced in pp collisions at □ = 7 and 8 TeV are presented corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb-1 and 18.8 fb-1, respectively. Data collected with the CMS detector are used to study the momentum, energy deposition, and time-of-flight of signal candidates. Leptons with an electric charge between e/3 and 8e, as well as bound states that can undergo charge exchange with the detector material, are studied. Analysis results are presented for various combinations of signatures in the inner tracker only, inner tracker and muon detector, and muon detector only. Detector signatures utilized are long time-of-flight to the outer muon system and anomalously high (or low) energy deposition in the inner tracker. The data are consistent with the expected background, and upper limits are set on the production cross section of long-lived gluinos, scalar top quarks, and scalar τ leptons, as well as pair produced long-lived leptons. Corresponding lower mass limits, ranging up to 1322 GeV/c 2 for gluinos, are the most stringent to date. [Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2013 Cern for the benefit of the CMS collaboration.

Measurement of the λb 0 lifetime in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV

A measurement of the λb 0 lifetime using the decay λb 0-1, was recorded with the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider using triggers that selected dimuon events in the J/ψ mass region. The λb 0 lifetime is measured to be 1.503 ± 0.052 (stat.) ± 0.031 (syst.) ps. [Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2013 Cern for the benefit of the CMS collaboration.

Search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV

A search for microscopic black holes and string balls is presented, based on a data sample of pp collisions at √s=8 TeV recorded by the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 12 fb-1. No excess of events with energetic multiparticle final states, typical of black hole production or of similar new physics processes, is observed. Given the agreement of the observations with the expected standard model background, which is dominated by QCD multijet production, 95% confidence level limits are set on the production of semiclassical or quantum black holes, or of string balls, corresponding to the exclusions of masses below 4.3 to 6.2 TeV, depending on model assumptions. In addition, model-independent limits are set on new physics processes resulting in energetic multiparticle final states. [Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2013 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration.

A leitura do fantástico nos contos Ligeia de Edgard Allan Poe, e Véra, de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A tradução poética: Contes cruels de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

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L'Amour dácadent em dramas de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam e Maurice Maeterlinck

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

A voz baudelairiana em Fleurs de Ténèbres de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam

Este estudo tem o objetivo de apresentar uma análise do conto “Fleurs de Ténèbres” publicado na obra Contes cruels (1883) de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (1838-1889). O trabalho visa, ainda, de forma particular, destacar elementos que permitem apontar relações de aproximação entre o conto villieriano e os poemas em prosa “La corde” e “Le tir et le cimetière” de Charles Baudelaire. Com efeito, a influência baudelairiana na escritura de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam diz respeito tanto aos procedimentos estilísticos quanto ao idealismo filosófico.

Souvenirs occultes de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam: um conto poético

Apoiando-se na análise do conto “Souvenirs occultes” recolhido na obra Contes cruels (1883) de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (1839-1888), este trabalho tem a intenção de abordar alguns aspectos gerais da prosa poética do autor, tais como a estrutura formal circular característica da poesia, algumas imagens construídas pela sugestão e jogo de palavras, a questão do ponto de vista e algumas características do tempo, do espaço e do herói que revelam a presença de alguns mitos na obra. O conto “Souvenirs occultes” ilustra bem a osmose que se operou entre os gêneros no século XIX; com efeito, o poema em prosa com o título nervaliano “El Desdichado”, de Villiers, representa um esquemada versão defi nitiva do conto “Souvenirs occultes”, no qual cada uma das três estrofes do poema será retomada e desenvolvida. A análise vertical do texto, isto é, aquela em que procuramos depreender os sinais presentes nas palavras e símbolos por ele empregados, mostra, de fato, um autor brilhante que consegue, por meio da elaboração da linguagem, conduzir, o tempo todo, o leitor pela ambigüidade e dele demanda árduo trabalho para que desvende a segunda narrativa construída sob seu discurso simbólico. Palavras-chave: Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. “Souvenirs occultes”. Contes cruels. Literatura francesa. Simbolismo. Prosa poética.

