Letter - E.C. Schmon to Arthur A. Schmon, 12 November 1918

Eleanore Celeste is currently substituting at Lafayette St. School and she writes "of all the schools that I have substituted in, I like this the best." She hears about the end of the war and tells a story of how she was dancing and jumping when another teacher entered and she was so embarrassed she ran into a closet.

Double échappée ; suivi de Se dire, se comprendre : l'homosexualité adolescente dans les romans québécois pour la jeunesse

Difficile à manier, le thème de l’homosexualité est peu exploité dans le domaine des arts. Dans la littérature jeunesse québécoise, on trouve peu de personnages principaux homosexuels constituant des représentations positives pour les adolescents. Double échappée, le premier volet de ce mémoire en recherche-création, résulte d’une volonté de contribuer à ce secteur en braquant le projecteur sur deux protagonistes adolescents qui vivent leur homosexualité en parallèle. L’un doit apprendre à vivre avec cette réalité qui est toute nouvelle pour lui tandis que le second, sorti du placard et censément à l’aise avec son homosexualité, se voit obligé de réaffirmer son identité lorsqu’il arrive dans un nouvel environnement. Leurs parcours s’entremêlent, leur relation grandit et on assiste à leurs prises de conscience, diverses certes, mais aussi complémentaires. Le second volet du mémoire, intitulé Se dire, se comprendre : l’homosexualité dans les romans québécois pour la jeunesse, sert en quelque sorte de cadre contextuel à Double échappée. Adoptant un parcours en grande partie sociologique, cet essai examine le traitement des enjeux identitaires soulevés par l’homosexualité dans quelques romans québécois. Y est brièvement analysée la manière dont six ouvrages récents destinés à la jeunesse portent le sujet, particulièrement en ce qui a trait à la prise de conscience identitaire et son expression. Cette étude se penche sur la façon dont ces récits proposent la découverte de l’homosexualité par des adolescents en s’attardant à la présentation des personnages homosexuels et leur cheminement. Il s’agit de mettre en lumière la manière dont le texte montre et fait entendre la voie/voix des protagonistes gays et lesbiens.

Homme immigrant cherche homme : (re)formations de subjectivités ethnosexuelles en contexte post-migratoire au Québec

Cette thèse invite à reconceptualiser le récit dominant quant au parcours d’hommes immigrants de sexualités non normatives. Loin d’être une migration de la tradition vers la modernité, de l’oppression vers la libération, leur parcours est davantage un récit complexe de mobilité et de visibilité inscrit dans des rapports sociaux inégaux. Loin d’être un déchirement entre une «communauté ethnique» homophobe et la «communauté gaie» raciste, leur récit en est un de liens affectifs (r)établis au fil d’interactions sociales significatives. À l’intersection de normes multiples et contradictoires, on constate un processus de (re)formation de subjectivités, à la fois contraintes et habilités par ces normes. Deux corpus sont conjugués, soit l’analyse critique des représentations visuelles et textuelles de la différence ethnique et religieuse dans trois principaux magazines gais québécois et l’analyse par théorisation ancrée d’entretiens semi-dirigés. Ces entretiens ont été menés à Montréal auprès de trente hommes immigrants ayant des relations amoureuses et/ou sexuelles avec d’autres hommes. Les images analysées montrent une tendance à réduire le corps d’hommes de couleur à des objets érotiques et exotiques sur les couvertures des magazines. De plus, les textes avancent un récit de libération sexuelle par la migration qui reproduit les dichotomies dominantes. Un récit beaucoup plus complexe émerge toutefois de l’analyse des entretiens. D’une part, l’expérience de la migration est modulée par divers phénomènes sociaux au-delà de la seule libération sexuelle et l’homophobie se révèle insuffisante pour comprendre le statut des sexualités non normatives, tant dans les pays d’origine que dans les «communautés ethniques» : c’est davantage l’hétéronormativité qui a pour effet de rendre inférieures certaines pratiques de genre et de sexualités. D’autre part, l’expérience de cette visibilité contrainte ne s’exprime que très partiellement par l’idée du «placard» : ces hommes expriment plutôt le vaste potentiel d’expérience d’un espace «tacite» permettant, pour plusieurs, de vivre leur sexualité non normative sans la dire explicitement. Au contraire du rejet des accommodements religieux exprimé dans les magazines gais, les entretiens montrent finalement un réel potentiel d’accommodation du religieux et du sexuel qui, en dépit de tensions, préserve la foi religieuse ou spiritualité tout en vivant la sexualité.

