La visión de España en autores anglosajones : un enfoque didáctico intercultural para la clase de ELE.

Memoria de máster (Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, 2004)

A Literatura pop de Roberto Drummond: arte pop, referencialidade e ficção

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

Romances rebeldes - a tradição de rebeldia na literatura norte-americana: de Moby Dick a On the Road

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

A metrópole e a prosa cinematográfica no modernismo estadunidense: uma abordagem de Manhattan Transfer de John Dos Passos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

The quest for unnecessary symbolism across the media - analysis and possible solutions

Lo scopo della presente ricerca è sottolineare la tendenza alla ossessiva e spesso superflua ricerca del simbolismo nell’analisi di opere, specificatamente testi letterari e film, e proporre una possibile soluzione per porre fine o almeno diminuire gli effetti del fenomeno. A partire da una definizione esaustiva della parola simbolo, l’analisi verterà sull’evoluzione del concetto di simbolismo attraverso i media, e il cambiamento intrinseco causato da tale evoluzione. In seguito, analizzerò un semisconosciuto ma emblematico sondaggio, condotto nel 1973 da Bruce McAllister, all’epoca studente, che interrogò acutamente numerosi autori riguardo al loro rapporto con il simbolismo, ponendo l’accento su alcune delle risposte da lui ricevute, che gettano una luce rivelatrice sul symbol hunting e symbol planting. Dopodiché scenderò ancor più nel dettaglio, esemplificando con due storie brevi: Signs and Symbols (Segni e Simboli), di Vladimir Nabokov e Big Two-hearted River (Grande fiume a due cuori) di Hernest Hemingway. Dopodiché, analizzerò il falso simbolismo come luogo cinematografico, ponendo l’accento sugli aspetti di planting e hunting, e mi avvarrò dell’aiuto di due film significativi sul tema realizzati in tempi recenti, ovvero Inception (2010) e Memento (2000), di Christopher Nolan, che possono essere interpretati come una meta-critica dell’abuso di simboli, e rappresentano una pietra miliare nell’analisi di symbol planting e symbol hunting. In conclusione, proporrò la mia personale possibile soluzione, ovvero il prendere le opere d’arte in qualunque forma, specialmente di fiction, “così come sono”, separandole e scindendole dalle proprie aspettative. È necessario prendere in considerazione un ritorno alla letteralità, per poter avvicinarsi maggiormente alla vera anima di una storia, di un libro, di un film, altrimenti esiste la possibilità che tutto ciò che guardiamo o vediamo sia per sempre irrimediabilmente contaminato dalla nostra dimensione privata.

Characteristics and comprehensiveness of adult HIV care and treatment programmes in Asia-Pacific, sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas: results of a site assessment conducted by the International epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Collaboration

INTRODUCTION HIV care and treatment programmes worldwide are transforming as they push to deliver universal access to essential prevention, care and treatment services to persons living with HIV and their communities. The characteristics and capacity of these HIV programmes affect patient outcomes and quality of care. Despite the importance of ensuring optimal outcomes, few studies have addressed the capacity of HIV programmes to deliver comprehensive care. We sought to describe such capacity in HIV programmes in seven regions worldwide. METHODS Staff from 128 sites in 41 countries participating in the International epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS completed a site survey from 2009 to 2010, including sites in the Asia-Pacific region (n=20), Latin America and the Caribbean (n=7), North America (n=7), Central Africa (n=12), East Africa (n=51), Southern Africa (n=16) and West Africa (n=15). We computed a measure of the comprehensiveness of care based on seven World Health Organization-recommended essential HIV services. RESULTS Most sites reported serving urban (61%; region range (rr): 33-100%) and both adult and paediatric populations (77%; rr: 29-96%). Only 45% of HIV clinics that reported treating children had paediatricians on staff. As for the seven essential services, survey respondents reported that CD4+ cell count testing was available to all but one site, while tuberculosis (TB) screening and community outreach services were available in 80 and 72%, respectively. The remaining four essential services - nutritional support (82%), combination antiretroviral therapy adherence support (88%), prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) (94%) and other prevention and clinical management services (97%) - were uniformly available. Approximately half (46%) of sites reported offering all seven services. Newer sites and sites in settings with low rankings on the UN Human Development Index (HDI), especially those in the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief focus countries, tended to offer a more comprehensive array of essential services. HIV care programme characteristics and comprehensiveness varied according to the number of years the site had been in operation and the HDI of the site setting, with more recently established clinics in low-HDI settings reporting a more comprehensive array of available services. Survey respondents frequently identified contact tracing of patients, patient outreach, nutritional counselling, onsite viral load testing, universal TB screening and the provision of isoniazid preventive therapy as unavailable services. CONCLUSIONS This study serves as a baseline for on-going monitoring of the evolution of care delivery over time and lays the groundwork for evaluating HIV treatment outcomes in relation to site capacity for comprehensive care.

Determinants of Weight Evolution Among HIV-Positive Patients Initiating Antiretroviral Treatment in Low-Resource Settings.

