Una Lliçó d'història de la llengua literària: El pròleg a l'Atheneo de Grandesa, de Josep Romaguera

Text de la lliçó que Francesc Feliu va pronunciar en les seves oposicions. S’estudia el pròleg de l’Atheneo de Grandesa. S'hi pretén establir la lectura correcta i exhaustiva d'un text difícil, que ha estat prou conegut i citat pels estudiosos de la llengua i la literatura catalanes del Setcents, però que gairebé sempre ha estat també mal entès, o entès de manera incompleta

Llocs, formes i textos de la protohistòria literària catalana. Segles XV-XVII: del marquès de Santillana a Nicolás Antonio (1676)

Es presenten notícies sobre l’activitat dels els inicis de la història literària catalana, la multiplicitat dels vehicles on apareix, les formes que adopta i l’evolució que experimenta

De Heródoto a Lope : nota a El mejor alcade, el rey

Article sobre les al·lusions i anècdotes tradicionals que fa servir Lópe de Vega a les seves obres. Concretament es tracta un episodi del llibre El mejor alcalde, el rey

Lope de Vega en "Cancionero del Barón de Claret": una antología personal de poesía y teatro

Presentació del Cancionero del Barón de Claret. Compilat durant el triomf de la mal dita “escola calderoniana”, demostra un interès molt gran per la poesia i el teatre de Lope, fins el punt que és d’aquest autor de qui es recullen més composicions

Democracy in Uruguay: recent history and challenges

This article presents a synthetic view about the most important transformations that Uruguayan society has undergone in the last decade. It aims at articulating, through Political History and Political Science approaches, the recent political process with the itineraries of the economy and the society. It pretends in particular to argue that Uruguayan democracy is mutating, its actors and institutions are changing, with the help of both global and local transformations. K

How should american students understand their civic culture? : the continuing battle over the 2002 Massachusetts history and social science curriculum framework.

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[Ressenya del llibre Convención y recepción : estudios sobre el teatro del Siglo de Oro, d’Ignacio Arellano]

Ressenya del llibre Convenció y recepción. Estudios sobre el teatro del Siglo de Oro, d’Ignacio Arellano . L’obra és, segons Ramos Nogales, el millor estudi de conjunt sobre la comèdia del Segle d’Or que ha aparegut en els últims anys així com una crida a la investigació tradicional

History and uses of music education for children who are hearing impaired

This paper discusses hearing impaired children and their ability to learn and enjoy music.

Deforming glassy polystyrene: Influence of pressure, thermal history, and deformation mode on yielding and hardening

The toughness of a polymer glass is determined by the interplay of yielding, strain softening, and strain hardening. Molecular-dynamics simulations of a typical polymer glass, atactic polystyrene, under the influence of active deformation have been carried out to enlighten these processes. It is observed that the dominant interaction for the yield peak is of interchain nature and for the strain hardening of intrachain nature. A connection is made with the microscopic cage-to-cage motion. It is found that the deformation does not lead to complete erasure of the thermal history but that differences persist at large length scales. Also we find that the strain-hardening modulus increases with increasing external pressure. This new observation cannot be explained by current theories such as the one based on the entanglement picture and the inclusion of this effect will lead to an improvement in constitutive modeling.

Joint effects of density and a growth inhibitor on the life history and population growth rate of the midge Chironomus riparius

Results of previous laboratory studies suggest that high population density often buffers the effects of chemical stressors that predominately increase mortality. Mortality stressors act to release more resources for the survivors and, therefore, produce less-than-additive effects. By contrast, growth stressors are expected to have opposite results or more-than-additive effects. We investigated the effects of a growth inhibitor (lufenuron) on larval growth and survival of Chironomus riparius and examined its joint effects with density on population growth rate (PGR). Exposure to 60 mu g/kg sediment or greater inhibited larval growth, and exposure to 88 mu g/kg or greater often resulted in mortality before reaching emergence. The effects of lufenuron, however, differed with population density. At 88 mu g/kg, mortalities and, to a lesser extent, reduced fecundity resulted in a reduction in PGR at low density. Conversely, when populations were initiated at high density, PGR was similar to that of controls, because the few survivors reached maturity sooner and started producing offspring earlier. The effect of density as a growth stressor therefore was stronger than the effect of lufenuron, which had effects similar to those of a mortality stressor and produced less-than-additive effects. Longterm studies under field conditions, however, are needed before less-than-additive effects are considered to be the norm.