Construction d'un Atlas 3D numérique de la cornée humaine par recalage d'images

Nous proposons de construire un atlas numérique 3D contenant les caractéristiques moyennes et les variabilités de la morphologie d’un organe. Nos travaux seront appliqués particulièrement à la construction d'un atlas numérique 3D de la totalité de la cornée humaine incluant la surface antérieure et postérieure à partir des cartes topographiques fournies par le topographe Orbscan II. Nous procédons tout d'abord par normalisation de toute une population de cornées. Dans cette étape, nous nous sommes basés sur l'algorithme de recalage ICP (iterative closest point) pour aligner simultanément les surfaces antérieures et postérieures d'une population de cornée vers les surfaces antérieure et postérieure d'une cornée de référence. En effet, nous avons élaboré une variante de l'algorithme ICP adapté aux images (cartes) de cornées qui tient compte de changement d'échelle pendant le recalage et qui se base sur la recherche par voisinage via la distance euclidienne pour établir la correspondance entre les points. Après, nous avons procédé pour la construction de l'atlas cornéen par le calcul des moyennes des élévations de surfaces antérieures et postérieures recalées et leurs écarts-types associés. Une population de 100 cornées saines a été utilisée pour construire l'atlas cornéen normal. Pour visualiser l’atlas, on a eu recours à des cartes topographiques couleurs similairement à ce qu’offrent déjà les systèmes topographiques actuels. Enfin, des observations ont été réalisées sur l'atlas cornéen reflétant sa précision et permettant de développer une meilleure connaissance de l’anatomie cornéenne.

Fanfiction : la anonimicidad, el texto y el armario

This essay looks at slash, a genre within fanfiction, from the perspective of Sedgwick’s theory of the closet, which reflects on the concealing mechanisms associated with homosexuality. While the real author stays in the closet, disguised behind a pseudonym, slash texts present homosexual themes in a very explicit way, often relying on humor or subversive elements. Between these two spheres, the real author and the text, we can find what we call the author’s voice, conscious about the existing homophobic structures, a voice that uses different strategies to shield itself against them. Internet, with the possibility to stay anonymous, serves as a social closet where the masked authors create texts that subvert heteronormativity.

O ser elástico, mola, agulha, trepidação: expressões do homoerotismo em Fernando Pessoa

This Masters thesis investigates and analyzes the homoerotic expressions in Fernando Pessoa s poetry and in his heteronyms : Álvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro and Ricardo Reis. Through the elaboration of deceptive strategies as a way to escape from the insults and the constraints, the poet by means of creative runaway lines builds up a homoerotic poetry that differ from the established patterns and representational models of the literature. We can find, bearing in mind a problematic sexuality which overflows in the various I s, of the sinuous identities and the movable boundaries, and intense mask games. They become real in poems, especially by means of sensations, yielding the possibility of a queer discourse and generating a homoerotic poetry. Pessoa s homoerotism is, thus, presented amid friendly relationships, smooth spaces, of heterotrophy of the city, or others space and the closet s aesthetics. Based on this, it is noted the articulations of a performance gender as body scripture and inscription, thus establishing a physical-writing which reveals a transgressive sexuality, with multiple entrances and exits, affirmations and denials that originate paradoxes. In this matter, we develop links between Foucault conceptions (2010a, 2010b, 2011) towards the history of sexuality, friendship and the power-knowledge relations with traces of significance and subjectivity, in processes of faciality and BwO (Body-without-Organs) in Deleuze and Guattari (1996). We still consider the ontological questionings towards the Gay dimension in Eribon (2008) and we raise aspects concerning the construction of the idea of masculinity in Bourdieu (2010). Finally, we base ourselves on Sedgwick s 1993 closet epistemological approach, as well as on Butler s 2012 gender and performance theory, also going through a few Bataille 1987 passages about erotism, that redimension the homoaffective images of the Portuguese poet

Homofobia e sexualidade em adolescentes: trajetórias sexuais, riscos e vulnerabilidades

