Comparison of the univariate and multivariate methods in the optimization of experimental conditions for determining Cu, Pb, Ni and Cd in biodiesel by GFAAS

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Saint Clare of Assisi: her life and legislation,

Includes bibliographical references

Relocating the American Dream : The America of the 1960s as Portrayed by the New Journalists Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe

The concept of the American Dream was subject to a strong re-evaluation process in the 1960s, as counterculture became a prominent force in American society. A massive generation of young people, moved by the Vietnam War, the hippie movement, and psychedelic experimentation, created substantial social turbulence in their efforts to break out of conventional patterns and to create a new kind of society. This thesis outlines and analyses the concept of the American Dream in popular imagination through three works of new journalism. My primary data consists of Tom Wolfe���s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1967), Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1971), and Norman Mailer’s Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (1968). In defining the American Dream, I discuss the history of the concept as well as its manifestations in popular culture. Because of its elusive and amorphous nature, the concept of the American Dream can only be examined in cultural texts that portray the values, sentiments, and customs of a certain era. I have divided the analytical section of my thesis into three parts. In the first part I examine how the authors discuss the American society of their time in relation to ideology, capitalism, and the media. In the second part I focus on the Vietnam War and the controversy it creates in relation to the notions of freedom and patriotism. In the third part I discuss how the authors portray the countercultural visions of a better America that challenged the traditional interpretations of the American Dream. I also discuss the dark side of the new dream: the problems and disillusions that came with the effort to change the world. This thesis is an effort to trace the relocation of the American Dream in the context of the 1960s counterculture and new journalism. It hopes to provide a valuable addition to the cultural history of the sixties and to the effort of conceptualizing the American Dream.

Size at maturity and egg capsules of the softnose skates Bathyraja brachyurops (Fowler, 1910) and Bathyraja macloviana (Norman, 1937) (Elasmobranchii: Rajidae) in the SW Atlantic (37 degrees 00'-39 degrees 30'S)

P>The softnose skates Bathyraja brachyurops and Bathyraja macloviana represent an important portion of the skate catches of the Uruguayan trawling fleet in the southwestern Atlantic. From March to October 2004, specimens of these species were collected at 75-200 m depth range in the area situated between latitudes 37 degrees 00'-39 degrees 30'S. For B. brachyurops, total length at which 50% of the specimens were retained by the gear was 68.0 cm for both sexes; T(L50) was estimated at 65.4 cm for males and 67.0 cm for females. For B. macloviana, total length at which 50% of the specimens were retained was 56.0-57.0 cm for both sexes; T(L50) was estimated at 53.5 cm for males and 52.0 cm for females. Egg capsule length varied from 79-91 mm in B. brachyurops and 69-75.5 mm in B. macloviana. In both species, capsules displayed striated surfaces and similar gross morphology, although egg capsules of B. macloviana had more robust anterior horns and a smaller size than those of B. brachyurops. Egg capsules of the latter also exhibited microscopical prickles. Capsule edges were laterally keeled with a groove along the keel, and a straight and transverse velum was present in the egg capsules of both species.

Expert opinion on toxicity profiling--report from a NORMAN expert group meeting.

This article describes the outcome and follow-up discussions of an expert group meeting (Amsterdam, October 9, 2009) on the applicability of toxicity profiling for diagnostic environmental risk assessment. A toxicity profile was defined as a toxicological "fingerprint" of a sample, ranging from a pure compound to a complex mixture, obtained by testing the sample or its extract for its activity toward a battery of biological endpoints. The expert group concluded that toxicity profiling is an effective first tier tool for screening the integrated hazard of complex environmental mixtures with known and unknown toxicologically active constituents. In addition, toxicity profiles can be used for prioritization of sampling locations, for identification of hot spots, and--in combination with effect-directed analysis (EDA) or toxicity identification and evaluation (TIE) approaches--for establishing cause-effect relationships by identifying emerging pollutants responsible for the observed toxic potency. Small volume in vitro bioassays are especially applicable for these purposes, as they are relatively cheap and fast with costs comparable to chemical analyses, and the results are toxicologically more relevant and more suitable for realistic risk assessment. For regulatory acceptance in the European Union, toxicity profiling terminology should keep as close as possible to the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) terminology, and validation, standardization, statistical analyses, and other quality aspects of toxicity profiling should be further elaborated.