Véra de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam: máscara de uma crítica social

A proposta deste trabalho é apresentar uma análise do discurso simbólico de “Véra” de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, conto publicado, em sua versão definitiva, na obra Contes Cruels, em 1883. Villiers é considerado, por muitos teóricos, precursor do movimento simbolista na França e um dos maiores autores do gênero fantástico da segunda metade do século XIX. Assim, a maior parte das análises do conto insistem no elemento fantástico. Contudo, a prosa poética e o discurso fantástico – de natureza onírica, metafórica e ambígua – dos quais o autor faz uso, revelam uma crítica feroz à sociedade de seu tempo. Herói, narrador e autor se fundem para apresentar uma busca por um mundo ideal e, ao mesmo tempo, exprimir subtilmente uma crítica aos valores da sociedade burguesa. Com um discurso concentrado em sua composição, no qual cada palavra é escolhida de acordo com sua intenção e cujo principal objetivo é sugerir, Villiers caminha em direção a uma forma de expressão literária cheia de sensações e emoções individuais. Inquietudes existenciais e anseios de uma produção literária criadora contribuirão para o desenvolvimento de uma nova estética literária que se desenvolve na França a partir da segunda metade do século XIX: o Simbolismo. Palavras-chave: Villiers de L’Isle-Adam; Simbolismo; Véra; fantástico; crítica social; Idealismo.

Efeito do nível de atividade física nas concentrações da ADAM 10 em sujeitos com doença de Alzheimer e saudáveis

Pós-graduação em Ciências da Motricidade - IBRC

Sobre Villiers de l'Isle-Adam e seus contos cruéis

Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (1838-1889) is always remembered and admired for his books: Contes cruels, L’Ève future and Claire Lenoir- which summarize the main worries of the writer, his satire of the triumphant Positivism, his metaphysical theory and his aspiration for the Ideal. He is one of the greatest artisans of the French literature style of the XIX century and, in spite of some individual and particular characteristics, he shares with other writers from his time – Joris-Karl Huysmans, Barbey d’Aurevilly, Leon Bloy, among others – the same sorrow and fury towards Positivism and Mercantilism. Having as a starting point the collection Contes cruels, the purpose of this article is to reveal the author’s writings who, by searching for the Ideal and by taking refuge in art, is able to unite the poet, the ironic and the idealist philosopher. Through his writings, the writer moves away from the world’s mediocrity and can express a mix of revolt, reaction, rebellion and also, his hopes expressed in his beliefs in the “Au-delà” and in the salvation by the Ideal.

Morte e delírio em Théophile Gautier e Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

Women in Wisdom Tradition: Review of Carol Fontaine, Smooth Words: Women, Proverbs and Performance in Biblical Wisdom

Smooth Words is a well-researched and entertaining, if somewhat uneven, book on women in the Wisdom tradition in ancient Israel. Fontaine, a faculty member at a small Protestant seminary in Newton, MA, writes with her students constantly in mind, her interactions with them informing her scholarship throughout the book. She is also in dialogue with other scholars in the fields of Wisdom literature and feminist scholarship, a dialogue that gives the book academic rigor and depth.

EMERGENT CONDITIONAL RELATIONS IN A GO/NO-GO PROCEDURE: FIGURE-GROUND AND STIMULUS-POSITION COMPOUND RELATIONS

Past research has demonstrated emergent conditional relations using a go/no-go procedure with pairs of figures displayed side-by-side on a computer screen. The present Study sought to extend applications Of this procedure. In Experiment, 1, we evaluated whether emergent conditional relations Could be demonstrated when two-component stimuli were displayed in figure-ground relationships-abstract figures displayed on backgrounds of different colors. Five normal)), capable adults participated. During training, each two-component stimulus Was presented successively. Responses emitted in the presence of some Stimulus pairs (A1B1, A2B2, A3B3, B1C1, B2C2 and B3C3) were reinforced, whereas responses emitted in the presence of other pairs (A1B2, A1B3, A2B1, A2B3, A3B1, A3B2, B1C2, B1C3, B2C1, B2C3, B3C1 and B3C2) were not. During tests, new configurations (AC and CA) were presented, thus emulating structurally the matching-to-sample tests employed in typical equivalence Studies. All participants showed emergent relations consistent with stimulus equivalence during testing. In Experiment 2, we systematically replicated the procedures with Stimulus compounds consisting Of four figures (A1, A2, C1 and C2) and two locations (left - B1 and right - 132). A,11 6 normally capable adults exhibited emergent stimulus-stimulus relations. Together, these experiments show that the go/no-go procedure is a potentially useful alternative for Studying emergent. conditional relations when matching-to-sample is procedurally cumbersome or impossible to use.