Esta pesquisa é um estudo transversal realizado junto a 2282 estudantes de ambos os sexos que cursavam as três séries do ensino médio em três cidades do interior do oeste paulista. O instrumento de coleta de dados empregado foi um questionário autoaplicável com 131 questões. Neste artigo, abordamos as trajetórias sexuais de adolescentes de ambos os sexos que mantêm práticas sexuais homoeróticas ou não. Discutimos as relações desses adolescentes com seus familiares e grupos de pares e a questão de sair do armário como ferramenta política. Tendo como base as concepções de Sedgwick, analisamos os momentos em que sair do armário pode ser uma entre tantas maneiras de manifestação das diferentes sexualidades em relação à heteronormatividade. Apoiando-nos nas colocações de teóricos pós-estruturalistas, abordamos também as construções teóricas e as produções discursivas sobre a adolescência, apontando novas manifestações da juventude na contemporaneidade. Por fim, percebemos a existência de amplos fatores que afetam as decisões de jovens não heterossexuais quanto a sair (ou não) do armário para além da homofobia: eventos pessoais, histórias de vida e mesmo a revelação de sua sexualidade aos pais e/ou a outras pessoas.

An objective reconstruction of the chain of contagion

North's clustering method, which is based on a much used ecological model, the nearest neighbor distance, was applied to the objective reconstruction of the chain of household-to-household transmission of variola minor (the mild form of smallpox). The discrete within-household outbreaks were considered as points which were ordered in a time sequence using a 10-40 day interval between introduction of the disease into a source household and a receptor household. The closer points in the plane were assumed to have a larger probability of being links of a chain of household-to-household spread of the disease. The five defining distances (Manhattan or city-block distance between presumptive source and receptor dwellings) were 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 m. The subchain sets obtained with the five defining distances were compared with the subchains empirically reconstructed during the field study of the epidemic through direct investigation of personal contacts of the introductory cases with either introductory or subsequent cases from previously affected households. The criteria of fit of theoretical to empirical clusters were: (a) the number of clustered dwellings and subchains, (b) number of dwellings in a subchain and (c) position of dwellings in a subchain. The defining distance closet to the empirical findings was 200 m, which fully agrees with the travelling habits of the study population. Less close but acceptable approximations were obtained with 100, 300, 400 and 500 m. The latter two distances gave identical results, as if a clustering ceiling had been reached. It seems that North's clustering model may be used for an objective reconstruction of the chain of contagious whose links are discrete within-household outbreaks. © 1984.

The effect of manual therapy on masseter muscle pain and spasm

Introduction: Orofacial pain and pain in the muscles of mastication are frequent symptoms of temporomandibular disorder. The masseter is the closet masticatory muscle to the surface and has the function of raising and retracting the mandible. This muscle has considerable strength and is one of the main muscles involved in the shredding of food It is therefore of utmost importance in the masticatory cycle and generally the most affected by pain and spasms. Objectives: The aim of the present study was to analyze the effect of manual therapy with transversal and circular movements on pain and spasm in the masseter muscle, using electromyography and a visual analogue pain scale (VAPS). Eight women who experienced pain upon palpation of the masseter greater than 6 on the VAPS were selected for participation in the study, which employed electromyography and a VAPS for assessment, followed by manual oral physiotherapy and reevaluation. Results: The statistical analysis revealed a reduction in pain, but there was no significant difference in electromyographic activity (p < 0.05). Conclusion: It was concluded that massage therapy was effective on pain symptoms, but was not capable of altering the electrical activity of the masseter muscle.

Perfil epidemiológico dos pacientes com tuberculose pulmonar atendidos na Unidade Básica de Saúde da Pedreira

