Special Functions and Pathways for Problems in Astrophysics: An Essay in Honor of A.M. Mathai

The paper provides a review of A.M. Mathai's applications of the theory of special functions, particularly generalized hypergeometric functions, to problems in stellar physics and formation of structure in the Universe and to questions related to reaction, diffusion, and reaction-diffusion models. The essay also highlights Mathai's recent work on entropic, distributional, and differential pathways to basic concepts in statistical mechanics, making use of his earlier research results in information and statistical distribution theory. The results presented in the essay cover a period of time in Mathai's research from 1982 to 2008 and are all related to the thematic area of the gravitationally stabilized solar fusion reactor and fractional reaction-diffusion, taking into account concepts of non-extensive statistical mechanics. The time period referred to above coincides also with Mathai's exceptional contributions to the establishment and operation of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, India, as well as the holding of the United Nations (UN)/European Space Agency (ESA)/National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States/ Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Workshops on basic space science and the International Heliophysical Year 2007, around the world. Professor Mathai's contributions to the latter, since 1991, are a testimony for his social con-science applied to international scientific activity.

The fevered novel from Balzac to Bernanos:frenetic Catholicism in crisis, delirium and revolution

Book Review: The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos: Frenetic Catholicism in Crisis, Delirium and Revolution. By Francesco Manzini. (IGRS Books). London: Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, 2011. 264 pp. Full text: This monograph is an important and compelling account of a novelistic tradition that stretches from Georges Bernanos back to Balzac, by way of Léon Bloy, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Barbey d'Aurevilly. Depending on a master plot that evokes Maistrean themes of blood, sacrifice, and redemption, working in a feverish female body, this canon combines Romantic freneticism and anti-Enlightenment religion to create a compound that Francesco Manzini calls ‘frenetic Catholicism’. The theme of fever, Manzini tells us, was commented on by Huysmans in writing about Barbey d'Aurevilly. When André Gide read Bernanos's Sous le soleil de Satan, he dismissed it as a rehash of Bloy and Barbey. In this present work Manzini aims to make us aware once more of the gradually intensifying themacity of fever in writings more usually classed in theologo-literary categories. His analysis encompasses (though is not restricted to) Balzac's Ursule Mirouët, Barbey d'Aurevilly's Un prêtre marié, Huysmans's En rade, Bloy's Le Désespéré and La Femme pauvre, and Bernanos's Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette. Thus, as Manzini argues in his conclusion, between the freneticism of the Romantics and that of the surrealists this corpus represents an intermediary wave of freneticism, foregrounding fever, hyperconsciousness, dreamlike episodes, and female automatism. Manzini's knowledge of, and ease amidst, the sources is constantly impressive. Much like Richard Griffiths before him (The Reactionary Revolution: The Catholic Revival in French Literature, 1870–1914 (London: Constable, 1966)), he has read both the bad novels and the good ones. For that we are in his debt. His commentary thrives on the oddities of his subjects. He points quite rightly to the peculiar hubris of writers whose contempt for the secular excesses of scientism leads them down a cul-de-sac of primitive medical quackery. Likewise, he underlines how Zola's attempt to unwrite Barbey — exorcising the former's anti-Romantic animus, as much as scratching his anticlerical itch — leads him to recapitulate Barbey's religious authoritarianism in the secular vernacular of patriarchy. Les espèces qui se rapprochent se mangent, to paraphrase Bernanos (Les Grands Cimetières sous la lune). In spite of all Manzini's tightly organized analysis, however, this reader wonders whether the fevered novel ‘best allowed contemporaries — and now […] literary critics and historians — to imagine the issues at stake in the amorphous scientistic, religious, and political debates’ of the period (p. 17). Below the ideological clashes of nineteenth-century science and religion, the two contending dynamics of anthropocentrism and theocentrism are attested and, it can be argued, even more perfectly dramatized in other Catholic literature (Charles Péguy's poetry, for example). In these terms, what distinguishes the Catholic frenetics from their Romantic or surrealist counterparts is that their fevered subject represents an attempt to build a road out of what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls ‘buffered’ individuality, and back towards the theocentric porous subject who is open to divine influence. By way of minor corrections, nuns do not take holy orders (p. 94) but make religious profession by taking vows. Also, the last Eucharistic host is not extreme unction (p. 119) but viaticum.

