The new geopolitics : the world system and Northern Europe seen from a modern geopolitical perspective

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Silmien kautta sydämeen – romanttinen rakkaus, parinvalinta ja sukupuoli 1600-luvun lopun Britanniassa

Käsittelen pro gradu -tutkielmassani 1600-luvun lopun brittiläisiä käsityksiä ja käytäntöjä rakkaudesta ja parinvalinnasta. Alkuperäisaineistonani käytän kahta parinvalinnassa neuvovaa käytösopasta. Tarkastelen alkuperäisaineistoani lähilukemalla erityisesti rakkauden ja parinvalinnan suhdetta sukupuoleen, ja samalla avaan laajemmin myös ajan oikeaoppisiksi ymmärrettyjä sukupuoli-identiteettejä. Alkuperäisaineistoni normatiivisen luonteen vuoksi sen voidaan nähdä samalla sekä kuvailevan että tuottavan esittämäänsä ihannetilannetta. Se ei siis niinkään anna kuvaa siitä, miten asiat ovat oikeasti olleet kuin siitä, miten niiden on toivottu olevan, samalla paljastaen ei-toivotun käytöksen. Lähestyn rakkauteen, parinvalintaan ja sukupuoleen liitettyjä käsityksiä moraalikäsitysten, ihanteellisen kumppanin piirteiden, rakkauden osoittamisen tapojen sekä miehille ja naisille parinvalinnassa asetettujen roolien kautta. Rakkauden nähtiin uuden ajan alun Britanniassa olevan lähes itsestään tapahtuva miehinen reaktio kauniiseen naiseen, kun naisen rakkaus taas oli vastarakkautta joka syntyi siitä, kun hän huomasi itseään rakastettavan. Ihanteellisen naisen määräävät piirteet olivat kauneus ja hyveellisyys, miehen taas järkevyys, urhoollisuus ja ansioituneisuus. Järjen määrittäessä käsitystä mieheydestä naisia taas pidettiin ailahtelevaisina ja tunteellisina, vaikka heidän rakkauttaan ei pidettykään miehen tavoin aktiivisena voimana yhteiskunnassa. Pohdin sukupuoli-identiteettejä erityisesti suhteessa passiivisuuteen, aktiivisuuteen sekä kontrolliin. Ihanteellinen mies nähtiin rakkausasioissa aktiivisena ja kontrollia itseen sekä ympäristöön pidettiin oikeaoppisena tapana toteuttaa miehuutta, kun nainen taas pikemminkin nähtiin passiivisena objektina joka herättää miehen rakkauden. Naisen harjoittamaa kontrollia pidettiin niin ikään luonnottomana ja miehen maskuliinisuutta vähentävänä. Tuon esille myös sen, miten nämä piirteet joskus sekoittuivat, ja samalla tarkastelen ihannekumppaneiden kautta myös ihanteen vastakohtaa.

Epäeuklidisen geometrian synty

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Evolutionary transition to freshwater by ancestral marine palaemonids: evidence from osmoregulation in a tide pool shrimp

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Influence of different drying methods on tbe rheological properties of raisins

The rheological parameters of raisins were obtained after three different drying methods: convective, osmo-convective and solar drying. Compression tests were applied to rehydrated samples by using a Texture Analyzer TAXT2i. A mathematical trick was used to determine the stress and area was calculated along the deformation. A power law model could adequately fit stress-true strain curves and parameters; K (measure of stiffness) and n (solid behavior index) were obtained as a function of water activity between 0.755 to 0.432. Results showed that these parameters were strongly dependent on water activity for all drying methods. The constant K, which indicates the resistance against deformation, increased with decreasing water activity. on the other hand, increasing water activity resulted in higher solid behavior indexes, showing a large deviation from the Hookean behavior.

A performance do narrador em Clarice Lispector e em Hilda Hilst: O narrar que (se) frustra

This paper aims at analyzing at which extent the narrators in Antes da ponte Rio-Niterói by Clarice Lispector, and in Osmo by Hilda Hilst, undertake, in their own fashion, a dramatized narration by resorting to procedures such as fait divers; a seemingly didatic presentation of the facts; a reiterated concern with the text reception; irony and self-referentiality.

Cinética de secagem de abóboras (Curcubita moschata) pré-tratadas osmoticamente em soluções contendo sacarose

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Avaliação da desidratação de mamão utilizando métodos combinados

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Hilda Hilst e a (im)possibilidade de (se) dizer

Investiga-se em que medida Hilda Hilst, em Fluxo-floema, vale-se de um conjunto de procedimentos que colocam em cena tanto o sujeito-narrador quanto o próprio narrar, de maneira destoante do que predominantemente se fazia à época. Se no contexto ditatorial era tendência relacionar a literatura a uma “função compensatória”, o que a autora oferece em sua estreia na prosa mostra-se de modo ambivalente, já que não abdica desse prisma, porém o relaciona à frustração. No caso do texto “Osmo”, isso se dá à medida em que se instaura um descompasso entre o “narrar prometido” e o “narrar empreendido”, o que acaba por evidenciar tanto o texto como construção verbal encenada quanto a ambígua atitude do narrador-personagem diante da necessidade de verbalizar a sua história e de se aproximar de seus receptores. O postergamento da história prometida gera a frustração, que é alegoricamente abarcada como um procedimento de tessitura do texto hilstiano relacionado à ironia, à violência, ao fracasso, e que ilumina a condição paradoxal do narrar e da relação do/da artista com o mercado literário.

Effects of edible coatings on convective drying and characteristics of the dried pineapple

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Effect of salinity on the metabolism and osmoregulation of selected ontogenetic stages of an Amazon population of Macrobrachium amazonicum shrimp (Decapoda, Palaemonidae)

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Exogenous ornithine is an effective precursor and the delta-ornithine amino transferase pathway contributes to proline accumulation under high N recycling in salt-stressed cashew leaves

The role of the delta-ornithine amino transferase (OAT) pathway in proline synthesis is still controversial and was assessed in leaves of cashew plants subjected to salinity. The activities of enzymes and the concentrations of metabolites involved in proline synthesis were examined in parallel with the capacity of exogenous ornithine and glutamate to induce proline accumulation. Proline accumulation was best correlated with OAT activity, which increased 4-fold and was paralleled by NADH oxidation coupled to the activities of OAT and Delta(1)-pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase (P5CR), demonstrating the potential of proline synthesis via OAT/P5C. Overall, the activities of GS. GOGAT and aminating GDH remained practically unchanged under salinity. The activity of P5CR did not respond to NaCl whereas Delta(1)-pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase was sharply repressed by salinity. We suggest that if the export of P5C from the mitochondria to the cytosol is possible, its subsequent conversion to proline by P5CR may be important. In a time-course experiment, proline accumulation was associated with disturbances in amino acid metabolism as indicated by large increases in the concentrations of ammonia, free amino acids, glutamine, arginine and ornithine. Conversely, glutamate concentrations increased moderately and only within the first 24 h. Exogenous feeding of ornithine as a precursor was very effective in inducing proline accumulation in intact plants and leaf discs, in which proline concentrations were several times higher than glutamate-fed or salt-treated plants. Our data suggest that proline accumulation might be a consequence of salt-induced increase in N recycling, resulting in increased levels of ornithine and other metabolites involved with proline synthesis and OAT activity. Under these metabolic circumstances the OAT pathway might contribute significantly to proline accumulation in salt-stressed cashew leaves. (C) 2011 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.