A tuberculose pulmonar continua sendo um dos maiores problemas de saúde pública em todo o mundo, inclusive no Brasil. A situação de controle se agrava com a dificuldade de implantar-se um programa eficiente pela desproporção entre necessidades e recursos disponíveis e pela limitada cobertura e utilização da capacidade instalada de atenção, e no fim da década de 80 pela propagação do HIV. Com o objetivo de traçar o perfil epidemiológico dos pacientes com tuberculose pulmonar atendidos na Unidade Básica de Saúde da Pedreira, no município de Belém do Pará, foram estudados 143 pacientes de ambos os sexos e de todas as faixas etárias com diagnóstico de tuberculose, no período de janeiro de 2001 a julho de 2002. Aspectos analisados: sinais e sintomas, baciloscopia, raio X de tórax, comunicantes intradomiciliares, história de tuberculose na família, tempo entre o início dos sintomas e o início do tratamento, tipos de alta do tratamento, procedência, grau de escolaridade, recidivas, ocupação, qualificação da ocupação, renda familiar, refeições diárias, situação da moradia, tipo de parede, número de janelas, número de cômodos x número de moradores, água encanada, luz elétrica e tipo de fossa do banheiro, práticas de tabagismo e etilismo. Resultados: o sintoma mais freqüente foi a tosse com 89,51 %; a baciloscopia positiva correspondeu a 60,01 %; os achados radiológicos com infiltração corresponderam a 42,86 %; 84,62 % dos pacientes possuem pelo menos um comunicante intradomiciliar; 57,34 % apresentaram pelo menos um caso de tuberculose na família; 65,04 % demoraram 2 meses para começar o tratamento após os sintomas terem iniciado; 94,23 % receberam alta por cura; 3,85 % altas por abandono e 1,92 % altas por óbito; 78 % procederam de Belém; 7 % são analfabetos e 51,75 % possuem primeiro grau incompleto; 11,19 % de recidivas; das pessoas que possuem ocupação 68,49 % não possuem qualificação; 86 % apresentaram renda familiar inferior a 6 salários mínimos; 43,68 % praticam o etilismo. Conclui-se que o sexo e a faixa etária predominantes foram respectivamente o masculino e de 16 a 45 anos; as condições sócio-econômico-culturais e de moradia são muito precárias. Sendo fundamental entender que esta é uma das doenças que mais claramente coloca em evidência a sua determinação social. Os processos biológicos da saúde são, portanto, parte da vida social da coletividade, desta forma, a saúde e a doença são tomadas como pólos de um mesmo processo que se constitui como uma parte da totalidade maior que é a vida. Palestra de educação sanitária é, portanto, meio educativo criando hábito de saúde que certamente contribuirá para um melhor desenvolvimento das potencialidades do ser humano. Este estudo corrobora pesquisas anteriores.

Cartografias do Armário: estratégias do desejo em uma cidade do interior paulista

This article aims to present the results of a research about the links among homophobia, subjectivation processes and constructions of gender and sexual identities in a small city in the interior of São Paulo State. The main research question that guided us was: how homophobia regulates the desire and the “transit between the closets” among the so called gay people in a small city? To answer that question we made interviews that were analyzed and transformed into narratives of four cisgender men of different ages who call themselves homosexual or who have had homoerotic practices with other men. All participants live in the same city, do not know one another and have lived most of their lives city. We have problematized how these participants gave meaning to the experiences of regulation of their sexuality that have been aroused by homophobia and by the device of closet. Analyses indicated that the 'closet' can both regulate and oversee their lives, limiting their possibilities of desiring, but also may raise resistance, from which it is possible to establish a relationship with another ethical life, that is, producing other ways of life in the small city.

Laços de família e segredos (sexuais) compartilhados: narrativa de história de vida de uma jovem dissidente em uma família homofóbica

This paper presents a non-heterosexual young lady s Narrative Life History. By presenting it, we aim to understanding how desire, (in)visibility and the processes of exclusion are articulated in relation to the experience of homoeroticism, especially within the family. By this, we are able to point out some homophobic aspects, modes of how the device of closet operates and how some expectations and demands exert pressures over a non-heterosexual member in the family. In this case study, the way her family lived her sexuality depended on a strong family ties, such as: the secret about sexuality. Such secret, according to our hypothesis, was produced and preserved by homophobia which served as the major aspect on the construction of gender and (dis)unity of the family. This work is part of a in progress doctoral thesis, sponsored by FAPESP Fundação para o Amparo à Pesquisa no Estado de São Paulo.

Homossexualidade e velhice: os processos de subjetividade da sexualidade em homossexuais idosos

Pós-graduação em Educação Sexual - FCLAR

A Persian pearl : and other essays /

Initials in red; head and tail pieces.

A companion to the temple : or, A help to devotion in the use of the Common prayer. /

First ed. London, 1672-76, published under title: A companion to the temple and closet: or, A help to publick and private devotion. In an essay upon the daily offices of the church. cf. Bri. Mus. Catalogue.