Norman Malcolm e Alvin Plantinga: duas versões analíticas do argumento do Proslogion de Santo Anselmo

O propósito deste trabalho é mostrar alguns aspectos que caracterizam a leitura que os filósofos analíticos dos anos 60/70, do século passado, fizeram do argumento do Proslogion de Santo Anselmo trazendo, deste modo, uma nova luz a esta problemática. Tiveram também o mérito de inscrever a questão da existência de Deus no âmago da filosofia analítica até aí dominada pelo ate��smo. Na Introdução salientamos as objecções analíticas mais frequentes feitas ao argumento – (i) a existência não é um predicado (ii) o conceito de Deus é incoerente (iii) a existência não é perfeição. Anscombe – uma excepção no contexto analítico – defendeu e demonstrou a tese de que o argumento não é ontológico. Malcom descobriu dois argumentos no Proslogion: um no Capítulo II que considerou inválido, outro no capítulo III que considerou válido e interpretou como modal. Plantinga foi um dos primeiros críticos desta prova modal porque o autor confundia entre necessidade de dicto e necessidade de re. Plantinga pensou que os dois argumentos se implicavam e\ou complementavam e desenvolveu uma teoria do realismo modal através da qual explica a natureza e a necessidade divinas em termos de mundos possíveis. Baseado neste conceito reelaborou uma nova prova modal que considerou “victoriosa” mas que veio mais tarde a ser refutada por Mackie, Tooley e David (entre outros) e acusada de circularidade. Plantinga não aceitou que a sua prova fosse reconhecida como falaciosa e Oppy também não aceitou a mesma reclamação expressa por Fergie. Contudo, Plantinga refez a sua prova e condensou-a numa única premissa: “a máxima grandeza é possivelmente instanciada”. Mais do que uma prova da existência de Deus trata-se de uma defesa da aceitação do te��smo, uma justificação da racionalidade da fé. E a possibilidade de existência de um ser metafisicamente necessário impõe-nos uma reflexão profunda donde se podem extrair todas as potencialidades cognoscitivas do labor do filósofo.

Review : "For the Term of His Natural Life" -- Norman Dawn

Synopsis and review of For the Term of His Natural Life (Norman Dawn, 1927). Includes cast and credits. For the Term of His Natural Life was one of the last Australian silent films, and also one of the most significant in the history of Australian cinema. At the time of its production, controversy raged over its depiction of convict life, its scale and cost (which was reported to be around 50,000 pounds at a time when most Australian films had budgets of less than 2,000 pounds1) and the fact that the director, several of the crew and the leading cast members were American. Australasian Films launched a publicity campaign of unprecedented scale to counter opposition to the film’s subject matter and the charge that they were “seeking to make capital out of the drab and sordid days of Australia”.2 The film’s expense was turned into a virtue: hundreds of unemployed men were used as extras, while the film also provided work for many within the Australian film industry and, according to Australasian, enabled the establishment of new production companies. The American imports who earlier had been accused of being “party to the slaughtering” of the Australian film industry, were feted for their artistic contributions, and the concerns raised in federal parliament about an American “invasion” were deflected by claims about what the local industry could learn from those with Hollywood experience.3 The publicity campaign was successful, as the film proved enormously popular at the Australian box office in its initial run. But the coming of sound film in 1928 had a considerable impact on audiences for silent films like For the Term, and its early local success was not repeated in subsequent seasons or in overseas markets...

Bishop Lewis Hartman, Reverend Dr. Isaac Higginbotham, Leo Baeck, Bishop Norman B. Nash, and Reverend Frank Jennings Portraits; Groups; Men

Page 57 of the "American Jewish Cavalcade" scrapbook of Leo Baeck in New York found in ROS 10 Folder 3

Kosmopolitanistisen ilmastoetiikan mahdollisuudet. Diskurssianalyyttinen tulkinta Kööpenhaminan ilmastokokouksesta 2009