Comunidade à mesa: a comensalidade no romance O pai Goriot

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Comunidade à mesa: a comensalidade no romance O pai Goriot

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Invited lectures from a spatial orientation symposium in honor of Frederick Guedry, Day 2

This report contains the invited lectures from day 2 of a Spatial Orientation Symposium in honor of the late Dr. Frederick Guedry, held at the Institute of Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) in Pensacola, Florida in November of 2010. The conference was sponsored by the Coalition Warfare Program of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. It was organized by Drs. Angus Rupert and Ben Lawson (USAARL) and hosted by Drs. Anil Raj and Ken Ford (IHMC). The lectures from day 1 are in Lawson et al., 2014. Day 2 includes lectures by Drs. Scott, Ben Lawson, Angus Rupert, Owen Black, Karen Atkins, Kim Gottshall, Anil Raj, and Måns Magnusson. The lectures focus on the structure, function and reflexes of the vestibular system, orientation perceptions, motion sickness, adaptation, and rehabilitation. This report also features banquet talks given by Drs. Lawson and Rupert, in which they honor Dr. Fred Guedry. Also featured is an interview with Dr. Guedry, conducted by a Navy historian, in which the reader can catch a glimpse into Dr. Guedry's wartime experiences and early days as a researcher.

La protección de los derechos al honor, intimidad y propia imagen del menor con suficiente madurez: entre el respeto a sus decisiones y la intervención del Ministerio Fiscal

En virtud del art. 3.1 de la Ley Orgánica 1/1982, de 5 de mayo, cuando los menores tengan suficiente madurez deberán consentir por sí mismos las intromisiones en sus derechos al honor, intimidad y propia imagen. Sin embargo, atendiendo al art. 4 de la Ley Orgánica de Protección Jurídica del Menor, cuando la intromisión tenga lugar en un medio de comunicación seguirá siendo ilegítima, aun consentida por un menor maduro, si se considera contraria a su honor e intereses, debiendo intervenir en su defensa el Ministerio Fiscal. Esta regulación plantea diversas cuestiones relacionadas con la protección de los derechos al honor, intimidad y propia imagen del menor con suficiente madurez —en particular, sobre la función del fiscal como garante de estos derechos y el papel que se otorga al consentimiento del menor— que son objeto de estudio del presente trabajo.

BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF (AS) Benefactors (AS) OF THE COUNTRY AND CITIZENS (AS) 1847-2008 HONOR

Today's society called information society, grows rapidly and undergoes changes in the sources of information under the Information Technology and Communication ("tics"), in this situation it is necessary to develop tools or reference sources that allow the (to) user (a) the accessibility and use of information. It systematized information on the Meritorious Citizen of the Fatherland and Honor that is Costa Rica, since 1847 to 2008, due to its contribution to culture, science, recreation, among others. The overall objective of this research was to make a work print and digital reference, which will collect each of the biographies and works written by (as) Benefactors (as) of the country and citizens (as) of Honor and to facilitate access to information and strengthen outreach conducted by the Library "Victor Manuel Sanabria Martínez" of the Legislature, through its publications, exhibitions and related activities, to publicize its documentary. The variables used for this investigation were:-sources (primary and secondary), Organization of information - tools in various documentation centers and libraries. This was carried out a questionnaire, which was structured in the Excel program, aimed at (as) directors (as) or officers (as) in different libraries and documentation centers, and visits to selected sites for search and selection information. It is important to spread this final graduation in different public and school libraries in the country, since history and culture rescues national, who gave identity to the Costa Rican people. The systematization made by a thematic CD-ROM, provide accessibility to all (as) the (as) citizens (as) who access the Internet through the website of the Legislative Assembly Library and other state institutions wishing through a hyperlink on your "web", to refer the same.

