Receipt to John Thompson from Lieutenant Nelles

Receipt to John Thompson from Lieutenant Nelles for a gold ring and white ribbon, June 5, 1788.

El drama de la calle de la paz

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La citoyenneté chez les musulmans du Québec : analyse qualitative d'entrevues avec des personnes influentes

Ce mémoire de maîtrise s’intéresse au sujet de la citoyenneté telle que vue par treize personnalités musulmanes influentes du Québec. Ces personnes sont largement impliquées dans différentes sphères des affaires publiques, telles que religieuse, politique, communautaire, académique et économique. L’objectif de l’étude qualitative de ces entrevues de type ouvert est de comprendre comment ces personnes perçoivent leur citoyenneté et les expériences personnelles sociales qui influencent leurs visions respectives à partir de la sémantique de leur articulation de la relation de la foi musulmane avec la notion de citoyenneté. Le contenu de ces entrevues a été soumis à une analyse de discours et nous en avons ressorti « une théorie de la citoyenneté chez les musulmans du Québec » basée sur des définitions différentes de la citoyenneté : une citoyenneté qui est « à part entière » en contradiction avec une autre de « seconde zone » ou de « seconde classe », toutes les deux définies par un ensemble de droits et de devoirs. Cette logique de définition de la citoyenneté se justifie par un cumul d’identités durant la trajectoire personnelle de chacun en faisant intervenir ses priorités et ses préoccupations courantes tout en trouvant sa source d’inspiration dans l’islam. La nationalité canadienne/québécoise se complète par l’islam comme mode de vie au sein de cette définition de la citoyenneté, selon cette même logique, à l’intérieur d’une idéologie nationaliste canadienne.

Conocimiento del medio social natural de La Palma.

Este proyecto se realiza con la finalidad de garantizar la igualdad de oportunidades para todo el alumnado y tomando como punto prioritario la mejora de la escuela rural. Está pensado para alumnos del ciclo medio de EGB, unos 108 alumnos de cuatro escuelas rurales de la zona alta de Breña, La Palma. Entre otros, destacan los siguientes objetivos: -Conocer el medio social natural de una parte de la isla de La Palma. -Salvar deficiencias sociales y económicas de la zona. -Contribuir a romper el aislamiento de la labor educativa de cada maestro en su escuela. La evaluación de los resultados será en base a las visitas que se realicen y a las actividades que conlleven. Se concluye con una valoración positiva de la experiencia, motivadora y enriquecedora tanto para los alumnos como para el profesorado.

Posibilidad de interponer la acción de cumplimiento frente a normas que contengan gastos

Al desarrollarse la acción de cumplimiento por medio de la ley 393 de 1997, el legislador contempló como excepción las normas que establecieran gastos, con lo cual, convirtió una garantía de carácter constitucional en una acción de excepcional aplica

Personal status laws in Morocco and Tunisia: A comparative exploration of the possibilities for equality-enhancing reform in Bangladesh

This paper focuses on successful reform strategies invoked in parts of the Muslim world to address issues of gender inequality in the context of Islamic personal law. It traces the development of personal status laws in Tunisia and Morocco, exploring the models they offer in initiating equality-enhancing reforms in Bangladesh, where a secular and equality-based reform approach conflicts with Islamic-based conservatism. Recent landmark family law reforms in Morocco show the possibility of achieving ‘women-friendly’ reforms within an Islamic legal framework. Moreover, the Tunisian Personal Status Code, with its successive reforms, shows that a gender equality-based model of personal law can be successfully integrated into the Muslim way of life. This study examines the response of Muslim societies to equality-based reforms and differences in approach in initiating them. The paper maps these sometimes competing approaches, locating them within contemporary feminist debates related to gender equality in the East and West.