Tässä pro gradu –työssä tarkastellaan valtioiden ilmastokonferenssissa pitämissä puheenvuoroissa esiintyviä diskursseja ilmastonmuutoksesta ja siihen liittyvistä oikeudenmukaisuuskysymyksistä. Tutkielmassa etsitään vastauksia ensinnäkin siihen, millä tavoilla valtioiden korkeat edustajat puhuvat ilmastonmuutoksesta ja sen hallinnasta. Toisekseen analysoidaan, tukeutuvatko valtiot puheissa kosmopolitanistisiin käsityksiin ilmasto-oikeudenmukaisuudesta vai hallitseeko niissä kommunitaristinen etiikka. Kosmopolitanistinen etiikka on hallitsevassa asemassa kansainvälisen politiikan filosofiassa, mutta käytännön politiikassa sen ajatellaan olevan kommunitarististen lähestymistapojen varjossa. Tämän työn yhtenä lähtökohtana on ajatus siitä, että kansainvälinen ilmastopolitiikka on ilmastonmuutokseen liittyvän syvän keskinäisriippuvuuden ja yhteistyön välttämättömyyden vuoksi erityisen otollinen politiikan ala kosmopolitanistiselle ajattelulle. Tavoitteena on tutkia, näkyykö tämä valtioiden puhetavoissa. Tutkielman aineistona on 64 Kööpenhaminan ilmastokokouksessa joulukuussa 2009 pidettyä puhetta, jotka ovat otos konferenssissa puhuneiden 192 valtion puheenvuoroista. Puheet on valittu kokouksen lopussa pidetystä kolmen päivän mittaisesta ”korkean tason osiosta”, jossa ministerit ja valtioiden päämiehet pitivät niin kutsuttuja kansallisia lausuntoja. Aineisto on valittu sillä perusteella, että näihin puheisiin tiivistyy kunkin valtion ilmastopoliittisen ajattelun ydin. Aineistoa teemoitellaan ensin erilaisten keskeisten aiheiden kartoittamiseksi. Tämän jälkeen sitä analysoidaan tarkemmin kriittisen diskurssianalyysin keinoin Norman Fairclough’n esittelemillä menetelmillä. Aineistosta nostetaan esiin kuusi erilaista diskurssia ilmastonmuutoksesta ja sen edellyttämästä politii-kasta. Näitä ovat: ”rikkaiden syyllisyys”, ”talousjärjestelmän kritiikki”, ”oikeus kehittyä”, ”vastuulliset rikkaat”, ”vihre�� kasvu” ja ”samalla planeetalla”. Kunkin diskurssin keskeisiä piirteitä ja teemoja esitellään ensin yleisellä tasolla, minkä jälkeen analysoidaan tarkemmin kustakin yhtä puhetta, jossa kyseinen diskurssi on erityisen vahvasti läsnä. Diskurssit ovat erilaisia tulokulmia ilmastoeettisiin kysymyksiin, ja kiinnostuksen kohteena oleva kosmopolitanistinen ajattelu on niissä läsnä erilaisissa asteissa. Vahvimmin kosmopolitanistinen etiikka tulee esiin ”samalla planeetalla” –diskurssissa, joka hallit-see erityisesti monien pienten saarivaltioiden puheita. Sen sijaan eniten kommunitaristisia äänenpainoja on ”oikeus kehittyä” –diskurssissa, joka on vaikutusvaltainen suuressa joukossa kehitysmaiden puheita. Yleisesti kosmopolitanistinen ajattelu tulee lievemmissä muodoissaan aineistossa laajasti esiin, mutta vahva kaikkien maailman ihmisten yhtäläisiin oikeuksiin ja velvollisuuksiin perustuva argumentointi on harvinaista. Johtopäätöksenä todetaan, että kosmopolitanismi on osa kansainvälisten ilmastoneuvotteluiden hyväksyttyä puhetapaa mutta lähinnä sellaisissa muodoissa, joissa sillä ei ole radikaaleja poliittisia seurauksia.

Efectos de la fertilizacion y altura de corte sobre el rendimiento del pasto alemán (Echynochloa polystachya). Puerto Diaz-Juigalpa, Nicaragua 2009-2010

El presente estudio se realizó en la Hacienda Guapinolapa del Sr Duilio Baltodano, localizada en el municipio de Juigalpa, comunidad de Puerto Díaz a una latitud: 11° 57' 54" n y longitud: 85° 30' 39" w y altitud de 59 msnm. El objetivo de esta investigación fue obtener información técnica sobre: altura, cobertura y rendimiento de materia verde y seca, que contribuya a un mejor manejo del pasto Alemán (Echynochloa polystachya). Se utilizó un dise��o de parcelas divididas, para un Bloque Completo al Azar (BCA), con 4 tratamientos: T1 (control), T2 (nitrógeno), T3 (nitrógeno-fósforo) y el T4 (nitrógeno-fósforo-potasio). Las dos alturas de cortes fueron: C1=30 cm, C2=40 cm. Los cortes se realizaron con intervalos de 30 días. Con base en la altura, cobertura, materia verde, materia seca, rendimiento de materia verde y materia seca. Las variables fueron sujetas a un análisis de varianza (ANDEVA). La altura del pasto aumentó en relación directa con el tipo de corte y con los meses de corte, siendo el C2 en el T3, en el mes de septiembre el que promedió mayor altura (1.27 m), la cobertura incrementó en relación al mes de corte y tratamiento, siendo el T3 en el mes de mayo el de mayor cobertura (75.32 %). La producción de materia verde aumentó en el T4 en el mes de octubre con 6 293 kg/ha, la producción de materia seca incrementó en el mes de agosto en el T4 con 4 488 kg/ha; los rendimientos de materia verde y materia seca, incrementaron en el mes de octubre en el T4 (7 641.67 kg/ha, 3 438.75 kg/ha, respectivamente).