Derecho al honor, al prestigio y a la salvaguarda de la dignidad profesional en enfermería

Los profesionales de Enfermería deben de conocer las reacciones positivas, frente a una enfermedad y las reacciones patológicas para poder dar ayuda psicológica y apoyo a enfermos y familiares. El contacto interpersonal entre los profesionales sanitarios y los enfermos y sus familiares pueden ser fuentes de conflictos, el estrés de la enfermedad y la nueva situación puede provocar agresividad hacia el equipo de salud. Esto hace que se ponga en entredicho el prestigio y la dignidad profesional.

De l’obligation de la dette chez Balzac

Balzac contait – c o n t – des nouvelles, des romans, pour édifier son grand œuvre, La Comédie humaine. Il comptait – c o m p t – aussi, alignait les chiffres, vertigineusement. Dans les histoires qu’il racontait. Dans les lettres qu’il écrivait, comme en témoigne au mieux la correspondance qu’il échangea pendant dixsept ans, de 1832 à 1849 avec Madame Hanska, femme du comte, oui du comte Han – il faut être attentif aux homonymies dit mon ami le philosophe Patrice Loraux –, avant de devenir à son tour son époux et de mourir six mois après, en 1850. C’est dire qu’il ne comptait pas seulement dans, pour la fiction. Mais dans, pour la vie, sa vie réelle. Et selon un système marqué par l’obligation des chiffres, des chiffres attachés à l’argent, l’argent toujours en manque, toujours désiré, entrevu à l’horizon de ses redoutables entreprises financières, dans le lointain de son travail, de son amour.

Une lecture textanalytique du Chefd’oeuvre inconnu de Balzac

Tout le monde sait que Balzac avait voulu au départ, vers 1831, qualifier Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu1 de «conte fantastique» et qu’il avait choisi comme titre du premier chapitre «Maître Frenhofer», du nom du personnage singulier dont la présence devrait assurer à ce récit le mérite d’être baptisé «fantastique». Mais il a renoncé plus tard à son projet initial en le complétant (1836-37) par le développement de discours abondants sur les doctrines esthétiques et sur la technique picturale, pour l’intégrer dans la section «Études philosophiques» de La Comédie humaine. Selon Marc Eigeldinger, ce travail complémentaire l’a rendu deux fois plus long. On devine l’ambition de l’auteur de représenter un des secrets de la création en peinture.

Procesión en honor a la Inmaculada Concepción, patrona del pueblo

Procesión en honor a la Inmaculada Concepción, patrona del pueblo. Versalles. C. 1950.

Recuerdo de la fiesta celebrada en honor de la Santísima Virgen Inmaculada

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Límites al derecho al honor de los funcionarios: paradigmas actuales desde el enfoque constitucional moderno

Las personas que gozaban del derecho al honor en la antigüedad eran solamente las que ostentaban poder político o económico, situación que difiere con la actualidad, siendo un derecho del cual gozan todas las personas sin importar condiciones. Sin embargo, en lo que a los funcionarios respecta, estos son más propensos a sufrir daños en su honor, en razón del cargo público que ejercen y en múltiples ocasiones son objeto de críticas, aseveraciones e incluso burlas de parte de la población y en particular de los medios de comunicación. En consecuencia, el objetivo de la presente investigación es determinar mediante teorías, sentencias judiciales y entrevistas con expertos, si los funcionarios tienen limitado su derecho al honor en comparación con los particulares, y a la vez, adoptar teorías que respalden la distinción en el derecho al honor entre los sujetos mencionados. Desde el Constitucionalismo Moderno, se retoman criterios de sentencias emitidas por los tribunales de justicia de instancias nacionales e internacionales referidos al derecho al honor de los funcionarios, en la mayoría de ocasiones, por colisión con la libertad de expresión y el derecho de acceso a la información. Metodología: Utilizando el método científico, se investiga base teórica y jurídica, acompañado de entrevistas no estructuradas con el fin de conocer la opinión de Magistrados de la Sala de lo Constitucional y Jueces de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Conclusiones: A través de los medios e instrumentos acotados se permite aclarar que los funcionarios se encuentran proclives a sufrir ataques en su honor en razón del cargo público que ejercen; se delimitan teorías que respaldan dicha afirmación y se detallan recomendaciones a las diferentes instituciones del Estado e internacionales, así como a la ciudadanía para ejercer a plenitud este derecho otorgado constitucional y jurisprudencialmente.