BACKGROUND In resource-limited settings, clinical parameters, including body weight changes, are used to monitor clinical response. Therefore, we studied body weight changes in patients on antiretroviral treatment (ART) in different regions of the world. METHODS Data were extracted from the "International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS," a network of ART programmes that prospectively collects routine clinical data. Adults on ART from the Southern, East, West, and Central African and the Asia-Pacific regions were selected from the database if baseline data on body weight, gender, ART regimen, and CD4 count were available. Body weight change over the first 2 years and the probability of body weight loss in the second year were modeled using linear mixed models and logistic regression, respectively. RESULTS Data from 205,571 patients were analyzed. Mean adjusted body weight change in the first 12 months was higher in patients started on tenofovir and/or efavirenz; in patients from Central, West, and East Africa, in men, and in patients with a poorer clinical status. In the second year of ART, it was greater in patients initiated on tenofovir and/or nevirapine, and for patients not on stavudine, in women, in Southern Africa and in patients with a better clinical status at initiation. Stavudine in the initial regimen was associated with a lower mean adjusted body weight change and with weight loss in the second treatment year. CONCLUSIONS Different ART regimens have different effects on body weight change. Body weight loss after 1 year of treatment in patients on stavudine might be associated with lipoatrophy.

La ironía y la parodia del buen Cervantes en París no se acaba nunca de Enrique Vila-Matas

El trabajo compara los principios constructivos presentes en dos novelas españolas: el Quijote y París no se acaba nunca. En ambas la creación literaria parte de la literatura, de la parodia y la reelaboración de textos literarios precedentes. En este sentido, cervantes aparece como precursor de la literatura moderna. En la obra de Vila-Matas, que tiene como intertexto a la novela París era una fiesta de Hemingway, se observan principios constructivos similares a los presentes en la obra de Cervantes, tales como la intertextualidad, la parodia y la ironía. Vila-Matas parte constantemente de episodios presentes en otros textos literarios para escribir su novela, de un modo similar a lo hechos por Cervantes. Se comparará entonces, este modo de hacer literatura presente en ambos autores, analizando en la obra de Vila-Matas la parodia respecto de otros textos literarios

La ironía y la parodia del buen Cervantes en París no se acaba nunca de Enrique Vila-Matas

El trabajo compara los principios constructivos presentes en dos novelas españolas: el Quijote y París no se acaba nunca. En ambas la creación literaria parte de la literatura, de la parodia y la reelaboración de textos literarios precedentes. En este sentido, cervantes aparece como precursor de la literatura moderna. En la obra de Vila-Matas, que tiene como intertexto a la novela París era una fiesta de Hemingway, se observan principios constructivos similares a los presentes en la obra de Cervantes, tales como la intertextualidad, la parodia y la ironía. Vila-Matas parte constantemente de episodios presentes en otros textos literarios para escribir su novela, de un modo similar a lo hechos por Cervantes. Se comparará entonces, este modo de hacer literatura presente en ambos autores, analizando en la obra de Vila-Matas la parodia respecto de otros textos literarios

La ironía y la parodia del buen Cervantes en París no se acaba nunca de Enrique Vila-Matas

El trabajo compara los principios constructivos presentes en dos novelas españolas: el Quijote y París no se acaba nunca. En ambas la creación literaria parte de la literatura, de la parodia y la reelaboración de textos literarios precedentes. En este sentido, cervantes aparece como precursor de la literatura moderna. En la obra de Vila-Matas, que tiene como intertexto a la novela París era una fiesta de Hemingway, se observan principios constructivos similares a los presentes en la obra de Cervantes, tales como la intertextualidad, la parodia y la ironía. Vila-Matas parte constantemente de episodios presentes en otros textos literarios para escribir su novela, de un modo similar a lo hechos por Cervantes. Se comparará entonces, este modo de hacer literatura presente en ambos autores, analizando en la obra de Vila-Matas la parodia respecto de otros textos literarios

The role of alternative mRNA splicing in generating heterogeneity within the Anopheles gambiae class I glutathione S-transferase family

The class I glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) of Anopheles gambiae are encoded by a complex gene family. We describe the genomic organization of three members of this family, which are sequentially arranged on the chromosome in divergent orientations. One of these genes, aggst1-2, is intronless and has been described. In contrast, the two A. gambiae GST genes (aggst1α and aggst1β) reported within are interrupted by introns. The gene aggst1α contains five coding exons that are alternatively spliced to produce four mature GST transcripts, each of which contains a common 5′ exon encoding the N termini of the GST protein spliced to one of four distinct 3′ exons encoding the carboxyl termini. All four of the alternative transcripts of aggst1α are expressed in A. gambiae larvae, pupae, and adults. We report on the involvement of alternative RNA splicing in generating multiple functional GST transcripts. A cDNA from the aggst1β gene was detected in adult mosquitoes, demonstrating that this GST gene is actively transcribed. The percentage similarity of the six cDNAs transcribed from the three GST genes range from 49.5% to 83.1% at the nucleotide level.

Ordinances of the city of Jackson : revised 1920 /

"This is the sixth revision of the ordinances of the city of Jackson"--Pref.

Stories by English authors.

The mystery of Sasassa Valley / by A. Conan Doyle -- Long odds / by H. Rider Haggard -- King Bemba's Point / by J. Landers -- Ghamba / by W. C. Scully -- Mary Musgrave / Anonymous -- Gregorio / by Percy Hemingway.

At the Hemingways; a family portrait.

Mode of access: Internet.