Abomasal infusion of casein, starch and soybean oil differentially affect plasma concentrations of gut peptides and feed intake in lactating dairy cows

The effects of specific nutrients on secretion and plasma concentrations of gut peptides (glucagon-like peptide-1((7-36)) amide (GLP-1), glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP), and cholecystokinin-8 (CCK)) differ across species, but are not reported for cattle. Our objective was to determine acute (hours) and chronic (1 week) effects of increased abomasal supply of protein, carbohydrate, or fat to the small intestine on dry matter intake (DMI) and plasma concentrations of GLP-1, GIP, CCK, and insulin. Four mid-lactation Holstein cows were used in a 4 x 4 Latin square design experiment. Treatments were 7-day abomasal infusions of water, soybean oil (500 g/d), corn starch (1100 g/d), or casein (800 g/d). Jugular vein plasma was obtained over 7 h at the end of the first and last day of infusions. Oil infusion decreased DMI on day 7, but total metabolizable energy (ME) supply (diet plus infusate) did not differ from water infusion. Casein and starch infusion had no effect on feed DMI; thus, ME supply increased. Decreased DMI on day 7 of oil infusion was accompanied by increased plasma GLP-1 concentration, but decreased plasma CCK concentration. Increased plasma GIP concentration was associated with increased ME supply on day 7 of casein and starch infusion. Casein infusion tended to increase plasma CCK concentration on both days of sampling, and increased plasma GLP-1 and insulin concentration on day 1 of infusion. The present data indicate a sustained elevation of plasma concentration of GLP-1, but not CCK, may contribute to the reduced DMI observed in dairy cows provided supplemental fat. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Color adjectives and radical contextualism

Radical contextualists have observed that the content of what is said by the utterance of a sentence is shaped in far-reaching ways by the context of utterance. And they have argued that the ways in which the content of what is said is shaped by context cannot be explained by semantic theory. A striking number of the examples that radical contextualists use to support their view involve sentences containing color adjectives (“red”, “green”, etc.). In this paper, I show how the most sophisticated analysis of color adjectives within the explanatory framework of compositional truth conditional semantics—recently developed by Kennedy and McNally (Synthese 174(1):79–98 2010)—needs to be modified to handle the full range of contextual variation displayed by color adjectives.

N3-Dye-Induced Visible Laser Anatase-to-Rutile Phase Transition on Mesoporous TiO(2) Films

Titanium dioxide has been extensively used in photocatalysis and dye-sensitized solar cells, where control of the anatase-to-rutile phase transformation may allow the realization of more efficient devices exploiting the synergic effects at anatase/rutile interfaces. Thus, a systematic study showing the proof of concept of a dye-induced morphological transition and an anatase-to-rutile transition based on visible laser (532 nm) and nano/micro patterning of mesoporous anatase (Degussa P25 TiO(2)) films is described for the first time using a confocal Raman microscope. At low laser intensities, only the bleaching of the adsorbed N3 dye was observed. However, high enough temperatures to promote melting/densification processes and create a deep hole at the focus and an extensive phase transformation in the surrounding material were achieved using Is laser pulses of 25-41 mW/cm(2), in resonance with the MLCT band. The dye was shown to play a key role, being responsible for the absorption and efficient conversion of the laser light into heat. As a matter of fact, the dye is photothermally decomposed to amorphous carbon or to gaseous species (CO(x), NO(x), and H(2)O) under a N(2) or O(2) atmosphere, respectively.

Ghost free dual vector theories in 2+1 dimensions

We explore here the issue of duality versus spectrum equivalence in dual theories generated through the master action approach. Specifically we examine a generalized self-dual (GSD) model where a Maxwell term is added to the self-dual model. A gauge embedding procedure applied to the GSD model leads to a Maxwell-Chern-Simons (MCS) theory with higher derivatives. We show here that the latter contains a ghost mode contrary to the original GSD model. By figuring out the origin of the ghost we are able to suggest a new master action which interpolates between the local GSD model and a nonlocal MCS model. Those models share the same spectrum and are ghost free. Furthermore, there is a dual map between both theories at classical level which survives quantum correlation functions up to contact terms. The remarks made here may be relevant for other applications of the master action approach.

Ayuda memoria (4): símbolos (operadores) utilizados en búsquedas de información

Presenta los símbolos que se utilizan en la búsqueda de información en una base de datos, tanto las realizadas en el archivo invertido como en búsquedas libre en el texto, con la indicación de la operación que cumplen y un ejemplo de uso.

