Persia and kingship in William Cartwright's The Royall Slave (1636)

The recent reorientation of early modern studies draws attention to the Renaissance stage as a site of exploration of images of the Islamic world. This article examines the use of ancient and contemporary Persia in William Cartwright’s The Royall Slave (1636), in which Persia figures as a convenient space through which to examine political issues relevant to the audience at home in England. Assessing the construction of idealized societies and rulers in the play, The Royall Slave is a contemporary Court and academic drama that demonstrates its importance as one of a number of synchronous texts that represent Persia.

O casal 20 do telejornalismo e o mito da perfeição : como a mídia constrói a imagem dos apresentadores Fátima Bernardes e William Bonner

A imagem mítica de perfeição dos apresentadores do Jornal Nacional – Rede Globo de Televisão – construída pela mídia é o enfoque central desta pesquisa. Tanto no âmbito das soft quanto das hard news de revistas, jornais e sites de informação, Fátima Bernardes e William Bonner são estruturados como um casal pleno na profissão, no amor e nas relações familiares. É no imbricamento entre jornalismo e pensamento mítico que se torna possível essa leitura, revelando uma forte presença do imaginário cultural na pretensa objetividade jornalística. Usando conceitos de análise do discurso como suporte, analisamos 168 textos ao longo de um período de seis anos (1998 a 2004), apontando como a mídia constrói essa imagem e que sentidos mobiliza ao imputar ao casal um lugar privilegiado no panteão de celebridades da cultura de massa. A pesquisa está estruturada em três formações distintas: a) amor, fama e beleza; b) trabalho, sucesso e predestinação; c) família e moral. Mais do que jornalistas, os apresentadores do telejornal são retratados como estrelas de moral impecável, diferentemente das celebridades vulgares e sem predicados presentes na mídia atual.

Seasonal changes in daily metabolic patterns of tegu lizards (Tupinambis merianae) placed in the cold (17 degrees C) and dark

Oxygen consumption rate was measured continuously in young tegu lizards Tupinambis merianae exposed to 4 d at 25 degrees C followed by 7-10 d at 17 degrees C in constant dark at five different times of the year. Under these conditions, circadian rhythms in the rate of oxygen consumption persisted for anywhere from 1 d to the entire 2 wk in different individuals in all seasons except the winter. We also saw a progressive decline in standard oxygen consumption rate (at highly variable rates in different individuals) to a very low rate that was seasonally independent (ranging from 19.1 +/- 6.2 to 27.7 +/- 0.2 mL kg(-1) h(-1) across seasons). Although this degree of reduction appeared to take longer to invoke when starting from higher metabolic rates, tegu lizards reduced their metabolism to the low rates seen in winter dormancy at all times of the year when given sufficient time in the cold and dark. In the spring and summer, tegus reduced their standard metabolic rate (SMR) by 80%-90% over the experimental run, but only roughly 20%-30% of the total fall was due to the reduction in temperature; 70%-80% of the total fall occurred at constant temperature. By autumn, when the starting SMR on the first night at 25 degrees C was already reduced by 59%-81% (early and late autumn, respectively) from peak summer values, virtually all of the fall (63%-83%) in metabolism was due to the reduction in temperature. This suggests that the temperature-independent reduction of metabolism was already in place by autumn before the tegus had entered winter dormancy.

Guatemala, censo experimental de 1970: aplicacion de las tecnicas del profesor William Brass para estimar la fecundidad y la mortalidad

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Costa Rica (Canton Grecia) 1968 y Chile 1960: algunas consideraciones del metodo del profesor William Brass para estimar fecundidad

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Cuatro lecciones de William Brass

Conferencias dictadas por el profesor Brass en visita a CELADE, 2-5 noviembre 1975

A Memorial for William V. Sliter

William V. (Bill) Sliter, an internationally known micropaleontologist and research geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, passed away suddenly, October, 1997, while talking to a colleague in his office. In his honor, B. Huber, T. Bralower, and M. Leckie organized a keynote symposium ‘‘Paleoecological and Geochemical Signatures of Cretaceous Anoxic Events’’ at the 1998 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Toronto, Canada. This theme issue of the Journal of Foraminiferal Research contains the published papers from the symposium and is dedicated to his memory.