Proposta Curricular do Estado de São Paulo: retorno do discurso regulativo da tylerização na educação pública

This paper analyses how innovations and educational reforms affect curricular construction at public schools. It aims at reflecting if the Curricular Proposal for the state of São Paulo preserves the autonomy and identity of schools, if it respects their pedagogical political project, without attempting to homogenize them; how it changes every‐day school life, teacher’s practices, interpersonal relationships and power relations. We depart from the presupposition that this proposal adopts principles of the educational reforms started in the middle of the 90s, such as: adoption of national guidelines; introduction of market mechanisms, generating the fragility of teachers’ representation and their de‐ professionalization; relativity of the State’s role; stimuli to partnerships between public and private institutions in the fields of administration, allocation of financial resources for teaching    and implementation of external evaluating systems. At the same time, official discourse highlights decentralization, democratic administration, community participation. Some of these principles are recurrent in curriculum reforms: emphasis on the knowledge society, pedagogy of competencies and of learning to learn. In this way, we understand that the proposal aims at homogenizing school knowledge and curriculum practices, representing the notion of curriculum as product. We consider that the novelty and relevance of implemented measures demand further research, and that will be implemented by the author in 2010.

Comunicazioni sicure su canali eterogenei: un'analisi sistematica di SSL da Java a Jolie

All’interno di questa tesi è stata affrontata la tematica della realizzazione di comuni- cazioni sicure, in modo da ottenere l'indipendenza di queste ultime dal canale utilizzato, con l'ausilio di strumenti in grado di fornire supporto per la creazione di applicativi orientati allo scambio di dati e messaggi, quali i linguaggi di programmazione Java e Jolie, il quale è basato sul precedente. Sono state inizialmente analizzate le principali caratteristiche e le problematiche più importanti che è necessario dover risolvere in modo da poter arrivare al risultato desiderato. Successivamente, è stato dato un ampio sguardo ad una delle scienze più applicate per risolvere i problemi tipici che affliggono questo tipo di comunicazioni, la crittografia. Sono stati elencati gli strumenti messi a disposizione ed il loro funzionamento. La crittografia viene poi applicata al protocollo SSL, il quale rappresenta la soluzione maggiormente diffusa, sia sul Web che in altri ambiti, per proteggere le informazioni personali che transitano tra gli end-point di una comunicazione. Sono state elencate le principali caratteristiche, alcuni cenni riguardanti la nascita e lo sviluppo ed è stato descritto il funzionamento di questo protocollo, soprattutto per quanto riguarda la sua fase preliminare, che è una delle parti che lo caratterizzano maggiormente. In seguito, è stata analizzata la soluzione fornita all’interno delle librerie del linguaggio Java per realizzare comunicazioni indipendenti dal mezzo di comunicazione che soddisfino le politiche dettate dal protocollo SSL. Questa soluzione è rappresentata dalla classe SSLEngine, che è quindi stata esaminata, a partire dal ciclo di vita e dall'inizializzazione, fino ad arrivare all'interazione all'interno di un applicazione. Quanto esplorato in precedenza viene poi applicato a Jolie, un linguaggio di programmazione basato sulle comunicazioni e sviluppato in Java, all'interno dell'Università di Bologna. Dopo uno sguardo generale alle sue caratteristiche è stata approfondita la gestione dei protocolli, e di conseguenza, l'introduzione di SSL all'interno di essi, realizzata tramite la classe SSLProtocol. Questa classe contiene ed implementa i concetti analizzati nel capitolo riguardante Java, adattandoli all'architettura ed alla progettazione pensata appositamente per Jolie; è stata quindi effettuata un'analisi del codice e della gestione della classe SSLEngine per realizzare comunicazioni sicure. Infine, per verificare l’effettivo funzionamento, sono stati creati due semplici casi d’uso per poter sfruttare i vantaggi offerti da Jolie, il quale è particolarmente indicato per la creazione di applicazioni orientate ai servizi.